airmark:


I just welcomed a baby boy, got no time for your meaningless yarns.

We know you love wasteful attackers, you did same thing, defending Morata until he was chased away.

He Shoots, He scores. Massive Congrats Big Man.

diggz:



Sod…so you too join people wey dey say I dey youkay. You and your uncle Raumdauter go gather money give me make I sort myself Biko. Meanwhile, I go pay chic2pimp visit this year make him explain wetin happen to we girlfriend.

Diggz baba longest time o. IB is fine o. She is currently taking an extended break from all things Nairaland.

iamoyindamola:

Chic2pimp have finally succeeded
If ibkayee show now chic2pimp will follow, since you they youkay help me find chic2pimp at north london na there he they hide

. You people should free me abeg

fredoooooo:

World best British abi Britico ni, let him win trophies first before you call him world best, for now he's a top player and not the world best player.

WORLD'S BEST!. His performances since He signed for Madrid dragging them kicking and screaming has already shown that. If Madrid and England fail to win anything,it'll be because of the performances of the other players not Him.

fredoooooo:


Top player absolutely no doubt ... just dat Eggland will always be Eggland .

Not just any Top player, World's Best Player. With Him on this England and Madrid teams, all things are possible.

fredoooooo:
Bellingham

BEST PLAYER IN THE WORLD!

CHELSEA VS MANCHESTER CITY

A40:
He's the one in the conversation with Brady though 4 rings is still some ways to go. You can argue 5 since he lost H2H vs Brady

When all is said and done he'll end up at worst a Top 3 QB of all time. In terms of natural talent, I already have Him as Numero Uno.

Roland17:
Today, 16 out of the current 20 teams voted to keep the league at 20, rather than the 18 proposed. Milan were amongst the 4 teams that voted to cut the number to 18. Milan, Inter, Juventus and Roma were the 4 dissenting teams.

I'm sorry cutting the number of teams from 20 to 18 makes Zero sense. I think we all know why the big 4 wants an eighteen league team no matter what they say. It's because they want a bigger pie of tv revenue pot.

It's very selfish of them as most teams don't have the brand cache of the Big 4 which in turn limits the amount of revenue they are able to generate. Many Teams are currently living on the edge and will literally go bust if they drop to Serie B. I don't think many people know the realities of teams in Serie B. The revenue generated by that league is completely dwarfed by the likes of the English Championship and Bundesliga 2. Please leave Serie A at 20 teams.

Yh Patty Mahomes is Legendary. Take a bow Son. Dude has now won more Superbowls than the likes of Manning,Rodgers and Favre.

Yh the Chiefs aren't coming back from this.

Looks like this will be a low scoring affair with the 49ers coming out on top.

Colson:
Bellingham no score for more than 2 months we no see you.

How many goals has your midfield duo of Pedri and Gavi scored thus far? Show your workings.

I have said it several times, Vini has been the world's best winger for 2+ seasons now.

ST JUDE BELLINGHAM'DOR with another brace.

Khanben:


This is something I also had to deal with before I read studies on how bad eyewitness testimony and memory recall actually are in reality.
So what I do now is actually go watch these old games and you are right, it's all nostalgia. I remember during the pandemic, I watched the Bulls vs. Suns finals games, and the whole series was tailor made for the Bulls to win. The Suns had a team which had no way of slowing down the best scorer that they were facing
They had no interior defense because they played small, every wing defender big enough to guard MJ was too slow, and the ones quick enough was too little. Personally I came away with more respect for Sir Charles after that series, he was constantly being doubled by Pippen and Grant or one of them with MJ showing help and he still took them 6 games with his 2nd option being an inconsistent mess all through the series.

PS: I recently watched a scoring cut of the Heats Tim Hardaway Sr game 7 against the Knicks. What he did that day was hailed as one of the best game 7s ever. But after watching it 3x, his performance that day is what Steph does every other day, for those who keep saying Steph couldn't play in the 90s that game is a window to how dominant he would have been. Those rugged hard nosed Knicks had no answer for someone who was pulling up from 23ft

That is why we call them Nostalgia Merchants. Imagine thinking Steph or any all time Great will be dominate any era of basketball. Steph was greater than EVERY 90s guard bar a certain Michael Jordan.

If a player like Reggie Miller whose game is built around mastering off-ball movement and historically good shooting can dominate in the 90s, a guy like Steph Curry—who is somehow still outwardly better at shooting and moving without the ball, and is so much better at finishing makes a recipe utter domination. Basically Steph is so much better than Reggie at what He(Reggie) does best it's a joke then add in the fact Steph's passing and Ball Handling(Top 3 all time imo) is so good, Reggie can only dream of coming anywhere close in two lifetimes.

