Harveycmd rants

[harveycmd]

Dramatis personae vox populi.

[harveycmd]

CJ as a twenty-something peckerwood, would think about Disney at his point.

[harveycmd]

Here's your Disney CY. Forty years ago. Lakers killing Celtics in 1985.

 

[harveycmd]

Buttholes literally changed the rules so the Lakers couldn't keep winning with Shaq and Kobe. Ruined the game for short term nonsense. Ratings down ever since. Don't matter how many Euro pansies you get going, won't match Celtics vs Lakers 1980s and Kobe/Shaq early 2000s.

[harveycmd]

Someone asked what ruled changed. Until that time in NBA history, you had to play man v man defense. You could double the ball, but you couldn't play zone or cheat off the ball on defense. No double until the man actually had the ball. Still no zone then. Adopted Euro pansy rules after that. It has sucked bad ever since.

Edited May 1 by harveycmd

[harveycmd]

Rule change killed post play and mid range game. Idiots now think you should only shoot threes and layups. That's why it's not worth watching anymore. Nothing but contested layups and 30 foot jumpers. 

[harveycmd]

Genius of Jerry West made that rule change happen. He acquired the best one on one post player (Shaq) and the best one on one perimeter player (Kobe) in history. Put them in the triangle offense which could isolate three guys at once. 

Edited May 1 by harveycmd

[Burnt Orange Horn]

I will never watch the NBA again until they move the basket to 12 ft and actually play real defense of any kind.  It is just the WWE now with a ball and way overpaid athletes.

[harveycmd]

Kobe was the ultimate weapon in that deal because he could post any backcourt player in the world on the weak side. He could drive past any perimeter defender in the world. Shaq was stronger than any post player in the world. When you couldn't double them until they had the ball, it was over. Pass out of the double to the open shooter or play one on one against some chump. In Kobe's case, he would drive against the double and dunk on Duncan and Robinson.

Edited May 1 by harveycmd

[Bunk Moreland]

1 hour ago, harveycmd said:

CJ as a twenty-something peckerwood, would think about Disney at his point.

[thatdude2]

6 hours ago, harveycmd said:

Someone asked what ruled changed. Until that time in NBA history, you had to play man v man defense. You could double the ball, but you couldn't play zone or cheat off the ball on defense. No double until the man actually had the ball. Still no zone then. Adopted Euro pansy rules after that. It has sucked bad ever since.

And the shot clock changing from 14 seconds instead of 24 seconds on the shot clock. Both have taken the dominant more post game out of being the staple of NBA offenses.

[thatdude2]

6 hours ago, harveycmd said:

Kobe was the ultimate weapon in that deal because he could post any backcourt player in the world on the weak side. He could drive past any perimeter defender in the world. Shaq was stronger than any post player in the world. When you couldn't double them until they had the ball, it was over. Pass out of the double to the open shooter or play one on one against some chump. In Kobe's case, he would drive against the double and dunk on Duncan and Robinson.

Vince Carter was better 🎤

[ThatHornsGuy87]

16 hours ago, thatdude2 said:

Vince Carter was better 🎤

I let alot of stuff slide on boards but this I can't lol. This has to be a troll attempt 

[horns96]

Enjoy @harveycmd rants on Cormac McCarthy more than NBA threads, tbh.

 

[harveycmd]

This isn't really a rant topic, but I think it's worth considering. Who is the greatest one on one player in NBA history? I'm a Kobe guy, but I think you gotta give this to Michael. I think Kobe is second. Couldn't stand Bird when he played, but truth is you can't deny he couldn't hardly be stopped one on one. I don't think any of the current players even make the top five. LeBron doesn't have the overall skill of those guys. His deal is the combination of power and speed, not one on one skill. I don't think there's any question that Kobe was the most fundamentally sound and skilled. He didn't have the athleticism and huge hands of Jordan. 

Edited Monday at 06:47 AM by harveycmd

[harveycmd]

On 5/2/2025 at 7:11 PM, horns96 said:

Enjoy @harveycmd rants on Cormac McCarthy more than NBA threads, tbh.

 

horns96, Did you get the link to my published essays on McCarthy? I'm kinda proud of that. I got stuff on Plato, Aristotle, Descartes, Hume, Kant, Hegel, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, Joseph Conrad, Heidegger, Strauss, and my own teacher Stanley Rosen. Easiest to understand is the McCarthy popular stuff. Lotta zingers in there. Had fun razzing the lefty nutjobs over McCarthy.

Edited Monday at 07:07 AM by harveycmd

[harveycmd]

Someone asked me what I'm talking about. Balled on a low level with some great athletes here in east Texas, but enough to hang. Then quickly transitioned to world class intellectual competition while studying at Texas. Took that beyond the limit by reading Kant and Hegel every day for about ten hours. Literally. I'd go to the library after work and read until I fell asleep about 1 am in the library. Wake up at 5 and read a couple of hours until the time to go to class at 8. Classes until noon. Go to work for about six hours. Start it all over again. 

[harveycmd]

First paper I published was on the connection between New Jack Swing and Nietzsche when I was 20. I wrote it for an old female professor from Germany who escaped the Holocaust. She interrupted to tell me I shouldn't try to discuss Nietzsche's Beyond Good and Evil in connection with a pop star like Bobby Brown. I said that might be true, but it didn't mean there wasn't a connection. That's why we aren't the criminal sooners or Aggies. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q39E_DgfHqs

[GDI]

On 5/1/2025 at 11:45 AM, Burnt Orange Horn said:

I will never watch the NBA again until they move the basket to 12 ft and actually play real defense of any kind.  It is just the WWE now with a ball and way overpaid athletes.

Raising the basket will still favor the tall guys just like making a golf course longer will still favor the long hitters.  

As  pointed out above,  rules need to be changed.  I haven't watched NBA,  or college BB except for the Horns in years.  

[harveycmd]

Thinking about NBA rule changes and idiots blathering has made me think about the best basketball players in the world since in mattered in the 1970s.  The list.

Kareem 1971-1980

Bird 1981-1984

Magic 1985-1990

Jordan 1991-1993 (retired)

Hakeem 1994-1995

Jordan 1996-1998

Shaq 1999-2000

Kobe 2001-2010

LeBrick 2011-2014

Durant 2015-2019

Doesn't matter after that because rule changes that had been passed about ten years earlier ruined the game and turned it into a Euro pansy league. Two longest runs were Kareem and Kobe. As we went on through this era, MVP voting became dumb and dumber, just like the Heisman. 

[harveycmd]

I would like to add that Curry could never defend play doh. Without the Euro rule changes, he would have never been worth a crap on offense either. 

[harveycmd]

More. I listened to some goober claim you can't count certain sports figures as great because their identity as cultural phenomena clouded their "greatness." He didn't use the proper plural of phenomenon, but that's a big part of the point. Popular sports are a cultural entity created by the wealth generated by the industrial revolution. Let's face it. You can't legitimately compare ball chasing to the invention of firearms, electricity, motor vehicles, nuclear power, computers, digital communication, the internet and artificial intelligence. Without those things, there wouldn't be a sufficient number of people with the resources to worry about sports.

[Nuufaola]

Are we talking a talking a time-zone differential or just some Wolf of Wall Street quality cocaine?

[harveycmd]

I'll reiterate. Kobe begged to work out for the Lakers in May and June 1996. He was 17. He asked to play against anyone in the draft or anyone past or present in the NBA. You don't get that these days. They won't work out against a high school guy. They got no balls.

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[harveycmd]

When Kobe first met Phil Jackson in 1999 when he was twenty, he told him to bring him bring Michael Jordan. Who does that?

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