Philip Berg

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KID ROCK: “There’s a book that’s sitting in your house somewhere that could use some dusting off. There’s a man who died for all our sins hanging from the cross. You can give your life to Jesus, and he’ll give you a second chance…” CHILLS ✝️🙏🏻

@MavsLaker @JoeCStrib There is certainly an effort, maybe unknowingly, to disconcert the pitcher and bother his motion. I often hear a lot of animal sounds at just the right time. I try to put it on the coach, but come next game the players are right back to it until they get another warning.

@JoeCStrib Having played and coached baseball, at what point did this become a problem? One of my HS coaches required that we "chatter". Is this destroying the game? Note that the same rule is NOT being adopted for softball.

The MSHSL adopted a new "Bench Decorum" rule for baseball to put an end to coordinated chants teams were using to distract opponents. varsity.startribune.com/mshsl-adopts-d…

Jelly Roll just had an all-time Grammy acceptance speech

@AaronGleeman I’ll accept that from Tom if reassurances can be made that if it doesn’t work out the way he thinks it will, then they will spend more on the roster. Sadly, a Pohlad agreement isn’t worth much.

Also of note: It's taken Tom Pohlad just six weeks to start downplaying the impact of payroll and try to discourage questions about the Twins' decreased spending. Their current $105 million payroll is below Metrodome-era levels relative to MLB as a whole: nytimes.com/athletic/70109…

Tom Pohlad keeps saying the Twins need to have a winning season and it's his expectation. Meanwhile, their payroll is down $30 million from last year and they've made no big additions. On words vs. actions and the shocking timing of Derek Falvey's exit: nytimes.com/athletic/70109…

Sandy Bell summed things up very well on FB: I refuse to be emotionally manipulated by political rhetoric. Call me hateful. Tell me I’m a bad Christian. Insult me and call me names. That doesn’t change a thing. You laughed when Charlie Kirk was shot while unarmed and simply having a conversation. You were silent when Laken Riley was beaten and killed by someone here illegally. You ignored the brutal attack on Iryna Zerutska on a train while minding her own business. You disregarded Jocelyn Nungary, who was only 12 year old when she was raped and murdered by two illegals. I have never heard you use your voice for 11 year old Aiden Antonio Torres De Paz, Mollie Tibbits, Kayla Hamilton or Rachel Morin or many others. I wish that Renee Good and Alex Pretti were still alive. Any loss of life is tragic, especially when it was preventable. But here’s something that is being lost in the headlines. The narrative being sold to you isn’t the full story. Rene & Alex were not peaceful bystanders. They chose to insert themselves into dangerous, escalating situations with law enforcement. They are not martyrs. They were misguided by a narrative that tells them confrontation is heroic. What happened is being used to justify a broader political agenda, one that frames ICE and border enforcement as inherently evil and anyone who disagrees as uncaring or cruel. I will not be lectured on Christianity by people who would never open their homes to those in need and yet demand open borders for our country. Those same voices said nothing about immigration enforcement when it happened under previous administrations. Silence in the face of crime and then outrage when implementation occurs is moral inconsistency. Supporting law enforcement doesn’t make you heartless. Disagreeing with the narrative doesn’t mean you have no compassion. You can practice empathy and still have boundaries. We have opposing views? So what? We can respect our differences or you can hurl the insults but either way, I refuse the manipulation. I flat out refuse.

As always, Scottsbluff, Nebraska setting the standard. 😳

@thematrix29_ @JonKrawczynski ASG starters are no longer based on traditional positions.

@JonKrawczynski Ant hasn’t been a good PG Jon. Yeah he’s decent. But a good PG averages atleast 5 assists a game, Ant is averaging 3.7 assists this season. Randle is the point forward of this team. Ant has significantly improved playing PG, but he needs to up his assists numbers to be good. 🏀

Really am incredibly surprised Anthony Edwards did not make it. He's been out of this world this season: playing point guard, shooting 72 percent in the clutch, being more consistent on defense. He's taken another leap in Year 6, and a big one at that.

@MrThunder0 @TheJamesEdrick You still can’t hack someone’s arms - with or without the ball.

@TheJamesEdrick I mean, they didn’t call it because Hartenstein knocked the ball cleanly first

That Dort no call is insane lmaooo

@katapper @notimabill01 @mcuban @NBAOfficial Dort starts with his right arm starting down, swinging up and chopping down. Almost the easiest thing to see because of the arm motion. IMO really hard to defend that no call. Even if the ball is out of his hands, it’s still a foul.

@notimabill01 @mcuban @NBAOfficial He gathered the ball with no impact to the shot. That’s probably why it wasn’t called. Also, it’s just not an easy one to see. My point is I don’t think either were egregious missed calls like twitter wants you to think.

