WhyAlwaysMe

The greatest trick variance ever pulled was convincing the world it didn't exist

[WhyAlwaysMe @Chimpburner]

@beentumbling If I were ever prompted for a serious discussion I would have said this yes. His deep touches are bad ones. Not empty, bad.

[WhyAlwaysMe @Chimpburner]

At some point the evidence that Messi is a deity will outweigh the evidence that he isn't. I think we're very near that point

Now it's not just sporting ability but pure personal greatness in which he's genuinely incomparable. The greatest of athletes. The greatest of great men.

[WhyAlwaysMe @Chimpburner]

Similar story with Vitinha at PSG and Jorginho for Italy at those Euros. At least in Rodri's case he is (or was) World Class.

Just not close to Busquets who was at least as good as him at all his strengths and miles ahead at progressive and incisive passing.

[WhyAlwaysMe @Chimpburner]

Whenever a team's strength lies in its collective technical level making the game easier for everyone on the pitch the masses have to pick an individual player and give them most of the credit. Rodri is the familiar name brand so he gets the honours.

[#1 Daryl Morey Enjoyer @sthsthburner]

This is good DMing don't get me wrong, I just don't get the all timer shouts
Idk maybe I'm just underrating doing the simple stuff well ig

[WhyAlwaysMe @Chimpburner]

Lower the retirement age even further and raise his taxes specifically to pay for it @Macron

[WhyAlwaysMe @Chimpburner]

@zagrebbi @Ion_Salamander Right, pre-sorted should have given it away.

[WhyAlwaysMe @Chimpburner]

@Ion_Salamander @zagrebbi Which mechanism are you referring to?

[WhyAlwaysMe @Chimpburner]

This phenomenon is pretty simple, it's all about lost status. If the primary causal mechanism of OKC's success is ref manipulation then the basketball intellectual's insight (which I still enjoy) isn't worth much more than your average barbershop unc. That gets under their skin.

[kang @jaycaspiankang]

LMAO they’re doing ‘misinformation’ and Russiagate takes on thunder hate now. Are you fucking kidding me with this stupid bullshit. Dude says ‘this is a failure of the NBA to control its own discourse…’

Hey my friend why would we EVER want the NBA to control the discourse?!

[WhyAlwaysMe @Chimpburner]

@pavan_rikkula Social settings may select for Zahavianism but war goes the other way.

[WhyAlwaysMe @Chimpburner]

@bigmacadamia55 The grifting is surely a factor but his rim pressure requiring full speed attack also hurts passing capacity no? Lot less time to make reads and much shorter scoring windows compared to craftier drivers and finishers.

[WhyAlwaysMe @Chimpburner]

@beentumbling Same thought when I watched this the other day.

[WhyAlwaysMe @Chimpburner]

The Raptors shot 24% from 3 and they lost that game by 3. Most of this stuff comes back to wild 3pt shooting over or underperformance.

[Hardwood Paroxysm @HPbasketball]

This is so regular season.

Nuggets beat Raptors who are better than Nets. Nuggets hang with Cavs who are way better than Nets.

Catch Nets when they're playing great basketball and bring back two starters who they don't know how to play with because they've been gone for a month AND Jok is out, Jamal's gassed and they're down big to Brooklyn.

It's not about who you play, it's when you play them.

[WhyAlwaysMe @Chimpburner]

@XatuneSSBM @LegendOfWinning Good thread. It's sad that there isn't really a market for serious basketball discussion on twitter. Just bag talk, team achievement talk, and people who struggle with long division debating "analytics" ad nauseam.

[WhyAlwaysMe @Chimpburner]

I don't understand why the sports fan insists on pretending that age is a universally identical linear property. We all know that's not true. Some people age worse than others. Luka Doncic is not the same 26 as LeBron was in 2010. His physical peak is clearly long behind him.

[Jason Maples @jjmaples55]

This "That's just who he is" angle like he 35 is insane to me ngl

[WhyAlwaysMe @Chimpburner]

Wet pavements do not cause rain

[Tim Reynolds @ByTimReynolds]

Conference seed of the last 30 NBA champions: 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 2, 3, 1, 3, 2, 2, 3, 1, 1, 1, 3, 2, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 2, 2, 1, 3, 3, 1, 1, 1.

A 6 seed (Houston) won 31 years ago. Every other champ in this format, since 1984, was a 1, 2 or 3.

The regular season seems like it matters.

[WhyAlwaysMe @Chimpburner]

@foevereva @SwipaCam Without Jokic on the floor is when he's staggered against bench units generally. We'll see.

[WhyAlwaysMe @Chimpburner]

@shwinnypooh Agreed, it's just awkward that when you place a hard cutoff you can have a scenario where for ex. Shai and Jokic play 64 games, Luka plays 66 and wins by default despite the fact that no one would have voted for him if they'd all played one game more. Happy Holidays TGOKP.

[WhyAlwaysMe @Chimpburner]

Congrats to Shai on no.2 but I think OKC fans are selling this short by only thinking about the MVP stakes. They're now meaningfully more likely to win the title as Den falling out of the top 5 would mean OKC will only have to face one of Den/SAS/Hou in the playoffs instead of 2.

[🌩️ #MAKEOKCBLACKAGAIN @twowayshai]

unanimous mvp on the resume

[WhyAlwaysMe @Chimpburner]

This will now be a basketball account