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Watching the NBA is like watching 2 games. The basketball game & the "what is the ref looking at?" game.
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That was a fun all star game and a fun weekend overall.
I liked the new scoring format and during that fourth quarter an actual NBA game broke out. |
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How many times have JB & Bernie Bickerstaff been named "interim coach"? It's gotta be reaching double digits by now.
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Thanks to Cleveland a college team just hit the lottery. Not sure which college team it will be, but success is in their future.
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The Cavs continue to baffle me. I have never heard of a team already turning against their coach before training camp even ends.
John Beilein was over matched coaching professionals and him being offered a five year deal was a joke. The Cavs are now paying SEVEN different head coaches. What a dumpster fire of an organization. And good luck to John Beilein back in the amateur ranks where his yelling and screaming and racial slurs work against children. He will never be hired by a professional organization again. Last edited by rudel.dietrich; 02-19-2020 at 05:53 PM. |
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Haven't heard of a racial slur. I did hear that he told his team they were playing like "thugs". He claims he misspoke and meant to say "slugs". Though sometimes there maybe racist thinking that goes into using the term, "thug" isn't a racial slur. Certainly not towards anyone on the Cavs roster. If I'm not mistaken, "thug" originated in India.
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During a film session he said his players were playing like thugs.
After players and assistants and the training staff complained the Cavs upper management brought him into the office to explain himself. He said he misspoke and meant slugs. That explanation did not satisfy almost anyone involved and an already fractured relationship got even worse. Whether he meant it or not I cannot say. But the players and other coaches and many on the staff took it as Freudian slip and at the point perception became reality. It was never a good hire and I have never seen a team turn on their coach that quickly. They were done with him before mid October even hit. |
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You talkin' NBA or NFL?
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Anyone here can either believe me or not on this, but that word, when spoken by a white person to a black person in a particular situation, has a certain meaning to a black person, whether or not the white person thinks so or even realizes it. It is part of our (the USA's) troubled history as a multiracial country, and it is not going to change in my lifetime. There is a massive gap between white and black; I have experienced it even in cross-racial friendships I have had for 50 years. I have unfortunately found that I know more about the culture(s) of most of my white friends than they know about mine. I still hear white folks casually use the word "niggling" to refer to something that is slightly annoying. But when a black person hears or reads that word, the blood pressure instantly shoots up, because it is waaaaay too close to that other word. For most white folks, no offense is meant. They don't even think about it. But I am convinced, given the times we live in, that some use it with full knowledge of what it sounds like to a black person. I don't think Beilein meant anything derogatory by using the term "thugs," but he would have been better off telling them they were playing like a bunch of junior varsity idiots, which some of them definitely were. He's in his 60s, and when you reach that age, you think a lot about the fact that you are much closer to the end of your life than the beginning. You become really reluctant to spend time doing things you don't want to do. So maybe he just decided enough was enough, time to move on. I liked him as a coach. I thought he really understands the game and would be a good teacher for our young guys. I regret that once again, we have to start over and try to get the franchise on the right track.
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Kyrie out for the rest of the year. Who knew when the season began, Irving would play just a handful of games more than Durant? Nets paid $69m for 20 games to 2 players.
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