Bill being so over the top about Jaylen Brown is his version of “I would’ve voted for Obama a third time!”
anthony davis is also in on this advertising line for "jalapeno lime" chips. i bought a bag last weekend. they aren't that great but i finished the bag ruffles queso #1
my interest level in that pod was pretty low but i feel like they kept referring to the vacant head coach job as a "diversity hire"
its moments like these where I question why Simmons has resisted his urge to bring on Chris Mannix to complete the Boston news team
Bill: "I just don't like how we praise these young players before they've ever won anything" also Bill: "Luka is as good as LeBron on the Heat" also Handcuffed how we feeling about the Bill proposal of CJ for Obi Toppin and the Knicks 2 1sts this year?
i just turned on the podcasts so i haven't gotten to it yet. was it said as a joke? obi toppin averaged 4 points this year. they're talking about guys on rookie deals turning down their rookie extensions and can't find an example of it happening before. didn't KP do that exact thing and that was the big reason why NYK traded him?
not a joke but RR totally roasted him for the suggestion and then Bill did a predictable dick-tuck after that
i do like that 3 weeks ago, bill was going back and forth on whether dame was 1st team all-nba and now he's ready to trade him for two quarters and 5 dimes i believe there may have even been a kemba deal floated
This is amazing and gets to something they talked about on the Bryan Curtis pod regarding all the Lebron banter all season. Their point was it was all instant takes then silence when he lost without any immediate real reaction, but the greater point I think can be made is there is no take accountability in the current media landscape. Bill could’ve said he invented the question mark (or in this case claim he’s been a Booker guy all along) a month ago and then never mention it again. And still complain about the aggregators.
That's because there's a large segment of fans who enjoy the shit talking on social media more than they actually enjoy the games, so it attracts more eyeballs to do the Skip Bayless buffoon act than someone giving solid analysis. "I think the Nets are going to win the title" is a lot less entertaining to some than "Luka will never lose in the first round again for the rest of his career" (something Bill actually said last year)
luckily the BS subreddit does the lord's work but the Trae/Booker situation shows Bill truly has no shame at this point
similar to other parts of life the "gamification" of it all is much more important than the substance
Bill being the guy who said he loves spectacles and even Russillo said he likes having extreme takes.
I couldn’t care less about Booker and Trae Young, and i was getting agitated at his “I was never down on Booker and Young” section. He’s killed both of them ever since they came into the league. And his excuse of “how are we supposed to know if you can win until you do it?’ if you’re in the “take business” aren’t you supposed to project how players will produce with better talent around them? Just say that you were too hard on them and they’ve developed beyond what you’d thought they be at this point.
He hated Booker because Booker scored 70 against the Celtics, and he hates Trae because the worse Trae does the more he can jerk himself off about being "right" about Luka (even though he coopted that take entirely from KOC and never mentions that)
i enjoy the klosterman pods guy is sort of a weirdo but in a fun way and he's seemingly the only guest that bill is actually willing to dive into the ideas with
The first part wasn't bad. But then they started talking about UFOs and... well bill believes in ghosts
Nothing that great. I guess Klosterman lives here but seemed to not have spoken with a single blazer fan
My favorite thing ever was still when Chuck and Bill said the Star Wars franchise should be nationalized to help fund program in our government.
plus he's one of the only guests (other than when Sal says passing comments half jokingly) to point out to Bill that the NBA fucking sucks in its current form
The more I listened to Chuck the more I disagreed with his point about player movement. He’s surprised...players want more from an industry that is making insane money? Was pretty funny when he basically alluded to the ringer union but I don’t think that was the intention. Yes, basketball is a made up fucking thing. Kinda like telling someone to dig shut out of the ground. Someone can always start an alternative league or form of bball entertainment if the profit sharing is better for labor.
Also, does anyone think effective rules changes would impact the idea of team building with stars? Most big threes are offensive players. There’s a quicker diminishing return if the league isn’t forcing teams to load up on offense and there are fewer elite defensive players in the nba than guys who can drop 20 on a given night.
Bill said "comfortable" blanket when he meant comfort blanket. Little stuff like that kills me after he made a living as a writer for 15 years or whatever
I like when Bill makes up stupid ass trades he throws out the “no inside info” bullshit which he thinks lends credence to his dumb ideas. On the positive side, enjoying the Flying Coach pod with Sean McVay (mini Gruden). I like the inside stories on coaching and coaching circles.
i think breaking the current solution to basketball where you get high efficiency even on bad 3's is the key making longer contracts would be a start as well to decrease movement, but owners didn't like that because they gave bad player long contracts
his mispronunciation of “subsequently” as “sub-seeee-kwint-lee” makes me irrationally angry. I’ve only ever listened to the Rewatchables, but he does it fairly regularly and I can’t wrap my ahead around a writer having such poor command of the language.
i appreciate chuck's thoughts and think it's a worthwhile discussion whose job is it to ensure the nba product is high quality? chuck is saying neither the player nor coach are responsible for it currently so resting star players is the optimal strategy to winning. but if the coach and player aren't responsible for the product, who ultimately is? the league administration? the owners? if so, are they empowered to make changes (i would argue mostly no) and are they the only people who are incentivized (i would argue no as well).
Expanding the 3 point line to atleast take away corner threes. You can’t solve for the numbers telling you layups and threes are the most valuable shots, but you can try and make the threes less valuable than they are which will encourage varying styles of play vs. today’s generally homogenous, blow out prone, product.