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Fantasy Throwdown Podcast

FTP Ep. # 461: Prelude to the 2023 Stanley Cup Playoffs

Fantasy Throwdown Podcast

Dwayne Callender

Sports, Fantasy Sports

4.9440 Ratings

🗓️ 17 April 2023

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

I address the events of the NBA yesterday complete with the ridiculous notion that the charge rule should be abolished before I give my thoughts on the Stanley Cup playoffs and how wide open this year is compared to the expectations.



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0:00.0

Welcome to the Fantasy Throw Down Podcast, bringing you the latest from the world of sports,

0:08.0

DFS and gambling. With over five years of hot tags and millions of downloads later, I guess he's been doing something right.

0:18.0

Now, sit back and listen to one of the sharpest minds in the game.

0:23.5

Here's your host, Duane Calendar.

0:27.0

Welcome to the show folks.

0:31.9

Originally, this was strictly going to be about the NHL and the Stanley Cup playoffs, but we got to talk about some of items that came up in the NBA because the discussion points were so dumb that I have to comment on this.

0:47.0

So both John Moran and Janus Antonacupo got injured driving to the hoop and they were obvious charge situations

0:59.6

they saw the defender they still decided to go at multiple defenders in Janus's case.

1:08.6

Kevin Love is there with four other defenders. And are going to say oh Kevin Love you know he moved

1:16.9

as the honest was launching himself to the basket well what what what was he supposed to do? You can't jump vertically because the verticality rules in the

1:27.3

NBA are stupid. They don't enforce it correctly. So even if you jump straight up, even though that's supposed to be the rule, you still get called for fouls by

1:37.9

NBA referees because they don't know how to call fouls.

1:41.0

Vericali is a joke in the NBA. Straight up if you watch the game you know

1:46.8

straight up what I'm talking about. Even if you follow the rules of what they

1:50.6

say jumping straight up, offensive players still draw contact, they're going to blow the whistle.

1:56.0

Common sense tells you this.

1:57.6

If you watch the game, you know exactly what I'm talking about.

2:00.9

Verdecally is not enforced the way it's actually supposed to be in the

2:04.5

NBA. So going up in the air is a non-starter. You can't hand check. So you know guys are going to be blown past defenders constantly.

2:17.0

The recourse, unless you want to give up bleps and and dunks are to set up for a charge.

2:25.0

That's it. You're not getting...

2:29.0

Unless you are Embeed, Y yonus some of the shot bloggers in the league

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