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  1. 12 minutes ago, n64ra said:

    It's not to make us thinks MJ is a bad player, but this shows it wasn't an added steal here or there. It was more than doubled from 2 legit steals to credited with 5 in just one game the authors watched. In the other 5 games they could find from that season, the box score showed 59 steals on 41 live-ball turnovers, resulting in a whopping 18 excess steals.

    ok yeah that’s pretty damned egregious, lol. 

  2. 2 hours ago, Mitch Cumsteen said:

    Jordan was a great defensive player. But he was never even the best defensive player on his own team much less in the entire league. Pippen was better and always guarded the other teams best player. 

    pippen, rodman, mj, and harper all on one team in ‘96. you could rank mj 3rd or even 4th on that list without too much argument.

     

    eta- it could be my romanticized memory, but i do also feel like mj had a knack for making impactful defensive plays on a level that was truly elite. scottie was a better defender, but i seem to have more memories of making big, momentum shifting chase down blocks and important steals (‘98 on malone) than guys like harper, rodman, and pippen.

  3. 9 minutes ago, Drew said:

    No way they actually think a HC...IN a title game, threw it cause he's taking a job at a school not even in the CWS?

     

    Jesus they are delusional.

    i mean what does he get from throwing the series? he’s already coming to Texas win or lose, what sense does it make for him to try and tank his own national title hopes? lol, god i love aggy delusion.

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  4. people have been talking about these fudged stats for a while now, and I’ve never been able to bring myself to care at all. Are we really going to act like Michael Jordan was not one of the all-time great defensive players in NBA history because he was given an extra steal here or there? does this “news” really do anything to change your opinion on Michael Jordan or his defensive ability and prowess? for me it does not. especially considering that the genesis of all of this talk is a bunch of GenZ kids trying to paint the NBA legends from the 80s as plumbers.

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  5. On 6/21/2024 at 11:24 PM, definitely not derka said:

    what i need: OF

    what i have: two top flight 1B

    Player A- on pace for 38 HR and 114 rbi (assuming 138 games played)

    Player B- averaging 43 HR and 117 rbi per season over the last three years, not to mention he’s the current iron man of the mlb

     

    if you need a top flight 1B and have an OF to offer then holler at me. OF + SP could = either of these guys.

    somebody needs to come take one of these 1B off my hands. i need OF and SP. naylor had a career year last year and is on pace to shatter it this year. olson’s resume speaks for itself. if he even comes close to his averages over the last 3-5 years then he’s going to go nuclear in the second half. the bottom line is that with shohei at DH i can’t keep two 1B. first team to send me a legit offer gets a stud. holler at me.

  6. the aggies adopting the jocko willink “good” mantra is so, so aggy it’s hilarious. listen, as a principle jocko’s “good” mantra is something that i think is a good/healthy mindset to have. when things go wrong you don’t act like a sorry sad sack, you find a reason to turn it into something legitimately good. i’m all for that, 100%.

    that said the entire premise of the “good” mantra is “ok so shit just went really bad; what do we do now?”. for their program to adopt that as their entire mantra, replete with custom “good” gear on all of their fans is just too fucking funny and appropriate, especially considering that the HC who just implemented said mantra is about to be coaching the team that is the ire of every aggie everywhere. i am very much looking forward to seeing how the aggies apply their mantra to what’s about to happen: “we hired our dream coach three years ago, he just had us at no.1 all season, he just led us to the cws final series, annnnnnd now he’s just left us for tu. that’s good. this is good. this is definitely good. everything is good. everything is fine…”

     

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