Gotta have something to argue about and to make the series seems closer than it’s been
― I Chet the Holmgren (Spottie), Monday, 10 June 2024 16:23 (three months ago) link
i can understand it from the talking heads but the game broadcast coming back from commercial after time expired and doing a whole bit about it where breen was like that is a big foul and then that was the end was a bad look imo
― lag∞n, Monday, 10 June 2024 20:30 (three months ago) link
it was very dumb
― I Chet the Holmgren (Spottie), Monday, 10 June 2024 21:04 (three months ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GPuqOkVXcAA4jIs?format=jpg&name=large
― I Chet the Holmgren (Spottie), Monday, 10 June 2024 22:24 (three months ago) link
lmao the quote
― lag∞n, Monday, 10 June 2024 22:30 (three months ago) link
lmao i think more ppl should compare themselves to jesus christ, trump, perk, kanye, it p much lets me know they have nothing to offer but their public humiliation kink
― polyamerie "it's more than this 1 thing" (m bison), Monday, 10 June 2024 23:12 (three months ago) link
peak perk wow
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 10 June 2024 23:20 (three months ago) link
pontius pilate to jesus christ: your blocked
― lag∞n, Monday, 10 June 2024 23:29 (three months ago) link
if u think abt it the resurrection was about overcoming cancel culture and defeating the woke mob
― polyamerie "it's more than this 1 thing" (m bison), Monday, 10 June 2024 23:30 (three months ago) link
ive been saying that
― lag∞n, Monday, 10 June 2024 23:34 (three months ago) link
take, yeet, this is my body *shares edgy memes*, which is unwoke for you: this do in remembrance of me (user _godsson69 logged off)
― polyamerie "it's more than this 1 thing" (m bison), Monday, 10 June 2024 23:37 (three months ago) link
father forgive them, for they know not what they share, like, and subscribe
― Clay, Tuesday, 11 June 2024 00:48 (three months ago) link
is this the thread to say that mpj, once again, should shut the fuck up?
― polyamerie "it's more than this 1 thing" (m bison), Tuesday, 11 June 2024 02:59 (three months ago) link
oh no what did he do now
― brony james (k3vin k.), Tuesday, 11 June 2024 14:37 (three months ago) link
he decided now was the time to share his opinion abt trans women in sports, and it's the standard issue bad one
― polyamerie "it's more than this 1 thing" (m bison), Tuesday, 11 June 2024 15:14 (three months ago) link
i also didn't know Mazzula was a big born again Christian but that explains some of his weirdo energy
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 11 June 2024 16:31 (three months ago) link
hes catholic
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 11 June 2024 16:32 (three months ago) link
Another pod
Steph Curry’s Unanimous Media to launch a new podcast hosted by Steph and Dell Curry called Heat Check 🔥 The pod launches this Thursday. (via @MarcJSpears) pic.twitter.com/kRfjvlQhNM— TheWarriorsTalk (@TheWarriorsTalk) June 11, 2024
― I Chet the Holmgren (Spottie), Tuesday, 11 June 2024 21:18 (three months ago) link
doesn't feel like curry really has the gift of gab like a lot of the other podcasting players and ex-players do. any time i've heard him interviewed he's 100% professional and also 100% non-riveting. Maybe old Dell will bring a spark though, who knows
― intheblanks, Wednesday, 12 June 2024 04:12 (three months ago) link
just read a descriptions and it's look's like it's just going to be an auto-hagiography of steph
― intheblanks, Wednesday, 12 June 2024 04:15 (three months ago) link
"it looks" i mean, not "it's look's" haha
I’m done with player pods.
― Jeff, Wednesday, 12 June 2024 10:26 (three months ago) link
"the headline should be that the celtics melted down on offense in the most predictable way" --zach lowe
really that should be the headline for a game which they won to go up 3-0 in the finals, im thinking more third graph
― lag∞n, Thursday, 13 June 2024 16:00 (three months ago) link
hes doing a whole segment on the this hes very passionate about it, havent been able to get through one of his pods in a while, sad
― lag∞n, Thursday, 13 June 2024 16:09 (three months ago) link
it just feels like where the game is now, big leads barely mean anything anymore, like a 15 point lead can evaporate in a few minutes, teams are gonna make runs
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 13 June 2024 16:10 (three months ago) link
there's just too many super gifted offensive players on a bunch of teams
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 13 June 2024 16:11 (three months ago) link
think it was more the Celtics just breaking down on offense like for 5 minutes they barely got a shot off
― frogbs, Thursday, 13 June 2024 16:13 (three months ago) link
its was a real bad stretch but thats why you go up by 20, and then they pulled it together and won the game
― lag∞n, Thursday, 13 June 2024 16:17 (three months ago) link
wtf is lowe’s problem, i haven’t listened but heard he was dissecting luka’s fouls like the zapruder film
― call all destroyer, Thursday, 13 June 2024 16:56 (three months ago) link
hes got bristol brain, baby, incurable
― polyamerie "it's more than this 1 thing" (m bison), Thursday, 13 June 2024 16:57 (three months ago) link
dallas never led or even tied lol
― call all destroyer, Thursday, 13 June 2024 16:59 (three months ago) link
i forwarded past the those first two segments of the luka fouls and the celtics cold snap where he seemed depressed over the whole sitch, and now hes cheered up and is complimenting the celtics saying he always believed in them shouldve started that way then dug into the details after, weird stuff
― lag∞n, Thursday, 13 June 2024 17:05 (three months ago) link
― call all destroyer, Thursday, June 13, 2024 12:59 PM (fourteen minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
they were up the whole first half!
