joephemzyz:
Hello hoop fam!

birdman:


True, but Nash was an advisor. Not even an assistant coach as I remember it. Why would you build a championship team on a coach with no experience? But like android22 alluded to, these guys think too much of themselves. Somehow they thought individual skill would win regardless of coach. They prolly picked Nash because he is a nice guy. No accountability on defense. Just shoot 3s all day.

A40:
A guy like Steve Nash who's a HOF PG should not be deficient in X's and O's and caught lacking this badly. He played for years under Don Nelson and Mike D'Antoni ffs. Can you imagine a guy like Nick Nurse with this Nets squad? Even with the guys they've added once they get a serviceable big this is a championship caliber roster.

A40:
It really rubbishes the myth that lousy gatekeepers like Draymond try to peddle that playing basketball means you're an expert at all things basketball and you're the only ones that should be critiquing.

A guy like Steve Nash who's a HOF PG should not be deficient in X's and O's and caught lacking this badly. He played for years under Don Nelson and Mike D'Antoni ffs. Can you imagine a guy like Nick Nurse with this Nets squad? Even with the guys they've added once they get a serviceable big this is a championship caliber roster.

If I'm Joe Tsai I'd probably fire Nash, that's the only compromise I can make and get a real coach, cos If KD is running from the grind with this squad then he's a fraud I'm afraid

birdman:


When I saw the coaches you mentioned, I started laughing

Don Nelson is an HOF coach, but absolutely no discipline when it comes to defense. He was called mad genius for a reason. Even his offensive schemes were crazy.

As far as Im concerned, the only reason Dantoni is still a coach in the NBA is hand check rules. At best this guy is an assistant coach, an offensive coordinator if you will. At one point the guy benched Gasol in favor of small ball

A40:
You're not getting my own point. Nobody said he had to be a great defensive coach. In the NBA the truth is the game is 80% talent and 20% coaching. Don Nelson never had enough to be a title winning coach.

Even D'Antoni if we want to be honest has never had enough to win a title.

The difference is they had a style and D'Antoni came the closest of all to beating a fully loaded 2017 Warriors team. With a team that honestly had no business doing so.

Those guys had a philosophy which the likes of Kerr copied and fine tuned. Having generational shooters like Steph and Klay also helped. My issue with Nash is they're not playing with any philosophy on offense or defense. They lack identity

birdman:


Hei! My mind reach your side just last week sef. Hope you dey kampe?

No worry, we dey Buhari matter, we go flog am for you

Android22:
Nick Wright said something about KDs requests and I think I agree with him. He said KD did not really want to get Mark and Nash fired but to appear like a cancerous player so he could force Tsai to trade him.

He signed off on Nash and now wants to throw him under the bus? Whether Nash is this much of a bad coach, we may never know because he let KD and Kyrie do what they liked.

KD is dipping because he does not want to get flak for how disastrous last season was. Even Lebron tweeted after Nets got swept that he promises to never miss out on the playoffs again so it won't affect his legacy. KD knew that was a veiled shot which is why he is taking the anger out on the ownership even though they gave him all he wanted.

Westbrook has his flaws but he tried to tell us KD was a snake and a cupcake. KD slied Russell, slied Steph and the Warriors, and is trying to do same to the Nets. Great player no doubts. . .horrible teammate away from basketball.

joephemzyz:


HahHaha sure guy! Thanks heaps.
I dey okay o.
How this year fantasy go na, who win?

Roland17:
The WNBA have a lot of work to do in making this league more marketable. I know I have talked about this in the past and nothing as far as the level of play has changed. Maybe I am expecting too much but for what they are demanding, they absolutely have to raise their game.

Roland17:
So the WNBA playoffs started today and I wanted to talk about the format. They play a best of 3 series with a 2/1 game format. The team with the better regular season record play 2 games at home before heading away for the 1 game, if needed.

I don’t like this format because it doesn’t reward the team with the winning record. If the other team (away team) splits the first 2 games, game 3 which would be the series decider will be hosted by the lower seeded team.

Take for example, today the Chicago Sky who are the number 2 seed and defending champions, I might add lost at home to NY Liberty who are seeded 7th. That means, at worst, the Liberty will host the series decider in NY which is a huge advantage. A 1/1/1 format will be better. I hope they seriously consider it.

Also, the WNBA needs to reconsider the rule which forces every WNBA team to fly commercial. If an owner can afford to fly his team via private planes let them be allowed to do it. It is called competitive advantage. It is sad to know that college athletes (basketball/ football) fly private planes across the country and abroad while professional WNBA players are stuck in queues with everyone else trying to board commercial flights and in some instances these flights get cancelled or delayed with lost baggages.

The WNBA have a lot of work to do in making this league more marketable. I know I have talked about this in the past and nothing as far as the level of play has changed. Maybe I am expecting too much but for what they are demanding, they absolutely have to raise their game.

etidy:
A40 birdman Roland17 Khaben all of you made valid points on this WNBA issue. I felt like giving all of you cold beer I was reading your post.
WNBA could and will eventually evolve to be a better product but there will always be limitations because watching and spending your money on sports in general is not a ladies thing. some women do it but they are small percentage.

Even the sports where the women are cashing out. Their tournaments are closely bundled with the men's game e.g the big tennis and athletics event go on in the same tournaments with the male section so it caters for similar audience (mostly men) so they share from the same port of TV revenue and sponsors.

Likewise there will never be a successful male version of keeping up with khardasians. We just have different preferences.

benji93:
Unfortunately, this is not the issue. Ofcourse they'll keep getting better until they climax, as in there's only so much you can do to better another person, i.e to @A40s comment.

