Sammy Sofa
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Yeah, Boozey McFakemustache and his bros didn't give a horsefeathers about this kind of stuff.
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"Our interest has waned in your junky old beater now that we've landed this awesome hotness instead."
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I think I just threw up in my mouth a little bit Yeah, EVERYONE hates Ross. Nice. Though the debacle of Ross the terrible manager also returning as a terrible manager/catcher hybrid might be balls-smashingly stupid enough to get me interested again. Like, bringing in Molina would just be boringly annoying. Doing the former instead would be the true I'm Gonna Cub So Hard galaxy-braining this franchise deserves.
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Chicago might as well be renamed "Eternal Sports Purgatory" from now, on, because none of this horsefeathers is changing any time soon. And yeah, I see you, White Sox fans. You guys are doomed, too.
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Even saw the lights of the Goodyear Blimp And it read "TOM RICKETTS' A SIMP"
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These talks run deep, so deep, that it has put any interest in next season to sleep.
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Also: this all stems from Happ totally taking the phrase "eat the rich" a little too literally.
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Well...did you Cub or what?!?
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"Aside from their most recent history, these guys are good, kinda!"
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Athletic freaks are fun. a 23'9" inch shot just isn't that freakish though? Wider court with a longer 3 line. Put back hand checks to give the D a little extra leeway since spacing is going to be spread out more. Shorten the shot clock by a couple seconds to ensure pace stays quick? At the very least the NBA now has a great testing field in the G League to just experiment with stuff like this. How about...
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Bring on the freaks, you nerds.
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Well...no. Agree to disagree? Dunks and blocks are awesome. Those at the rim plays are frequently two athletic monsters going directly head to head. That's the best play in basketball. If a play like that is not more exciting than watching some guy stand in the corner until he gets a pass for a 3 pointer, well then I don't know. Spot up 3s are fun, I guess, the 30-40% of the time they go in? They obviously are great for winning if you do it well so that's fun, but from a pure entertainment value it's not exactly thrilling TV IMO. Why must I be deprived of a human avatar of a "HE'S ON FIRE" power up just draining merciless dagger after dagger because you might get bored from one too many assists dished out to a guy on the corner? Plus I'm not even sure why you brought up dunks like a 3-heavy game is depriving us of those? The spray chart up the thread showed that the only thing we're really "deprived" of now are a bunch of mid-range 2's. It's still a damn dunk fest, which is also awesome. We've actually got the "why not both?" meme in play!
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Well...no. Strong disagree. Changes like that in baseball are typically due to the hitting having been suffering. You're adjusting the mound so there's less horsefeathers like weak grounders and strikeouts. I'm just never going to wrap my brain around the idea that being able to sink a 3 is somehow akin to shitty, weak bat baseball. Hell, it's not even like a disproportionately dong-heavy baseball situation, where dudes are selling out for the long ball and making something like the shift so much more prevalent, or striking out so much more. The basketball equivalent would be if all of this 3 point shooting was also resulting in a huge surge of airballs and ugly bricks. Basically I think trying to curtail the 3 is a far more subjective and arbitrary change to try and force the game away from something that isn't inherently unfair or unbalanced or, IMO, detrimental to the game. You might as well, IMO, argue for shrinking the size of the hoop to encourage more offense in the paint.
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I've never heard of an argument for that. I suppose I could be persuaded, but I can't imagine what that argument could be. That's my point; making something harder simply because too many of the players are good at it seems pretty flimsy. Hell, I'll bet there WERE people arguing to raise the damn rim when everyone started dunking.
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Could you also be persuaded to raise the height of the rim?
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I feel some of you are remembering those mid-range 2's only as the Jordan buzzer beaters instead of the lame ass horsefeathers they are a good, oh, 93.7% of the time.
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Being really horsefeathering good at shooting is, personally, something that'll never bug me about pro basketball. I don't think it compares to something like defensive shifting in baseball at all.
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Yeah, the NBA is pretty awesome these days. I really don't care at all what the Bulls do at this point.
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We know what we have to do...
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