Until he starts winning and then everyone will call him soft and corny like Tatum or Embiid when they show emotion. Enjoy the ride while it lasts

You’re really not in the minority though, Wemby gets praised for that

makes a post with a super mainstream viewpoint

“Maybe I’m in the minority, but….”

Or

“Is it just me, or does anyone else…?”

Is it just me, or do other people also like when taxes get lowered?

Seriously, we are only hours after the series and already getting freezing cold takes

Yep, it can be a bit divisive but a majority of people like it. It’s authentic. You can’t fake it. It’s part of what made Kobe popular, you knew how much he cared when he was on the floor.

They really nailed it with that Castle, Harper and Vassell picks, all game changers.

The fact that their wings and guards all are, at the very least, servicable perimeter shooters really unlocks their offense IMO. So many times in this game 7 they’d swing, drive to the basket, outlet pass for a 3 when the d collapsed. It was textbook and the thunder just had to pick which poison they wanted to die of lol

I’d trade my car to give Ausar Thompson half the shooting ability of vassell. Just need him to hit one three-pointer every 1-3 games haha

They made great picks and I love the team, but they are pretty limited on forwards. Starting Harrison Barnes or Vassell at PF against the Knicks seems like one of them bad ideas.

When they won he was like yes we can go home now

Yeah he was having the time of his life celebrating that championship.

People here are allowed to have their seething hatred of 90% of the league but I feel like they tend to rewrite history at times to justify it.

remember all the emotions Jokic showed when his horse won lmfao

Jokic is passionate, he just doesn’t like to talk to the media about it, as he likes to keep his private life private.

As you said, we’ve seen him agitated on the court, coaching up his teammates and tearing up when he got his first mvp in front of his home brom his family and crying when he got his third MVP and it was narrated by his wife talking about how much of a great familiy man and father he is.

I think dude simply has his priorities right and cares more about winning basketball games then talking about MVPs.

Jokic really cares about basketball. But does not care about the rest of the shit.

He’ll do everything to win a game. But he doesn’t care about the off court, off season stuff.

When he’s pissed, Jokic is scary as shit. Dude has that angry/intense look that tells you everything.

tbf Joel talked ALOT of shit up until that series, I think he stopped trolling regularly after that series.

The Kawhi shot sucked all the excitement out of Philadelphia in an instant. I cried, I remember being proud that we had a player like Embiid who cared enough to cry like that. Raw emotion leaving the court. People forget he was spectacular in that series, I think the sixers were the second best team in the entire playoffs that year. The raptors were simply a team of destiny

Joel gave other players shit for crying after losing in the playoffs, so it was fair to give it back to his hypocritical ass.

Perhaps part of the problem has to do with the GenZ getting shy of showing emotions since they don’t want to be made fun on social media?

I have been saying this for so long and it resonates so deeply. I think trying really hard and being passionate about something is really fucking cool. People truly and genuinely realizing they are special and trying to be truly everything they can be. Wemby is the face of the league, and soon probably sports 

I love that Wemby is a proud nerd. Be passionate about what you love, and never be afraid to show it.

Great example for young me

This is the energy I bring to Sunday league

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And then you have Jokic who looks like he just received a Burger King Employee of the Month plaque when he wins the NBA Finals and FMVP but then also sobs uncontrollably when his horse wins a race

clearly a different situation but even outside of superstars, i hated that people made fun of Pat Bev for being emotional when they won the play-in or whatever it was. The competitors caring about competition period is a good thing

Did everyone forget how much KG got roasted for showing emotion after winning a chip?

Lets champion just letting people be themselves in general

Yeah, SGA doesn’t come to mind when I think of someone being a tryhard on being too cool. He’s super chill always. In this game 7 postgame interview he actually did seem super bummed out. He was the usual cool, but with a genuine sadness.

Absolutely, you can tell how much it rubs off on everyone else too. Dudes look like they’d die for Wemby honestly. Amazing to see.

Idk man I think those two things can coexist, you can realize that “yeah this sucks but I’m already rich beyond my wildest dreams and have an incredible life”, and in that sense, have “won life”, but can also realize that winning the championship would be amazing and he could be emotional too

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Calling a guy soft shit over one quote is pathetic. He just beat the #1 pistons and averaged 25 pts this playoffs, there’s nothing soft about him.

It annoys me as well. Too many people feel the need to post and get karma so much that they will lie about the popularity of what they want to say, just to justify the need to make the post.

Because SGA is literally the antichrist so every trait he possesses that Wemby is the opposite of must be praised loudly.

Sometimes no emotion is still iconic

its social media. if you try something and fail it will go viral with a caption making fun of you and no one wants to be on the tail end of that. i rewatched some 90’s basketball as a 32 year old. i never watched ball back then but you can tell the culture of basketball was different. like were here to win, not just look cool and we will do whatever it takes. the level of basketball is better now skill wise but culturally we need to shift to making actual effort normalized

Lol you’re joking right?

If anything its gotten better. It the same way 20 years ago. Shit even 21 jump street made fun of it in the early 2010s

“Look this guy’s trying”

It has nothing to do with the government or the education system. It has everything to do with social media brain rot.

I feel so seen and heard right now bro you actually have no idea. I have been on this thread for a long time now. Once you see it you can’t unsee it. It’s like being good at something only counts if it’s “effortless”, and I just do not get the mindset. It really shows up in open gym, like 24 hour fitness runs. If you get hyped up or actually play hard, you know, compete, god forbid. It’s always “bro chill it’s 24 fitness basketball”. 

You do you bro, but I’m having the most fun I promise. I’m actually present 

https://youtu.be/ZQqjsVuv7fg?t=25s

I will say this. I’m a UK fan, so I got to experience Shai break out. I think he was a fringe 4-star/low 5-star recruit (and under Calipari, who brought in 3-6 5-stars every year, most fans figured he’d play 15-20 min a game and then transfer out after his freshman year lol, cause that’s what every lower-ranked recruit did it felt like)

Back to my point, as the year progressed we all started noticing this thin slender man that just had a knack for slithering through defenses and making tough lay-ups. It was a damn treat watching him just get better and better every game. He never seemed to be moving fast, yet nobody could stay in front of him. It was off-putting almost, like a classic song you know and love, now playing in a slightly slower tempo. It just throws everyone off 

I think wemby completely took that part of his game away, on presence alone. Shai driving to the basket I mean. Basically his only options were “OK here’s a double team so I will pass” or “OK I’ve got one-on-one, can’t get to the rim though, so either pass or a tough middy while hoping to get to the line cause my teams needs points from me”

I’m very much looking forward to how Shai counters wemby next season. And then watching the counter to the counter, and on and on and on…

If silver could just man up and force referees to enforce the damn rules more, we’d see some epic battles between them. I used to know what a moving screen looked like. Now they all move, and they all extend arms too. Lots of grabbing, holding, shoving that isn’t called. And then they call some of the softest fouls on a shooter. Game is imbalanced right now

Nah, he’ll just become another viral meme like Embiid.

Significantly more people were stoked that he managed to get people to actually put in effort for once.

Really? I remember most people here praising the fact that he saved the All Star game

He’s bringing that old school style of ball back. A lot of the OGs when starting out used to bring that level of comp. And today it’s been kind of phased out.

There’s really only one nonchalant I think of, and I’m cool with it.

Winning without showing emotion is just as cold as winning with it, talent is talent at the end of the day

Jokic one of the best do ever do it and I don’t begrudge him just wanting to go back home to his horses and his generational wealth that will help his family forever

I mean our franchise goat is Tim Duncan, greatness comes in many forms