Around the NBA - 2024-25 Season Continued

spree2kawhi · Post #1941 » by **spree2kawhi** » Mon Feb 17, 2025 10:26 pm

MrDollarBills wrote:
whocares1 wrote:
spree2kawhi wrote:I stand by what I said. I’ve focused on that for quite a while now and very often when he complained, a no-call seemed about right to me.

I agree and disagree. I think he receives a lot of body contact that might be excessive, but Towns at his size and speed is hard to stop without making contact with him so it’s understandable. I will agree that he isn’t fouled on the actual attempt most of the time and so the refs allow the body contact as long as his arms aren’t being hit they won’t call it.

I've seen KAT knocked to the floor on drives and no call. Let that happen to Embiid, who embellishes everything, and it's a quick whistle.

I’m not saying I insist on what I said. Just keep an eye on it. If you followed last summer, you know I love the player.

HarthorneWingo · Post #1942 » by **HarthorneWingo** » Mon Feb 17, 2025 11:08 pm

spree2kawhi wrote:
MrDollarBills wrote:
whocares1 wrote:
I agree and disagree. I think he receives a lot of body contact that might be excessive, but Towns at his size and speed is hard to stop without making contact with him so it’s understandable. I will agree that he isn’t fouled on the actual attempt most of the time and so the refs allow the body contact as long as his arms aren’t being hit they won’t call it.

I've seen KAT knocked to the floor on drives and no call. Let that happen to Embiid, who embellishes everything, and it's a quick whistle.

I’m not saying I insist on what I said. Just keep an eye on it. If you followed last summer, you know I love the player.

Embeliid

MrDollarBills · Post #1943 » by **MrDollarBills** » Mon Feb 17, 2025 11:46 pm

Wemby's alright man. I hope he comes back to play chess next season.

thebuzzardman · Post #1944 » by **thebuzzardman** » Tue Feb 18, 2025 1:25 am

Here's what the NHL is doing right, as opposed to the lame ass NBA

Watch on YouTube

Looks like millionaire athletes can compete and play defense in a non regulation game after all.

Enzo954 · Post #1945 » by **Enzo954** » Tue Feb 18, 2025 3:47 am

thebuzzardman wrote:Here's what the NHL is doing right, as opposed to the lame ass NBA

Watch on YouTube

Looks like millionaire athletes can compete and play defense in a non regulation game after all.

I don't watch much NHL but those guys are tough as nails and throw down on the regular. I worked with a former NHL player and the kid was strong as a bull. His dad was a well known NHL player also. Tough family.

Jalen Bluntson · Post #1946 » by **Jalen Bluntson** » Tue Feb 18, 2025 4:48 pm

Enzo954 wrote:
thebuzzardman wrote:Here's what the NHL is doing right, as opposed to the lame ass NBA

Watch on YouTube

Looks like millionaire athletes can compete and play defense in a non regulation game after all.

I don't watch much NHL but those guys are tough as nails and throw down on the regular. I worked with a former NHL player and the kid was strong as a bull. His dad was a well known NHL player also. Tough family.

Dudes lose teeth. Take pucks/sticks to the face and go back for stitches and come back out to play in the same game. :lol:

Who was the NHL player?

Enzo954 · Post #1947 » by **Enzo954** » Tue Feb 18, 2025 5:53 pm

Jalen Bluntson wrote:
Enzo954 wrote:
thebuzzardman wrote:Here's what the NHL is doing right, as opposed to the lame ass NBA

Watch on YouTube

Looks like millionaire athletes can compete and play defense in a non regulation game after all.

I don't watch much NHL but those guys are tough as nails and throw down on the regular. I worked with a former NHL player and the kid was strong as a bull. His dad was a well known NHL player also. Tough family.

Dudes lose teeth. Take pucks/sticks to the face and go back for stitches and come back out to play in the same game. Who was the NHL player?

His name is Henrik Samuelson. He was a somewhat high draft pick but his personal issues off the ice caused him to leave the league. One of the nicest people I've ever met, but not somebody you'd want to piss off either. Tough as nails. I was his boss for a while. His father is Ulf Samuelson. Won a few Stanley Cups with the Penguins and played for The Rangers in the 90's.

Watch on YouTube

Montmorencie · Post #1948 » by **Montmorencie** » Tue Feb 18, 2025 6:23 pm

Did NHL lose popularity or the others sports surpassed it because of their expansion? I think the people that watched it before still do it nowadays, its just that basketball and "football" are so popular.

Jalen Bluntson · Post #1949 » by **Jalen Bluntson** » Tue Feb 18, 2025 7:35 pm

Enzo954 wrote:
Jalen Bluntson wrote:
Enzo954 wrote:
I don't watch much NHL but those guys are tough as nails and throw down on the regular. I worked with a former NHL player and the kid was strong as a bull. His dad was a well known NHL player also. Tough family.

Dudes lose teeth. Take pucks/sticks to the face and go back for stitches and come back out to play in the same game. Who was the NHL player?

