Give me a first-to-fifteen, win-by-two rule in OT, please. Every close game is a fucking hackfest and it’s stupid and I hate it.

Zach Lowe had a piece once suggesting a similiar rule for the end of regulation as well. Something like once the game clock passes a certain point you turn off the clock, establish a winning score as the currently leading team’s score+10 (or whatever number, I don’t remember exactly what he said but it’s easy enough to base it on the average scoring in that period) and then play to that number. This would actually eliminate OT altogether along with the hacking nonsense. It probably has some weird kinks and edge-case strategies that I’m not thinking of now, but man would I be in favor of dramatically shaking up how the end of close NBA games shakes out. It really is a black mark on an otherwise fantastic entertainment product.

G league is using the “shoot only 1 free throw for 2 (or 3) pts” rule this year. this would take some getting used to in the final minute, but i think it’s an improvement.

Give me a first-to-fifteen, win-by-two rule in OT, please. Every close game is a fucking hackfest and it’s stupid and I hate it.

Like the one just today where they have basically outed the whistleblower as a CIA agent.

Fucking incredible that they did that. “He was assigned to the White House, but has since returned to the CIA,” like Trump’s minions aren’t pouring over records right now.

And say what you will about the failing New York Times, many of their well researched investigative pieces have resulted in congressional investigations and/or criminals being sent to jail.

I mean, sure. Journalism wasn’t for me but that doesn’t mean I don’t respect journalists.

The NYT opinion section is a dumpster fire though, and the Times has had some serious ethical lapses lately. Like the one just today where they have basically outed the whistleblower as a CIA agent. That doesn’t seem to be serving the public good, but it does serve the NYT getting a lot of clicks.

I suppose somebody else might have published that information anyway, but they’re the ones that DID publish it. Doesn’t inspire a lot of confidence for future whistleblowers.

A young JK47 went to J-school briefly back in the day, I did a couple of years thinking I’d be a journalist before figuring out that profession was definitely not for me.

Sorry JK, a lot of journalists are heroes to me (not opinion writers, investigative journalists) They’re all that stand between us and a megalomaniacs like Trump destroying our country, or on a more local level, preventing some corrupt city councilman from taking kickbacks.

And say what you will about the failing New York Times, many of their well researched investigative pieces have resulted in congressional investigations and/or criminals being sent to jail.

For all of Perry and Mills’ faults, they seem capable of figuring that out.