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http://deadspin.com/refs-admit-missed-foul-in-thunder-spurs-but-what-about-1774441945

Follow along! By my count, there were two other potential fouls even before Waiters elbowed Ginobili. 1) Ginobili stepped on, maybe even over the line while guarding the inbounds. This is fairly common, but Ginobili’s encroachment was more egregious than most. The refs could have stopped play there and whistled a delay-of-game foul on the Spurs. 2) Meanwhile, Kawhi Leonard grabbed a handful of Russell Westbrook’s jersey. Again, usually uncalled, but it could have been an away-from-the-play foul, which would have meant a free throw and the ball for OKC.

3) Waiters’s contact with Ginobili. So far, the only one the refs admitted they missed, and probably—though not definitely—the most egregious blown call of the sequence.

4) When Waiters did finally inbound, he jumped before throwing the ball. You can’t do that! It’s a throw-in violation, and if called would have been Spurs ball.

Bonus clock error!) Watch the inbound pass again—the clock starts while Waiters’s pass is at the top of its arc to Kevin Durant. It shouldn’t have. The clock starts when the ball is first touched, and six-tenths of a second rolled off before Durant got a hand on the ball. This is a minor thing, and almost always goes unnoticed, but could have been a reset and we would have gotten to do this all over again.

5) Danny Green ripped away Durant’s arm, stopping him from corralling the inbound pass. Loose-ball foul, two OKC free throws? Whatever, this game was clearly being played under Calvinball rules by this point.

6) As Patty Mills missed a three, Steven Adams’s momentum carried him out of bounds, where a fan in the front row grabbed his arm and hindered him from getting back into the play. Fan interference is a real, if rarely called violation, and would have resulted in a dead ball with OKC possession.

7) Serge Ibaka mauled LaMarcus Aldridge in the scrum for the rebound. Loose-ball foul, two free throws, whatever—at this point, whistles had been swallowed, pooped out, and were halfway to the sewage treatment plant.

had dates that ended in hooking up the last two nights. so i haven't gotten enough sleep since saturday.

noticed something. until sunday the women i've gone on dates with or hooked up with since my ex and i broke up mostly fit my lifelong type: pretty, small waist, nice bubble butt. with the three that i'd had sex with, the sex was mediocre to pretty good. then on sunday and last night, the women were really cute but they weren't as shapely as i'm used to, and my vain ass may have learned a lesson that i'd heard but never really believed: chunkier chicks are better in bed. the sex was awesome. the woman on sunday gave possibly the best head i've ever gotten. i'm getting a boner just thinking about it. last night, well, i've got bite and scratch marks all over this morning.

also, i'm sore from the truncated barbara. chesticles and anterior delts, tib anterior (oddly), and traps and lats a little. and abs.

two more days of work.

re: the footstrike vs stride length thing, have you read the whole series that ross tucker and whathisface did on running form and barefoot running? it's brilliant, and they caution against focusing on footstrike when trying to improve running form, explicitly because of the injury risk.

here's a RL plant, btw:

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nMDJlytlXZI" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nMDJlytlXZI</a>

 

yeah who knew rivers had it in him? i'm just impressed that he wasn't ruined to the depths of his soul by blake griffin's savagely accurate impersonation of him last year.

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JrK2Fv1s0qk" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JrK2Fv1s0qk</a>

oh duh 5k is 3.1 miles, not 3. my bad. 18:38 should be more than doable, you're less than a minute off with zero coaching and not much specific training. ever think about doing 800m repeats in under 3 mins, just to learn the pace without tuckering yourself out too much?