Submitted 7 months ago by 65gmexl3@lemmy.world to nba@lemmy.world
https://youtu.be/upakfJi9wPA?si=StlZ6Hu6eCYAeRcd
I stopped watching when it was blindingly obvious how they would let the then-dominant warriors built legitimate massive leads in the forest half and then the refs would penalize them for nothing for a little more than a quarter to orchestrate a tight game before letting the warriors play again at the end.
I wasn’t a warriors fan. But the way the refs orchestrated pretty much every warriors game made it seem a lot more like WWE than a legitimate sport.
As someone who likes to read articles, holy @#$% was that clickbait-y and a lot of time (11 min) invested to get a couple minutes of content - no description anywhere of the ‘must-watch’ talking points. Okay, rant over. Mired in all the fluff were two good points: Lakers’ free throw attempt (FTA) disparity over the last 2 years, and play-by-play data to show that based on the shots the Lakers take one wouldn’t expect them to be top of the charts in FTAs. I dug into the FTA disparity a little more.
In the 2022 championship season, the Lakers didn’t make the playoffs, and they ranked 16th in FTA difference in the regular season. Did Silver call for a change after this?
In the 2023 regular season, the Lakers averaged 5.8 more FTAs a game than their opponent (476 more FTAs total), for 1st place in the league. 2nd place was the Kings (2.1 a game, 173 overall).
In the 2023 postseason, the Lakers averaged 7.6 more FTAs a game than their opponent, for 1st place among playoff teams. 2nd place was the Knicks at 5.4.
So far in the 2024 regular season, the Lakers averaged 6.0 more FTAs a game than their opponent (471 more FTAs total), for 1st place in the league. 2nd place was the Celtics (2.9 a game, 226 overall).
Prediction: Lakers leading the league in FTAs will continue the rest of this season and in the postseason.
yes video is annoying but that stat is a great one
it’s just too obvious that numbers can’t hide it anymore. but i agree, vid is longer for the profit.
What? Sports referees are biased and are screwing my team? It is a story that started as soon as the first game with a referee was played. Refs are human and make bad calls. They will sometimes make a mistake and overcorrect or make a makeup call. Also, even with perfect refereeing, if you slice the stats enough, you will find bias in random noise.
As for the NBA, there are known biases: if a superstar and bench warmer make contact on a play, the refs will always favor the star. Bigger players are allowed to bang in the paint while smaller players are protected. Refs will only call a blatant charge and never if there is a defense foul on the play. As long as I can remember (20 years), if a player or coach whined about refereeing after the game, they would automatically get a fine but coaches would still do it so that refs favor their team’s next game for fear of providing evidence to the story.
There is always a story that the league is pushing the popular team. Before the Lakers it was the Warriors who the refs favored (it was infuriating fun to count how many moving screens Draymond could get away with).
Is this against the subs rule that’s why the post got downvoted? Can’t find any rules in sidebar so i guess this was ok.
Posted here hoping to get some discussion with fellow fans if you think nba is pushing this at the max level
Click bait title to a YouTube video might be part of the cause for down votes.
It reads like a weird spam ad with the YouTube video description.
Probably getting down voted by people who are angry their favorite sport is only slightly more legitimate than professional wrestling
There's probably not a grand conspiracy to fix NBA games, but the officiating is too fucky for me to bet against the idea.
The NBA would probably try to rig that bet too.
Thanks for sharing this, I’m glad I heard of it. If you want to start discussion, especially about a video that doesn’t contain any details in the title, put a sentence or two in the Lemmy post description about what it is, what you want to discuss, etc. Lemmy isn’t a click for ads platform; it’s humans talking to humans
i understand title is a bit click baity, but content has some good points
Simulation6@sopuli.xyz 7 months ago
I thought it was a joke vid that just goes on and on about there being a big problem but never talks about the problem.
cabillaud@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Right…this 11’30 video could have been 2min long easy
65gmexl3@lemmy.world 7 months ago
while i enjoy the vid, it repeatedly uses lebron-meme clips to make fun. but i agree, creator (like others) makes vid longer for the profit.