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NBA Discussion (Official Thread)

Detroit Pistons win top pick in 2021 NBA draft lottery; Houston Rockets get No. 2

The year 2021 has been a big one for Ben Wallace. First, he was named to the Hall of Fame. Then, Tuesday night, he was the good-luck charm for his old franchise, the Detroit Pistons, in the NBA's annual draft lottery.

Detroit claimed the top spot in a loaded 2021 NBA draft, followed by the Houston Rockets, Cleveland Cavaliers and Toronto Raptors.

The rest of the top 10 includes Orlando; Oklahoma City; Golden State, which gets Minnesota's selection; Orlando, which gets Chicago's selection; Sacramento; New Orleans.

Charlotte, San Antonio, Indiana, and Golden State, with its own selection, round out the lottery picks.

Entire article: https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id...21-nba-draft-lottery-houston-rockets-get-no-2

a loaded 2021 NBA draft

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Well, there was an exciting finish to an NBA playoff game last night that was painful to watch.

Here’s the recap of real time versus the ‘action’ in the final 66 seconds of game time:

elapsed time .. game clock .. description of what happened

00 m 00 sec .. 1:06.0 - Booker called for an offensive foul when the guy he hit enhanced his reaction. They go to the monitor, the call was not changed, Clippers ball

02 m 48 sec .. 1:06.0 - Clippers inbound down by 3, foul on Booker 10 secs later, 2 FTs made by George

04 m 12 sec .. 0:56.7 - Suns inbound up 1, layup blocked 19 seconds later, George scores 6 secs after that

04 m 39 sec .. 0:30.9 - Suns call timeout down by 1

06 m 24 sec .. 0:30.9 - Suns inbound and Booker scores in 3 seconds, Clippers call timeout down by 1

08 m 23 sec .. 0:27.0 - Clippers inbound and George scores in 5 seconds, Suns inbound no timeout

08 m 45 sec .. 0:09.3 - Ball knocked out of Booker’s hand, go to monitor, call switched since it was on his fingertip for a nanosecond later than on the hand of the guy who swiped at it (nobody would ever make that call live), Clippers call last timeout

13 m 13 sec .. 0:09.3 - Clippers inbound, George fouled 1 second later, misses both FTs, Suns call last TO

16 m 20 sec .. 0:07.8 - Suns inbound down 1, nobody has a timeout, they miss and rebound goes out of bounds

16 m 27 sec .. 0:00.9 - Go to monitor to see who gets ball, call stays with the Suns, free TO in last sec

19 m 26 sec .. 0.00.9 - Pass at rim to Ayton who dunks it, ball was above rim when he got it, clock to 0.0, go to monitor. Van Grundy immediately says there’s no goaltending (or offensive interference) on an inbounds pass, and that the basket will count. Refs eventually rule that and say the play only took two tenths of a second. Van Grundy also points out during this review that with no timeouts the Clippers will have to throw the ball the length of the floor, and that they can’t susbstitute. They had in two rim protectors that didn’t get it done and who normally wouldn’t be on the floor for a last-second heave. It took a while to get the right people on the floor.

27 m 42 sec .. 0:00.7 - Long pass to George, who tries a catch and shoot, but it’s off the rim and it looked late anyway.

So it took 27:42 to play the last 66 seconds, with 4 timeouts and 3 monitor reviews, the last two of which gave a team down a point a free timeout.

It took 11 minutes and 15 seconds to play the final 9 tenths of a second when neither team had a timeout!


That should have been a great game, but the actual time involved for a few seconds was ludicrous.

 
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