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On one hand, I don't have cable and would have had easier to access to Amazon streaming. On the other, it feels more natural that NBA is on TNT so I'm glad to see that continue, even if Chuck sticks to his retirement announcement.
Amazon apparently was getting at least 3 games. Wonder if that means some will be on Max?
World has gotten A LOT better since 1992. Basketball gotten a lot more popular too.
The NBA model of stardom is a kind of high usage, average to a bit above average efficiency scorer with low elasticity. Low elasticity meaning that its durable to different defensive schemes, and offense types. But it can be beat by scorers with high efficiency in elastic situations, if those situations can be maximized, which these other teams tend to do.
Also, not sure why Kerr told Lebron to just completely fuck up that dribble right there. Weird coaching move.
That would be autowin
It really seems like less of a thing watching these fiba players
Even Bron seems like he bitches less in these games but I'm not sure if that's just cause they don't mean anything
Luka has always complained. It has been one of his biggest weaknesses for his entire career, alongside his lack of stamina and defensive effort.
if they didn't officiate players differently because they scream on drives from no contact or complain or flop, nobody would do it.
he's probably the #2 complainer on that roster after bron
Its almost as though it's inherently a difficult job to do perfectly, and expecting refs to be 100% on calls is not all that different from expecting players to be 100% on free throws.
Booker is like a robot out there, no emotion. Even Klay has shown more emotion lately. Booker had a nice and-1 in the 2nd half, barely showed a reaction. Cut to the bench, AD is HYPED. Such a huge contrast, haha.
dude is a fuckin' clown.
Less so when he tries to do some kind of comprehensive statistical analysis. I think he is in over his head whenever he starts to go there.
What do you dislike about him? Why's he a clown?
I think this is true through most of the better sports YouTube I've seen
Some of the best channels are made by fans of teams that have decades of suffering in their history. I think it's something about the unrelenting despair that makes you try to find some sort of reason for it in the numbers to make sense of it all. Maybe as a coping mechanism, maybe to try to preserve what's left of their sanity
NBA's position appears to be something about the matching provision not applying to a streaming-only deal so therefore WBD/TNT would have needed to match the NBC deal in order to be valid.
I almost wonder if WBD knew the NBA would balk at allowing them to match the streaming deal portion and did it hoping to gain some further financial damage concessions in court to make the coming lawsuit go away.
to me, pretty expected they would reject it. They want that Amazon cash and reach.
Inside the NBA next season is about to be legendary. Barkley's riffs about looking for a job towards the end of last season were good, but man, I'm expecting some epic trolling and rants. Gotta fully savor the last season. At least they started uploading segments of the show to youtube, but fuck it, just upload full episodes to youtube so people can fully enjoy the last season.
I prefer the NBA to stack the Team USA squad with the biggest stars available, even if it leads to a less good team and a higher chance of losing than if they really built a Celtics-like squad of the best players available. The only reason I really care about the Olympics for basketball is because I want to see these All Star teams play together in a competitive environment. I like Steph throwing alley oops to Lebron. I like seeing AD come off the bench with Bam. I like the bit of tension of how these superstar guys fit (or don't) into a less role. If we just put together the best actual team that the US could field, it'd look a lot like a really good NBA team, and I already get to see those.
If the US loses sometimes, well, ok. That just makes it all the more dramatic then. I'm not going to cry about that. I also don't hate to see the big time American NBA players get their ego checked a bit with losses to other countries.
like France honestly should be doing much better than they are in pre-olympics competition given their talent on paper
like in the next 5-10 years, i could see 2 or 3 other countries on their way to an NBA level starting 5, maybe not like 5 starting franchise players like we have but like 5 solid current NBA starters
that was why the FIBA team last year was a bit of a disaster. You had players who weren't even starters on their NBA teams.
imagine if all the European countries combined for one Euro team, it would be pretty formidable. At least the starting 5, which is like most of the All-NBA First Team.
you'd have like Giannis, Schroder, Gobert, Wemby, Jokic or something like that
this is why embiid not going to france was probably a smart move
like how are you going to win games with wemby, gobert and embiid all squished in the paint together
Off the top of my head I feel like the problem would, ironically enough, be defense. They'd also be tremendously big-heavy. Out of Jokic and Giannis, whom do you give more minutes? And if you need defense, do you put Rudy out there with them? Does Wemby get any play? What about good-but-not-All-NBA players like Markannen and Sabonis?
For the life of me I can't think of any non-bigs other than Luka. I feel like there are a bunch of good guards who just play in Europe with names I can't remember.
It would be incredibly interesting to see Jokic and Luka on the same team, though. I wonder if they'd even be able to coexist, or the best they could manage is "one for you, one for me".