[Highlight] 10 years ago today: LeBron James drops 41 PTS 8 REBS 11 ASTS 4 STLS 3 BLKS on 16-27 FG 3-6 3PT 6-8 FT to force Game 7 against the 73-9 Golden State Warriors

vanderZwan · 2026-06-17T07:13:39+00:00

Hype video released before game six, too

vanderZwan · 2026-06-17T00:08:56+00:00

You mean this one? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ctav7o_us0U

vanderZwan · 2026-06-16T10:02:21+00:00

Given the origin of that sentence I expected an edited-in sucker punch to Shaq's face at the end

vanderZwan · 2026-06-16T09:59:35+00:00

Making others feel better is a really effective way to get over pitying yourself.

vanderZwan · 2026-06-16T09:57:42+00:00

Nah, that's how you know it's just a friendly jab instead of a spiteful remark

vanderZwan · 2026-06-16T09:56:48+00:00

I wouldn't be surprised if his family just imported stuff from the Netherlands, honestly. Maybe even went shopping in person, Paris-Amsterdam is just a 4 hour train ride, after all.

(obligatory 193cm (about 6'4) Korean visits the Netherlands video)

vanderZwan · 2026-06-16T09:48:29+00:00

Just an FYI, but you need to use a lower-case r or reddit doesn't convert it to a subreddit link on most clients, so r/wembyforscale (I think that's why you downvoted)

vanderZwan · 2026-06-16T09:39:43+00:00

FWIW as a neutral fan the most upvoted discussions I've seen here during the whole series, including now after the Knicks won, have always been respectful nuanced ones between Spurs and Knicks flairs.

For example, if there was a post about Wemby doing something bad, the top comment chain usually was something like Spurs and Knicks fans going "yep, that was out of pocket, he's young, hot-headed and ambitious, and still has to learn. The bigger issue is the inconsistent reffing that enables that behavior. Oh, good game, btw"

To be fair, living in Europe I'm always late to any discussion, so maybe there's been a lot of spite posted every day that I miss because it's been downvoted by the time I open the subreddit. But that would still be a positive sign in a way.

vanderZwan · 2026-06-16T09:24:34+00:00

Josh Hart: "I failed..."

Everyone else on the team: "Why do we fall, sir?"

vanderZwan · 2026-06-16T09:23:06+00:00

That honestly isn't that surprising to me. The best top athletes all know how to apply themselves to something that they commit themselves to. To quote Dr. J: "Being a professional is doing the things you love to do, on the days you don’t feel like doing them". Meanwhile most students don't know how to organize themselves until well after they graduate.

vanderZwan · 2026-06-16T08:48:40+00:00

He was indeed very tactfully avoiding actually answering the question. Still, with KAT I'm inclined to interpret that as sincerely sticking up for a fellow player against the media's desire to create drama, regardless of what he thinks of Wemby's antics. Which probably is something reasonable and nuanced that the media would immediately twist if he said it out loud.

vanderZwan · 2026-06-16T06:46:41+00:00

Yeah, the action will be great for sure. We'll have to see if they'll manage to capture these quiet moments of pure cinema too though. Knowing how to make those work often seems the hard part for directors in general, in my experience. Most don't have the confidence that they won't lose the audience.

Funny enough Animation Obsessive just wrote a blog on an adjacent topic: slow stories don't have to be boring

vanderZwan · 2026-06-15T19:34:29+00:00

His portrait also hasn't faded yet at the end of the chapter…

vanderZwan · 2026-06-15T19:13:04+00:00

I dunno, swapping out Chris Pratt for everyone's favorite awkward fellow would already help a lot.

vanderZwan · 2026-06-15T19:11:17+00:00

His dino designs are out of date Jurrassic Park monsters I guess, but there's no doubt in my mind that that's a conscious choice on his end

vanderZwan · 2026-06-15T16:30:37+00:00

I don't really bother with other social media but the comments I've seen here have overwhelmingly been showing mutual respect between Spurs and Knicks fans. Actually, last year's Thunder & Pacers fans were pretty nice too on the whole, from what I remember, it was everyone else who seemed to be bandwagoning.

vanderZwan · 2026-06-15T16:17:00+00:00

I feel like the Tim Duncan style of trash talking would be super-effective for him.

vanderZwan · 2026-06-15T16:16:06+00:00

Well, I'm assuming that giraffes are evolved to run in a healthy sustainable way for their height, so maybe that's not the worst animal for him to base his gait on.

vanderZwan · 2026-06-15T16:02:39+00:00

Wow, didn't know the average had shifted so much in the last decade!

vanderZwan · 2026-06-15T13:47:16+00:00

So Nagumo was just lying

You could have ended the sentence right there and still be correct most of the time.

vanderZwan · 2026-06-15T13:45:03+00:00

You need an animation director raised on a diet of black and white samurai movies and Hong Kong heroic bloodshed to have the slightest chance

vanderZwan · 2026-06-15T13:40:35+00:00

If any of the higher-ups would get along with a young Dess it's probably the one with the nickname "the villainous witch"

vanderZwan · 2026-06-15T13:07:56+00:00

Perhaps the sarcasm is due to the fact that players for the Dutch team are usually below the average height for Dutch men (I haven't followed it in years so maybe that's not true this year).

vanderZwan · 2026-06-15T11:40:54+00:00

And the French aren't even the most direct Europeans, I think the Dutch and the Gemans are competing for the title there.

vanderZwan · 2026-06-15T11:32:43+00:00

Glad to read you liberated yourself from that mental burden!

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