Spurs: Gervin Butthurt re: Klay Thompson

[LkrFan]

"I said, 'Wowwwww, that's pretty impressive,' " Gervin told Howard Beck of Bleacher Report about his reaction to Thompson's outburst. "But I'd like to see him try to get 33 or 37 in a quarter when there wasn't no 3-point line."

I don't feel - and it's funny, everybody laughs - I don't feel he broke my record. I feel he set a new record. He set a new record for the new NBA."

Gervin added: "Think about it, man. That's like if we're going to have a race, and you start on the 50-yard line and I start on the 1-yard line and we're doing a 100-yard race. It's not even."

Gervin, who eclipsed Wilt Chamberlain's record for most points in a quarter (33), continued to elaborate on his reasoning.

If you give a guy an advantage to break my record, it ain't on the same playing level. So I'm saying, I ain't going away that easy, by saying, 'Hey, he broke my record.' Now, I don't care what nobody say. I'm standing up for something that I'm real proud of, man ... In the system that I played, my record will never be broken.

I'm the one in the Guinness book. So if they put somebody else in the Guinness book for most points in a quarter, I'd like to see an asterisk by it.

He maaaaaaaaad as ! Damn.

[Sean Cagney]

You are a little bit late on this man.

[Splits]

it's stupid though, if you're pointing out that it's totally different because basketball changed as a sport with the ins ution of the three point line then doesn't the road run both ways? Your record is no longer applicable to the sport we play today? So your record is what, ing ETERNAL now if any of those points higher than your total come from the three point line? Dudes gotta play like it's 1978?
I love the Iceman but I'm always not-down with old basketball players ing and moaning about contemporary trends and players (it's getting even ing worse with dudes from the 90s or dudes STILL in the league like Kobe, back in my day blahblahblahblah grit heart DANG THESE STATS!!!) and I'm not really changing that opinion because he happens to be a Spur. Retired players unable to play anymore, stuck in the past, just grasping at whatever they can in the present, often diminishing the achievements of contemporary players, whatever dude stop shouting at me to get off your lawn.
You better believe this just makes him look like a petty hater to all the non-Spurs NBA fans unless they're specialized fetishizers of the past or ing Bill Simmons. Like sorry dude, I'm pretty sure most of those glorious classic Celtics teams would look like old men on the court in today's NBA.
And before you start ranting about monkeyball vs. b-ball IQ and all that bull , we wouldn't be anywhere in this current era without Kawhi Leonard's athleticism and physical abilities so you can stick that racist Eurotrash bull right back up your ass (UUUHHH YOU'RE RUNNING FASTER AND JUMPING HIGHER IN THIS SPORT OF BASKETBALL, HOW DARE YOU FILTHY AMERICANS!!!!! WHAT WE ARE BAD AT IS CLEARLY CHEAP AND DUMB!!!!). Except for a set number of old legends (including admittedly dudes like the Iceman, and obviously Wilt was enough of a unique specimen to own the top athletes of today's age) a lot of those dudes would get totally owned by today's athletes.


Retired athletes just need to be able to nod, smile, and go, "Not bad young fella". Keep that petty "BUT WAIT A MINUTE!!!!!" to yourself dude. There's a reason it's funny. There's a reason everyone laughs.

[rogues]

Using copy pasta when 1) it's a five year old retired schtick and 2) a schtick only resurrected every now and then by proven quality posters

[Splits]

STFU you can't read Godbama from 2 days ago and not come to tears laughing. you and your "schticks", dat serious and it's ing funny

[LkrFan]

You are a little bit late on this man.

Not really. I just received the notification on my theScore_app.

[100%duncan]

He has a point about the no 3's before. But who likes basketball without 3's tbh. It's boring

[RsxPiimp]

He has a point about the no 3's before. But who likes basketball without 3's tbh. It's boring

Agree. That's why comparing players and/or teams from 2 vastly different eras can be pointless.

[m>s]

Well he is right, without 3s it would be a lot harder to score that many in a quarter. Also today's nba is better though, so it's nothing to take away from thompsons accomplishment

[Infinite_limit]

- Double negative usage
- Metaphor made no sense

But he has a point

[spurraider21]

gervin's just salty tbh, i said the same upstairs

[Sean Cagney]

gervin's just salty tbh, i said the same upstairs

He does come off as just that, no denying it at all.

[ducks]

http://www.spurstalk.com/forums/show...98#post7807398

[Mnky]

Different rules = Differtent game. It is what it is.