NBA season 2019/20
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The player power thing is far and away the worst thing about the modern game. I can't stand how players can manufacture a team and the domino effects that can follow. And the ring chasing is just as bad. I did think several times throughout the series, had that Bulls core been formed twenty years later in 2009, how different it may have been in terms of second-tier and role players. Would the likes of Steve Kerr ever had a chance, or would MJ have demanded they sign Chris Paul? Would he have put up with Scott Burrell or demand he be traded?
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@voodoo I agree re LeBron dragging the Cavs kicking and screaming past the Warriors, but not so much that they were such a poor team compared to what Jordan had. Kyrie Irving, Kevin Love and even an old Richard Jefferson made for a quality support crew amongst others. They're just not the all round team loaded with stars the Warriors were. So he gets credit for competing with the Warriors but it wasn't like he was Patrick Ewing on the Knicks.
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@shark said in NBA season 2019/20:
@voodoo I agree re LeBron dragging the Cavs kicking and screaming past the Warriors, but not so much that they were such a poor team compared to what Jordan had. Kyrie Irving, Kevin Love and even an old Richard Jefferson made for a quality support crew amongst others. They're just not the all round team loaded with stars the Warriors were. So he gets credit for competing with the Warriors but it wasn't like he was Patrick Ewing on the Knicks.
Yeah, the poor Cavs comment is the early Cavs teams. The latter team was much better, it just had no chance against GSW. That said, Love and Kyrie were only ever BOTH good in 2017, in other years ome of them sucked / was inexperienced / was injured.
I actually think Kyrie was a great sidekick for LeBron, he was able to be the alpha scorer in the crunch where Lebron couldn't be, and LeBron could cover all his defensive lapses.
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@mariner4life said in NBA season 2019/20:
That. Was. Awesome.
I forgot how much I hated the Jazz. Bunch of speccy white fluffybunnies. Stockton looks like he does your tax return.
I love Reggie Miller though, so great to hear him. He's such a cheeky fucker.
Everything about MJ just screams that he's the king. Even now. He just has presence.
I'm gonna binge watch that one rainy day.
I actually liked the Jazz. I never cheered for them, but I respected the hell out of them. Stockton might look like your tax guy, but he was an evil little prick, all elbows and filth . Competitive as they come. The Mailman was/is the whitest black man alive, with all the coolness of Billy Ray Cyrus. But damn was he efficient. And I really liked Hornacek. But mostly I just liked the way they moved the ball. They must have averaged 1-2 dunks per game only, but they always found the open guy.
As for the LD, would you really binge that? I honestly don't think I'll ever watch it again. Over 10 episodes, I reckon there is 2 hours of quality footage that I could watch on repeat. But all those back-stories should be consigned to the cutting room floor. Great finish, but it really left me thinking about how good this could have been
Edit - I also love Reggie, fucking legend
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@voodoo Stockton was one of my favourite players. He might look like an IRS accountant, but he was a fierce competitor that knew how to win with the pieces around him. I would watch hours of how he played the 2 man game with Malone. The detail of when to dribble, when to take the step off the screen, what holes presented for the pass.
I was fortunate to play a lot of ball when I was younger with a Samoan mate who was the teenage equivalent of Karl Malone. Big, strong and a beast around the basket.
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@Bovidae said in NBA season 2019/20:
And how about Hornacek stroking his face 3 times (for his 3 children) before every FT attempt. It was so funny to watch but the ball usually went through the hoop.
Sure did, 88% career FT shooter.
I love some of the FT rituals. Some might remember the Harold Miner routine when he was USC. I was a dribble three times and spin the ball in both hands two times guy...
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@ACT-Crusader said in NBA season 2019/20:
@voodoo Stockton was one of my favourite players. He might look like an IRS accountant, but he was a fierce competitor that knew how to win with the pieces around him. I would watch hours of how he played the 2 man game with Malone. The detail of when to dribble, when to take the step off the screen, what holes presented for the pass.
I was fortunate to play a lot of ball when I was younger with a Samoan mate who was the teenage equivalent of Karl Malone. Big, strong and a beast around the basket.
I probably played against more of those guys than with - unfortunately! I was the classic undersized forward at school.
Ahh, the memories! A mate of mine put our schoolboys national final on YouTube for all to enjoy a few years back, I tried to get my kid to watch it but it's fair to say he was underwhelmed by the spectacle...
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@ACT-Crusader said in NBA season 2019/20:
@Bovidae said in NBA season 2019/20:
And how about Hornacek stroking his face 3 times (for his 3 children) before every FT attempt. It was so funny to watch but the ball usually went through the hoop.
Sure did, 88% career FT shooter.
I love some of the FT rituals. Some might remember the Harold Miner routine when he was USC. I was a dribble three times and spin the ball in both hands two times guy...
Best FT from the 90s was MJ answering Mutumbo's trash talking by shooting with his eyes closed and making it
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@canefan said in NBA season 2019/20:
@voodoo said in NBA season 2019/20:
@shark dunno if it was meant to be a "team" or a "top 5", but either way its classic Magic, just kowtow to the current stars.
Great player, shit coach and GM
It also kills me that he gets kudos , along with other sports stars to be fair, for being an "amazing businessman".
It's so dumb. The guy gets presented a thousand deals a year that go through multiple layers of vetting before he even sees them (if he ever does). But your average bloke with his head screwed on, doesnt get to see any of these opportunities.
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@voodoo said in NBA season 2019/20:
@canefan said in NBA season 2019/20:
@voodoo said in NBA season 2019/20:
@shark dunno if it was meant to be a "team" or a "top 5", but either way its classic Magic, just kowtow to the current stars.
Great player, shit coach and GM
It also kills me that he gets kudos , along with other sports stars to be fair, for being an "amazing businessman".
It's so dumb. The guy gets presented a thousand deals a year that go through multiple layers of vetting before he even sees them (if he ever does). But your average bloke with his head screwed on, doesnt get to see any of these opportunities.
He still has to pick and choose the right deals. The sports landscape is littered with retired sportspeople that lost all there money on a succession of deals gone bad. But you are right, he has massive opportunities, albeit won on the back of a stellar career
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@canefan for sure he does. But half the battle is origination of opportunities. And he would see 50x more deals than the average bloke, and would have a solid team aound him doing the real work. Its a privileged position, and he's not some investment savant because of it
