 What's the word, y'all? Today's a big day at the NBA. Y'all probably don't even notice, but today is a huge day in the NBA because it just got more watchable. Now, the NBA product is amazing. I don't want you to think I'm saying otherwise, but there are some things within it that needed to be changed. And today, there was a lot of things coming out from the NBA officials that tell us the fouls are gonna be a little bit different this year. And I'm excited, but a bit skeptical, I'll explain. I also didn't know there was this one piece of hair back here that's just like free flowing by. I don't know. So I wanted to make a video revolving around this a couple of days ago. I made a tweet, let's say like, give me your boldest prediction of the 2021-22 season. I got a lot of great things, a lot of bad things, and I do plan on one day before the season starts going over some of those bold predictions. One guy who I could not find his tweet ahead of a thousand replies to it, and Twitter only allows you to see so many, says something along the lines of this. Because the NBA is changing, how fouls are called and drawn. Trey Young, Luka Donchich, and James Hart will be less effective this season. And that is the definition of a bold take. Now these are three players who aren't alone, but maybe the top of the line when it comes to, to manipulating the refs to calling a foul, have somebody on their hip then go up, leaning into somebody that's left his feet. All of those things made the product of basketball harder to watch. I know of people, and this is an extreme case, but I know of people that don't watch NBA basketball live because they hate watching free throws and they hate the review system, which I think they changed a little bit of too, we'll get to that one day. And because of that, they don't watch basketball live, they'll record it and then go back later so they can fast forward through the commercials and the free throws. And that's just not a way you wanna live life, bro. And the NBA has put it on themselves to change some things. A couple of weeks ago, they started their official, I don't remember what the name of it was, let me see. On their annual referee pre-season meeting was September 19th, and even before then it was rumored or people knew that they were gonna change the foul system, but we didn't know to what extent. Well, today they dropped like five videos to tell you, hey, this is gonna be a foul this year and this won't be. This is gonna be a foul in the office, this is gonna be a foul on defense, and I just watched all those videos and I was like, yeah, I love it. But it's gonna be extremely hard, I believe, to really put it into play. Because say what you want about referees, they don't do a perfect job, but they have a very hard job to determine something like that. Oh, did he take three steps or did he take two steps? Is that a foul in the office or in the defense? And to add all of these extra things might make it a bit difficult, at least for the first couple months of the NBA season. Now, every single year they do this referee thing and they come up with something new that's going to improve the way the game is viewed. And if I'm not mistaken, I don't have the stats to prove this, but the first month of the season, every year, from what I remember, is extremely foul heavy. Because, A, a lot of people are out of shape so they're not moving their feet, they're playing with their hands, and the referees are trying to get used to whatever new policies are thrown into the game. But that guy's bold prediction really had me thinking, and I'm so happy I waited to make this video because now we actually have footage of what's considered a foul and what's not a foul. But I'm gonna say that's blasphemy random person that said Trey Young is not gonna be effective. Do I remember when Team USA was looking for new people because Bradley Beale dropped out of the Olympics for personal reasons and somebody else dropped out? Kevin Love dropped out and they were looking for people to replace these guys and they didn't even consider Trey Young. They said, hey, we want players that are in game shape already. And if you don't remember, Trey Young had just got eliminated from the playoffs so he is in peak game shape. And they didn't give Trey Young a call and I think he made a tweet like, bro, I'm sitting right here. What was the exact tweet? Because if I'm not mistaken, it was amazing. Okay, the Washington Post has, okay, let me show you this article about the Washington Post. I don't like the way this is titled. Also, the Washington Post is one of those places that they auto play videos without your consent. Don't be that website. Trey Young is extremely salty over Team USA snub. I don't know if he, I don't know if this is, oh, but it's the New York Post. They had, he had just beaten it. Anyway, but this is the tweet. This is the tweet. This is a grade A level tweet. Don't know what went into that