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TNT is kinda slipping, their play by play guys are great but reggie and SVG are not amazing. stan is aight but he’s not as good as his brother

i like jeff’s off the wall shit, his contrary ornery shit

hubie is the best as far as analysis, but thats all he does

xp was funny a few games ago where jvg randomly went on a huge rant about load management, i think it was a lakers game and breen was saying something about how it would be good for bron to get more rest for the next game and jvg kept doubling down saying he thought the vets would be better in the next game the more minutes they played, to establish a rhythm or something like that

it’s impossible for me to separate my feelings about him from the starks/ewing/oakley knicks but i think even without that he’d still be my favorite color guy

cant believe these coaches who watched first hand as the spurs built a dynasty on being the first team to do load management and yet they still dont believe it

also after one of tatum’s made threes near the end he said “jayson tatum! not always there when you call but always on time” which actually felt like a correct interpretation of that lyric w/in the context of a star player missing every shot for 3.75 quarters but then draining three threes to ice the game

― J0rdan S., Friday, May 12, 2023 1:08 PM (fifty-three minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

this was so great, such a weird line to suddenly reference and yet it fit perfectly as you say

Back when JVG was coaching, I only ever saw him in photos and so I always assumed that his affect was closer to Eeyore than to Jefferino Hot Dog Buddy.

what is this nonsense
https://i.imgur.com/ztENwlv.png

oh my god. hahahaha

he’s such a dweeb. I can see all his tweets tho I think?

i had a pleasant run in w/ stan van yesterday. he hopped out of a car outside my office in midtown and i was like “what the…” but there’s a very famous restaurant right next door & it turned out he was looking for that (not an uncommon occurrence). i think he flew down from boston for the night to hang with his wife. he’s lost a lot of weight, he looked good

it was actually at least the third stan van encounter of my life. back in his heat days he didn’t live too far from my parents, his daughter and my brother were in middle school at the same time. he always looked kinda disheveled, it was a bit like running into khalid shield mohammed. he’s looking better these days

sheikh not shield. my apologies to the big man…

i’m sure the broadcasting life is a hell of a lot healthier than the coaching life. good to hear tho!

he’s a keyboard warrior tho glad to hear it’s not taking too much out of him

mannix is getting absolutely cooked for these comments

Sports Illustrated's Chris Mannix talks the Denver Nuggets media gripe.

"they're just not a compelling team to talk about - to write about"

Worth noting that @SIChrisMannix and his cohort are compelled by attention. And financial return. They peddle NBA sugar, not basketball. pic.twitter.com/RSLKMbb2dl

— n i k o l a e s t h e t i c (@nikolaesthetic) May 25, 2023

mannix is an idiot but i also can't imagine getting worked up about anything he says in that clip

interpreting his comments in the most generous possible light, I get what he’s saying to a degree. so many of these guys are employed not because of their value as analysts but because the players are such willing participants in the drama circus, and jokic just doesn’t participate in any of that stuff off the court. it’s tough for the brand these guys are trying to market

saw someone earlier tweeting about how basketball is interesting and people who like it should cover it, now i know what that was about lol

Morant brandishing weapons on Instagram is better basketball news than Jokic breaking a record set by Wilt Chamberlain, apparently.

I’ve said this before but as a casual at best NFL fan, the level of actual football analysis on mainstream broadcasts is just in another universe compared to the NBA

xp

100%

need to make 2k more about plays

xp
yes. I realised a few years ago that I would watch the games on TV and feel like I understood broadly what was happening and nothing the commentators said would disabuse me of that notion. then I would go on ilx and realise that I only understood about 30 pc of what I was watching.

there is an intellectual component to every football play that doesn’t really exist in other sports. you basically have to understand how/why every single play is working on a base level to even be given the opportunity to step onto an NFL field. and then there’s the fact that QBs are the most famous players & it’s also the most intellectually demanding position so you get lots of ex QB analysts whose brains are specifically trained to break down plays before they even happen. but even the guys at other positions have to understand the game on a crazy level. like find an interview of any random cornerback explaining how his responsibilities on a play completely shift from a, b, c, d options to e, f, g, h options in a heartbeat bcuz a WR simply motioned across the field. NFL football is extraordinarily complicated mentally it’s really nuts

also keep in mind there’s essentially like 30 seconds of dead time after every football play so granular analysis is built into the broadcasts in a way that can’t exist w/ basketball

yeah the rhythm of watching football is funny watch a play rewatch it from different angles at different speeds try to understand what happened watch the next play

