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Banchero and Wagner might be the new dynamic duo

And the Timberwolves. Seems like they're cooking something. Everyone thought the Gobert, Towns tandem was a bust, appears that was premature. They look like a really dangerous team and have beaten a lot of really good teams.

Petition for the Pacers, Hawks and Nets to play some defense. Some of these scorelines are pretty disgusting. I'm sorry what those teams are playing is not basketball

chic2pimp:
How did Miles Bridges survive His domestic violence case? I really thought the Violence against Women charities would have gotten His @$$ out the league.

NBA fans are woke but not woke enough. Plus he missed all of last season and then a 10 game suspension.

The tricky part with this DV thing is if the man is out the league your earnings as the woman will suffer. So you need to be 100percent certain that man will be put away and then you have to start from square 1. As it is he has already missed out on a massive payday.

Look at Kevin Porter Jr. Same wahala. The babe had to retract her whole accusation but it was too late plus we knew she was capping.

Lol the Celtics have the Bucks number. They're so much softer and less physical these days. I don't know that they beat the Heat or Celtics at this rate

I was going to talk about Banchero. You beat me to it. Arguably the most consistent young player in the league. Looking at him and Franz Wagner and I see all star potential

I don't see why they can't compete for a top 6 seed. Not like the East is that deep this year

birdman:
Man, you spot on. That ring satisfied him. Hard to feel sorry for my guy Lebron though - we were all jubilating when they got AD. Lebron was thinking dynasty. Oga just wanted LA weather

I don't know. Bron's legacy is set I think. We don't even know that he wins a ring with the Lakers if the pandemic didn't happen but I digress

I said it here many moons ago that joining Bron in his prime and accepting to be the #2 guy in mentality and play told me all I needed to know about AD. I'm called a hater cos I say the truth too early. On one hand Lebron can be notorious for hogging all the spotlight but when I see AD scoring 9pts going entire halves scoreless I know it's not even a skill issue anymore because it has never been easier to score in this league

afrodoc2:
Yes, i factored in the situation that is why i said Chet is more impactful. Remember when D.Book was scoring 50 -70 points with no impact early on in his career. Chet is in a situation to make a difference and because of that his impact will be more felt.

Concerning Pep, i have suspected he has lost it for a while. Outside leadership and authority it looks like the X and Os of this modern game dey elude am small.

Wemby is not even a gunner like Booker so it's going to be nigh impossible to get numbers like Book. I think Wemby's best bet is to focus more on the defensive end. Cos the way Spurs play they're filled with bench guys that think they are starters. They have no floor general and do not run any real plays for Wemby.

Pop I don't know maybe all those years of losing and middling has rotted his basketball nous. Since Kawhi left the truth is him pattern don cast.

Hummels back and Germany back to losing. Warra shocker

afrodoc2:
I was just about entering Uni when it came out. The thing send some people GP underground not to be heard of again. When we crossed over to medical school the thing squeeze some people academic destiny for hand like puff puff. The trick was it being a multi-player game , you can keep up to 4 students unserious at any point in time PLUS 4-6 who are watching the game and waiting for "set". That is potentially 10 students who are playing video games instead of reading their books. We had to beg the guy with the game to take it home and never bring it back cos we were all junkies. If the thing dey room we must play ni.

Lol those game na thief of time sha. GTA San Andreas I dey balance with am no food, no sleep I wan complete mission plus side mission.

PES worse if boys dey cos betting go involve. On a good day you can make as much as 10k. 10k circa 05/07 you know how much that is.

Golden Eye years boys dey thief money go play for game house. There's a place called Shadex where boys would go. Till we bought the game and started playing at home, then they sent me to boarding house and all that one ended

raumdeuter:
NA PS1 dey my time or shey na PS2 wey dem dey talk shootu, suruuu

I no sabi play but I have friends who got extra year because of it. Just put Roberto Carlo for front one side, Tijani Babangida for the other side. Matter don finish

The only game I no play na them Atari and Colecovision. Every other one we play even Familycom. No other thing I dey use my money do apart from saving for or buying video game.

But yeah 06 PES and GTA in uni days was a serious problem. Once you see Adriano for my lineup just dey sorry for your net especially them Winning 11 days

afrodoc2:
Mehn!
I know people who are not doctors today because of Golden Eye. It got to a point I will be sleeping and the soundtrack of the game would be playing in my dream. Na Ahura Mazda save the son of man.

PES and GTA San Andreas wan finish my life oh. We been dey play PES for money. Year 1 and Year 2 I doubt I dey sleep complete 3 hours for night

Me I no too sabi book normally but I don't think those games helped matters. Wild times

I still dey primary school when Golden Eye comot sha. We dey play Golden Eye, Killer Instinct, MK on top Snes

GloriousGbola:
I think what this comes down to is unless you grow up in a house with older teenagers or uncle and auntie in uni, the first music you will be introduced to is your parents music. My parents had abba and Diana Ross records. Also boney m. I can Def recite abbas super trouper, boney ms daddy cool.

