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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: GRUNHERZ on August 21, 2004, 03:25:43 PM
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http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2004/olympics/2004/basketball/08/21/us.lithuania.ap/index.html?cnn=yes
What a damn joke this US Olympic basketball team is...
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Poor choice of players. No pure shooters, no defensive specialists. We are no longer head and shoulders better than the rest of the world. We used to be able to field a pick up team from some street corner to win the gold.
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A bunch of overpaid obnoxious Aholes. I hope they dont get even 1 medal.
I support all of our people in the Olympics except these jerkweeds!
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No money, no dope, no hoops.
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Originally posted by midnight Target
We used to be able to field a pick up team from some street corner to win the gold.
That was before this And1 (http://www.and1.com/) nonsense became popular.
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And if the US would just make Puerto Rico a state, this would of never happend..
:p
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Gangsters shouldn't play Pro Basketball, much lessin the olympics.
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" Bunch of bling-bling gangsta pansies..."
Bunch of racist innuendo and attitude, too.
:rolleyes:
Couple racism with ignorance and here we go- a negative thread about those athletes who were willing to donate their TIME to compete. There's no money for this, and nobody HAS to play- not to mention that Lithunia has three or four NBA players on their roster.
Where's the hate for the US Womens' volleyball team? Here they are, ranked number one and the world, ald they lost to the Domminican Republic?
They must have been slacking, right?
"Bling bling" indeed... buncha Bulletin Board racists.
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Originally posted by Airhead
Bunch of racist innuendo and attitude, too.
:rolleyes:
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A team of to the basket slashers against zone defenses? No shooters to free up Duncan? Replace Okafor, Marbury, and Anthony for some no name spot up shooters= blowouts. Too worried about selling jerseys and a coach unwilling to make changes= maybe bronze.
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Originally posted by Airhead
" Bunch of bling-bling gangsta pansies..."
Bunch of racist innuendo and attitude, too.
:rolleyes:
Couple racism with ignorance and here we go- a negative thread about those athletes who were willing to donate their TIME to compete. There's no money for this, and nobody HAS to play- not to mention that Lithunia has three or four NBA players on their roster.
Where's the hate for the US Womens' volleyball team? Here they are, ranked number one and the world, ald they lost to the Domminican Republic?
They must have been slacking, right?
"Bling bling" indeed... buncha Bulletin Board racists.
:rofl
Pretty good! 8/10 - maybe a silver! Although it could have been much better if you turned out a rant against generational slurs instead of coming at it from the rather easier race angle.. Slacker! You bling-bling gangsta posting slacker..
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Originally posted by Airhead
" Bunch of bling-bling gangsta pansies..."
Bunch of racist innuendo and attitude, too.
:rolleyes:
Couple racism with ignorance and here we go- a negative thread about those athletes who were willing to donate their TIME to compete. There's no money for this, and nobody HAS to play- not to mention that Lithunia has three or four NBA players on their roster.
Where's the hate for the US Womens' volleyball team? Here they are, ranked number one and the world, ald they lost to the Domminican Republic?
They must have been slacking, right?
"Bling bling" indeed... buncha Bulletin Board racists.
LOL! Take the panties out of your crack, there A-Head.
A collection of egotistical, cheap jewlery afficianados with "thug life" tattooed on their chest is not a basketball team.
Its a "Bunch of bling-bling gangsta pansies."
If Grun wanted to be racist, Im sure he could have been. Instead, he was accurate.
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Originally posted by Saurdaukar
A collection of egotistical, cheap jewlery afficianados with "thug life" tattooed on their chest is not a basketball team.
Apparently it is in America.......
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Roy Williams knows a tiny bit about basketball. He's an assistant coach on the Olympic team. His analysis is that we didn't bring a top flight outside shooter and that's pretty much killing us.
I think he's right.
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what's glaring Airhead is the lack of preparation and effort which is why they are garnering the reacion they are.
Despite their shooting troubles if they had not had repeated defensive breakdowns and hit their freethrows they still would've escaped Lithuania. Those are energy and focus stats.
Missed FT's and busted defensive assignment is just not excusable at their level, internationally or in the NBA.
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Originally posted by _Schadenfreude_
Apparently it is in America.......
