hahaa
(lagoon otm tho)
― infinite wiggles (Spottie), Friday, 6 October 2023 05:43 (eleven months ago) link
https://www.neverhungover.club/p/the-casuals-wont-be-addressed
As a heuristic of Ball Don’t Stop’s media criticism, “casual culture” is uncharacteristically perceptive within the specific context of the NBA coverage landscape. The NBA has become, moreso than any other professional American sports organization, the internet’s league, fodder for legions of painfully enthusiastic bloggers and soyfacing League Pass watchers to comment endlessly. NBA Twitter, and its constant, breathless celebration of #ThisLeague, simultaneously enhances the experience of watching basketball and also threatens to supersede actual basketball as the center of the NBA’s attention economy. At its worst, the social mediatization of basketball discussion renders the actual basketball mere pretense for the glossolalia of metatextual discussion that basketball supports. Following the NBA means following player personalities, dramas, eccentricities, mental health crises, sexual assault scandals, geopolitical dustups, Chinese propaganda tours, cryptocurrency grifting, strip club still lives, vaccination statuses, Instagram likes, Twitter bios, viewership numbers, stories about stories. The biggest meme of the offseason has been that the best player in the world does not actually like basketball, the biggest conversation during the NBA Finals was whether enough people were actually discussing the NBA Finals on their own terms. The analysis has, like the snake eying its tail, turned inward; the conversation threatens to engulf the spectacle.
dog days…can’t remember how I found this article at this point but I thought it was a good discussion
― k3vin k., Saturday, 7 October 2023 01:36 (eleven months ago) link
it's not wrong from what i am able to read (the writer's style makes my skin crawl) but this is happening to all the sports, the nba is a thought leader for reasons that are fairly obvious
― call all destroyer, Saturday, 7 October 2023 02:34 (eleven months ago) link
(the writer's style makes my skin crawl)
otm
looking past that aspect, this is just another tedious trend-watching thinkpiece which, when you dig down to its foundation, is indistinguishable from the trend it purports to describe and is tailored to attract the same audience it has defined. is this important? no, and who the fuck cares? it's just the more of the same frothy blather.
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Saturday, 7 October 2023 03:05 (eleven months ago) link
lad
Well ok Anthony Edwards. pic.twitter.com/zdFwfVwR4W— Steve Jones Jr. (@stevejones20) October 7, 2023
― lag∞n, Saturday, 7 October 2023 16:43 (eleven months ago) link
seems good
― oatly carmichael (m bison), Saturday, 7 October 2023 16:57 (eleven months ago) link
we’re gonna have to add another basketball felony to the charges against tim connelly this year when one of the best perimeter players in the league is forced to play the majority of his minutes with two centers on the floor
― J0rdan S., Saturday, 7 October 2023 17:58 (eleven months ago) link
they gotta trade kat
― lag∞n, Saturday, 7 October 2023 18:02 (eleven months ago) link
really should just do whatever is necessary to build around ant
― oatly carmichael (m bison), Saturday, 7 October 2023 19:12 (eleven months ago) link
like trading one center is cool do you know whats cooler trading two centers
lol
https://i.imgur.com/3LJJbRb.png
*blue is player option
― lag∞n, Saturday, 7 October 2023 19:19 (eleven months ago) link
they should trade kat before his new contract kicks in
wonder if Rudy will pick that option up
― Clay, Saturday, 7 October 2023 19:22 (eleven months ago) link
So far, it looks like the Timberwolves look like they are going to win every game this season
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Saturday, 7 October 2023 20:26 (eleven months ago) link
Oof two looks likes, I'm pretty hung over from seeing GZA last nite
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Saturday, 7 October 2023 20:28 (eleven months ago) link
We definitely need to take a look at our foreign policy moving forward!!!— kuz (@kylekuzma) October 8, 2023
― mookieproof, Sunday, 8 October 2023 19:37 (eleven months ago) link
the guy’s not wrong!!
