Wemby saved the All Star Game
Watching Game 2 the level of effort is carrying over from game 1. Ant said it himself that Wemby set the tone. He did what Silver never could. š
Obama for NBA Commissioner
You know heās probably driving Michelle nuts lounging around the house all day in his boxers watching sports. Wonder if heās on 2K?
Iām guessing heās more of a call of duty type
āUh Michelle, this is just like that Yemeni weddingā
āUhā¦let me be clear. No Russian.ā
Yāall think he calls kids the n word?
Half way through a game and you’re hearing a sermon from in a familiar voice about your mother’s choice of vocation and client selection
Obama seems more like a Soulslike fan
Probably thinking about Aliens
Obama has one of the most elite voices I have ever heard.
Definitely would legit be better than silver. Low bar tbf
oh man please this
Not a bad idea.
He’d say as little of use as Silver, but we’d all walk away satisfied anyway.
For all the hand wringing about the state of all-star play, real basketball is being played today.Ā
This is how the game should be reffed too. Let the soft shit go
Let them hoop
Even having “soft shit” in the ASG is a win
You gotta love Wemby man, he’ll eventually get haters, but I’m a fan for life (unless he does crimes and shit)
This has been really fun
Leave to Adam Silver to fumble one of the better games in years with a disasterclass in marketting and actually getting butts in seats.
I was checking Ticketmaster and there was hardly any seats available, so I assumed it would be packed. Tuned in and saw a 75% empty arena.
Dude and the seats that were available were like \(1k. Checked halfway through the games and they were still \)450 for nosebleeds
I remember thinking the same after Giannis went hard in the 2020 game.
Last time I remember thinking this was when they did the Elam ending. Don’t remember what year that was. But even that game was boring until the end.
Yeah, he’s carrying the Giannis tryhard torch
People eventually turned on Giannis for tryharding on all-star weekend though, let’s see if the same thing happens to Wemby
If Wemby can keep other guys also trying hard, probably not. Giannisā problem (or more accurately, everybody elseās problem) was that he was the only one going hard. Nobody else bothered even with him playing somewhat properly.
which is why they need to keep the 12 min games. that effort wears down after a while.
Was that the year Lowry kept drawing charges too?
True, but everyone went hard in 2020 because Kobe had just died. However you’re probably right, let’s wait a couple years first.
I swear to god we say something like this almost every year and next year people keep taking about how trash the all star game is
People really like bitching
Oh I fucking love it
Bro me too, if I didn’t complain I’d have nothing to talk about. Way easier for me than developing a personality.
The best part of basketball is complaining about basketball
Fans take this weekend way too seriously.
lol like if the product isn’t perfection they will stop watching or something lol it’s a lighthearted entertaining weekend where we get to see the best players play with or against each other.
For real I had just stopped watching all star weekend all together minus the 3 point contest. Wemby had me actually interested this year and he 100% delivered. It was fun to watch and I hope he can keep it up and the rest of the guys follow his lead. If it goes back to the way it was Iāll just stop watching again
Last year people blamed wemby and cp3 for killing the skills challenge
Did they? I remember many complaints about that format beforehand, about exactly the thing that CP3 and Wemby exploited. Most of the chat I saw was people complaining that those two even had the opportunity to do that because the rules of the skills contest were so obviously dumb.
The 12 minute games seem to help too
Ya because when the game starts to get down to around 3 minutes, if it’s close then the players will have a little bit of their inner competitiveness come out and just decide to at least try to win. And then all it takes is one person to try really hard to win and the person guarding them will start trying too.
Scottie Barnes was damn sure not gonna let Wemby drop a game winner on his head
Definitely, there’s no time to mess around
Silver can’t actually play in the All-Star game
There’s no rule that says a dog NBA commissioner can’t play basketball
That might be entertaining tho
he can do the Saturday stuff though, 3pt, dunk and skills
He should be the MVP just for setting the tone. These are some fun basketball games we’re seeing.
the strategy is to never give him MVP so each year he only builds frustration more and make the next year’s game even more intense, it’s free marketing š¤š¤š¤ apologies to wemby but it’s gotta happen
It is the year 2038. In the all star game, it’s the NBA vs Wemby, 9 on 1. The NBA paws out a victory at the last second, 154-153, and again he is not given the MVP.
What was Adam silver supposed to do? If players wonāt play, there is nothing a commissioner can do. Good on Wemby for realizing his job is giving enjoyment to the fans.
Yeah lol, and people can say “make the game have more stakes like extra cash or home seed or whatever”, but if it has to come to that, then might as well cancel the thing
Performance reviews like the rest of us. Make them feel the stress.
Add actual stakes
No shit players don’t want to try too hard or risk injury on a meaningless game in the middle of an 82 game season
Who says itās meaningless? Their job is to bring entertainment to fans.
When they bring entertainment to fans 82 times a year, if not more, then another game without stakes is going to be hard to get motivated for. Especially if it could cause injuries that affect the actual high stakes games
I’m sure a lot of these guys just want the break
Iām sure a bunch of those guys would love to spend their life sitting on the couch playing video games. It doesnāt matter if they want to be lazy fucks and not do their job, they should do their job anyway and they should be called out for it when they donāt.
