Welcome back to another episode of Dumping Them Out.
This series might be on it’s last legs.
Dumping Them Out under attack.
Not sure how I’m ever supposed to compete with that.
It was bound to happen eventually.
It’s a dog eat dog world out here.
No one person can lay claim to Boob GIFs.
It’s every man for himself.
I mean, they’re also fantastic.
It’s actually impressive how much they can suck and be awesome all at once.
For example, the end of Missouri vs Vanderbilt was incredible.
Everything leading up to that though…
I know this isn’t a fresh hot take or anything.
People have been bitching about this for years.
Just players standing around waiting for play to start.
Somehow each team has 12 timeouts remaining.
It becomes painful to watch.
There’s so much dumb shit about basketball that basketball fans have just accepted as part of the game.
Flailing your legs to draw a foul.
The final minutes of the game being a long dragged out free throw competition.
But I guess there’s just no way to fix it without drastically changing the game.
In some ways it builds the suspense and adds to the drama.
It’s just so so so slow.
But I still love it.
At least for a month out of the year.
Can’t wait for the tournaments to start.
As ridiculous as it looks, this should be the standard for brackets.
It makes the regular season matter.
Part of me thinks this could be the answer to fixing the NBA.
Late season games between the 2nd and 3rd place teams in the Western Conference would have huge implications.
The difference between a 4 seed and a 7 seed is 8 more games you’d have to win.
The NBA would never do it.
And there’s probably more drawbacks to it that I haven’t considered.
But I think it’s an interesting concept.
Say in 2030, the NBA does their playoffs Sun Belt style.
Maybe they shrink the hoop as well.
Maybe one year they do the thing where home teams get to design their own court dimensions.
Just once a decade.
Then if there’s a rule that people actually love, they can consider keeping it.
I’m pretty sure Adam Silver could be convinced of anything at this point.
In other basketball news, this high school kid in Columbus punched a guy in the dick last night.
The dick puncher pretty much got away with it.
Which makes it a pretty effective defensive play.
Not to mention, you get their starting point guard out of the game for a few minutes.
Every school should at least be able to set up a phone camera or something to record the game.
You gotta be able to review dick punches.
