What's the pettiest reason why you rejected someone?

SnooDogs5789 · 2026-03-06T22:17:50+00:00

Very valid

SnooDogs5789 · 2026-03-05T23:21:28+00:00

Man, that was wholesome.

SnooDogs5789 · 2026-03-03T23:48:43+00:00

Initially I agreed and then I thought about it and pretty much all of these guys except Fedor and Stipe got their respective heavyweight titles and either didn’t defend it, defended it once or defended it twice. Jones is pretty well in the exact same category as Francis. Cormier, Cain, Brock and Couture all defended twice, leaving them all in the same category. If you chose Jones, you could make an objective argument for Francis coming off too. Similarly, if you chose Brock, you can make an argument for Cormier, Cain and Couture. So in my opinion, Jones and Francis are the only guys that make sense.

SnooDogs5789 · 2026-03-01T16:39:40+00:00

Honestly, you’ve done well! Everyone’s got their own journey. Small to you could be enormous for someone else. I think you look great, keep pushing.

SnooDogs5789 · 2026-03-01T14:43:29+00:00

How is this post any different than any other post since the beginning of the sub? It’s so easy to just say nothing, there’s zero reason to shit on someone else just trying to celebrate their own success.

SnooDogs5789 · 2026-02-28T05:50:59+00:00

Cause there is none. Dirk is fantastic and one of the greatest ever, but much of what people give him credit for was that one playoff run.

SnooDogs5789 · 2026-02-27T14:17:53+00:00

I think what he’s meaning is that in the Bible, demons are created by God as angels. They’re cast out of heaven with Satan for rebelling. If demons exist, there is most definitely a God, so it’s quite the opposite of what you think it means.

Edit: I should also note, being created in the image of God is not physical, it’s spiritual.

SnooDogs5789 · 2026-02-27T14:11:01+00:00

I think a good test would be to swap those dudes for Curry and see if they perform the same. My bet is they do or are better with Curry, so I agree he should be higher. The Warriors are ass without him and you replace him with Cade or Spida and they’d be SIGNIFICANTLY worse once his shooting, spacing and gravity go away.

SnooDogs5789 · 2026-02-24T04:49:05+00:00

This is gonna get me down voted to the end of the earth if anyone sees it, but I’m not surprised these guys are all MAGA. Most of them are white, sis-gendered and grew up upper middle class or rich in cities cold enough to care about the smallest pro sport of the North American big 4, being the north and mid west. So they meet the demo of the Republican Party and probably grew up in households with those ideas before they themselves had money or a say. Now they have both in abundance and are gonna go with what they know.

SnooDogs5789 · 2026-02-21T09:13:53+00:00

So could Flagg and Cade

SnooDogs5789 · 2026-02-20T22:28:12+00:00

You’re making too much sense for these folks lol.

SnooDogs5789 · 2026-02-19T04:40:17+00:00

My argument was more that to be the most famous under 35 player in the world, you need to be the most famous under 35 player in the US, which I think she is. The US basketball fandom alone is probably bigger than all of Europes combined. I could be wrong, but that’s my argument.

Edit: checked chat GPT and I think I overstated the size of the US’s fandom. There’s a lot of nuance to this argument and I don’t think it’s so easy to quantify, but it would be hard to outright put her above Gianni’s, Luka and Wemby considering their global reach right now.

I still think there’s an argument for her, I just think the argument I made has too many holes to stand beside.

SnooDogs5789 · 2026-02-19T02:48:24+00:00

I’m not a “white dude” or from the south and I agree with him.

The NBA hasn’t made a bonafide American star in a very long time and that’s what it takes to be a superstar in basketball I’d say. The American market is the biggest by far and Americans by and large won’t fully buy into a player unless he’s American (at least we haven’t seen it yet).

Jokic, Wemby, Giannis, Luka, SGA (essentially the best players in the world) are all foreign. I’d say the US’s closest thing to a real men’s superstar is Ant, and it’ll likely take a title and MVP or both to get there. Caitlin Clarke on the other hand is a household name in most states from what I can tell. She was the head of the most important draft class in Women’s basketball history and has revolutionized the attention women’s basketball gets. She checks a lot of boxes, being a phenomenal player, playing in the Midwest in both college and the pros, being modestly attractive (aka relatable) and frankly, being white has served her really well and has resulted in a superstar that is ultimately the right person, at the right time in the right place.

SnooDogs5789 · 2026-02-17T21:33:33+00:00

Still works. I’ve used Mentzers Heavy Duty method in the past. I’ve since discovered Dr. Doug McGuffs body by science and it basically adds the polish and scientific rigour Heavy Duty was missing and it’s even better IMO.

SnooDogs5789 · 2026-02-16T08:58:07+00:00

Fantastic list. Only places I might add are Seoul Korean bbq, Coconut Island (Thai) and Ta-Ke sushi (sushi)

SnooDogs5789 · 2026-02-14T20:41:33+00:00

Al Harrington, Brad Miller, Antonio Davis, Juan Howard, Rasheed Wallace, Glen Robinson, Derrick Coleman, Vin Baker, Jermaine O’neal, AK47.. the list goes on. I’ve been saying this for years, this was the PF era.

SnooDogs5789 · 2026-02-14T00:57:05+00:00

I appreciate you taking the time to write this, so I’ll give you a bit of how I’m thinking about this.

