Owen Good's discussions
I know that NBA scorers have a ton of discretion but can you cite something in a rulebook where an attempted shot does not count as an attempted shot? I’ve never heard of “only a shot a player might actually take” as being the standard for “shot attempted.” Obviously, if the ball goes in, they count the points, do… Read more
I forget where I read it, but it’s something like a widely acknowledged truth that veteran NBA players, if they attempt a buzzer-beater against the first, second or third quarter horn, deliberately launch it as the horn sounds or a fraction of a second after so that they get credit for trying hard but it doesn’t count… Read more
How we haven’t mentioned “Man in the Mirror” yet is a little bewildering. It’s close to being literally confessional. It’s an excellent song, still. Many of them are. This isn’t to excuse his crime or belittle his accusers but if you look at the past quarter century, as we’ve gone from shoveling coal into the furnace… Read more
I have and I don’t really care about St. John’s or Belmont or who-shot-john here. State controlled its destiny. Even after VPI we had a (supposedly) favorable schedule to go over .500 in conference and still fucking lost at home to Georgia Tech (The late Al Featherston: “As long as Georgia Tech has male cheerleaders,… Read more
Not at all. While I have a deep grievance against the UNC Board of Governors for how they absolutely torched our athletics program over a bunch of nothing (this is the Valvano/Personal Fouls stuff, and look it up, we haven’t won a conference title in anything anyone gives a fuck about since 1992) at some point we are… Read more
Text message conversation with my brother yesterday:
There was that awesome lost mission from DF where Katarn (general manager of a public radio station) confronted his alcoholic brother-in-law (Tom Hanks) who drank a bottle of vanilla extract and hit on Mallory.
My favorite part of this video is still this kid, who is so excited he has no idea what to do with his arms.
Occam’s Razor, or at least two eyeballs and a working brain, would suggest the Lakers, their dumbass executive and their offer of trash, ineffectual players, were the ones fucking this up all along. But this site was hellbent for the narrative that the Pelicans were buffoons, the Pelicans didn’t deserve Anthony Davis,… Read more