Khanben:



Thank you, I recently watched and analysed every shot Kobe took during that game. What i observed was that, just like any other high scoring output it was a combination of incredible shot making on Kobe's part, plus questionable defense by the Raptors. With how hot the dude was they never doubled him, he only saw an extra Raptors defender when he got into the lane after either blowing past his primary defender. Don't get me wrong he made some incredible shots, but I also saw occasions where he was so wide ass open it was just laughable.

Social media calls them "Nostalgia Merchants" and I tend to agree. For some reason they think we did not watch those game ourselves. Heck even if you did not, you can easily re watch the whole game in it's entirety.

Roland17:


It is why I never get excited about a 1 goal leads because I have seen enough to know we will concede late.

It's pretty annoying to be frank. All our hope lie with Juve and especially Inter dropping points.

To be honest that equaliser was coming.

larride:


Hawks defense is atrocious. They cant defend to save their lives.

Atrocious defending is more often than not the root cause of players going off and scoring a ridiculous amount of points. For example The Raptors defense when Kobe went off for 81 was even worse. Luka taking 46 shots like Kobe did would have been the first to score 100 since Wilt.

etidy:


I saw some clips of that game and the defending is borderline atrocious. Luka is great offensive talent , no doubt about that the defending has a role to play in this offensive burst we are seeing.

KAT, Embiid, Booker and Doncic have all dropped 60+ games within 4 games against different opponents and you think all is well with the league defending. Hell no!

I definitely agree scoring inflation has certainly helped but I also think the players of today are just generally better shooters of the ball. Luka's especially was special because of His insane efficiency.

The league certainly has a lot to do to improve defending but if you put Luka and Embiid in any era, they'll still be sitting amongst the best scorers.

etidy:

The 70 point games of doncic and embiid feel like 40 points if context is applied .

I disagree especially Lukas. His level of efficiency whilst scoring that many points is insane. I just watched the Kobe's 81 point again and this Hawks team is miles better than that team. If Luka faced that team on this form and neglected efficiency like Kobe did, He'll be the first to score 100 since Wilt.

Roland17:
4 players score over 60 points in the month of January with Doncic scoring 73 today agains the Hawks.

A friend of mine has been telling me for a while now that He believes Luka is the Greatest NBA scorer of all time. He just sent me a text. He has now scored more Points in a singular game than Jordan,Lebron,Bird,Magic,Shaq,D.Robinson,Steph,KD et al and his efficiency dwarfs the ones that have scored more.

fredoooooo:

Chicken and shrimp ,My bro.... Have a wonderful year ahead

My Brotherrrrrrr. Happy New Year Man. I just read your post and started cracking up like a madman. Maybe one day you'll change sha

fredoooooo:
Which Nigerians ?
Wetin concern us with Gaza and Israel.
We have our own problem , they shoukd also carry their cross.
Won siere ni Gaza ni , who care about us in Africa ? Absolutely no one, why should we care about them ?

BIg Bill Belicheck, Pete Carroll and Nick Saban are all gone. Really and truly the End of a Footballing Era.

Your Weekly JUDE BELLINGHAM'DOR update has arrived yet again

In amidst the chaos that is this thread, just a friendly and daily reminder of the feats of an amazing young man called JUDE BELLINGHAM'DOR!

Since when did Larride and Steady start following baseball?

I did not expect his yearly AAV to be that much especially not right after His season ending Tommy John surgery. Before the surgery absolutely but thought it'd be around the 60-65 million ball park but then again He is by a long short the Biggest Global Superstar Baseball has ever had so I expect the dodgers to recoup their yearly earnings back in no time.

WhoDeyHause:

They don't even have someone of Nico paz quality in their midfield talkless of JB5. Someone that has more champions league goals than gbafinha and fraudmal. Let dead barka fans continue overhyping their mid coach and players.

Which one Gbafinha and Fraudmal nau?
I said a few months ago that Jude was pulling away from His fellow Golden ball nominees (bayern fans agreed with regards to Musiala so did madrid fans with regards to Cama only Barca fans disagreed when it came to Pedri and Gavi)but now the Gap is as big as it's ever been. He is on another Tier compared to them currently.

WhoDeyHause:
Barka's new owner Jude victor William bellingham strikes again. He's him. 🔥🔥🔥

If only they had someone of His quality in their midfield alas no. He is only just getting started btw. Another 10+ years of Bellingham the Menace awaits them.

A wiseman once said

Roland17:
If we play like this against BVB, we will get smoked but they don’t have a good defense anyways.

I'm disregarding the latter part because although true, we failed to capitalise on it.