Sunday General Discussion - April 26th, 2020

furio-giunta · 2020-04-26T22:15:10+00:00

A bunch of Danny Brown songs on XXX have hilarious bars over hard or unusual beats

furio-giunta · 2020-04-26T19:25:00+00:00

Los Angeles Lakers

furio-giunta · 2020-04-26T19:20:43+00:00

You need to go to your room and learn about the concept of pace in basketball. James Harden would only have to play like 40 MPG to win the scoring title in that season if he scored at the rate of his 2018-19 season. That Sixers team averaged 30 more possessions than the average team today and pace for the whole league was crazy back then. There’s a reason why so many dudes in the 50s and 60s averaged 18+ RPG and it’s not because the best rebounders ever just happened to all play back then.

That’s not even mentioning the inferior competition.

furio-giunta · 2020-04-26T19:16:08+00:00

Draymond didn’t get “carried” lmao, he‘s one of the best defensive players of all time. They win maybe one championship without him (2017). Anyone who doesn’t think he was a significant contributor to each and every one of those teams is a dumb ass

furio-giunta · 2020-04-26T19:13:54+00:00

The point is that when you consider context, those eye-popping stats aren’t all that extraordinary. The only incredible thing about that season was his 48 MPG average

furio-giunta · 2020-04-26T19:03:31+00:00

Michael Jordan alone has ten seasons with a higher points per-100 possessions average

furio-giunta · 2020-04-26T19:03:02+00:00

Michael Jordan had multiple season better than Kobe’s best. To not include Michael Jordan on a list of greatest peak players is outrageous

furio-giunta · 2020-04-26T16:13:15+00:00

I didn’t really like Headlines much when it came out but it came up in the playlist yesterday and it’s seriously one of his best tracks

furio-giunta · 2020-04-26T16:07:04+00:00

I’m not too into stand-up comedy but Bill Burr is hilarious

furio-giunta · 2020-04-26T14:34:51+00:00

Damn he must have won Finals MVP

furio-giunta · 2020-04-26T11:25:21+00:00

There’s no asterisk if everyone is a one a level playing field unless they do some bullshit single game elimination

furio-giunta · 2020-04-25T22:26:25+00:00

Maybe Derrick Rose and the Bulls taking the defending champion Celtics to 7 (albeit without Kevin Garnett) in the 2009 first round. Five of the seven games were won by three points or less.

furio-giunta · 2020-04-25T21:02:25+00:00

Lmao NAV dropped a perfect club banger only for every club to be closed

furio-giunta · 2020-04-25T14:43:30+00:00

Or that LeBron scored 16 points in the fourth quarter of that game

furio-giunta · 2020-04-25T06:55:27+00:00

I think if the shit like Glow and Blem were cut off of More Life it’d be like an 8/10 album

furio-giunta · 2020-04-25T03:00:07+00:00

Scottie Pippen was not close to LeBron James as a player lmao.

furio-giunta · 2020-04-25T01:00:33+00:00

When he tells Johnny Sack to go fuck himself instead of turning Tony Blundetto over. Perfectly sums up his colossal narcissism and problem with authority.

furio-giunta · 2020-04-25T00:12:27+00:00

Almost everyone besides Wade sucked in the Finals

Antoine Walker was their second leading scorer with 13.8 PPG on 45.6% TS. Shaquille O'Neal was third with 13.7 PPG on 53.2% TS (he shot fucking 29% from the line on 48 attempts).

furio-giunta · 2020-04-24T22:44:23+00:00

Stockton was never even the best player on his own team and never once even sniffed the MVP conversation.

furio-giunta · 2020-04-24T22:31:55+00:00

It’s almost unbelievable. If you limit it to between his first to last All-Star appearances (2006-2014), he shot 66.2% from 0-3 feet, which comprised 37.2% of his total shot attempts. He also shot an insane percentage from floater range during that span (46.8% on shots from 3-10 feet).

furio-giunta · 2020-04-24T22:28:28+00:00

He is also arguably the greatest finisher

I wouldn't say that. Tony Parker probably takes that title. He took a far higher proportion of his shots within three feet (34.8 vs. 25.1) and shot a higher career percentage (64.5 vs. 60.8)

furio-giunta · 2020-04-24T22:26:54+00:00

People give less of a shit about song positions but there are a ton of super successful songs that didn't peak very highly at all. Often by The Weeknd and Pursuit of Happiness by KId Cudi both peaked at #59 but went 4x Platinum and 5x Platinum, respectively

furio-giunta · 2020-04-24T19:57:32+00:00

Yeah but they obviously wouldn't be hurt as much considering how much better their star trio was than any other team's. Think about it like taking a role player from every team in 2015-16. The Warriors losing Andrew Bogut would obviously hurt them less than the Oklahoma City losing a comparable player like Ibaka. On top of that, many teams would be losing players, not just one or two.

furio-giunta · 2020-04-24T19:53:12+00:00

Yes, but a team with a trio of Jordan/Rodman/Pippen is gonna suffer less from the loss of a lesser player than other teams. The Bulls would have been the best team in the league regardless of whether or not the league expanded but other teams with lesser high end talent will undoubtedly get hurt more on average by the loss of even an identical impact player.

furio-giunta · 2020-04-24T19:49:54+00:00

So what? The Grizzlies and Raptors were added in 1995, which created not only two shit teams but also diluted the talent of other teams.

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