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windy’s eclipse rant the other day was excellent lol

"now, why would the sun do that?"

that was great rant but he still he should show the eclipse more respect

yes the eclipse rant was great and also otm. know multiple people who are “driving up to maine” today lol cmon be serious you can see it on a livestream

it’s going to be like 92% coverage here, even if you’re super motivated to see it do you really need to drive 3 hours on a monday to get to the 100% part?

yes you do the zone of totality is 1000% cooler than the rest of the eclipse i drove up to wymoning from colorado for the last one and it was totally worth it, tho i did have a nice place to stay so it was nice anyway, today im already in the zone

reporting back is was so sick one of the most unusual and impressive natural phenomenon ive ever seen, recommend checking it out next time

love to be “in the zone”

thats what its all about baby

"In The Zone" with Trent Tucker is our Saturday morning NBA show on our local sports talk

ive seen him rise to the occasion occasionally --windy on reggie jackson

I am not his biggest fan but he’s going to have to eat 8-10 mins a game at minimum I’d think

Curious commentary from Reggie Miller wondering if the Lakers should miss a free throw instead of making both to go up four with 2.7 seconds left. pic.twitter.com/1DA6sZrDpK

— Awful Announcing (@awfulannouncing) April 17, 2024

*hmmm emoji*

a unique mind

“i’ve seen him rise to the occasion occasionally” was so classic

I like the Reggie/Harlan combo. Reggie is a funny man.

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its kinda funny to think back on those great reggie battles with the knicks and bulls with the knowledge that reggie is such an absolute goober. he was always a fun player to hate/root against but with hindsight have to think that for guys like ewing and starks and mj, the rivalries were less "fun" and more like "this mf guy"

ha true being fucked with by a guy whos lame and sucks is so insulting

actually you know what he doesnt suck hes fine hes just super lame

and he cant pronounce any players names even when theyre jones

xp i think that’s right. and back in the 90s we didn’t have the tools to always know who was lame so those reggie trolling videos took on a different tone.

honestly i don’t hate reggie like he doesn’t grate on me the way mark jackson or richard jefferson do/did. he’s just kinda dumb. or more than kinda. the clock thing last night being a great example

his biggest offenses as an announcer imho

1 can barely talk, consistently mispronounces very common words forget about at all unusual player names theres no hope, and just has a weird way of talking in general he has a flat affect like theres something amiss in his brain

2 is always way behind the action, theyll be some big play then the other team has the ball across halfcourt and hes like wow zion is really putting the team on his back, hes just never has his head in the game no sense of timing doesnt bring any emotional intensity, just very disconnected from the general goings on

3 is consistently wrong even about what hes currently seeing in a replay, but also about the rules of the game, strategy, whats normal in basketball, player evaluations etc

comparing him and jefferson is interesting cause jefferson is so unlikable but otherwise understands the job does it pretty well, where reggie has no personality and is deeply incompetent

“i’ve seen him rise to the occasion occasionally” was so classic

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its a great pod obvs and i know they have this adversarial schtick but i wish sometimes they would give each other a lil credit windy tells great stories has cool lines like that and theyre just on his ass immediately after, even just let it breathe a bit bontemps particularly is always stepping on everyones punchlines

At one point he said Zion was 6’3”

At one point he said Zion was 6’3”

Twice

ha yeah he does shit like that all game he has no idea whats going on ever

lol what

Wow shots fired at @KendrickPerkins from @NBAonTNT panel 👀 pic.twitter.com/0lpDkiUXus

— Bri Marie D (@BriMarieD) April 24, 2024

love that lol

whats the backstory there

Chuck's outfit there is rough

lmao at lagoon's list of Reggie offenses ... "can't talk" "bad timing" and "always wrong" ... not great if your job is to talk about live basketball on TV!

im sayin

also incredibly unfunny

the total package

And one of the most grating voices

https://theathletic.com/5432961/2024/04/23/lebron-james-goat-michael-jordan-nba-player-poll/

lol at Pierce pulling the same percentage of GOAT votes as Magic.

wtf!

i.e., one inexplicable vote. Pierce floated the idea that it was LeBron who voted for him, which is lmao.

There's definitely some interesting data in that poll, I've been meaning to bring it to ilh. Thing that jumped out to me the most is how insanely Giannis' stock has plummeted. One measly vote for best defender, distant 5th (behind Tatum) for MVP, and a massive fall from being the runaway 52% winner last year of "who would you start a roster with" to just a single vote for that as well. Other things, the players seem to love Adam Silver, they still hate Rudy Gobert, and Thibs' reputation as grueling precedes him so strongly that it's gotta influence signing players.

Link to the full survey is here: https://theathletic.com/5433545/2024/04/22/nba-player-poll-2024-lebron-jordan-goat-celtics-nuggets-rudy-gobert-timberwolves/. Lmk if someone wants full text in that other thread though it will miss the very helpful graphs

full text would be nice thanks

Only reading it now, some nice gems, like guys being afraid to fight James Johnson, and nobody wanting to play for Thibs by a longshot.

just remembered was half asleep in front of the game last night when i heard chuck and the gang rapping a public enemy song, i was like i should wake up and figure out whats going on but i did not