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wat. ncaa tournament has 65 teams, at least half of which don't really matter even in the high variance structure

Simmons used to post on Sons of Sam Horn (Red Sox board with heavy stat-inclinations and very little mercy for lame reasoning).

They ran him off, but based on some of his (shockingly petty) tweets/podcast comments, he definitely still reads the thread about himself. The guy still really, really cares what people think.

slight fix

We get it, you guys like college because you can relate to the short, slow, white guys that can hit threes and you're scared of the big scary black guys with tattoos.

lol

Can you imagine if Ron Artest had tats and cornrows? That would be one scary mo'fo, I'd just chuck my wallet and keys at him and run away as fast as possible.

I prefer college basketball, but it's absurd to think the game is played at a higher level in any way. I can think of two good reasons to prefer the college game, and both are true with me.

1) I have a huge emotional investment in my team (UConn). Many of my best college memories are closely associated with going to men's basketball games. I have nothing similar with the NBA.

2) I enjoy watching the team improve and (hopefully) reach its potential over the course of the season. Early season play is often pretty rough and sloppy, but it's fun to imagine what the team can become, then watch it happen. Watching how much Emeka Okafor or Hasheem Thabeet improved during their time at UConn was tremendously gratifying.

My team is full of big, scary black guys, often with corn rows. But not so many tattoos.

Edit: And obviously, watching my team beat Duke and it's slow, white guys who can hit threes in the Final Four every few seasons is great.

Well, its 1-on-1 half the plays and 2-on-2 the other half.

what's a poaster?

If only about a few more billion people in the world understood this.

lots of ppl seem to think i'm a pretty bad poster. that's okay tho.

i dont remember any of your poasts

Boo to your avatar change.

Isn't this a lot closer to reality in the NBA than... something ghey like HS basketball?

I though NCAABB was basically devoid of isolation as well.

A statement had to be made

I sure love people who talk about sports incessantly and thump their chests and hoot when their teams win, then shrug it off and pretend it doesn't matter when they're ****.

I assume you aren't talking about me, because you'll never see me thump my chest. I do talk about it, but it certainly doesn't rule my life.

meh, don't know about other people, but I can get over a loss pretty easily.

I was definitely talking about NBA - which is mostly iso or PnR. Was in response to CVigg who said it was nuts to say NBA was all iso. He's right, there are actually two plays in the NBA.

Yeah, I'd say NCAA has relatively little iso.

Seems kinda healthy to me. Be happy if things go well, don't let it bother you if they don't.

Well, real detachment from these things is healthy. Fake detachment for the purposes of 'winning' at fanhood is totally queercakes.

good use of queercakes

yeah but if you get really, really happy about something when it goes well then it's highly unlikely it doesn't bother you when the outcome is not favorable. that's not to say that being unhealthily obsessed w/sports outcomes is a good thing

this

let's just sticky every heels post

SEE HOW HE WENT BACK AND EDITED HIS POST TO BE EVEN MORE EXPLICATIVE AND INCISIVE?

THAT IS SOME WORLD-CLASS EDITING RIGHT THERE, BOB GRIESE.

BACK AFTER THESE MESSAGES, FOR THE STANFORD BAND.