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chunkles posted:That MONSTER Old school winners like Michael Jordan would never complain to the refs about getting fouled or appear in commercials. That said, I think he's just relaying what former players tell him about Blake, not that they're necessarily right about him (or at least not that they're right that those things make him a bad player). He's always been really high on Blake and I'm pretty sure he's going to have him in the top 10 of his dumb trade value thing. Also lets not act like that being intensely stupid about Blake Griffin is unqiue to Bill Simmons or old players. He gets wildly underrated in a lot of places, including this forum for a long time, because people think he's irritating, or because he doesn't have Hakeem's post game.
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Bill Walton chat?! A few weeks ago he broke down the UCLA - Washington game in terms of an actual fight between bears and huskies, and gave us a loving history lesson on the history of grizzly bears in California: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rBZsCXmNZgY http://awfulannouncing.com/2015/bill-walton-breaks-ucla-washington-terms-real-fight-bears-huskies.html
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Mar 13, 2015 20:45
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Being able to watch Bill Walton call late night Pac-12 games where he is free to just bullshit about whatever the hell he wants because his partner can't reign him in and ESPN assumes most of the country asleep is like a top 10 thing about living on the west coast.
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MourningView posted:Being able to watch Bill Walton call late night Pac-12 games where he is free to just bullshit about whatever the hell he wants because his partner can't reign him in and ESPN assumes most of the country asleep is like a top 10 thing about living on the west coast. that's why he was at the peak of his talents with the Kings old man crew; none of them gave a poo poo. e: the "WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT" in the bears v huskies one makes it e2: also, since we all also love pete maravich lore: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zk-JJX2SRHc e3:  http://www.clippit.tv/c/yryxb e4: im convinced that this man is permanently high at the point https://vine.co/v/OUWL0QLXAWx straight up brolic fucked around with this message at 21:03 on Mar 13, 2015 |
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Mar 13, 2015 20:53
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Jusuf Nurkic is probable to both play and style all over the Warriors tonight, set your DVRs.
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Mar 13, 2015 21:09
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Lockback posted:He'll be a max player, so around 16 mil. Atlanta could maybe afford him if the don't re-sign Millsap. So Maybe? Not sure he'd be a great fit though. The Spurs will have space for a max if Duncan and Manu retire. Danny Green is the guy that's going to gum up the works though. I think he's playing himself in to a giant contract.
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Mar 13, 2015 21:30
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Does anyone remember that Walton had a reality show on ESPN2 way back in the day? It was weird as gently caress.
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Mar 13, 2015 21:44
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Niwrad posted:Does anyone remember that Walton had a reality show on ESPN2 way back in the day? It was weird as gently caress.
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Mar 13, 2015 21:46
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Remembering what the internet looked like in 2003 is incredibly trippy in and of itself.
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chunkles posted:Remembering what the internet looked like in 2003 is incredibly trippy in and of itself. I am very sad that I cannot actually watch video clips at 56k. On the other hand I CAN still look at photos of Bill hanging out at various civil rights monuments wearing a tie-dyed t-shirt tucked into some Dad Khakis e: oh man the photo gallery is seriously pro click, he also lets a clearly uncomfortable Q-Rich, Darius Miles, and Corey Maggette (RIP most likable bad team in NBA history) dress him up like every old white guy's vision of a rapper in 1997. MourningView fucked around with this message at 22:00 on Mar 13, 2015 |
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Mar 13, 2015 21:54
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Niwrad posted:Does anyone remember that Walton had a reality show on ESPN2 way back in the day? It was weird as gently caress. He had a podcast called Walton's World. I've tried to find the back episodes but all the links I've found are dead. No joke to this day when I get overwhelmed or stressed with my writing I listen to Bill Walton talk about anything (his appearance on the Simmons podcast back in the day is my favourite) and it calms me down.
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a shameful boehner posted:Jusuf Nurkic is probable to both play and style all over the Warriors tonight, set your DVRs. Looking forward to more McAdoo minutes, not so much looking forward to Brandon Rush probably making me sad again. For the season he's shooting 20% overall and 1/18 from deep, with most of those shots coming at the end of blowouts. He's looked completely useless whenever he gets regular rotation minutes. I was really looking forward to seeing him back on the Dubs this year too. 
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Mar 13, 2015 22:00
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someone needs him and rosa parks as an av
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Mar 13, 2015 22:00
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What I have learned (well I guess I already knew this, but it is confirmed) is that Bill Walton will unironically wear a tie-dyed t-shirt literally anywhere, almost always tucked into some pleated khakis that he found on sale at JC Penny's. Unless he happens to be wearing it with dress slacks under a sport court.
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Mar 13, 2015 22:02
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"Yesterday we celebrated Sir Isaac Newton's discovery of gravity, today, Fabricio Oberto is defying it" -William Theodore Walton III
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Mar 13, 2015 22:06
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The games that Walton and Tolbert used to do together were always incredible. Walton came to a Warriors game in January and they interviewed him a couple times. He spent most of it talking about Jim Barnett, it was amazing. I wonder if the dude still smokes a ton of weed or he's just permanently high at this point.
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Mar 13, 2015 22:18
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Spite posted:I wonder if the dude still smokes a ton of weed or he's just permanently high at this point. He was going off about legalization during a recent broadcast, so he may still enjoy a toke or two. Lockback posted:
This is why Rick Barry was so unpopular. According to accounts from refs in Tall Tales, he, Tommy Heinsohn and Oscar Robertson were the three biggest whiners of their era.
