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  1. 24 minutes ago, Goo Punch said:

    in news that was just broken by Mike Sielski, Michael Jordan can hold a grudge.

    No shit.  A cuck article by a cuck.  And did anyone notice Krause spewing his bullshit about what a great organization the Bulls were in the midst of the 2nd title celebration, not mentioning Jordan at all?  That short, fat fuck was he only person in the world who didn't understand who won those titles.

    Not to mention he intentionally and with purpose ended one of the best sports dynasties in history, with the GOAT player, and before they had even lost a title.  That fat fuck deserves all the vitriol he got in this doc

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  2. 4 hours ago, Aqua Buddha said:

    People forget how big Jordan was.  The clips of him in the locker room at MSG where they were normal people there, he towered over them but he was also big at that point in his career.

    That Knick team was trash.  That was the low point of the 90's NBA.  Riley put that team together under the rules of the day with no consideration for offensive skill.  Starting lineup of Ewing, Oakley, Starks, Doc Rivers, and Charles Smith with Anthony Mason and a few other tough guys thrown in.  Maybe three of those guys even make the league that this point and they took the Bulls to the limit in the Eastern Conference Finals.

    Cutting my NBA teeth on the 80s Lakers, it was shocking to see Riley coaching up a thug team.  But he coached to what he had and he did it well. 

     

    Like all Bulls fans, I despised Sparks.  He was such a little punk...at least that's what he looked like on TV.  Saw that cat up close and personal at 95 All Star game in Phoenix, and realized he was a big, bad friggen man.

  3. 9 hours ago, Braff Zacklin said:

    Odd comments about Isiah given that Jordan has proven himself the biggest bitch of all time.

    Seriously, for someone who's as rich, revered, and accomplished as Jordan, he's demonstrated that he's enormously bitter, petty, and still compulsively hyper-competitive. He's a listmaker. He remembers every slight, every criticism, and every perceived lack of recognition of his majesty.

    Isiah absolutely should've been on the Dream Team. But what he doesn't realize is that, every time he complains about the omission and confesses how much it hurts him, Jordan is wallowing in it somewhere, sporting a shit-eating grin while he furiously jacks off.

    This is just an incredibly cuntish post.  It's well documented that MJ has a competitiveness and grudge problem, but cripes you act like he's been crying in his mother's basement how unfair life is.  Fucking guy got to a level only Ali could comprehend.  By the way, Ali was a supreme asshole, too.

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  4. On 4/21/2020 at 12:19 PM, HoffaJimmy said:

    I watched a couple of episodes from the first few seasons last year and was amazed at how different it was than what I remembered. Way more "surviving without food" and camp life then I ever remembered, just a lot of laying around chatting about stupid stuff they would never show in current seasons.

    Cripes, tonight jumped the shark for me.  A fucking "impromptu" fashion show? 

    I remember in season 2 when a flash flood took one team's tarp away.  Jeff made them give up half their rice to get a replacement tarp.

  5. 6 hours ago, sheeeit said:

    Loved it too.  A few things.

    Gambling/Murder- His dad's murder had nothing at all to do with gambling/mafia etc.  It was just random bad luck.  The killers are in prison.  They would have cut a deal if there was more to the story.  Just a shame.

    Flu/Hangover- Silly rumor mongering.  He had food poisoning.  He was at the hotel with the crew all evening.  No Vegas runs.  

    Krause/Reinsdorf- Hard for me to blame Krause too much.  Krause did not do anything that Reinsdorf didn't want or approve.  The players were a bit passive aggressive going after Krause instead of Reinsdorf.  Agreed that Krause was hard to like and had poor personal skills but he was who he was and Reinsdorf knew exactly what he was getting and it was exactly what he wanted.

