He is sort of a weird mix between grittiness and cliched NBA entourage/SoCal ethos. I like one half of him better than the other!
I am very intrigued (and somewhat concerned) by how he and Wiggins gel together. Based on the KG experiment and Wiggins' enigmatic persona, I'm not so sure he won't be repelled by Butler's intensity.
Did you guys notice there was a pretty good article on Jimmy Butler tucked into the margins of that webpage full of advertisements?
crazysauce wrote:I will never get the hate and disrespect for the greatest wolf of all time. Was he an angel, no. But i would take him anyday over the sallys that play today. A fiery competitor who wanted to win who was loved by the fans, yet so many trash talk him. Distasteful.
My point was less about KG's legacy (as a player and a person) and more about how Wiggins may not thrive next to a super intense player.
He is sort of a weird mix between grittiness and cliched NBA entourage/SoCal ethos. I like one half of him better than the other!
I am very intrigued (and somewhat concerned) by how he and Wiggins gel together. Based on the KG experiment and Wiggins' enigmatic persona, I'm not so sure he won't be repelled by Butler's intensity.
Did you guys notice there was a pretty good article on Jimmy Butler tucked into the margins of that webpage full of advertisements?
It was a good article. He's a worker.
I'm one of the few folks that still get an actual newspaper delivered to our driveway each morning - two actually, the Wall Street Journal and our local paper. One of the reasons I do this is because I prefer ads that aren't moving all the time or popping up in the middle of the article! Sooo much better.
He is sort of a weird mix between grittiness and cliched NBA entourage/SoCal ethos. I like one half of him better than the other!
I am very intrigued (and somewhat concerned) by how he and Wiggins gel together. Based on the KG experiment and Wiggins' enigmatic persona, I'm not so sure he won't be repelled by Butler's intensity.
Did you guys notice there was a pretty good article on Jimmy Butler tucked into the margins of that webpage full of advertisements?
It was a good article. He's a worker.
I'm one of the few folks that still get an actual newspaper delivered to our driveway each morning - two actually, the Wall Street Journal and our local paper. One of the reasons I do this is because I prefer ads that aren't moving all the time or popping up in the middle of the article! Sooo much better.
Q you may have interest in subscribing to The Athletic. I'm pretty cheap and a couple weeks ago there was an interesting article so I decided to pay the money for a year subscription. NO ADS and so they aren't exactly looking for clicks. They keep getting top reporters to come over there. You may have seen the got Michael Russo away from the Star Tribune to start their MN area coverage. I'm not a big hockey guy but Russo seems really legit when I listen to some of Souhan's podcasts. They have intoductory deals all the time I paid $29.99. I like the idea I am supporting writing for people that just look for good stories and write instead of drum up stuff to get clicks and aren't bound by advertising. I figured for $2.50 a month I can probably spare that amount of money and likely get my money's worth.
Mmm, I'll have to check out the Atlantic...heard of it but honestly don't know much about it.
Another thing we get is the thin magazine version of "The Week". I like it because it covers the wavetops on a bunch of topics. On political happenings, they excerpt opinions/columns from both sides of the spectrum so that you get a 180-degree set of perspectives as opposed to the one-sided slant that so many media companies now present (left or right).
Edit: Sorry Monster, I read your original post as the Atlantic, not the Athletic! I haven't heard of that at all.
Q12543 wrote:Mmm, I'll have to check out the Atlantic...heard of it but honestly don't know much about it.
Another thing we get is the thin magazine version of "The Week". I like it because it covers the wavetops on a bunch of topics. On political happenings, they excerpt opinions/columns from both sides of the spectrum so that you get a 180-degree set of perspectives as opposed to the one-sided slant that so many media companies now present (left or right).
Edit: Sorry Monster, I read your original post as the Atlantic, not the Athletic! I haven't heard of that at all.
I've made that misread a number of times both ways! I've wanted to subscribe to an online paper to support news but I've never gotten around to it or found one that I really felt strongly about putting my money into.
The Athletic is pretty new. I've heard about it for a number of months. A few people I follow on twitter either have written for it or retweet when another respected writer goes there. They have benefited from starting around the time ESPN and other outlets decided to lay off some really good people and so they have added some of those guys. Anyway it's a promising platform and possibly exactly what I have been wishing/hoping for good writing instead of click bait headlines and pundit types yelling at each other with hot takes. If it works out there may be one part of our society that isn't moving towards the outcome of the movie "Idiocracy". I need all the hope I can get.
crazysauce wrote:I will never get the hate and disrespect for the greatest wolf of all time. Was he an angel, no. But i would take him anyday over the sallys that play today. A fiery competitor who wanted to win who was loved by the fans, yet so many trash talk him. Distasteful.
Love KG the competitor but there really is no question that he
Q12543 wrote:
crazysauce wrote:I will never get the hate and disrespect for the greatest wolf of all time. Was he an angel, no. But i would take him anyday over the sallys that play today. A fiery competitor who wanted to win who was loved by the fans, yet so many trash talk him. Distasteful.
My point was less about KG's legacy (as a player and a person) and more about how Wiggins may not thrive next to a super intense player.
My point was that KG's personality is a love it or hate it proposition. He was disliked by many people where I've never heard anybody badmouth Butler. That doesn't mean as a fan I didn't love watching KG play when he was on my team. It just means it's entirely possible for an intense Butler to connect with a cerebral guy like Wiggins where KG's type of intensity would be a huge turn off.
What I find distasteful is this idea that we have to overlook KG's flaws because he's the franchise's best ever player on the court. He's an imperfect human as am I and my wife is plenty happy to point that out.... nightly!
