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Quote: Originally Posted by ProfessaPackMan

Incoming rant Spoiler It is but it’s also not the kind I/WE care to have lol When you talk hoops with your boys in person, are any of y’all talking about some VORP or RAPTOR or LEBRON or Advanced +/- while acting like their the smartest person in your crew? There’s too many of em out here and there’s too many of em whose word we treat like gospel and put on a pedestal. You talk hoops with one of them and this is how the convo goes(in person BTW): You: Man, this year’s MVP race is a good one, you can’t go wrong with any of em Nerd 1: Well actually you can and if it’s anyone but (insert player)you’re picking the wrong one and I’ll tell you why(Proceeds to mention 20 different advanced stats and it starts sounding like you’re back in Calc 101 again) You: 🤷🏾*♂️🥴🤦🏾*♂️ And now y’all done went from talking hoops to sounding like you’re at MIT listening to Daryl Morey and Sam Hinkie Online, it’s even worse because then they start acting all pretentious, holier than thou, like they’re the smartest MFer in the room. And we know what they look like too because they all look/act the same. They’ll be the ones that say **** like “If Ja Morant plays 5 few minutes and take 2 less shots and gives those shots to one of his teammates instead, he’ll have his full value maximized and will increase the Grizzlies win % by .03%!” SICKUVEM! Once they let Russ win MVP, they had no choice but to start letting em in. Now is this a product of me just getting old? 100% yes. Is there a real way to avoid them and still get news/info about my team? Not really unless you wanna say “Stay off the Internet”, which…good luck with that in 2022. But we gotta start checking ID at the doors again and stop letting every dweeb into the club. I know you feel me, 24(pause)and I know it’s a few of y’all that do too. I know y’all get sickuvem at times too and get the urge to knock the Calculator out of their hand. Get them the hell outta here. Attachment 199478 And before anyone mentions it, these have been my feelings even before this recent MVP battle.

As someone who posts these stats at times where I feel they are worth referencing I will say I've never once used any of those stats to try to sound like the smartest person in the room or any of that other stuff you've said along those lines.. Hell they aren't my stats, I'm not the one coming up with them lol so I feel no smarter mentioning them than I do any other stat.. I use them for the same reason I use any other stat-line from bball ref or ESPN or wherever, because they available to be used and relatively easy to find.

If I had the time to watch all 82 games for all 30 teams, dissect every play to see how and why a player did what he did, I probably would feel a bit less inclined to use them quite as much.. But yeah if I'm trying to split hairs and shuffle through the grey area of players that maybe I've watched 20 games of then I'll use every thing at my disposal to draw more to compare with. Every player looks great in the highlight reels or when watching condensed versions of games.