NBA All-Star Game Open Thread
by TimAllen on Feb 26, 2012 6:32 PM CST
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I gotta say
I showed this pic to an ex-gf and she said
“Why are you holding a basketball, where was this taken? Wait, this is you right?”
I have the same build, hair color and hair-line as Kevin Love. Also being in Special Forces means I can sport facial hair (in A-Stan we all were required to have a beard.)
She confused me with Kevin Love and it made my whole year.
I just thought I would share…
I've got good judgement from experience and experience from bad judgement.
From Fake Wally
to Faux Kevin. They should at least give you free season tickets.
"Humor is reason gone mad." Marx (Groucho, for the reason-gone-mad impaired)
just a thought
think kevin can best blake in the voting eventually? also great choice rocking the tux.
I too am a lone wolfpack.
by OR-7 on Feb 26, 2012 6:41 PM CST via Android app reply actions
It might be hard for Love to ever top Griffin's popularity
Dunks + LA are sexy, Rebounds + MN are not.
kobe feels like
a lock.
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by OR-7 on Feb 26, 2012 6:51 PM CST via Android app up reply actions
Yea I think Kobe’s got a point to prove tonight.
Haha Hibbert c’mon man!
by MychalShannon1 on Feb 26, 2012 6:55 PM CST up reply actions
the jerseys
are hideous, imo
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by OR-7 on Feb 26, 2012 6:51 PM CST via Android app reply actions
He's not going to get the ball very often,
so when he does he needs to make the most of it.
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by Cynical Jason on Feb 26, 2012 7:17 PM CST up reply actions
He can dunk a little bit though he owes us one! But yea I don’t see K Love seeing much of the ball either Jason.
by MychalShannon1 on Feb 26, 2012 7:19 PM CST up reply actions
i'm stunned
kevin let melo get that loose ball from him. was hoping for a hip check.
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by OR-7 on Feb 26, 2012 7:26 PM CST via Android app up reply actions
You called it!
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by Cynical Jason on Feb 26, 2012 7:31 PM CST up reply actions
air love!
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by OR-7 on Feb 26, 2012 7:31 PM CST via Android app reply actions
really off topic but just read new pek interview
A time machine? “If I had one, I’d go backward a couple of hundred years. I’d like to go back to the time they used swords. I think I’d be good with a sword.”
that is an epic quote lol
first-worst-first?
I love that quote.
I like this one better, though:
I don’t have a most-prized possession. I don’t care. It’s all material stuff.
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by Cynical Jason on Feb 26, 2012 7:37 PM CST up reply actions 3 recs
I love that quote
Can’t begin to tell you how many times life had to kick me in the balls before I figured that one out. Immovable Montenegrans run deep.
Yo ho ho and a FirstRow stream!
I was living a pretty minimalist life before I got married.
Marriage changed that, but now that I’m divorced I’m scaling down again. Owning a bunch of things, and all the clutter that leaves me with, drives me crazy.
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by Cynical Jason on Feb 26, 2012 7:54 PM CST up reply actions
Zen and the Art of Low Post Play
"Life has become immeasurably better since I have been forced to stop taking it seriously."
— Hunter S. Thompson
All material stuff except for the swords, of course.
What a good egg. He and Tim Duncan probably could play Dungeons and Dragons together.
The last thing we want to do is take long twos. It's still on our list, though.
Outstanding.
Got a link?
"If you’ve got some balls, you can do some stuff"
by JonesTheCat on Feb 27, 2012 2:05 AM CST via mobile up reply actions
Why did they make the All Star game at the same time as the OScars?
What kind of dumb plan was this? Couldn’t they All Star game have just been a bit earlier in the day?
That was good planning as far as I'm concerned.
This way a person has to make an extra effort to watch both suckfests.
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by Cynical Jason on Feb 26, 2012 7:49 PM CST up reply actions
It's just weird. You'd think they'd want higher ratings
by princelyfrank on Feb 26, 2012 7:50 PM CST up reply actions
I know it isn't the case,
but maybe they’re thinking the audiences are mutually-exclusive-enough so it won’t matter that much.
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by Cynical Jason on Feb 26, 2012 7:51 PM CST up reply actions
I'd bet loads
they got jammed on their choice of weekends thanks to the strike
Yo ho ho and a FirstRow stream!
That's probably it.
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by Cynical Jason on Feb 26, 2012 7:55 PM CST up reply actions
Second half should be interesting
I suspect the East will come out a bit more focused on basketball and less on showboating.
Yo ho ho and a FirstRow stream!
Those girls dancing by Chris Brown better be careful.
But in all seriousness, he’s a major tool and should be in jail
by Spread-the-Love on Feb 26, 2012 7:50 PM CST reply actions 3 recs
Not for long enough.
"If you’ve got some balls, you can do some stuff"
by JonesTheCat on Feb 27, 2012 2:07 AM CST via mobile up reply actions 1 recs
How is this for suitable punishment:
We’re going to recreate your assault on Rihanna, Mr. Brown. You will play the part of Rihanna, and Mr. Pekovic here will be playing you.
Begin.