Wait 5 mins for the refs to do the same.

another player pod is born when will it stop

Surely nothing can go wrong from a star player having his own podcast pic.twitter.com/BDHvzrZfH3

— 𝘾𝙤𝙖𝙘𝙝 𝙎𝙝𝙪𝙗𝙝 (@OVOLakeShow) June 2, 2023

more like trae dumb

every nba player should be required to have a podcast

Stephen A. Smith goes on Fox News, calls Democrats’ support of Joe Biden’s run for second term ‘utterly embarrassing’ https://t.co/Fz26NvadRR pic.twitter.com/g9WlwWRkT1

— Awful Announcing (@awfulannouncing) June 7, 2023

love this guy!

damn… shifting him back to problematic fav territory

He really hates taxes.

it's framed in that of all the candidates he would vote for christ christie. so...

ignoring my partner and pushing my relationship to the brink in order to spend 5 hours today listening to a bunch of post-draft podcasts full of guys all saying the same stuff

lmao

if ur partner isnt supportive of u in ur hoop pod era, theyre not the one

he did sit and watch some of the draft with me last night but i do the podcast listening in private

same, also don't forget to read 10 different draft report cards where every pick is ranked basically from B to A+ with like 2 C+'s thrown in.

its funny everyone knows most guys wont do much in the league but the comps are always players who had 10+ year careers

hope springs eternal when its the draft

i think a comp to, idk, MarShon Brooks might be lost on the national tv audience but i'm supportive of them trying it

lol perfect guy yeah

he did sit and watch some of the draft with me last night but i do the podcast listening in private

― J0rdan S., Friday, June 23, 2023 2:06 PM (fifty-eight minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

this is me too lol. my gf is newly into the nuggets and was excited to watch the draft with me last night but tapped about an hour before they picked

same here basically. my spouse likes to critique what the players moms wear. i listen to all the pods during chores and stuff. it is a lonely path we're on.

what is everyone's pod hierarchy at this point? i think this is where i am for the stuff in my feed:

dunc'd on/duncan and hollinger - best detail, cold-blooded analysis
windhorst/bontemps/mcmahon - best insidery content, best sniping at each other
russillo nba pods - decent layman analysis, good interview
lowe - good layman analysis, bad interviewer
simmons - occasionally good insider stuff but wildly out of touch these days

the draft is a hard watch for me and always has been. i dont pay enough attention to college ball to play along really.

pods:

– bill & russilo: dont care for them apart, only together, and its mostly for the lolz and to play the over/under game on when bills first celtics/pats reference will drop. russillos ability to land a 30-45 second run-on sentence with a handful of different tangents is legendary. also love him checking bill on his bs, in a lighthearted way
– lowe - his pod has always been kinda awkward, and hes often annoying in the way he praises players, but hes still good at breaking stuff down. i dont listen to all his episodes, just depends on his guests. i never listen to his interviews cos of how bad he is.
– windhorst / hoops collective - theyre plugged in enough to warrant must listen status usually

if time and/or depending on topics

– duncd on - pretty dry but thats fine
– ringer nba show - mainly the group chat crew
– athletic nba show - if time
– thinking basketball - lots of detail, analytic, i think his videos are better than his pod tho
– a lot of the player pods, all the smoke, dray, jj, pg, etc

dubs:
– warriors plus minus - basically the athletic bay area crew. not particularly great but they are plugged in, so...
– TK show (kawakami) - see above, and i dont listen to it consistently, just if im interested to know more about the topic
– light years - for the lolz

I listen to hours and hours of NBA pods every week. I think the thing that annoys me most is how obsessed they are with distinguishing themselves from others with evaluations. I'm higher on this guy than most, I'm lower on this guy than most, I am far from the consensus. But really, they all say that same thing with minor variations.

Dunc'ed On is my fav, because I like capitalism/transactions/salary cap/CBA minutia of the NBA the best. Also like the NBA Front Office podcast, Sam Vecenie sometimes when he doesn't go too deep dive on the draft, Thinking Basketball, Dunker's Spot! Steve Jones Jr. cracks me up, Real GM Radio love Danny, Lowe Post depending on guests, same with Bill.