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UpperWestside

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  1. This is all cool and whatnot, but I just want ASU to win the conference again maybe win a game this time in the playoffs. That would be awesome.
  2. My issue with her game, specifically the offensive end, is this. The first time any of us played organized basketball we learned how to dribble, how to perform a chest and bounce pass and then we learned how to convert lay-ups. You don’t have to make 100 percent of them because you will often be contested in the half-court, but Sweet Baby Jesus it looks at times like there is a force field around 3 feet and in. How she cannot routinely make easy layups and instead turns them into a rebound fest that even Rodman would find excessive is incredible to watch. A coach worth their salt would bench her until she figures out how to finish in the paint. So many of those rebounds are completely worthless stat padding.
  3. The point being made here is absolutely valid, but the source, well, there is a 100 percent chance Woods has never seen Clark play ball and is posting only for the maga culture war garbage. I’m also 100 percent sure if you put Clark next to Sue Bird and Taurasi that he would not know who she is out of the three.
  4. As much as I would like to see social issues get addressed, the goal for 2028 should be in having the best candidate that can appeal to as many sane people as possible. There is no telling who might emerge over the next 2 1/2 years, but hopefully not Newsome or some clown trying to appeal to voters you cannot reach because they are all in mentally on the cult of TFG.
  5. Didn’t a vet actually give him their Purple Heart his first time in office?
  6. I believe he’s working as much as I believe TFG isn’t a raging alcoholic and pill addict.
  7. I've interjected this on here before, but the broken government is something you can look back into the WWII era of American politics. The Reagan era was just the point where stupidity had found a permanent home and the growth exploded from that point forward into this monster that it is today. WWII though had some ridiculous sequences on the home front thanks to people like William Randolph Hearst. The 1944 behind the scenes campaign to get MacArthur the Republican nod for president was among the most atrocious things he was a part of. That man was just pure awful, an open supporter of the Nazis in his newspapers in the 1930's and an avowed enemy of FDR after supporting him early on. Hearst and his newspaper handiwork put an imprint on the party and its voters long before the era that all of us were born in.
  8. That was pretty funny to read. Our deputy chancellor Vance lied about his roots in his book and still lies about them. The new pope declared him, for all intents and purposes, a moron who doesn’t know Catholicism any better than he would his backside from a hole in the ground. He is reviled by almost everyone that has the misfortune of crossing paths with him and yet this guy is one well done steak induced heart attack away from the first chair. Well done you orange cult clowns.
  9. The best result would be, and this is from a screw TFG perspective, to have Mexico be in the final. The stream of consciousness racism from the cult and their orange freak show would hit a magnitude we have not yet seen. Yes the odds of that happening and slim to nil, but hoo boy if it did just forget whatever normal rules once existed about how to be an adult in this country.
  10. I read so much about our soldiers from the WWII era. I read and read and read about it since it's the focus of what I'm doing with my life. One recurring theme is that none of them that came home look at themselves as heroes. It was their brother that didn't make it back. I could post some of the lesser known stories of soldiers from the Pacific War, but it gets so heavy at times reading about young men who gave the last full measure of their life thousands of miles from home on islands they had never heard of until they were running through the surf and up onto a beach. The two best friends from Texas at Tarawa that lost their lives in the first 10 minutes or so of the battle. A girlfriend back home that never, ever got over the death of one of them. War is awful and if we remember nothing else, we should remember that young men lost their lives in a war 80 years ago so that we wouldn't have to do it all over again one day. War is never the answer. If it is everyone has failed, and it will be another generation lamenting the loss of young men and women on some far away battlefield fighting an old person's war.
  11. Thank you for this post Derka. I think the amount of vitriol directed at her is just ridiculous. I feel like you are someone that has been a supporter of women’s sports and just women in general. This is all so dumb. These women in the WNBA who have treated her like garbage deserve to be catapulted into the sun. The amount of entitlement is really stunning to behold. I do think that Griner was talking about Clark in that clip. She has got to be the Queen of Garbage Mountain. A president brings you back for the stupid decision you made to go to Russia to make more money. So she is brought back in exchange for someone responsible for the deaths of thousands and thousands of people because she’s an American and we value American lives. The irony is Clark is making it possible for players to not have to make stupid decisions and that the door is being opened to a whole lot more money for WNBA players eventually. To Griner and others though Clark is a you know what. So much dumb in a league I would like to see grow and succeed. One last story I have is today at work a woman that I talk about basketball with is a fan of Clark like myself. She played ball so she understands the game. She comes up to me and talks about Clark’s injury and says “Looks like I’m not watching any games for two weeks.”
  12. I do not believe there was any warning on it. I googled but came up with nothing that would be a spoiler on why. Just seems like he got sick and that's that.
  13. It influences my opinion of the education level of America as a whole.
  14. We will get through it. Fascists have a shelf life. Some longer than others, but it always fails. The length of this dumpster fire depends on the American people and just how much we are willing to put up with from TFG and his clown car all-stars.
  15. I think you know what they’ll look like. She plays I am watching. She’s out I’m not. I would imagine it’s the same for plenty of other folks. To be fair I do not watch every game because there isn’t time for that and the games here come on earlier in the day due to the time difference. Harder to follow, but not impossible.
  16. Would you want your child shaking hands with a traitor? What a blessing that he left early.
  17. It’d be great if UEFA and CONMEBOL just said screw you and went and had their own World Cup. Even just UEFA leaving the competition would totally FUBAR the whole thing.
