COMMUNITY A Your Vote Did Nothing Thread

[IP360]

Yeah fucc all that. If that's how they conduct buisness...then I wouldn't even respond back to their calls or emails if they wanted to hire me.

But another potential coach is gonna jump at the opportunity to coach there.

 

[Freeman]

Pick a starting 5 from '85-99 and they would obliterate any starting 5 in today's NBA if they were to play pre-2001 ball.

 

[IP360]

Since the name of the thread is the Angel Reese thread I thought I should share how trash the refs are with her getting calls against USCe.

She second in NCAA in FTs attempted per game and in her last two games against USCe she got a grand total of 3 in two games against them this year.


We only played 7 players this game. Our bench is thin due to injuries

We own LSU regardless. Our depth is too deep even when yall didn't have all them injuries. Had we not lost to fucc azzz Iowa last year, we would've won then, and competing for a third straight title this year.

But I mos def enjoy the rivalry tho. It's always must see tv

 

[konceptjones]

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Where's the lie??? These new niggas can't handle physical ball or know how to work it in the paint. Apply a little pressure and they gonna toss it out to whomever's in 3 point range and let them take the shot. These niggas can't drive like they used to back inna day.

 

[Freeman]

Where's the lie??? These new niggas can't handle physical ball or know how to work it in the paint. Apply a little pressure and they gonna toss it out to whomever's in 3 point range and let them take the shot. These niggas can't drive like they used to back inna day.

So they have to foul to win. These lil niggas would run circles around those dudes and they wouldn't know what to do with embiid or jokic.

 

[Playmaker88]

Bruh

 

[Elzo69Renaissance]

Bro when is the US gonna bring democracy to Haiti like they do every where else

 

[Playmaker88]

Folks on TikTok saying they are scared of ghetto girls got ghetto girls and ghetto dudes in their feeling and glorifying that environment

Don’t get me wrong, most folks in those type of neighborhoods is not ghetto but damn it was so damn dangerous growing up in New Orleans.

I have did some terrible things in my life and had some terrible things happen to me in my 18 years back home. We I move to Texas and our that environment, it was so different and safe. I live in Oak Cliff for a year and it wasn’t a good place at all but I had already seen better

Tellin yall the crack 80s nurture runs deep in many of our people seem to have this pride in the ghettoization of blackness..

Whether its a certain aestheic, demeanor, processing, rationalization so pn amd ap forth

 

[Playmaker88]

Bro when is the US gonna bring democracy to Haiti like they do every where else

When has the Us brought "democracy" to a black nation

"Democracy" is the gate way drug

 

[konceptjones]

So they have to foul to win. These lil niggas would run circles around those dudes and they wouldn't know what to do with embiid or jokic.

Bruh, them niggas gettin shut down every time. They only look good 'cause there's next to zero resistance in the paint. Jokic lumbering ass damned sure ain't gettin' shit.

 

[Elzo69Renaissance]

When has the Us brought "democracy" to a black nation

"Democracy" is the gate way drug

Sarcasm doesn’t come across well via text but yea something needs to be done

 

[Elzo69Renaissance]

Bruh, them niggas gettin shut down every time. They only look good 'cause there's next to zero resistance in the paint. Jokic lumbering ass damned sure ain't gettin' shit.

The way I see it’s hard to make these generational games comparison cuz if these niggas teleported to the 80s they would lay like 80s players

 

[Freeman]

The way I see it’s hard to make these generational games comparison cuz if these niggas teleported to the 80s they would lay like 80s players

It's a pointless argument but the idea that the game or players were better in the 80s-90s is bs.

Just nostalgia fucking with bro. These guys are way more trained and skilled today it's not even close. They would dominate, only chance older players would have is hacking.

What's missing from then and today is intensity and that's just because of the hacking and hand checking not because players are better defenders. Those niggas were coke heads.

 

[Playmaker88]

The way I see it’s hard to make these generational games comparison cuz if these niggas teleported to the 80s they would lay like 80s players

Its pointless to engage in the ignorant debate.

1 "athleticism" is situational
2. The skills are differnt
3. These nigga now get extra steps extra space due to how they play

Stockton would kill in this era, reggie, bird Rasheed, so on and so forth

Imagine mark price here.. the thing is players were made specialist when they were dogs

Its angame of skills not aesthetics

 

[Playmaker88]

Can we change cap to thumbs down i feel dirty

 

[Elzo69Renaissance]

I was watching a vid from the late 80s early 90s were a nigga hit a clean Euro step and was promptly called for traveling

Shit is just too different to compare generations

 

[konceptjones]

The way I see it’s hard to make these generational games comparison cuz if these niggas teleported to the 80s they would lay like 80s players

But that's the point: The game has been changed enough that someone that trains to play 2023/2024 hoops simply couldn't compete the way it was played back then because it was more difficult. It was a more physical game, they don't train for that. There was a lot more driving to the hoop against 2-3 defenders in the paint, they don't train for that now. And because they don't train for it, what do you think happens when you encounter it???

You get the '92 Dream team VS the world.

The world didn't practice the kind of ball we played and the world was slaughtered. Right now the NBA plays pretty much the way the world did in pre-'92 Olympics and that's by design. They want to court European audiences, they want to court European players so the NBA now plays the game very similarly to the way they play it as well as most of the world.

 

[Dwayne]

the average player back down was not good

The average player today is great.

The league as a whole had a talent issue. Wasn’t enough good players to go around.

 

[The Lonious Monk]

You do know the 3 second rule was adopted to make the games look better on TV, right? To keep the lane clear so niggas could get in there and dunk and shit for the highlight reel. Not because it was necessary, because players was making it happen without it, but because they wanted that ESPN coverage and what an easier way than if the paint was consistently empty. The physicality was softened so the game would appeal to Europeans 'cause the game is focused more on the 3-point game over there rather than taking it to the hole and making plays happen that way.

Shit like this is why I haven't been fuckin with the game like I used to; they made it soft on purpose. And now they're trying to get this convergence happening where watching an NBA game isn't too different from watching a WNBA game so there's not much of an excuse not to watch the WNBA play, thus making more money for the league. Drive, pass it out, shoot the j or three, wash, rinse, repeat because WNBA players can play at that level.

Pick a starting 5 from '85-99 and they would obliterate any starting 5 in today's NBA if they were to play pre-2001 ball.

I always hear people say that they were trying to make the NBA more like the Euro league. I don't know how true that is. The 00's were basically the decade that reached the lowest average scoring for the league. Silver has already admitted that he believed the fans wanted more offense, so they purposely put in rules to help players like Steph out (he called Steph by name). I don't think they were wrong to try and improve league offense, but they went overboard and killed defense.

The way I see it, we're always told that the players are much more skilled nowadays. If that's true, they should be able to take away some of those rules without killing offense in the league. If what all the modern fans say is true, we should still get big offensive outputs from the much more skilled players even if hand checking returns and the three second rule is changed or removed.

the average player back down was not good

The average player today is great.

The league as a whole had a talent issue. Wasn’t enough good players to go around.

I don't know if I'd say the average player today is great, but the average player today is definitely more versatile and skilled offensively than the average player in the past.

 

[konceptjones]

I was watching a vid from the late 80s early 90s were a nigga hit a clean Euro step and was promptly called for traveling

Shit is just too different to compare generations

Because that was traveling back then.

You didn't get the extra step unless you were dribbling.

That's a good example of how much it's changes. No euro step = harder to make moves. And that's how the game was played.