I've said it before, I'll say it again, the label "boring" was thrust upon the Spurs by all the fans whose favorite players throw down amazing dunks, pound their chest, and pose for the cameras and lose by 11. You know what isn't boring? Winning. Winning isn't boring.
@@davidjacobson6791 Yeah, sometimes, but I'm not talking about those guys. I'm talking about Harden, Westbrook, Steve Francis, Stephon Marbury, and all the other dudes that were and are all about the show and fail to show up when things get tough.
@@cliptomaniac2562 Who is the "LeBron" that you speak of? Oh, wait, the dude that lost two out of three times when his teams played the Spurs? What team do you root for? If you don't root for the Lakers or Warriors (and if you're not from those towns, you're just a bandwagoneer) you'd gladly trade your team's last 25 years for those "boring old Spurs."
I’d like to see a video projecting the 2028 US Olympic team without Bron, Steph, KD, and some of the other aging players. Would be an interesting exercise.
i always loved to see ball movement, as a Brazilian reminds me of Joga Bonito and that whole deal that we worship around here. that's why I freaking loved the spurs when I first watched a NBA game back in 2013, also why I liked watching the warriors
He was known as having the most boring game of all time when he was in his prime unfortunately lol but anyone who actually watched knew it wasn’t true. That post work was disgusting but I guess they didn’t wanna watch Tim back the opposing big down for the entire gsme
I believe the Spurs got the "boring" reputation in the 2000s before the "beautiful game" era in the early 2010s. Duncan never did have a flashy game at any point regardless of team style, so perhaps some still found him boring. I think Bballbreakdown did a comparison video a couple of years ago which was a good watch.
I got into your videos after watching one on the salary cap. You make everything interesting and informative, even boring shit like that. Now I watch every monday. Keep it up, brother!
you and jxmy are my favourite basketball youtubers, I just rewatch some of your videos just cause you have a good style with your editing and pacing, hope you get more subs in the future man
When I was about 19 years old I started playing pick up 3 on 3 ball for many hours a day in Houston Texas. I had played high school basketball but had stopped playing my junior year partially because I had stopped growing at just about 6 ft tall. I think I was at my peak athletically and I was always somebody that was pretty likely to be picked by one of the teams. My go to shot was a 12- 15-foot bank shot from the left that I hit at a really high rate. I love the bank shot and I think I remember that Scottie Pippen had a go- to bank shot that he was kind of well known for and I loved that shot. This was before Scottie Pippen made it to the Bulls, so probably about 1986- 87. It got to where I couldn't really hit a shot that wasn't a bank shot unless I was right under the basket. Obviously a good defender would be able to figure out how to stop me from scoring but very few people play much defense in pickup basketball. I hadn't thought about that in a very long time until you started talking about being taught bank shots. This time in my life happened to be happening at the same time where I had a new child and a wife at home that for some reason I must have been avoiding.. Obviously my marriage was pretty damned if instead of watching the kid I was playing pickup basketball in the park. It's amazing how many hours you can play when you're 19 years old.She left my ass after about a year and a half or two years of that shit. Lol. I got a really cool daughter out of the deal so I'm fine and she's fine. As usual it's TMI. 😮
happy monday whatslaps i really liked watching lebron kd and steph with my friends. everyone was super hype on the flow of the end of the france game, it was sick! we are also terrified of wemby in 4 years
I did a management video a few weeks ago. I think that sort of covered that angle. I think I wanted to make it a culture video, but had to take the angle of GMs because of research source material issues.
Pop’s spurs are the poster child for beautiful basketball IMO! I’d love a video on the nba reducing minutes or regular season games. I’ve always thought the league would benefit from 10 min quarters to make things more competitive plus it might make the high offense stats of todays league seem more “real”
W title change and great video as usual what slaps and i always wonder if kd stayed in golden state how much he could change his legacy and how we perceived his career but also stephs career despite the 2022 championship being the most important to HIS legacy however could they win another 2 possibly 3
How many y'all "sexy" and thought "nah"? I think the warriors KD era was weird the whole time. I think he knew he had to leave. I have a hard time even imagining what that reality would even look like.
