The Official 2024 NBA Offseason Discussion Thread

[Necro]

Charles Barkley: ‘I Root Against All Superteams’

Does someone want to tell Charles he was on a superteam?

 

[Chris]

Charles Barkley: ‘I Root Against All Superteams’

Does someone want to tell Charles he was on a superteam?

Won't do any good, you'll just get in a never ending semantics argument about "what is a super team" lol

Just became a buzz word to talk about how this generation sucks without taking actual facts into account. it's very annoying bc super teams are MORE of a problem now yes lol people just act like they weren't a thing until the Heat...or even worse when people act like the Warriors were the first one

 

[Necro]

Won't do any good, you'll just get in a never ending semantics argument about "what is a super team" lol

Just became a buzz word to talk about how this generation sucks without taking actual facts into account. it's very annoying bc super teams are MORE of a problem now yes lol people just act like they weren't a thing until the Heat...or even worse when people act like the Warriors were the first one

Even if you showed him this picture, he'd still deny it lmao.

 

[Chris]

Hypocrisy aside, I'm pretty sure everyone agrees though lol like unless they're your team or you crazy dislike their opponents, I'm pretty sure most people just cheer for the underdogs in every sport lmao

 

[Necro]

Hypocrisy aside, I'm pretty sure everyone agrees though lol like unless they're your team or you crazy dislike their opponents, I'm pretty sure most people just cheer for the underdogs in every sport lmao

For some reason I enjoy the Nets which goes against everything I usually believe in. I want a Suns vs Nets final.

 

[Chris]

I'm all in on the Suns bandwagon rn. I also don't HATE most super teams so even even they win, I enjoy the over the top hateful reactions lol that's kinda how I am with the Nets rn but I def can't bring myself to cheer for them lol

 

[Daddy Dom]

I think its good for league if a non super team wins Booker & Center are homegrown talent added a vet like cp3 and are going distance rather then lets take the 5 best players in league and just have our way.

 

[Daddy Dom]

Plus for god sakes someone get cp3 a ring

 

[Daddy Dom]

Tom fucking Thibodeau? That fucking clown?

 

[Bobby Barrows]

Superteams are generally bad but if it's like the Bulls where everyone is legitimately likable, it dampens a lot of the effects.

The Warriors superteam was unlikable to the core because despite Steph Curry being extremely likable, everyone else was not likable.

The Lakers suffer from this even worse, because Lebron is extremely polarizing as a person, and AD doesn't have the personality to compensate.

 

[Bobby Barrows]

Fuck Tom Thibodeau. He is going to let you down hard like he did the Timberwolves.

 

[Chris]

Superteams are generally bad but if it's like the Bulls where everyone is legitimately likable, it dampens a lot of the effects.

The Warriors superteam was unlikable to the core because despite Steph Curry being extremely likable, everyone else was not likable.

The Lakers suffer from this even worse, because Lebron is extremely polarizing as a person, and AD doesn't have the personality to compensate.

This is 100% true. You just have an issue with assholes, not necessarily superteams I'd say :

 

[Bobby Barrows]

This is 100% true. You just have an issue with assholes, not necessarily superteams I'd say :

I think in practice superteams are bad for sports overall.

 

[Chris]

I think in practice superteams are bad for sports overall.

Same but its a tired criticism to me bc if players are able to form teams to get rings then more power to them. The league has to be blamed for allowing it to happen and make changes that adjust it accordingly to prevent it without fucking up other aspects (this past part is probably hard to do I'll acknowledge)

But I've legit heard people (not many for the record) say nothing needs to be changed, they just need to stop joining the same team like lmaooooo bro if they wanna win they're gonna fucking join the best team

 

[Bobby Barrows]

Same but its a tired criticism to me bc if players are able to form teams to get rings then more power to them. The league has to be blamed for allowing it to happen and make changes that adjust it accordingly to prevent it without fucking up other aspects (this past part is probably hard to do I'll acknowledge)

But I've legit heard people (not many for the record) say nothing needs to be changed, they just need to stop joining the same team like lmaooooo bro if they wanna win they're gonna fucking join the best team

Honestly, as much as I wish it had a cap, Baseball (theoretically) tends to have a lot of parity because the entire game isn't just dependent on a singular player. One player can only do so much on a bad Baseball team, while one player can mean the difference between a loss and a win in basketball.