PC Board OT Thread Take 4 [No Politics]

[falcolombardi]

rewatching the rockets vs Blazers gane in 2014 where lillard hit the buzzerbeater

Rockets offense is surprisingly Dinamic, unoptimized and fun. All the thinghs morey hates/s

they have harden cutting for Drives or flying of screens for catch and shots while parsons/Lin/ even beverley run the play.
he was not the pick and roll and isolation spam machine
he became under Mike D Antony

lot of howard post up or high post touch for passing, then a parsons pick and roll, they actually were fairly dinamic/free flowing compared to the much more hiper optimized heliocentric rockets thst would come later

you can see how different the influence of Mchale was compared to D Antony

for Blazers i am impressed the most by how strong aldrisge was more than even by his shooting, dude was nominally a power forward but would just bulldoze into a big guy like omer asik and essentially run through him (and getting a ton of free throws for arguable offensive fouls*)

[sp6r=underrated]

I saw Michael Finley had his number retired by Wisconsin. Good for him.

Seeing him reminded me of how much basketball knowledge has advanced. When I think of his tenure with Dallas at the time they were seen as a big 3. If it occurred today, I think everyone would have recognized it was a big 2 and he was a good supporting piece.

Fans and media are a lot smarter today

[Colbinii]

So...Russia invaded Ukraine. Anyone from the area want to comment?

[Colbinii]

I saw Michael Finley had his number retired by Wisconsin. Good for him.

Seeing him reminded me of how much basketball knowledge has advanced. When I think of his tenure with Dallas at the time they were seen as a big 3. If it occurred today, I think everyone would have recognized it was a big 2 and he was a good supporting piece.

Fans and media are a lot smarter today

How would you compare Finley with the Mavs to Love with the Cavaliers?

[sp6r=underrated]

ESPN is set to pay Aikman 18 million dollars a year.

Why on Earth would you pay any announcer that much money? Will 1 more viewer start watching ESPN MNF?

[Colbinii]

Spoiler:

ESPN is set to pay Aikman 18 million dollars a year.

Why on Earth would you pay any announcer that much money? Will 1 more viewer start watching ESPN MNF?

And now we see why Sean McCvay wants to leave coaching. He can get paid more for a significantly easier and less stressful job.

[sp6r=underrated]

Spoiler:

ESPN is set to pay Aikman 18 million dollars a year.

Why on Earth would you pay any announcer that much money? Will 1 more viewer start watching ESPN MNF?

And now we see why Sean McCvay wants to leave coaching. He can get paid more for a significantly easier and less stressful job.

Good point. Do I want to slave over coaching plans working 60 hours* a week or do I want to work 20 weeks a year for 40 hours a week tops with a raise?

I know what I'm picking. If I'm McVey's spouse I know what I'm telling him to pick.


*I know NFL coaches claim to work 14 hour days, 7 days a week but that is the most obvious BS line in all of sports.

[Colbinii]

Spoiler:

ESPN is set to pay Aikman 18 million dollars a year.

Why on Earth would you pay any announcer that much money? Will 1 more viewer start watching ESPN MNF?

And now we see why Sean McCvay wants to leave coaching. He can get paid more for a significantly easier and less stressful job.

Good point. Do I want to slave over coaching plans working 60 hours* a week or do I want to work 20 weeks a year for 40 hours a week tops with a raise?

I know what I'm picking. If I'm McVey's spouse I know what I'm telling him to pick.


*I know NFL coaches claim to work 14 hour days, 7 days a week but that is the most obvious BS line in all of sports.

Correct. Nobody works 98 hours/week.

[sp6r=underrated]

Spoiler:

And now we see why Sean McCvay wants to leave coaching. He can get paid more for a significantly easier and less stressful job.

Good point. Do I want to slave over coaching plans working 60 hours* a week or do I want to work 20 weeks a year for 40 hours a week tops with a raise?

I know what I'm picking. If I'm McVey's spouse I know what I'm telling him to pick.


*I know NFL coaches claim to work 14 hour days, 7 days a week but that is the most obvious BS line in all of sports.

Correct. Nobody works 98 hours/week.

It is truly unsustainable. Early in my life, before the Great Recession upended my career, I had a brief spell in a corporate law firm.

This was a large law firm in a mid-sized city. The type of firm were everyone is very well compensated and is expected to work very hard. I never met anyone who regularly pulled in 98 hour weeks.

Frankly, I don't remember anyone ever working that much for even a month. Again I was only there for a spell and this is only one person's observation.

I've had friends who worked on Wall Street another industry known for long hours. Most of them did not work anywhere near that much.

I think what happens is a lot well paying, high work jobs have a culture were you are expected to socialize with your co-workers. The Wall Street guy I knew said it was the culture that they went out late night together.

That isn't work but I think a lot of people in those industries code those hours as work.

I also think a lot of people with those jobs just lie about how hard they work. Partly for understandable reasons.

An NFL coach who said the truth, I work 50 hours a week over 5 1/2 days, would increase his job insecurity. Much easier to lie.

[Doctor MJ]

Spoiler:

And now we see why Sean McCvay wants to leave coaching. He can get paid more for a significantly easier and less stressful job.

