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It feels like we’re in a weird transition era where different coaching styles are clashing:
Some coaches still lean heavily on structure, half-court execution, and defense-first systems
Others are basically running NBA-style spacing, pace, and letting guards freelance
And then there are coaches who are becoming full-on roster managers because of the portal
Who was the most believable “tough guy” wrestler ever?
Writing
Not necessarily the BEST wrestler.
Not the biggest draw.
Just the guy who genuinely felt like you would NOT want problems with him in real life.
For me it’s between:
Haku
Vader
Steve Blackman
Meng
early Kurt Angle
late-90s Shamrock
I know people joke about Haku stories being exaggerated, but literally every old wrestler talks about him like he was a comic book character.
Vader is another one because he wrestled like a refrigerator that somehow learned martial arts.
Curious who everybody else picks because every era had at least one guy the locker room genuinely respected/fear ed.
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Mine would probably be: “80s defense was bad.”
I genuinely think people confuse:
higher pace
fewer threes
different illegal defense rules
…with bad defense.
When you actually watch those games, the amount of physical ball pressure and paint contact is absurd compared to now.
Was the help defense as sophisticated as today? Obviously not.
But I also think modern fans underestimate how exhausting it was to operate offensively when defenders could hand-check you for entire possessions and transition defense was far more chaotic.
The other thing is that players then had much less spacing support. A star beating his man often ran directly into two bigs sitting near the lane.
I’m not trying to do the “old era is better than new era” thing because every era has tradeoffs.
I just think older basketball gets discussed with way more caricatures than nuance online.
What modern narrative about vintage basketball bothers you the most?
And if it’s written that I’m to have a child, then I’ll get a nanny or a house help who at least made it past tertiary level.
I was born an only child, and that meant I played alone most of the time. I didn’t really have a problem with it since we moved a lot and it took time to make new friends and adjust.
Now here’s the thing , we had a house help, I remember her name was Naomi, who insisted that I had mental problems. Not once, but three times, in my presence. And I can assure you it didn’t come from a place of care or concern, cause if she had an issue with my folks, she’d take it out on us (my cousin and I , though she wasn’t even in my age group).
As a kid, I didn’t care much for it. But now, as an adult, I’m like… that’s not something you say to a child.
And if you weren't your parent's favourite, don't raise your kids around them , the unequal treatment just gets passed down to them in the presence of other grandkids who were their ' favourite '
Somewhere along the way we've been bruised , hurt and betrayed and as a defense mechanism we turn off those parts of ourselves, the part where we loved cared in the name of 'healing' or protecting ourselves, that's not healing that's rejecting ourselves.Now that doesn't stop the incident from re- occurring but we tell ourselves that now I'm more equipped to handle it or it will hurt less.And in other instances our anger and pain turns us into people that hurt us now we bring people into our lives to pay for what others did to us, innocent people and our cycle keeps continuing, hurting others as we hurt ourselves. What if we just took time to heal , like the right way and let the light come in cause the universe will always meet you from your pint of audacity and reward what you tolarate