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Declan MacManus
Sep 1, 2011

damn i'm really in this bitch

WhyteRyce posted:

Guy looks like an rear end in a top hat but he likes food I like, has a bunch of money, and falls more on the loveable side of goofy than the other so he knows a bunch of people.

Drew Magary made him sound like a guy who would be cool to hang with

Also I'd rather listen to Klay Thompson summarizing episodes of Unsolved Mysteries than listen to you doofuses try to discuss politics

NickRoweFillea posted:

The bootleg shirt hustle is strong in Memphis

What's the caricature situation

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Henchman of Santa
Aug 21, 2010

Dexo posted:

Turn left. Do not seriously engage.

If only someone on Hillary's campaign had suggested that

I'm sorry, it was right there

TildeATH
Oct 21, 2010

by Lowtax

Doltos posted:

I'd be rich as gently caress with a dad who seems genuinely nice and chill

No you kill yourself. Like, to death. Forever. And hopefully take your bleached pimple dad and his horrible horrible restaurants with you.

Metapod
Mar 18, 2012

Doltos posted:

I'd be rich as gently caress with a dad who seems genuinely nice and chill

Plus you get to live in flavortown which would own

Femur
Jan 10, 2004
I REALLY NEED TO SHUT THE FUCK UP
You know, every year, yall argue about how lovely Cleveland is.. and its just really pointing out they're poor, and the prejudices that comes with that.

why?

TildeATH
Oct 21, 2010

by Lowtax

Femur posted:

You know, every year, yall argue about how lovely Cleveland is.. and its just really pointing out they're poor, and the prejudices that comes with that.

why?

In America if you're poor it's proof you dumb and lazy and smell bad.

Here in techbro country, we are all a meritocratic libertarian paradise.

astrollinthepork
Sep 24, 2007

When you come at the king, you best not miss, snitch

HE KNOWS
*edit*
terrible joke that someone will pearl clutch over

NickRoweFillea
Sep 27, 2012

doin thangs

WhyteRyce posted:

Guy looks like an rear end in a top hat but he likes food I like, has a bunch of money, and falls more on the loveable side of goofy than the other so he knows a bunch of people.

I got nothing against guy except his dubs fandom and that one gif of him licking Perrier water

Coolest thing he ever did was sign and toss a bunch of lean cuisines into a crowd at a festival

NickRoweFillea
Sep 27, 2012

doin thangs
I'm just imagining tripping face and catching a Lean Cuisine from Guy Fieri at a festival...feeling like the Israelites when God gave them manna and quail

Dejan Bimble
Mar 24, 2008

we're all black friends
Plaster Town Cop

Michael Corleone posted:

The longer this series goes the more it helps the subset of the Cleveland economy who put up tents and sell Cavs shirts for $10 in gas station parking lots. I think the one I bought last year is legit because it says Locker Room Authentic Edition and has the Logo on it. Probably fake and these guys probably don't pay taxes. These shops also pop up selling Indians gear when they are in the PO's and Valentines and Easter gifts. Any other cities have stuff like this?

e; to add, they rented out actual store fronts in the 90's to sell Indians World Series and ALCS stuff that actually was legit.

The bootleg shirts are always better than the real ones
All my pistons shirts have skulls and monsters playing basketball
You can't get any official merchandise like that except for the mild original bad boys logo

R.D. Mangles
Jan 10, 2004


this is the only valid bad boys merchandise

Dejan Bimble
Mar 24, 2008

we're all black friends
Plaster Town Cop

R.D. Mangles posted:

this is the only valid bad boys merchandise


https://www.detroitathletic.com/blog/2016/04/27/how-the-detroit-pistons-came-to-be-known-as-the-bad-boys/
Apparently even the skull logo was originally for bootleg shirts
So my point is even stronger
As strong as a basketball cyborg of some sort

Athanatos
Jun 7, 2006

Est. 2000

R.D. Mangles posted:

this is the only valid bad boys merchandise


Why is future basketball played 6 on 4

Dejan Bimble
Mar 24, 2008

we're all black friends
Plaster Town Cop
You have so much to learn

EvanTH
Apr 24, 2004

i like to express my inner pain by being really boring on the phone
or just when i'm kickin it
that's me though
i'm kind of oddddddd

Declan MacManus posted:

Communism, much like the Cavs, will win

Socialist policies garner practically universal support, even in the red states, when care is taken not to label them as "socialist policies" :ssh: if you sit folks down and talk and it turns out people of every stripe think it's good to be fair and kind to each other. My grandfather carried his communist party membership card in his wallet and served honorably in the Navy during WWII and him and my grandmother sang in the American People's Chorus with Paul Robeson* and we will see their beautiful vision of union amongst all the workers of the world come to pass :patriot:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F9Qxr1wdxbg
(this is a James Earl Jones reading of the transcript as no tapes exist, but their speaking voices were fairly similar)

*in my head he's one of the Greatest Athletes of All Time, for definitions of Great that tend to put Jackie Robinson** at the top of the list. Muhammad Ali with an Ivy League law degree who also just kinda happened to be a legendary singer, hey why not?

