Hoops Peeves

This is what I think is wrong with basketball these days (among several things) ......

Ohio State vs Michigan hoops. A guy catches the ball in the middle of the key no more than three feet away from the basket with the defender two feet away from him .... and unless he's incredibly slow or the defender insanely quick and with verticality, where he, the guy with the ball in his hands and adequate space to make things simple and doable, can put up an easy little push shot or if he possesses any footwork skills and is actually concerned with getting his shot blacked, can fall back on a basic jump hook .....

..... And instead, he throws the ball back out to someone standing behind the three-point line!!

Which ended in three more passes around that arc that accomplished nothing except an eventual turnover along with me changing the channel on the television because I find a lot of these mid-2020's trends irritating and unwatchable.

And then there's all these facebook videos disguised as tutorials showing a guy with the basketball dribbling, stopping, pivoting, stepping, stopping, pivoting again and taking an additional step or two before shooting ..... and passing it all off as legal and well within the rules of basketball. Or the jump shot doctor tutorials that include missed shots and only the made shots after his advice and corrections to said jump shooter. Like everyone shoots 100% immediately after receiving his words of wisdom.