process. I met the criteria to be selected, but I wasn't. Don't know what went into that process. That's so great. That's the perfect, I only think that would make this even better, Trey. And you got your impressions. You did your thing. We gotta crop our memes, ladies and gentlemen. You gotta crop your memes. And I know you and you, you're a ball player and you probably ain't got time to crop your memes, but it don't take that much, my boy. Anyway, so he wasn't picked for the Olympics. If people were trying to figure out why, consider on Team USA, at that point in time, had lost a couple of games to like Nigeria and they were like, man, they need somebody that can play make it. Obviously, Trey Young's one of the better playmakers in the league. And people speculate it is because they didn't believe he could, he can change his game enough to not try to bait those fouls because you didn't know you get to the Olympics and it's a whole new game of basketball. There's a video on YouTube that I will not show because I do want to make money on it. I do want to make money on this video where there's like Kevin Love, Damien Lillard. They're trying to draw fouls in that first game against Nigeria and the referee's like, bro, that's not the NBA, you can't do that. And people speculated Trey Young to get the call because they didn't think he can adapt. I think that's crazy. I legit think that's crazy. Yes, him, James Harden, Luca Doncellos, on and all have manipulated the refs to a crazy amount but that's not solely what their game is. Trey Young is still gonna be a very effective NBA player even if he can't get somebody to draw a foul like that. I just think it's kind of crazy to think they gonna follow, what do you even mean by that? What is James Harden, not gonna be an all-star Colorado player or Luca Doncellos, Trey Young not gonna be as good, I don't know. But anyway, let's go over what the NBA said is a foul and it's not a foul. NBA officials, if you're watching this, please don't take this video down or don't demonetize it. This is informational. I am teaching the people what you tried to teach people but you ain't got that much clout, no offense. It's from the NBA officials. Nobody wanna follow referees, bro. Let's be honest. They don't wanna follow referees on Twitter. So I will be the person to teach the people what was going on. I just told the NBA officials that they don't got enough clout. This is a great job. I have attempted to read this tweet four times now and I can't, okay. For the 2021-22 NBA season, there will be an interpretive change and the officiating of avert an abrupt or abnormal non-basketball moves for offensive players with the ball in an effort to draw fouls. The following point of education video showcase areas where the change will be needed. This is great. You know what, actually, you actually got more likes and retweets and stuff on this than I anticipate the NBA official. My apologies. Now, you have to blame the NBA on somebody's footage looking as terrible as it is but let's talk about what they're considering a foul. This play by Luca Doncic where he gets the person in the air and leans into it is now an offensive foul instead of a defensive foul, which I think is amazing. Now I can see the counterpoint for people like, hey, Luca got his defender up in the air. He should be rewarded for something, but come on bro, leaning into him like that is now a foul and I think everybody benefits from this, at least for the viewing experience. They going deep too, bro. Hey, I would link this in the description because one of the referees or whoever's in charge is actually like walking you through why it is a foul and I appreciate that. And I think you would too if you want the full grasp of these. Now this is an example. Why is this foot so grainy? This is an example of what would be considered a no-call nowadays in 2021-22. Size up from Chris Middleton, bink, bink and you can see what makes this different as the defender doesn't leave their feet and they stay straight up. So now Chris Middleton leaning into a defender that's going straight up is just nothing. Play ball. And now what is considered a defensive foul we're about to see. And I can't even, okay, I see that the Clippers are playing. Tell me who else is on this court. Who are they going against right now? It's the Portland Troll Blazers. So here's the play. It's a better angle. So this is now a defensive foul. As you can see, CJ goes straight up a lid. It's hard to really determine the big difference between what's the offensive foul and the defensive foul and what I will say is the lean in is not as egregious as what Luca did. And because of that, this is a defensive foul. And again, Zubac is this end, he's saying that Zubac is moving forward on his closeout and because of that, oh no, the foot is getting really good. What the heck? All right, so here is another example of things that they are changing. This move by Steph