***Official Olympics Discussion***
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CycloneErik
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MBB vs. Tunisia at 4 or 4:30 this afternoon. I think we can give them a good game if we play our best.
What was it that Barkley said about Angola in '92? Something like "I don't know who Angola is, but they're in a lot of trouble" I feel the same thing about Tunisia.
CycloneErik
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Tunisia probably has that feeling, too. Tough matchup for them, with whoever they have on their roster.
I don't recall a large NBA contingent from Tunisia, or even one player that I can think of.
I was going to ask the same thing. I say yes because the thread is clearly titled Olympics discussion and someone who doesn't want to see the results wouldn't read this thread I would hope.
yep.
I thought I'd leave out what game/event I was talking about just in case someone was silly enough to read this thread before they watched it. It's fairly obvious what I was talking about though to people online right now.
yep.
I thought I'd leave out what game/event I was talking about just in case someone was silly enough to read this thread before they watched it. It's fairly obvious what I was talking about though to people online right now.
Yeah I was following along but I didn't update until I saw your post. Wow they dominated!
Right, because an ump giving someone a ball in a tie game in the 9th when it was a strike to load the bases has absolutely zero impact on the game. Maybe I should have said it differently, but if you really think an ump can't in any way affect the outcome of a game then you know nothing about the actual game.
And you're just showing you don't know what you're talking about yet again. Let's try again. There is objective scoring in gymnastics. Wait, am I repeating myself? Weird.
- Baseball player hits homerun, then get 1-4 runs depending who's on base.
- Much like above, gymnast does a maltese cross on the rings, for example, he automatically gets 0.4 points.There's no judging about it. He either did it or he didn't do that and gets points for it. Falls off? Minus 1 point.
Just like baseball, it's binary. You hit a home run or you didn't. You did a maltese cross or you didn't. You did a Gogoladze or you didn't. The judges are there because they know what skill is what and how many points it's worth. There's still an umpire declaring an official homerun. The only reason you don't pay attention to that is because you know the rules of baseball well and know that if 2 guys are on base, that's 3 runs. If you knew what to look for in gymnastics, you could score at home in the same exact way.
If you don't understand this then you have absolutely zero right to even contribute to this whole thing. Again, this isn't a ******* dunk contest. You don't have 5 judges being like "errrr yeah that was pretty sweet..9". It doesn't work like that. They are all experts and basically tally skills and then deduct for obvious mistakes like falling off an apparatus or taking a big step on a dismount. There's no artistic judging about it, it's all objective and multiple judges are there to make sure everyone saw everything the gymnast performed.
You ever wonder why when you watch there's a "max score" these guys can get for their routine and it's different for each one? It's because each routine has a different set of skills. If they hit every skill, they get that many points, and there's 10 extra points for perfect execution. 10 + skill points - mistakes (i.e. falling off an apparatus, taking a step, not being straight up when doing a handstand on whatever) = grand total. If the scoring wasn't majorly objective, there'd be no such thing as a max score for each routine, which is different for each routine.
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