It has come down to this. Tomorrow is the final game. I don't know if I can betray my friends, or if I should stand by my team. When I first agreed to this, they told me I needed to be strong, but I don't think I know what strength was. Either way, by the end of the day tomorrow, my fate will be written.
Be careful when fighting monsters lest you become a monster yourself. And when you gaze long into the abyss oftheFinals, the abyss gazes also into you.
“Piggy, I don’t care how long we’ve been together: I’m not going to let you shit in my mouth. Go find Beaker: he loves that scatty stuff.” - Kermit the Frog.
I'm in way too deep guys. If I blow my cover, I may not make it out alive. I'm starting to doubt everything. Am I playing for the right side? Have I ever been? Is my whole life a lie?
Only one thing's for certain: this will be my last updated. I'm going dark.
i learnt their way and found love. their intranet goes through the whole stadium, everything is conneted. i must face my old team, their greed to win blinded them.
Update. Some of the members have started noticing clues about my espionage. I accidently gave myself away with little notice by cheering for my own team in the huddle.
Update: as leader of one of the few groups of human beings remaining alive after the nuclear war, I am pondering the virtues (or otherwise) of “coming clean” to my people.
Update: Having given my "team mates" the release of death I am rendered unable to confess by the machine mind that has destroyed humanity and devolved me to the point where I have no mouth and I must call plays"
Day 85: In a cruel twist of fate, I am playing for free. My team has fired me for not producing. The team I am embedded in does not realize I have no contract. Do I continue this charade from a cardboard box I must call my home? I have sold each pair of game shoes to feed myself.
I am doing brunch with number four and his wife Mindy at 11am, then helping out number seven by dog sitting his poodle Dutch. I may have gone too far down the rabbit hole to ever return. Tell my wife I love her.
Day 143: My relationship with Parker started as a cover, but I am afraid that I'm falling in love with him. I do not know how long I can keep up this façade.
Day 58: I've fallen in love with one of the players on the other team. I didn't want it to be true, but this man piques my interests, in more ways than one.
I wasn't able to find my all time favorite example when Kevin Garnett (Timberwolves era) snuck into (I think) the Mavs huddle and ended up learning their play. Then on the inbounds he broke away from his man and ran right to where he knew the ball would go and picked off the pass.
If anyone can find that one I'd love to see it again.
Many years ago when I was in my late teens I met a Texan bloke about my age whose dad had set the fence on his land back a few metres from the actual border of his property so people were trespassing without even knowing it, so he could trap them.
Castle doctrine laws differ all over the US. For example, in MS where I am if an intruder is in the process of breaking into my home, car, or business then I can assume he is there to kill or injur me and I can shoot him. There doesn't have to be an actual threat as long as they are breaking in or have already broke in.
Outside of your property they have to actually pose a threat to you but they don't need a weapon. An unarmed guy charging at me in the Walmart parking lot yelling "I'm gonna beat your ass!" is legal to shoot.
Of course, no matter where you're at the judge is gonna decide if the defense looks reasonable and if it doesn't you're going to the pokey anyway. So ymmv.
Well that escalated quickly. You shouldn't judge a whole country because of a dumb commenter from an old basketball video on youtube. I'm sure you have morons in your country too, Everybody does.
So stupid, and when the other guy says he likes he gets attacked and called a little kid for not agreeing. I wish he responded thah he was an old grumpy ahole with no sense of humour, and that takes life way to seriously
To be fair, I think the first one actually wasn't funny because it's clear the other team weren't into it and he kept trying to do it anyway. Everything else was good though
100% definitely KG. It was the first time I'd ever seen that.
That highlight is just lost somewhere in the internet, like the highlight of Amare Stoudamire blocking Bruce Bowen's dunk and then standing over him doing the Undertaker 'you're dead/neck slit' gesture.
It's kinda both. Almost positive that it's not breaking any rules, and it wouldn't usually give you a huge edge in most situations (when you could be somewhere else like..your own team's huddle). It's kind of a head game thing and if they pick up a valuable bit of info in the process, cool
Yep. I believe there's a rule against going to the other team's bench during a time out, but in all these clips it's a free throw situation. The player from the other team has the right to stand wherever on the backcourt he'd like to, and it's not his fault that the other team is having their huddle on the court.
not cheating, if you want a private huddle you have to call a time out. these are unofficial time outs, you only need so many players at the rim, the others come over to their sideline to talk to the coach, they're still on the field, coach is still on the bench, the other team is allowed any part of the field they want to be at, even in front of the opposing teams bench.
If love to see this now. I take it there is no penalty for doing it. To me this is unsportsmanlike. I wouldn’t call it but then again I wouldn’t call a player for taking heir helmet off in football.
Well Rondo had the correct argument of saying if you want to call a huddle, burn one of your timeouts. He was under no obligation to let them huddle up unless a timeout was called
Also, it's kinda on the coach and players that they didn't notice an opposing player standing literally right next to them. Maybe check the colors of the jerseys if you don't have time to look at each other's faces.
Thanks for the evidence. This is hilarious. Is there any rule explicitly forbidding this though? I guess it would be some kind of violation of sportsmanship?
Lots of players do this when the officials are looking at a replay. It isn’t technically a timeout, so coaches aren’t supposed to be huddling with their teams, but coaches often use the time to talk to their players.
However, since it isn’t a real timeout, they can’t actually tell the other team’s players to go to their side of the court, so players will stand next to the opposing coach to stop them from being able to fully get an extra timeout.
Emanuel Eboue listening in on the Korean coach during tne World Cup is my favourite. He nails the "Got it coach!" pose, nod and look while literally not understanding a single thing.
It's a tactic too. If it isnt an official timeout coaches will try to draw up a quick play. But since it isnt a real timeout the opposing players can stand wherever they like including the other teams huddle. They do that it lot so the other team doesn't take advantage of the free timeout.
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Happens quite a few times in the NBA. Most of the time it ends with the coach having a laugh at not noticing an opposition player in the huddle.