This was cool

[btaylor64]

Originally Posted by CLH

Geez, didn't mean to start an argument over how useful the WNBA is. I just thought the mic'd up deal was cool. Maybe if the NBA did this more, fans would have a better understanding of how the officials handle different situations, and may help show that they are there to improve the game, not just out to grind an axe or teach someone a lesson. Whatever happened to the cable show where Ronnie Nunn used to give rule interpretations for different plays from the week?

BTW and JMO, you can ALWAYS learn somthing from watching EVERY game, whether is, NBA, WNBA, NCAA or whatever, even if its how not to do somthing. If you say it doesn't do much for you, you're not looking.

Just my humble opinion though, they're like noses, everyone has one.

CH

Ronnie Nunn stopped because the league mandated that they stop that. That is why they got rid of ask the ref on the NBRA website, but it is back now and it just contains questions about the life and what it is like to be an NBA official. I would also go out on a limb and say that when this mandate was handed down was a little before or right at the time eroe39 (Eli Roe) stopped posting. That and to add to it that almost everybody was questioning everything he said. I believe someone even questioned him on a NBA rules application (can't remember for sure). Oh and by the way I heard he either scored or almost scored a 100 on one of the nba exams this year. He is a big rules buff and from his post he seemed to know what he was talking about, just a little.

[ChuckElias]

Originally Posted by btaylor64

I would also go out on a limb and say that when this mandate was handed down was a little before or right at the time eroe39 (Eli Roe) stopped posting.

I think that limb would break. Eli's last post here was in May of '04. Ronnie's show was on the air after that, I'm pretty sure. That mandate might be an additional factor that would prevent his return, but I don't think that's why he decided to stop posting.

almost everybody was questioning everything he said. I believe someone even questioned him on a NBA rules application (can't remember for sure).

I think this is the reason he left the forum (I met him briefly at camp in summer '04). He got a pretty rough reception here, that's for sure. But not b/c of his NBA rule knowledge. It was b/c he and "tony" and Brent were perceived (by me, as well) as telling us to apply NBA philosophies and rules to NCAA and HS games.

After meeting Eli (again, very briefly), I'm truly sorry that we chased him away. I was genuinely happy for his advancement.

[Jimgolf]

Originally Posted by btaylor64

Ronnie Nunn stopped because the league mandated that they stop that.

They had Ronnie Nunn on NBA Insiders during the playoffs. When did they stop it?