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Ryen Russillo Has Me Ready To Run Through A Brick Wall After He Goes Hard In The Paint vs NBA Officiating

Full Ryen Russillo tweet/x, twex, whatever the fuck

I guess every rule is perfect then.  Are you interested in making the game better or protecting the interpretations of the rule? This specific call puts the defender at a massive disadvantage. I watch it every night. Drive to the side, initiate the contact. Get a bad shot attempt up. 2FTAs. You need to adapt. Stop letting the game devolve into your crews getting tricked all night. If it makes me want to turn it off you have a problem. You don’t want to lose me. “Impedes the progress” you mean after Bev dribbled into him? 

Fucking this. There's simply not enough NBA guys going this hard on how officiating is killing the game. We all know the problem is upstream. It's not as much the refs being inconsistent (although it's not NOT that), but when you start your defense of the call with "by rule" you've already lost the plot. Put away the ACKTUALLY card and realize your rules are stupid, and dumb and stupid. 

This game is a joke compared to what it was in the 90s. Sure it was lower scoring. But at least there was only one Michael Jordan instead of the Harrison Bergeron rules that put weights on defenders allowing every team's 6th man to put up what would have been all star numbers. Was the 90s too far skewed towards defense? Maybe. But when are we going to hit rock bottom here in the overcorrection? Sure wasn't last year and a week ago...

Of course time is a flat circle and here we are right back again. I wrote the blog below last year with my full diagnosis of what's wrong with the NBA and my loose ideas on how to address it. I mention this not to show off my shot heat map making skills (although not NOT to do that) but to continlue to be a voice with a microphone that's not afraid of both loving and hating the NBA.

Anyway - feels good to vent. We need more Ryen Russillos out there in the media. I know the other big names see what's going on but I feel like they don't give it enough attention because it's cliche. Well, guess what? Things are cliche for a reason. And for all I know it's just me and Ryen on this crusade. With 577k followers between the two of us on Twitter we are stronger together than either is alone. We're like Dwight when he resorbed his twin fetus. 

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- @stathole