Thats kinda the point... we want them to lose.
They are not representing our country - they are representing themselves.
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Amen Airhead.
How about those cracker loafer yuppie girls on the gymnastics team huh? Only a silver medal... and the reigning world champs?
ijits sometimes don't even realize they are wearing a sheet.
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Originally posted by midnight Target
Amen Airhead.
How about those cracker loafer yuppie girls on the gymnastics team huh? Only a silver medal... and the reigning world champs?
ijits sometimes don't even realize they are wearing a sheet.
I believe the aforementioned posters are showing disgust for their lifestyle and peculiar culture rather than the color of the skin. You just have to drop the apologist attitude to see it.
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MT you are so full of, umm, sheet... :)
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Originally posted by midnight Target
How about those cracker loafer yuppie girls on the gymnastics team huh? Only a silver medal... and the reigning world champs?
So, you combat racism by becoming a racist yourself eh? :rolleyes:
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Yea MT! Take off those black sheets and let us see you face! You coward! No more!
Thrawn sing with me!
WE SHAAAAAALL OOOOOVERCOME!
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Originally posted by Thrawn
So, you combat racism by becoming a racist yourself eh? :rolleyes:
It's called sarcasm Thrawn. I was pointing out the fact that a tattooed black man is called a "gangsta" every time, while this almost never happens to anyone else.
If you think that my comment accurately reflects my true views you are sadly mistaken.
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MT, I think youre a blackpeoplephobe.
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Originally posted by midnight Target
It's called sarcasm Thrawn. I was pointing out the fact that a tattooed black man is called a "gangsta" every time, while this almost never happens to anyone else.
If you think that my comment accurately reflects my true views you are sadly mistaken.
I don't care if you were being sarcastic or not, your racist statement perpetuates a stereotype.
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cool it everyone and play nice :)
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I'm hoping everyone isnt being serious here...
Anyway the current US olymoic basketaball team sucks, they should never loose a game, baskeballl is our sport aned I dont care how many second stringer NBA players are on the euro teams. None of that was an issue in the 92 Olympics when the REAL Dream Team soliodly beat Croatia for the gold, and the Croatian team had Toni Kukoc, Drazen Petrovic, Zan Tabak and Dino Radja - all NBA level players...
This year's team is a bunch of yung wannabe thug life prima-donna millionaire bling-bling self centered malcontent jerks who are proving an emarassment to this country by not working together as a team..
Thats not a race issue, it's a values issue...
Unless some of you think the two are connected?
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Originally posted by GRUNHERZ
Unless some of you think the two are connected?
Two points; reversal.
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This is the most Racist thread I've ever seen.
Skuzzy why havn't you locked it????
If you RedNeck Tards could get away from NASCAR for one moment you would understand the following:
1) The International Game has gotten MUCH MUCH better. Something like 60% of the first round in Last years draft were European players.
2) These players are not used to the Zone D they are seeing in Athens. The NBA plays Zone yes but NOT this type of ZONE.
3) I've been impressed by the overall effort in the last couple of games. Allen Iverson gave it all. Richard Jefferson could barly lift his head he was so exahusted after the game.
4) Instead of saying, "Look at these lazy blacks" you should be admiring the Europe an Game. Its fantastic.
5) David Stern is to blame for this team. He just a put random team together without trying to get the best machups ..his huberous is amazing.
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Further note.. you poke fun at evangelical nutt jobs and Skuzzy's here in a flash. Lock and Ban.
You trash a race of people in this country and no Skuzzy ??
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(http://i.cnn.net/si//2004/olympics/medal.picks/images/p1_iverson.jpg)
Wassup wit dat???
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:eek:
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Nobody mentioned lazy blcaks. That idea is an invention of the leftys who blew up in overreaction to theis thread, and I imagine out of their own embarsament of this teams performace...
Thsi team is awful and I thinka huge part of it is the poor attitudes of the new generation of young players.
In fcat the only people bringing race into this are you guys with your idiotic lines like:
"If you RedNeck Tards could get away from NASCAR for one moment you would understand the following:"
You and MT are the only ones happily spouting racist filth in this thread...
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Originally posted by BigMan
Further note.. you poke fun at evangelical nutt jobs and Skuzzy's here in a flash. Lock and Ban.