In the same way my kids (the first two) are very familiar with 90s music because that's what they heard their dad playing. Their Playlist is very interesting though as they also listen to Ariana grande and Co. And somehow we introduced each other to some variants of nerdcore.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FKdLLu0TT78?si=9kYjzLlnaw6Taxur

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oC6S4ZE0FKo?si=NPWZszAaYGF6LQB6


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lB04b2EaMVU?si=vTGIe2v_ZfSGJ_g3



To be honest everyone agrees the 90s is the real golden age of a lot of music. There was so much good material from that time. I am still unearthing songs.
Every once in a while I remember the lyrics of some old song and I Google it until I find it. Then I look for the high quality audio.

I remember watching one Grammy awards where lol Wayne performed. I was like finally, let me see what this guy is about. I saw some dude mumbling up and down on stage. Like wtf is this?

I will definitely agree growing up your parents musical library will influence your tastes. We had all the vinyls. Jimmy Cliff, Kenny Rogers, Obey and Sunny Ade. I been think say the man na DJ, Boney M (Rasputin was my best jam)

I had uncle's too that listened to Blackky, Alex O and all those guys I mostly discovered rap and hip hop thanks to them Keke and D1. And the rest is history

ChatGpt don scatter everything

AI na real problem moving forward. This is only the beginning. No need to write lyrics again

Emaprince:
I think you are making his point. As you grow older, you will revert back to the musics you grew up with. You won't be interested in contemporary musics anymore. So those music that was recorded before you were born are part of what you grew up with.

It's happening to me. These days I find myself loving and playing a lot of old Congolese musics which my pops was always binging on when we were kids. I have lots of fally ipupa though cos he can create something very similar to the 90s Congo musics. I'm not talking makosa o.

I've gone back to playing igbo gospel musics from likes of

Bro Okwey
Agape love
Voice of the cross
Patty Obasi
Etc etc
I heard their songs a lot as a kid, now it gives nostalgia..and refresh my memories back then.

My hip hop play lists are from 90s and early 2000s. I don't even watch sound city, MTV or whatever anymore.

Contemporary musics are everywhere you go, so you don't have to play it yourself to listen to them. This is how I get to know them. I don't have none of them on my Playlist except Davidos old musics when he was still hungry.

Not necessarily. I'm not a slave to era else I would not be jamming songs that came out before I was born. There's one or two songs from this era I can also tolerate but I'm just telling you the quality of music has progressively gotten worse across all genres.

I'm always laughing at Gen Z pretending like we Millennials are old grandpas. Like listen all this internet we started this shit. What do you know about Napster and Limewire? You're playing COD, We played MGS and Golden Eye. Na we go tell you as everything start cos we were both outside and inside

Me I listen to everything and it's not an age thing. I'm saying the music is just bad bar a few

DeadPresidents:
Nigga I was on some Anita Baker, Aretha Franklin and Patti Labelle for my evening study. Damn those women sing nicer than "please and thank you“

I also ran through the top HipHop albums of 1994-1998 and the quality of lyricism was mindblowingly good.

I think the streaming and Tik-Tok era has done irreversible damage to musical artistry. You don’t have to be able to build a base anymore to get paid. Just make music that goes viral on shorts

Lol. I cannot listen to the garbage put out today and I will not apologize for it.

A lot of those women were really good too the era you listed. The ones that came after them Sade, Mary J, Whitney, Janet Jackson etc.

These people had real talent. Even the ones that didn't write their lyrics were at least exceptionally good at singing while the frauds like Milli Vanilli were quickly exposed.

It's almost like more technology has made us lazy and worse stupid.

Roland17:
@A40 remember I told you the Nuggets lack of depth will be a big factor? They have been 3/3 since J. Murray went down. They are 24th in bench scoring this season which is troubling.

They lost to a Cavs team without Spyder and C. LeVert. C. Braun is still the only player on the bench they can offer anything.

I think Michael Malone does not trust his bench enough which begs the question why didn't you get guys in the offseason. You have to give your bench a longer leash, if you don't do it now then when? you allowed Jeff Green and Bruce Brown (unavoidable loss I get it) walk

Guys like Watson, Strawther, Nnaji. Give them more time to play and make mistakes.

Any lack of depth they face is self inflicted. They don't have backup for Jokic (2023 DeAndre Jordan doesn't count) and Cleveland with Mobley and Allen did a really good job on Jokic. I've not seen a team slow him down that well in quite sometime

GloriousGbola:
it simple means you are growing older

we all reach a point where we lock out 90% of contemporary music and focus on the music we listed to from age 12 to 30+ or so. anything after that is weird , not real music , 'whatever kids listen to these days '

But I listen to music that came out before I was born too. I have Commodores, Temptations, Earth Wind and Fire, Stevie Wonder, James Brown and Isley Brothers amongst many on my playlist.

