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Tbf Wolves and Grizz seemed headed that way with one series

Nuggets and Wolves have that now back 2 back years doing so (plus adding the Wolves GM used to work for the Nuggets and specifically built a team to beat the Nuggets in mind). I think that passes the smell test of a new rivalry

But most we get now if it's not historically already there is short term rivalries I guess. The added player movement kinda kills the long term development of one.
Wolves-Nuggs meet another time in the playoffs in the next couple years, rivalry label will absolutely fit.
 
My hot take for the night: calling Ant the best player on the Wolves is really just peoples way of saying he’s cute.

I think I could make the argument he’s the 5th most important player on the team.

1. JMc (Young Pippen, doing all the things that don’t show up in the stat box while MJ gets all the credit)
2. Kat (Big Purr, the best shooting big man of all-time)
3. Goober (has his flaws but he’s pretty much a guarantee for a top three defense)
4. Naz (best contract in the league)
5. Ant (wolves might still be rolling if you swap him out for CJ McCollum)

you're wild wrong. he's the best player.


buuuuuuut, ill say theres tiny tiny tiny bit of truth to this in that

the best offensive player on a team built on around defense tends to get overrated a bit.


Isiah Thomas, AI on the finals sixers, Chauncey on the pistons ect
 
I never really liked Rudy. But I always understood his importance.
Most people miss the second piece. Easily the second most important player on that team. It's very odd that Ben Wallace got a lot of praise (I liked Ben Wallace), but Rudy Gobert? Slander all day. The power of being well-liked.
 
Chelsea boots in a casual context are over because skinny jeans are over.

can't wear Chelsea's with current fashionable silhouettes.
 
Real rivalries are built through playoff match-ups and teams taking turns eliminating each other. Otherwise, it’s a just an invented talking point.

Tbf Wolves and Grizz seemed headed that way with one series

Exactly what I meant. Felt they were bound to meet again this postseason. Next season will suffice. Ja's revival, Ant the new face that was vacated by Ja (possibly). Two scrappy and deep teams.

But hold on...let the Wolves get these rings first..
 
Waiting for the western conference finals to start like:
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Wolves-Nuggs meet another time in the playoffs in the next couple years, rivalry label will absolutely fit.

This was the 2nd straight postseason they faced eachother...plus all the intertwining personnel, same division so they play 4 times a season...I think it already qualifies.

Memphis would be more exciting tho.
 
This is really it. Easily the second most important player on that team. It's very odd that Ben Wallace got a lot of praise (I liked Ben Wallace), but Rudy Gobert? Slander all day. The power of being well-liked.
He fits the original euro/french stereotype and mold that was in folks minds before the explosion in the last decade of elite international talent dominating at this level

He came into the league when international bigs were still automatically considered 'soft' and awkward :lol:

He's never quite shaken that off even though he's vastly surpassed each and every one of even the wildest expectations that people would've had for him and his career in the league.

Thankfully for future euro/international players, they won't be coming into the league with that stigma anymore. It'll be more based off of what they do on the court as it should be. Guys like Rudy took the lumps for them
 
He fits the original euro/french stereotype and mold that was in folks minds before the explosion in the last decade of elite international talent dominating at this level

He came into the league when international bigs were still automatically considered 'soft' and awkward :lol:

He's never quite shaken that off even though he's vastly surpassed each and every one of even the wildest expectations that people would've had for him and his career in the league.

Thankfully for future players, they won't be coming into the league with that stigma anymore. It'll be based off of what they do on the court as it should be. Guys like Rudy took the lumps for them
Nah. :lol
 
You think that stigma's still very present these days?

I think enough people have seen guys come over and ball out consistently over the years to give new guys more of a chance or leeway to show what they've got even if they haven't heard of them before turning them into memes.
 
A good Jaden McDaniels is definitely just as important if not more than Rudy, who is probably 3rd on that team.
 
You thing that stigma's still very present these days?

I think enough people have seen guys come over and ball out consistently over the years to give new guys more of a chance or leeway to show what they've got even if they haven't heard of them before turning them into memes.
Not sure if the stigma is still there or not, but I don't put it above people to believe in it and run with it.
 
I think enough people have seen guys come over and ball out consistently over the years to give new guys more of a chance or leeway to show what they've got even if they haven't heard of them before turning them into memes.

This thread had me expecting Rubio to be the next J Kidd... :lol:

He's appreciated now, but definitely fell way short of the expectations y’all allowed me to believe. :{
 
Looking forward to the Dallas series
  • Having McDaniels guard PJ Washington would be such a waste, I hope they stick Mike on him
  • I like Dallas though, and as much as I hate on PJ Washington picking him up and adding Gafford at the trade deadline were great moves from a team perspective
  • OKC was the smallest team in the playoffs and now Dallas is facing the largest- just an observation
  • Will Ant actually guard Kyrie? I wouldn't at least to start
 
Wemby will save it. Everyone loves him already so when he delivers it will be welcomed broadly
It's because, the term gets overused a lot these days but it's apt here, he's genuinely built different :lol:

Like if someone created him in a lab with all of the physical attributes that you'd want in an elite basketball player mixed with the mentality of someone at the top of their field and that's what you get
 
Jokic definitely hates Ant and the wolves after the wave :lol:


ANT MAN is one of my new favorite players I am good for trash talk on court but waving to the crowd and acting classless is another thing. Players now days do all of this and when they lose they dont wan't to talk to reporters or go straight to the back without shaking hands
 
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