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by Cynical Jason on Feb 26, 2012 7:57 PM CST up reply actions
Depends if you support the death penalty or not
I’m good with it though
by Spread-the-Love on Feb 26, 2012 7:57 PM CST up reply actions
Now I know what a CM Punk is.
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by Cynical Jason on Feb 26, 2012 8:10 PM CST up reply actions
A more appropriate venue
would be to put him in an MMA cage with one of the 125 lb women fighters and see him get his ass kicked and submitted by a girl. On second thought, this might be a great money maker for a charity. Kinda like Billie Jean King vs. Bobby Riggs.
I like that even better.
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by Cynical Jason on Feb 27, 2012 4:07 PM CST up reply actions
I don't want to make excuses for the guy; what he did was monstrous.
I’m just not sure people threatening violence against a violent guy with a long history of terrible family abuse is gonna solve anything. He clearly has anger issues, and exacerbating them is just gonna continue the same ugly cycle that has defined much of his life. I’m okay with simply holding him accountable, shunning him to the point where he realizes he has become what he hates, and hoping he finds some help.
Gary, you didn't kill your brother. Those gorillas did.
Why do you wanna go being reasonable instead of funny?
Dammit. Now I feel dumb. I’m kidding. There’s room for reason. Most of the time.
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by Cynical Jason on Feb 27, 2012 10:53 PM CST up reply actions
Oh, I'm cool with joking around about him online and such.
It’s just that when guys like CM Punk come out and threaten him in public, it does nobody any good.
Gary, you didn't kill your brother. Those gorillas did.
Yeah, these Twitter feuds are pretty stupid.
In hip-hop beefs, there’s a chance someone’s going to pull a gun at some point (or at least there used to be (and I’m not calling that a good thing)), but on these Twitter things it’s just a bunch of posturing. Of course, it looks like CM Punk is a professional “wrestler,” so posturing is his whole career.
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by Cynical Jason on Feb 27, 2012 11:44 PM CST up reply actions
the state of music in todays world is so very sad
I am 23 and im ashamed of my generation lol
first-worst-first?
by holymackerel on Feb 26, 2012 7:55 PM CST reply actions 1 recs
This has been an exhibition of suck.
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by Cynical Jason on Feb 26, 2012 7:56 PM CST up reply actions
I suppose I guess I can commend them on not adding Justin Beiber or Lil Wayne to this assult on my ears
first-worst-first?
by holymackerel on Feb 26, 2012 7:57 PM CST up reply actions
For those not watching the game and the Oscars
Justin Bieber was in the Billy Crystal taped opening
Yo ho ho and a FirstRow stream!
heh
I’ve listened to nothing but Dessa and Florence + The Machine for 2 weeks now. I like to overplay good music until I’m totally sick of it. That said, there’s plenty of decent music right now, as well as plenty of stuff I don’t care for.
Dessa is rapidly becoming one of my favourite artists.
Shes got that Lauryn Hill ability to switch from rapping to singing without missing a beat.
"If you’ve got some balls, you can do some stuff"
by JonesTheCat on Feb 28, 2012 4:02 AM CST via mobile up reply actions
Ugh!
And to think, less than 30 years ago we had this…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QRvVzaQ6i8A
"Life has become immeasurably better since I have been forced to stop taking it seriously."
— Hunter S. Thompson
Marvin!
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by Cynical Jason on Feb 27, 2012 6:58 AM CST up reply actions
No offense, but I get tired of these comments (I blame every Youtube video of a song made before the year 2000)
There is just as much good music these days as there was in decades past, and just as much shitty music. (The Osmonds existed. We must never forget.) Just because there is a lot of crappy popular music out there doesn’t mean that our generation is lacking in talented musicians. You just have to look for them. It’s like pulling off the interstate and seeing a McDonalds, then complaining about the town’s food without taking the time to look for the good local restaurants. Pop music, like fast food, is there for a reason.
Gary, you didn't kill your brother. Those gorillas did.
by nja700 on Feb 27, 2012 7:46 PM CST up reply actions 1 recs
Plenty of terrible movies in the past, too.
They just don’t transfer quite so many of them to DVD.
The last thing we want to do is take long twos. It's still on our list, though.
D-Wade whining to the refs during an ASG? Wow.
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But would he whine in the ASG?
Lack of foul calls is a hallmark of this game.
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by Cynical Jason on Feb 26, 2012 8:17 PM CST up reply actions
Why would Dwight's mother lie? %%%%
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by Cynical Jason on Feb 26, 2012 8:22 PM CST up reply actions
His PR people have talked to her. She knows the plan.
by MychalShannon1 on Feb 26, 2012 8:25 PM CST up reply actions
I wouldn't even be watching this silliness
if it weren’t for the possibility that Love might do something.
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by Cynical Jason on Feb 26, 2012 8:42 PM CST up reply actions
I'm gonna go out on a limb and say Kevin Durant is the best player in the world right now.
He’s unguardable.
Yea I think that’s where Lebron has him beat. But man, I watch OKC almost as much as I watch the Wolves and it’s unbelievable how talented this dude is.
by MychalShannon1 on Feb 26, 2012 8:44 PM CST up reply actions
Haha such a homer comment. But let’s not compare KD and K Love…K Love isn’t up there with him yet.
by MychalShannon1 on Feb 27, 2012 1:42 PM CST up reply actions
He's kind of ridiculous.
