Spaceman Spiff

I'd be perfectly fine with not having to see that facebook ad with the four weirdos nodding their head to music at the end...ever again.

Guilford College's finest.  And back in a day when a guy with male pattern baldness could ball.

12 hours ago, Destino said:

Drew Gooden growing on anyone else?  He seems better this season.  Maybe he just needed some time.

He's not Chenier, but he's growing on me, too.  I like the PBP guy, too.  He's not Buckhantz but he's getting better, too.

I'm still thinking that the shooting lately is a cold streak they'll snap out of.  That said, Beal's 3 point percentage has steadily decreased over the course of his career, that's some cause for concern.  

This is also a team where it seems like no matter who's on the floor, I've got faith that they'll give effort and play well.  Deep team.  Can't say that for many of the teams in previous years, it seems like most of those teams were only 6-7 players deep (if that, at times).

13 hours ago, Dont Taze Me Bro said:

 

I never said that Trump failed on Covid response or downplayed wearing masks.  Speaking only on the vaccine part of it.  And don't act like both parties didn't make it political.  Both did and both failed us and the current administration is still failing us.  

Don't get me wrong, I think "both sides" is a valid argument at times (anyone who thinks otherwise, IMO, doesn't want to look critically at "their side") but I can't pretend to believe it's a good one here.  There's only one side that's completely ****ed when it comes to things Covid.  And just because the other side points out how ****ed up and stupid the Republicans are doesn't mean that the libs are "making this political," IMO.  Pointing out how irresponsible certain politics and politicians are in regards to this isn't making something political...it's simply what it is, which is pointing out how irresponsible and stupid they've been.

I dunno, those Mazdas are sweet whips.  Practically sell themselves.

12 minutes ago, Renegade7 said:

Im this close to saying something stupid like trade Dinwiddie for Wall...

Don't be that guy.

11 minutes ago, TryTheBeal! said:

This is maybe the 8th game in a row where we hit halftime shooting less than 25% from 3.

They're shooting 32.2% from 3 this year but it doesn't feel like it.  

1 hour ago, Dont Taze Me Bro said:

 

In fairness, Trump was pro vaccine, operation warp speed, etc.  He got the vaccine and encouraged others to get it, when out of office.  Anti-mask, absolutely, which I believe has made everything continue to linger.  Of course it's a political talking point, on both sides, don't act like the left isn't guilty of that either.  How we forget that when Trump wanted to pass another covid relief bill it was that crusty **** Pelosi that said they will not pass the bill to help out Americans and was not willing to work with the republicans. 

 

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/10/21/coronavirus-stimulus-update-senate-relief-bill-blocked-as-pelosi-mnuchin-talk.html

 

https://www.cnn.com/2020/12/04/politics/pelosi-stimulus/index.html

 

Not saying republicans are innocent, but both sides made this political.  But don't make it out that republicans are the only enemy during the pandemic, both sides suck.

 

 

Trump ****ed up the covid response simply from the perspective of how he talked about it.  How it was going to just "disappear" and his idiot ****ing followers believed it.  He spoke so recklessly and irresponsibly about it, it was ****ing dumb.  You couldn't have picked a worse president from history to deal with something like that...it exposed him for who he was, which is someone who is full of ****, doesn't know what he's talking about and wanted to lie about everything so he could still look good.  It's been chronicled that he wanted to downplay how serious it was in order to keep the stock market (which people think is the economy) up and going.  He knew that if he could keep that going, he might be able to ride to re-election.  

He downplayed the risk, saying it was under control in January of 2020.  Said we're on top of it 24/7.  Said it was under control all throughout February, 2020.  "It’s going to disappear. One day it’s like a miracle, it will disappear."  What the ****, seriously?  People who are not smart and not educated followed that guy and took his word for gospel, and that's what he had to say?  

Then he ****ing politicized it.  If we're going to play the Han/Greedo who shot first on the "making covid a political issue" debate, he certainly did it first when he said "The Democrats are politicizing the coronavirus… One of my people came up to me and said “Mr. President, they tried to beat you on Russia, Russia, Russia, that didn’t work out too well. They couldn’t do it. They tried the impeachment hoax that was on a perfect conversation. They tried anything, they tried it over and over, they’ve been doing it since you got in… And this is their new hoax.”"  And even today, you're still getting his dip**** dumbass followers calling it a hoax.  Maybe, just maybe, if he took it as seriously as he took his golf game or staring at his daughters ass, we might have a different outcome today.  

Then he compared it to the common flu, which Fauci already said a bad comp and other scientists had, too.  Then he incorrectly claimed that the FDA approved hyrdoxychloroquine.  Then he insisted on calling it the China Virus, setting off an untold amount of racially motivated crimes against Asian-Americans in this country.  

