Sammy Sofa
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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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Agreed, imagine that would be the plan. Thanks to the recency of his success, at least nominally being able to claim being a CFer, and the years of control it's at least arguable he is their biggest trade chip for exactly that right now I believe he can hit some, but find it interesting he's not crazy different from the hitter he was during his ML debut less than two years after being drafted: Ian Happ 2017 (413 PAs): .349 wOBA, 114 wRC+, 67% contact rate, 31.2% K rate Ian Happ 2018-2020 (849 PAs): .347 wOBA, 116 wRC+, 66% contact rate, 31.7% K rate Long story short: he's a typical Theo Cub. Flashes/stretches of what you want him to be, but ultimately too flawed to be of real long term value beyond "this guy is decent," and the window is long missed for them being a serious trade asset.
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The whole, "his legacy is locked because of X number of years making the postseason" thing is more than a bit flimsy when you're talking about 3 straight seasons now of disappointingly falling down the stairs into the postseason via terminal fart attack. This horsefeathers's been running on fumes for a while now.
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Why do people keep pretending spending money equals wins? They just lost to the team with the lowest payroll in baseball. The resources have been put into this team, the players just aren't good enough. Agreed; Theo is bad at everything except complete teardowns and rebuilds.
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It's too late.
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I loathe that Theo will never be fired.
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10/2 Marlins (Sanchez) vs. Cubs (Darvish) 1:08 CDT
Sammy Sofa replied to Derwood's topic in Fred Hornkohl Game Thread Forum
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2020 Game Thread Starters
Sammy Sofa replied to Sammy Sofa's topic in Fred Hornkohl Game Thread Forum
DERWOOD DON'T DOOM EVERYTHING. -
He sucks just as much as weird Mormon robot KB.
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Maybe this is all a subtle protest against the Ricketts, and the Cubs will be terminally dog horsefeathers until they sell.
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That was 2018.
