lol this allstar game footage all these alltime great and then antoine walker and vin baker
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 5 May 2020 00:02 (three years ago) link
i love how there's always a couple losers on the all-star teams but the late 90s/early aughts were the zenith of the phenomenon
― Clay, Tuesday, 5 May 2020 00:03 (three years ago) link
actually i guess there's so hq talent these days that we haven't had a true wtf guy like dale davis or whatever making a squad in a few years
― Clay, Tuesday, 5 May 2020 00:04 (three years ago) link
loosening the positional requirements helped too
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 5 May 2020 00:05 (three years ago) link
ok so i did just flip through the chapter in lazenby's book on jordan not making varsity as a sophomore. here's the quick version:
- the team was returning 11 seniors and 3 juniors- 8 of the returning upperclassmen were guards- jordan was 5'10" at the time, and the sophomore who made the team was 6'6"- "he couldn't beat any of the upperclassmen 1 on 1 until the end of his sophomore year"- sadly, the varsity coach was out of coaching 3 years after jordan graduated due to the onset of schizophrenia
― call all destroyer, Tuesday, 5 May 2020 00:59 (three years ago) link
Been thinking bout him since i first saw him. In the movie over the course of the season MJ gets into him for over 50k - this guy needed 50k he promised for his daughter and her husband for a mortgage payment. He won’t take MJ up on another bet. MJ SHOWS UP AT HIS HOUSE.— SAFDIE (@JOSH_BENNY) May 4, 2020
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Tuesday, 5 May 2020 01:30 (three years ago) link
omg I called it
― Yanni Xenakis (Hadrian VIII), Tuesday, 5 May 2020 01:32 (three years ago) link
haa
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 5 May 2020 01:33 (three years ago) link
i just watched the ep and the dude is fucking around with his gun while michael is pitching quarters
https://i.imgur.com/KCE7JzL.png
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 5 May 2020 01:39 (three years ago) link
I’ll keep watching this but kinda feel ESPN buried the lede here
― Yanni Xenakis (Hadrian VIII), Tuesday, 5 May 2020 02:04 (three years ago) link
love how there were at least four different pronunciations of kukoc in the first episode
― fatuous salad (symsymsym), Tuesday, 5 May 2020 08:50 (three years ago) link
Lol. I think Barkley STILL calls Dirk "No-wit-ski".
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Tuesday, 5 May 2020 17:13 (three years ago) link
man how cool would it to be buds with john salley. just seems like the coolest, most thoughtful dude.
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 5 May 2020 22:27 (three years ago) link
it feels churlish to complain about anything amid the incredible bounty of this series but the structure gives me whiplash. i get that it's a complex thing they're trying to pull off - the spine is the footage from 97/98, and they have to set up all the stories including key milestones in the team's progress. but sometimes i'm like, wait rodman's a piston again?? fuck
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 5 May 2020 23:10 (three years ago) link
same
― DJI, Tuesday, 5 May 2020 23:21 (three years ago) link
yah even as a diehard its a little hard to follow especially as the past clips get closer and closer to the 97-98 season
― Spottie, Tuesday, 5 May 2020 23:29 (three years ago) link
i really like the digressive style i think theyre doing a good job of keeping it interesting
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 6 May 2020 00:01 (three years ago) link
they also show a graphic every time they jump around
i noticed that :) yeah it definitely keeps you guessing
man, today's jordan. the gap between what he was then and now. he's capable of a lot of nuanced reflection now - he has a kind of humanity that i never really credited him with. savvy, yes, humanity, no. and he looks like a sack of crap. you look at wennington, salley, pippen - they look great. they look alive. the gap with what jordan was - superhuman, alive to everything - and today is like.... fuck. feels like there's some layers of narcotization back there in the storeroom of his post-career life that he's somehow made his peace with or intermittently climbs his way out of.
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 6 May 2020 00:03 (three years ago) link
yeah
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 6 May 2020 00:04 (three years ago) link
when he said if he could change one think itd be to not have been a role model there was a lot there
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 6 May 2020 00:05 (three years ago) link
i never thought i’d look at jordan and feel... pity?
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 6 May 2020 00:06 (three years ago) link
he looks pretty normal to me minus the eyes. i think being an owner of one of the worst hoops franchises and not being able to figure it out eats at him every day tho.
i remember this article having some good inside nuggets: http://www.espn.com/espn/feature/story/_/page/Michael-Jordan/michael-jordan-not-left-building
― Spottie, Wednesday, 6 May 2020 00:20 (three years ago) link
i agree w tracer that he seems sad and like he does booze and pills but its not like hes unraveling it just is what it is
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 6 May 2020 00:22 (three years ago) link
Back in the office after his vacation on a 154-foot rented yacht named Mister Terrible
beautiful phrase
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 6 May 2020 00:29 (three years ago) link
dark musings!
"I … I always thought I would die young," he says, leaning up to rap his knuckles on the rich, dark wood of his desk.
