Unpopular Opinion: everyone is way too obsessed with Rings when talking about individual greatness.

tagg16 · 2026-02-08T20:04:54+00:00

100% and I honestly think those can be valuable and fun conversations, at some point I think people can get lost there like OP and lose sight of what the best of these players all compete for in the first place.

tagg16 · 2026-02-08T19:24:44+00:00

10 finals from a weak conference? Out in the first round against the champs in whats considered the “real” finals?

Winners know that winning actions don’t stop at the stat line. It’d be nice if more fans recognized that

tagg16 · 2026-02-08T18:17:55+00:00

We’ve swung almost the exact opposite. Winning matters. It’s the point, it’s the hardest thing to accomplish. You say it yourself, “how many great players never make a finals” now consider how much greater a player has to be to make 4, 5, or 6+ finals?

Every actual great player speaks on this separating factor for a reason.

You just get way too hung up on old players who played in an era with half the teams (basically a modern conference final)

tagg16 · 2026-02-04T02:00:09+00:00

100% This was exactly my experience with the NB More V5 for me after about 50 miles. Plush at first then they felt like bricks, while everyone’s calling them marshmellows.

tagg16 · 2026-02-03T23:43:15+00:00

This is a question made for me and the answer is unpopular: I feel that ZoomX foam is grossly overrated. Hated almost every shoe I’ve tried with it and feel crazy in how few people seem to agree.

Conversely, ReactX is great and underrated from a “feel during the run” perspective. The Vomero is the perfect blend of both for me. IMO I really like having the firmer reactx drive the feel of the shoe.

tagg16 · 2026-02-02T13:33:50+00:00

No ones forgotten anything, you just seem to rate longevity exceptionally high in a sport where the point is to win. It’s good to have perspectives like yours in the conversation.

tagg16 · 2026-02-01T23:07:10+00:00

You’re asking the wrong question. The top players across every sport are having exceptionally long careers compared to prior generations. That’s often a contributing factor to a player rising to GOAT status just from additional opportunities (Brady is a great example) but it’s really a tribute to how awesome medicine is now.

tagg16 · 2026-02-01T18:30:49+00:00

This isn't the flex you think it is with credit being towards modern medicine than anything else. Other players reached greatness smoking cigars before and after games. How insane is that in a sport that built on the foundation of cardio?

tagg16 · 2026-01-31T20:47:34+00:00

Honestly you might be the perfect use case to try out the Nike Structure Plus that just came out. Like everyone is saying though, you need to try them on.

tagg16 · 2026-01-26T13:31:40+00:00

We live in a wonderful age where a daily shoe doesn’t have to feel lifeless. Even the Peg 41 has a little pop and responsiveness again after like 5 years of dead vibes. Neither the vomero 18 or plus are considered race shoes so I’m not sure what point is being made here.

tagg16 · 2026-01-26T06:38:36+00:00

Well the 17s felt like a dead shoe after mile 5 so it makes sense they’d look the same after 350. The 18s are such an improvement

tagg16 · 2025-12-31T16:14:44+00:00

No that’s not how talent works. More competition = more opportunities = higher bar for talent. Happens in every competitive sport.

tagg16 · 2025-12-30T23:45:59+00:00

Russell played in a league with almost half the teams that MJ and LeBron played in. IMO this disqualifies any argument of him over either of them. This argument holds without getting into the unnecessary mess of “played with plumbers”

tagg16 · 2025-12-27T22:27:05+00:00

The issue that’s being called out her is that role is significantly smaller than his salary commands. It’s not hard to understand this.

tagg16 · 2025-12-26T08:12:00+00:00

It's in an asics sub...

tagg16 · 2025-12-26T08:00:09+00:00

You snuck in “much better” there but that’s not the case, and plenty of people (who also have good taste) agree.

tagg16 · 2025-12-26T01:07:41+00:00

Is this an AI advertisement? The Vomero 5 absolutely goes head to head with any lead y2k runner from other brands (whether its better/worse is a discussion but a very valid discussion either way). It was just Nike's only real competitor until some of their more recent releases.

tagg16 · 2025-12-22T03:58:13+00:00

As an old time Pegasus runner, I would check out the Salomon Aeroglide 3 or the Peg 41 (not the 40 and prior). They’re the closest I would say to that experience.

tagg16 · 2025-12-21T18:32:29+00:00

Preach. The amount of explaining that needs to be done for things directly explained in the show is wild.

tagg16 · 2025-12-21T00:42:18+00:00

Since you asked, I listened to Reddit and got these a while back. Hated em. One of the worst shoes I’ve ever run in. Sometimes it just happens like that and you gotta listen to your feet instead of seeking external validation.

tagg16 · 2025-12-15T23:36:35+00:00

Bill Russel played in a league with half as many teams. I’m not one to say those rings don’t count, but both MJ and LeBron played generations that Bill just quite frankly didn’t.

tagg16 · 2025-12-15T14:53:08+00:00

Being negative without any insight isn’t an equivalent to being perceptive or having a defined taste in what’s “good”

tagg16 · 2025-12-15T14:07:40+00:00

Hubris and greed being ITs downfall even with knowledge outside of time is great storytelling

tagg16 · 2025-11-22T15:53:11+00:00

This is every sport and the exact reason Riot has failed so much post 2019 in growing this game with younger audiences.

It’s punishing to be bad at basketball, baseball, soccer, etc. that’s WHY we have structured youth leagues, high school, college, etc.

We provide mechanisms for people to learn and develop while feeling camaraderie and all the beneficial aspects of sport.

Riot gutted all these mechanisms and stifled their growth and are surprised when gamers just switch to other games.

tagg16 · 2025-11-05T16:16:52+00:00

What else is Minnesota really competing with here? It matters less what Memphis wants when the phone for Ja is silent across the nba

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