I believe you've just coined the phrase "performative blocks." Wemby lights to keep the ball in play when he blocks it. That's actually a lot harder to do especially to get it to a teammate rather than blocking it back to the same team that was shooting. Every time somebody mentions his possible future health issues I knock on wood because I want to see this guy's whole career. Since I mentioned it I just knocked on wood. Twice.
He's not flashy so he's not taking unnecessary risks athletically. I think he plays with his health in mind. He'll have a long career. third knock on wood.
I remember my mom used to say that watching the Steve Nash suns was an example of beautiful basketball. I also think she had a crush on him which helped too lol.
I still do not understand why the offensive player is awarded the foul for "generating contact." A defensive foul is meant to punish a defender for making a mistake or not making a play for the ball. A ball-handler slamming their arms into a retreating defender is essentially punishing the defender for not completely evading their assignment, which is ironically the goal for the offensive player
It would be cool to discuss a players like LeBron and/or Kobe in the lense of discipline and how they take care of their bodies. Players like this show us what is the true human limit. For example, I don’t think Kobe could have trained much harder, which basically means given his body you could only be as good as he was. Yet despite this there are still players who are better than him with less training. Micheal Jordan was also highly disciplined, but he also had self sabotaging habits such as playing golf before games, or late night gambling. In my mind, players like Jordan could have been significantly better if they were disciplined like Kobe. If a bench player suddenly had Kobe’s mentality how good could they get? If you gave an average high school basketball player (let’s say 5’10”) Lebron’s health budget and Kobe’s discipline how good could this high schooler become? Would they make the league, would they be a starter? These ideas are interesting to think about and it shows how off court behavior may be just as impactful in legacies as on court behavior. Thoughts?
I've thought about that too. Apparently Saddiq Bey practiced so much the Pistons told him to get a hobby. He's good but he ain't Kobe level. I think you have to train smart.
I'd be curious to know where you feel like ISO basketball with ball dominant players falls in relation to your categories - individual brilliance can wow in so many instances. When a player pulls out a spectacular behind the back pass to his teammate for an alley oop, it's sexy. However, possession after possession, watching the same one or two guys handle the basketball for massive chunks of the shot clock, to me, often can feel uninspiring (given the lack of variety). Maybe I'm being too pessimistic.
I actually wanted to include iso ball in the ugly category of basketball. I just ran out of time. Personally back when Harden and Kobe did it I didn't mind as much. Now I feel like it's so ineffective or it just leads to foul call.
I know it's not a stat or at least it's not one I've ever seen but I would love to see the numbers for people's blocks as to whether they kept it in play or blocked it out of bounds. Also what percentage was it recovered by the blocker or a teammate versus being recovered by the same team who had it blocked. I don't know if that stats been gathered by anybody but it would be a pretty cool one.😮
Do a video on how to spot bad decision making/shot selection, i.e, why did Trae Young lead the league in turnovers when he is considered one of the best passers in the league?
As long as the team wins games, any good basketball is good basketball no matter how eccentric or boring it is. If you don't like boring basketball, try to stop it.
I thought about doing something on the new media rights deal, ultimately if inside the NBA is important enough to the new partners they'll do their own version of it with the crew and call it something else. End of the day, it's contract law and I don't my audience would go for it. Good idea though!
and i think you should have talked about these categories in the context of how we percieve players and teams seperately. or maybe talk about how winning factors into it. bc for categories outside of beautiful, players are judged with more scrutiny for not winning when them being sexy or ugly isnt the reason that they didnt win. if curry was never on a good team, his style of play would be lumped in with the likes of dame and nash and westbrook and harden and barkley and melo and cp3 and whoever else was really fucking good, great even, and flashy/stylish/ugly(foul baiting) but never won. those players didnt not-win bc theyre sexy or ugly basketball. they didnt win bc their teams were simply never good enough. kyrie wouldve been there too if lebron never came back. all those guys were good enough to win but its a team sport. to say they werent solely or mostly bc they were flashy or foul baity the way the viedoe and comments imply is just incorrect. of course some flashy players just werent that good too, like jason williams and lance stephenson and j-crossover, but their style masked their ineffectiveness not CUASED it.
