Attention to the cavemen inhabiting TNT headquarters: your underdeveloped brains might not realize this, but there are some plays that require replays and some plays that do not require replays. And during the Knicks-Bulls broadcast last night, your ignorance on proper replay protocol was exposed in the most embarrassing manner possible.
Every Mindaugas Kuzminskas basket needs at least one replay. This is because of several reasons. One, Lithuania. Two, white people. Three, his name is fun to say. That’s three reasons right there to essentially turn the broadcast into a three-hour Mindingus documentary. Instead, there was little to none Mindingus replayage at all.
Nothing D-Wade or D-Rose does deserves a replay. D-Wade because he’s old and D-Rose because he doesn’t even like basketball anymore. Those two guys are known quantities. Mindingus represents the unknown. He represents the potential within all of us just waiting to be unlocked. People want to see replays of that. They don’t want to see D-Wade’s roid-jaw up close enough where they can count all his roid zits.
If this disturbing trend continues I will have no choice but to create my own replays using claymation. You have been warned. The ball is in your court, TNT.