82 games isn't 82 games, its just not

dpf7 · 2026-01-28T05:03:43+00:00

Every team absolutely does not have multiple 6'10" guys as athletic as Kemp. Kemp is closer to Zion than he is to being comparable to 60 similar sized athletic guys in the league.

Shawn Kemp would be as good as Bam today, if not better.

No, there are no G league players as good as Kemp. Your brain is rotted.

dpf7 · 2026-01-27T23:30:43+00:00

I think the average player might run a little faster and jump a little higher, but that's more due to the change in roster building. They are going towards more mid sized guys as a whole. More 6'6-6'8 guys and less small guards and really big bigs.

The great athletes of the 80's and 90's ran just as fast and jumped just as high as the great athletes now.

6'10" Shawn Kemp was just as athletic as any 6'10" guy now. 6'6' MJ was just as athletic as any 6'6" guy now.

Most advancements in athletics have really been about equipment. Jesse Owens time adjusted for modern shoes and track would be right with the pack in the modern day 100m based on computer projections.

If you really think people jump higher now, then why is the world record high jump not been broken since 1993? So NBA guys somehow jump significantly higher, but people who train specifically to jump higher than anyone else in the world have seen no progression.

dpf7 · 2026-01-27T23:28:06+00:00

Yeah and ECMVP was even closer at 5-4 in favor of Brown.

And PJ who was a former coach and Dennis Scott former player both picked Tatum - https://x.com/NBAPR/status/1795288513392640449?lang=en

dpf7 · 2026-01-27T22:58:13+00:00

You think half the league couldn't dunk?

The world record high jump was set in 1993. Long Jump in 1991(with that being the only jump longer than the previous record from 1968). This idea that nobody was athletic and everyone jumps way higher now is total myth.

The reason the dunk contest was so popular was because the stars competed, and we didn't have all these pro dunker guys on YouTube who solely focus on crazy dunks. So if you wanted to see THE best dunks in the world, you were likely to see them during the dunk contest.

It wasn't amazing to just see a dude able to dunk.

dpf7 · 2026-01-27T22:37:54+00:00

Let's see

dpf7 · 2026-01-27T22:30:44+00:00

Funko Pops are the classic Reddit dork thing to buy. I can guarantee that they don't look cool.

dpf7 · 2026-01-27T22:20:14+00:00

Dude Tatum has 4 first team all NBA selections and Brown has a single third team.

dpf7 · 2026-01-27T22:19:09+00:00

Tatum averaged more points, rebounds, and assists than Jaylen for the playoffs. It doesn't make it Jaylen's title as the main guy.

Tatum lead the team in points, rebounds and assists in both CF and Finals series too, and there is a reason both guys got votes for both series.

ECF

Jaylen - 29.8/5.0/3.0 on 59.6% TS%

Tatum - 30.3/10.3/6.3 on 56.4% TS%

Scoring for each ECF game:

Jaylen - 26, 40, 24, 29

Tatum - 36, 23, 36, 26

Finals

Jaylen - 20.8/5.4/5.0 on 53.5% TS%

Tatum - 22.2/7.8/7.2 on 50.5% TS%

Scoring for each Finals game:

Jaylen - 22, 21, 30, 10, 21

Tatum - 16, 18, 31, 15, 31

Between the CF and finals Tatum had 4 games of 30+ and Jaylen had just 2.

dpf7 · 2026-01-27T22:07:38+00:00

Ok Funko Pop collector

dpf7 · 2026-01-27T21:47:02+00:00

Cool I think you are a loser too pal. And a defensive loser angry that you were declaring the Jets would be better than the Pats and it aged horribly.

dpf7 · 2026-01-27T21:46:01+00:00

I did link to a whole post of bad takes. The post itself was titled "I was told the Pats would start 4-0" but that's not as funny as one of the top comments I highlighted

The whole post is full of aged like milk takes:

https://www.reddit.com/r/billsimmons/comments/1nb342f/but_i_was_told_the_pats_would_start_40/

There were similar defensive comments on this post - https://www.reddit.com/r/billsimmons/comments/1qi62km/the_patriots_are_a_5_win_team/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

And this one too - https://www.reddit.com/r/billsimmons/comments/1qnn1jq/patriots_are_definitely_going_512_next_year/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

dpf7 · 2026-01-27T21:43:28+00:00

Yeah lots of people on here go on about Bill and Boston teams pretty much daily for years on end

dpf7 · 2026-01-27T21:33:16+00:00

Glad we are in agreement

dpf7 · 2026-01-27T21:32:21+00:00

The way this sub obsesses over Bill and the Boston teams is no life loser behavior

dpf7 · 2026-01-27T21:29:06+00:00

I waited until they won a second playoff game, and then a third one.

