Topic: NBA - Playoffs 2012

[Mike]

Have that, Mackem.

Didn't see it, but we won, so f*** you.

[Smudgersgoalscoringcoach]

  Look at this f***ing guy. Goes AWOL in here for 3 months and comes back just in time to stick it to me that his Knicks beat Deron + 7 D-leaguers.

Congrats though, Lin schooled Williams. Having said that, he'll never post numbers like that again (until you play us again at least).

[Dem BABA]

They could post photos of my mutilated corpse on the main page of this website and no one would avert their eyes from lush Lasses. The American is gone for a day and people want to send search party.

[OCK]

Who are you?
What makes you important?
Mike is selling Green Cards.

[Smudgersgoalscoringcoach]

I just noticed a deafening silence without all the trash talk. Flattery isn't a factor here.

[Mike]

Look at this f***ing guy. Goes AWOL in here for 3 months and comes back just in time to stick it to me that his Knicks beat Deron + 7 D-leaguers.

Congrats though, Lin schooled Williams. Having said that, he'll never post numbers like that again (until you play us again at least).

Win is a win, man.

[oldtype]

http://www.patheos.com/blogs/philosophicalfragments/2012/02/06/jeremy-lin-and-the-soft-bigotry-of-low-expectations/

Interesting article about Jeremy Lin that's doing the rounds on Facebook.

Bit ambivalent really. It's nice that this bloke has apparently done the equivalent of David Edgar coming off the bench to score the winning goal against Man United, but at the same time it's not really a stereotype that Asian men are physically inferior specimens, just truth.

If anything, the fact that an Asian man who's probably in the top 0.01% of the population physical ability wise and has been endowed with exceptional basketball skill and intelligence is still only a fringe player at the NBA who probably won't even finish his career there seems to reinforce the stereotype, not overcome it.

Why can't we just accept that we generally tend to be good at certain things and less good at others, and that others will perceive us based on those characteristics?

[Fenham Mag]

Bulls 35 Nets 14 after the 1st quartre

[Smudgersgoalscoringcoach]

  f*** off, man. There is one NBA quality player in our line up.

[Smudgersgoalscoringcoach]

I'm so sick of this team that it's starting to cause me serious psychological damage. The whole organisation is waiting for a guy who might not even come, and if he doesn't, we're f***ed.

[Mike]

http://www.patheos.com/blogs/philosophicalfragments/2012/02/06/jeremy-lin-and-the-soft-bigotry-of-low-expectations/

Interesting article about Jeremy Lin that's doing the rounds on Facebook.

Bit ambivalent really. It's nice that this bloke has apparently done the equivalent of David Edgar coming off the bench to score the winning goal against Man United, but at the same time it's not really a stereotype that Asian men are physically inferior specimens, just truth.

If anything, the fact that an Asian man who's probably in the top 0.01% of the population physical ability wise and has been endowed with exceptional basketball skill and intelligence is still only a fringe player at the NBA who probably won't even finish his career there seems to reinforce the stereotype, not overcome it.

Why can't we just accept that we generally tend to be good at certain things and less good at others, and that others will perceive us based on those characteristics?

Lin has genuine basketball acumen. I'm happy with him.

[oldtype]

http://www.patheos.com/blogs/philosophicalfragments/2012/02/06/jeremy-lin-and-the-soft-bigotry-of-low-expectations/

Interesting article about Jeremy Lin that's doing the rounds on Facebook.

Bit ambivalent really. It's nice that this bloke has apparently done the equivalent of David Edgar coming off the bench to score the winning goal against Man United, but at the same time it's not really a stereotype that Asian men are physically inferior specimens, just truth.

If anything, the fact that an Asian man who's probably in the top 0.01% of the population physical ability wise and has been endowed with exceptional basketball skill and intelligence is still only a fringe player at the NBA who probably won't even finish his career there seems to reinforce the stereotype, not overcome it.

Why can't we just accept that we generally tend to be good at certain things and less good at others, and that others will perceive us based on those characteristics?

Lin has genuine basketball acumen. I'm happy with him.

I'm very happy for him, and it's also good to see someone from my ethnicity / my school make it in the NBA (both cases being quite rare even by themselves. Yao doesn't count. He's mutant, not Asian.)

Still, I'm not really on board with the idea that this guy is some sort of symbol for fighting against negative stereotypes of Asian American males. If anything, the fact that the Asian American community feels the need to paint him as one just reinforces the stereotypes.

[Mike]

Are there really any Asian basketball stereotypes? All the basketball stereotypes I know of are anti-white.

Yi Jianlian posting up a chair at the draft didn't help a god damn thing, but he's a guy with flashes of game.

There was supposedly some s*** hot Japanese player a few years ago, but I don't know what the f*** happened there.

[Mike]

20 points again tonight, btw. Mancrush growing.

[Mike]

I mean, it's one thing to do it against a D-league squad like the Nets, but this is Utah.

MVP chant in the Garden for Lin.

[Mike]

Chinese Rose! Chinese Rose!

[Mike]

Mancrush confirmed.

[oldtype]

Wow

Okay never mind I gues he's better than I gave him credit for.

[Mike]

Wow

Okay never mind I gues he's better than I gave him credit for.

Oldtype's racist ass.

[Dem BABA]

Oldtype, if Lin was named Tavon Jenkins and hailed from Park Heights, he would have been a top 20 draft pick. Serious player who the Knicks should keep and develop into a competent sixth man. It is bias, really.

[Mike]

He had game back in GS, tbh.

Baba, are we better without Melo and Stat? Is that happening?

[Mike]

We have a point guard!

[Dem BABA]

We are obviously not better without them and to insinuate anything of that nature is ludicrous and a waste of time.

[Smudgersgoalscoringcoach]

Look at this f***ing guy. Goes AWOL in here for 3 months and comes back just in time to stick it to me that his Knicks beat Deron + 7 D-leaguers.

Congrats though, Lin schooled Williams. Having said that, he'll never post numbers like that again (until you play us again at least).

[Mike]

We are obviously not better without them and to insinuate anything of that nature is ludicrous and a waste of time.

There were no black holes! The ball kept moving.

Alright, let me rephrase the question.

Do we play better ball without them?