The Ringer Thread: Complain about everything, yet still consume content

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  1. bro

    bro Your Mother’s Favorite Shitposter
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    One period away from Bill never mentioning playoff hockey to Ryen during a Monday pod in 2021 :loldog:
     
  2. War Grundle

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    Easy, you have an editor.
     
  3. ZeroPointZero

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    Take away corner 3's for sure
    All shooting fouls are 2 shots only
    Take away the whole concept of needing to give 3 point shooters space to come down, if you get Zaza'd too bad
    Call more offensive fouls on the Reggie Miller leg kick bullshit
     
  4. Fran Tarkenton

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    especially given how rigorous his stuffy Catholic school was
     
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  5. ZeroPointZero

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    any more 25+ point blowouts in the playoffs and I'm gonna advocate abolishing the 3 point line altogether
     
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  6. ZeroPointZero

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    this Wos guy is a yet another Ringer kiss-ass

    Bill: (says literally anything)
    Wos: [​IMG]
     
  7. bro

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    He just laughs a lot period.
     
  8. ZeroPointZero

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    it's like they replaced Jason Concepcion for that designated "overlaughs at Bill" spot
     
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  9. Celemo

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    [​IMG]
     
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  10. Butthead

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    Ryen listing those ridiculous playoff stats and all of them being Chris Paul, and then him saying "it's getting a little misty in here"

    Honestly I laughed my ass off in the car, that was good
     
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  11. Fuzzy Zoeller

    Fuzzy Zoeller College football > NFL
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    Everyone would be happier if Bill would just come out and say, "Look, if you're under 6'4", I want you to be Isiah Thomas, okay? I think you should be on a shots limit until the fourth quarter. I just do." It totally explains why he has such a problem with Kyrie, Trae Young and Devin Booker, except he either doesn't realize it or won't admit it, and so he gets himself into these ridiculous backbends.

     
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  12. joey jo-jo jr shabadoo

    joey jo-jo jr shabadoo you know for me, the action is the juice

    i liked bill talking about how kd doesnt game the system when it comes to seeking fouls when the league literally changed the rip through rule because of him
     
  13. The Great Pumpkin

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    The KD staning in this podcast was embarrassing.
     
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  14. Lorne Malvo

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    Ryen sounded so disengaged with the top 40.
     
  15. steamengine

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    Kind of a weird time for this exercise. Seems pretty offseasony for the fellas.
     
  16. Upton^2

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    Yeah those rankings came out of nowhere.

    Bills idea that non-NBA fans will watch the suns in the finals because of Paul in the State Farm commercials was out of control.

    I did laugh at ryens idea of the cop murder thriller where midway through the cop starts flying.
     
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  17. BudKilmer

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  18. Upton^2

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    Ringer/Grantland related
     
  19. bro

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    Bill: I don't hate any athlete
    Ryen: You didn't hate Lambier?

    Bill then admits to hating 10 different athletes
     
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  20. ZeroPointZero

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    just imagine how much Bill (and NBA media in general) would've gone on and on if LeBron's personal security ran on the court to protect him from a scuffle

    but when it's KD it's crickets
     
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  21. Xander Crews

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    just an absurd line from someone who got famous for being the first homer columnist.
     
  22. Fuzzy Zoeller

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    One of his biggest columns was him openly asking if Roger Clemens was the Anti-Christ.
     
  23. ZeroPointZero

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    doing a victory lap about Chris Paul when he hasn't even made the Finals yet sums up the Chris Paul era and his fans perfectly
     
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  24. C-Pay

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    People are going to cling onto that like it's an Easterby type situation. And I completely get that Bob "doesn't know how to talk to people" and might have too much power. But he does know what he's doing. That said, I wouldn't mind if he went back to not being with a team just to hear him on podcasts haha. One of the bigger issues with bringing in guys like this, especially quants, is the issues with integrating them into the organization and getting alignment. That's on Cuban
     
  25. Lyrtch

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    how do you know this
     
  26. C-Pay

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    his bona fides are fairly well established. The guy isn't a schmo off the street, but that's part of the issue in itself. How do you integrate an independently wealthy guy who is smart (and knows it) who probably doesn't have great people skills (and likely is an ass) into the organization?
     
