Your comment reads like a trump tweet.
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RandAlThor@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
I honestly started these playoffs being EFFUSIVE over the talent and development of Spurs’ young players. They have such amazing talent collection from these last 3 years. And how Castle and Harper has grown WAY BEYOND anyone’s imagination in such a short time. Everyone knows what unnatural gifts Wemby possess. Castle and Harper are probably the two most talented backcourt in the entire league. They possess top 10 talent already, and they are only in 1st and 2nd year of their profession.
YET. I am growing to DISLIKE Spurs. These Spurs. They play dirty. It isn’t just Wemby. Carter Bryant body-slamming SGA twice in a span of 30 seconds. Castle doing the same thing to Brunson in game 3. Wemby’s elbows. Wemby twisting Alvarado’s neck in game 2. Shoving Brunson in the neck forcefully in game 3. Others that probably went unnoticed. Once is an outlier. When it’s done multiple times, it’s a pattern. It’s INTENTIONAL.
They have more collective talent than many teams in the league. They can and SHOULD win on talent alone. There is ZERO need to resort to dirty tactics. Yet they do. They are shielded by a certain saintly halo Spurs have with the media for some reason. That halo is misplaced. Behind the blank or smiling innocent faces lurks dirty players.
And it is disappointing because Wemby seems so likeable. The young Spurs seem so likeable. But the way they play, they are showing who they truly are.
Dirty.
lolrightythen@lemmy.world 1 day ago
PixelatedSaturn@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I don’t agree with them playing dirty. It’s the final and the play is intense. Look at what everyone else is doing to wemby. If he was sga hed get the whistle every attack. I think they are fantastic finals. And spurs have a bright future either way.
tiltmachine@lemmy.world 23 hours ago
Using SGA as a scapegoat is hilarious seeing as he didn’t have the whistle in the WCF. The ghoul Adam Silver has chosen their latest cashcow, and it’s definitely not the small market OKC team.
Wemby is a whiny, short-tempered, and admittedly great player. But he’s a hypocrite and not a role-model people should be looking up to, unless they are whiny and short-tempered too.
PixelatedSaturn@lemmy.world 18 hours ago
I’m not using him as a scapegoat, but as a fun example that is used frequently nowadays. I don’t even need him for an example, he was just put there for fun.
Is wemby whiny and short tempered? I don’t think so. At least not compared to many of the players that are known to whine and players that are known to have a short temper. Is he a perfect saint of a person? No. Is he a hypocrite? No idea, don’t know him.
RandAlThor@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
I disagree. Wemby plays center, not some small little guard on the perimeter even though he’s built like a skinny little orphan. Front court play is physical. I can’t believe every single one of you Wemby fans don’t ever watch how bigs play. Watch Jokic. Embiid. Barnes. Any center or PF. They are body-wrestling arm-wrestling under the rim. GO WATCH how other centers and power forwards play. What he deals on offense he does the same thing on defense. It’s a nothingburger.
PixelatedSaturn@lemmy.world 18 hours ago
So now I’m a wemby fan that never watched how centers play. Ok.