Championship Game Court Issues
This video has started making the rounds this morning. It appears the floor buckles which might have caused Bacot to injury himself. I've read that this could have happened a few times to both teams throughout the game. I have yet to hear if it may have contributed to Manek awkwardly falling on the final inbounds pass. I'm sure he was one of the 3pt options to attempt to tie it up, so that would be unfortunate. Will be interesting to see if this story gains traction in the coming days.
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Certainly seems like the floor gives way more there than you'd normally expect a court to give. You can see a whole area of the court there flex
Wow!! I watched that replay last night and never saw that flexing, but it's clear as day in this video. I wondered how he rolled the ankle in an otherwise perfectly normal thing to do on a bball court. He didn't step on anyone, or try any exaggerated movement. But if the court flexes, his shoe can't slide/move like it normally would, and bam - rollover.
There is some concern about this video being doctored, but those will be put to bed either way quickly. On the surface, this looks bad from the facilities POV.
Can't say I see the floor moving at all and since Bacot injured the same ankle in the semi-final I think this may be due to a sore ankle.
You need to look closer--it is really obvious.
I think the lighting, reflection from the yellow shirt and shadow make it look worse than it was.
Interesting, it was in the same spot as bacot. Kansas stumbled awkwardly a few times in the first half in the same area
Yes, seems to be the case. Obviously I was cheering for UNC to win. But more importantly it's just disappointing that the court could have contributed to problems/injuries for either team.
Wow.
Didn't Love turn his ankle around that same area? It was weird because he was not involved in the play and not moving quickly, just randomly turned his ankle.
I'd have to go back and watch again, but yes he also turned his ankle without contact it seemed.
His was directly in the middle of the paint but in the same vicinity though.
It's amazing to me how few people know what a basketball court is.
It's not hardwood stapled to a concrete floor. They float, usually with high grade padding underneath to reduce shock and injury to joints. If you got a close up view of the ball bouncing, you'd see the floor "buckling" every time it hit the wood.
Unless you want to discuss the number of injuries that would occur from jumping and landing on a completely solid surface that has no give, perhaps you should take your conspiracy theories elsewhere.
I salute you Captain Edgelord
MgoManBall's last three posts prior to joining the conversation in this thread: He doesnt speak often but when he does - he's definitely an asshole to others.
02/07/2022 - 8:44am
Why should someone be compensated for scrapping their speed in space bullshit with power run built off the fundamentals Harbaugh ran at Stanford? Didn't even cite his work.
01/07/2022 - 9:30pm
Yeah let's get the guy who put Toys R Us out of business and reduced Michigan football to 2 cokes for tickets.
Holy shit, shut the fuck up.
11/09/2021 - 9:45am
Need to increase the points requirement for thread creation. Or the IQ requirement
He's an angry elf.
The quality of MGoBlog has considerably deteriorated over the past decade so I occasionally stop by to make someone feel bad. It's decent therapy.
I suggest you find a new sports blog to support. We will be fine without you. Have a happy life.
I suggest you stay in your lane, young blood.
If you dont immediately follow this up with "King Kong aint got shit on me" I dont even know what you are doing.
you're about as tough as a wet paper bag buddy. relax a little.
credit for candor.
I occasionally stop by to make someone feel bad.
You're comically overestimating your impact and importance here. You're a completely ordinary, entirely predictable, and easily forgettable internet douchebag.
You're clearly one of the reasons the blog has "deteriorated" based on your posting history.
something something pot meeting kettle
The advanced metrics on this guy are through the roof!
Based on that posting history, it appears that MGoManBall just sits around his house building up unstable rage and anger for a month at a time, and then explodes about a random, meaningless topic. He's like the Old Faithful of Internet assholes...
I'm not sure I see any "conspiracy" being alleged here. People are just noticing that a temporary floor placed in a football stadium didn't retain its integrity. It is not normal for a piece of a basketball court to shift like that when stepped on. It looks like that piece was not properly installed.
It's 100% normal for a floor to flex. I apologize if your only experience is playing at your local YMCA but this is what good basketball courts do.
Perhaps he rolled his ankle because of the hard step he put on an ankle he rolled, oh, 2 days prior. And I didn't see a hard brace on that structurally weakened ankle either.
This is the hill you’re dying on dude? I’ve definitely never seen a floor buckle like that in a high-level game. Why do you think this is a big story?
What a huge story. It's fucking EVERYWHERE:
Did your company install the floor in the stadium? Your reaction to this is just weird.
Yep I must have also installed this floor too https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZeYKCVoGCJg
Look how dangerous! Zion better tape those ankles for that dangerous floor. Why would the Pelicans put their franchise player in such a dangerous situation?
You going to give me that portfolio of all the tape you've watched of the floor NOT flexing since you seem to be adamant that it's abnormal for this to happen?
FYI?
The old parquet floor that the Boston Celtics played on for 50+ years was home to some great, championship games. Not only could you see the individual "tiles" move but you could sometimes even hear a change in dribbling sound from tile to tile.
I hated playing on those portable floors-they were not good...bounce was too variable- not true. Sounds as though the Boston Garden was as bad as the old EMU fieldhouse.
Yep. Those (Boston) floor tiles were reportedly awful after decades of use. There were a few out of town people who even complained that it created an "unfair advantage" for the Celtics, as if the Boston players knew which tiles to avoid.
👆 internet tough guy
Or Internet Smart Guy combined with Internet Tough Guy?
You know whats amazing to me? People who start posts with "Its amazing to me" and how the reaction to their sanctimonious from square one sermon never seems to go how they want.
If you want to educate, great. There are ways to do that.
If you want to be viewed as the smartest guy in the room when it comes to basketball floor installation, I'm not sure you even accomplished that.
So, then what was the point of all of this? To be viewed as kind of a prick by a small amount of people on the internet? Because that's about the only thing accomplished here.
This is going exactly how I want.
This is an open admission of trolling and should be a sanctionable offense on the board.
Dang MGoManBall, sorry about your small stature.
Hold on I want to get his take on wearing masks. This should end well.
Yeah, I'm sorry, but you should be gone then. You actually have a point about the floor, but it's so obscured by all that ugly anger that you should not be allowed to participate here. I expect the mods will make it so.
It does get frustrating how many people are instant experts about things they know nothing about and don't care to educate themselves on.
I don't know if MgoManBall is an expert, and I don't care for his tone either, but it did give me pause on forming any opinion of ignorance before I do some research.
This board could certainly use more contrarian opinions.
reminding me of a conversation i had with a friend of mine a couple years ago. a good hearted guy, but one of those guys you can't tell anything to, will assert some contrary point of view on most any topic. so one day i say to him:
"you don't agree to anything people tell you"
and he responded:
"that's not true!"
I've voiced that exact response to the exact same question on numerous occasions (although I'm pretty sure not to you).
I don't even believe what I'm saying sometimes, but you don't learn anything from nodding your head and agreeing with people.
My wife is slowly teaching me that this is not appropriate with things she says. Only been married 10 years, I'll catch on eventually.
I'd advise you to get practicing, muchacho :)
Pay attention, faster! 🙂 It avoids, uh, ongoing issues.