{"id":590,"date":"2024-07-11T17:12:10","date_gmt":"2024-07-11T17:12:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/?p=590"},"modified":"2024-10-30T20:35:39","modified_gmt":"2024-10-30T20:35:39","slug":"fuck-the-modern-nba-freddie-deboer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/2024\/07\/11\/fuck-the-modern-nba-freddie-deboer\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cFuck the modern NBA\u201d &#8211; Freddie DeBoer"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\u201cJayson Tatum on a three-on-one break pulling up to clang yet another awkward three off the front rim, and doing so because that\u2019s what he\u2019s been explicitly coached to do, doesn\u2019t look like dominance. It looks like an ugly, boring war of attrition. And I don\u2019t care that it\u2019s effective. I don\u2019t care. I\u2019m not a GM. The point of being a fan is not to be a mini GM, despite what Twitter would have you believe. The point of being a fan is to watch and enjoy the product, and I don\u2019t enjoy the product. It\u2019s frenetic, there\u2019s no rhythm, and it gives me exactly the feeling I get when a middle infielder who weighs 180 pounds sopping wet takes a wild hack and flies out with a 3-1 count because he\u2019s been taught to prioritize launch angle. Do you really want to be baseball, NBA? Do you really?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/freddiedeboer.substack.com\/p\/fuck-the-modern-nba\">https:\/\/freddiedeboer.substack.com\/p\/fuck-the-modern-nba<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cJayson Tatum on a three-on-one break pulling up to clang yet another awkward three off the front rim, and doing so because that\u2019s what he\u2019s been explicitly coached to do, doesn\u2019t look like dominance. It looks like an ugly, boring war of attrition. And I don\u2019t care that it\u2019s effective. I don\u2019t care. I\u2019m not&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"webmentions_disabled":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[5,3,4,65],"class_list":["post-590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links_read","tag-extract","tag-linksread","tag-mastodon","tag-rss_source"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=590"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":591,"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590\/revisions\/591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}