Breaking -- The human race has waived Josh Smith: 2014-15 regular season thread part 2

also mchale was a sixth man which always seems to undercut the arg

oh god what is dwight wearing

he should be honest w/ himself and just start during urkel cosplay

that having been said i never saw him play so what do i know

I never watched mchale play really, hard to judge.

fwiw the mchale as greatest 4 is a simmons hot take also. never heard anybody but him make the claim before

― head clowning instructor (art), Wednesday, March 11, 2015 11:42 PM (55 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

simmons has never claimed this iirc

barry referred to mchale as possibly the best power forward ever which no offense to celtics fans but that seems like idk i can think of about 5-10 off the top of my head i'd take before him
--Clay

um has barry heard of ser tim of house duncan

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/B_3gLAiUgAAzd3l.jpg

"did i do that?"

maybe im misremembering but thought that was in his book

dwigt

mchale was awesome but the three bise mentioned, karl malone, charles barkley, elgin baylor (i think he was a 4?), chris webber, bob pettit, elvin hayes i mean there's some guys, brow & LMA & bosh & blake & love all probably could get there in time

― Clay, Wednesday, March 11, 2015 11:42 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yeah some of these are fair but mchale is still prob top 10 for the moment, he made 6 all-defensive teams and shot over 60% as a forward in his prime, i don't see bosh/blake/love/lma accomplishing anything like that

maybe im misremembering but thought that was in his book

― head clowning instructor (art), Wednesday, March 11, 2015 11:47 PM (48 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

duncan, barkley, malone all higher in the book

defense is a good point. i def think he's a top 10 pf, just "best all-time" seemed like uh karl malone will fight u jon barry

maybe it was something else then. i either lost or gave away my copy. apologies for the incorrect attribution good sirs

32 second temp ban

he's also not better than Duncan, KG, or Dirk

― brosario nawson (m bison), Wednesday, March 11, 2015 11:39 PM (12 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

duncan is a center can we never discuss this again thank you

also mchale was a sixth man which always seems to undercut the arg

― head clowning instructor (art), Wednesday, March 11, 2015 11:44 PM (9 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

he just didnt like to start games for some weird reason, he played starters minutes finished games etc was totally a starter except didnt like actually start the games instead wld be inserted at the first whistle

checking simmons bball pyramid thing he has it as duncan > pettit > malone > barkley > garnett > mchale > nowitzki > hayes > rodman > webber

duncan is a center this drives me more crazy than it shd, like has anyone ever watched him play basketball, if the spurs for fun listed him as a point guard wld ppl say he was a point guard, prob

Melvin Hunt might keep this job

duncan is a center this drives me more crazy than it shd, like has anyone ever watched him play basketball, if the spurs for fun listed him as a point guard wld ppl say he was a point guard, prob

Is Mchale a center too?

no

mchale was awesome but the three bise mentioned, karl malone, charles barkley, elgin baylor (i think he was a 4?), chris webber, bob pettit, elvin hayes i mean there's some guys, brow & LMA & bosh & blake & love all probably could get there in time

― Clay, Wednesday, March 11, 2015 11:42 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yeah some of these are fair but mchale is still prob top 10 for the moment, he made 6 all-defensive teams and shot over 60% as a forward in his prime, i don't see bosh/blake/love/lma accomplishing anything like that

Had mchale never broken his foot he could very well have been the greatest.

How is duncan more centery than mchale

Melvin Hunt might keep this job

― Matt Armstrong, Wednesday, March 11, 2015 11:58 PM (Yesterday)

hard to tell if it's anything specific he's bringing or if it's just addition by subtraction, but i like it

le goon...peak/mvp-winning duncan was a pf bc d-rob was C. after robinson retires, duncan is a C. so i agree with you.

btw in my mind, i only rank kareem, wilt, billy russ, and olajuwon ahead of duncan in all time centers.

How is duncan more centery than mchale

― Matt Armstrong, Thursday, March 12, 2015 12:00 AM (7 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

duncan is generally the biggest guy on his team plays closest to the basket and guards the other teams center, mchale was not

I thought they should have just promoted Hunt when they fired Karl, he did a great job

le goon...peak/mvp-winning duncan was a pf bc d-rob was C. after robinson retires, duncan is a C. so i agree with you.

btw in my mind, i only rank kareem, wilt, billy russ, and olajuwon ahead of duncan in all time centers.

Rasho was the center after D Rob.

wau spurs fan putting hakeem ahead of duncan, you must just be being modest

How is duncan more centery than mchale

― Matt Armstrong, Thursday, March 12, 2015 12:00 AM (7 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

duncan is generally the biggest guy on his team plays closest to the basket and guards the other teams center, mchale was not

Duncan was not bigger than d rob, Rasho, about the same size as Tiago.

rasho is not a real person, shut up with that argument

le goon...peak/mvp-winning duncan was a pf bc d-rob was C. after robinson retires, duncan is a C. so i agree with you.

― brosario nawson (m bison), Thursday, March 12, 2015 12:01 AM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yeah i mean calling him a pf an obvs artifact of coming into the league on a team that already had a center but his natural position is clearly center

look, he's listed as a pf/c, so he's both

rasho is not a real person, shut up with that argument

One of the most underrated players of all time

timmys a center and i demand he be removed from the all time pf convo

get outta here, as soon as the spurs traded malik rose for nazr mohammed, his ass rode the pine and then he flamed out of the league

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joey dorsey really does look exactly like dwight tho this is cracking me up

blazers fans so hostile to the rockets love it

rivalries r good

rockets r a great team to h8 too

underrated rivalry, really no reason to hate each other except for hoops, feels more pure this way

Who was the guy on the celtics who played closet to th

get outta here, as soon as the spurs traded malik rose for nazr mohammed, his ass rode the pine and then he flamed out of the league

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Wrong, he was an elite defender for a spurs team that won a title. No one seemed to care or notice that he was blocking all those shots but it won games.

any fanbase hostile to the rockets is a fine and noble fanbase imo

WHY ARE YOU HERE MATT ARMSTRONG THIS IS A TERRIBLE ASS ARGUMENT

yeah rockets are a fantastic collection of heels

things hearing up itt

*heating, jesus phone keyboard c'mon now

big homie rasho lost his starting job to an isaiah thomas traded journeyman. that team had GOAT manu, peak duncan, over-the-yips parker, bob horry, and you wanna talk to me about rasho's ok defense i just wanna buy you a drink of something you wont like but will be too polite to say anything about thats how mad i am at you

things don't really get honestly heated on ilh until granny dainger shows up in one of his moods

WHY ARE YOU HERE MATT ARMSTRONG THIS IS A TERRIBLE ASS ARGUMENT

Why do you hate the guy who was the starting center for some of your franchise's best teams? He was good.

i bet you got a spreadsheet ready right now you better because this some revisionist history wellactuallyism bullshit