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Bill Johanesen -> RE: Timberwolves 2024/2025 Season (6/3/2025 8:38:37 AM)
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Meanwhile Edwards runs roughshod down the lane and ends up at the foul line. He might as well announce he's driving to the basket, then the refs can just send him to the line w/o the wear and tear.
Just more examples of star treatment. They are bubble-boys.
Edwards barely gets calls. He gets hammered regularly, but because he's so strong, he rarely gets the whistle.
Barely and rarely are from a biased take.
This past season Edwards was 9th in the league in average FTA's per game! Essentially tied for 7th.
And gets hammered way more than that.
He's like Shaq. If Shaq had been officiated right, he'd average 20 FTAs and foul out the entire opposing team.
He's nowhere close to Shaq! Teams WANTED to foul Shaq because of his low FT %.
I don't recall Hack-A-Ant in NBA nomenclature, ever. Although it may have been a smart thing to do given Ant's bad 69% FT % in the Western finals.
Way off.
You missed my point completely.
Shaq got hammered every time he got the ball in the post, but it was rarely called because of how strong he was.
If Shaq got Embiid's whistle, he'd have set the NBA record for FTAs.
Your point was Edwards was "like Shaq". That isn't the case. Maybe use another player for a better analogy.
Dude.
I'm talking about a guy who is stringer than his defenders, so the officials allow more contact on them. Ant gets absolutely hammered on every drive, but because he doesn't go flying like Shai or Trae, the officials generally let them "play on". Like how Shaq got hit, grabbed and yanked every time he had the ball near the basket and they only called it if blood was drawn.
Its not rocket surgery here.
Figured you'd be a bit realistic with the assertions, instead it's full on embellishment. Edwards does NOT get absolutely hammered on every drive. Although, he does get hit, gets his share of phantom calls, and was 9th in FTAs in 2025.
Saying he gets hit like Shaq is technically true but the contact is so much less that it's disingenuous to use Shaq as the example. A better analogy is he gets hit like Green from a few years ago.
I can understand Hyperbole Zone fan reactions during and after the game, but turning up the volume a week after the last game is over seems strange, especially for you (level-headed, etc).
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