He is absolutely correct.

100% correct. And the most obvious way we’ll see this is when it’s a tight game, do they call it on the star player who pushed off with their arm to make a dagger shot.

How many of you think they will call that? lol

Nah. They will still call them but only when they need to rig the game.

Hate Draymond but agree with Draymond lol

Remember when they were supposed to call more technical fouls for players being too demonstrative and whining after calls? Yeah that shit didn’t last

He’s right. They’ll do it for the first 3 games then they will stop

And then they will bring the rule back for one critical game in the playoffs randomly

Insert Flopping technical

He’s 100% correct

Game would be so more attractive, if they enforced this and would be way harsher towards moving screens and carrying. Hell I would accept travels by 1 step, if its a highlight play if they called the other 3 things correctly.

This has been an offensive foul since the beginning of basketball, so I think this rule will stick.  They will call every little push off even if it’s borderline nothing at the start, then they’ll lax a little bit as the season goes on, but I think this is a consistent offensive foul for the season.

Some preseason rules stick. Remember when the team that just scored would pass the ball to the ref before the other team could take it out.  They cracked down on that one preseason and you never see it anymore

When the worst person is right

watch it only specifically get called on draymond lol

He’s not wrong

Hate that he is right lol

Very true.

He’s not wrong. I distinctly remember a preseason a couple years ago where the refs made a big stink about calling Luka on this little foul-baiting shove off he likes to do when taking a shot, and he proceeded to do it for the entire fucking season and they never said shit

He ain’t never lie (in the last 24 hours)

Lol just like flopping coming with a tech and a fine. The week and a half that lasted was special.

It’s literally all just theater that the NBA puts out at the beginning of every season to make it look like they’re addressing all of the legitimate gripes with their officiating when each year they never had any intention at all of fixing any of the gripes*.

But because the league under Adam Silver has developed an overwhelming lack of respect for and condescension towards the fans of their product, they think their fans (and all of the overwhelmingly sycophantic NBA media) are stupid and so simple-minded enough that they’ve convinced themselves their ‘we’re fixing the officiating this season!’ charade that they put on at the beginning of every season not only works by placating the masses into thinking the league gives a shit but that we all won’t be able to pick up on the pattern and recognize it all for the charade it is. And that’s why the BS rule change fakeouts keep happening year after year after year despite the vast majority, if not all, of us have stopped buying into the laughable notion anything will actually change every time they tell us it will.

*See they can’t because that would mean getting rid of the mechanisms they’ve institutionalized within their officiating to dictate game momentum and by extension outcome and they sure as shit are never going to do that, especially now that they’re in bed with sports books.

Just look at the focus on flopping that seemed to disappear after a few weeks, league doesn’t really care.

He’s right. Just like they ignore all of his moving screens when the regular season starts.

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Heartbreaking: The Worst Person You Know Just Made A Great Point

I agree with draymond 🤦‍♂️

NBA refs operate by the rule of cool. Sadly.

Draymond is wrong. They’re gonna call it the first 2ish weeks of the regular season too.

I like how people here hate Draymond, yet agree with everything he says lol.

Why can’t refs change how they call something permanently when told to do so by the league?

Why do they do it for a bit then revert to the old way of calling it?

I bet they will call it in some specific teams

I really don’t understand how this hasn’t always been called. Guess I’m too damn old but I remember this was always a foul then all of a sudden it was not and you can just walk and carry the damn ball too.

This is the same in-depth analysis that I get from some random Reddit user named something like cum_snail_away_3747. Thanks Draymond

They’ll call it a few times in the preseason, maybe once or twice in the beginning of the regular season, shelve it, and then bring it back in the playoffs when they need to extend a series.

Actual factuals

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First time he’s had a totally rational take

100% correct to the point I don’t even have much to add lol.

Every season there’s a new “point of emphasis” that’s called through the preseason and first month or so. But by the new year it’ll be back to normal and playoff ball will be the same (lack of) whistle on both sides that it always is.

Draymond can clock someone in the chin and refs won’t call.

His personal experiences don’t reflect the rest of the players’.

Right message

Wrong messenger

If defenders can bump players to impede their path at the rim then offensive players should be able to push off to create space for a short

The NBA apparently wants all physicality to be taken away from the game and have us just watch drive and kicks for 48 minutes

So basically they are going to ref every NBA player like they are Karl Anthony Towns

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