Man, mad respect for engaging and calmly responding to a guy like that.

It is funny, all my adult life I’ve been a leftist but never had much interaction with tankies because of how I was always taught that they were hypocrites and pseudo-fascists and so on…

But lurking lemmygrad and seeing “liberals”, who mostly don’t even know what that word means, getting repeatedly dunked on with actual sources and recommended reading has been a great eye opener to what ml actually stands for.

So please keep doing what you guys are doing, because even if who you are responding to runs away after getting an elaborated answer, there will always be people like me that are actually trying to learn something and will appreciate the response.

What the heck are you talking about?

You do know your geography

Without arguing over your highly debatable first statement, my biggest issue with the Smart Porzingis trade is with what both players bring to the team.

Porzingis is mediocre on defense and on offense only adds one more player to the “give a scorer the ball and stand outside the 3point line” offense that the Celtics have been unsuccessfully running for years, and on top of they already have Tatum and Brown that are both better than Porzingis in ISOs, so all that he adds is a 3° option to a system that wasn’t working with two great ones.

On the other hand no one will argue that Smart is not a good defender and you may say his decision making isn’t that good on offense, and I agree with that, but in this last playoffs he was the Cs best playmaker, mostly due to the fact that most of the time he was the only one.

So with that trade they have basically worsened their defense in favor of having a even more static offense which already wasn’t working for them.

Holy… It takes two and Undertale, what a great update.

RIP Joey,

Downloaded it back in 2017, promptly forgot my password, and now the only I’d access my account is gone, I guess this is a goodbye to Reddit and a hello to Lemmy.