The music today is garbage honestly. Bar a few. I actually feel bad for the kids growing up,

afrodoc2:
Wemby is foreign and exotic and once a narrative is started it is easier to lazily push it than reassess things.

At this early stage Chet is the better and more impactful player but let’s see how things progress. With Wemby’s potential, if things click for him later in the season things might get interesting.

It's deeper than that. Your situation also matters. Wemby's situation is not a particularly good one compared to Chet. This Spurs team is not set up to compensate Wemby's weaknesses. So I'm left wondering are the Spurs deliberately throwing these games or has Pop lost it.

Why the hell is a Jeremy Sochan a middling power forward playing PG.

Honestly they do not look like a team trying to win games. Almost like they are tanking for another lottery pick

budaatum:
I don't think they have any one good enough to replace him.

Ricciardo?

nihilistjnr:
Looks like Nate Dogg to me

Hmmm. E no resemble Nate for my eye sha

Emaprince:
Who is the guy between Talib and common?
Their faces just dey somehow..

Mos Def

iamoyindamola:
How many can you recognise

Na only the guy between Andre 3000 and Talib I no sabi

felix00:
Yep. This and on Very good efficiency too.. I still think wemby has the higher ceiling and GOAT potentials but Chet should be running away with the ROTY award

Till he becomes a ball handler or someone that can run an offense at an elite level I don't know he will ever be GOAT category. I always found that take a bit comical and an evidence that we're probably over hyping this kid.

Definitely has a higher ceiling than Chet but we're setting him up for failure if we put GOAT expectations on him. Zion should be a cautionary tale

afrodoc2:
That consistency is probably due to the age difference. They both have HOF potential though.

Which is why I was wondering why the entire media was so quick to crown Wemby Rookie of the Year, well unless Chet does not count as a rookie. I'm looking at this San Antonio Spurs team and they will lose minimum of 50-55 games this year.

Defensively disjointed and have a bunch of sankwa players that think they can play.

The Spurs will do well to weed out those that can and can't fit in with Wemby else his game will be stifled as well

larride:
Keeping an eye on him.

Him and SGA combo go too mad.

One of the teams waiting to send Golden State into retirement.

felix00:
His game looks more refined than wemby

He is far more consistent if you ask me. You know he's given you 16 a night no matter what unlike Wemby who's a bit of a yoyo

Looks like this Chet is the real rookie of the year

afrodoc2:
Yeah Preme wasn’t involved in day to day operations but his money was involved and he rolled in those circles to some extent. As they say, every gangster wants to be a rapper and every rapper wants to be a gangster. He was part of the culture.

One of the reasons I have respect for 50 is that he is one of the few to have beef with almost all the bogeymen of hip hop and still walk away smiling.

When you're like 50 that has knocked on heaven's door you're less inclined to fear anybody

GloriousGbola:
This is actually the hardest indictment of puffy as a producer and human being. Artistes literally do not grow with him. So much wasted potential. Look at Craig mack as another example. And Mase who blew up and walked away from it all.

It's a very bad trait. Not empowering those coming behind you. Though everyone has different work ethic but to have so many people signed under you and literally nobody blew up to stand on their own and have their own underlings says a lot.

It was pretty sad hearing Mase not too long ago cry about his Masters. I'm like this is nuts. How are you talking about Black Excellence everywhere and you still holding on to people's tool of freedom

Luka is going scorched earth this season. Bloody hell

Ibime:
Na why Diddy no get longevity of proteges be that. Most of his acts only last 2 to 5 years. Shyne has been living hand to mouth for decades, I no even sure say this politics gig dey pay am sef, unless him get sticky fingers.

Lol. Diddy na just one kin guy mehn. I remember those him years of Makin Da Band, to those him Diddy Dirty Money. The guy na industry p!mp sha, I cut cap for am.

Naah. Shyne papa na most recent former Prime Minister of Belize he cannot possibly be living hand to mouth. He will most likely be chillin

At least bad as e bad Belize must get small money to thief as him gaan na Opposition Leader like this

BlueMann:
One more thing

That mf knows how to strike a ball

Yeah seen his clips. Looks like he will be a good dead ball specialist as well. I'm intrigued. Same way we uncovered Alphonso Davies from nowhere

Ibime:
So Diddy done finally free these niggas? Guy is running where nobody is chasing him

Lool naah that guy is evil.

Look at all of Jay Z's proteges Ye, Rihanna, Cole, Rick Ross, to a lesser extent Jeezy

Compare them to Diddy's
Almost all of them busted and disgusted or dead. Only ones doing ok is Mase who recently hooked up with Camron and they have the best podcast out there now and then Lox that was able to escape from him hand quickly

See Shyne that one get luck say him papa na big boy politican. Omolomo go back Belize turn politician