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Mar 13, 2015 22:20
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If only he was more like Tim Duncan who never bitched out refs and always hit his FTs down the stretch. People don't like Blake cause he comes across consistently as a punk-rear end bitch. He has a stupid looking face. He used too many props in the dunk contest. He's also pretty much a ginger. If he looked like a cooler guy and had a more agreeable face people wouldn't care so much. He also needs to fight someone. Tons of players bitch and moan and people love them. Kyle Lowry and Chris Paul yell at the ref non stop and no one seems to think they're bitches BWV fucked around with this message at 22:30 on Mar 13, 2015 |
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Mar 13, 2015 22:27
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Everyone thinks Chris Paul is a bitch though 
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Mar 13, 2015 22:34
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Tokyo Sex Whale posted:Everyone thinks Chris Paul is a bitch though I was talking about the general sentiment I get from hearing former players talk about guys like CP in this context. Wasn't talking about us bball experts here in SAS who know who all the real bitches are (KG)
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Mar 13, 2015 22:39
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Tons of people hate Tim Duncan for his stupid Duncan face too.
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Mar 13, 2015 22:59
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DWade@DwyaneWade Wait... didn't we just wake up from pregame naps?? headed to the game and I bet @easyst0 is dreaming about shots!!! 
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Juaguocio posted:He was going off about legalization during a recent broadcast, so he may still enjoy a toke or two. Rick Barry was the world's biggest dick on the court. He had negative empathy, his own teammates hated him.
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Mar 13, 2015 23:37
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Juaguocio posted:This is why Rick Barry was so unpopular. According to accounts from refs in Tall Tales, he, Tommy Heinsohn and Oscar Robertson were the three biggest whiners of their era.
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Mar 13, 2015 23:37
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Oscar Robertson was famously a really angry and hard to deal with guy for reasons both understandable and not.
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Mar 13, 2015 23:38
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Crazy Ted posted:Oscar Robertson surprises me. Tommy Heinsohn being an insufferable loving whiner during his playing days is the least surprising thing I've heard all year. I think O was frustrated by a lot of things out of his control. MourningView posted:Oscar Robinson was famously a really angry and hard to deal with guy for reasons both understandable and not. Yeah, him too.
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I'd rather watch basketball on mute for the rest of my life than ever listen to Bill Walton speak again. You guys on the West Coast are welcome to keep him.
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Mr. Mambold posted:I think O was frustrated by a lot of things out of his control. haha whoops
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Kyrie Irving had a GmSc of 48.2 last night which is really high and at 22 he's the youngest to do that since Shaq. Cavaliers offense is fine even if they are neglecting Love (#2 team ORtg at this point). Possible cloak and dagger, smoke and mirrors chicanery being saved for the playoffs? They need Love to play like Ben Wallace/Dennis Rodman. euphronius posted:Pretty sure steals and blocks are not of equal value however. Maybe they are. The basic value is a steal is worth 1 point and a block is worth .7 Terry Glenn posted:Ramona Shelburne @ramonashelburne · 8h 8 hours ago The experiment to teach Robert Sacre the skyhook is failing.
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Mr. Mambold posted:I think O was frustrated by a lot of things out of his control.
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He dunked and broke Red Kerr's foot once.
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Crazy Ted posted:It's a good thing Wilt Chamberlain wasn't a really angry guy during his playing days because one solid connect on a punch would have ended someone's career. If I remember correctly didn't he break at least one guy's arm just following through on a dunk? Coming out of college he was this tall, slender guy who was dominant at the game from sheer ability. Toward the middle and end of his career, he was built like a brick shithouse, he could push a whole team aside.
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MourningView posted:What I have learned (well I guess I already knew this, but it is confirmed) is that Bill Walton will unironically wear a tie-dyed t-shirt literally anywhere, almost always tucked into some pleated khakis that he found on sale at JC Penny's. Unless he happens to be wearing it with dress slacks under a sport court. I doubt that Bill Walton can get 38 waist/52 inseam khakis on sale at JC Penneys.
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Mar 14, 2015 00:02
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Bill Walton shouldn't be chained to the tyranny of store-bought pants. He should be wearing giant homemade patch pants that the kids really into Widespread Panic used to wear in high school.
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Crazy Ted posted:It's a good thing Wilt Chamberlain wasn't a really angry guy during his playing days because one solid connect on a punch would have ended someone's career. If I remember correctly didn't he break at least one guy's arm just following through on a dunk? He blocked a Gus Johnson dunk by grabbing the ball and slamming Johnson to the floor, dislocating his shoulder. I couldn't find a clip of that play, but there is one of Wilt shoving Johnson out of bounds with one arm: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bHYWXpHEvr4
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Juaguocio posted:He blocked a Gus Johnson dunk by grabbing the ball and slamming Johnson to the floor, dislocating his shoulder. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0H06Jwg6HXs
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Mar 14, 2015 02:53
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I will always remember Dickie Simpkins going up and blowiing a dunk just for Walton's reaction. "Kareem would've finished that. Dickie Simpkins will not walk along the greats. " He sounded legitimately disappointed.
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Mar 14, 2015 03:07
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PantsFreeZone posted:goddammit this graphic infuriates me
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