I’m not sure what the original call was, but I hope it wasn’t a block. The defender established legal guarding position well above the 3 point line, moved to maintain position, and took the contact right in the chest. Textbook charge. Gottlieb screaming that if anything it should be a UNC foul doesn’t surprise me. He’s usually wrong.
I’m good with the upgrade to a flagrant 1. Mintz is RH player, so for him to swing the ball from R to L while clearing space with the right elbow is unnecessary (from a basketball standpoint) and excessive (elbow to the head).
Not at all in the same ballpark, but I had a work league game where I made 18 out of 21 points for my team (it was 1s and 2s up to 21). Towards the end, we were 1 point from winning and I missed a couple midrange jumpers and my teammates got impatient and were like “c’mon just finish the game already!” Should’ve gone for a higher percentage shot there I guess
What’s worse than being on the team where one guy takes all the shots is being the guy on the team where one guy gives up all the points. A favorite pickup basketball story for me is that time when the person who likes to set blind backpicks in transition and cannot shoot but likes to was playing on my team. I gave up a couple of jumpers and this guy made a point of switching defensive responsibilities with me. He then proceeded to give up every single point to that guy and we lost 21 to 4.
I have had several but one, I played pickup basketball against Daryl Stonum and Junior Hemingway at the CCRB. I was tasked with guarding Junior Hemingway and needlessly to say, it was not fun because Junior pretty much treated the game like a football game. It was super physical but I definitely held my own. I had a breakaway layup but Stonum caught up from behind and felt that he was going to block me from behind which I smartly aborted when he came alongside me. The next day, I was so sore from Junior’s physicality. lol