  18. I have said here I believe in the WNBA thread that I believe the NBA investment in the sport monetarily is a rounding error to them. I have never had an issue with the NBA keeping the league afloat and I think that’s been great that they do it. I want girls to be able to see women playing the game at a high level and to perhaps have someone they will look up to. Clark fits that bill as the first real generational talent that is bringing fans to the arena and more people tuning in and watching the games when they are streamed or on cable. I hope that Juju comes back 100 percent healthy because she is part of a select group that can ball and make it look easy. Bueckers is one this year that can also get it. I believe Collier organized that Unrivaled league. She is clearly killing it so far this season. The WNBA should pounce on promoting her. I am not optimistic that they will, but they should I think that all of the players in the WNBA should be thankful for the uptick in attention paid to the sport instead of some of the ridiculous things said because of the color of Clark’s skin. She plays the game in a way that the rest of the league doesn’t. It’s fun to watch. Find other players who fit the bill and promote the heck out of them and grow the sport here and abroad. I guess the best phrase to use is strike while the iron is hot.
  19. His mobility in the biggest stunt in the whole movie was just ridiculous. I have to give that man credit for going out there and performing the stunt several times as well as the months and months of preparation it took to pull it off. I do not think we will ever see another actor or actress do this. As a performer he’s just incredible.
  20. I’m laying on the beach and I can’t stop laughing at this post. This is the best one in this entire thread. Throwing in Romanowski was the icing on the cake.
  21. I am a fairly reserved person that does not talk a great deal when I am not working. However if someone came up to me and asked me how I would go about messaging my response would be "If elected I will on day one go after every single elected official that supported a traitor in the White House. I will also make it a point to make sure that our attorney general does their job this time around and makes it clear that an attack on democracy is an attack on Americans as well. These people will be dealt with in court and they won't have to wait long to face the music." I do not want to hear candidates from the Democratic Party ever again tell me they are working with anyone from the party filled with grifters and traitors. Just full stop on that. It is not a winner to try to work with liars and thieves who willingly stood by while the president raked in billions from foreign governments that then went into his own personal coffers. People who allowed that to happen are cowards who do not deserve to work in government and honestly should be in prison for a complete dereliction of the oath that they took to the Constitution. Whenever that day comes that Democrats can flush out thousands upon thousands of government officials at the national, state and local level, well, that will be when this country starts anew. No one can predict the when of that. The how is the simple part. People vote with their wallet (And obviously not always wisely) and they get angry and get in the streets when the wallet runs dry. You can run the gamut of history and see that happen repeatedly. We are no exception to this. We just have bigger and more dangerous weapons at our disposal with our military. Social issues are extremely important to me and almost all of you, but you beat these cowards on issues related to a voter's bank account and how they can do better for their family. Hitler, Mussolini, the Japanese fascist movement of the 1920's and 30's all did it. They all appealed to how they could get their fellow citizens to believe they could make them wealthier as a collective. It was all lies of course, but people will believe exceptional lies when they feel they are not getting what they deserve. TFG just lied and lied and lied and lied some more to get votes. It worked because we live in an era when our populace should be the most educated in history with all the access we have to information. Instead we are the laziest we have ever been at getting factual information. We give people a lower standard of education on purpose. Our monetary policy, as astutely pointed out here by most of you, benefits those with the biggest wallets. This happens when people BELIEVE THE BIG LIE. There is no other way for billionaires to bilk the system without the support of millions of average Americans who think they will do better under an authoritarian regime. By the time they find out that's not the case it's too late. We are where Italy was at in the late 20's, but we have far more money being taken by those who need it the least. Until we see millions of people out in the streets demanding that that money be returned to the average American household nothing is going to change.
  22. Clark got a new one pissed at her yesterday in 2022 1st overall pick Rhyne Howard. Howard decided to attempt to give her the business. I will go to the points you have made about how these women are upset with Clark and say that they have been doing the same thing she is doing. Well let's start with the 2022 1st overall pick and her stats since entering the league. The team has a 49-70 overall record since she joined. Howard stats. Keep in mind that she's a 6'2" guard. That's a big guard in the WNBA. She averages 17pts 4.6 reb and 3.2 ast per game for her career. She shoots 37 PERCENT from the field. 34 percent from deep and eFG of 45.9 She has a 16.9 PER for her career. 37 percent from a high usage guard that apparently also feels like she's getting screwed over by all of the attention on Clark. Those are Angel Reese numbers. I don't think I need to say how much better Clark's numbers are than those or that at the moment Clark is sporting a 25.2 PER this season. These players are so incredibly dumb and then to have morons like Stephen A. Smith saying they have a point (They don't) makes all of this so laughable. Sit and watch a game with Clark on the floor and then watch the game without her on the floor. The difference in play is astounding. Clark is just better than any player in WNBA history. It's not even that close. To paraphrase a quote from Bobby Knight. Clark is like General Patton out there. All of the ones complaining about her are a bunch of Colonel Klinks.
  23. Haliburton got pissed around that time about the overrated poll. When he kicked it up a notch he took everyone else on the roster with him.
  24. Definitely go see this one. I will go back to watch it in 4DX. Saw it in IMAX, but this feels like a 4DX movie. The time I had today was too early to see it in that format. IMAX was still really good and I really enjoyed one of the characters that was brought back. Real full circle moment that was actually really cool because of something they said to Ethan.
  25. @Bateshorn nailed it on the 3rd reply in the thread.
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