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TinmanZBoy wrote:Kawaii Leonard wrote:May very well be a 4-1 OKC win.
This series will be Jokic’s first true test if he has goat material or not
Of course he is not goat material, with that defense… same applies to curry… you can’t be picked on relentlessly on defense and be the goat… great player and career, but surely not goat material
WarriorGM wrote:Steph is the greatest playmaker of all-time.
Optms wrote:G R E Y wrote:Optms wrote:
The way they play gives me Kings 2003 vibes.
How'd that work for them?
No Shaq and Kobe esque team thankfully for them.
Impuniti wrote:TinmanZBoy wrote:Kawaii Leonard wrote:May very well be a 4-1 OKC win.
This series will be Jokic’s first true test if he has goat material or not
Of course he is not goat material, with that defense… same applies to curry… you can’t be picked on relentlessly on defense and be the goat… great player and career, but surely not goat material
Your players shot like Ray Charles when defended by Curry last series. He's not an embarrassment on defense like the best player in the world is.
G R E Y wrote:Has to be a toss us between OKC and Utah crowds as to the whitest, right? Just an observation of crowd shots.
Patches Perry wrote:MrPainfulTruth wrote:Patches Perry wrote:
I mostly agree with the rest of your post, and I don't think it's unreasonable to think it's plausible, but it seems as a first principle it should be assumed that outcomes are not directed/rigged/coerced, because if 1 outcome is rigged, then you can't really be confident that any of them aren't rigged. It's like if you knew that at least 1 cookie in the cookie jar was poisoned, you couldn't trust that any of them could be eaten safely. Because of this, it seems to me that either all of them can be trusted, or none of them can.
What do you call "rigged" exactly? I ask because i am not a native english speaker. Maybe we have different understandings.
Do you think contact on Jokic is officiated comparable to Embiid or other, smaller bigs? Or, for that matter, guards?
Do you think star players are treated like normal players or even rookies?
If you think there is no rigging, then you believe every player is officiated according to the exact same rules, right?
If you believe that in those examples, the answer is no systematically, not just anecdotally, then it means the officiating follows an agenda, not the rulebook only. Which would be my understanding of "rigging" games.
Rigging would mean intentionally influencing the game/series a certain direction with hopes to produce a certain outcome.
