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Catdaddyhorn

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  1. Years ago, I read the very same book during my lead up to becoming a new father and I thoroughly enjoyed it. I can't remember whether that book is where I first came across Nikole Hannah-jones or if reading that book led me to her This American Life series on schools, but that book spurred a lot of curiosity in me. Specifically on the cascading hormonal effects of early childhood stress on learning and even the body's capacity to deal with stress later in life.
  2. Like most everything else in today's corporate/efficiency obsessed world, the rest players take today isn't a function how big their pussies are. It's a result of the data driven world we live in and a product of what teams have learned about minimizing injuries.
  3. I'll say this since you're younger than most of us and probably didn't watch the 80s NBA with any real level of perspective, the 80s NBA was the golden age of basketball in the sense that it launched the sport into the American zeitgeist in a fundamental and inextricable manner. Teams were diverse in their style of play and perfectly fit the makeup of their cities. You had teams like the Lakers, Nuggets, Sonics, Mavericks, Warriors, and even the Celtics who pushed the absolute mess out of the ball up and down the court. You had Houston and Atlanta who were perpetual brides maids despite overwhelming athleticism. Then on the other end of the spectrum teams like the Pistons, Utah, Cleveland, and Knicks who would routinely force opponents into rock fights. Also like @longhornmatt mentioned there were true characters back then who weren't obsessively worried about their image and focus testing their every utterance. Plus these guys in the 80s came up before the commodification of basketball so unlike today with AAU and data driven strategy forcing everyone to play within a narrow set of stylistically parameters, players back then had a diverse array of playing and shooting styles. Magic shot the ball like a shot put. Kareem had his famous skyhook. Mark Price had absolutely flawless fucking form. Bird cocked the ball behind and slightly to the right of his head. Dominique shot with the palm of his hand and kicked his legs out in a very specific way. If a kid mimicked a player on the court absolutely everyone knew who he was. Even the announcers were characters. Freaking Tommy Heinson sounded like Fred Flinstone was broadcasting a game alongside Dick Stockton. All this added to the texture and overall enjoyment of the league during an era that essentially introduced the game to the country. Even though the 90s brought us Jordan's peak I'll contend that much like some would argue with Steph today, his success altered the style of the game for the worse and ultimately stagnated the NBA once his star was no longer around to blockout the banality his presence brought upon the league.
  4. This is an anachronistic observation which simply doesn't happen in today's NBA. If you're watching old VHS tapes from the 90s when everyone without the ball went to one side of the court while they watched 2 players go 1-on-1 for 45 minutes a game then you'd be onto something, but what you just described hasn't taken place with even minimal regularity in nearly 20 years.
  5. And his defence wasn't near worth the tradeoff of the offense we lost in Seth Curry. In fairness to him though, he probably needed to be in a system with guards who are less ball dominant than Luka and even Jalen. San Antonio suits his game more in that respect with the way they share the ball more evenly throughout their backcourt.
  6. He'll complete his 4th year on campus in May. It isn't like he's been on campus 5 or 6 years something.
  7. I was wondering what happened to that Dawson Garcia kid and why he hasnt played for the Tarheels. He was a former recruit of ours at UT transferred to UNC from Marquette, but it looks like his family is having medical issues thus he's been out since January. He seems like a pretty big missing piece for them. I wonder if he'll return to UNC next year.
  8. I'd post more of the thread but I can't embed more tweets for some reason. Plus this last tweet has an article that pretty much summarizes the study. https://twitter.com/dbroockman/status/1510607436532510722?t=1d8Y2DjotUMH_mtxqMIiPg&s=19
  9. Not really specific to Fox but interesting thread discussing a study on the effects of partisan media.
  10. Dolphins got a 3rd rounder for 29 year old, no pro bowls Devonta Parker, Cowboys got a 5th for 27 year old 4 time pro bowler Amari Cooper.
