Other than the title, there’s not much else I can add to the text box except express my anger and outrage that I felt when I found out that there were idiots who watched episode 4 of Falcon and the Winter soldier and thought to themselves “damn I really hate this John Walker character. The way he beat a violent extremist to death with the tip of captain America’s shield makes me want to contact the actor that portrayed the Character on screen, and threaten him and his loved ones just because I didn’t like what I saw.”
Wyatt Russell, you most likely aren’t reading this but if for some reason you just so happen to have a Reddit account and are browsing r/marvelstudios and you come across my post, first of all I’d like to say I’m a big fan, and second I know you’re still kind of new to the MCU but I hope that you continue to play USAgent for as long as possible. your acting skills are phenomenal and I look forward to seeing you in the future projects.
Rockets receive: A player who can man their tank, what few picks and swaps the Lakers can give them
Lakers receive: John Wall
John Wall receives: Play time
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Pros:
-We can get to hype up John Wall's return for, like, a week.
Cons:
-The Lakers might improve.
-Russ might also be a little sad.
One of my favorite films as a kid was Big Trouble in Little China. It performed poorly in theaters but is often called a cult classic.
The first time I watched it I fell in love immediately.
I found the commentary featuring Kurt Russell and John Carpenter in my late twenties or early thirties. I was just devastated, but in a good way, because it completely changed the way I saw the film (contains spoilers).
- The movie was originally supposed to be "MYSTICAL MARTIAL ARTS" meets "WILD WEST." But someone from the studio modernized it at the last minute, stripping out the "cowboy" elements altogether, thinking it would connect better with audiences that way. It did not. The movie is set in 1980s San Francisco. But so many things in the film make more sense as a "Big-Screen Brisco County Jr. in San Francisco" instead. From time to time I go over it in my head.
- Like the fight scene in the alley where the Chinese gangs shoot each other with machine guns AND THEN they bust out the martial arts? That would've made sense with six-shot revolvers, sure. Not machine guns. With automatic weapons you just... reload the clip.
- Jack Burton's disappearance at the end of the film might have worked in pre-trucker America, when it was easy to ride off into the sunset, but not when you're wanted for questioning in connection with an act of domestic terrorism that destroyed half a city block.
- There's a female reporter character who is obtusely naive and overly-sheltered, and a fiery women's-lib character named Gracie Law (played by Kim Cattrall) who is so recognizable for helping the Chinese immigrant community that she can't risk being seen helping Jack in China Town ("I know," he says. "There's a problem with your face"). These characters might have worked better as classic "citified women" Western stereotypes, but in the modernized adaptation they didn't fully track. A super-famous human-rights advocate can't find a real reporter to come with her to China Town? Maybe in the 1880s that made sense.
- There's an early scene where gang members walk right into the airport, lounge around the terminal, and then kidnap a woman, dragging her kicking and screaming outside through the parking lot while assaulting civilians and waiving around weapons. No security or police intervene, at the airport or along the freeway. Sure it's pre-9/11 but it's still San Francisco. The scene would make a lot more sense if it looked like a Wild West shipyard, where
Source >Scott came to the Lakers having coached two superstar guards, Kyrie Irving and Chris Paul, early in their careers. He was also famously teammates with both Magic Johnson and Kobe Bryant, two of the greatest guards to ever don the purple and gold.
>But, for some reason, he was never able to get on the same page as Russell, and it showed in how strict he was with Russell. Scott’s assistant coach Jim Eyen viewed that as tough love, as he told Jake Fischer for the book “Built To Lose: How the NBA’s Tanking Era Changed the League Forever”:
>Scott would Russell when he thought the rookie was freelancing instead of settling the table for teammates. He’d offer varying reasons as to why he benched Russell during crunch time situations. “I think Byron coached D’Angelo from the heart. He did what he thought the best thing for D’Angelo was. It would have been easier had he just taken the path of least resistance,” Eyen says. “But he didn’t. It’s a lot more difficult to try to do it, what you feel is the right way, and discipline when you need to disciple. Pat him on the butt me give him accolades when he deserves it and just do what you need to do for not only the team, but for the long term of the player.
