Can I throw popcorn at you? Would you like it? This is why it is taken seriously
https://youtu.be/ghtDbOisWtA
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Can I throw popcorn at you? Would you like it? This is why it is taken seriously
https://youtu.be/ghtDbOisWtA
People say this but it is not true and everything is relative. I dont know what you do for a living, but lets say you make 60k a year. I bet you dont let someone throw something at you. And somewhere, there is some slave laborer saying that if he got paid 60k a year and got to go home to an air conditioned house, internet, and a warm meal, that he would let someone throw a drink on him all day.
When something is your norm, you no longer appreciate it the way someone with a lesser norm would. And outside of that, all you have is a desire to be loved, to be safe, and to be respected. None of that shifts with more money or power. Because you also usually have more responsibility for others in your family and face more scrutinty too.
Stress is stress. Money doesn’t solve that. Just means you gotta bigger house to cry in.
the stuff people defend smdh..
Some one really thinks it's okay to dehumanize another and treat them like circus animals by throwing food on them... Foods that's been covered in that person germs or being covered in their spit soda. This isn't the 19XX sports world. Sit down and behave like a grown adult. Shut up too if you can't be a racist to NBA players, too.
Where can I sign up to get a Multi Million Dollar Contract compliments Phil Knight's Sweat Shops and Slave Labor?
or
Cry me a river?
Man Randle looks so defeated out there, his game use to be way more physical now he just takes jumpers.
Perspective is something severely lacking in today's world. This thread is case in point.
I never for a second wished we would have kept Randle or yearned for him while he had this good season. He is destined to be a microwave scorer on a really good team, not a #1 or a #2. This season played out perfect for him because he was able to be a #1 guy with a ton of try hards who kept them in every contest. And try hards can get you wins in the regular season, but Randle's best role would be a forward version of prime Lou Will in my opinion. If the Knicks give him a max contract to keep him, with thoughts that he can be their #1 or #2, they will be severely disappointed and he will go from a beloved guy in the city to the guy all the fans want to trade to get off that contract
Screaming A was saying Knicks fan was going to take over the ATL I only saw spike up in there LOL
Yeah let?s go get Kemba lol
Kemba Walker really got more fouls (4) than points right now (2) pic.twitter.com/5DsE3xfJGc
— NBA Memes (@NBAMemes) May 29, 2021
Celtics have the most boring callers in the league
I'd rather hear nails been dragged across a blackboard. Completely devoid of any insight or panache. The majority of the call is painful, elongated silence
Thank God for Joel and AD!
If Dallas ever gets a real #2 to Luka, they will be unstoppable.
Who's that massive Randle stan here?
13 of 54 in this series and 2-15 tonight. Lol
Luke is Jay Z
Zion is Nas
Ja is Soulja Boy
Tatum is lol Wayne
Considering Zion missed half the season in year 19/20, I think Randle would have done just fine at the same money we paid Favors for on a one year rental. Perhaps you forget; he played half a season with the "Looney Tune's Brow" who left for Lebron-land and Randle accounted for himself quite well (he didn't quit when others did). Spin it however you wish, he would've given us more than the four players we have been made to agonize through over the last two years (Favors, Melli, Adams, and JJ).
I’ll place this here apropos of nothing.
Bob Myers still with the realest commentary for why players with regular season success don't always thrive in the postseason. Failures are less confounding when you hear it. I go back to these words when some of best appear at their worst in the playoffs.pic.twitter.com/GhUPrAfdrm
— Michael Lee (@MrMichaelLee) September 11, 2020
It took me a while to understand this and when I see a fan get excited about a player or a team in the regular season, I can tell they are younger. Not that I am knocking that person, because its an evolution and I was once naive too. But I can go back decades and recite all the teams that played super hard and overachieved and then met reality in the postseason. Heck, Scott Skiles did it in multiple places.
There is no crossover. I have said they are different sports and I mean it. The closest you can get is to look at the final 4-6 minutes of regular season games in which nobody is at a massive rest disadvantage, guys are healthy, and both teams really need the game. If you could somehow isolate that, you might have a tiny glimpse into being able to predict what a guy and a team might do in the first round of the NBA playoffs. Then, do the same thing for the end of games in the first round and you might have a tiny idea of how a guy might perform in the 2nd and 3rd round.
So, when people quote all their stats and use that as evidence of this player being good or this one stinking, I just role my eyes because none of those stats matter with regard to what REALLY matters in this sport. Its all fluff.
I disagree that it's *all* fluff, because you still need guys with skill and you still need guys who are good in the last 4-5 minutes of a close game, which is the closest thing you can get to playoff basketball.
But, I will say that regular season stats without any semblance of context, is as meaningless as can be.
For example, Lonzo compiles the vast majority of his stats when the pressure is the least. He's an amazing 1st quarter player. Goes missing afterwards
Makes him look pretty great on paper, but we all know the truth
The stats are fluff. Filler. Things to keep fans talking and debating. The skills are whats real. The mental makeup is whats real. And we have almost no access.to the latter. Yet we debate these players as if we have all the info we need because we can go to basketball reference. Then, we call guys "overrated" when they fail in the playoffs, based of our own poor rating structure.
Look at the skills. Look at the effort and the willingness to do multiple things to help a team win. Dont look at the overall 3pt percentage with no context of when the shot was taken, how many dribbles vs open catch and shoot, etc. You are not an expert on these guys because you can work the basketball reference filter
Wouldn’t it be funny if Randle breaks out for 40 plus next game? Remember what happened after everyone got on Davis after that Lakers game one loss?
Because it is not like you have a large quantity of properly contextualized guys. We will come of these playifds with maybe 20 guys we know can thrive in the playoffs regardless of situation. Most guys are completely dependent on the situation and who they are playing off of.
Add to that, most humans are optimistic in that if they want to make a case for something, there is enough data to make that claim - as long as you selectively ignore other data.
Which is why i always start by making the argument opposite of what i want to believe. Always the best place to start
You think you are right....
You want to be right.....
You claim you are right....
But, you couldn't be more wrong if you tried.
G'Day, Mate!!
LMAO!!!
Suggestion for you: Look at the thread information below and see that we are signed in simultaneously.
What a clown!!
We can always get PelicansFan to do a location check. When you find out you are wrong
https://media.giphy.com/media/SpopOD...z8zR/giphy.gif
:rolleyes:
It's not hard to use a VPN or a TOR browser or some method to dynamically change your IP
One thing that's quite easily perceptible (which you can't hide) is the overt or subtle nuances of the way one uses the English language