the spurs are like the fighting game contestant who chooses the best character and optimizes winning above all else. uses the easiest moves with the lowest risk and the highest reward possible. no self expression, no style, no personality. just do the same move over and over and over until you win. like a machine optomized for winning while disregarding everything else. soulless. popavich runs that team like a military branch and the players' personalities are either flavorless and uninteresting or theyre not allowed to show much of it both on and off the court. for some ppl thats fun to watch. to me thats fun to watch sometimes, but never the most fun. (and besides duncan being a basketball golem, the player with most personality on the court for them was also a foul baiter, and pop was encouraging that garbage man bruce bowen to take ppl out. what bowen was doing was not basketball but was winning. foul baiting is not basketball but is winning.) while teams like the lakers and warriors for their winning years are optimized also for winning but allow room for personality and variance and style and expression and risk. like a fg player who chooses a character bc they like the design or the feel or the way the movement looks regardless of that character's tier and labs it until the tier positions are eroded. at the top level, the player doing everything safe and the good player who takes more risks are on the same level but one will be viewed as more boring to most people. bc not everyone watches the game to see a winner. many watch the game to see it actually be played first and foremost. the spurs are like if "on paper" was made material. i'd rather watch a fun team thats not as good than a great team with no personality, but operating at the top of efficiency IS fun to watch at times.
Ohhh yeahhh good ball movement basketball is in fact beautiful, so satisfying to watch. And yes, great team defense also very enjoyable. I think/hope Tim Duncan's style being boring is only to the casual fan. I would say most basketball purists understand and appreciate how good he was, not didn't have much (if any) flashy/showy type stuff, and that's ok I guess. Real recognize real right? Oh geez foul baiting 🤦♂, give me a break, disgraceful, it's so bad/silly looking, just PLAY THE GAME. Really don't like ugly b-ball. Them sexy hoopers do provide for some entertaining stuff, like you said maybe/probably not the most effective plays, but as long as the risk vs reward isn't more likely to actively hurt the team, can't say I don't like seeing some nice fun stuff going on in the game when possible. Highlights are cool. I'm pretty sure I mentioned this a while ago but for some reason the way my brain works I am just not too good at being able to think of video ideas that might work for the kind of stuff you do, but I am going to try to come up with something that you maybe could use. Anyway, appreciate you as always. You stay doin your thing and I stay lovin it so, props to you my dude. Thank you again as usual. 🫡
you know what's crazy is youtube fed me a clip of CP3 defending his rip through. He even said KD was the one that gave him the idea. He basically said having your hand there is illegal guarding position. It's lazy defense. He even defended harden's twisting method. He admired the technique. Truly I came around to respecting it. Didn't expect that. Still ugly basketball either way. If you get a good idea, let a player know. Thanks for showing back up!
I've said it before, I'll say it again, the label "boring" was thrust upon the Spurs by all the fans whose favorite players throw down amazing dunks, pound their chest, and pose for the cameras and lose by 11. You know what isn't boring? Winning. Winning isn't boring.
Okay but tbf that pounding chest guy won a bit too.
@@davidjacobson6791 Yeah, sometimes, but I'm not talking about those guys. I'm talking about Harden, Westbrook, Steve Francis, Stephon Marbury, and all the other dudes that were and are all about the show and fail to show up when things get tough.
I know. you inspired this video. ;)
Wrong. Spurs were boring. No one talks about the Spurs championships, except when they use the spurs in reference to LeBron.
@@cliptomaniac2562 Who is the "LeBron" that you speak of? Oh, wait, the dude that lost two out of three times when his teams played the Spurs?
What team do you root for? If you don't root for the Lakers or Warriors (and if you're not from those towns, you're just a bandwagoneer) you'd gladly trade your team's last 25 years for those "boring old Spurs."
I’d like to see a video projecting the 2028 US Olympic team without Bron, Steph, KD, and some of the other aging players. Would be an interesting exercise.
Black American basketball players>>>whites
love this. give it two weeks
sexy basketball is whenever my goat Derrick White gets on the floor 😤😤😤
fax.
i always loved to see ball movement, as a Brazilian reminds me of Joga Bonito and that whole deal that we worship around here. that's why I freaking loved the spurs when I first watched a NBA game back in 2013, also why I liked watching the warriors
two of my favorite teams of all time.
