Spacing is better but Randle isn't an elite shooter and he's definitely not a rim protector. Offense would be much smoother but man Randle as the rim protector just is a bad idea. He's small and not a shot blocker at all. You can run it for a few minutes but for a whole game? ehhhh
Hakeem blocked someone I forgot then they went down the other way, and Karl Malone got stripped. They come back down the other way and there is nearly another shot clock violation, but Jordan got a shot off that Dan Majerle blocked. Two plays later Shaq gets his dunk blocked by Malone. Pippen just broke up another attempted full court pass and got...
Could not remember what year Karl Malone reminded everyone why they hate Karl Malone at the end of the game.
Looked it up and that was 1991. I have nothing else to contribute. :lol
Terry Porter Just said “**** outta here son. Bringing that weak shit in here….” to Larry Johnson who he fouled trying to get a soft layup. Among the most 90s things I’ve heard in years.
And Tim Hardaway just speared Isiah Thomas. They seem to have something personal going on.
Barkley put Shaq on his ass going up for a dunk and walked off ignoring him looking up for help. I don’t think there will be any more uncontested dunks inside.
Randle at center is an interesting experiment. Can a spacing advantage make up for not having a room protector? In paper they need to win games 120 to 115 but that doesn't sound like Thibs's style at all. I expect them to get a center from somewhere but right now there's no doubt that none of their best players is a big.
And as I typed that Shaq hit the trademark black tornado spin into a lob, and Isiah got it to him but Kemp and David Robinson both fouled him in the air to stop the dunk. Perhaps Shawn was ashamed he conceded the last one.
Shawn Kemp just made a business decision not contesting Shaq on a dunk. I was probably disgusted the first time I watched this but with my modern sensibilities I understand.
I switched to it for a minute and realize it hasn’t even started. Network love, nothing more than half an hour of filler. I don’t know why Amazon needs to do that when they don’t even have ads.
Back to 1993 for me.
Before the break, the fans were booing the west for bullshitting a little bit and missing a couple easy ones trying to be flashy...
I'll watch Cowboys Giants. But only because I'm currently visiting family who pay for all these packages.
I wont entertain such arrangements in my own home!
Malone out here throwing elbows on the rebound because Shaq bullied him out of the last one. Isiah finding Jordan on every cut even while the commentators talk about them not getting along. Isiah just found him for a little bullshit skyhook.
Jordan just broke up his third fast break attempt. Someone threw a lob to Sean Elliott and Jordan...
We Talked about the change in the All-Star game and I know it isn’t worth a whole discussion but it is immediately noticeable that this is just a basketball game. Nothing going on the first few minutes looks like anything but a basketball game both teams want to win.
Hard closeout. People fighting over screens. Stockton is trying to get it to...
I didnt say it did. I said the article was about NBA's partnership with a human rights abusing dictator regime in Rwanda.
The fact the NBA wont pay its own American queens their fair share was a separate point.
I only noticed because it came up next to Thursday night football on Amazon prime. I don’t remember connecting the two but my league pass and NBA TV always come up on Amazon prime. Decided this will be a better use of the next hour than the Cowboys and giants.
Next you're gonna tell us he's leaving the democrats. He frequently stood in Biden's way and will defend the filibuster with his dying breath. Nationally democrats and liberals don't like him which is why he never could have become President. He used to be what a Democrat had to be to win West Virginia. Now that that's an impossible thing to be...
How do you feel about him? I don't exactly like him, but I think he's good at his job.
https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/5796820/2024/09/26/espn-layoffs-zach-lowe/
I saw this on Reddit, sad. Did not come up elsewhere until I googled.
-Smak
are these strategic resources (gas, oil) that i assume you're speaking of worth the american lives, trillions of dollars spent and more hate bred toward our country? iran is four times the size of iraq and look at how we blundered that debacle not to mention everything else in the region over the past few decades. and what did we do after we...
They don't need that much, I'm high on Rui and Reaves and AD and Lebron still have enough in the tank. They do need for Lebron to take a step back and they need a proper point guard who is good at defense, because Reaves, D'Angelo and Lebron are weak.
I can see them look good on offense though, lot of firepower.