**Robeson and Robinson's lives actually had a certain amount of direct intersection, but it's super complicated story and I don't think I could do it justice in a post

EvanTH fucked around with this message at 07:55 on Jun 11, 2017

EvanTH
Apr 24, 2004

i like to express my inner pain by being really boring on the phone
or just when i'm kickin it
that's me though
i'm kind of oddddddd

A TYPICAL DISGUSTING DISPLAY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yu8Da3pe9h0
hard to believe that Tommy Heinsohn is actually a step down towards reasonableness in terms of old cranky homerism for the Celtics announcers

EvanTH fucked around with this message at 08:00 on Jun 11, 2017

AggressivelyStupid
Jan 9, 2012

Femur posted:

You know, every year, yall argue about how lovely Cleveland is.. and its just really pointing out they're poor, and the prejudices that comes with that.

why?

makes u think

boop the snoot
Jun 3, 2016
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QU9Sf2r-mCs

Paperback Writer
May 1, 2006

lmao

Carlosologist
Oct 13, 2013

Revelry in the Dark

https://twitter.com/itsantwright/status/873712385202298880

Tae
Oct 24, 2010

Hello? Can you hear me? ...Perhaps if I shout? AAAAAAAAAH!
That post up into offensive rebound into already-double-teamed post up into fouls

repeat for 10 years

Declan MacManus
Sep 1, 2011

damn i'm really in this bitch

Tae posted:

That post up into offensive rebound into already-double-teamed post up into fouls

repeat for 10 years

well you see larry legend was actually the goat and not a stupid bitch who would probably most resemble luke babbitt in today's nba

Jack's Flow
Jun 6, 2003

Life, friends, is boring
https://twitter.com/120Sports/status/873393578218737666

Carlosologist
Oct 13, 2013

Revelry in the Dark

I can understand why dudes were violent in the 80s, offensive sets were the definition of insanity

Bigass Moth
Mar 6, 2004

I joined the #RXT REVOLUTION.
:boom:
he knows...

poo poo looks like it's in slow motion.

Ghost Dog
Aug 17, 2016

Declan MacManus posted:

well you see larry legend was actually the goat and not a stupid bitch who would probably most resemble luke babbitt in today's nba

honestly larry bird was incredible and would easily have a james jones esque career in the modern nba. perfect for any era

chilihead
Nov 5, 2010

Is this real life, or is this fantasy?

That "unstoppable" Skyhook Shot.

Dexo
Aug 15, 2009

A city that was to live by night after the wilderness had passed. A city that was to forge out of steel and blood-red neon its own peculiar wilderness.
https://twitter.com/treyzingis/status/873910240357605380

E2M2
Mar 2, 2007

Ain't No Thang.
Would the 2017 UK team beat those old Celtics and Lakers teams?

Dexo
Aug 15, 2009

A city that was to live by night after the wilderness had passed. A city that was to forge out of steel and blood-red neon its own peculiar wilderness.

E2M2 posted:

Would the 2017 UK team beat those old Celtics and Lakers teams?

Yes

Michael Corleone
Mar 30, 2011

by VideoGames

Any team that would be beat by a college team must be ruled out of GOAT discussions or whether or not they could beat the Warriors discussions. Not too many teams left tbh, gotta start with Jordan's Bulls and then skip to like the 2000's I assume.

Tae
Oct 24, 2010

Hello? Can you hear me? ...Perhaps if I shout? AAAAAAAAAH!
Maybe prime Jordan/Pippen might be fast enough to play 48 minutes of athletic enough defense to chase an off-ball screen during a pick and roll. But then they would just attack whatever Center is on the floor constantly. And the point guards are too slow to handle speedsters.

boop the snoot
Jun 3, 2016
Jordan and Pippen were quick as poo poo and had stamina for days. Pippen had back problems though so i don't know how his durability would hold up.

DeimosRising
Oct 17, 2005

¡Hola SEA!



Lol but also really unfair. Both of those teams were extremely efficient and high pace, long post isos into bricked shots is not representative of a typical series of possessions for them.

Metapod
Mar 18, 2012

What does okc's bench offense have to do with the 80s?

DeimosRising
Oct 17, 2005

¡Hola SEA!


Tae posted:

Maybe prime Jordan/Pippen might be fast enough to play 48 minutes of athletic enough defense to chase an off-ball screen during a pick and roll. But then they would just attack whatever Center is on the floor constantly. And the point guards are too slow to handle speedsters.

There are guys in the league now who played against Jordan and Pippen, it's not mystery speculation. The league is at its highest talent level ever but it's dumb to act like there were no good players before 2002 or something

Consider how effective small ball was not at running geriatric Duncan off the court, or how the Warriors blew a 3-1 lead in part because they lost a big, slow center who was a critical part of their game on both sides of the court.

Also lol Robert "Tristan Thompson" Parrish with the 2 rebound finals performance at center

NickRoweFillea
Sep 27, 2012

doin thangs
https://twitter.com/nba_math/status/873934124087746560

Also, big lol at NBA Math's header photo. 4 GOATs

Cool Buff Man
Jul 30, 2006

bitch

NickRoweFillea posted:

https://twitter.com/nba_math/status/873934124087746560

Also, big lol at NBA Math's header photo. 4 GOATs

My boy has made it to the big time.

EvanTH
Apr 24, 2004

i like to express my inner pain by being really boring on the phone
or just when i'm kickin it
that's me though
i'm kind of oddddddd
Jokic is the most coordinated big man in the NBA. His drunken-master floppy style is so god damned deceptive

NickRoweFillea posted:

https://twitter.com/nba_math/status/873934124087746560

Also, big lol at NBA Math's header photo. 4 GOATs

I've never heard of TPA. What is this?

Also Kevin McHale was incredibly long god drat. I counted two plays in that clip in which someone cut across the paint.

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EvanTH
Apr 24, 2004

i like to express my inner pain by being really boring on the phone
or just when i'm kickin it
that's me though
i'm kind of oddddddd
guys I know this might sound revisionist but Michael Jordan was really really good

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