You trash a race of people in this country and no Skuzzy ??
Again, who meantined race? ONLY you and MT...
Do you think bling-bling and gangsta define the black race...
If so brother you got much bigger problems than anything anybodsy says on this board...
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GRUNHERZ,
the USA team is 100% black. bling bling et. al..... racial buzzwords draged into this thread.
the hillbilly's with the confederate flag avitars show up.
GRUNHERZ,
you didn't see a F$###ing single game did you ?
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Ahhh I see racist codewords.. Man it sure must be easy to see racism anywhere when all you have to find are codewords that you decode in any way you want...
Sorry Bigman, it just seems to me that you need this to be a race issue.
Why?
BTW wtg airhead!
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Don't patronize me cracker jack. I don't need your validation. Its people like you that drag people of color down with that "bling bling" ganster sht.
F#$%^ You
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This thread is disgusting. I can't belive HiTech allows this on his BB's.
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Originally posted by BigMan
This is the most Racist thread I've ever seen.
Skuzzy why havn't you locked it????
If you RedNeck Tards could get away from NASCAR for one moment you would understand the following:
1) The International Game has gotten MUCH MUCH better. Something like 60% of the first round in Last years draft were European players.
2) These players are not used to the Zone D they are seeing in Athens. The NBA plays Zone yes but NOT this type of ZONE.
3) I've been impressed by the overall effort in the last couple of games. Allen Iverson gave it all. Richard Jefferson could barly lift his head he was so exahusted after the game.
4) Instead of saying, "Look at these lazy blacks you should be admiring the Europe an Game." Its fantastic.
5) David Stern is to blame for this team. He just a put random team together without trying to get the best machups ..his huberous is amazing.
LOL!!! :lol
-Allen Iverson never gives 'his all.' He just puts alot of effort into making it look like he giving it 'his all.' Hes a showman... I can fall down after every shot to make it look dramatic, too.
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Wow! Nice to see how you really feel on the issue of racism.
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Originally posted by BigMan
This thread is disgusting. I can't belive HiTech allows this on his BB's.
So you finally read your own posts?
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Did you watch the game??
His effort was great.
He's got gutts. Driving to the paint. The way Lithuania collapsed the zone, he was getting pounded.
to the European game.
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Well Iverson will never make the USA Hockey Team either.....
Can't dribble a puck.
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Where are the white Kids from Indiana on this team?
I'll tell you where. They listened to people like GRUNHERZ. "Thats a bling bling ganster game with them Blackies."
Its taking European whites to show American whites that stereo types are wrong. Sad..
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Tell me BigMan if you're convinced that I'm such an evil racist worthy of awful insulting posts like you wrote why do I make distinction between this team and the 1992 team, a team with tatooted black men with attitudes like Charles Barkley?
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Originally posted by BigMan
Where are the white Kids from Indiana on this team?
I'll tell you where. They listened to people like GRUNHERZ. "Thats a bling bling ganster game with them Blackies."
Its taking European whites to show American whites that stereo types are wrong. Sad..
LOL... Good gawd you're funny. It's evil white men's fault that there were too few balck qiartbacks and it's evil white mens fault that there are too many black basketball players?
And whats with thsi "blackies" stuff, where do you get that? Nobody said that, it isnt a racial issue, but you need to make it one. Dont you, so you can spout your own racism..
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Cause them Blacks performed fr'ya Masta GRUNHERZ. They's good blackies.
When some of your country men struggle against tough opponents YOU pulled out this racist crap.
I guess Blacks are only good while they serving YA masta. Ya want some more ice tea masta ?
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Originally posted by BigMan
Cause them Blacks performed fr'ya Masta GRUNHERZ. They's good blackies.
When some of your country men struggle against tough opponents YOU pulled out this racist crap.
I guess Blacks are only good while they serving YA masta. Ya want some more ice tea masta ?
WOW! Another great post.
You are the only one pulling racist stunts, read your own posts man.. They are disguisting.
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saying that people are hard on this team because of racism is a real copout.
Airhead's response in their defense was "there's no money in this, no one has to play."
Exactly true...just not at all compelling.
Michael Jordan came into the '92 games as the best player in the world. If any team, any group of players, could ever have coasted into a contest the '92 team was it.
