2023-07-15 09:05:00
The Summer League is always cool, it allows you to observe young players in a friendly atmosphere in Las Vegas. But the Summer League is also the scene of WTF action. New evidence tonight…
We are in the fourth quarter of the match between the Mavericks and the Pacers. With just under four minutes left, Dallas leads by 26 points. And then this happens:
The Mavs got called for a backcourt violation following he was headed towards the wrong basket ???? pic.twitter.com/Jd4Ma6a2jx
— SportsCenter (@SportsCenter) July 15, 2023
Just watching this 33-second video, you have to wonder what Mavericks player Marcus Bingham Jr. is thinking. Why is he going to his own side to drop a dunk? He bugged? Did he want to pay homage to Gerard Smith or JaVale McGee?
But the story is a bit more complicated than that.
Because precisely, in this story, the only one who is in the truth is… Marcus Bingham Jr..
I wasn’t wrong ???????????? media a do anything
— Marcus Bingham Jr (@marcusbingham0) July 15, 2023
During the second half of this game between Dallas and Indiana, the Mavericks attacked well on the basket where Bingham Jr. went to dunk. The problem is that following a foul by a Dallas player in the middle of the field with 3 minutes and 49 seconds remaining, the two teams changed sides for no reason. Eh ? What ? We explain to you. A word of advice: hang in there.
Following this fault, several changes took place within the two teams, but especially among the Mavericks who completely changed their five. At the time of the throw-in, the ball is given to the Mavs by the referees, when possession should have been in favor of Indiana. First quack. As if that were not enough, the Dallas players began to attack on the wrong basket, facing Pacers players placed in defense. This is when some players start to wonder and look at the referees.
Marcus Bingham Jr., who has just come into play, does not ask himself any: he takes the ball, runs alone towards the opposite basket (the “good” basket in reality), to dunk. Referees, commentators, players, everyone is a bit confused, while Mavs GM Nico Harrison and his partner Michael Finley laugh in the stands.
In the end, the officials realize their mistakes: they reset the clock to 3:49, they return the ball to the Pacers, and both teams attack once more on the right baskets. In short, a very WTF story, who does not remember this sequence between the Warriors and the… Mavericks (decidedly), during the 2022-23 regular season.
Umm, what?
The Mavericks were defending the wrong basket so the Warriors got an easy bucket ????
???? @warriors pic.twitter.com/5cryMpNffa
— The Athletic (@TheAthletic) March 23, 2023
Moral of the story: always consider the context before wanting to make fun of a player…
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#CSC #dunk #fact #one..