  11. We need this kid and Tre Johnson in the 2024 class.
  12. I thought Ramey was great for us last year too. He shot like freaking 41% from 3 last year (on surprisingly fewer 3s than he shot this year) and 83% from the FT line which are all substantially better than he shot this year However, he did improve his 2pt FG% significantly this year.
  13. Especially with the one leg up while doing it. This show is so much fun. Larry Wilmore was on Bill Simmons' podcast and told a few stories from growing up around that time in L.A.. His childhood friend is Bill Duffy ( an NBA agent) and Duffy, who was apparently a stud high school bball player himself, attended a 5 star camp with Magic in high school and came home regaling them with all these Paul Bunyan stories of a 6'9" point guard named Magic doing full court wrap around passes. It reminded me of what it was like back then, before YouTube and the internet, where the feats of some cross the way high school legend seemed beyond belief.
  14. You cut off some additional context to the post of mine that you quoted I'm referring to 2 specific people. Both of whom have 1 black grand parent, yet because of the difference in their socialization they identify as 2 different races.
  15. This makes 2 McDonald's All-Americans that Arkansas took out of Texas.
  16. This is what I don't get about this entire rationale. Never in the history of ever has anyone been asked about the risk of getting HIV or herpes or anything after unprotected sex and uttered the words "Nah I'm going to let my natural immunity take hold or I've been eating right and exercising" in response to questions about the risk of getting a mutherfucking viral infection.
  17. Havent read it all yet. Just skimmed through it.
  18. Yeah but you forget all the preprogramming in American society. You can literally go back over 400 years of propaganda libeling "black behavior". Whether it's the docile and servile nature of black people that America was fed for the 1st 200 years of its existence. Or the violent and raping propaganda that has been fed to America over it's post slavery existence. All of that nonsense plays into American views on black people, not just a reflexive reaction to the dysfunction sustained poverty induces within people.
  19. I think what you're saying is a part of it, but people don't distill information or reason in a nuanced manner like that. They make assumptions prior to any supporting evidence being put forth. They attach what they see to what they already believe. So while classist reaction to poverty may be a core component to anti-blackness, people aren't exactly asking for W2s before they react and discriminate as evidenced by the article you linked, by Wells Fargo handing out rejection mortgage rejection letters like they're Dikembe Mutumbo, or by any of the myriad of examples we see in American society where black skin causes a negative reaction from everyone else (including black people).
  20. This is true for probably the next 10 to 15 years. But what happens with future conservative leaning jurist who have just come out of adolescence during the the past 5 to 10 years? What norms have been totally throttled that we all took for granted up until 10 years ago? I'm not a big history buff so I have no context for past instances of an entire side of the political spectrum effectively saying to "hell with it" in pursuing representative democracy or evidenced based conclusions. What do the future jurist who came of age with this prevailing mindset look like?
  21. First I want to say I agree with everything that you're saying here about Troy Aikman vs his contemporaries. However I have a minor quibble with the bolded part While league rule changes definitely affected the prolific scoring in the respective sports, there has been a lot of skill refinement that has taken place on the lower levels that also contributes to the increased proficiency we see in today's athletes. Freaking 4th graders get QB coaching and shot refinement today. Yes the rule changes are a huge part of it, but the athletes are also much more skilled today than they were back then.
  22. Yeah I agree our race is homo sapiens. I'm just talking about the made up races that we're all familiar with. Ethnicity is based on culture, language, food, and things like that.
  23. Ethnicity is more akin to what we mean when we say tribes ie the difference between Irish and English, or Punjabi and Bengali, or Han and Uyghurs, or Yoruba and Igbo. Race is a bigger umbrella than that. And race, at least in America is often nebulous and arbitrary. The Irish, Italians, and Polish weren't white until they were. In our lifetimes we'll probably see hispanics and even Asians become "white". Arabs and Persians used to be considered white until they somehow lost that designation. For all intents and purposes, whiteness in America in some ways can arguably be defined up as "not black".
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