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@MiketheSnow said in TV Serieseseses:
@bayimports said in TV Serieseseses:
"The last of us" is back, season 2 continues strongly with some great action in the first episode..lots of potential plot twists coming up for sure
The Last of Us Walking
Same stupid fucking decisions
I'm out
You’re bailing?! I’m into it. Good E1 I thought, heaps of strained bubbling away
She’s still annoying as fck, needs a slap around the ears - and I hate the way he panders to her. But I’m happy to keep going
@mariner4life said in NBA Season - now 24/25:
hater
He’s a dirty little fucker - the move where he dribbles around someone in open court then stops right in front of them so they run into him to draw a foul just does my head in. It’s up there with kicking the leg out on a shot attempt (Steph), the reaching the arms through and up (Harden) and general flopping (Bron)
I’m all about TFG and Wemby, 7 footers with the right attitude 💪
@Bones said in All Blacks 2025:
@sparky said in All Blacks 2025:
@voodoo Multiple times for Leinster against Glasgow at the weekend.
Is...is space created by making tackles? He's been doing it his whole career then.
Watching Sparky's highlight reel makes me think Jordie is our future at #7!
@Bones said in Memes/Tweets (No politics):
@Tim it's broken. I've been hitting subscribe all morning
Not broken
Selective entry
Worth persisting
@reprobate said in All Blacks 2025:
I haven't been watching Jordie up north where by all accounts he's been good (in what positions?), but I haven't seen much of him creating space for others in the last couple of seasons.
When has he ever done this???
@MiketheSnow said in Movie review thread...:
The Menu is great
Not food but wine, Drops of God on Apple
If there is anything I love more than a food movie/series, it’s a wine one!
Drops of God was fantastic. My wife and I watch very little together as our tastes are generally different - but we devoured this
@canefan said in Movie review thread...:
@voodoo said in Movie review thread...:
@canefan said in Movie review thread...:
Watched Chef with Jon Favreau. Nicely acted, feel good road trip film, with lots of cameos and small parts for well known actors like Sophia Vergara, Oliver Platt, Dustin Hoffman and Robert Downey Jr.
And The Old Guard, a action film from Netflix that didn't actually suck, about immortal warriors starring Charlize Theron
I’ve seen Chef about 10x, great flick
I love cooking movies even more than Mariner loves treasure hunt ones
Have you seen the Ang Lee film, eat drink man woman? If you love food films it's great
Let’s get some more recommendations going!
I loved the Hundred Foot Journey, and a quick search tells me I need to watch Tampopo and Big Night. Can’t sleep on Ratatouille either…
@canefan said in Movie review thread...:
Watched Chef with Jon Favreau. Nicely acted, feel good road trip film, with lots of cameos and small parts for well known actors like Sophia Vergara, Oliver Platt, Dustin Hoffman and Robert Downey Jr.
And The Old Guard, a action film from Netflix that didn't actually suck, about immortal warriors starring Charlize Theron
I’ve seen Chef about 10x, great flick
I love cooking movies even more than Mariner loves treasure hunt ones
@NTA said in Happiness Scale:
@voodoo said in Happiness Scale:
As always, shout if we can help in any way.
Ask the All Blacks to lose the Bledisloe
I was going to make you a lasagna, but I’ll see what I can do
@1kiwi said in The Masters!:
Best time of the year for golf nuts like myself. Can Scottie go back to back? The last player to do so was none other than Tiger Woods back in 2001-2002.
Bernhard Langer will play his 41st and last Masters.
Angel Cabrera returns to the Masters for the first time since his release from serving a prison sentence for domestic violence.
Jeez, there’s a lot going on in that post!
@Bovidae said in All Blacks 2025:
Some interesting info about what the top tier rugby players can earn. You can understand why an overseas contract is so attractive to the level below that.
Lendrum said NZ Rugby’s wage structure offered elite talent up to a $1 million a year before Super Rugby and provincial pay and test assembly fees - which can add more than $300,000 - were included.
“but all players who choose to stay in New Zealand are often staying for between 30% and 100% less of what is on offer abroad.”
I’d hate to earn 100% less than I could potentially early somewhere else
@nonpartizan said in NBA Season - now 24/25:
Duke-Houston game was everything there is to like about college basketball, every play in that last 3 mins or so was massively impactful to the outcome.
Duke got out rebounded by 11 and the difference was those were offensive boards which kept Houston in the game.
The rebounding foul on Flagg was so weak and so costly in the end
I'm not seriously advocating limiting 3's folk. I probably wouldn't complain, but I wouldn't be promoting it. I do however think that it is an issue to be addressed in some way - there is no doubt in my mind that if you designed basketball from scratch today, you wouldn't make it so the optimal strategy is to shoot 50 x 3's per game.
I disagree with @mariner4life that the game will evolve to self-correct. The whole reason we are here now is that people started doing some analytics. The math ain't changing. And with players now empowered to take 3's in a way they never were before, they are only getting better and better at them. Practice, weights, license - all points to more and more 3's, not less. Players routinely take them from 1-2 feet beyond the arc now. This isn't going away.
Moving the line back is one option, but you would also need to eliminate the corner 3, as it's a touch tricky to widen every court.
I don't have a solution, I just know that I miss some of the old game - definitely not all of it, the wrestling and the 82-79 games can probably stay in the past, I think people forget how ugly some of the games used to be. But equally I don't want to watch 100 x 3's in a 142-137 game either. Has to be a middle ground somewhere.
@nonpartizan said in NBA Season - now 24/25:
@canefan said in NBA Season - now 24/25:
@nonpartizan said in NBA Season - now 24/25:
@canefan said in NBA Season - now 24/25:
@nonpartizan said in NBA Season - now 24/25:
@canefan said in NBA Season - now 24/25:
South Carolina's women's team squeaked by Duke, who couldn't finish them off in the final 5 minutes or so
South Carolina are the powerhouse in the women's game right?
Yup. Fifth consecutive trip to the final four
Do you follow WNBA by chance? I never got into it tbh but you can't not have heard of Caitlyn Clark here in the US and it got some mainstream coverage and made waves on social media.
Not much. I do watch a few of Clark's games. I like to watch the WNCAA because it feels more relatable in terms of the skills. UConn and Duke are great to watch because they play team basketball. Whereas often in the NBA it's iso ball
Imo the over reliance on the 3 (and the fact that so many players can shoot it well) is something that needs to be looked at. What I find a tad irritating is when players are able to penetrate into the paint but they are mostly looking to then find shooters on the perimeter.
I think it would be a reasonable proposition to only have 3s count in the last three minutes of each quarter - so 12 out of the 48 minutes. I think it would restore some balance to the way the game is played.
I reckon each team gets 30 x 3pt attempts. Use them when you want. Go hard early or save a few for the 4th if you want. I want to see Steph's face when Draymond takes the 29th 3 in the 3rd quarter....
After you've taken 30 of em, they just count for 2 points from then on
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