Osa 🇳🇬

You have to learn the rules of the game. Then you have to play it better than everyone else.

[Osa 🇳🇬 @MKNOOB_]

@TheCavsJack It's the Spurs....

[Josh Hart @joshhart]

FROM NOW ON ADDRESS ME AS CHAMP! 🧡💙

[Osa 🇳🇬 @MKNOOB_]

@XaviercMiller Huge overreaction. Just like the players, he too is a time coach. They're gonna groom him to be better. This is San Antonio, they don't move in from coaches. And Pop handpicked him to continue. They'll be fine.

[Osa 🇳🇬 @MKNOOB_]

@MidFanEnergy @OwnedByToronto And yet, the KD Warriors only got two rings out of it.

[Osa 🇳🇬 @MKNOOB_]

@MidFanEnergy @OwnedByToronto People failed to realize that if the Warriors were healthy, it would still be a tough series...

[Osa 🇳🇬 @MKNOOB_]

People are being annoying about this. He wasn't going to get over a guy who had at the very least, an equal performance... But did it with two different characters simultaneously. So well, to the point you can tell them apart by how they walked and mannerisms. Timmy boy got time.

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

To play a ping pong hustler, Timothée Chalamet wore contact lenses that blurred his eyesight on purpose. Then he put glasses over them to cancel the blur out. When the glasses slipped, he could barely see. He told Theo Von on his podcast that his vision stayed messed up until a day before they talked.

The director, Josh Safdie, wanted the character's eyes to look small. So an eye doctor gave Chalamet strong contacts and matching glasses that worked against each other. The real player he based the role on, a 1950s American champion named Marty Reisman, actually needed thick glasses. Chalamet does not. He just wanted the glasses to feel real.

The eyesight part came last. The ping pong came first, and it took years. He started in 2018, when he was 22 and the film was only a rumor that nobody had approved yet. He brought a table into the desert while filming Dune. He practiced on the set of Wonka. He kept playing between guitar lessons for the Bob Dylan movie. By the time filming started in New York in 2024, that was six years of training for a role that mostly did not exist yet.

Two coaches got him ready at the end. Diego Schaaf, a Swiss coach who once worked on Forrest Gump, and his wife Wei Wang, who used to play for the US Olympic team. They watched him hit for a couple of minutes in June 2024 and decided he was athletic enough to pass as a pro. The crew filled the set with real table tennis champions and about 140 people who were not actors, including the tightrope walker Philippe Petit and the magician Penn Jillette.

He played every ping pong shot himself, with no stunt double. Some of the longer rallies were planned out and touched up with computer effects later, but the swing and the footwork and the stance were all him.

He won the Golden Globe for it. The Oscar went to Michael B. Jordan for Sinners. The people calling it a snub mostly saw the two hours on screen, not the six years it took to make them look easy.

[Osa 🇳🇬 @MKNOOB_]

@GoyWitAttitude @JustEsBaraheni Very much so. It's good to see all the former players from that championship team be difference makers on other teams.

[Osa 🇳🇬 @MKNOOB_]

@1UpIsh1 @Dom_2k Pretty good comparison.

[Osa 🇳🇬 @MKNOOB_]

What makes Fox decision more egregious, is the fact that he's the VET on the team. He should know better.

[Osa 🇳🇬 @MKNOOB_]

@MJGolden0521 @stavvybaby It was an absolutely necessary tade. Literally celebrated when it happened.

[Osa 🇳🇬 @MKNOOB_]

A loss for words. Unbelievable comeback. Like we're 1 win away for a chip... What a time to be alive. Go KNICKS.

[Osa 🇳🇬 @MKNOOB_]

@_Zeets Relax. Regardless of what happens, he's still going to be there. And he should too.

[Osa 🇳🇬 @MKNOOB_]

@YUBlKO @Baller6l @LegionHoops From Toronto, how does that have anything to do with anything?

[Sgt Blackout 🫡 @coldcallsniper]

Micheal Bloomberg never been that close to a minority in his entire life

[Osa 🇳🇬 @MKNOOB_]

My first thought too. Absolute Clinic and it ended with a BLOCK.

[Swipa @SwipaCam]

This is the BEST defensive possession of the NBA Finals so far!

Look at those rotations and closeouts!

[Osa 🇳🇬 @MKNOOB_]

@GrantTheNa1 @zerowontmiss Ouuu. I like this theory.

[Osa 🇳🇬 @MKNOOB_]

@GLIAClegend @imperfectsoul99 @H0nestR3d And that's the beauty of it. You don't have to have female friends.

[Osa 🇳🇬 @MKNOOB_]

@imperfectsoul99 @GLIAClegend @H0nestR3d Unserious people, I tell you.

[Osa 🇳🇬 @MKNOOB_]

@GLIAClegend @imperfectsoul99 @H0nestR3d Nothing wrong with having friends of the opposite sex. I have a couple myself. The difference is boundaries. Set the lines and don't blur them.