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 6 May 2020 00:32 (three years ago) link
was listening to some pod recently and they advanced the idea that as an owner having so little control over outcomes would be driving him totally insane if he didn't detach in a pretty severe way.
to me he seems pretty normal among people who peaked early. they usually know when they don't have a second act. so he plays 36 holes of golf every day and hangs out with a family he seems to at least kind of like. it could be worse.
― call all destroyer, Wednesday, 6 May 2020 00:36 (three years ago) link
The Harvey Gantt stuff in E5 was really interesting. I'm familiar with the Jordan quote but didn't know it was connected to a specific political campaign.
Felt bad for Kukoc for being thrown into that impossible situation in the Olympics--here, go pitch to Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig; I got them nice and angry ahead of time for you--so was glad he made a good showing second time around.
― clemenza, Wednesday, 6 May 2020 22:29 (three years ago) link
he's capable of a lot of nuanced reflection now
That's the best thing about this. He wiggled a bit talking about Gantt, but for the most part, I never feel like he's shaping his responses. The things that drove him then still do--loved the Clyde Drexler showdown, the way he's able to speak respectfully about Drexler but still make it clear it was a mismatch.
― clemenza, Wednesday, 6 May 2020 22:33 (three years ago) link
it's fun to watch the glass of whiskey next to him go up and down
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 6 May 2020 23:13 (three years ago) link
yeah, i imagine the quantum state of that tumbler is impacting the nature of this doc quite a bit
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Wednesday, 6 May 2020 23:32 (three years ago) link
i saw somewhere that it's extra anejo tequila which is appropriately gauche
― call all destroyer, Wednesday, 6 May 2020 23:35 (three years ago) link
lol that is definitely a hard liquor flex
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 7 May 2020 00:37 (three years ago) link
― Matt Armstrong, Thursday, 7 May 2020 04:28 (three years ago) link
Cause he's chill af or is that actually a widely accepted variant?
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Thursday, 7 May 2020 04:31 (three years ago) link
Like how Olajuwon let 10 years go by before going um actually it's Hakeem not Akeem
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Thursday, 7 May 2020 04:33 (three years ago) link
Charles Barkley was great in E5. Disappointed to read Jordan's feuding with him, too--1000% with Barkley there.
― clemenza, Thursday, 7 May 2020 15:04 (three years ago) link
i can't stop thinking about a guns and roses doc made exactly like this with a fat old axl sitting there settling scores and getting embarrassed by old footage and pointedly not touching a tumbler full of whiskey and al gore talking about how he had to sneak his listening on a walkman while tipper was in another room
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 7 May 2020 15:11 (three years ago) link
lol hell yes
― lag∞n, Thursday, 7 May 2020 15:19 (three years ago) link
i want to hear axl reveal all about his feud with mnuchin
did mnuchin walk out of the conference room without shaking hands?
― let me be your friend on the other end! (Karl Malone), Thursday, 7 May 2020 15:20 (three years ago) link
yes!
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 7 May 2020 15:20 (three years ago) link
i didn't expect that to be resolved so quickly, but it makes sense!
― let me be your friend on the other end! (Karl Malone), Thursday, 7 May 2020 15:21 (three years ago) link
oh lol my YES was for the idea of the axl doc series
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 7 May 2020 15:22 (three years ago) link
I'm the biggest MJ fan on ILH but yeah I'm with Barkley on that too. You'd hope that MJ would hear Barkley's recent comments about their falling out and extend a hand to Barkley, but I'm not holding my breath.
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Thursday, 7 May 2020 17:16 (three years ago) link
i was just reading about it this morning. that sucks :( i imagine it’s not uncommon though? switching from sport to commentary & being called on to give some hard opinions about friends & fellow teammates etc. maybe moreso for barkley bc he never pulled his punches anyway
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 7 May 2020 19:14 (three years ago) link
i am okay with anybody in the entire world not being friends with charles barkley; he seems like he would get infuriating quickly
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Thursday, 7 May 2020 19:21 (three years ago) link
Barkley's words are more hurtful than he seems to realize. He focuses on how he said the people around Jordan are bad and not Jordan specifically. But in doing that, he's painting a picture of MJ as a clueless dupe. It's the sort of criticism that probably causes more turmoil and second-guessing within the org than just saying "Jordan made this or that terrible pick/decision, and they need to recover from that."
― Morton Koopa Jr. Sings Elvis (Sufjan Grafton), Thursday, 7 May 2020 19:26 (three years ago) link
ultimately, Barkley is either right or wrong about it. if he's right, i'm probably on his side. but if he was trying to craft a middle ground soundbyte that allowed him to do his job and not hurt his friend, I think he failed.
― Morton Koopa Jr. Sings Elvis (Sufjan Grafton), Thursday, 7 May 2020 19:28 (three years ago) link
where is the info re barkley feud
― lag∞n, Thursday, 7 May 2020 19:28 (three years ago) link
https://youtu.be/vGAY_pKRelQ
― Morton Koopa Jr. Sings Elvis (Sufjan Grafton), Thursday, 7 May 2020 20:13 (three years ago) link