This channel is gonna be huge wow amazing content
thanks! glad you like it!
“Boring” under Tim Duncan in the thumbnail when it’s so common to describe how the 2014 Spurs played as “beautiful”
Facts. but I gotta get that sweet sweet click.
He was known as having the most boring game of all time when he was in his prime unfortunately lol but anyone who actually watched knew it wasn’t true. That post work was disgusting but I guess they didn’t wanna watch Tim back the opposing big down for the entire gsme
I believe the Spurs got the "boring" reputation in the 2000s before the "beautiful game" era in the early 2010s. Duncan never did have a flashy game at any point regardless of team style, so perhaps some still found him boring. I think Bballbreakdown did a comparison video a couple of years ago which was a good watch.
the main guy was kawhi during that series anyway
I’d like to see a video where you talk about a championship and what it does to a player’s legacy. I think it would be very interesting to talk about
that'd be good. I've done a few videos on ringless players but it'd be fun to talk about star players first rings.
All the little noises in the video *chefs kiss*
bleeps and bloops baby
I would like to see you making videos about other sports too! But nba videos is already great! Congrats, respect 👊
I know. I've tried to rope some of my friends that are into other sports into making content, but they're too busy.
You really are the best nba RUclipsr, by a long shot.
Thanks man! Really glad you're enjoying the lane I occupy!
hello mr.whatslaps. I would like to inform that you are being watched from brazil and your content is gold medal worthy
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I got into your videos after watching one on the salary cap. You make everything interesting and informative, even boring shit like that. Now I watch every monday. Keep it up, brother!
thanks! I try to stimulate and educate!
you and jxmy are my favourite basketball youtubers, I just rewatch some of your videos just cause you have a good style with your editing and pacing, hope you get more subs in the future man
thanks for putting me in good company. jxmy is really great!
The little clap sound effects were a nice touch
thanks! 🙏
omg my glorious goat just uploaded 😫😫😫
Glazing... But I agree💯
just for you baby
This channel deserves more subs
subs are going up. I ain't stressin'. nice of you to say though
When I was about 19 years old I started playing pick up 3 on 3 ball for many hours a day in Houston Texas. I had played high school basketball but had stopped playing my junior year partially because I had stopped growing at just about 6 ft tall. I think I was at my peak athletically and I was always somebody that was pretty likely to be picked by one of the teams. My go to shot was a 12- 15-foot bank shot from the left that I hit at a really high rate. I love the bank shot and I think I remember that Scottie Pippen had a go- to bank shot that he was kind of well known for and I loved that shot. This was before Scottie Pippen made it to the Bulls, so probably about 1986- 87. It got to where I couldn't really hit a shot that wasn't a bank shot unless I was right under the basket. Obviously a good defender would be able to figure out how to stop me from scoring but very few people play much defense in pickup basketball. I hadn't thought about that in a very long time until you started talking about being taught bank shots. This time in my life happened to be happening at the same time where I had a new child and a wife at home that for some reason I must have been avoiding.. Obviously my marriage was pretty damned if instead of watching the kid I was playing pickup basketball in the park. It's amazing how many hours you can play when you're 19 years old.She left my ass after about a year and a half or two years of that shit. Lol. I got a really cool daughter out of the deal so I'm fine and she's fine. As usual it's TMI. 😮
Dang. if she'd only come out to the park to see that magnificent bank shot, she'd totally of understood your absence. Would have saved the marriage.
sexy basketball is when sexy people play basketball
you're right. I changed the title.
Gordon Hayward
To me, the 2014 spurs perfected team basketball, and then quickly got overshadowed by the 3ball meta.
True. It definitely evolved, but the spurs hit 3's too.
My opinion on basketball aesthetics has arrived 🙌🏻
Bill Simmons opinion -> My opinion -> your opinion
You have some of the most unique topics and perspectives on ball on the internet. Love ya dude. Love the channel
Glad you dig the niche, man.
happy monday whatslaps
i really liked watching lebron kd and steph with my friends. everyone was super hype on the flow of the end of the france game, it was sick! we are also terrified of wemby in 4 years
Team USA is going to need to improve or we're going to go home with no Hardware from LA.