I could go on and on, but I won't.  Trump failed miserably.  I don't know what that ****ing dolt Nancy Pelosi did other than point out how bad he ****ed up and got called out for being at a hair salon without a mask on.  I hate the liberals, too.  But there's no doubt in my mind as to who the ****ing idiot was who doused gasoline all over an open flame in early 2020 that set this country down a path that will take forever to recover from.  Not only did he pour gasoline all over the entire thing but his followers gladly fanned the flames and are still doing it, just to "oWn teh LiBrULZZZ"

If you're bringing up how Pelosi blocked a bill or something, whatever.  It shouldn't have gotten that far to begin with.  Trump is a model case of "too little, too late."  

King Richard. 

Joe Posnanski wrote a blog post about all the things that Hollywood took liberties with, it was pretty illuminating:

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Now, make no mistake, Richard Williams IS a larger-than-life figure … but it’s never quite as simple as the movie tries to make it. For instance, the movie starts exactly where you would expect it to start — in Compton, 1980s, a loving father using dead tennis balls to teach his daughters to play tennis on a glass-strewn public court while gang members surround them. This is absolutely an accurate portrayal of what happened and a striking movie scene.

But it does leave something out: Richard Williams purposely moved his family to Compton so that his daughters would grow up in what he called “the ghetto.” When Venus was born, the Williams family was living in a quiet and tranquil neighborhood in Long Beach — they were a block away from the beach — and that is when Richard (against the wishes of his wife) moved the whole family to Compton.

That was part of the plan to raise a tennis champion.

“What led me to Compton,” Williams would write, “was my belief that the greatest champions came out of the ghetto. I had studied sports successes like Muhammad Ali, and great thinkers like Malcolm X. I saw where they came from. As part of my plan, I decided it was where the girls were going to grow up, too. It would make them tough, give them a fighter’s mentality. They’d be used to combat. And how much easier would it be to play in front of thousands of white people if they had already learned how to play in front of scores of armed gang members.”

This complicates the story just a little, doesn’t it?

There’s no question that Richard Williams was every bit as loving as the movie makes him out to be. But he also used to bus in children to surround the court and verbally abuse Venus and Serena in the vilest ways imaginable. That’s not in the movie.

He would make sure his daughters made straight A’s and wrote in their journals nightly. But he also used to break beer bottles behind the baseline so that Venus and Serena would never back up on a ball. That’s not in the movie.

Etc, etc.

But Posnanski also goes on to say that this movie is a love letter from Venus and Serena to him, it's a movie as how they see their father.  Which, IMO, is what really matters.

It was a really good movie.  Will Smith did a great job, so did the girls that play his daughters.  And the woman who played the mother was absolutely fantastic, too.  

Solid B/B+.  I liked it a lot more than I thought I was going to.  

Monday night just got more huger.  

Happy Thanksgiving you miserable ****s!

God dammit.  God ****ing dammit.  ****ing ****.  **** **** **** **** **** **** ass.  ****.  God ****ing **** **** ass **** dammit.

This feels like a trap game.  This feels like the ultimate ****ing trap game.

As bad as they've been lately, I just can't overlook Russell Wilson even as dinged up and mediocre as he's been.  He can be a problem.  

Maybe it's not a trap game, maybe we can call it a death rattle game.  A death rattle game is when a team that's been good for a long time like Seattle is clearly dying but they've got a little life left and might surprise you.  

Whatever, ****it.  I'm picking the WFT.

WFT:  30

Sea****es: 13

44 minutes ago, Fergasun said:

There was a New Yorker article that seemed a bit even handed and sympathetic to the type of thing Rittenhouse is going through and I assumed he wasn't seeking out the attention from those on the right.  

 

So basically even in the aftermath of Rittenhouse, I was willing to give him the benefit of the doubt.  "That kid has to live with blood on his hands.  Probably does not want the attention."

 

But now, that I see he visited Trump already, had a Fox documentary in the works.  I thought he might be scarred by what had happened to him.  I read his Tucker Carlson interview and he basically doesn't have any remorse towards the victim nor does he show many signs of internal conflict.  

He was a dumb kid to begin with, he's continuing to be dumb.  I don't want to use age as an excuse for him, but not everyone makes good decisions at that age.  Maybe that changes as he gets older, maybe he'll feel differently.  But probably not, not as long as he's continually being patted on the back by people like Trump and organizations like Fox.  

You can't get mad at water for being wet.  I can't get mad or upset at this kid for allowing himself to be propped up as some folk-hero to the right because from the start he's been an idiot the entire time.  When people show you are who they are from the beginning, believe them.  

20 minutes ago, PartyPosse said:

The kyle case was FAR more polarizing to the average american. 

