NBA: Question about the term 3-peat

[HI-FI]

One must learn the term "repeat" first before asking grown folk about "3-peat"
--Confucious

I decree another 3-peat.
--David Stern, 2002

[Clipper Nation]

One must learn the term "repeat" first before asking grown folk about "3-peat"
--Confucious

You're one to talk about learning English words, Rodrigo. You still running every post through Google Translate before posting them shiiiiiiits?

[LkrFan]

[Agloco]

Or, put another way the Spurs came home 3-2 & still couldn't ambiguia.

You've been reduced to this. Coming from anyone else it would be a sad state of affairs indeed. But....we allow you your sandbox old man. When it's Duncan 6 TOSB 5, the piper will be playing loud and clear. There won't be a place for you to hide anymore.

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You've been reduced to this. Coming from anyone else it would be a sad state of affairs indeed. But....we allow you your sandbox old man. When it's Duncan 6 TOSB 5, the piper will be playing loud and clear. There won't be a place for you to hide anymore.

I look forward to the challenge with equal amounts of both anticipation & determination.

Let us proceed...

[spurraider21]

Or, put another way the Spurs came home 3-2 & still couldn't ambiguia.

They played 6 and 7 in Miami you senile

[Biggems]

I think the prefix "re-" itself has the meaning of double, twice or again, like when you say some team re-signs a star you mean the team signs that star back or signs him again, the unspoken meaning is that the player has played for that team before. Another example, the word "re-stacked" means being stacked again. The meaning that OP thinks of by the term 3-peat would be best expressed as 3-repeat imho, say "repeating 3 times".

In fact, the term "repeat" doesn't necessarily mean doing something for two or more consecutive times, like we can still say we want a repeat of 2011 even though it is already 4 years ago. As I comprehend that word, "repeat" is only used in reference to the last time when something happened, which happened again at present time, so it only includes two occasions imho. If it happens for the third time then you can say "it repeats again". But in certain contexts, like NBA, "repeat" means "winning championships in two consecutive years", hence when some team wins championships 3 years in a row, people naturally think of the term "3-peat" (simply replacing "re" with "3").

English logic is just not easy to understand and it can be very confusing sometimes. Like, when you say "your school is twice larger than mine", the meaning of the sense is equivalent to "your school is twice as large as mine", so here you have the equation: "twice larger than" = "twice as large". But to a foreigner whose first language isn't English, if you say something is twice larger than something else, he may most likely comprehend your words as "something is three times as large as something else". However, when you say "The Spurs have won 4 more rings than the Mavs", there's no ambiguity in it.

I understand how the term came about and who came up with it.

That isn't the point. The point is, it is a misnomer. Like I said, a 3-peat would mean that one would repeat 3 times after the initial one, thus having 4.

[Silver&Black]

I'm a trend setter.

I set trends.

I'll just bet you do.

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They played 6 and 7 in Miami you senile

I'm talkin' about the Clippers series during your quest for repeat.

ha, ha, you're wrong. I got ya for once. muhahahahahahahahahaha!!!!!!!!!!!

[Mark Celibate]

The point I wanna make is that, 3-peat is a different word than repeat. If the word "repeat" has the meaning of "double", then "3-peat" naturally has the meaning of "triple" imho. Why isn't there such a word like 2-peat? Just to describe a team that has won the championship three times in a row, according to OP's logic? Because most people think differently than the OP does. To them, 2-peat has the same meaning as repeat, and hence 3-peat consequently means three times rather than four.

But again, language ain't natural science, but rather a custom gradually formed against the background of a culture. Therefore, a word that's commonly used in your daily life can never be defined so strictly and vigorously like a physical or mathematical term imho.

[Sportcamper]

Baseline- This is a trolling thread & I was just playing along...
I always enjoy your great B.B. takes....

[TDMVPDPOY]

is there a term for 4 time lottery?

[Mark Celibate]

No, because their 2016 pick belongs to Philly now imho.

[DMC]

No shade but I'm pretty sure you're the only one who cares about this.

Yeah you've never had to consider it.

[DMC]

I understand how the term came about and who came up with it.

That isn't the point. The point is, it is a misnomer. Like I said, a 3-peat would mean that one would repeat 3 times after the initial one, thus having 4.

You can repeat the previous year's performance, thus a repeat. You do it again and it's repeating the previous year's performance and the original. You have technically 3 repeats..

1. repeating the 1st year
2. repeating the 2nd year
3. repeating the 1st year again (along with the 2nd year repeat)

If you do 10 pushups, you don't do 9 repe ions.

[TDMVPDPOY]

LAKERS remind of those suckers who continue to buy lottery tickets, when everyone is buying syndicates for the higher oddds...

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LAKERS remind of those suckers who continue to buy lottery tickets, when everyone is buying syndicates for the higher oddds...

...you gave your 1st 5th back, daddy. And you ain't ever livin' that down.

Let us proceed...

[TDMVPDPOY]

...you gave your 1st 5th back, daddy. And you ain't ever livin' that down.

Let us proceed...

remind everyone how the lakers gave away 4th twice

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remind everyone how the lakers gave away 4th twice

They were selling your , stringing your ropes, peelin' your taters.

[SquawkinHawkBigCock]

Yeah you've never had to consider it.

About the inner workings of this term? No, I don't think about those inconsequential things. Though I bet when you're on your extravagant boat getaways you're thinking of new things to be pointless about out on the dock.

[Caltex2]

Isn't the term 3-peat actually a misnomer?

If you think about it, it means that you repeated as Champion 3 times......which would mean that you actually won 4 Championships in a row. You win the initial le, and then you repeat three times, for the 3-peat.

The correct term should probably be 2-peat.

Someone probably beat me to this 30+ posts ago but it's an expansion of the term "repeat." When you repeat, it doesn't mean you've won three and naturally, when you 3-peat, it doesn't mean you've won 4. It also makes sense in that "three" sounds like "re."