Man oh man do I like beautiful basketball ✨
me too ✨
I just met this channel lately and already watch most of the videos, I'm addicted to it, eat a corn dog got me on fire
the corn dog line intrigues people.
@@whatslaps feel so happy with that reply omg, thanks a lot, appreciate all of your fantastic job
I would love to see your take on good vs bad culture of different teams. See if it actually makes a difference
I did a management video a few weeks ago. I think that sort of covered that angle. I think I wanted to make it a culture video, but had to take the angle of GMs because of research source material issues.
its a good day when whatslaps uploads
release days rule for me too
I think a video where you just give your thoughts on all the teams for the upcoming season would be interesting
Funkydiabetic does this I think
I might do that next week on this channel @whatshorts
fire idk why but thats prob why i like robert williams the third cause of his crazy block
yeah, big dunks too
love your videos!
you should make a top 10 most watchable teams (beautiful or sexy (or both))
people do go crazy for countdowns.
Thanks!
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Love your style of content bro, keep going 🤝
I can't stop
Unrelated but I love the mullet. Also you deserve more subs! Love the channel
thanks! I'm going to let it go for a while. I've got only a few more years from male pattern baldness.
Pop’s spurs are the poster child for beautiful basketball IMO! I’d love a video on the nba reducing minutes or regular season games. I’ve always thought the league would benefit from 10 min quarters to make things more competitive plus it might make the high offense stats of todays league seem more “real”
if you google "beautiful basketball gif" it's all spurs plays
You should make video essays or just longer videos in general to be honest
@whatshorts checkout this channel, somewhere between a podcast and video essay. closer to a podcast.
W title change and great video as usual what slaps and i always wonder if kd stayed in golden state how much he could change his legacy and how we perceived his career but also stephs career despite the 2022 championship being the most important to HIS legacy however could they win another 2 possibly 3
How many y'all "sexy" and thought "nah"?
I think the warriors KD era was weird the whole time. I think he knew he had to leave. I have a hard time even imagining what that reality would even look like.
I believe you've just coined the phrase "performative blocks." Wemby lights to keep the ball in play when he blocks it. That's actually a lot harder to do especially to get it to a teammate rather than blocking it back to the same team that was shooting. Every time somebody mentions his possible future health issues I knock on wood because I want to see this guy's whole career. Since I mentioned it I just knocked on wood. Twice.
He's not flashy so he's not taking unnecessary risks athletically. I think he plays with his health in mind. He'll have a long career. third knock on wood.
Hope the best basketball youtuber on the planet having a good day today😤
It's good. I'm on vacation 😎
I remember my mom used to say that watching the Steve Nash suns was an example of beautiful basketball. I also think she had a crush on him which helped too lol.
lines can blur sometimes. no shame for mama
I still do not understand why the offensive player is awarded the foul for "generating contact." A defensive foul is meant to punish a defender for making a mistake or not making a play for the ball. A ball-handler slamming their arms into a retreating defender is essentially punishing the defender for not completely evading their assignment, which is ironically the goal for the offensive player
agreed. Slows the game down and punishes good D. glad they ousted it.
Have you done "how to spot a bad trade" video whatslapps? Might be interesting
oooh that's actually really smart because trade videos do really well.
Could list trades that went badly for one team, and trades that went badly for both teams lol
It would be cool to discuss a players like LeBron and/or Kobe in the lense of discipline and how they take care of their bodies. Players like this show us what is the true human limit. For example, I don’t think Kobe could have trained much harder, which basically means given his body you could only be as good as he was. Yet despite this there are still players who are better than him with less training. Micheal Jordan was also highly disciplined, but he also had self sabotaging habits such as playing golf before games, or late night gambling. In my mind, players like Jordan could have been significantly better if they were disciplined like Kobe. If a bench player suddenly had Kobe’s mentality how good could they get? If you gave an average high school basketball player (let’s say 5’10”) Lebron’s health budget and Kobe’s discipline how good could this high schooler become? Would they make the league, would they be a starter? These ideas are interesting to think about and it shows how off court behavior may be just as impactful in legacies as on court behavior. Thoughts?
I've thought about that too. Apparently Saddiq Bey practiced so much the Pistons told him to get a hobby. He's good but he ain't Kobe level. I think you have to train smart.
