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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 (two weeks ago) link

father forgive them, for they know not what they share, like, and subscribe

Clay, Tuesday, 11 June 2024 00:48 (two weeks 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 (two weeks ago) link

oh no what did he do now

brony james (k3vin k.), Tuesday, 11 June 2024 14:37 (two weeks 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 (two weeks 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 (two weeks ago) link

hes catholic

lag∞n, Tuesday, 11 June 2024 16:32 (two weeks 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 (two weeks 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 (two weeks 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 (two weeks ago) link

"it looks" i mean, not "it's look's" haha

intheblanks, Wednesday, 12 June 2024 04:15 (two weeks ago) link

I’m done with player pods.

Jeff, Wednesday, 12 June 2024 10:26 (two weeks 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 (two weeks 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 (two weeks 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 (two weeks 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 (two weeks 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 (two weeks 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 (two weeks 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 (two weeks ago) link

hes got bristol brain, baby, incurable

polyamerie "it's more than this 1 thing" (m bison), Thursday, 13 June 2024 16:57 (two weeks ago) link

dallas never led or even tied lol

call all destroyer, Thursday, 13 June 2024 16:59 (two weeks 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 (two weeks ago) link

dallas never led or even tied lol

― 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 (two weeks ago) link

no i meant in the famous run following the 21 point lead

call all destroyer, Thursday, 13 June 2024 17:24 (two weeks 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 (two weeks 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 (two weeks 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 (two weeks 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 (two weeks 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 (two weeks 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 (two weeks 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 (two weeks 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 (two weeks 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 (two weeks 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 (two weeks 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 (two weeks 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 (two weeks 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 (two weeks 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 (two weeks ago) link

needs to happen at some point

I Chet the Holmgren (Spottie), Thursday, 13 June 2024 23:54 (two weeks 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


Really had very poor to mediocre vibes

I Chet the Holmgren (Spottie), Tuesday, 18 June 2024 06:31 (one week ago) link

kinda true tho i liked not having the big dumb logo sticker at center court, especially since players slip on it

lag∞n, Tuesday, 18 June 2024 12:54 (one week ago) link

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, June 13, 2024 5:09 PM (five days ago) bookmarkflaglink

what do you even do about this though besides dropping the conferences, is the league gonna force new ownership in NY and chicago? theres not any fundamental reason the east should be worse, its mostly from that

ciderpress, Tuesday, 18 June 2024 13:20 (one week ago) link

lol cedric maxwell wandering around jumping in on multiple broadcasts to say how bout them celtics and somewhat incongruously see you later fakin lakers

lag∞n, Tuesday, 18 June 2024 13:29 (one week ago) link

lol I just listened to Lowe and was coming to post about Cedric, trash talking James Worthy lol

cornbread time

lag∞n, Tuesday, 18 June 2024 13:49 (one week ago) link

I hate that the Celtics officially have more championships than us now 🙄

— Earvin Magic Johnson (@MagicJohnson) June 18, 2024

lag∞n, Tuesday, 18 June 2024 14:15 (one week ago) link

simmons championship pod w/ dad… that’s an auto delete from me……

slob wizard (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, 18 June 2024 14:43 (one week ago) link

cool to see that jackie mac came thru the hoop collective postgame pod tho. heard her name mentioned i think on their last pod re an old story she had written and i was like, damn all this celtics talk and jackie mac is a ghost, at least nationally. didn’t feel right to me

slob wizard (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, 18 June 2024 14:45 (one week ago) link

not sure if anything is going on w/her other than taking retirement seriously but i miss her a lot for sure

call all destroyer, Tuesday, 18 June 2024 14:56 (one week ago) link

for some reason i remember thinking that her split from espn seemed somewhat acrimonious but reading back about it now it seems like she just wanted to quit working. shoutout to her

slob wizard (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, 18 June 2024 15:03 (one week ago) link


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