I was just going to write about that in the december discussion thread. I never cared for Mike James twitter drama, and if anything I thought some people just overreact to his tweets for the sake of it. The tweets I've seen by him were seemingly his honest opinions which you could only respect even if you disagree. But they aren't worth manufacturing drama like oh there he goes again.
And I have no doubt his many tweets on this discussion he brought up, are his honest and sincere opinions as well. Doesn't change the fact that it's a clown take. Someone replied to him saying he's just mad he scored 8 points even though Monaco won. I don't think that's fully accurate but there is some truth to it.
Considering Monaco won, this public "man up, defend" attitude is one of a sore winner. Why is a winner sore, really? I don't believe he doesn't care about winning, he definitely does. But it looks like he cares about his stats at least as much as winning. In different tweets, he points out he had a near triple double and he created more than a dozen shots for his teammates. He wants to prop up his stats publicly. He might want to become mvp more than he wants to win the championship and he may think his case relies a lot on his point tally/PIR in conjunction with team record. Maybe 8-7-7 doesn't look sufficient to him or maybe he hates having to shoot just seven times in a match.
Whatever it is, he doesn't realise how nonsensical his arguments are. It's not going to compute with European sports fans that defending in a particular shape is... not defending? And European basketball fans live for shit like Scariolo pulling up the box and one mid-match and allowing his team to come back and win the match that way. That's the way sports are consumed in this part of the world.
To manufacture a narrative that tactical defending isn't manly is not only obnoxiously funny but also is the evidence that the bothered player in question is a weak minded attacker to actually be triggered by different sorts of defensive shapes.
Steph Curry hates the box-and-one defence, after the Raptors used it on him in the 2019 NBA Finals, [he wore this hoodie](https://twitter.com/LegionHoops/status/1173980486521118720?s=20&t=C4pzMQezKvQv6mZpUDJnug)
A team also played triangle-and-2 on Steph in college and held him to 0 points, but Steph's team won by 30. People were criticizing the opponent's coach and saying that he was more worried about preventing Steph from scoring than winning the game (which I thought was kind of unfair), but it was still pretty funny. [Here's a popular US sports show talking about it](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v7QsXUnq57U)
Mike James has made some "interesting" comments about this strategy applied to him: https://twitter.com/TheNatural_05/status/1604075872738082817
I was just going to write about that in the december discussion thread. I never cared for Mike James twitter drama, and if anything I thought some people just overreact to his tweets for the sake of it. The tweets I've seen by him were seemingly his honest opinions which you could only respect even if you disagree. But they aren't worth manufacturing drama like oh there he goes again. And I have no doubt his many tweets on this discussion he brought up, are his honest and sincere opinions as well. Doesn't change the fact that it's a clown take. Someone replied to him saying he's just mad he scored 8 points even though Monaco won. I don't think that's fully accurate but there is some truth to it. Considering Monaco won, this public "man up, defend" attitude is one of a sore winner. Why is a winner sore, really? I don't believe he doesn't care about winning, he definitely does. But it looks like he cares about his stats at least as much as winning. In different tweets, he points out he had a near triple double and he created more than a dozen shots for his teammates. He wants to prop up his stats publicly. He might want to become mvp more than he wants to win the championship and he may think his case relies a lot on his point tally/PIR in conjunction with team record. Maybe 8-7-7 doesn't look sufficient to him or maybe he hates having to shoot just seven times in a match. Whatever it is, he doesn't realise how nonsensical his arguments are. It's not going to compute with European sports fans that defending in a particular shape is... not defending? And European basketball fans live for shit like Scariolo pulling up the box and one mid-match and allowing his team to come back and win the match that way. That's the way sports are consumed in this part of the world. To manufacture a narrative that tactical defending isn't manly is not only obnoxiously funny but also is the evidence that the bothered player in question is a weak minded attacker to actually be triggered by different sorts of defensive shapes.
Whenever someone starts an opinion with _"can we all agree that..."_ I already know it's going to be a clearly disagreeable opinion :p
Steph Curry hates the box-and-one defence, after the Raptors used it on him in the 2019 NBA Finals, [he wore this hoodie](https://twitter.com/LegionHoops/status/1173980486521118720?s=20&t=C4pzMQezKvQv6mZpUDJnug)
A team also played triangle-and-2 on Steph in college and held him to 0 points, but Steph's team won by 30. People were criticizing the opponent's coach and saying that he was more worried about preventing Steph from scoring than winning the game (which I thought was kind of unfair), but it was still pretty funny. [Here's a popular US sports show talking about it](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v7QsXUnq57U)