What the female gender wants is to be at the same level as the men. . And it's clear once they start complaining the most powerful amongst us bulge and offer palliatives. The plan is to keep them from complaining.

I don't know but if you decide to venture into an activity someone else dominates, whether because they've been doing it for much longer, you better be hella creative and ready with the tools. Men are physically competitive, so any sports that involve you displaying your physical prowess, we love. As @A40 mentioned, depending on what the sport is about, I am not watching a stack inferiorly gifted on average. If you want us to watch you, go compete with the most gifted in that sport.

The issue with the female gender becoming relatively relevant in sports as far as viewership is they cannot even serve their immediate audience which is their fellow women, fundamentally cos, despite some of them continue dey make mouth , they are not interested in watching activities that require a display of physical strength, although they may be by association(partners, children e.t.c). The first market for men's sports is men. Women are more interested in activities centered around the display of certain features , for example as you mentioned, the Khardasians. Get your fellow women to watch first, or cater to their preferences. . Very simple.

In tennis, moneys are awarded based on the qualification of players to another level, relatively smaller in quantity and different from the individual contract structure of Football, Basketball e.t.c, it's easy to equalize earnings in the former. Unfortunately, cos physical strength is involved women continue to turn into men in these sports, and I'm not sure any man likes the sound of that. . All in all good luck to them.

etidy:
A40 birdman Roland17 Khaben all of you made valid points on this WNBA issue. I felt like giving all of you cold beer I was reading your post.
WNBA could and will eventually evolve to be a better product but there will always be limitations because watching and spending your money on sports in general is not a ladies thing. some women do it but they are small percentage.

Even the sports where the women are cashing out. Their tournaments are closely bundled with the men's game e.g the big tennis and athletics event go on in the same tournaments with the male section so it caters for similar audience (mostly men) so they share from the same port of TV revenue and sponsors.

Likewise there will never be a successful male version of keeping up with khardasians. We just have different preferences.

A40:
Yes. People keep getting it twisted conflating abilities and gender megedefegede with actual value which is what generates and dictates what you're going to get paid as an athlete. Conor McGregor is not and never has been as good as a Kamaru Usman but Kamaru will never touch McGregor money. Because value matters

As for WNBA. Another silent problem is their perception as a league of the Woke. That's the problem ESPN is also facing. The truth is people just want to watch games and not have to worry about players taking political stands and being used as perceived pawns. There's just nothing visually appealing to a straight male to compensate for the inferior athletic abilities. Add the wokism and it's double jeopardy

Unlike tennis where you have people like Graf, Anna Kournikova, Sharapova, Serena and numerous other fine women who just happen to play tennis and are marketable and relatable.

If I'm a brand how do I market a Britney Griner to my primary demographic of men, hell even your average woman that wants to be feminine

Realistically speaking more women are going to have to gain some interest in the league. Or they get more marketable faces of feminine women (whether they like it or not) to get the 15-65 straight male demographic interested and invested

etidy:

In fact if you unpack female tennis from male tennis by taking away the grand slams that both gender partake in. Female tennis won't have the followership and money it enjoys today.

donlittle25:

My girl, one of her padi for law school na wife to one of these wnba players wey don enter wnba finals before. She they news as of now on top the russian thing. If you ask my wife how many times she don go wnba games go watch even her friend partner, he never reach two but when argument for equal pay start with Nba, The points wey she they make no be for here.

I go just keep quiet make them no call me names wey i no be. If i ask am where the bar go come from to pay them, na small remain make she say make Nba pay them abi she even talk am sef

donlittle25:


My girl, one of her padi for law school na wife to one of these wnba players wey don enter wnba finals before. She they news as of now on top the russian thing. If you ask my wife how many times she don go wnba games go watch even her friend partner, he never reach two but when argument for equal pay start with Nba, The points wey she they make no be for here.

I go just keep quiet make them no call me names wey i no be. If i ask am where the bar go come from to pay them, na small remain make she say make Nba pay them abi she even talk am sef

benji93:
What the female gender wants is to be at the same level as the men. .

birdman:


To be honest, I think this would be terrible for society. We need more feminine energy in society, not less. Most of the shootings, robbery and assaults and r*pe are men. Like 80% ish. What we really need is women doing things the feminine way and getting paid equivalently. Wether doctor, or model or whatever. There should be no reason to consider MMA a better sport than a beauty contest. You like what you like! Thats why even the women MMA fights, Im not a fan. It feels more like violence p0rn than anything else. I saw one the other day, wey dem panel beat this woman's face like 1980s Peugot 504 . Ha! What kind of society thinks those kinds of depictions of women are ok?

But hey, thats just me. Where is ewuro4 btw. Come and chime in pls

Roland17, why u quiet now? lol

Roland17:


Thank you for noticing say I don quiet. I quiet for 2 reasons.

1. I love to read more, particularly divergent opinions about this issue.

2. E be like say people no really understand my position or it has been misconstrued my original post.

But I love what I have been reading. I go definitely clarify my position.

benji93:
Na how you go no say some of us don mean these people tey tey. Any small thing we just explode. Next time no mention them.

birdman:


dey take style dey pour kerosene on top firewood. we see you o

birdman:


My my hahahaha killrhymz is traumatised o, I dey pray for am sha.




Na knightfury o. killrhymz was the team to beat all season, but the finals was the mother of all surprises.The way knightfury take flog am, ha! I have not seen or heard from killrhymz since then. E shock am, bro neva recover

Even smooshchn chop unmerited beating

I kukuma didnt make the playoffs