Basketball game is a game of passions and emotions.
Can a player no longer express their passion and express it when they did something well? When they do this, it is now considered flexing and they get Technical.
I find this very odd.
Why Do NBA Players Get T up for Expressing Their Emotions?
jamessong on 05/03/2022 - 15:10
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Because Michael Jordan cried
Because you need to maintain respect to someone of authority.
They'll call a tech on a player if they think that they're taunting the other team/opposing player or 'disrupting/intefering with play'.
Stuff like Luka or Lamelo saying their defender was 'too small' or something after getting a bucket on them.
taunting the other team/opposing player or 'disrupting/intefering with play'
did you see Scottie Barnes yesterday? all he did was just flex both of his biceps and didn't look at any opposition players and he's still T up.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vPFUjskyXbU
I don't think it was for the flex, it was for the glare at Isaiah Stewart. But soft either way.
Scottie Barnes is crap anyway. He deserved the tech
Don't know what you are watching but Barnes is excellent
multi-dimensional and will be a good player for years to come - maybe elite if he can improve his shot
It can be situational too - they were pushing and shoving on the ft at the start of that clip
Barnes is a rookie so gets no leeway either - if that is LBJ there is no way that is a tech, probably gets an And1
Because nba needs extra money
Inserts MJ meme…
“And i took that personally “
Showboating when one team has an insurmountable lead can cause the losing team to just give up on the game, which no one wants. The fans don't want it because they don't get to see a full game, advertisers don't want it because they can't advertise for some of a game that ends 30 minutes early, the winning team doesn't want it because it doesn't count as a full win for their stats and technically breaks a winning streak, and the quitting team doesn't want it because they would have preferred finish a game than be so dispirited that they felt they had to end the game early. This problem may not be a serious problem in professional leagues but the same rules should apply for the pros as it does for the minor and amateur leagues you'd think. And besides it's unsporting to "rub it in" when you're clearly going to win whether you are getting paid a million dollars for this game or if you're just volunteering for a local team.
What? Which professional sport is quitting mid game because someone showed emotion/taunted in the opposition team?
Op is asking why a player can't dunk on someone for example, and then be amped up, without being t'd.
Because there isn't a version of basketball just for TV. There's just basketball. it's a sport that's bigger than just the million dollar games on TV and the rules that apply to the millions of amateur matches should broadly apply to the million dollar games too.
Indeed there is, I've also never seen or heard of a team walking off because they're being taunted, and I've seen my fair share of games.
You clearly don't watch the nba which is fine, but half the players in a losing team will still taunt and get hyped if they do something worthy of it.
Because basketball is terrible
The rules ebb and flow. In the 1970s, you could deck opponents and often get away without even a foul. It tightened up a little in the 1980s but not by a lot. Blokes like Bill Laimbeer and Charles Oakley played out their entire careers decapitating opposing teams, including their star players. Back then, fans complained it was too violent. Now the game has gone the other way. I think it’s too far. The late 90s - 00s was the pinnacle. Thank God for YouTube.
Enter Grayson Allen…
Cade Cunningham against the Raptors yesterday literally just did a small shoo away to the ref, and the ref got all offended.
It has turned into an absolute joke. All these rules coming in to stop umpire abuse is actually doing the opposite!
Because it's the emotional equivalent of tea bagging.
What's the opposite of BDE?
Wokeness
Can someone explain the question
Because the NBA has been soft ever since they started telling Allen Iverson he had to wear a suit to press conferences.
They somehow don't understand that fans like the players to have personality.
Unrelated but the NBL is pretty pathetic compared to these guys. I can't even watch it.
why would u ask this question on ozbargain?
Coz NBA refs are soft