Beat40 said:
I think this is a bad take for this year.
This year James implemented the step back three and floater into his game. The step back three in response to the rip thru rule change that was made because of Harden.
The two things implemented are for him to specifically be able to score without having to depend on foul shots.
Let me ask you this without thinking of Harden at all. In general, why should fouls in playoff games versus regular season games be called differently?
You say keep crying wolf and the refs won't believe you - that had NOTHING to do on the 3pt fouls. Maybe one or two of the 5 instance was questionable, but there were 3 that should have been clearly fouls. If the refs believe Harden is crying wolf in those instances, then they don't need to be referring a NBA playoff game.
rip through is a valid point, but all the unnecessary feet flailing when he shoots? Granted he still makes some of them while he does his antics but it get annoying imo. I mean I am going for them believe it or not but the fact that he called out the refs when he literally get every call whenever he wants.
the implementation of him scoring without foul shots, look at all those 50 & 60 pt games, and look at how many of those points came from the free throw line.
yes they should change. obviously not with a big difference but if you cant get in someones personal space on defense then you might as well have chairs out there to play defense and the nba players will only play offense bc it is getting to the point where you can't do much on defense anymore. As soon as you look at a offensive player wrong, its a foul. the flip side to that is players would overdo it. They will intentional do hard fouls because they can get away with it... those are the kind of players that can't play defense to begin with (played against those before). so its give and take but they should definitely have lighter officiating in the playoffs, ESPECIALLY with emotions. CP3s buck in front of the ref warranted a 2nd tech but the first one should not have been called.
prime example, the CP3 got his first tech on, he clearly extended his hip OUT to try to draw the foul, yeah there was contact but bc CP3 went into the path of the defended who, if CP3 would have gone straight up and down like a normal shooter, would have flown past his right. im not saying refs are perfect bc they do suck most of the times, but tell me this, could you do better?