But from all accounts of the coaching staff, Coach K, Daly etc, the practices they supervised in Barcelona were the hardest, longest and best display of basketball they'd ever seen before or since -- better than the games.
So Stern may wonder why folks don't come as often to see these guys as they did MJ, Larry and Magic etc. Well this is a big part of it. There is no money, there is no one forcing you to play, what do you bring to the table? Duncan has that, AI has that...the rest...well...
That's the difference between good and great, the '92 team had an unrelenting desire to crush everyone else, to be the best. Anything beyond that was an after thought.
Does Stephon Marbury think that way? Has he ever?
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the hillbilly's with the confederate flag avitars show up.
then...
racial buzzwords draged into this thread.
Oh... and I love my avatar, and I'm not a racist. ;)
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Originally posted by BigMan
I guess Blacks are only good while they serving YA masta. Ya want some more ice tea masta ?
Actually, just grab me a freaking beer, sit down, shut up and lets watch the game...:rolleyes:
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It's really amazing how some can take a simple statement like the "USA Basketball Team" sux and turn it into a racial thing....
It's as if I said I was a "Viet Nam Swiftboat Hero"...then everyone would think I'm just another White Rich Candy Arse climbing that Political Ladder.... wait....never mind.
:D
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Lithuanian basketball?
Damn!
Ever heard of Arvidas Sabonis?
USSR championship superfinals, 1988, Zhalgiris - CSKA. Most dramatic game I have ever seen. Tarakanov/Tkachenko vs Sabonis and co.
Later in early 80s they talked about forming a super-club from former-Soviet basketball players, unfortunately they have got no sponsors. :(
Damn. Damn. Zhalgiris vs. Budivelnik (Construction worker) from Kiev, superfinal 1989... Final score was 2 points in favour of Zhalgiris, and a magnific throw by Volkov - from one basket to another, final siren screamed while the ball was in the air... 3 points, Budivelnilk - a champion...
Lithuanians are maybe the best European basketball team. At least - their tradition is great. Zhalgiris, CSKA and Budivelnik were three teams that formed a Soviet national team... Lithuanians being the main force.
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Originally posted by Boroda
Lithuanian basketball?
Damn!
Ever heard of Arvidas Sabonis?
I'm more of a Sarunas Marciulionis fan. :)
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Originally posted by FUNKED1
I'm more of a Sarunas Marciulionis fan. :)
You knew it! :)
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Originally posted by BigMan
This thread is disgusting. I can't belive HiTech allows this on his BB's.
(http://home.earthlink.net/~mikeywaltz/3A5ZC_nigerplz.gif)
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Of course its racist. That's what all white people do.
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Originally posted by BigMan
Did you watch the game??
His effort was great.
He's got gutts. Driving to the paint. The way Lithuania collapsed the zone, he was getting pounded.
to the European game.
I live in Philadelphia. Ive seen him play enough to understand his 'style.'
LOL Funk!
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So now according to the race apologists, if you criticize a group of under-performing black athletes you're being racist? Bah, they're just a bunch of Weenies (http://www.winternet.com/~mikelr/flame6.html) .
Never mind the fact that I for one didn't even know what % of what race was on the US team (until of course one of the race-counter people mentioned it). I only know that they're losing when they shouldn't be.
What always amuses me is how the "race apologists" claim to be so sensative and aware....yet they're the ones who seem incapable of looking past the color of an individual's skin. Here's a clue fellas--nobody cares what "race" the players are from (indeed, you race apologists are likely the only ones who pay attention to that sort of thing). Rather, the issue is that the team is showing the worst performance ever--by far--since the USA began using pro players with a likely cause being a lack of the "determination to win" that previous teams displayed.
J_A_B
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Originally posted by BigMan
This thread is disgusting. I can't belive HiTech allows this on his BB's.
Grun has a special pass cause he's so cute and funny.
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Not so fast Schadenfreude...
Here's a statement:
Originally posted by Saurdaukar
A collection of egotistical, cheap jewlery afficianados with "thug life" tattooed on their chest is not a basketball team.
To which yoiu responded:
Originally posted by _Schadenfreude_
Apparently it is in America.......
Dont try to all friendly up with BigMan now..