― brony james (k3vin k.), Thursday, 13 June 2024 17:14 (three months ago) link
no i meant in the famous run following the 21 point lead
― call all destroyer, Thursday, 13 June 2024 17:24 (three months ago) link
Haven't listened to this Lowe-cast, and honestly probably won't.
I had the same experience others had upthread with his Finals preview, where he started with a capital-S SERIOUS "WHICH TEAM HAS MORE AT STAKE?" question. Then he was pre-emptively super-defensive about the question itself, then started talking about some dumb shit that Perk said on TV. Had to shut it off!
I listened to his podcast religiously from like 2017 to 2022 but I feel like something changed around then that I can't quite put my finger on.
Maybe I don't really feel like I learn anything from him anymore, plus he's like 20% more manic and shticky than he used to be. And the constant mentions of what his ESPN TV colleagues think, as has been covered well upthread.
― intheblanks, Thursday, 13 June 2024 17:31 (three months ago) link
I tend to skip to the guest with TLP but I like his guest segments a lot. They usually have room to talk, whereas THC is the same ten jokes over and over mixed with small servings of very good analysis.
― reggae mike love (polyphonic), Thursday, 13 June 2024 18:22 (three months ago) link
xp manic and schticky is right, he also talks way more than he lets the guests talk. he usually has some good points buried in there but it’s a lot.
― call all destroyer, Thursday, 13 June 2024 19:35 (three months ago) link
it is really weird the whole groupthink that developed over the course of this season where somehow the team that was by far the best team in the nba all regular season by any objective/statistical measure was somehow not the favorite the win the championship
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 13 June 2024 20:35 (three months ago) link
people saw the 2021 jazz and the 2022 suns and have now overcorrected into thinking the statistically strongest team is always a paper tiger
― intheblanks, Thursday, 13 June 2024 20:43 (three months ago) link
also boston playing in the weaker east was a factor, even though they went 23-7 against western teams during the regular season
― intheblanks, Thursday, 13 June 2024 20:47 (three months ago) link
i don't think it was misguided groupthink to say that denver should have been considered the favorites. i think at any point in history any title team returning their starting 5 of guys all still more or less in their primes has had a claim to being title favorites. and if denver played boston in a 7 game series maybe they would beat them
― slob wizard (J0rdan S.), Thursday, 13 June 2024 20:53 (three months ago) link
yes Denver for sure I was more thinking of how people across the board were picking Dallas
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 13 June 2024 21:04 (three months ago) link
Yeah, it's totally fair to have had the Nuggets as favorites to repeat. That said, I do think a lot of people saw Boston's regular season success as a mirage on some level. I mean, more than half of the ESPN experts picked the Mavs to win this series
― intheblanks, Thursday, 13 June 2024 21:05 (three months ago) link
well…I think it was also a bit of a case of not understanding basic probability. even if the nuggets were the best team this year, which is arguable, they still had to make their way through a loaded west to even have the chance to play the celtics in the finals. you can hypothetically be a 3-1 favorite three series in a row and you’d still be well under 50% to make it through all three.
I do think the celtics were the best and most complete team, but their road to the finals was probably historically easy…something that’s been more or less the case for east champs for 25 years now. at some point someone should do something about this imo…
― brony james (k3vin k.), Thursday, 13 June 2024 21:09 (three months ago) link
and it turned out it wasnt just the celtics path to the finals that was easy, the finals was easy too
― lag∞n, Thursday, 13 June 2024 21:12 (three months ago) link
yeah I don’t want to get too much in the business of discounting individual championship runs, the celtics have def earned it this year. but there’s a pattern that seems like it’s bad for the league esp now that lebron is out of the east/irrelevant
― brony james (k3vin k.), Thursday, 13 June 2024 21:14 (three months ago) link
on the other hand in the aforementioned 25 years, the east has gone 8-17 against the west
― intheblanks, Thursday, 13 June 2024 21:15 (three months ago) link
it would be more fair and also more entertaining to de conference the league imho
― lag∞n, Thursday, 13 June 2024 21:18 (three months ago) link
needs to happen at some point
― I Chet the Holmgren (Spottie), Thursday, 13 June 2024 23:54 (three months ago) link
Now that the broadcast is over, I’ve gotta say, I don’t feel like the NBA and ABC did a good job at all making this feel like a big event. Finals logos and legends should just be everywhere. The Stephen A halftime show was a joke. Top to bottom, they’ve gotta reevaluate it all.— Shehan Jeyarajah (@ShehanJeyarajah) June 18, 2024
― I Chet the Holmgren (Spottie), Tuesday, 18 June 2024 06:31 (three months ago) link