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by Cynical Jason on Feb 26, 2012 8:42 PM CST up reply actions
how many more all star games
till Ricky joins kevin? nash and parker can’t go much longer.
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by OR-7 on Feb 26, 2012 8:49 PM CST via Android app reply actions
He’ll be in it next year. No doubt in my mind.
by MychalShannon1 on Feb 26, 2012 8:51 PM CST up reply actions
That's when Pek displaces Bynum, too.
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by Cynical Jason on Feb 26, 2012 8:52 PM CST up reply actions
Three Wolves in the ASG? That's be fun.
We’d be like the Miami Heat of the North, only not assholes. ;)
4
once coach completes the transformation of wes into the dwade of the north.
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by OR-7 on Feb 26, 2012 8:56 PM CST via Android app up reply actions
THAT'S what I'm talking about.
C’mon Wes, big second half of the season lad.
"If you’ve got some balls, you can do some stuff"
by JonesTheCat on Feb 27, 2012 2:09 AM CST via mobile up reply actions
Haha let’s hope so…..btw Kevin Love has the highest +/- in this game right now. If that means anything to anyone.
by MychalShannon1 on Feb 26, 2012 8:54 PM CST up reply actions
I kinda hope he's done for the night.
He needs rest more than he needs a DD.
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by Cynical Jason on Feb 26, 2012 9:01 PM CST up reply actions
That was a ridiculous three.
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by Cynical Jason on Feb 26, 2012 9:06 PM CST up reply actions
The guy can flat out ball. I wanna see him knock down that 3 consistently though.
by MychalShannon1 on Feb 26, 2012 9:10 PM CST up reply actions
That would be sad.
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by Cynical Jason on Feb 26, 2012 9:11 PM CST up reply actions
Him not taking it probably. He doesn’t respect Lebron. It’s obvious.
by MychalShannon1 on Feb 26, 2012 9:22 PM CST up reply actions
But with Kobe on the court there’s no way Lebron takes that last shot don’t you think?
by MychalShannon1 on Feb 26, 2012 9:25 PM CST up reply actions
who should take it?
if the lineup is:
CP3
Bron
Kobe
Durant
Love (homerism in full effect)
That should be the lineup at the end of the game in the Olympics.
Durant. But I wouldn’t hate CP3 taking it. Kobe’s no longer clutch in my opinion. How about you?
by MychalShannon1 on Feb 26, 2012 9:33 PM CST up reply actions
I agree
Kobe is no longer a banana sandwich.
/me ducks
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by Skat the Rat on Feb 26, 2012 9:34 PM CST up reply actions
Funny you say that. I kind of felt that for the first time ever tonight.
I know it’s only an all star gm, but it seemed like he couldn’t create his own shot when he needed to (at least not compared to the past)
Yea, he’s definitely slowing down a bit. I don’t see him getting that 6th ring to tie Jordan either. Who do you think is the most clutch player in the league?
by MychalShannon1 on Feb 26, 2012 9:44 PM CST up reply actions
As much as I’d like to say Durant, I don’t think he has proven himself on the biggest stage yet. I might have to say DWade. And to think, i didnt even have him on my pseudo olympic lineup above.
Yea I gotta agree you gotta put him up there. He gotta teach Lebron how to make them clutch shots. Tired of hearing people trash Lebron about that.
by MychalShannon1 on Feb 26, 2012 10:02 PM CST up reply actions
Theres no such thing as clutch
If I'm pissing you off its probably sarcasm
by CoffeeJanitor on Feb 26, 2012 11:46 PM CST up reply actions
Whoever the heck CP3 wants to take it.
He’s been the best player in the clutch for a long time. Put the ball in his hands and let him do his thing.
by Bad News Wolves on Feb 26, 2012 10:22 PM CST up reply actions
That was interesting.
Probably as good a summation of those two guys as you can get.
by juliancasablancas on Feb 26, 2012 9:25 PM CST up reply actions
One of the ESPN guys' twitter says:
LeBron confirms that Kobe was telling him to shoot the ball in those key stages that led to late turnover.
That’s pretty funny.
WEll he should be.
LeBron needs to be the one taking those shots.
by Bad News Wolves on Feb 26, 2012 10:23 PM CST up reply actions
that would have been the best ending to regulation to an All Star Game in my generation
I was rooting for that too.
Its too bad LBJ passed in that situation. However, since he did, the question will be brought up sooner or later: Is that late-game pass by LBJ a microcosm of him? He seems to have a pattern of forgoing the shot – in preference to passing to a teammate in late game situations.
Was it an a product of “all star game showmanship”, or another example of LBJ not performing in late game situations?
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by Skat the Rat on Feb 26, 2012 9:41 PM CST up reply actions
How much better off would the West have been with Love on the line with 1.1 to go?
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by Cynical Jason on Feb 26, 2012 9:23 PM CST up reply actions
I didn't watch the game at all
But I think it’s hilarious that the 2 Thunder players have like a 1/3 of the team’s total shots.