They already do their job
Their job is to win games and championships
It is not their job to get injured during a fuck around all star game and potentially miss those important games for no reason. You cannot even remotely begin to call these guys lazy when there’s already discussions about there being too many games each season
If the all star games should be taken seriously then genuine stakes need to be added. Why would guys intentionally try hard for basically zero benefit when they’re already worked to the limit during the season anyway
They clearly are not doing their job. Their jobs is to be entertainment for fans. Donāt get this twisted. These people are lazy little bitches who donāt care about the fans. They deserve to be called out for their toxic behavior.
These people are lazy little bitches
Lmaooooo
Unironically calling some of the fittest athletes on Earth lazy is crazy work
Being lazy is not about being fit or unfit. Dude. Pick up a dictionary or read a book for once in your life. This is bitch mode lazy behavior.
You try playing 82+ games a season with a bunch of back to backs and then be told “Hey you need to play even more games that barely anyone has given a fuck about for a couple decades now for no actual benefit”
Maybe if they had less games a season they might actually care. Otherwise some 12 minute games filled to the brim with ads and dumb gimmicks is hardly going to inspire motivation
Or.. add stakes. Home seed for finals works
I haven enjoyed an all star game in like 15 years. Thanks wemby
All we needed was one person to try man
And a few to back him up and join in
Need both to get things moving
Wemby played hard last ASG too. Credit for ant for responding this time, and the rest followed. Credits to all of them
Wtf did you want Silver to do?
Dunk on Wenby
Give us a hesi pull up jimbo over Wemby
Lmao how did team world lose š¤£
because someone shot 0/6 with multiple terrible turn overs
canadian sleeper agents
51st state looking ass
played worse + jokic and luka put in zero effort
Because Jamal Murray thought it was āMe vs Worldā
SGA out, Giannis out, Jokic and Luka basically out. That’s a lot of talent on the bench.
True
Arguably the 4 best world players were out or didnāt bother to try
SGA & Giannis (out) Luka & Jokic (they didnāt care lol)
The Slavic boys were just there to get drunk for the weekend
Bc team USA has better players besides like 3Ā
Iām starting to like this Wemby guy. His mind is built like the all time winners (jordan/kobe) competitiveness wise.Ā
None of that scary shit.
Kawaii, too.
Wemby played hard last asg too we needed guys like Ant to follow shoot
All it took was a basketball player actually wanting to play basketball
Adam silver was probably yelling at these players to make it entertaining š
Culture change comes from the players, not from the top down.
I mean you can try top down, some coaches can pull it off over a season, but not a commissioner or a CEO.
Giannis did this several times lmao.
What year? He may have played a bit harder than everyone else but it didn’t do shit to motivate other players. Wemby dialed it up a notch and that made the difference.
At the end of the day the commissioner can only do so much. Itās up to the players to want to play.
Everybody cared because Wemby cared, except his teammates
Heās got next. Unlike guys like Pablo.
When is it ever the responsibility of people in the suites to make the players play hard? Nobody has any control over effort besides the guys on the court. Nothing Silver could do would ever change the energy and competitive level. It’s the players making a decision not to play hard. And it started with Lebron’s era .
He’s the commissioner, at the end of the day maintaining the fun and integrity of the NBA is his job
How can he force the players to play hard?
He didn’t force anyone to do anything just as Wemby didn’t
Exactly my point. It’s up to the players to play hard.
I think that ignores the effect that outside forces can have in motivating players to care
Silver couldn’t figure out how to do it
Wemby did
Are you serious?
You’re saying that the players magically decided to play harder? Without any kind of external influence?
Exactly!
Did you see how hard Joker and Luka were playing? OMG. Only Wemby could have caused such inspiration!
Outside of Wemby, only Ant and Kawhi (because of the long tradition of the hometown player trying to get the MVP) seemed to be putting forth any sort of real effort.
For the record, I would do exactly what Joker and Luka do. Making me work on my day off? I’ll show up because I like getting paid, but I’ll be putting in minimal effort.
Kawhi saved it just as much as Wemby did… The glazing is unreal sometimes.Ā
Nobody on the broadcast nor did any player glaze Wemby for āsaving the gameā. They all agreed that he set the tone which influenced the pace and effort of the game. Kawhi popped off because he matched and played with the effort that was started by Wemby.
Yeah, they were glazing on Wenby all night long. Going all over how much he cared while Kawhi scored 31 points in a quarter and had two steals.
I think part of it is that itās clear the nba knows they need a new face after LeBron and Steph retire so theyāve been clearly trying to push Wemby on the public more
They spent time talking about him and showing his off season stuff and recovery story
Iām all for it but they definitely were trying to push that
Kawhi is old and not charismatic so there was no point in them glazing him as much
We were basically missing a Kobe or Michael.
Stop it
The 2nd game is not good lol
Idk what you mean Game 2 was great
Lebron will ruin it as usual. The real killer of allstar games
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d1 lebron hater, lebron did nothing wrong lmao