fishmike wrote:I'm so fried.. are we hating on Europe or US? Whats the tea party? I thought that was when we chucked the tea into Boston harbor

read blobman's response again ("I wonder where and how you would be living if it were not for the 'Euro Factor'.") and consider his body of work. It's subtle, yet disgusting. The child should be sent to the pricipal's office

fishmike wrote:I'm so fried.. are we hating on Europe or US? Whats the tea party? I thought that was when we chucked the tea into Boston harbor

Lets just hate on the popular choice these days... nuclear power plants and their lobbists!!!
This also gets us outta this sticky topic of nationalities and stuff...

fishmike wrote:

Marv wrote:

skeng wrote:Tyson Chandler quote: "that's what I remember Vlade for - smoking, drinking and flopping"

Vlade is such a cool movaphucka

i was at the garden for the draft when vlade was selected. i don't know if anyone had seen a euro player at the draft before then. he had on the rattiest most god-awful suit - i think it was brown corduroy. some half-knotted tie. few days stubble. mofo was smoking. f'g smoking! people were hooting at him big-time! quite a moment in time captured.

sometimes the internet is pretty awesome. Great call

I would love to rip shots of rakia and chain smoke Marb reds with him

fishmike wrote:

SupremeCommander wrote:

fishmike wrote:

Marv wrote:

skeng wrote:Tyson Chandler quote: "that's what I remember Vlade for - smoking, drinking and flopping"

Vlade is such a cool movaphucka

i was at the garden for the draft when vlade was selected. i don't know if anyone had seen a euro player at the draft before then. he had on the rattiest most god-awful suit - i think it was brown corduroy. some half-knotted tie. few days stubble. mofo was smoking. f'g smoking! people were hooting at him big-time! quite a moment in time captured.

sometimes the internet is pretty awesome. Great call

I would love to rip shots of rakia and chain smoke Marb reds with him

Camel non filters and vodka. ITs always about the vodka

trust me on the rakia... its Balkan spirits made from plums, apricots, mulberry, or some random fruit, sometimes with herbs added. I'm sure throwing back his Mother Country's moonshine would make for one hell of a night.

good call on the unfiltered Camels

I am certain I would end up packing Skoal. I think Vlade would enjoy participating in a dirty American tradition

fishmike wrote:See? between us we will get there.. rakia, gonna have to look into that

we should be representives in the mother ****ing United Nations

SupremeCommander wrote:I like lippers... don't play baseball anymore, and I find packin my lip doesn't interfere with my golf course drinking as much as chaw

fishmike wrote:See? between us we will get there.. rakia, gonna have to look into that

we should be representives in the mother ****ing United Nations

fishmike wrote:

Marv wrote:

skeng wrote:Tyson Chandler quote: "that's what I remember Vlade for - smoking, drinking and flopping"

Vlade is such a cool movaphucka

i was at the garden for the draft when vlade was selected. i don't know if anyone had seen a euro player at the draft before then. he had on the rattiest most god-awful suit - i think it was brown corduroy. some half-knotted tie. few days stubble. mofo was smoking. f'g smoking! people were hooting at him big-time! quite a moment in time captured.

sometimes the internet is pretty awesome. Great call

Didnt know that he smoked at the draft, that's pretty phuckin awesome. Nice story Marv.

And I concur fishmike, the internet is absolutely positively phuchin awesome

I keeps a liter of that sljivovica, straight from the bih.

ActionJackson wrote:

dodger78 wrote:
Well this IS kinda funny coming from someone who still hasnt profen he understands the difference between Europe and South America...
Man now seriously wheres that hate for the old world coming from?!

In terms of a basketball playing style derived from a futbol (or soccer as we Americans call it)aesthetic there is "zero" difference between the teams in Europe & those from South America. I think everyone here knew what i was talking about in referencing the "Euro" penchant for flopping to draw fouls but if you need I can provide a lineage of coaches & when & how various countries in both Europe & South America joined international play, so that you can see this connection more clearly.
As far as "hate" for the "old world", I was trying to highlight something critical that we lost in the Melo trade & that is the ability to curry favor with the refs based on both Gallo's ability to flop & their penchant for seeing a little bit of themselves in him. Valuable factors indeed.

You know what actually I would greatly appreaciate you doing this...
I mean yeah flopping and sissy play in soccer is pretty normal (not everywhere though if you would watch Premiere league its a little better). Its part of the game but still there are HUGE differences between soccer in Europe, South America and Asia. And yeah same with basketball... yet its funny that you take an South American player as an example for the "euro" art of flopping...
But please please explain to me how you get everyting together...

ActionJackson wrote:

dodger78 wrote:
Well this IS kinda funny coming from someone who still hasnt profen he understands the difference between Europe and South America...
Man now seriously wheres that hate for the old world coming from?!

In terms of a basketball playing style derived from a futbol (or soccer as we Americans call it)aesthetic there is "zero" difference between the teams in Europe & those from South America. I think everyone here knew what i was talking about in referencing the "Euro" penchant for flopping to draw fouls but if you need I can provide a lineage of coaches & when & how various countries in both Europe & South America joined international play, so that you can see this connection more clearly.
As far as "hate" for the "old world", I was trying to highlight something critical that we lost in the Melo trade & that is the ability to curry favor with the refs based on both Gallo's ability to flop & their penchant for seeing a little bit of themselves in him. Valuable factors indeed.

So Melo is failing because The Man is keeping him down by not giving him calls, because the refs are racist.

When is a brother going to get a fair shake in the hoops game?