Mac Mcclung - Entertaining carnival midget clown show or legitimate NBA player?

Old_Blue · Post #1 » by **Old_Blue** » Sun Feb 16, 2025 7:51 pm

Sure, this would be a useful skill if and when cars are ever part of NBA games. But, otherwise, meh?

Onus · Post #2 » by **Onus** » Sun Feb 16, 2025 8:24 pm

Seriously all of his dunks are the same. Someone holds the ball, he jumps over them grabs the ball and then moves the ball around and dunks it. I liked Castles last dunk the best

superunknown · Post #3 » by **superunknown** » Mon Feb 17, 2025 3:02 am

def entertaining carnival midget clown show.
which speaks loud about the statuts of the league these days....

Post #4 » by **floppymoose** » Mon Feb 17, 2025 3:44 am

He almost made it out of camp as the GSW 3rd string PG a few years ago, but then that guy from UVA (on the Cavs now) became available instead.

Old_Blue · Post #5 » by **Old_Blue** » Mon Feb 17, 2025 5:07 am

floppymoose wrote:He almost made it out of camp as the GSW 3rd string PG a few years ago, but then that guy from UVA (on the Cavs now) became available instead.

That guy was very nearly a 50/40/90 player for us and is topping those numbers with the Cavs.

WarriorGM · Post #6 » by **WarriorGM** » Mon Feb 17, 2025 5:12 am

Don't blame McClung if nobody else steps up.

Old_Blue · Post #7 » by **Old_Blue** » Mon Feb 17, 2025 5:24 am

WarriorGM wrote:Don't blame McClung if nobody else steps up.

I see what you did there in response to McClung being called a carnival midget clown. Clever. :lol:

TB · Post #8 » by TB » Mon Feb 17, 2025 5:00 pm

Don't want to be the old man yelling at clouds, because Mac is a great dunker... but he sorta cheats on every dunk. Every single one he has someone stabilize their arms on their head and brace for a bit of impact, and he never scoops the ball from them, he pushes down on the ball to get a little more lift, then bring the ball up for his dunk. Not a big deal because like I said the kid can fly... but it's a clever little hack he uses that nobody seems to care or notice.

I liked that Castle just grabbed a ball and went and did pretty insane dunks on his own. Him and Mac made it a really fun contest.

Jester_ · Post #9 » by **Jester_** » Thu Feb 20, 2025 12:23 pm

anyone else just skip all star weekend entirely nowadays?

Hoopstar23 · Post #10 » by **Hoopstar23** » Thu Feb 20, 2025 5:44 pm

no, he's not a legit NBA player.... he has Jimmer Fredette-level defense, cant playmaker, not a good enough shooter... he needs to play overseas for a while and maybe in a few years he can try again... if not he can take a page out of Freddete's career and ball out in China...

whatisacenter · Post #11 » by **whatisacenter** » Thu Feb 20, 2025 5:47 pm

Jester_ wrote:anyone else just skip all star weekend entirely nowadays?

Didn't watch much of it but had a lot of fun riding my bike around the city and taking in some of the all-star related events.

HiRez · Post #12 » by **HiRez** » Thu Feb 20, 2025 10:24 pm

Clown show but still, McClung is pretty cool. And even as a fringe NBA player, still better than 99.99% of basketball players on the planet.

Coxy · Post #13 » by **Coxy** » Fri Feb 21, 2025 7:03 am

Jester_ wrote:anyone else just skip all star weekend entirely nowadays?

I feel like the regular season is 1 long all star weekend these days. The actual all star weekend is less entertaining than watching a 90 year old man mow a acreage lawn with scissors. The NBA is slowly descending into a flaccid version of the Harlem globe trotters.

To the point of this thread, that midget clown has some weird ass DNA. How the eff can he leap like that in the body of a drunk leprechaun? He needs to be studied, full clinical trial like.

Jester_ · Post #14 » by **Jester_** » Sat Feb 22, 2025 2:33 pm

Coxy wrote:
Jester_ wrote:anyone else just skip all star weekend entirely nowadays?

I feel like the regular season is 1 long all star weekend these days. The actual all star weekend is less entertaining than watching a 90 year old man mow a acreage lawn with scissors. The NBA is slowly descending into a flaccid version of the Harlem globe trotters.

Yeah I don't know what it is but the league is just boring now

**** reffing, ads everywhere, 3-point everything, players becoming divas who don't care about competing

Players jumping around is also ruining everything. no more legendary dynastic battles like early 2000s lakers vs spurs

I watched the 4 nations face-off and it was more exciting than any basketball i've watched in the last decade

Jester_ · Post #15 » by **Jester_** » Sat Feb 22, 2025 2:38 pm

whatisacenter wrote:
Jester_ wrote:anyone else just skip all star weekend entirely nowadays?

Didn't watch much of it but had a lot of fun riding my bike around the city and taking in some of the all-star related events.

I ran into Shams and that Raptors superfan guy at a starbucks lol

cladden · Post #16 » by **cladden** » Sat Feb 22, 2025 10:10 pm

Jester_ wrote:
Coxy wrote:
Jester_ wrote:anyone else just skip all star weekend entirely nowadays?

I feel like the regular season is 1 long all star weekend these days. The actual all star weekend is less entertaining than watching a 90 year old man mow a acreage lawn with scissors. The NBA is slowly descending into a flaccid version of the Harlem globe trotters.

Yeah I don't know what it is but the league is just boring now

**** reffing, ads everywhere, 3-point everything, players becoming divas who don't care about competing

Players jumping around is also ruining everything. no more legendary dynastic battles like early 2000s lakers vs spurs

I watched the 4 nations face-off and it was more exciting than any basketball i've watched in the last decade

You didn't find any of our championship runs entertaining at all? I mean I hear you with the general sentiment but all 4 of our chips happened in the last decade didn't they?

Jester_ · Post #17 » by **Jester_** » Sat Feb 22, 2025 11:46 pm

cladden wrote:
Jester_ wrote:
Coxy wrote:
I feel like the regular season is 1 long all star weekend these days. The actual all star weekend is less entertaining than watching a 90 year old man mow a acreage lawn with scissors. The NBA is slowly descending into a flaccid version of the Harlem globe trotters.

Yeah I don't know what it is but the league is just boring now

**** reffing, ads everywhere, 3-point everything, players becoming divas who don't care about competing

Players jumping around is also ruining everything. no more legendary dynastic battles like early 2000s lakers vs spurs

I watched the 4 nations face-off and it was more exciting than any basketball i've watched in the last decade

You didn't find any of our championship runs entertaining at all? I mean I hear you with the general sentiment but all 4 of our chips happened in the last decade didn't they?

I enjoyed the early parts... '15 and '16. After we got Durant there were some fun moments like the battles with the Rockets, but steamrolling people wasn't fun. i like good competitive basketball and intense games... not a ton of those in the durant era

IMO Heatles era was the last time playoffs were fun across the board. those Bulls/Bucks battles, heat/pacers, rising OKC, the Mavs run, heat/spurs, even aging Lakers last push etc.

hate to say it but we made the league less interesting now that everyone is just bombing 3s

Coxy · Post #18 » by **Coxy** » Sun Feb 23, 2025 2:03 am

The splash brothers effect on the league is certainly a weird phenomenon. Instead of it being a 1-off time for a team to have some unique players that made that work, the entire league has now shaped itself around the 3 ball spam, which has made it a completely different product now.