Yeah, so?  This is still news.  After the Rittenhouse trial, it was the trial of the moment.  At the gym today, it was on MSNBC and CNN.  The results are splashed across their websites, ****, even Fox has to pay attention to this one.  

I find it odd that my phone didn't blow up with alerts from every ****ing media outlet possible with the Arbery verdict like it did with the Rittenhouse verdict.  

It's almost like these outlets are banking on people to be outraged by some verdicts or something.  Weird.

**** off, JD Vance.  

3 hours ago, Rocky21 said:

This is only his second year in the league but I already have an irrational hatred of LaMelo Ball. 😁

He's got one of those punchable faces.  

He's really damn good, though.  Fun to watch play.  

9 hours ago, Destino said:

I think coach’s offense is an issue.  He’s gotten guys to buy into ball movement but the implementation isn’t right.  Beal and Dinwiddie shouldn’t be deferring shots, thats not what ball movement is for.  It’s not about shot distribution, but shot quality.  Our guards should be playing down hill all game and taking every great look, and passing when theirs a better option.  Spencer is basically sitting out three quarters to make the shot distribution look right.  That’s bad.
 

The other issue is that the off ball movement is ****.  A total mess.  hard to miss how many turnovers they have each game because the guy dribbling has no good passing lanes.  They end up heaving a pass across the court that gets picked.  Worse yet, it happens on inbounds frequently too.  
 

Im not saying WUJ is bad, but it’s clear to me that his offense is very much a work in progress.  

 

 

I don't disagree with any of this but the shooting has been cold for these two games against the Hornets, too.

Now the other night when they shot like .03% from 3 and didn't make any adjustments, I'd put that on WUJ, too.  Telling your guys that what they're doing isn't working and to stop hiking up 3s when no one's hitting them...that's gotta happen.  And if it did happen, they didn't listen.

Dinwiddie's lack of aggressiveness is perplexing.  He's a decent scorer, but he defers to Beal too much, too.

Off to a good start in the early going here.

1 minute ago, Silvernon said:

 

I get it...few of us were banging the table for QB. 

I wanted Chase Young but I'd have been good with a QB, too.  

Someone invite Mina Kimes to sign up for an ES account.  

Oh, FFS.  Jumbo does not wear a man-bun.  

His whole patois is like this:  

4 hours ago, Silvernon said:

Watching Herbert last night...this is assuredly going to go down as an awful draft pick for Washington.  

 

I don't have faith that he'll be dominant anymore. Look at the scrubs play with our DTs and have success. Plenty of high producing DEs in the league this year, just not on this team. 

Again, no one had Herbert as a consideration at #2.  There were some dratfniks that liked him a lot, but he was never discussed anywhere as an option for us.  People thought that if we were going to take a QB, it'd have been Tua.

Hindsight makes things obvious, but no one should be pretending that the WFT was trying to figure out who to take a #2, Chase or Herbert.  

I like Gibson but I’d like to see him used a bit more creativity. Line that dude up all over the field. Put him on the field with McKissic and make defenses have to account for two guys that can catch passes out of the backfield. Do they not have a two back package for these guys? How can you not?

I’ll get flamed for this but I don’t think his fumble yesterday was as bad as it looked. Panthers player punched it out perfectly, sometimes you can’t defend that. Happened at a terrible time for sure. 

53 minutes ago, Voice_of_Reason said:

That’s a massively stupid strategy, and I don’t think it’s conscious.  
 

I think he needs to have somebody track this for him and feed it to him.  Maybe it’s just lack of feel. 
 

 

I would hope that it's not a lack of feel.  Know what I mean?

1 minute ago, skins island connection said:

 

One never knows; if TH had Holt and the other WRs, Faulk and HC/OC that Warner had I could see it happening.

It's been awhile but I think Kurt had somewhat of a cannon.  Heinicke doesn't.  And maybe that's okay.  Just means that he's gotta be accurate and on time.

6 minutes ago, Voice_of_Reason said:

Turner drives me absolutely crazy with his play calling, specifically running Gibson as a power back (which he’s not) on first down for <2 yards consistently.  
 

I just can’t fathom why he can’t “stay balanced” and change that aspect of play calling.

 

I agree not flinging it 50 times is good.  But being in 2nd and long 70% of the time is bad also.

 

He also committed my #1 per peeve fireable offense: start with 2 runs, putting your QB in position to throw his forst pass on a known passing situation on the first 3rd down.  This almost always results in an opening 3-out. It happened all the time under Gibbs II and sometime under Jay, snd it’s freaking maddening. 

 

I agree with this 100% and I'm not sure why he does this.  The only thing I can think of is that he's trying to lull the defense to sleep in a way with this pattern, only to try and open things up later on.  And I'm not saying that's a great strategy.