I'd be curious to know where you feel like ISO basketball with ball dominant players falls in relation to your categories - individual brilliance can wow in so many instances. When a player pulls out a spectacular behind the back pass to his teammate for an alley oop, it's sexy. However, possession after possession, watching the same one or two guys handle the basketball for massive chunks of the shot clock, to me, often can feel uninspiring (given the lack of variety). Maybe I'm being too pessimistic.
I actually wanted to include iso ball in the ugly category of basketball. I just ran out of time. Personally back when Harden and Kobe did it I didn't mind as much. Now I feel like it's so ineffective or it just leads to foul call.
I know it's not a stat or at least it's not one I've ever seen but I would love to see the numbers for people's blocks as to whether they kept it in play or blocked it out of bounds. Also what percentage was it recovered by the blocker or a teammate versus being recovered by the same team who had it blocked. I don't know if that stats been gathered by anybody but it would be a pretty cool one.😮
Somebody in the comment section quoted those stats, but they just heard the fact. Not where the stat actually came from. Probably second spectrum.
Yet another amazing video from an amazing youtuber
You're too sweet
Why you kinda look like Kurt Rambis when he played for the showtime lakers?
Why is that so specific…and also so accurate?
I can't say that's not what I'm going for.
The first year of the Beam team was sexy basketball 😃 equal opportunity offense
v sexy beam
Do a video on how to spot bad decision making/shot selection, i.e, why did Trae Young lead the league in turnovers when he is considered one of the best passers in the league?
that''s good. I might do it. the title would be easy too
harden and embiid both disliked this video
I know they watchin'
Iso Joe Johnson had beautiful game. Iso discredits his team game. Guy was always overlooked and underrated cause of his generic name.
Yeah, he had a pretty long career too. Definitely forgotten
Liking your video without watching bcoz i know it'll be good and interesting 😅
I hope you enjoyed it!
Any ideas of doing “highlights of the week” videos once the season starts? Maybe on the second channel?
Discussing a team you enjoyed watching or believing is trending up and then discuss a team that is trending down.
I think when I get a paatreon I might do a weekly thing like that. charge a dollar see who shows up.
@@whatslapsI will be showing up if that’s the case‼️
As long as the team wins games, any good basketball is good basketball no matter how eccentric or boring it is. If you don't like boring basketball, try to stop it.
Exactly. Just player hatin'. Good Bball == wins
Ball smoovement in team half court set
Peak beautiful basketball
Followed by Minnesota vs Denver level of defense
Gloving full court playoffs defence
"smoovement" 👌
You really do reply to everyone. Props, ik thats not easy.😅
It's not so bad. There really aren't that many.
If you say so.
Could you do a "Freaky Johnathan basketball video" ?
what's that?
@@whatslaps thats for you 2 decide my drilla
Babe wake up whatslaps posted
This would be the saddest bit ever if babe was in a coma.
Are dropping a vid about Inside the NBA ?
I thought about doing something on the new media rights deal, ultimately if inside the NBA is important enough to the new partners they'll do their own version of it with the crew and call it something else. End of the day, it's contract law and I don't my audience would go for it. Good idea though!
Babe wake up….
we got a lot of sleepy babes in the comment section these days
Where are 2024 Celtics in the video!
I've glazed them too much this year.
Hit the like before the video even starts playing. I knew it would be fire
did you like it?
@@whatslaps loved it
and i think you should have talked about these categories in the context of how we percieve players and teams seperately. or maybe talk about how winning factors into it.
bc for categories outside of beautiful, players are judged with more scrutiny for not winning when them being sexy or ugly isnt the reason that they didnt win. if curry was never on a good team, his style of play would be lumped in with the likes of dame and nash and westbrook and harden and barkley and melo and cp3 and whoever else was really fucking good, great even, and flashy/stylish/ugly(foul baiting) but never won. those players didnt not-win bc theyre sexy or ugly basketball. they didnt win bc their teams were simply never good enough. kyrie wouldve been there too if lebron never came back. all those guys were good enough to win but its a team sport. to say they werent solely or mostly bc they were flashy or foul baity the way the viedoe and comments imply is just incorrect. of course some flashy players just werent that good too, like jason williams and lance stephenson and j-crossover, but their style masked their ineffectiveness not CUASED it.