  27. ZeroPointZero

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    are they though? You believe his origin story?
     
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  28. Lyrtch

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    as they relate to success in a front office?

    I find that a dubious connection
     
  29. Xander Crews

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    I like CP3, but the passes they gave him was over the top. Somehow all of his playoff failures were not his fault?
     
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  30. Fran Tarkenton

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    guilty
     
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  31. Butthead

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    As far as why Paul just hasn't had great success in the playoffs, it might just be that it's really hard to make deep pushes when your best player is 6'1 or whatever
     
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  32. duc15

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    because he won a lot of money betting nba games he has the bonafides to work in a front office?
     
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  33. LuPoor

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    Undersized player, and his teams are always overseeded because they absolutely max out in the regular season. Same thing that plagues Budenholzer.
     
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  34. Handcuffed

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    is anyone good - or better than others - at front office stuff?

    even pat riley has failed a bunch. those bona fides are fake.
     
  35. Tobias

    Tobias dan “the man qb1” jones fan account
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    yes you fucking idiot there are good front office people

    christ almighty it’s every day with you
     
  36. Lyrtch

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    extreme galaxy brain take
     
  37. ZeroPointZero

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    um excuse you, one front office might even be called light years ahead of the rest
     
  38. Lyrtch

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    also i find bona fides to be things like "worked in basketball" to be a reasonable bar to hold
     
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  39. LuPoor

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    Idk how you can look at like Masai Ujiri and Daryl Morey, then decide they are functionally equivalent to whatever is going on in Sacramento or Orlando
     
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  40. hood b. goode

    hood b. goode with the mandem
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    Of course mark cuban has his own jack easterby. Of course he does.
     
  41. Xander Crews

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    How can mirrors be real, if our eyes aren’t real?
     
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  42. Xander Crews

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    At the very least, look at Billy King’s reign of terror in this league.
     
  43. Handcuffed

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    the GMs and Presidents of those two loser teams have all been involved with the NBA/sports for 10-20+ years, from what i've seen. so what makes morey and ujiri so much better than them isn't their experience and "bona fides" working in the sport. if portland fires its GM this summer, i'd rather give voulgaris a shot than vlade divac or john hammond or any other failed executive with basketball experience.

    i don't know much about voulgaris outside of his awful crypto twitter and smugness on the old pods with BS. but if he was actually successful at gambling (which like ZeroPointZero , i personally have doubts about), he likely does have insights into what makes a team successful, which players are good or undervalued, which rotations are best, etc. his analyses would definitely fit within a smart org that incorporates his data into other qualitative factors.
     
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  44. Lyrtch

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    this implies he was betting on who is winning/etc, even in his own explanation he was finding weirdness in like over/under totals vs 1h/2h totals

    which is an irrelevant thing to uncover (although I admit finding those quirks MIGHT be able to be transferred to useful in a small way)
     
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  45. Handcuffed

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    totally fair. my point is less about voulgaris specifically (who seems very unlikeable) and more about the concept of an "outsider" who can excel in a new industry.
     
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  46. Lyrtch

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    funny to see very quiet zach lowe who then kneecaps their party, but also remembering jerry west said he'd resign if gs did that trade to keep them from doing it
     
  47. Lorne Malvo

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    What was this?
     
  48. Lyrtch

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    was a clip from this pod

    where Bob/Bill talked about how they'd have obviously done the Klay/Love trade, both talking about how average and replaceable Klay was, etc
     
  49. Upton^2

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    Kanell on russillo to discuss college athletes getting paid. The hardest of passes
     
  50. vander02

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    I think if you had an algorithm that came up with the sentence I’m least likely to ever click on, it would be harder to come up with a better one. The people, the topic, the overwhelming sense of their own self-importance