― call all destroyer, Sunday, 8 October 2023 21:36 (eleven months ago) link
kuz 4 prez
― lag∞n, Sunday, 8 October 2023 21:40 (eleven months ago) link
Kuz OTM
― symsymsym, Sunday, 8 October 2023 21:42 (eleven months ago) link
c holmgren and v wembanyama playing ball atm
― Clay, Tuesday, 10 October 2023 00:17 (eleven months ago) link
i am watching it
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 10 October 2023 00:26 (eleven months ago) link
wemby gets blown by and still blocks it, he's incredible
― oatly carmichael (m bison), Tuesday, 10 October 2023 00:26 (eleven months ago) link
honestly i just laugh watching him, like he just shouldnt exist according to like physics and math
new kind of guy
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 10 October 2023 00:27 (eleven months ago) link
i used to make guys like wemby in 2k and give 'em sick stats be like "lol like there could be a guy like that ha ha"
― Clay, Tuesday, 10 October 2023 00:37 (eleven months ago) link
lil behind here but wemby just headbutted chet out the box lol
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 10 October 2023 00:40 (eleven months ago) link
chet is good tho big chet fan
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 10 October 2023 00:43 (eleven months ago) link
love to watch all the thunder guys jabbing at wemby's super high dribbles, it's something he 100% has to fix asap
― Clay, Tuesday, 10 October 2023 00:47 (eleven months ago) link
yeah have a feeling were not going to be seeing to much of the 7-4 guard routine this year
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 10 October 2023 00:49 (eleven months ago) link
malaki branham is a beautiful civil war name
lol vic already floppin like an ancient pro
― Clay, Tuesday, 10 October 2023 00:51 (eleven months ago) link
he's gonna win 10 mvps
― Clay, Tuesday, 10 October 2023 00:55 (eleven months ago) link
im gonna be insufferable for like the next 20 years my god, my posting skills are gonna be off the charts
― oatly carmichael (m bison), Tuesday, 10 October 2023 00:59 (eleven months ago) link
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 10 October 2023 00:59 (eleven months ago) link
lmao guess u gotta have wemby in the game or everything is a sick dunk
― Clay, Tuesday, 10 October 2023 01:10 (eleven months ago) link
chet 21-9 in the 1st half
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 10 October 2023 01:23 (eleven months ago) link
tbf i am not sure the stats count the same when both teams put up one million points in the half
― Clay, Tuesday, 10 October 2023 01:44 (eleven months ago) link
wow show some respect to chet
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 10 October 2023 01:46 (eleven months ago) link
sorry but when you put up 21 of 500,000 points it is less impressive
― Clay, Tuesday, 10 October 2023 02:00 (eleven months ago) link
Hawks play tonight
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4xhNhTjB7Bg
― Heez, Tuesday, 10 October 2023 14:40 (eleven months ago) link
Someone should shop Chet standing on Wemby's shoulders and put them next to a person of average height.
― Hoisted by your own Picard (Leee), Tuesday, 10 October 2023 17:39 (eleven months ago) link
Also lol at Chet flexing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zBc-8NqtVCo
― Hoisted by your own Picard (Leee), Tuesday, 10 October 2023 17:45 (eleven months ago) link
he was responding to wemby flexing on him after head butting him in the face, neither of them have very big muscles tho
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 10 October 2023 17:49 (eleven months ago) link
couple extreme abnormal defensive plays from wemby last night
Dude.Wemby damn near had one foot on the 3PT line and stole the ball from a player driving at the dotted 🤯 pic.twitter.com/sByKUNyLSl— Tommy Beer (@TommyBeer) October 10, 2023
Wembanyama went from getting put on a mix to recovering and making a block on the play pic.twitter.com/nttUxQo5BE— Hoops Alley (@thehoopsalley) October 10, 2023
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 10 October 2023 21:05 (eleven months ago) link
this turns into a block
https://i.imgur.com/1QpHSdU.png
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 10 October 2023 21:06 (eleven months ago) link
needed to pull up right there
― infinite wiggles (Spottie), Tuesday, 10 October 2023 21:11 (eleven months ago) link
webmys gonna have people so shook man lol
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 10 October 2023 21:21 (eleven months ago) link
he looks like a cryptid out there
― ciderpress, Tuesday, 10 October 2023 21:24 (eleven months ago) link
spurs will need a couple of years to figure out how he best works in the offense (and also what players work best with him), but he could make all-defense this year.
― oatly carmichael (m bison), Tuesday, 10 October 2023 21:57 (eleven months ago) link
i don't pay attention to preseason performance unless of course it's dillon brooks hitting someone in the balls for no reason
Dillon Brooks was ejected for grabbing Daniel Theis in a spot he probably shouldn’t have.This was five minutes into the Rockets-Pacers game.🎥 @BleacherReport pic.twitter.com/EASN4ctqGu— The Athletic (@TheAthletic) October 11, 2023
― call all destroyer, Wednesday, 11 October 2023 00:55 (eleven months ago) link