Zogo posted:

Yea, it's funny when these athletes take dumps on politicians but I don't think people realize that this kind of stuff solidifies bases and creates groundswells of support. All these people having their Twitter skirmishes/battles against mastermind Trump are playing his game and they're probably going to lose (if they want some 2020 D president). Some of Trump's polling numbers are going up in recent weeks. Uh oh.

Now an interesting question is whether anti-Trump people would want more protests and athlete insults and in trade end up with another four years of him as POTUS.


Billions of jealous disenfranchised who will never be millionaires. The starving, the homeless, the modern-day sex-slave. To name a few.

Dejan Bimble posted:

Not liking the idea of it being true does not make it false. Tina Fay will probably motivate more pro than anti Trump sentiment, since she's preaching to the converted.

quote:

"This is a guy who played for nine years, I believe, before he came here," Popovich said, "and it takes time to get used to a program that is not just new. But when you have nine years under your belt, doing something different, his concerns are totally legitimate.
"We have talked about what we can do to make him more comfortable, and to make our team better. But having said that, I think we are mostly talking about offense. Defense, he was fantastic for us. Now, we have got to help him a little bit more so that he is comfortable in his own space offensively, and I haven't done a very good job of that."

...

Aldridge plans to incorporate more 3-point shooting into his game this season, too. Before he departed for the summer, Aldridge said Popovich told him to "make sure you shoot [3-pointers] because I want you to get back comfortable doing that because our system fits it," adding that "I'm going to be spread out a little bit more this year, so I definitely tried to focus on that."

RaySmuckles posted:

i'm just looking forward to some more competition out west. more competition is good, and i'm dreading the same finals matchup for the fourth time in a row. that's super boring.

the_american_dream posted:

I'm sure someone already posted Jeremy Lin ethering Kenyon Martin with kindness?

https://twitter.com/TheDouch3/status/916042195249098752

morestuff posted:

https://twitter.com/APOOCH/status/916132824218066944

I imagine him practicing this one in the mirror

EvanTH posted:

"decently" nothing the dude went from bench nobody one day, Daryl Morey said he ignored his own models and passed on drafting him 'cause Asian, to averaging 24.2pts 9.5a in his first 5 NBA starts, winning 7 in a row for the Knicks, quite possibly their longest winning streak of all time. It looked like 0 to all-star, some dude seriously carping the dang diem, great story, too bad he's such a goober in his personal life


Also the individual games were fantastic and Tyson Chandler rules

EvanTH posted:

Hah dude I'm tellin' y'all as someone who was sitting down to watch the Knicks game, expecting it was going to be more ugly losing bullshit with Melo studiously rejecting D'antoni's offensive principles but everyone firmly embracing his lack of defensive principles, it was set to be grinding basketball death and instead a backup PG is averaging 25/10 in his first 5 NBA starts, delivering increasingly exciting wins and the team's actually playing together (because Melo was injured ha ha ha)

Linsanity was really really good and pretty great for the NBA. Everyone in the city wanted to talk Ball and watch Ball which doesn't always happen and it felt pretty darned good.

The games themselves were great to watch and the coverage reflected that, tried to report on how much the crowd was into it. It got out of control huge but it was mostly organic

ah gently caress

dokmo posted:

During the ten games where he averaged 24/9, the defenses he faced held opponents to an average of 105.9 pts/100, which is right at league average. During the whole season as a starter, Lin averaged 18/8 while facing very strong defenses (avg 103.9/100)—compare to the best PG in the league that year, CP3 averaged 20/9 against defenses that gave up 105.1/100. It was a legit run.

Jack's Flow posted:

https://twitter.com/wojespn/status/916703958445416448

quote:

"I've seen it, but I don't know where it came from," said Aldridge before the Spurs played the Sacramento Kings in a preseason game Friday evening. "I have nothing to do with it. ... But it was cool."
"I would like to meet the person, whoever did it," Aldridge said.

Jack's Flow posted:

Kibner posted:

Lacob wanted to lowball Steph on his new contract: https://sports.yahoo.com/report-warriors-gm-bob-myers-kept-owner-joe-lacob-lowballing-stephen-curry-165936380.html

big boi posted:

What if people just said..."the Spurs"

AggressivelyStupid posted:

https://twitter.com/cavs/status/917117157271592960

RaySmuckles posted:

spurs players looking a lot better after their first preseason loss

lma looks like he's in much better shape and seems to be trying his rear end off

gay played a good game tonight

bryn forbes continues to brute force his way onto the roster with fantastic shooting

white and paul seem to be good pick ups

even murray had a good game today

i think the spurs are going to be better this year than last and we haven't even seen what kawhi looks like yet

chunkles posted:

I hope Kawhi Leonard isn't also engaged in a futile quest against hostile and alienating forces

vaginal facsimile posted:

Toast sandwiches sound good mate

chunkles posted:

This is going to be a breakout season for Clint Capela or as I often call him Swiss Embiid

quote:

Always fascinated by some of the things that run through Pop's mind. He was asked earlier tonight about whether he thought today's technology possibly inhibited a coach's ability to build teams. Here's Pop's answer: "I don't worry about technology in that regard as far as team building. I worry about it in the world, for instance. I was listening to a TED Talk the other night. I can't remember the individual, but he was pulling for more human upgrade rather than technological upgrade. He said that we've done enough upgrades. It doesn't do anything. We need an upgrade as human beings. He talked about what that means. It's concern, empathy, and love and all that kind of thing that until we get that upgrade, we're doomed for all this tribalism and everything we're doing now. And dependence on all these things [such as technology], they don't do anything to help us as a race; as a human race. I'll stop there."

vaginal facsimile posted:

Who in the NBA would be the most fun to do steroids with?

dokmo posted:

Trigger warning for unconscionable ball pounding

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IC2VMHAUnt8

Cloud the Cat posted:

So I recently read Jalen Rose's book "Got to give the people what they want" and read all about his falling out with Chris Webber. As someone who never knew about the fab five etc. until recently this was pretty shocking. All I know of Chris Webber is he seems entertaining and cool on TV and he used to play for the Kings. After reading this though he definitely comes off as 'the bad guy' or at least someone who is never able to admit he made mistakes. I suppose it's impossible to know everything that goes on, maybe something else happened and he doesn't feel like he should be at fault for anything?

Anyway, is there another side to the story that I can read somewhere?

Tae posted:

Pop's retiring in the next couple years, that's basically my guess from these signings.

RaySmuckles posted:

like sending pau back to finish his career where he started it, among other things

RaySmuckles posted:

he's around until at least 2020 since he's coaching the olympics. very likely he'll retire after that. if he doesn't that's cool too.

etore messina reupped he contract recently. surely he won't just stick around as pop's number 2 forever, but you never know