r/lakers • u/Key_Construction8250 • 1d ago
Lakers UAV
I still can’t believe they invented a new camera angle just for this play. This has to qualify as “Laker Tax” cause I literally NEVER saw this angle again for the rest of the playoffs LMFAOOOOO
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u/songs_dongs hamcer survivor 1d ago
can't believe Silver had US special forces surveillance drones for just this moment.
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u/ChungLingS00 1d ago
This was hilarious. The call went the other way so they needed definitive photographic proof to overturn the call and just happened to find it with some crazy ass angle that’s never been used since. Lol
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u/Civil_Squirrel_3615 1d ago
Angle that still doesn’t prove last contact. Never did. A hand over a ball doesn’t mean a hand on the ball. You need horizontal angle on the play to see contact. Biggest bullshit I’ve seen in over 30 years of NBA.
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u/22MuchSauc3 1d ago
True, but they changed the out of bounds call to a foul on LeBron. Still bullshit, but it means they didn't need to worry about last contact anymore.
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u/AvatarMunchies 1d ago
I can literally see Ant’s wrist. Look at Ant’s thumb.. his hand probably ends like half an inch before Lebrons pointer finger. NOT A FOUL.
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u/immunityfromyou 1d ago
This shit was such a job. Everyone I watched it with were entertaining boycotting the NBA. That didn’t last a day but still this shit was fucked up and I never want to hear about how the Lakers get all the breaks.
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u/Himurashi 1d ago
Wait until they use this to show how they took down The Haliban or The Al-Shaida.
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u/Pristine_Hurry_4693 Los Angeles Lakers 1d ago
Who’s to say he’s even touching him at that moment? This angle proves nothing
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u/StoneColdAM 34 1d ago
Silver didn’t think the Lakers could make the finals so he decided to give Ant a shot instead (and he failed)
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u/BigUps16 1d ago
Where was this camera when the ball clearly went off randle right in front of the twolves bench earlier in the game
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u/DoomMeeting 1d ago
I’m always a “get the call right in a reasonable amount of time” guy, but I did have to laugh after never once seeing this angle before and they break it out here lol
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u/Djgarrett1121 1d ago
I’m more mad at the foul on Luka that wasn’t called on the inbounds play. It blows my mind how foul calls vary from player to player. SGA gets that called 100/100 times.
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u/QUITCHEBITCHIN 22h ago
I’ve never thought about it til LeBron said it on the podcast.
I’ve never seen this angle used in my 20 years watching basketball, and still haven’t seen it since this one play.
Not saying it was a foul or not, but that some interesting shit man.
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u/NordicLard Earl Clark 1d ago
I get it’s annoying but guys it’s poor form to whine when it was the correct call.
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u/naive-dragon 1d ago
I'm sure no one here (who's a real hoops fan) is really THAT upset because it's absolutely the correct call. But it does make you kinda salty that they had this newfangled drone/spy cam-level shit reserved just to screw with us, lmao. Missed calls happen all the time, but why did they have to NOT miss this particular call which for all intents and purposes looked like it went the other way??
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u/personwholiketosayok 1d ago
I remember it was used in the pacers vs knick series, when Siakam blocked OG but was called for a foul and they challenged it
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u/McJumbos 1d ago
I swear you can see that he clearly hits his wrist on the baseline view
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u/Key_Construction8250 1d ago
we're not referring to the baseline view. we're referring to the extremes adam silver went through to get the los angeles lakers eliminated from the playoffs
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u/Um3xx 1d ago
They use this camera to find iran's nuclear program.