Love and Griffin cutting up while Stern gives Durant the MVP. Funny.
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Pic Caption:
“Behold, my singular nut is larger than everyone else’s nut pairs combined”
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As crazy as it seems, it looks like this game was won at the free-throw line.
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While I am sure I am in the minority ...
I no longer watch the all-star game. It is not remotely basketball. The whole weekend should be either shelved or completely revamped. None of it appeals to me. It is sloppy, vulgar excess. It plays to many of the negative ideas that some folks harbor towards the NBA. The game has become almost as irrelevant as the NFL Pro Bowl. The only slight exception of the weekend might be the Rising Stars game. It probably should be the only event. (& I didn’t watch that, either). I know none of this reform come to pass. Still, I will welcome the return of actual, you know, games.
I feel sorry for you and others who don't get the all-star game.
The greatest pick up game in the world thrills me annually. It’s like my Christmas.
"Only God is an expert, Ernie."
Your Christmas must be one of those
where you think and wonder and wish about how all your family will come together, and how the kids’ faces will light up, and then your aunt comes to stay and smokes in your bedroom and the tree lights short out on Christmas Eve night.
It’s fun to take a break in the season and consider the halfway point, and mildly fun to talk about which players belong and which don’t, but I’m a huge basketball fan and I don’t make any effort at all to see the games. That’s leaving along the Saturday Night stuff, which is soooooo poor.
The last thing we want to do is take long twos. It's still on our list, though.
I feel sorry for you too, feral
And my Christmases are great, thanks.
I guess you guys just like a certain type of basketball. I enjoy watching the coordinated precision of a well-executed motion offense, excellent defense, etc., but sometimes I like to see the free-wheeling athletic exhibition that is the All Star game. The players obviously enjoy it, and if you actually watched the damn game, you would see the effort the put into entertaining the fans AND trying to win the game.
"Only God is an expert, Ernie."
You guys just seem curmudgeonly.
Do you get mad at dumb comedy movies? Is all new, popular music garbage in your opinion? Can you believe ho the kids are dressing these days?
Lets stop arguing about it, you are obviously set in your ways and have very specific requirements for your basketball entertainment – and hey, I think there is a kid on your lawn. You’d better go yell at them.
"Only God is an expert, Ernie."
Not at all
If you want to reinforce to non-NBA fans that the league doesn’t really follow any rules (they never call traveling, they never call ‘in the lane’, they don’t play defense, they don’t call fouls, etc), then the All-Star game is for you.
Part of it may be the parameters of basketball vs the other big-time pro sports. The baseball All-Star game is more constricted by the very structure of baseball itself. It more resembles an important ‘play to win’ game rather than a meaningless pickup game. I don’t watch the NHL or NFL all-star games, but I know that, particularly with the Pro Bowl, it is approaching the point where no one cares about it anymore. That includes the ‘fans’ and the participants. In the NFL, no one would challenge your love of the pro game if you said you disliked the Pro Bowl.
Each year the drumbeat grows louder that the dunk contest and some of the other fluff of the weekend is a boring waste of time. And, yes, you can be an NBA fan and not know or care who won the dunk contest or the behind-the-basket shooting contest. By the time the actual game arrives, fans have be subjected to boring celebrity games and novelty acts. By then, some have decided it isn’t worth the bother.
by ogishkemuncie on Feb 27, 2012 11:25 AM CST up reply actions
In the order you asked,
I mostly hate stupid comedy movies, but that’s mostly because the stupid ones are mean. For example, Adam Sandler’s movies seem to mostly star him being sullenly mean. I don’t get the appeal there. He’s a jerk, ha ha?
Popular music is fine with me as long as it’s got some hint of the whole singer-songwriter thing to it. I don’t have much time for overproduced stuff that’s completely about production values. That has no personality. Also music that amounts to nothing but an endless loop of egotistical trash talk bores me very, very quickly.
The current fashion thing that I just don’t get is the flat-ironed hair. It really doesn’t flatter anyone, and instead makes women look sort of…. shattered. That’s nothing to do with kids nowadays.
And I don’t know quite how to fix the NBA’s whole All Star thing, but it needs fixing. Yesterday’s All Star game barely beat out the Daytona 500. That’d sound okay, if only the race hadn’t been cancelled due to rain.
The centerpiece of Saturday was being openly sneered at by the TV announcers. Even when the league has what I thought might be a good idea, they somehow manage to squeeze the life out of the thing. HORSE should have been a free-wheeling thing, with players doing trick shots. Instead it wound up with a long back-and-forth thing where two players took the same routine three over and over again. Totally flat.
I don’t know, man, the whole thing is just flat like a bad tire. There’s a lot of build-up, and then pfft, every year for a while now.
The last thing we want to do is take long twos. It's still on our list, though.
Wait, what?
They cancel CAR races due to rain? They do know that the drivers are inside the cars, right?
by PoundFoolish on Feb 27, 2012 2:02 PM CST up reply actions
This is just me the curmudgeon, but the prospect of a Daytona 500 run at maybe 57 MPH on a slick track?
Sounds actually fine. Let ’em use the all weather tires.
