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Makes so sense to give up on Poole so early. This time last year he was the 3rd/4th best Warrior. Gotta give it at least one more year.
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gods son gonna have to have a hell of a pre-game speech tonight
Brook Lopez making the all defensive team and getting more DPOY Votes than Giannis is hilarious to me.
They don’t really have a choice anyways. No market for him right nowMakes so sense to give up on Poole so early. This time last year he was the 3rd/4th best Warrior. Gotta give it at least one more year.
I agree- what’s that payroll looking like thoughGSW’s defense without Dray is one of the worst in the league. He’s not going anywhere if they wanna contend in Steph’s window. Especially if it’s a new GM and not Myers there to talk him into a S&T. Doubt he’s getting a max from someone else
Reporters confirming the locker room a mess tooI know the Warriors will Win later but why do i have a feeling that they will collapse so bad and will be smashed by the lakers for 20+ points?
Makes so sense to give up on Poole so early. This time last year he was the 3rd/4th best Warrior. Gotta give it at least one more year.
I agree- what’s that payroll looking like though
This is funny as hell to me. Kobe at Giannis' age was all about chips and anything less was a failure. Kobe didn't soften up until after the Achilles tear and he/Lakers had no chance at winning.
Makes so sense to give up on Poole so early. This time last year he was the 3rd/4th best Warrior. Gotta give it at least one more year.
You spelled Giannis’s name wrong like 7 timesAs I've thought about this, I've decided Gannis response is silly, fundamentally misunderstands sports and is a massive backwards hustle.
The central appeal of sports is the stakes are irrationally inflated. When you watch or participate in a sport you are tacitly agreeing to massively inflate the stakes of every outcome.
it's an essential part of the social contract of any sport.
And pople who violate that social contract are shunned because to do so is to puncture the very essence of sports competition.
If you are playing any serious sport and a dude on your team kept harping on the fact that "none of this matters" "we are all winners in life" you would have nothing but contempt for him.
Sports are a way to vicariously experience life or death outcomes. Basically all social animals with a fear response engage in this kind of play. It's a way of testing the body and the mind,.
Human beings are social animals so there is such a thing as social death. So our forms of play almost always involve a social component.
Legacy; how will victory or defeat echo across time? What will it mean to you, the players that came before, the players that will come after?
Gannis gets paid win or lose, every player is a millionaire and has no relationship to the city other than tenouis geographic designations.
Sports are human drama, If you can't call out success or failure you might as well watch NBA 2K simulations.
Obviously In the context of life Gannis is not a failure. But what does that even mean?,
In modern society unless you murdered or raped someone or are a hardened criminal we don't really call anyone's life a "failure".
Competitive sports operates by different rules, and we all understand this. It's part of the social contract.
If you lose in 5 games to an 8 seed it is obviously a massive failure.
Describing it as anything less in the context of sports is absurd.
If Gannis doesn't like that he should probably just not play competitive sports. Victory / defeat, success / failure is kind of the whole point.
As I've thought about this, I've decided Gannis response is silly, fundamentally misunderstands sports and is a massive backwards hustle.
The central appeal of sports is the stakes are irrationally inflated. When you watch or participate in a sport you are tacitly agreeing to massively inflate the stakes of every outcome.
it's an essential part of the social contract of any sport.
And pople who violate that social contract are shunned because to do so is to puncture the very essence of sports competition.
If you are playing any serious sport and a dude on your team kept harping on the fact that "none of this matters" "we are all winners in life" you would have nothing but contempt for him.
Sports are a way to vicariously experience life or death outcomes. Basically all social animals with a fear response engage in this kind of play. It's a way of testing the body and the mind,.
Human beings are social animals so there is such a thing as social death. So our forms of play almost always involve a social component.
Legacy; how will victory or defeat echo across time? What will it mean to you, the players that came before, the players that will come after?
Gannis gets paid win or lose, every player is a millionaire and has no relationship to the city other than tenouis geographic designations.
Sports are human drama, If you can't call out success or failure you might as well watch NBA 2K simulations.
Obviously In the context of life Gannis is not a failure. But what does that even mean?,
In modern society unless you murdered or raped someone or are a hardened criminal we don't really call anyone's life a "failure".
Competitive sports operates by different rules, and we all understand this. It's part of the social contract.
If you lose in 5 games to an 8 seed it is obviously a massive failure.
Describing it as anything less in the context of sports is absurd.
If Gannis doesn't like that he should probably just not play competitive sports. Victory / defeat, success / failure is kind of the whole point.
““He doesn’t defend, doesn’t really create for others and that Draymond [Green] incident wasn’t a great look for either of them,” another said. “The intel on Poole [and his presence in the locker room] isn’t great.””
Dude said the Draymond situation didn’t help his case like he wasn’t the one that took the punch![]()