    Pippen- Again, tough to blame the Bulls for not re-negotiating.  They don't get to renegotiate contracts of players who go bust.  Players' like to say it is just a business when they get all they can for themselves and then get their feelings hurt when the owners act like it is a business.  Plus, the reality was that Pippen was a very, very good NBA player that was great as a number two.  He was not a number one player.  In '97 there were plenty of guys you would take over Pippen including: Ewing, Olajuwan, Malone, Shaq, Barkley etc.  You could build a team around those guys but not Pippen.  Krause actually realized this and was never going to give him a huge deal.  It is certainly arguable that Pippen was under paid late in his contract with the Bulls but then you would have to concede that he was massively over paid after the Bulls.

    Phil Jackson- The genius of Phil was not his ability to handle Jordan but his ability to handle everyone else plus the triangle.  The same exists for Poppovitch, Kerr, Riley etc.  They had systems in place that gave the role players a routine.  There was little thinking or ad-libbing.  Very little standing around watching the super star.  Jordan forced out the previous coaches because they were not holding the rest of the team to a high enough standard.  Jordan did not really want to have to demand it from his teammates (although he certainly did) he wanted the coach to do it for him.  Phil was actually really good about demanding excellence from the bit players.  Of course Jordan was still incredibly hard on his teammates in practice.  The only other guy that had that same practice mentality was Magic.

    Impossible to know if the championship run would have been able to continue or if they would have won when Jordan went to baseball.  IMO, I think they win in '99 for sure and probably win one of the middle two years.

    One thing about Jordan, he was always very, very guarded in his public statements and image while playing.  Never political.  He cultivated an image to maximize his endorsements.  His father's death took a huge toll on him, even though he sort of downplayed it in the media.  Jordan's emotions after the '96 championship are amazing.  His first retirement had nothing to do with gambling at all.  He was tired, having marital issues, his dad was murdered, he was fantastically rich and just wasn't sure he could put in the effort he knew it would require to win it all.  He wasn't willing to play just to cash a check and not be 100%.

    Greatest of all time when you combine ability, drive, work ethic, mental toughness and focus.  You sacrifice a lot to succeed at that level.  

    Great post.

    Agree about the dad's murder.  A testament to his background and character that he chose to get a couple hours sleep in his car instead of just getting a hotel room (which probably never crossed his mind).  I'm sure that just weighs on MJ to this day.

    Disagree a little bit on Krause.  Reisndorf is a supreme prick and is obviously throwing Krause under the bus in this documentary.  But Krause's representation in the doc is fair.

    Very astute comment on Pippen.  In the doc, Jackson alludes to the fact that at one point Scottie may have been the second best player in the NBA (and he may not have been wrong), but to your point, Scottie could never carry a team.  You couldn't build a team around him.  There is no one in NBA history that can touch him as a No. 2, but that's what he was, a No. 2.

    Another astute comment on Jackson. I had never really thought about his coaching on those terms, but I think you are right.

  6. 11 minutes ago, Aqua Buddha said:

    This is all sorts of fucking awesome.  They capture the essence of everything.  My wife knows nothing about any of this but she already hates the Jerry's.

    My nephew used to deliver beer to bars in Chicago.  One time won a lunch with Jerry Reinsdorf.  Took his ten year old kid who was excited as hell.  Said the guy was a supreme prick, didn't engage at all, and spent the entire lunch watching the TV screen over the bar, and giving one word answers and/or grunts to questions.  That came through in his interview on this show

  7. 30 minutes ago, Don Johnson said:

    You explain why 93 was a grind Yet they still won. 94 wasn’t going to have that grind or exhaustion. 

    '93 was the first time of their run that they didn't have HCA in the Finals.  They didn't even have Eastern Conference Finals HCA.  Their regular season win total was a ten game drop off from the previous year.  They won that title of grit and fumes.

    I was a huge fan back then and lived in Illinois where I could watch any Bulls game.  It's hard to repeat, and I don't think anyone has three-peated since the Bulls.  It's hard to quantify, but just seeing them play almost every game for three years, one could tell that run was done.

  8. 3 hours ago, Stunns38 said:


    Got it, understood. I’m a huge Jordan fan being from Chicago but I’m honest enough to know that we most likely wouldn’t have 8-Peated even if MJ never retired the first time...a

    Looking forward to this series.