@NBAOfficial why is it hard to make these calls ? Is it a game flow issue or ?

@NotAnOKCFan Honest question - would you rather have Chet or Wemby?

Chet is a champion, Victor hasn’t made the playoffs

@TmmWanted @bballbreakdown @CoachPalotie @jwsteigleman @bballbreakdown is a shooting coach yet doesn’t know the difference between a regular jumpshot and a fadeaway. 🤷🏻‍♂️

@bballbreakdown @CoachPalotie @jwsteigleman He’s jumping forward what do you mean it’s a fadeaway 🤣🤣🤣 holy cope

So this is a landing space foul because there is foot to foot contact, but thankfully it's not a flagrant, and the natural sway on the fade means SGA's feet flow forward. This is one they could keep refining in terms of the rules

@bballbreakdown Ha ha ha! As a shooting coach. Yeah right.

@PhilipCBerg I lament not showing the broadcast angle since this was a step back fade where a sway could be more pronounced. As a shooting coach, I have definitely shot the ball, 🤣

@bballbreakdown @natebantle Just pretend he’s wearing Shai’s jersey…then you’ll think it’s a foul.

@natebantle It just doesn't look like much more than incidental contact to me

Just insane control by Wemby as Caruso demonstrates the "hand is part of the ball" rule. (Contact to hand that's touching the ball is legal)

@lunatic_core @DuaneRankin The rule book doesn’t state that it becomes a flagrant 2 if a team is losing by a large amount. Refs know that physicality will ramp up with frustration, thus trying to have matching calls on both teams. If they allow OKC to do something, the other team will expect the same.

@DuaneRankin If this is during a competitive game I agree with a Flagrant 1, but at this moment it seemed like a hostile petty foul from a frustrated player.

Suns guard Grayson Allen on flagrant 2 on Chet Holmgren, ejection: "Felt like I gave a good foul within the physicality of the game and what was going on both ends, especially with the bumps on screens. Some of the hits on blockouts that were happening. It was straight up. He was cutting into me. Definitely a foul, but I thought it was within the physicality of the game. I think the reaction afterwards kind of played into that." On if he was surprised it was a flagrant 2: "When (lead officials James Williams) said the explanation, I thought that was the description of a flagrant 1. They looked at it a bunch of times. I didn't feel like there was wind up. I braced myself. Definitely delivered a bump and a hard foul, but it was straight up. It wasn't like Mark (Williams) last game when he was flying in the air (fouled by T-Wolves big Rudy Gobert that led to flagrant 2, ejection)." On level of physicality reaching a heightened level: "They're obviously a physical team and that's part of their identity. That's part of how when you play against them the game is going to be played. Us as a team, we're a little bit like that, too. Any big games like this, regardless of the score, I feel like physicality is going to build up throughout the game. As players, we just play off of what gets let go and what does/doesn't get called and try to match the lines. I think our game against them got more physical as it went on with us matching their physicality and them matching our physicality. That back-and-forth just kind of builds throughout the game." #Suns #ThunderUp

@EzraOnTheLow @Thetruth8240 That’s not a flagrant foul, just call a T and move on.

@Thetruth8240 Context is important. This was a frustration foul in a blowout on national TV. most of the time this is a flagrant 1 but refs didnt want it to escalate. Also Grayson Allen has a long history of making dirty plays so that plays a factor

This is how SOFT the NBA is now Grayson Allen got Ejected for pushing Chet Holgrem smh

@el_bossmon @HaterReport_ Well, Chet only weighs 145 pounds, so it kind of makes sense.

@HaterReport_ okay? i don't even see a foul. chet starts flopping before allen even does the push off. allen likely wanted to push him off cuz the flopping was unnatural movement. RIP NBA

Refs gave Grayson Allen a Flagrant 2 and ejected him from the game for this

@bballbreakdown Man, you must really be hurt by all of this SGA talk. I think this is the 5th or 6th post about SGA that has come across my timeline and I don’t even follow you.

I've seen a lot of folks say SGA gets calls no one else does. I think Devin Booker is on the ethical list, not sure I've ever seen him accused of foul grifting. Well, I've got some footage for you:

@bballbreakdown @22Vaxi @Ravers These refs should be able to get that shuffle/movement of the foot. For the most part, they do a good job, but they miss, or give (Shai) an awful lot more than they should.

@PhilipCBerg @22Vaxi @Ravers A slight move of a few inches is tough at that speed, especially when the overarching focus is on potential contact. But yeah, they missed it, but get an overwhelming percentage correct

So it's as close as possible to the left foot being down when Mr. Allen ends his dribble with both hands on the ball. Next step is the pivot foot - which does not move until he legally lifts it in order to shoot before it comes back down.