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I mean last year is pretty simple, Towns missed training camp due to illness, Gobert had back issues, and then Towns missed most of the year. It's hard to say the reason the Wolves had a bad offense last year was due to Towns and Rudy playing 15 games together, that's just kinda weird. The top half is just kinda weird, having another fine perimeter defender who's long, in addition to a top 5 defender in the league, is a good thing ? That's not like...an overlap that can't exist together. Especially when one of those guys has consistently been an All NBA player when healthy. And Towns doesn't really camp on the 3 point line, he probably takes less shots there then he ought to given the spacing and effectiveness, he posts up and drives fairly often. Here's his shot profile from the last few years for context: https://3stepsbasket.com/player/karl-anthony-towns/shooting?season=nba24 Towns is 100 percent not above criticism, but trading a All NBA talent who so far has had no issues fitting with a future All NBA talent and a DPOY contender, is just kinda silly.

Wolves classic jersey's don't look as good as I was hoping on the actual court, the green really kinda falls right into the blue, and it doesn't really have contrast or stand out, and they look a bit bland as a result. Definitely good, but it's really on close ups and replays you can kinda see the green, which I thought stood out amazing on those promo pics. That said, on the broadcast, they got a ton of love from A-Rod, and it's been a bit more then 5 years, so hopefully a return to that look, or something like it, could come soon? I'm with the current set, but their a bit bland, and despite the (compared to the rest of Wolves history) relative success in them, don't seem to have been embraced much. I still think a grey + lime green is the way to go, like their current statement one, which I think is probably the 3rd best jersey in team history, but I don't think others agree, lol.

This is kind of just nonsense, Towns is fine defensively on the perimeter, it's easily his best trait as a defender, just look at the 2022 Wolves. That team was a top 15 team defensively, with not really good defensive talent besides Vanderbilt and Pat Bev, and Towns played totally fine as part of a wall instead of a rim protector, which yeah he is bad at, but his speed (he's not a lumbering center, the guys best play offensively is a drive to the rim, lol) allows him to keep up fine in the perimeter. Gobert is also a totally fine, if not good defender on the perimeter, the fact that Terrance Mann hit 100 contested 3s against him where he had to also defend the paint because those Jazz teams had maybe one other plus defender on the roster, does not make him a bad defender, much less can't guard it. Honestly, the hate for Towns is such personal biased, aesthetic based silliness. Outside of his subpar rim protection and foul issues, there's nothing about his game that is really bad, or wouldn't translate to a winning team, it's just kinda easy to see him as a choker because he's a goofy looking light skinned guy with a high voice, and ant as this DAWG KILLER nonsense because he kinda looks like MJ and has a ok mid range. It's nonsense for the most part, and since that Celtics game, Towns has been better then Ant, their both All Star, low All NBA guys, trading someone like that is just stupid, esp when there hasn't been issues with fit with Gobert so far!

It's more so related to the fact that team sports, a lot of the time, wins do come down to luck and certain things that can very easily go the other way, so the best way to consistently win is too limit that stuff, which more often then not comes down to winning by more. Stuff like the 17-2 wins, or 15-4 losses get smoothed out over the season, run differently is more like, are you consistently winning by like 3-5 in games you win, but losing games 1, or vice versa, and yeah, I think it's fair to say teams that consistently win by more are better then teams that don't. And we do have data from year to year with this stuff at the very least. That said, I wouldn't want teams to be seeded like that. US sports league are very arbitrary with how playoffs, which is kind of the fun with it.

The most confusing part with Luka and the Suns is that they hired his old coach not too long before the draft. I actually get why they passed on him (it had been 10 since a euro guy went 1, a lot of recent high euro picks weren't working out, the Booker stuff, Ayton being great at Arizona etc), but I would say it did work out for them, at least in the sense of staying with Booker.

I feel like commenting on and clowning on the Cowboys mismatched uniform has been kind of a staple among uniform discussion for a while, it was one of the first things I remember like seeing when I (much more recently then most people here I'm aware) started looking at jersey discussion online. And like it is true to an extent, the mismatched colors, and kinda random elements do knock the set down a bit. I don't think most people think their awful as a result, but certainly a step below some of those other CLASSIC nfl jerseys, which is pretty reasonable I think.

Really like how the Wolves uniform came out. I've never super liked the original jerseys, mainly because they always looked a little too much like the 90s Mavs jerseys, but with the, undeniably, brighten green, it looks a lot better and more distinct. And for me the original logo has always been perfection anyway.

It's definitely not, Shawn Bradley played for around a decade and was a starter on 3 different teams.

So much of it is just kind of based on random stuff to be honest, which is understandable, the vast majority of people don't watch basketball like that, and are subjective too a ton of bias. I think it's a lot of based around longevity, peak, accolades, media stuff/narrative, winning (but only if the person counts it lol), and than a lot of nebulous stuff, like Killer Instinct. A lot of those have issues, and I think there's a lot of players who get underrated by that measure (Dirk vs KG are often put pretty close to each other, despite the fact that KG was just kind of better at Basketball than Dirk in almost everything besides outside shooting, KG just had 0 help in his prime and Dirk always had solid supporting casts), but it generally works, it's really only when it really gets into the stuff that you can just make up about someone and say that's why their better than another player, which is just silly imo. LeBron clears Kobe in everyway for the record besides Mama Mentality which is nonsense, though I guess Kobe is a better tough shot maker.

Vikings have two hall of fame quality defensive tackles who wore 93 and iirc it's both not retired and has been issued out since Kevin Williams retired lol.

Yeah, their great uniforms and I actually kinda forgot how much I liked them, but I find the reaction kinda perplexing, I wouldn't ever claim people just like them "Cus Their Old", but I don't really see how their an improvement over the current ones, or that the current ones are ones they need to move away from. The throwbacks are kinda dated to an extent, and the Vikings aren't really regarded as a classic franchise like that, I think just having them as occasional alts is perfectly fine.

I won't comment on the Suns owner, but I do kinda get this move in a way I don't compared to the Raptors with Nick Nurse, or even the Bucks and Bud. He's a great coach, but everything with Ayton, and just the general vibe of the team after that Dallas loss, which I know isn't just his fault, Sarver deserves a lot of the blame for running the org like that, just kinda seemed like a major move internally had to be done. Whether it was Monty's firing, or moving on from CP3/Ayton, I think something had to change.

I feel like part of the reason people liked it, besides the the Quirky element, was that it kinda gave people the chance to just look at Washington's uniform set without the baggage, and despite the changes that made it look more like a practice jersey, see that they have a really good color scheme and uniform design.

Even though I really have no love for Chicago, I do kinda get it, ultimately what would stripping them of 1st round picks from a few years in the future have done ? It seems like SA is so prevalent within hockey, at literally every level (so it's not just a "If it has competitive disadvantages they'll be more strict about it and try and curb it"), that stripping picks wasn't gonna do a whole lot. It sucks that the Kyle Beach stuff happened, it sucks that SA is literally everywhere in hockey, I don't like the fact that Chicago won, but I don't know, I can't feel like they shouldn't have even been in the lottery. People nowadays kinda have this idea as like, and I hate saying this, that redditors are "Liberal SoyJaks" or whatever, but honestly a vast majority of reddit was and still is, insanely reactionary outside of a few pet issues, and I wouldn't say SA is included there, it's mostly just about like blizzard games or something.

I always thought it was strange that the Hornets went from CHH to CHA when they came back, at least on basketball ref. I definitely prefer CHA, but CHH is probably a bit better then NOH lol.