Good point. Do I want to slave over coaching plans working 60 hours* a week or do I want to work 20 weeks a year for 40 hours a week tops with a raise?

I know what I'm picking. If I'm McVey's spouse I know what I'm telling him to pick.


*I know NFL coaches claim to work 14 hour days, 7 days a week but that is the most obvious BS line in all of sports.

Correct. Nobody works 98 hours/week.

People absolutely do do this though.

[Dr Positivity]

I used to work at a restaurant where the older greek couple who owned it were the only cooks and both there 7 days a week, 12+ hours a day (open for IIRC around 12 hours, I don't know if they had to add more hours before opening every day for prep cooking or something, but I wouldn't be surprised if they were). I think maybe during less busier parts of year they could have only one of them working at a time.

[Jaivl]

Spoiler:

And now we see why Sean McCvay wants to leave coaching. He can get paid more for a significantly easier and less stressful job.

Good point. Do I want to slave over coaching plans working 60 hours* a week or do I want to work 20 weeks a year for 40 hours a week tops with a raise?

I know what I'm picking. If I'm McVey's spouse I know what I'm telling him to pick.


*I know NFL coaches claim to work 14 hour days, 7 days a week but that is the most obvious BS line in all of sports.

Correct. Nobody works 98 hours/week.

I mean, I did it for a stretch and I know people who have done it for a long time. It's called hostelry in a tourist village.

And that's active work. Lost 7 kg that summer lol.

[falcolombardi]

the whole stuff happening in ukraine has honestly been a reminder how little stuff like sports matters in the grand scheme of thinghs and how lucky we are we can enjoy them and spend time and Energy comparing basketball teams and players

it honestly has took off most desire of getting into "intense" relatively speaking debates, i am in a much more "lets just chill and apareciste everythingh" mood and less of a debate seeking one if that makes sense

[70sFan]

the whole stuff happening in ukraine has honestly been a reminder how little stuff like sports matters in the grand scheme of thinghs and how lucky we are we can enjoy them and spend time and Energy comparing basketball teams and players

it honestly has took off most desire of getting into "intense" relatively speaking debates, i am in a much more "lets just chill and apareciste everythingh" mood and less of a debate seeking one if that makes sense

I live in Poland, the situation is very concerning for us. I am not sure how it is presented in the US, but people in Poland are very involved in helping Ukrainian imigrants. We live in a shadow of this war and it's visible - people are more stressed than I've ever seen before. It's elevating to see so many people willing to do something, even our politicians are on the same side, which never happened in my entire life.

I am glad that I can post here. It helps me focusing on something else, something far less important.

[HeartBreakKid]

I watch a lot of combat sports and a lot of big names from boxing and MMA are joining the war.

the whole stuff happening in ukraine has honestly been a reminder how little stuff like sports matters in the grand scheme of thinghs and how lucky we are we can enjoy them and spend time and Energy comparing basketball teams and players

it honestly has took off most desire of getting into "intense" relatively speaking debates, i am in a much more "lets just chill and apareciste everythingh" mood and less of a debate seeking one if that makes sense

I live in Poland, the situation is very concerning for us. I am not sure how it is presented in the US, but people in Poland are very involved in helping Ukrainian imigrants. We live in a shadow of this war and it's visible - people are more stressed than I've ever seen before. It's elevating to see so many people willing to do something, even our politicians are on the same side, which never happened in my entire life.

I am glad that I can post here. It helps me focusing on something else, something far less important.

I was wondering about this too. I don't think the world is too comfortable with Russia effectively controlling a border with Poland again...its not great PR.

[penbeast0]

Except for former President Trump and his loyalists, it's pretty much seen as a return to Cold War expansionist Soviet era Russia with Putin as the clear bad guy. On the other hand, I've heard very little willingness to do more then economic sanctions here in the USA.

[Dr Positivity]

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[Colbinii]

Except for former President Trump and his loyalists, it's pretty much seen as a return to Cold War expansionist Soviet era Russia with Putin as the clear bad guy. On the other hand, I've heard very little willingness to do more then economic sanctions here in the USA.

Unfortunately the previous president of the United States did everything in his capacity to undermine Ukraine and assist Putin in his radical plans.

This situation is difficult for the US to navigate. On one hand, they don't want to get physically involved in an altercation with Russia but on the other hand if Russia is successful with their invasion, at what point will Russia stop invading other Democratic Nations.

[parsnips33]

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Watching people who are really really good at their job never gets old

I guess that's why we're all NBA fans

[sp6r=underrated]

I saw Michael Finley had his number retired by Wisconsin. Good for him.

Seeing him reminded me of how much basketball knowledge has advanced. When I think of his tenure with Dallas at the time they were seen as a big 3. If it occurred today, I think everyone would have recognized it was a big 2 and he was a good supporting piece.

Fans and media are a lot smarter today

How would you compare Finley with the Mavs to Love with the Cavaliers?

This is such a tough question because they're so dissimilar players. Love was much more talented but for reasons that are still unclear to me, I didn't follow it closely enough, he declined significantly in Cleveland. It wasn't just a smaller role with Lebron and Kyrie because he showed no return to previous form.

Still inclined to say Love was marginally better.