The last thing we want to do is take long twos. It's still on our list, though.
C'mon, feral... not even the slightest chuckle?
Mr. Feral, what you’ve just said is one of the most insanely idiotic things I have ever heard. At no point in your rambling, incoherent response were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone in this room is now dumber for having listened to it. I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5hfYJsQAhl0
This is my opinion and does not constitute an endorsement, opinion or official position of the U.S. Army.
by ronatcampzama on Feb 27, 2012 3:33 PM CST up reply actions
After about five minutes of any movie with him starring, I feel gross.
A given line, okay. He’s not as mean and unfunny as “Jingle All the Way,” the standard bearer for mean, stupid movies with nothing but mean, stupid characters. But it’s still…. Why is being funny about being really obnoxiously selfish? Me no get.
The last thing we want to do is take long twos. It's still on our list, though.
Don't watch Eastbound & Down then
Or anything with Danny McBride in it, for that matter. Personally I find him hilarious. He always plays obnoxiously selfish characters. It’s a brand of satire I quite enjoy.
"Only God is an expert, Ernie."
What's being satirized? Stupid people?
It’s like doing a parody of pro wrestling. Yeah…. Uh, the original article was more than enough.
The last thing we want to do is take long twos. It's still on our list, though.
Anything with Will Ferrell. Ugh.
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by Cynical Jason on Feb 27, 2012 10:54 PM CST up reply actions
I've never seen it.
The presence of Ferrell in anything makes me break out in hives.
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by Cynical Jason on Feb 28, 2012 11:32 AM CST up reply actions
Anchorman is the Citizen Kane of
absurd stupid humor movies. I mean really, really stupid. It fades a bit in the back half, but if you like that kind of comedy, you should consider testing your Will Ferrell tolerance and giving it a shot. Plus, then you’ll be in on a lot of jokes. It’s one of the bigger one-liner sources of its time.
by Madison Dan on Feb 28, 2012 11:53 AM CST up reply actions
He did one last year I watched and liked okay.
Not in his usual vein, though. Let’s see….
It’s got Stephen Root. Selling point! Pretty low key.
The last thing we want to do is take long twos. It's still on our list, though.
You were probably the guy who also said
“Stripes and Caddyshack are really dumb, but Razor’s Edge was OK.” C’mon feral, embrace the dumb!
by Madison Dan on Feb 28, 2012 12:39 PM CST up reply actions
(I saw Caddyshack, Stripes, and Animal House as a triple feature, and liked them.)
Don’t get fooled by MNPhatz’s name calling, I’m not a curmudgeon. The only show I try to watch every week is Big Bang Theory, and it’s a pretty generic sit com.
Mean and stupid – “by, for, and about mean stupid people” – just wears thin so fast.
The last thing we want to do is take long twos. It's still on our list, though.
I don't like the mean-spirited comedies, either,
but when Punch Drunk Love and Everything Must Go are the Sandler and Ferrell films of choice, things have gone a little too art-house for me.
(I do think I’d like Everything Must Go. I kind of hated Punch Drunk Love, which was disappointing because I love other PT Anderson films.)
by Madison Dan on Feb 28, 2012 12:57 PM CST up reply actions
Look, I'm sorry if I offended you.
I was put of by your disparaging of my Christmases. Can we just apologize to each other and move on, please?
There aren’t enough of us NBA and Timberwolves fans. Let’s love one another like brothers.
"Only God is an expert, Ernie."
Yes we can.
I’m sorry, all I meant to do was make an analogy about anticipating something a lot and then having it be a letdown. I hope your every Christmas is merry and bright, and that the All Star Game is the same.
The last thing we want to do is take long twos. It's still on our list, though.
I was tempted to see that.
Mostly because it’s based on a Raymond Carver story, so there wouldn’t be any room for Ferrell to be his annoying self. I still might see that.
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by Cynical Jason on Feb 28, 2012 4:40 PM CST up reply actions
You may consider making an exception for Stranger Than Fiction
Ferrell isn’t a completely moronic manboy. Plus, y’know, Emma Thompson is pretty much always awesome.
I too enjoyed the zany pairing of Arnold and Sinbad.
"Only God is an expert, Ernie."
by MNPhatz on Feb 28, 2012 12:08 AM CST up reply actions 1 recs
Try watching it and asking: Where are the sympathetic characters?
Halfway through Ahnold drops a ball that’s supposed to get him the toy, and a little girl picks it up…. And leads him on a chase. ‘Cause it’s so fun to be mean to grown men?
Every character is vile. Every extra. All the Santas want to beat him up. It’s unreally mean.
And so stupid! How ‘bout at the end, in the parade, when his own kid doesn’t realize it’s him in the costume…. And momentarily looks like he’s going to beat up his best friend? Or how about the running joke where the superhero sidekick is always getting beaten up? So pointlessly mean, and stupid. But thank goodness we had Sinbad to SHOUT EVERY LINE. HA HA HA.
The last thing we want to do is take long twos. It's still on our list, though.
I don't really remember or like most of his movies, but...
Billy Madison is a great flick IMHO.