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Shadyfraud = Kerry?????????? :aok
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Bling bling-thug life-gangsta's
(http://www.slamduncan.com/images/slamduncan-animated2.gif)
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So now according to the race apologists, if you criticize a group of under-performing black athletes you're being racist?
JAB its the title of this thread that makes this post offensive.
Although race was not mentioned who do you think he is talking about? BigMan took it to another level which ofcourse brings out the clowns. Maybe Grunherz could define what a "bling bling gangsta" is?
Funked that **** aint funny.
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Originally posted by J_A_B
So now according to the race apologists, if you criticize a group of under-performing black athletes you're being racist? Bah, they're just a bunch of Weenies (http://www.winternet.com/~mikelr/flame6.html) .
Never mind the fact that I for one didn't even know what % of what race was on the US team (until of course one of the race-counter people mentioned it). I only know that they're losing when they shouldn't be.
What always amuses me is how the "race apologists" claim to be so sensative and aware....yet they're the ones who seem incapable of looking past the color of an individual's skin. Here's a clue fellas--nobody cares what "race" the players are from (indeed, you race apologists are likely the only ones who pay attention to that sort of thing). Rather, the issue is that the team is showing the worst performance ever--by far--since the USA began using pro players with a likely cause being a lack of the "determination to win" that previous teams displayed.
J_A_B
Actually if you assume that the reason we're losing basketball games is because we have underperforming black atheletes on our team then that's what makes you a racist.
And now you claim you weren't aware of the racial makeup of our basketball team? Well, that makes you a liar too then, JAB, cause we've covered this in an earlier thread.
And if you can look at the title of this thread-"Bunch of bling-bling gangsta pansies..." - and not see that it is directed at the racial makeup of our basketball team then that makes you stupid, too.
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Originally posted by FUNKED1
(http://home.earthlink.net/~mikeywaltz/3A5ZC_nigerplz.gif)
LOL!!!
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I think these young players are too self centered and arent playing well as a team.
I saw the 92 team play and I have seen this team play.
Do you guys think the current team has the same commitment as the 92 team? I'm not sure they are. I saw bling-bling gangsta as a good term to describe some of the values issues I think this young team of my generation is having trouble.
Bling-bling: Too money oriented - heck even airhead excused their poor performance bya saying nobody was getting paid so we shouldnt complin about them not doind great because what can we expect.
Gangsta: Too tough, too individulaistic and not willing to work well with others and compromise. Not team players. Lets not forget which stars were beched for missing meetings. I think they ahve a bad attitude.
Pansies: The USA is the best at basketball, it's our sport and I'm pissed we are losing games and taht the world is prolly laughing at us. These young players are supposed to be our best stars, they should play that way and win. Is that too much to ask?
I'm 24 years old; bling-bling and gangsta are pretty common words to me, maybe some of you old farts are offended by them but I'm not, they are pretty beningn and cmmon cultural expressions for people of my age.
It's funny because this was always meant to be a generational isssue (braodly 92 team vs 04 team) and not a race issue, and it seems thats where the consfusion comes from...
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Why do you assume they are underperforming?? Because they are black?? Maybe they are inferior athletes...ever thought of that. Maybe Lithaunia was beter than them..period.
Half you tards say they're under-performing, then say I don't know the racial makup of the team. Which means you don't even watch the games!!!
You just assume that a bunch of "bling bling blacks" shouldn't loose to whites and if they do then something is wrong with the blacks.
You should be applauding the Euro's for raising thier game. Spain and Italy are even better than Lithaunia.
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Further note:
The best player in the world (in my opinion) is Predrag Stojakovic. Do half you tards know who he is and anything about his game?
My pistons drafted Darko Milicic last year as the second overall pick. Do any of you tards know who he is??? He was 17 at the time of the draft!!! 17 !!! He stands 7'2" and broke the Pistons franchise record for thier agility drill during a pre draft workout!!!! He very young so he doesn't play much...watch out though!!!
Do any of you tards know Carlos Delfino is ? A player from Argentina who some scouts say is the best guard in the world. He's already penciled in as the WORLD CHAMPIONS (Detroit) point guard next year.
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BigMan with all due due respect you are the only guy in here saying "blacks." I never said it or meant it.
