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Originally Posted by Inner Dirt
I "retired" from organized basketball in 8th grade, but I still played in pick up games into my mid 30's. I played football and boxed through college, after college I still spared occasionally and taught friends how to box into my early 40's. With physically demanding sports where there is contact like the 3 I just mentioned injury risk goes way up when a person is fatigued and up even more if the fatigued person is giving his all. So you want a star player to risk injury when the outcome is not in doubt, especially in a play-off game? You have got to be kidding me, and I in game bet myself. I do not expect coaches and players to alter anything because of gamblers. If you were an NBA player
would you dive on the court to get a rebound down by 15 with 55 seconds left? I sure the hell would not and if I was a coach I would ask a player why they did such a stupid stunt if they did.
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Most of the time in garbage time the bench is in the game anyways. They don't have to dive for loose balls. Just play out the game. In tonights game, when Chicago got the ball with 55 seconds to go, just pass the ball around, run down the clock and take a shot. Assuming Atlanta gets the ball back with 33 seconds to go, they do the same thing. When Chicago gets the ball back with under 24 seconds to go, they run out the clock. That is typically the way it has been done forever. Nobody is going to get injured. Nobody is asking Nba players to risk injury. This running out the 24 second clock with 55 second seconds to go and having the other team do the same is not the way games used to be played, at least to my recollection (and nobody dives for loose balls when they are up or down 15 or 20 points with less than a minute to go). So what about my posts makes you think I expect players to be diving for loose balls when up or down double digits with less than a minute to go? But I surely expect them to take a shot with 35 seconds to go and the 24 second clock about to expire. Especially when the league is promoting betting on its product and the people that are providing the betting are enabling people to bet the game at + or - 15.5 at one point of the game and + - 16.5 at another point of the game..............