This is my opinion and does not constitute an endorsement, opinion or official position of the U.S. Army.
by ronatcampzama on Feb 28, 2012 1:26 AM CST via iPhone app up reply actions
I thought Punch-Drunk Love was excellent,
and Happy Gilmore was entertaining, but I mostly dislike what he does.
I'm going to brag. I drive the Nikola Pekovic fanwagon.
by Cynical Jason on Feb 28, 2012 1:32 AM CST up reply actions
alibi fire...
I thought Punch-Drunk Love was a pretty good movie. I don’t consider it a comedy, but a good “non-Sandler” movie
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by ronatcampzama on Feb 28, 2012 2:39 AM CST up reply actions
(Got good reviews, anyway. Never bothered to see it.)
The last thing we want to do is take long twos. It's still on our list, though.
The reason I hate Sandler
is that he plays the obnoxious mean character that I don’t enjoy, but combines it with what seems to me to be this need to be beloved in each of his films. Now, I’m not familiar with all his works, so I’m sure other examples exist, but in the Sandler vehicles there is this formula for the lovable asshole that really doesn’t work for me. If he wants to go the Eastbound & Down route, that’s fine. Just don’t asked to be loved and adored at the end.
Finally,
and this just occurred to me – I can’t believe I am defending the All-Star game in an open thread celebrating THE ALL-STAR GAME!!! Why are you grouchy trolls even in here?!?
"Only God is an expert, Ernie."
I am *such* a troll on this site.
The last thing we want to do is take long twos. It's still on our list, though.
by feral on Feb 27, 2012 12:07 PM CST up reply actions 1 recs
I aspire to be a troll
and to burnish my credentials let me again point out that the NBA has chosen to sequester its games behind a paywall, allowing only “paying” fans (i.e., those with cable or dishes) to watch the games.
If NCAA Lacrosse was reliably shown on b’cast tv, it would be the next big sport. The NFL and MLB bigfoot the NBA and NHL because b’cast tv gets the biggest audiences by default.
The NBA All-Star game is an inside joke, played not for the glory, but because it’s an excuse for all the cool NBAers to party for one weekend in the middle of the season. Everything about this weekend was second- or third-rate, and the game itself only became watchable after the West shamed the East into bringing their real game in the second half.
Stern is murdering the NBA at the owners’ insistence. It’s time for a new league, one in which cities/states own the teams and the players get what’s left over after arena costs and team expenses (but they get ALL of what’s left over). The profit motive has no place in sports, and is responsible for all the crap we hate about the NBA. Winning and making money are not the same things, and that’s what screws everything up.
Yo ho ho and a FirstRow stream!
Because the government has such a great track record of running things
If people don’t like the product they can watch something else. I’d rather have the free market determine what goes on with sports instead of government bureaucrats.
I've got good judgement from experience and experience from bad judgement.
I'd like our government-regulated (it's never going to be "free") economy to run as smartly and efficiently as possible. I think that's something we can all agree on.
This whole “government v. free market” dichotomy is made up and incorrect. The differences between what everybody wants aren’t as big as the overblown terms we use to discuss them. I want the government run better, whether that means its role increases or decreases for any given thing.
Gary, you didn't kill your brother. Those gorillas did.
When I say "free-market" I mean "consumer choice", maybe that will be more palatable to you,
Since government is inherently inefficient, I think your analysis “This whole "government v. free market" dichotomy is made up and incorrect.” is itself incorrect and not based on historical fact.
I've got good judgement from experience and experience from bad judgement.
I think I have seen you make "non-trolly" contributions
but in this thread, you just want to run down the All Star Game. I get a kick out of it, you don’t, and neither one of us can even begin to understand the other’s point of view. I guess we’ll just have to agree to disagree.
"Only God is an expert, Ernie."
You don't know what a troll looks like.
A “troll” would wander into a thread like this on CH and bait people with talk about how Kevin Love doesn’t have that All Star look to his game. You know?
Hey…. I really hope your Christmas improves a lot.
The last thing we want to do is take long twos. It's still on our list, though.
See, even after I acknowledge you contribute to this blog . . .
AND suggest we agree to disagree, you have to keep going on and on and talking about my Christmases.
You think just because you aren’t Chuck D, you aren’t acting like a troll? You are writing in an All Star Game thread and complaining about how awful the All Star Game is, not to mention suggesting my Christmas is unpleasant because the All Star Game is SOOOOOO horrible.
In response to ogishkemuncie, and sort of to Cynical Jason (whom I respect for his wit) as well, I wrote:
“I feel sorry for you and others who don’t get the all-star game.
The greatest pick up game in the world thrills me annually. It’s like my Christmas.”
Meaning, the All Star Game is one of the happiest days of the year for me, and I honestly feel bad for people who don’t get the same amount of pleasure from watching the game that I do.
Then you wrote:
“Your Christmas must be one of those where you think and wonder and wish about how all your family will come together, and how the kids’ faces will light up, and then your aunt comes to stay and smokes in your bedroom and the tree lights short out on Christmas Eve night.”
That is some rude, sort of off-the-wall stuff to write. Instead of getting too riled up about it, I just teased you about being a curmudgeon, which seemed to go right over your head as you could not have given more predictably curmudgeonly answers to my rhetorical questions.
