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MourningView
Sep 2, 2006


Is this Heaven?
Literally all he's doing is listing names in the most Stephen A way possible and it's riveting. What an artist

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Vertical Lime
Dec 11, 2004

https://twitter.com/stephenasmith/status/1128734973979176967

Rick
Feb 23, 2004
When I was 17, my father was so stupid, I didn't want to be seen with him in public. When I was 24, I was amazed at how much the old man had learned in just 7 years.

soggybagel posted:

The overall quality of play in the pac12 just doesn’t feel very good right now. I watched so many games last year that were slogs. Colorado be UCLA or some trash game that took four hours and had me contemplating suicide.

I am one of the forums most ardent Pac-12 defenders but it was bad last year and may be bad this year too.

Bird in a Blender
Nov 17, 2005

It's amazing what they can do with computers these days.

The PAC12 managed to be bad at both football and basketball last year.

STAC Goat
Mar 12, 2008

Watching you sleep.

Butt first, let's
check the feeds.

As a Knicks fan I admit Stephen A got me over the hump today.

Declan MacManus
Sep 1, 2011

damn i'm really in this bitch

DJExile posted:

https://twitter.com/PabloTorre/status/1128718383048998913?s=19


i am dead and i have died

play this at my funeral

stephen a smith is my favorite anime

Island Nation
Jun 20, 2006
Trust No One
Didn't the worse three teams all have the same chance of winning or did ESPN think the NBA was going to rig the draft?

euphronius
Feb 18, 2009

That was an incredible rant by SAS

STAC Goat
Mar 12, 2008

Watching you sleep.

Butt first, let's
check the feeds.

Island Nation posted:

Didn't the worse three teams all have the same chance of winning or did ESPN think the NBA was going to rig the draft?

The other 2 worst teams got higher, bad against their odd picks so by the time they were in the final 3 the Knicks were a 14% chance while the Pelicans and Grizzlies were 6%.

But yes, rigging is always on the table for fans/sports media.

Its mostly just a Knick persecution complex though because we're terrible and deserve it and hate ourselves.

Benne
Sep 2, 2011

STOP DOING HEROIN
Stephen A. abandoning all pretense of being a serious analyst and going full cartoon character is the smartest career decision he ever made

Lockback
Sep 3, 2006

All days are nights to see till I see thee; and nights bright days when dreams do show me thee.

Island Nation posted:

Didn't the worse three teams all have the same chance of winning or did ESPN think the NBA was going to rig the draft?

Yeah, NYK Cleveland and Phx all had 14% chance at the #1
https://www.nba.com/nba-draft-lottery-explainer

MourningView
Sep 2, 2006


Is this Heaven?

Island Nation posted:

Didn't the worse three teams all have the same chance of winning or did ESPN think the NBA was going to rig the draft?

Like 99.9% of lottery bitching can be explained by people not understanding how probability works and interpreting "best odds" as "complete lock". The NBA flattened the odds to make it more likely that the worst teams would get jumped and people are still losing their minds about exactly that happening.

MourningView fucked around with this message at 01:51 on May 16, 2019

DJExile
Jun 28, 2007


https://twitter.com/DanWeiner/status/1128818473239482368

fantastic story and clip

Dr Kool-AIDS
Mar 26, 2004

Stephen A straight up blamed the NBA for wanting to be honest and not rigging it for New York in the second rant, so it's not about not understanding probability.

algebra testes
Mar 5, 2011


Lipstick Apathy
What's the deal with Jalen and Jacoby it seems like the most vanilla rear end sports talk show.

Also the after credits stinger on HQ today :discourse:

I would blow Dane Cook
Dec 26, 2008

DJExile posted:

https://twitter.com/PabloTorre/status/1128718383048998913?s=19


i am dead and i have died

play this at my funeral

Sir this is a P.F Chang’s

DJExile
Jun 28, 2007


https://twitter.com/BleacherReport/status/1129181235262218243


lol this dude owns

euphronius
Feb 18, 2009

The kicks will always be on national TV games so why not give them good players. I wished they would have rigged that.

