and the most grueling.


The 2-6 hitters SHARE the responsibility for manufacturing the bulk of runs.

An elite pitcher can still save them if they manage to mess it up.

Wings, centers, forwards in Hockey/Soccer all share the scoring load.

Great goalie can save them.

A running game and a beast defense can save a bum QB.

A beast QB can save a bum defense.


But there is nothing like a #1 option in basketball throwing up trash and having subpar numbers. It's the loneliest thing I see in sports. They be getting FRIED.


Just putting that out there...because it's frying season. And somebody bout to come up REAL REAL REAL short.

And I'mma be here.

was trying to think if a soccer position could qualify, but goalie is less frequently tested compared to hockey and strikers get to miss more frequently than a basketball player.

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If you are bad your team is going to lose.

If you are off for the night you cant make up for it any other way. Even an NBA shooter going cold can still play some lockdown D, draw a few fouls on a star, set up a few baskets etc...

that, to me, is paramount to any other obligation in any sport. You can put together a balanced 8 minute drive, gaining momentum, and like THAT it's over if you turn the ball over.

Now, without question, basketball is the hardest sport to be really good at and most definitely the hardest to succeed at consistently at an elite level.

It can't be Harden. That's your guy.
It can't be Durant. You're not an idiot.
It can't be anyone on the Celtics because nobody is their #1 option.
It can't be Lebron. See: Durant, Kevin.

it's a wild development to see Bags all of a sudden aligned with the Ultimate Worriers - fantasizing about KD "skullfucking" < (real, actual quote).

But alas - there's immense sadness and hurt in the world.

I'm optimistic: everything's going to be ok.

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I thought the post was questioning people doing the frying, not the #1 option that's going to come up short in these upcoming conference finals.

That is the one beautiful thing about baseball:

It's the one sport where you can hand someone the ball
and they can basically not give that shit up, sit
everyone's ass down, by themselves, relying on little
else but excellence.

So pitching is the winner. But I agree with you,
because pitchers play too infrequently to compete
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but that's pretty rare so I'll put the basketball star over that. Hockey Goalie may take it though.

until you get to the playoffs, but then the ace is only out there for, at most, 3 games (likely two). In those games they matter more, but does that make up for the complete lack of relevance to the majority of the games played?

it's why they never win MVP.

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you think we playing chess, but i'm playing mad-making. Basaglia

One day everyone on your team is hitting and the next day they're all swinging at air. Doesn't matter who the pitcher is in either of those cases. Also even in a 7-game series the momentum swings don't feel as crazy or unsurmountable as they do in basketball, partially cause homefield advantage doesn't mean as much.

Given that, you know, Duke players can score and do nothing else.

-Chapel Hill shrug-

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But the new Duke prototype—Jabari, Kyrie, Tatum, Jah, Hood, Bagley—is one dimensional gunners.

Find one dude in there who plays D or sets his teammates up.

as does Tatum's of 15+ in the playoffs

also what about Tatum's slash line says "gunner"? hes a future 50/40/90 candidate

and Tyus Jones is a person who is alive also

most of yall are terrible at hating because you have to lie to do it. real hate flows from a place of cherry-picked honesty, not fantastical whims of fancy.

>real hate flows from a place of cherry-picked honesty,
>not fantastical whims of fancy.


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Which means he’s able to adequately play defense on our fourth best player. That’s like the Duke version of Ben Wallace,

Tatum been lockin down more than a few of your guys over the last week.

>But the new Duke prototype—Jabari, Kyrie, Tatum, Jah, Hood,
>Bagley—is one dimensional gunners.

but that's only one moment and rare.

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