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Derka

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  1. how many times are y’all going to act like this is a serious proposal and not an indictment on how shitty the wnba product is? how many times can it be repeated that nobody is petitioning the league to lower the rims? the two points here, as has been repeated several times, are: a)whenever someone has suggested that more people would be interested in the league if the rims were lowered and dunks were a factor (a point mainly brought up to wnba players by current nba players) the women have been appalled and insulted, which points towards their entitlement and unwillingness to listen to new ideas. and, b)watching 10 destinee hooker level athletes play a game on 8 foot rims would absolutely be more entertaining and more popular than the wnba has ever been.
  2. a)quit getting all upset and replying as if it’s a serious proposition and not a statement on how shitty the current product is, and b)i don’t think you know what “interesting” means.
  3. there is no question that the league currently has more eyeballs because of caitlin clark, but that bubble will eventually burst and it will happen sooner rather than later. one player can’t make her entire sport suddenly fun to watch. after all the one girl they keep comparing her to, the girl who they want to be the magic to her bird, is a girl whose best talent is rebounding her many, many misses from point blank range. the product sucks.
  4. as for the merits of the idea i think it’s the opposite of absurd. the current product is terrible and unpopular. adding dunks to the game would absolutely make it more marketable and exciting.
  5. i don’t actually want them to make those changes, i’m just saying that watching uber athletic women dunking the ball would be infinitely more exciting than watching anything the wnba has to offer.
  6. so, do you work here? yeah, i’m the camp director. you? me, no, i don’t work here.
  7. i saw some round table thing on espn where an nba player suggested that they lower the rim and the wnba women there reacted as if he’d suggested that they play naked and give the male fans lap dances. they refuse to change a product that nobody likes and yet they continue to insist that they deserve more attention and that it is in fact the male sports fans and even male nba players who are to blame when they don’t sell tickets. it’s crazy.
  8. there’s really no two ways about it- the fact that the boys’ game is played above the rim from the age of 15-16 and up just makes it impossible for the women’s game to be captivating. and the women’s game isn’t simply played “below the rim”, it’s pretty much played on the ground. now, if you were to get destinee hooker, bailey webster, and madisen skinner all playing basketball on an 8-foot rim then i absolutely would be interested in watching that. watching destinee hooker dunk all over brittany griner’s stiff, uncoordinated ass would easily be worth the price of admission. unfortunately for the wnba they find such suggestions to be hate speech, so i won’t be holding my breath on them making such changes any time soon.
  9. for me, any time one of these “you can choose any player ever to make a shot for you” scenarios comes up the answer is always bird. there’s no shortage of great shooters, so you go with the most fearless, ruthless assassin of the bunch, and that’s larry bird. if you want to pick mj fir the very same reason then i have zero argument.
  10. Derka

    Euro 2024

    yeesh. just saw some stuff on twitter. not a great time to be in h town.
  11. Derka

    Euro 2024

    staying near minute maid park.
  12. i got a whole bunch of SP. holler at your boy.
  13. i mean that’s typical ant. if you like ant you should like that.
  14. https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/gl.fcgi?id=semiema01&t=b&year=2024#1403-1431-sum:batting_gamelogs i don’t think i’ve ever seen anything like this. over his last 29 games marcus semien is 18-115 from the plate, but he’s only k’d 14 times. his babip is .162.
  15. TIL that there’s one part of basketball where i am >>>>> steph and embiid:
  16. also what’s great about this exercise is that you could let everyone choose five players and still nobody would ever name “the goat” lebron. your list would have to get about 250 deep before you said, “yeah i trust lebron at the line here.”
  17. larry bird is my choice. other candidates: michael, steph, mark price.
  18. Derka

    Euro 2024

    i’ll be in houston on tuesday and wednesday. any good soccer bars for game watching?
  19. i don’t think gabriel is going anywhere, i think that mikel is simply doing what he said he would do which is make every position at arsenal two-deep with competition. we’re planning on playing a shit-ton of games this year and there will be injuries and rotation needed, and we were already in the market for a LB with zinchenko likely leaving and timber coming off injury. calafiore fits the arteta profile of a player who can play multiple positions and who is comfortable both defending and in attack. i think he’s going to be a steal at €50m, and he’ll be extra valuable if gabriel or saliba ever has to miss time.
  20. projected back line two-deep as of now: rb- white, tomiyasu rcb- saliba, white lcb- gabriel, calafiore lb- timber/calafiore only saliba and gabriel are anchored to one position, everyone else can play multiple positions, and that includes zinchenko although he’s probably gone, which says a lot about how far we’ve come since arteta took over.
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