06-04-2021, 03:29 PM
(06-04-2021, 02:39 PM)omahen Wrote: Calls like this is really something NBA has to change. First of all Mann was clearly hanging on Bobi hand trying to prevent the pass, which is not a legal NBA move. But I guess smaller players are allowed everthing against big and strong ones.
Secondly it is not Bobi fault that Mann is two feet shorter than him. All he did was turn around, there was no intentional elbow, I don't even think he pushed him away. Not his fault he is so big that his arm is on the level of Mann head. He didn't lift arm to hit him in the head or push him away. Just turned around. In my opinion, there is no way that was a foul. Basketball is a contact game and not every contact is a foul. If it would be, Mann would have to get foul for that hanging on the arm.
https://www.nba.com/stats/events/?GameEventID=588&GameID=0042000175&Season=2020-21&flag=1&title=Marjanovic%20OFF.Foul%20(P3)%20(J.Goble)&sct=plot
That was a blatantly bad call. It's also a part of the modern gamesmanship that is a big part of the winning and losing results in todays NBA.
Putting aside what is a fair or even correct call, the game within the game includes the acting and playing to the refs.
Boban has to be basketball smart there, recognize that the tiny player is up in his space at elbows level then take his time with the play.
If he knows the guy has positioned his head at his elbows Bobi has raise up take his time and turn to the easy soft shot or even better pivot into the monster dunk.
I've seen Porzingis face the same gamesmanship when he has a "little guy" on him close to the basket.
Its not at all fair or correct but it is what it is.
Coach him up RC or who exactly is the Big man coach on this staff?