His name is Henrik Samuelson. He was a somewhat high draft pick but his personal issues off the ice caused him to leave the league. One of the nicest people I've ever met, but not somebody you'd want to piss off either. Tough as nails. I was his boss for a while. His father is Ulf Samuelson. Won a few Stanley Cups with the Penguins and played for The Rangers in the 90's.

Watch on YouTube

No shyt? Yeah remember his father. I hate the penguins. I'll give you one guess why.

Jalen Bluntson · Post #1950 » by **Jalen Bluntson** » Tue Feb 18, 2025 7:46 pm

Montmorencie wrote:Did NHL lose popularity or the others sports surpassed it because of their expansion? I think the people that watched it before still do it nowadays, its just that basketball and "football" are so popular.

Hockey was always the baby brother marketing wise.It was too violent for regular broadcasting back in the days. There was blood on the ice more often than not. TV wasn't having that back in the day. Little House on the Prairie wasn't competing with bloodshed. :lol:

The NBA benefitted from that honestly. They had a huge head start in the broadcasting market. Football is 14-16-17 games a year and the ad revenues for both leagues definitely helped them build such a huge market share. Baseball is baseball. People will always love the boys of summer. 162 games. Warm weather for most of it.

Fat Kat · Post #1951 » by **Fat Kat** » Tue Feb 18, 2025 9:06 pm

Read on Twitter

spree2kawhi · Post #1952 » by **spree2kawhi** » Tue Feb 18, 2025 9:42 pm

Fat Kat wrote:

Read on Twitter

That is very unfortunate.

MrDollarBills · Post #1953 » by **MrDollarBills** » Wed Feb 19, 2025 12:13 am

Jalen Bluntson wrote:
Montmorencie wrote:Did NHL lose popularity or the others sports surpassed it because of their expansion? I think the people that watched it before still do it nowadays, its just that basketball and "football" are so popular.

Hockey was always the baby brother marketing wise.It was too violent for regular broadcasting back in the days. There was blood on the ice more often than not. TV wasn't having that back in the day. Little House on the Prairie wasn't competing with bloodshed. The NBA benefitted from that honestly. They had a huge head start in the broadcasting market. Football is 14-16-17 games a year and the ad revenues for both leagues definitely helped them build such a huge market share. Baseball is baseball. People will always love the boys of summer. 162 games. Warm weather for most of it.

I think the NHL could be bigger because every time I've watched hockey I've been entertained, but I don't follow it enough to really be crazy about it like NBA, NFL, or MLB. 2 things hurt Hockey I think:

1) I think the NHL being, for lack of a better term, "Lilly white" doesn't help. It's not exactly a sport non white kids are gonna follow. If a transcendent, generational scoring talent who was either Black or Brown ever comes along that gets a ton of press coverage, I'd think they'd get a load a new fans. Like the Tiger Woods golf effect maybe?

2) Hockey is historically a northern sport in this country. That kinda hinders it too I think. Folks in the South and west aren't into hockey like that as much as you'd see in colder areas. Like when I lived in Ohio they had a public hockey rink nearby where I was in Shaker Heights. They don't have those around where I grew up when I moved to Jersey.

MrDollarBills · Post #1954 » by **MrDollarBills** » Wed Feb 19, 2025 12:15 am

spree2kawhi wrote:
Fat Kat wrote:

Read on Twitter

That is very unfortunate.

Thibs would not play him. He can score but his defense is pretty bad from when I last saw him

Jalen Bluntson · Post #1955 » by **Jalen Bluntson** » Wed Feb 19, 2025 1:00 am

MrDollarBills wrote:
Jalen Bluntson wrote:
Montmorencie wrote:Did NHL lose popularity or the others sports surpassed it because of their expansion? I think the people that watched it before still do it nowadays, its just that basketball and "football" are so popular.

Hockey was always the baby brother marketing wise.It was too violent for regular broadcasting back in the days. There was blood on the ice more often than not. TV wasn't having that back in the day. Little House on the Prairie wasn't competing with bloodshed. The NBA benefitted from that honestly. They had a huge head start in the broadcasting market. Football is 14-16-17 games a year and the ad revenues for both leagues definitely helped them build such a huge market share. Baseball is baseball. People will always love the boys of summer. 162 games. Warm weather for most of it.

I think the NHL could be bigger because every time I've watched hockey I've been entertained, but I don't follow it enough to really be crazy about it like NBA, NFL, or MLB. 2 things hurt Hockey I think:

1) I think the NHL being, for lack of a better term, "Lilly white" doesn't help. It's not exactly a sport non white kids are gonna follow. If a transcendent, generational scoring talent who was either Black or Brown ever comes along that gets a ton of press coverage, I'd think they'd get a load a new fans. Like the Tiger Woods golf effect maybe?

2) Hockey is historically a northern sport in this country. That kinda hinders it too I think. Folks in the South and west aren't into hockey like that as much as you'd see in colder areas. Like when I lived in Ohio they had a public hockey rink nearby where I was in Shaker Heights. They don't have those around where I grew up when I moved to Jersey.

These are also huge contributing factors. It didn't help that it was also a very violent/bloody sport back in the day. They really cleaned it up in order to get the TV market interested. It's just not as universally appealing to non whites or warm climates.