Do I think the team is not perforeming up to its potential? Hell yes! They are some of our best and we should be kicking ass. I think a big part of it deal with values of this genaration of players. We had just the same sort of compatitive, opinionated black players in 92 who performed brilliantly as a TEAM. I just dont see that same spirit and drive to suceed with this squad.. My guess it's a values thing with these players of my generation. Why do you think that I belive it's because they are black?
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Originally posted by BigMan
Why do you assume they are underperforming?? Because they are black??
(snip)
You just assume that a bunch of "bling bling blacks" shouldn't loose to whites and if they do then something is wrong with the blacks.
Um... no one even mentioned skin color.
What occured is this: A collection of free thinking, open minded, tolerant types barged in on a conversation and accused everyone of being racist because basketball was being discussed.
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Yea! When Grun says Gangsta he means people like this...
(http://www.kackschwein.de/pix/gangstas.jpg)
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What do you Tards think of Drazen Petrovic's game? How he
could have been the greatest ever if he Didn't die tragically.
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He was fantastic. In fact the whole Criatian 1992 olympics team was fantastic, it too was full of NBA level players. And they got trounced by the 92 US team something like 115-84.
Funny pic MT, yeas I meant granny.. Granny is a basketball player of my generation so I was definitely reffereing to her in terms she would be familiar with...
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He was one of the top 3 players of ALL TIME.
1) Jordan
2) Magic
3) Drazen Petrovic
Read
http://www.drazenpetrovic.com
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Well, at least we agree that Jordan was the best ever.
Tiger Woods, y'all.
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Uhhhhhhhh.....what was it......oh yeah!
Arguing on the internet is like running in the special olympics. Even if you win your still ...mmmm... "Special"
had to say "Special" so as not to hurt anyones feelings. *sigh* The glorification of the world continues....
:rofl :aok
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Go Bigman!!
Don't like these cracker honkies hold you down.
Down with whitey!!
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Originally posted by BigMan
Its people like you that drag people of color down with that "bling bling" ganster sht.
F#$%^ You
actually they do it to themselves, I'm pretty sure a white man isn't funky enough too come up with something like Bling Bling, he did say GANGSTER, except it wasn't funky enough, so it was changed to GANGSTA(gives it more flavour, don't you think)
Keep your morals too yourself and stop your preaching, and you just might get your point in.
And BTW Grun, it was a CANADIAN who invented BasketBall, so BasketBall belongs here:rofl
always trying to steal from us eh, bad bad Grun
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Basketball is canadian... Ughh, yuck.. :D (now that's racism - sort of)
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Its funny how Canadians claim just about everything. Can't be in a conversation with a Canadian jumping in and saying .."We did that or we invented this".....pathetic..
Its like the whole Country suffers from a self-image problem.
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Go Dawg!!!
We know the 411 about those Canadian honkies. They got nuthin'.
Peace out.
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I dont mind if Canada invents sports - so long as we perfect them. ;)
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Originally posted by BigMan
Its like the whole Country suffers from a self-image problem.
It's true, even with jumping into threads, we have a difficult time living up the total greatness we encompass.
(http://www.cyberus.ca/~gwalls/images/sadbeaver.bmp)
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Originally posted by jamusta
Funked that **** aint funny.
Yeah, I'm pretty sure it is.
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Originally posted by BigMan
He was one of the top 3 players of ALL TIME.
1) Jordan
2) Magic
3) Drazen Petrovic
Read
http://www.drazenpetrovic.com
Now your trolling..
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Originally posted by BigMan
He was one of the top 3 players of ALL TIME.
1) Jordan
2) Magic
3) Drazen Petrovic
Read
http://www.drazenpetrovic.com
Drazen was great but that 3 spot would be awfully tough to hold with guys like Oscar, Bernard King and others lurking out there..at that's just lookin at the 2-3 spots ;)
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Originally posted by BigMan
Its funny how Canadians claim just about everything. Can't be in a conversation with a Canadian jumping in and saying .."We did that or we invented this".....pathetic..
Its like the whole Country suffers from a self-image problem.
Hehehe.
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Originally posted by SLO
And BTW Grun, it was a CANADIAN who invented BasketBall, so BasketBall belongs here:rofl
He was also in Springfield, Massachusetts when he did.