As my man Charles Barkley said to Shaq recently, “Just let it go.” I suggest we just never speak of these posts ever again.
"Only God is an expert, Ernie."
I think we have a perception difference.
You wrote “I can’t believe I am defending the All-Star game in an open thread celebrating THE ALL-STAR GAME!!!” I’d argue that this is an open thread acknowledging the ASG, and, being an open thread, is game for negative comments as well as positive ones.
No ill will. Just opinions. I hope they’re welcome.
I'm going to brag. I drive the Nikola Pekovic fanwagon.
by Cynical Jason on Feb 27, 2012 10:57 PM CST up reply actions
Fair enough.
Again, you have my pity. Have you seen the Boondocks episode where are young Colonel Stinkmeaner looks out at the ocean during a marvelous sunset, a dolphin jumps out of the water, and turns around and mutters, “Aw, that’s some old bullshit.”? To me, the amazing feats of athleticism displayed in the All Star Game are wonders marbles of nature, similar to sunsets and beautiful wild animals. But, to each their own.
I almost always enjoy your comments on Canis Hoopus. I think you are witty, and you are snarky without being rude, so of course your opinions are welcome. I think of you as a funny curmudgeon. Would you agree?
"Only God is an expert, Ernie."
"Funny curmudgeon."
I’d accept that. One of my friends once called me the nicest asshole he knows, and I can’t argue with that, either.
I read the Boondocks strip years ago, but I haven’t seen a second of the show. I take it you judge it worth watching. I’ll have to take a look. I thought McGruder was a visionary along the lines of Bill Watterson back when he started, and he was so young it pissed me off.
I'm going to brag. I drive the Nikola Pekovic fanwagon.
by Cynical Jason on Feb 28, 2012 1:19 AM CST up reply actions
I love the Boondocks cartoon.
The Stinkmeaner episodes are my favorites. They feature absolutely amazing voice acting by Cedric Yarbrough (he is the black cop on Reno 911, and he is from Minnesota!). As an animation aficionado, I really appreciate the job he did.
I love the kung fu action sequences. I love the humor. Aaron McGruder writes most of the episodes. I gotta warn you, however: the show is potentially offensive to a lot of people.
"Only God is an expert, Ernie."
I can't be offended.
It’s a gift.
I'm going to brag. I drive the Nikola Pekovic fanwagon.
by Cynical Jason on Feb 28, 2012 11:33 AM CST up reply actions
The part where you tell us how sorry you are for us, and that you pity us:
Pure class from a person I’d put in charge of the troll judgments, for sure.
The last thing we want to do is take long twos. It's still on our list, though.
"I pity you for disagreeing with me."
This is called “baiting.”
The last thing we want to do is take long twos. It's still on our list, though.
Test it out: Try saying how much you feel sorry for, or pity, posters in *any* other context.
It’s going to get something like this response.
“I pity people who like (band name).”
“You didn’t like the Transformers movies? I feel sorry for you.”
“You didn’t like Citizen Kane? I feel sorry for you.”
Guaranteed responses.
The last thing we want to do is take long twos. It's still on our list, though.
I also hate the all star game, and don't need your pity
it’s on once a year and I can just not watch, like I did this year.
The greatest pick up game in the world thrills me annuallyI don’t know about you, but most people I know actually try during pick up games. They usually play defense They rarely let themselves get punked. In other words, they actually play something resembling basketball.
In the grades for the game, John Hollinger didn't even include Love!
Check it out. Hollinger is such a tool.
http://espn.go.com/nba/allstar2012/story/_/page/scorecard2012-west-all-stars/west-all-stars
I see Love there, with an A-
Three years and counting...
by HowManyFoulsOnShaq? on Feb 27, 2012 2:11 AM CST up reply actions
His original ASG grades post failed to include Kevin Love
As you can tell by looking at the earlier comments to his post.
I've got good judgement from experience and experience from bad judgement.
Weird.
It’s very true that Hollinger was among Love’s earliest and biggest fans among the talking heads. Before the draft that year, he ranked Love as among the best-rated rookies he’d projected. When we made the Mayo trade, he was one of the people saying Minnesota had won it hands down.
The last thing we want to do is take long twos. It's still on our list, though.
(Another Hollinger fave.)
The last thing we want to do is take long twos. It's still on our list, though.
Also, John Hollinger is among Love's earliest and biggest boosters.
The last thing we want to do is take long twos. It's still on our list, though.
It appears I can watch the All Star game on league pass. Do I bother?
"If you’ve got some balls, you can do some stuff"
Hah really. At least I won't have to watch a halftime show consisting of Pitbull, Chris Brown and Ne-Yo.
My god.
Also, I can watch the Rising Stars game, which I guess could be fun, right?
"If you’ve got some balls, you can do some stuff"
I've yet to decide which was worse
that halftime show or the opening song that Billy Crystal sang during the Oscars.
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Billy Crystal as everyone's supposedly gold standard of Oscar hosts: Why?
The last thing we want to do is take long twos. It's still on our list, though.
He's like Coldplay.