True. Maybe I'll do another video..
"beautiful" basketball is way more common in the euros than in the nba. But ig if all we got was that, it wouldnt be as entertaining
who's the most beautiful basketball player?
@@whatslaps you if you played cutie( I'm glazing)
@@whatslaps Luka
the spurs are like the fighting game contestant who chooses the best character and optimizes winning above all else. uses the easiest moves with the lowest risk and the highest reward possible. no self expression, no style, no personality. just do the same move over and over and over until you win. like a machine optomized for winning while disregarding everything else. soulless. popavich runs that team like a military branch and the players' personalities are either flavorless and uninteresting or theyre not allowed to show much of it both on and off the court.
for some ppl thats fun to watch. to me thats fun to watch sometimes, but never the most fun. (and besides duncan being a basketball golem, the player with most personality on the court for them was also a foul baiter, and pop was encouraging that garbage man bruce bowen to take ppl out. what bowen was doing was not basketball but was winning. foul baiting is not basketball but is winning.)
while teams like the lakers and warriors for their winning years are optimized also for winning but allow room for personality and variance and style and expression and risk. like a fg player who chooses a character bc they like the design or the feel or the way the movement looks regardless of that character's tier and labs it until the tier positions are eroded.
at the top level, the player doing everything safe and the good player who takes more risks are on the same level but one will be viewed as more boring to most people. bc not everyone watches the game to see a winner. many watch the game to see it actually be played first and foremost. the spurs are like if "on paper" was made material.
i'd rather watch a fun team thats not as good than a great team with no personality, but operating at the top of efficiency IS fun to watch at times.
Agreed. I think the Celtics embodied that this year, but I still rooted against them haha
All I know is that you are beautiful 🤩🤩🤩
you're too sweet
no paul george mention during sexy segment 👎🏾
I think PG is a little too sexy for his own good, if you know what I'm sayin. (baby mama drama)
thats a better title
the algorithm thinks so too.
spurs was the blueprint. warriors perfected it. i wonder whats next
factual.
I would like to see a video about nba dong size and who's is the biggest
Me too. Research material is sparse and believe me I've searched.
I ate a dog instead
I'm calling the cops
What do you mean by “sub if you buck”? What does buck mean?
Without having gotten to that part of the video, I automatically assume it’s a play on the song Knuck if You Buck.
@TheRonnieaj bingo!
I totally forgot about Jason Williams 😧 holy throwback
the nastiest
Be good to your corn dogs, eat a mother.
Don't be gross ;)
Yah, Embiid's Foul Baiting is outright UGLY af.
definitely hard to watch. Philly broadcast rules though
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Joel embiid plays some bad basketball
big baiter
Ohhh yeahhh good ball movement basketball is in fact beautiful, so satisfying to watch. And yes, great team defense also very enjoyable. I think/hope Tim Duncan's style being boring is only to the casual fan. I would say most basketball purists understand and appreciate how good he was, not didn't have much (if any) flashy/showy type stuff, and that's ok I guess. Real recognize real right? Oh geez foul baiting 🤦♂, give me a break, disgraceful, it's so bad/silly looking, just PLAY THE GAME. Really don't like ugly b-ball. Them sexy hoopers do provide for some entertaining stuff, like you said maybe/probably not the most effective plays, but as long as the risk vs reward isn't more likely to actively hurt the team, can't say I don't like seeing some nice fun stuff going on in the game when possible. Highlights are cool. I'm pretty sure I mentioned this a while ago but for some reason the way my brain works I am just not too good at being able to think of video ideas that might work for the kind of stuff you do, but I am going to try to come up with something that you maybe could use. Anyway, appreciate you as always. You stay doin your thing and I stay lovin it so, props to you my dude. Thank you again as usual. 🫡
you know what's crazy is youtube fed me a clip of CP3 defending his rip through. He even said KD was the one that gave him the idea. He basically said having your hand there is illegal guarding position. It's lazy defense. He even defended harden's twisting method. He admired the technique. Truly I came around to respecting it. Didn't expect that. Still ugly basketball either way. If you get a good idea, let a player know. Thanks for showing back up!
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