From Thinking Basketball
Why are offenses more efficient than ever? This video is about the 2026 NBA officiating style, and how offenses are pushing the boundaries of the rules further than ever, handicapping defenses in the process. Is a balance between offensive and defensive rules even important?
Ben continues doing the lord's work documenting the disgusting state of modern officiating. More than any of the previous videos, this one hits on my main pet-peeves. I still can't, for the life of me, understand why this garbage is allowed. Everyone seems to hate it and it's extremely obvious.
Can’t be worse than NFL officiating!
I think it is actually. There aren’t as many egregious blown calls but the complete disregard for so many rules has really perverted how the game is played.
That’s probably right. It’s also quite a bit more noticeable in the NFL when an egregious call is made where as in NBA even if an egregious call is made or missed it probably has marginal impact on the game unless it is right at the end of the game. There aren’t too many times we point to a play in the 3rd quarter in an NBA game where we say that call or missed call changed the whole game whereas that happens often enough in the NFL.
They got to do what they can to stop them SPURS BOI!