    I've always said there was no way the Bulls were going to 4-peat.  That 93 title was a grind, and that team was exhausted.  With the 92 Olympics, Scottie and Jordan had basically played 21 months of basketball without  a break

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  9. 14 minutes ago, Not a cat said:

    So I assume that 24MM figure is just that he stole game pieces worth that amount.  How much did he actually pocket?  Seems that Colombo and the eventual "winners" were getting their cut too but I forget the actual numbers of that deal.

    I read somewhere that he was selling most of the million dollar winners for $50K.  Plus he wasn't some mastermind, one person even screwed him out of his share.  I'm sure he got more from some, but don't think he pocketed nearly as much as one might think.

    But three years of prison for what he did is bullshit.  Dude should have been put away for 20.

  10. 4 hours ago, orangecat92 said:

    Shaka is gonna win at least one game in the tourney, and his agent is gonna come in sky high expecting four more years and a big pay raise.  Hopefully cdc is so ice cold that the agent gets upset and tells Shaka it’s time to move on.  Home attendance avg. is still going to be one of the worst years.  

    Some teams will be interested.  Should be interesting.  

    This fantasy is stupid on so many levels.  Yet you keep posting it.

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  11. The first two episodes of this season have regenerated my interest in the show.  I don't know how Rob does it.  He should be the first one voted out, no questions asked, but not only has he survived, he's running the tribe again.  Guy must have hypnotic powers when you meet him live.  I'll never forget how thoroughly he dominated his alliance the year he won.  He wouldn't even allow them to talk to outsiders.  They followed him around like chicks to a hen for days, then dutifully voted to give him a million dollars.

  12. On 11/28/2019 at 8:53 PM, Sbbruin said:

    No real drama, but my wife got pissed at her SIL (not openly, but vented to me afterwards).  SIL says it’s a tradition in their family to have Vueve Cliquot champagne (sp?).  So she ordered 2 bottles instead of the martini I wanted.  Whatever.  But the bill comes and we split it evenly between the 3 families.  The champagne was $150/bottle.  I had one glass that probably cost me $100.

    But now back on the boat in Avalon harbor by myself, (wife and kids got a hotel room) so all is well.

    How was it being on that boat in that nasty ass weather?

  13. 2 hours ago, bamachine said:

    ^Yeah, I also would not doubt that Logan's brother was part of this from the beginning, sending Greg in as a plant. The whole "threat" to cut him out of the will was staged to get Logan to trust Greg more, have him at key meetings.

    Going pretty far down the rabbit hole with this one.  The old man threatened Greg with no one else around.

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  14. 1 hour ago, oSuJeff97 said:

    That fucking scene when they went to Greg's office had me rolling... "Secret...?.... Not TOP secret?" LOL

    The look of wonderment on Tom in that scene that Greg could actually be that simple was great acting.  Love that guy who plays Tom.

  15. 1 hour ago, Gene Parmesan said:

    Other than the song this episode was a miss for me.  Young Eli and Amie Leigh were lame.  There needs to be some evilness to them, otherwise their backstory doesn't explain how the kids got the way they are.  I get that they are spoiled, but if that's the only glimpse into the past I am to believe that Eli and Amie Leigh were good parents. 

    Eli and Amie Leigh were not good parents.  They did not discipline horribly bratty kids, and spoiled them rotten.  The episode made a point of Eli's dad's disgust at how they were bringing up their kids. 

    It was an important episode to establish that at the beginning Eli and AL were legitimate. 

    The first few episodes of the series, Eli's kids are intimidated by him.  Then you see this lookback episode where they walked all over him at one time.  Somewhere along the line (probably his wife's death) Eli said fuck it, became ruthless and started milking his thing for every dollar he could get.

  16. Olyphant used to do a daily guest schtick doing the sports segment on an LA morning show many moons ago.  His banter with the host, an old punk rocker, can't recall his name was gold every day.  Guy was just laugh out loud funny, very quick witted.

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