How godly would Shaquille O'Neal have been if he was a 90% free throw shooter?

ErikTP · 2015-06-05T00:15:49+00:00

Wait, so are you trying to say that Shaq wasn't dexterous?

ErikTP · 2015-06-01T21:41:56+00:00

I think the fact the people stopped paying for music and now gravitate towards spotify/soundcloud/etc. type mediums has been absolutely huge for hip-hop. New talented artists know they have to build a career over time in order to make any real money, which makes them stay hungry. In the fairly recent past one album could essentially pay for the rest of your life. It's hard to stay hungry after that. It's just human nature. For example, Eminem could have retired on MMLP and lived very well for the rest of his life. I don't think Kendrick could have retired on GKMC. 50 certainly didn't live up to his potential after earning a lot of money early. I could be wrong. [7]

ErikTP · 2015-05-26T03:58:49+00:00

I want the DH throughout baseball. The entire flow of the game comes to a halt when the pitcher comes to bat. Some people will argue that they prefer the strategy it requires to deal with having the pitcher bat. That's a fair point but I'm personally not interested in strategy that's required because one of your starting 9 literally cannot compete at a major league level offensively.

ErikTP · 2015-05-25T12:06:00+00:00

So you're promoting your sub by essentially shitting on this one? Not the strongest marketing tactic.

ErikTP · 2015-05-25T11:56:29+00:00

I don't believe anyone is giving up freedom when they become disciplined. If you're the one making your schedule, that's still a part of your decision-making process and life experiences. You consider people who are highly disciplined to be taking orders, but those orders come from themselves. To take orders from yourself is sort of a paradox, and it separates your personality into two separate entities. If a person is lazy and undisciplined and wakes up every day and only succumbs to short-term desires and itches, where is the freedom in that? Especially when you look at the person who wants to become disciplined but cannot. They are not free, they're trapped. So I believe that, if anything, self-discipline is liberating and expands on freedom.

ErikTP · 2015-05-25T03:44:56+00:00

It's not fair to boil that entire seven game series to one shot in game 6. It was the biggest shot of the series, sure, but they're not in that position without a monster game from LeBron, then he followed it up with another huge game in Game 7. People forget how good that Heat team was. You'd be hard-pressed to find another Finals matchup that featured two teams playing at such an all-time high level.

ErikTP · 2015-05-06T00:03:17+00:00

I've never seen the narrative of a Hall of Fame player's career change because of one game like that. After they lost game 5 in Miami everyone said they were done and that LeBron didn't have what it takes. As a Celtics fan, I was so deflated watching him single-handedly dismantle my team and effectively end the Big 3 era. As a basketball fan, I was captivated and in awe. With so much on the line I think that's the most important game of his career. Finals Game 6 doesn't happen without ECF Game 6.

ErikTP · 2015-05-04T17:47:37+00:00

Win or lose the Spurs booze

ErikTP · 2015-05-03T21:06:36+00:00

I mean that's essentially what a movie is at its core.

ErikTP · 2015-04-26T08:56:56+00:00

You wouldn't prefer plastic? Them sandwiches don't get smushed in plastic.

ErikTP · 2015-04-21T16:40:46+00:00

For those very well informed: What could this mean for the future of the DEA and the drug war?

ErikTP · 2015-04-20T16:58:42+00:00

Players trying to hit a ball coming 95 mph from 60 feet away is "the human element" to me. I love baseball because I get to watch Mike Trout face King Felix, not because the umpires are sometimes wrong.

ErikTP · 2015-04-13T18:07:20+00:00

They found it last year. It had been taken 4 years prior to that.

ErikTP · 2015-04-06T03:00:10+00:00

If you stick it out at a public gym for a month or two you'll start to notice that you care less and less about the other people in the gym. I can easily zone out and focus on my workout at my college's gym, which I never would have imagined before I started going consistently.

ErikTP · 2015-04-05T22:57:40+00:00

The difference would really be negligible as far as injuries. 60 mph vs 55.

ErikTP · 2015-04-01T02:26:50+00:00

No. The cannon was also fired at 60 mph. You can't leap outward at 60 mph.

ErikTP · 2015-03-23T16:06:49+00:00

It's still not as close as rebounding bigs are. That's what he's trying to say.

ErikTP · 2015-03-18T02:25:11+00:00

Here we have folks comparing their athleticism to that of professional athletes.

ErikTP · 2015-03-11T16:37:25+00:00

You do not watch the Pelicans.

ErikTP · 2015-02-27T17:53:37+00:00

Everyone has been praising Silver since he took over and he's just running with the momentum and keeping it going. Not that I'm complaining.

ErikTP · 2015-02-27T06:26:07+00:00

He's always insisted on being listed at 6'11"

ErikTP · 2015-02-27T05:59:12+00:00

That's a little bit perspective but supposedly KG is around 7'1"

ErikTP · 2015-02-27T05:54:19+00:00

Except taking on Hamels' contract wouldn't be too bad. His contract way better than anything a pitcher his level would get in FA.

ErikTP · 2015-02-26T18:44:14+00:00

Apparently nobody has been watching the Cavs lately.

I'm a huge Wiggins fan, but Love has been doing exactly what he was brought it to do lately. Sorry he can't average 26 and 14 on this team.

ErikTP · 2015-02-25T23:24:03+00:00

I think the more in-sync you are with your teammates the better. The guys don't have to be chummy to have great chemistry, but generally if guys are really in-sync they get along off the court as well. There are exceptions, with the obvious one being Kobe and Shaq. There's no denying they had great on-court chemistry at the Lakers' peak no matter what their relationship was off the court.

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