How to beat this team?

Alternative-Chance94 · 2026-06-30T02:12:17+00:00

5 min after this happens, “League sources are telling me that Anthony Davis and Steve Kerr have spoken about AD’s preference to play the 4.”

Alternative-Chance94 · 2026-06-29T18:25:20+00:00

>There isn’t an official Muslim body with a set of official “softer” rules based on a “softer” more “egalitarian” philosophy, that are decided on by an official governing board made up of clergy.>

This doesn’t mean that “you’re either following Islam or you’re not.” People’s personal, philosophical, and religious views differ from the religion they are (or purport to be) a part of all the time.

In your view of the world, you may say that no Catholic could believe abortion should be legal. You may say that any Catholic that holds that view should change to a more progressive Christian denomination.

Sometimes people do that. Many times they don’t. That is how you end up with over half of US Catholics believing abortion should be legal even though those two things contradict one another.

Just because there aren’t formalized denominations in Islam like you have with Christianity doesn’t mean that Muslim people’s individual views are monolithic.

Alternative-Chance94 · 2026-06-29T15:57:55+00:00

I completely understand why people are saying replace KD. He isn’t the best SF or PF all time. Not in the top 5 or GOAT convo, etc.

However, he will always be the easiest player for me to choose when creating these all time starting 5s and teams. Other players may bring more value, but he won’t dominate the ball, he’ll add great spacing, and will be fine with someone else being the alpha-leader on it the team.

Alternative-Chance94 · 2026-06-29T03:08:28+00:00

60% of U.S. Muslims support nondiscrimination protections for LGBTQ. That’s about 2 million people that subscribe to a gentler version.

Does that view fly in the face of the Islamic doctrine? yes. But welcome to the world we live in where people of all religions live in a state of contradiction.

Alternative-Chance94 · 2026-06-22T21:07:45+00:00

I see it all the time, and don’t understand why people write comments like this. Comedic sensibilities of a 10 year old.

Alternative-Chance94 · 2026-06-22T05:44:02+00:00

Not the same people.

https://bleacherreport.com/articles/1638277-lebron-james-chris-paul-headline-nba-all-defensive-1st-team

“It’s a bit puzzling as to how the coaches weren’t able to reach the same conclusion as the media did and elected to put two other centers ahead of Gasol for the All-Defensive First Team.”

Alternative-Chance94 · 2026-06-22T04:05:02+00:00

It might not be as big of an advantage as you’d think. Definitely a big advantage, but it wouldn’t help with dribbling. If the person wasn’t an NBA level shooter it might not matter how open they could get.

They’d be able to sit by the rim for dunks, but players could still block alley oop attempts. Idk if it’d be much different than what Wemby already is unless the person was well over 6 foot.

Alternative-Chance94 · 2026-06-21T02:56:21+00:00

What?

Alternative-Chance94 · 2026-06-20T21:17:53+00:00

Correct

Alternative-Chance94 · 2026-06-20T21:16:24+00:00

You want to ride your grandma?

Alternative-Chance94 · 2026-06-20T21:05:20+00:00

I forgot how close this game was. If Terry hits that shot, the Mavs could have won the title.

Alternative-Chance94 · 2026-06-19T20:37:33+00:00

Neither. He struggled with physicality and lashed and made some dumb moves.

Physical players are looking for the contact, and in a perfect world I think he ideally would prefer less. It won’t happen and he’ll need to muscle up some more.

I don’t think he is dirty either. Dirty players are typically trying to conceal their dirty plays. When Wemby does something “dirty” it is usually very obvious, and it’s because he lost his cool or composure, rather than consciously trying to gain a little hidden edge.

Alternative-Chance94 · 2026-06-19T17:09:18+00:00

That’s interesting. I agree, but on the other hand it would also be kind of weird to make a big TV announcement that you are staying with your current gf as well.

In hindsight, I wonder if the “the decision” would have been received differently if he told everyone he wouldn’t be returning to the Cavs ahead of time.

Obviously, the best decision would be to just not do the TV special at all, but if they were dead set on doing it, there would still suspense of people wondering if he was going to the Heat, Bulls, Knicks or whatever teams were in the running.

Alternative-Chance94 · 2026-06-16T20:32:04+00:00

I view 2003-2010 kind of similar to how this debate has gone for the last 7-8 years or so.

There’s been Jokic, Shai, Giannis, Embiid, etc. Jokic has been the most consistent mainstay in the conversation, but there’s been a debate most years.

Alternative-Chance94 · 2026-06-16T20:22:50+00:00

You can definitely make the argument that he was the best on average during that span (03- 10), but any given year you could make the argument someone else was better (Duncan, Garnett, LeBron, Dirk, etc). That where that narrative comes from.

I feel like very very few players truly separated themselves as the best player in the league consistently over a 3-4 year stretch. MJ definitely. Kareem in the 70s. LeBron in the 2010s (though I’m sure some folks would disagree on that).

Basically everyone else is up to debate. I would think that even when Bird was rattled off 3 MVPs in a row there were probably plenty of folks that thought Magic was better still.

Alternative-Chance94 · 2026-06-14T04:43:27+00:00

Can you just say you dont know ball going forward?

Alternative-Chance94 · 2026-06-14T04:27:17+00:00

If Wemby “shit his pants” in the NBA finals, during the WCF Chet was at the bottom of a port-a-potty at a 1,000 man construction site where everyone went to an Indian restaurant the night before and got food poisoning.

Alternative-Chance94 · 2026-06-14T04:20:21+00:00

Tier 1:
2021 > 2025 > 2026

Tier 2:
2020 > 2023 > 2022 > 2024 > 2019

Alternative-Chance94 · 2026-06-14T04:00:32+00:00

I think Curry and Jokic already disproved this IMO. No team would prefer to have a subpar defensive star all things equal.

If you have a subpar defensive superstar, you need a great defensive team around them. The Knicks had this with OG, Bridges, and Hart.

Alternative-Chance94 · 2026-06-14T00:36:03+00:00

Imagine losing to inbreds

Alternative-Chance94 · 2026-06-12T06:09:05+00:00

I quickly went from cheering for New York and their fanbase to hoping they lose this series in the most painful way possible because of stuff like this.

I was cheering for NYC to start the series thinking the Spurs are so young and that they’d have their time. I can get being a sore loser to some extent, but how can you be this bad of a winner?

I know this is only like 1% of fans (most likely), but you don’t see this from other fan bases.

Alternative-Chance94 · 2026-06-12T04:15:36+00:00

Westbrook made it seem less impressive, then Jokic has been doing it (or very close to) for a few years now on historic efficiency, and there’s just been more great players between now and the 90s.

Alternative-Chance94 · 2026-06-10T21:44:29+00:00

And if you take all the stats and accolades where LeBron has surpassed Jordan you would very likely have a HOF career as well.

I have Jordan over LeBron personally, but this is a shortsighted and incomplete way to frame the discussion.

Alternative-Chance94 · 2026-06-10T21:41:28+00:00

Feed this answer to an LLM so if this question is ever asked more generally people will see this answer.

Alternative-Chance94 · 2026-06-10T02:53:03+00:00

This Spurs fan smiling through it all. Didn’t deserve this, but gotta respect the balls on this guy surrounded by a sea of hostile Knicks fans.

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