Dr Kool-AIDS
Mar 26, 2004


That's loving awesome.

euphronius posted:

The kicks will always be on national TV games so why not give them good players. I wished they would have rigged that.

So does Zion.

Mahoning
Feb 3, 2007

Lol

"Boy am I impressive!"

Henchman of Santa
Aug 21, 2010

Disappointed that he didn’t refer to himself in the third person.

Dutchy
Jul 8, 2010

euphronius posted:

The kicks will always be on national TV games so why not give them good players. I wished they would have rigged that.

i'm glad they didn't because I'm pretty sure I haven't watched ten minutes of knicks basketball in six years aside from mavs games, and i don't wanna start now

OJ MIST 2 THE DICK
Sep 11, 2008

Anytime I need to see your face I just close my eyes
And I am taken to a place
Where your crystal minds and magenta feelings
Take up shelter in the base of my spine
Sweet like a chica cherry cola

-Cheap Trick

Nap Ghost
please dont support the Knicks until james dolan sells the team

ShaneMacGowansTeeth
May 22, 2007



I think this is it... I think this is how it ends
For the first and only time I can say me and Stephen A Smith have something in common, and that's the swan neck deformity in our fingers

El Gallinero Gros
Mar 17, 2010

ShaneMacGowansTeeth posted:

For the first and only time I can say me and Stephen A Smith have something in common, and that's the swan neck deformity in our fingers

You like crab rangoon, then?

ShaneMacGowansTeeth
May 22, 2007



I think this is it... I think this is how it ends

El Gallinero Gros posted:

You like crab rangoon, then?

things of that nature

BasicFunk
Feb 26, 2011

How's your Funkentelechy?

OJ MIST 2 THE DICK posted:

please dont support the Knicks until james dolan sells the team

DJExile
Jun 28, 2007


https://twitter.com/jon_bois/status/1130531148080328705

:f5:

iospace
Jan 19, 2038



:f5:

DJExile
Jun 28, 2007


https://twitter.com/Deadspin/status/1130542654486396929

oh god this kind of thing is my absolute nightmare on broadcasts

Ramadu
Aug 25, 2004

2015 NFL MVP


https://twitter.com/ComplexSports/status/1130474647345143808

DJExile
Jun 28, 2007


https://twitter.com/jon_bois/status/1130652932507078657

iospace
Jan 19, 2038


DJExile posted:

https://twitter.com/Deadspin/status/1130542654486396929

oh god this kind of thing is my absolute nightmare on broadcasts

Oh man that would be "oh gently caress oh no".

I mean I've run into that with customers at my job, "Hey, where's your other member?" "Oh they passed away."

OOPS

DJExile
Jun 28, 2007


https://twitter.com/sportsemmys/status/1130631062047154177

hell yeah :toot:

euphronius
Feb 18, 2009


Incredible. SAS patron god of SAS

DJExile
Jun 28, 2007


I'm all for experimenting with alternate broadcasts but hooo boy

https://twitter.com/bubbaprog/status/1130679310338203654

https://twitter.com/ftbeard_17/status/1130680270586179586

MourningView
Sep 2, 2006


Is this Heaven?
Like if you want to have alternate commentary go for it but why the hell do you need their creepy disembodied heads constantly cutting off like a fourth of the screen? No one needs that much of Brian Windhorst's fat face

ElwoodCuse
Jan 11, 2004

we're puttin' the band back together
It should be silhouettes like MST3k

DJExile
Jun 28, 2007


MourningView posted:

Like if you want to have alternate commentary go for it but why the hell do you need their creepy disembodied heads constantly cutting off like a fourth of the screen? No one needs that much of Brian Windhorst's fat face

Yeah at least with the coaches film room thing they do on the CFB championship megacast, it's showing the room and they're not staring back at the viewer. This is just weird.


ALSO BOB PART 2

IT'S AN HOUR LONG, STRAP IN

https://twitter.com/jon_bois/status/1130866481753993217?s=19

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MourningView
Sep 2, 2006


Is this Heaven?
The coaches' film room should really use way more of the screen on the actual game too but I get that they don't think you'll be able to figure out who is who it they don't show them talking. They at least do a split screen instead of blocking off part of the game

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