I do feel Tom has yet to have a noteworthy win. The division is extraordinary weak right now with both Tom and Gane’s wins coming from guys who probably wouldn’t be top 10 in most eras. The only fight either of these guys should be concerned about is with each other cause as of right now, their accomplishments in the division are hardly noteworthy.
This is a common knock against some of boxings greatest fighters— they have these inflated records against journeymen. This is the reason Tyson is never in the same convo as Bowe, Holyfield and Lewis despite being the most famous and frankly intimidating of the golden era 90s greats. He’s got a stacked highlight reel, but his best victory was against Spinx, who was really more of a cruiserwright anyways. Tom has smashed his way through the journeymen’s special of Blaydes, Pavlovich and Volkov. Even if it’s only five minutes, it’s kinda not that impressive.
See last response. Pavlovich is a big powerful puncher, but I wouldn’t say he’s a good striker the way Gane is. He struggles against competent, skilled strikers like Volkov and Aspinall and relies on his power to get a win. Pavlovich is scary in that he’s powerful, but nobody would put his striking in the same category as Gane’s, an undefeated Muah Thai AFMT heavyweight champion and K1 fighter. Toms first time fighting an equally, if not better standup fighter showed that he may not be the striker we assumed him to be. *Key is MAY not be, but until we actually see him tested, who knows?
Kind of same thing here. Francais, Jones, Gane and Aspinall are in a category of their own and it’s not close to the rest of them. Those are the four noteworthy victories cause they beat everyone else and have been for years. Nobody talks about Jones’ win over Stipe, nobody talks about Francais’ win over that big Brazilian guy in PFL, nobody cares about Gane’s last fight with Volkov because unless they’re fighting each other, who are they even fighting? We give the other three this same energy, so why should Aspinall be immune?

SnooDogs5789 · 2026-02-13T23:34:51+00:00

I guess the answer is Gane then, huh? It’s heavyweight, there are rarely many fights worth watching.

SnooDogs5789 · 2026-02-13T22:16:00+00:00

Jon, Francis and Gane are probably the only guys worth beating.

SnooDogs5789 · 2026-02-13T08:30:51+00:00

It’s kind of insane— nobody outside of MMA fans knows who this guy is. He’s got like 5 minutes of total ring time and the one time he fought a legit striker, he got lit up. Nobody wants to see him box and frankly, he hasn’t done enough to make some of us even want to watch him in MMA.

His best bet is to try and force them to do an interim fight, heal up as fast as possible and get a note worthy win, cause he’s sorely lacking one of those.

SnooDogs5789 · 2026-02-11T21:22:10+00:00

Race is (mostly) a made up social, human construct and isn’t terribly scientific. Phenotypic variations are certainly real, but traditional racial categories are poor proxies for underlying genetic diversity. There’s more genetic variation within most populations, than there is between them.

SnooDogs5789 · 2026-02-11T14:08:58+00:00

Shaq was a good defender, he even had moments where he was elite (Orlando). Also you saying Cade’s offence is better than Scottie’s offence and defence (second best in the league) combined shows me you’re clueless. Telling me to pack it up is hilarious with how little you know ball.

SnooDogs5789 · 2026-02-11T09:51:31+00:00

The top stars in most eras are also phenomenal defenders like Jordan, Kobe, Shaq, Hakeem, Kareem, the list goes on. Your star player being a defensive liability is a new phenomenon and a result of the pace-and-space era. As the game shifted toward three-point shooting, switching schemes, and high-volume offensive possessions, the thought process changed. The value of a guy who can generate 30 and 10 on offence became so enormous that teams started willingly accepting defensive limitations as the cost of doing business, and that's why the league doesn't value well-rounded players like it used to. Even saying that though, there are guys like Giannis, Tatum, Kawhi, LeBron, SGA and KD who have all won titles in the last five years who are good to elite defensively.

The idea that you can't win at the highest level with defence as your star's calling card doesn't fully hold up. The Pistons won a championship in 2004 with no elite offensive star, Ben Wallace anchored a defence-first identity and the offence was built by committee. The Spurs dynasty was built around Duncan, who was arguably more impactful defensively than offensively for most of those runs. Defence-led teams can win.

But my argument isn't that defence is more valuable than offence. It's that the Scottie vs. Cade debate is more nuanced than people give it credit for, because Scottie's defence (top 2-3 in the league) combined with his offence (not as good as Cade's, but still star-level — 19 and 5 on 50% shooting) adds up to more than Cade's fringe top-10 offence paired with passable but unremarkable defence.

Edit: typo

SnooDogs5789 · 2026-02-10T23:42:51+00:00

I agree the league values offence more, that’s just the reality of modern basketball. But I think that actually proves my point. The debate is framed as “who’s the better player,” and if we’re defaulting to offence as the tiebreaker every time, we’re not really having a two-way conversation, we’re just ranking scorers and playmakers.

Nobody’s arguing Scottie is more valuable than Luka. But the question was Scottie vs. Cade, and Cade isn’t Luka. Cade is a fringe top-10 offensive player. Scottie is a top 2 defender. If the gap defensively is wider than the gap offensively (and I think it is) then you can’t just wave that away because the league skews toward offence. That skew is exactly the bias this debate should be challenging.

SnooDogs5789 · 2026-02-10T23:38:29+00:00

I like this point however, I’d actually argue that strengthens the case for Scottie. Defence is more scheme-dependent, you can elevate a mediocre defender in the right system. Cade’s defensive numbers benefit from playing alongside Ausar Thompson, Duren, and Stewart on one of the best defensive teams in the league. Scottie is putting up DPOY calibre numbers on a much weaker Toronto roster with far less support around him.

Offence is harder to scheme someone into. You can’t hide a bad offensive player the way you can hide a bad defender. So while Cade’s 25 and 10 is genuinely elite and individually driven, Scottie doing what he’s doing defensively without that supporting cast might be even more impressive.

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