NBA Off Topic Thread

[bigeastbumrush]

Quote: Originally Posted by JazzMan

Attachment 200316 A simple adjustment that would help with the generic-ness tremendously

Looks like when you’re calibrating your TV settings.

“Adjust left or right until the mountains are barely visible”

[Yeah...THAT Guy]

Quote: Originally Posted by JazzMan

Attachment 200316 A simple adjustment that would help with the generic-ness tremendously

That's a lot better, but ultimately, I think they should have just stuck with the purple anyways. The purple is dope. The new colors are soulless.

[ProfessaPackMan]

*whispers*Nobody outside of Utah is rocking any Jazz unis anyway

[King_B_Mack]

Quote: Originally Posted by illwill10

I don't really like the "Championship or bust" idea. Don't get me wrong, winning a title should always be the end goal. But, the whole "if you don't win a ring, the season is a failure" concept. I get it, if the expectations are that high and/or a team flops in the playoffs. But there's teams that would be happy with being a consistently good fun team for a 3-5 year stretch. You don't think Sacramento wouldn't want to have stretch like the Grit & Grind Grizzlies or We Believe Warriors. Where you're not seen as a title contender, but a good gritty fun playoff team that will be a tough out in a series.

To piggy back off this, I think we've gotten a little out of hand with the player ranking/evaluation thing to the point that it's nauseating having basketball conversations with people. What I mean by that is that too many people have become obsessed with the idea of a superstar player and their team having one and thinking the only way to win is to have a bunch of superstars and damn everything else.

Here in Chicago it's gotten pretty obnoxious to talk hoops amongst the fanbase because what really was a really good/fun season for the Bulls has been turned into so many guys legit hating everything about this team and wanting everybody but DeMar DeRozan gone because the second half of the season went left. This team won 46 games this year and if not for COVID and some of the worst injury luck imaginable would have easily won 50+ after winning 31 games the year prior and 22 games each of the 2 seasons prior to that. But it's turned into a constant state of bitching and moaning about needing a superstar player. It's become lost that there's only a handful of superstars in the league and not every team can just get a superstar player. In the same regard, only one team can win the championship every year and it is next to impossible for one franchise to win every single year so it's not the end of the world and everybody sucks and the whole team has to be blown up every time you lose when you have a playoff caliber roster every year.

[JazzMan]

Quote: Originally Posted by ProfessaPackMan

*whispers*Nobody outside of Utah is rocking any Jazz unis anyway

You'd be surprised, there are hipsters everywhere

3 or 4 years ago I saw a guy at a random gas station in western Nebraska rocking a white Boban Clippers jersey, looked in excellent shape. The jersey, not him, he was kinda a pudgy kid

My first jersey ever was a Latrell Sprewell Pacers hand me down lmao

[ojandpizza]

Quote: Originally Posted by JazzMan

My first jersey ever was a Latrell Sprewell Pacers hand me down lmao

Are you sure it wasn’t the Warriors lol

[JazzMan]

Quote: Originally Posted by ojandpizza

Are you sure it wasn’t the Warriors lol

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Man the Warriors were such an afterthought as a kid I thought it was a Pacers jersey lol. I was young enough that I couldn't really read it that well. Whole time I thought Spree was a Pacer

[jeebs9]

Well that's very very sad. 25..... Years old .... Damn

https://www.espn.com/mens-college-ba...d-pick-dies-25

He's a player before his time. Would it worked out really well. SMH this is sad. I was rooting for him.