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Originally posted by Torque
He was also in Springfield, Massachusetts when he did.
Actually he did invent it at McGill University here in Montreal then went to Boston;)
see Montreal and Boston have this love thing going, Habs just love to kicking Bruins brains around, or lack there of :rofl
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Drazen never reached his full potential. Spent most of his prime in Europe and was still improving his PPG in the US. I think it was at 22 ppg when he died.
+ he was shooting an insane 50% or somthing like from 3 pt. land.
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That's right dawg.
Dem crackers don't know nuthin'.
Don't let whitey hold you down.
Plot against whitey.
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Drazen could have been schooled by at least 10 players I can think of off the top of my head.
1. Wilt
2. Bill Russel
3. Bird
4. Connie Hawkins
5. Dr. J
6. Oscar Robertson
7. Walt Frazier
8. Earl Monroe
9. Jerry West
10. Elgin Baylor
I'm sure there are more.
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"Actually if you assume that the reason we're losing basketball games is because we have underperforming black atheletes on our team then that's what makes you a racist. "
Ok, then what do YOU call it? They're clearly undeperforming compared to what previous teams have accomplished. My point is if the underperfoming people happen to be black, the "race apologists" jump all over the issue and label everyone a racist--a point which you illustrate very well.
"Well, that makes you a liar too then, JAB, cause we've covered this in an earlier thread. "
I either didn't read that thread, or simply don't remember it. I don't cross-reference every post ever made on the BBS. Please post a link to this thread so I can see it for myself to refresh my memory.
"And if you can look at the title of this thread-"Bunch of bling-bling gangsta pansies..." - and not see that it is directed at the racial makeup of our basketball team then that makes you stupid, too."
Really? Wow I'm stupid, the guy named "Airhead" told me so! (Insert mocking laughter here.)
Actually...there are a LOT of white and hispanics I know who fit that term perfectly . Hence why I don't consider it a racial term, but rather a cultural term. If YOU think of it as solely a term describing blacks...then YOU my friend are the one who has issues with stereotypes, not I.
J_A_B
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Originally posted by midnight Target
Drazen could have been schooled by at least 10 players I can think of off the top of my head.
1. Wilt
2. Bill Russel
3. Bird
4. Connie Hawkins
5. Dr. J
6. Oscar Robertson
7. Walt Frazier
8. Earl Monroe
9. Jerry West
10. Elgin Baylor
I'm sure there are more.
How the !#$%!%#$ would Wilt or any of the big men have guarded Drazen at 20 feet? He would have gone around them every time if they came out, or he would have buried jumper after jumper after jumper if they stayed in the paint.
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PS anybody remember the coin-op "NBA Jam"?
At one point I was playing my college flatmate and he had the Celtics and I had the Nets. I swear to God the game said, "Lewis... HE'S UNCONSCIOUS!!!" and then "Petrovic... HE'S ON FIRE!!!". We were like "WTF???"
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Nuff said
(http://www.xbox-realm.com/mic_images/pwned.jpg)
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Originally posted by FUNKED1
How the !#$%!%#$ would Wilt or any of the big men have guarded Drazen at 20 feet? He would have gone around them every time if they came out, or he would have buried jumper after jumper after jumper if they stayed in the paint.
And how would Drazen have stopped them inside. Wilt or Russell were both quick enough to guard him anywhere.
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More evil white racists bash the US 2004 team for being uninispired and bling-bling oriented...
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2004/writers/chris_ballard/08/24/gymnastics/index.html
"Does losing matter to Dream Team?
Having already devoted the better part of two blogs to the U.S. men's basketball team, I will not add anymore to the landfills of newsprint (or in this case, gigabytes of web text) already accorded to the squad's struggles (way to lay down the hammer on Angola yesterday guys!). I would, however, like to relate a scene (a parable of sorts) I witnessed some years ago -- let's say, in 1997 -- at a rec center in an unnamed Southern city (let's call it "Jackson, Mississippi"). It was late summer and the regular crew of streetballers had gathered for afternoon pickup games. Most had parked their cars where most people do, that being in the parking lot, between the helpful white lines. One gleaming SUV, however, had been driven right up onto the curb in front of the door to the gym. To get in, you had to walk around the car. Its owner was inside, playing ball. An NBA point guard who shall remain nameless -- for the sake of this story, we'll refer to him as "Lindsey." He was in the prime of his career, having averaged 14.2 points for an Eastern Conference team that season.
