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Mar 7, 2023Liked by Ethan Strauss

As a Nuggets and DNVR fan this is awesome

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Mar 7, 2023Liked by Ethan Strauss

My 2 favorite podcasters. Never expected this but always wished for it

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House of Strauss tshirt phrase: Expository

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I literally came here to post this but you beat me to it.

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Same! The Expository at the front and The Take at the back

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Since fully 8% of House of Strauss content is now Jurassic Park quotes, I'll let Ian Malcolm explain what's wrong with "just doing the fun awesome thing in sports and passing every down"

I'll tell you the problem with the analytical power that you're using here: it didn't require any discipline to attain it. You read what others had done and you took the next step. You didn't earn the knowledge for yourselves, so you don't take any responsibility for it.

The Perk thing is really complicated, because he's

A. Not articulate

B. Selling a book

C. Going against Redick who is running the opposite grift

Generally speaking in the black community there is a feeling that we are the true caretakers of basketball. I never once heard anyone I knew complain about Pistons/Spurs. Because ball was ball. The emerging white nerd blogosphere hated the manly aggression of traditionally rugged Eastern Conference Playoff Basketball. So in time, they gentrified my sport.

This tension has bubbled to the surface and fallen on a truly wonderful player in Jokic, who like an Oscar frontrunner was probably gonna lose ground to Giannis by the end of the season. But Perk ran his mouth, and then the Clay Travis' jumped in, and I have no idea how this shakes out. Probably whoever has the most wins at the end of the season takes the crown

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Good comment. Also makes me wonder if I should write a piece on why Jurassic Park ends up getting referenced so often here

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yep!

Also still hoping for the Jordan/LeBron article that was teased

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I ultimately decided that such a story needs an occasion. Don’t worry, the propaganda campaign will ramp up again and make it possible

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HSFSTRSS?

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The Steph and Jokic analogy is fascinating. The big limitation of analytics is looking at what is rather than what could be. Except for a brief Arenas moment, shooting 30 footers of the dribble was never efficient. Similarly, relying on a big post player that isn't a great defender was also on the way out which is why EVERYONE was down on the Kings trading for Sabonis.

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I think the fact that we collectively know so little about him allows for the sportswriter crowd to use jokic as sort of this mascot for the analytics movement and the european style of basketball which then brings on the backlash from the black american fans who’s views are represented by Perkins in this scenario

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I like this construct where American blackness is sufficiently restrictive to not include black people in Toronto, a population that speaks the same language, lives in the same time zone and is so integrated into American pop culture that it produces a Drake and the Weekend, while American whiteness is so inclusive that it includes every pale person in Europe.

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As a dnvr they really have done well feeling like you’re apart of the community. I never comment on their YouTube, social, or other platforms and have never been to the bar because I have 3 young boys. Yet I still feel apart of the community they have built. That’s hard to do.

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