>Russell viewed their relationship just a bit differently:
>Russell, frankly, disagrees. Scott didn’t handle sophomore forward Julius Randle with the same kids gloves. “He’s an idiot,” Russell says of his coach.
>Russell felt Scott often yanked him from close contests purely to spark controversy and attention for his postgame media availability. “I just think he was malicious for no reason,” Russell says. “He’s a solid man. But as a coach, he was bad. He was just bad at his job.”
>Russell admitted that he didn’t do everything he could to bridge the gap that existed between them, though:
>When Scott summoned Russell back to the bench, Russell would take his most circuitous path in order to duck high-fiving the coaching staff. “I was just young. I used to do all types of shit to avoid talking to him,” Russell says. The guard bristled in his seat at the end of Los Angeles’ pine. Lakers officials diagnosed the dynamic evidence of Russell’s immaturity issues scouts across the league has flagged before the draft.
>But again, if there’s anyone that deserved the benefit of the doubt, it wasn’t
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Scotty went in, best to read all of it.
Here's Scott Brooks’ full 5-minute, 793-word response from last night to a question about the fan running on the court:
>Well, I think it's actually embarrassing for all those fans that do that. The NBA has great fans. I played in Philadelphia. They have great fans. They have one knucklehead that decided to throw popcorn. Boston has great fans. They had one knucklehead (who) decided to throw a water bottle. New York has great fans. I played there. I played in Boston but I got cut after they traded me. They have great — New York has great fans.
>One knucklehead decided to spit on somebody. We have great fans. One knucklehead tried to come into the arena. It's unacceptable, and we have to — it's not good. Banning them and this and that, what does that mean? Is there facial recognition that you can't get a ticket on the secondary market and don't shave for a week and wear a hat and still come in? I don't know if it's criminal charges, but they gotta get something on their record and they gotta get exposed and they have to pay money out of their own pocket.
>Athletes in that same situation, if Russell would've thrown popcorn on somebody, trust me, there would've been a major lawsuit there. Oh, the guy can't see. Broke his neck because the popcorn hit him. And all these athletes have to defend themselves and spend hundreds of thousands of dollars and get their name tarnished. We love to be heckled. We love it. I mean, I love it as a coach. I love it. As a player, I loved it when they heckled me for my two minutes. Russell, he loves to be heckled. But there's crossing the line. I didn't have a father, but my mom, she would never allow me to even think about doing that. It's a privilege to be in here. It's a lot of money that everybody pays. I know when I go to sporting events with my kids when they were young, I didn't wanna hear people use foul language. It's embarrassing. We have to control that. We have to control that. But it's unfortunate that one fan here and there, it ruins it for everyone. There's great fans in Boston, in New York, in Philly, in DC, in Utah, but there are some that need to just know — you know what? Stay home. Your thinking is barbaric. Stay home. We don't need you. We don't need your dollars. Just stay home. Get away from us.
>Scott Brooks on the fan running on the court (Part 3/4): Let the
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Source. > The Wizards doused Russell Westbrook in water in the locker room after the game, against Scott Brooks’ approval.
> "We can’t keep drenching Russell every time he breaks his own record,” Brooks said. "We’re gonna have mold issues with the carpet."
Russell Westbrook recorded his 183rd career triple-double, and 37th of the season, in a win against the Cleveland Cavaliers today. This was his seventh straight game with 15+ assists.
This secured a play-in tournament spot for the Wizards, with the eighth seed still in reach depending on how the last few games play out.
Source > Scott Brooks said Russell Westbrook gave a speech to the team a couple of months ago ad declared that he was not missing the playoffs.
> He was correct.
Some more. > Scott Brooks says after a loss earlier this season Russell Westbrook gave a "passionate" and "direct" speech to the team. "He said 'I'm not going to not make the playoffs this season'... it was special."
Some more. > Scott Brooks is spending this postgame session rattling off Russell Westbrook stories and just said he and Westbrook got into a shouting fight for 20 minutes bc Russ was averaging 34 minutes a game and he wanted to average 35.
Some more. > Scott Brooks said in OKC he once had a 20-minute "animated" conversation in his office with Russell Westbrook, who was fighting him over wanting to average 35 minutes per game when Brooks would only let him play 34.