Anyway, Lindsey was in the process of getting schooled by a local nobody. The guy picked his pocket a few times, abused him on the other end and wasn't shy about telling him just what he thought of his game (hint: it wasn't complimentary). At the time, I was young and impressionable and, frankly, very surprised. How could an NBA player get embarrassed so thoroughly by some random dude?
These days, hardened as I am by four years covering the league, I understand completely. Not only did the never-made-it naturally want it a lot more than our NBA hero but both players understood that, regardless of the outcome, it didn't change what really mattered in their world: One of them had a big shiny SUV and a multimillion dollar contract and the other didn't.
Which is same attitude the U.S. team, or at least some of them (I can't imagine this is how Tim Duncan feels), brought to the Olympics: Those dudes from (insert international team name here) might want it more but they still haven't made it in the league or gotten paid like we have. So even if we lose, we still win.
This, needless to say, sums up a lot of what is wrong with pro basketball in the U.S. right now."
Intrestingly he too singles out Tim Duncan as an exception...
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Originally posted by FUNKED1
PS anybody remember the coin-op "NBA Jam"?
At one point I was playing my college flatmate and he had the Celtics and I had the Nets. I swear to God the game said, "Lewis... HE'S UNCONSCIOUS!!!" and then "Petrovic... HE'S ON FIRE!!!". We were like "WTF???"
I remember that game. Used to waste plenty of quarters on that and Mortal Kombat.... dawg.
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At least these guys accepted!
The players I have the most disdain for are the ones that turned down the opportunity to represent the USA because they were too afraid to go to Greece due to safety reasons. Those are the true scumbags!!!!!! I salute the guys that had the balls to go!
We have troops dieing every day and these POS losers can't go represent us by playing basketball.
F the NBA!!!
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This is getting ugly. Just heard a report on Sports radio about how the Basketball struggles are opening old racial wounds. White people openly routing for other countries. How dare they DO THAT !!!
How can you blame the NBA players for not playing for the Olympic team. Have you ever been to Greece? I have. Lets just say they got issues.
Screw The Industrial White Man. I'm going to renounce my citizenship !!!!!!!!!!!!
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Originally posted by midnight Target
Bling bling-thug life-gangsta's
(http://www.slamduncan.com/images/slamduncan-animated2.gif)
I think you have your facts all mixed up there MT. Comparing Duncan to the "bling-bling thug-life gangsta" player is wrong. He does not represent that style at all. Of course he was raised in the Virgin Islands I believe.....maybe that has something to do with it?
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It was sarcasm Sling.
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BigMan This is getting ugly. Just heard a report on Sports radio about how the Basketball struggles are opening old racial wounds. White people openly routing for other countries. How dare they DO THAT !!!
And again he brings up race.
lmao he called GRUNHERZ a cracker jack ! :rofl
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I wonder what peoples' attitudes towards our basketball team would be if their success was still mediocore but their racial composition was predominately white?
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Originally posted by BigMan
White people openly routing for other countries. How dare they DO THAT !!!
White Americans or just white people? Why can't white non-Americans cheer for other countries?
The only racism here is coming from you. Spread your hate somewhere else.
Oh, hell - I'm not mad... you wanna share some watermelon? Maybe some fried chicken? Hows about a forty of malt?
-SW
damn that was racist stereotyping
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Originally posted by Airhead
I wonder what peoples' attitudes towards our basketball team would be if their success was still mediocore but their racial composition was predominately white?
You, bigman and MT would e posting that "White Men Cant Jump"
and that the olympics are racist because the USA didnt pit together ateam of the NBA's best talent, who generally happened to be black...
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Originally posted by GRUNHERZ
You, bigman and MT would e posting that "White Men Cant Jump"
and that the olympics are racist because the USA didnt pit together ateam of the NBA's best talent, who generally happened to be black...
And you would be calling them "Bling Bling Gangsta Pansies," right?
:rolleyes:
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I think this thread needs to be Skuzzied.