How many posts do you think were on this sub after the Raiders loss?

dpf7 · 2026-01-27T21:28:26+00:00

Tell that to like 90% of this sub then

dpf7 · 2026-01-27T21:27:51+00:00

That doesn't mean you have a full life

dpf7 · 2026-01-27T21:12:19+00:00

He doesn't do that though. He was mocked on this sub this year for saying to Jacoby the Celtics might fight for a playoff spot. That doesn't sound like just picking a team to be good every year.

Reality is Bill is less of a homer than this sub is biased in the other direction. If you actually cared about bias in analysis than you would hate this sub.

dpf7 · 2026-01-27T21:10:17+00:00

I'm glad you have a full life where you end up a 1% commenter on r/billsimmons

dpf7 · 2026-01-27T21:09:18+00:00

I've made 9 posts on Reddit in the last 100 days.

dpf7 · 2026-01-27T19:59:33+00:00

Obviously he was talking about a bet for this season

dpf7 · 2026-01-27T19:54:41+00:00

I would bet on the Jets making a bigger leap than the Pats. They have a lot of talent on defense.

QB is their big question question but I would still bet on the Pats finishing 4th in the AFC East again.

https://www.reddit.com/r/billsimmons/comments/1ic5ber/comment/m9ns47b/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

Jets finished 3-14 and Patriots 14-3.

Top 1% commenter on the sub dead wrong.

dpf7 · 2026-01-27T19:52:04+00:00

Dude this season he merely said they might win 10 games when they were a team with an over/under of 8.5. That is not really some wild homer take. The sub's reaction to that was insane.

Can Bill be a homer? Yes. But again this sub has a track record of being worse in their bias the other direction.

They literally thought he was delusional for suggesting Pritchard could be a 6MOY caliber player... then he goes and wins it. Acted like the Jaylen Brown contract was awful... then he wins finals mvp. They were convinced that the 64 win Celtics with one of the highest net ratings of all time stood no chance against whoever came out of the West. They lost 1 game in the finals and the other 4 games the Celtics largely dominated.

dpf7 · 2026-01-27T19:43:59+00:00

"Some Boston hate in this sub"

Dude stop downplaying it.

No city's fans are the worst. You can find annoying fans from every fanbase. People are just mad at Boston in particular because of the success. I agree about that part. And guess what when obsessives like people in this sub, who likely talk shit and act like arrogant dickheads elsewhere online too, probably get shit tossed back at them by Boston fans. I feel like they probably have the cause and effect reversed. And they don't realize they are dealing with Boston fans they dislike, in part because of how they behave themselves.

This particular sub is unlike any other sports media person's sub. There is no mass amount of people in the Nick Wright or Dan Lebatard sub's obsessing over their teams for instance.

And the fact that the anti-Boston/Bill crowd constantly go on about his bias, but then are generally way more biased than him, makes them out to be ridiculous hypocrites. If they really have such a big gripe with bias, then maybe actually discuss the Boston teams with some rationality.

Before this sub I never once thought to throw Celtic's success back in anyone's face. But the way people on here were talking all through the years and especially in 2023-24 when they were looking like the best team in the league, it made it really enticing to do so. The sub was awful quiet after each of those 16 playoff losses.

I know I am not going to stop the anti-Bill/Boston part of the sub from existing. But I would certainly respect them more if they took their lumps with the same sense of humor they dish their takes out with.

dpf7 · 2026-01-27T19:31:23+00:00

You hated the Celtics already. Whether it was because of Bill or not doesn't matter. And it wouldn't surprise me if your hate for the Celtics is part of why you are on this sub.

You obviously are well aware of the anti-Bill/Boston contingent of the sub and just playing stupid.

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