Somehow, Coldplay sells millions of CDs and downloads, yet they’re as vanilla as any music (muzak) act has ever been. My favorite comment about Coldplay is that they are “the musical equivalent of beige.” Same with Crystal. He’s comfortable to us. He’s mildly witty in a non-threatening way. He’s enthusiastic (okay, just lost the Coldplay angle there).
I'm going to brag. I drive the Nikola Pekovic fanwagon.
by Cynical Jason on Feb 27, 2012 11:00 PM CST up reply actions
And don't forget,
it’s been going on so long it’s become tradition. Like Jerry Lewis and his telethon, like the rude uncle at the family get together getting the little kid to pull his finger. Something long repeated gets beyond judgement. BTW, I laughed out loud when I read the line about you being your friend’s nicest a hole he knows.
We laugh about that every time we get together.
I'm going to brag. I drive the Nikola Pekovic fanwagon.
by Cynical Jason on Feb 28, 2012 11:36 AM CST up reply actions
As long as this is an all star post
Could we trade Kenny Smith for Billy Crystal? And maybe have Eddie Curry jump over Spike Lee and Jack Nicholson
"pokin' the animals at the Canis Hoopus zoo"
by pastyearsears on Feb 28, 2012 7:50 AM CST up reply actions
You spelled "on" wrong.
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by Cynical Jason on Feb 28, 2012 11:35 AM CST up reply actions
You had me scratching my head there for a while.
Sometimes I write because I can’t draw. It’s nice to know someone sees the picture. Splat!
"pokin' the animals at the Canis Hoopus zoo"
by pastyearsears on Feb 28, 2012 11:59 AM CST up reply actions
That's my guess. People feel safe.
Maybe they should wheel out Dick Clark.
The last thing we want to do is take long twos. It's still on our list, though.
That first New Years Clark did after his stroke was a truly depressing sight.
I'm going to brag. I drive the Nikola Pekovic fanwagon.
by Cynical Jason on Feb 28, 2012 11:36 AM CST up reply actions
Odd thing about New Year's.
Even with a host like Clark, it seemed like they didn’t play up “New Year’s parties through the years” like you might expect. If I’m tuning into the Times Square business (and I’m not, but if I was), I’d sort of like to see bits of stuff from the 1978 show with the Village People or something. It’s a holiday about the passage of time, and the TV version seemed to treat every year by itself.
Dick Clark was a sort of time capsule, and they didn’t open it. American Bandstand through the years, yeah, but not New Year’s?
The last thing we want to do is take long twos. It's still on our list, though.
I happen to like the idea
of the best players in the world in a game together. Same goes for the best young players (the Rising Stars version). Admittedly I’m less than thrilled if it turns into a three point bomb fest, like the RS game, but still, it IS great pick-up ball. Hmmm… if teams really need a reason for effort, maybe they should put something on the game(s). Money for charity say, with both sides getting cash, but more for the winners. That might work, most players represent some individual charity or cause already, reward the winners with donations. You’d have to specify time allotments for players, as in X amount of time for starters vs bench, (otherwise LeBron might never get off the court) but it would give some reason for extra effort.
Keep in mind, they’re supposed to be putting on a show. RA would have a heart attack if Ricky was tossing behind the back lead passes in the regular season, but wasn’t it cool to see in that game? If there is a way to navigate the thin line between showmanship and actually trying to win… or maybe we should all just stop worrying about it and just try to enjoy really good players having fun playing together.
by dwb on Feb 27, 2012 3:48 PM CST reply actions 1 recs
K-Love's said something about making it like the baseball All Star game,
and having home court depend on it.
The last thing we want to do is take long twos. It's still on our list, though.
Please, no
That’s a disaster in baseball.
(Yeah, I have that vague idea.)
The last thing we want to do is take long twos. It's still on our list, though.
Just watched Rising Stars.
How do we get Landry Fields?
Rubio
Fields
B-Easy
Love
Pek
"If you’ve got some balls, you can do some stuff"
There’s no way. He’s one of the fan favorites out there. Him and Lin are good friends now so I don’t see them breaking those two up. He seems like a legit 2 guard though. A fantastic steal for the Knicks.
by MychalShannon1 on Feb 28, 2012 12:29 AM CST up reply actions
Sadly, that was what I expected to hear.
"If you’ve got some balls, you can do some stuff"
by JonesTheCat on Feb 28, 2012 5:08 AM CST via mobile up reply actions
Well, time for this dream to die:
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Adelman says M. Lee likely will go back for another good run in DLeague, says they really like his future but it probably won’t be this year
And also this one?
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Asked Adelman about possibility of upgrading at wing before trade deadline and he basically said those guys just aren’t out there available
Jerry Zgoda.
Where Wolves wing dreams go to die.
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by Cynical Jason on Feb 27, 2012 11:01 PM CST up reply actions
Likelihoods
Dealing for a solid wing before the deadline….Nope
Signing a quality free agent wing next summer….Nope
Getting an impact wing in the 2012 draft….Nope
Wes Johnson becoming a solid NBA wing….Nope
DK coming up with an interesting wing with huge deficiencies before next season….I’m not answering that, Nope I’m not
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