Curry, where he's going against the Bucks. And as you can see, he's got Dante DiVincenzo, I mean, maybe you can't see. When he's got Dante DiVincenzo on his right side, he jumps into Dante. And now this is an offensive foul. As you can see, the arrows pointing towards Dante. They're like, nah, bro, that's offensive. Oh, this is Chris Duclair for this. Thank you. Now this is considered a defensive foul nowadays. Now, what is different between what he just did versus what Steph Curry did? The difference is Trey Young didn't throw his body towards the defender. He just stopped. And what whoever narrating this is saying is the NBA player has the ability, it has the freedom to attempt a shot whenever and change his momentum. And changing his momentum in this case is a complete stop. And it just so happened how Netto jumps into him and that is still a defensive foul. This is something that Trey Young does a lot, getting the person and put him in jail so he can still do this move. He just can't jump to the side or to the side to draw the foul. Sometimes the footage is really good. Look at that, that's like almost crystal clear. Look at that. Why is this overhead camera better than the broadcast camera? Oh, this player is great. Because this is a critical moment in a play-in game. This is a critical, critical moment in a play-in game. Juan Toscano answers gonna give it up to Jordan Bell or Jordan Poole, Jesus Christ. And he kicked his leg out and they called it a foul. And it was a late foul. I know y'all remember this play. But now this is a no-call. Then the Grizzlies win this game. So it didn't matter in the grand scheme of things, but like this was a very big momentum change in play that is a no-call now. And this is something we've seen before. It is just still a defensive foul. If you get it all a bit to a space and prevents him from like coming down, it's still a defensive foul and that is the case. Now this is where Trey Young has to adapt his game a little bit. Again, I do believe he will be able to. But in this footage that he does the James Hardin rap thing where his defender is on him, he gets the defender's arm in there, then he tries to go straight up to draw the foul. That is now an offensive foul, which I think might be the best part of this entire video. Because this grinding my gears, no matter who did it, this grinding my gears all season long. I mean, yes, the NBA players are smart to see the seed that there was a hole in the officiate and taking advantage of it, but now they can't do that no more. Oh, it's crystal clear footage. Here's a better look at it. Lamello's hand is in there and you can see the lock back Trey Young and now that is the offensive foul. This right here is considered a no-call. And this one in the Trey Young one is similar in my opinion, but something is like the difference. I would have to re-listen to his commentary on it, but this is now a no-call. And again, it's a classic James Hardin move, taking advantage of his defender, trying to put his arm out to stop it. He gets the contact and now that is no-call. And those are the major changes to the foul call and they have one more video basically saying that they're gonna try to crack down on like the way players react to calls. So, you know, occasionally a player get called for foul. He like, no, what? Like he would do like all of this hand movement and man, what is not anymore? That's now a technical foul, which I don't love too much just because I do believe players should be allowed to show emotion. Yeah, you probably did foul him Carmelo, or no, LeBron does this a lot. PJ Tucker never foul somebody in his whole life. I think I would like for them to be able to show emotion because nobody is hurting in this situation, but now I'm going into the 2021-2022 season that is considered a technical foul. So a lot of information, a lot of information coming out today. Shout out to the NBA officials. We'll see how good of a job they do in enforcing these things. I think there's going to be a learning curve. I don't expect the season opener for the refs to be out there knowing exactly, exactly all the calls and hitting 100% with it. But I do think in due time, these are better changes for the NBA. I wonder what happens to the overall free throw attempts per game for some of the top players but overall as an organization because yes, we do have our top guys that do this, but everybody in the league has fished for these fouls before. It's become a part of just basketball and they're trying to crack down on it and I appreciate that. Now they did release some more news about like the coaching challenges and things like that. I would have to dive into that a little bit more before I make a video for y'all. But I think overall this is a W. Let me know what you think in the comment section. You should subscribe if you don't already. There's like 70% of y'all that ain't subscribed. 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