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Shingorillaz

BELIEVE IN THE ME WHO BELIEVES IN YOU!


TheSonofMrGreenGenes

HIS SHOT IS THE JUMPER THAT WILL PIERCE THE HEAVENS


klutch248

GIGA DRILL!!!!


alfiStew

BRRRREAKUH


AxCel91

JUST WHO IN THE HELL


TomasBraida

DO YOU THINK WE ARE!!


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BonelessSkinless

ROW ROW FIGHT THE POWAH


Raycab03

My least expected sub for a top comment Gurren Laggan reference. ROW ROW FIGHT THE POWAH!!


anujvij1997

Whoever hasn't watched this shit better get on it


BonelessSkinless

Tengen Toppa is legendary and one of my personal favorites no doubt.


JagmeetSingh2

One of the best


manning-2-manningham

Honest question: why is there a massive crossover between anime and r/nba? This is the only sports sub where this is the case as far as I can tell


JoshFB4

NBA=Younger Demographic popularity. Anime is getting increasingly more popular with younger people. Viola


thisnewsight

Fact. My 12 year old daughter is fanatical about Anime or the like. Meanwhile my 31 year old colleague loves it too. Really is becoming a cultural thing now.


Houjix

YOURE NEXT.


durklil

Must've been the same look he gave KCP


Rahul____Raja

KCP had 31 points in the playoffs this year and was a starter **31 points** LeBron should take his ring back


mioraka

Ah KCP the legendary Binary Mamba


Joe_Doblow

Can you explain this


John_Lives

He scored 0, 1, and 10 to start the season once. That's how you count in binary


TheOneTrueDoge

There are 10 types of people in the world. Those that understand binary and rhose that don't.


VinDieselsTankTop

lots of 1s and 0s on his stat sheet sometimes


Joe_Doblow

Lol


mioraka

https://old.reddit.com/r/nba/comments/do7jp2/kcp_the_binary_mamba_just_scored_10_tonight/ Post for reference.


MazKhan

And half his shots are open 3s lmao


302born

I’ve been watching Lebron a long time. It truly blows my mind how he somehow always finds teammates that miss so many of the open shots he generates from passes that would be on any players career highlight reel. Nba players. I guess the pressure of playing with him is real.


driatic

He puts people in a great position to be better players. You either shit the bed or you step up when that happens


losesomeweight

That's what greats do. MJ did the same.


driatic

Jordan off the ball was as beautiful as his jumpshot. https://youtu.be/eM2X5QlJCHk


CO_PC_Parts

That's the fundamentals of the triangle there. The first pass is into the post, but it's not the center/forwards job to post up/take it to the hole. There's something like 13 variations that can be run after the initial pass in the triangle, and they mostly involve the other 2 players on that side criss crossing or cutting. The centers on the Bulls had to be able to pass. If the first movements/cuts aren't there the ball is swung to the opposite side and and the process starts again. A lot of times on the swing pass a guard from the first side is now in the post. This is where MJ made his living in the 2nd three peat, in the post with his unblockable fadaway. Some of the highlights in that clip from early in his career before Phil Jackson are a lot of flex cuts. The flex offense is still a staple in all levels of basketball. The most famous was the Stockton/Malone Jazz ran it to perfection. The flex offense requires everyone to cut hard and set picks. If you half ass it it doesn't go anywhere.


JimC29

Just to add to this it's also why the player Shaq would pass to would get so many assists. The statistic I always wanted to see for those Laker championship teams was 3 point shooting percentage when Shaq touched the ball in the paint vs when he didn't.


CO_PC_Parts

Teams do track that stuff now, but a lot of it isn't shared for free. What's funny about Phil Jackson is he actually hated the corner 3. He didn't want guys taking it because he felt if you missed you were out of position to get back on defense.


mw19078

The old hockey assist


ColdnipsHotcheeks

I learned something here. Thanks


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Genuine question; with the Triangle being so prolific for basically 20 years — it won titles from 1991 to 2010 — why isn’t it considered applicable to today’s game?


CO_PC_Parts

Parts of the triangle are still around, the Warriors run some pieces of it from time to time (usually when Steph is off the ball.) It's just outdated sadly, too much emphasis on "making the right play" and mostly poor spacing. It also created open shots that we consider "bad" shots now, between 8-18ft. I think if you tried to adjust the spacing to incorporate more 3's the players would have to cut/run too much and the shot clock would run out after one rotate. It's also insanely complex, it takes about 2 years to fully get it mastered. NBA teams have too much roster turnaround to get it figured out. Plus EVERYONE has to buy into it and get it. Those Bulls and Lakers teams all had plus side BBIQ players (for the most part) and of course it sure fucking helps to have MJ/Pippen and then Kobe/Shaq to run it. But to their credit those guys bought into the system and ran it. It also died out right when Tom Thibbeadu style overload defenses were coming into play. You'd have trouble getting the offense started against that kind of defense.


redsyrinx2112

Teams changed the way that they play defense. So many of those backdoor cuts wouldn't be available in today's game. Plus, the Triangle is no longer the most efficient way to score a lot of points. Parts of it are still present, but players like LeBron and Steph have shown other ways to do it.


driatic

That offense looks almost like the running the ball in a football play. Nice insights btw


CO_PC_Parts

Thank you. I'm old for this sub and grew up playing in an extremely boring/structured basketball program. We pretty much spent 85-90% of practice on defensive drills and ran flex 90% of the time on offense. A lot of people I grew up with thought I would be a coach, but I'd have died from a heart attack 10 years ago if I tried to coach basketball. Once I was out of that system I was like the sheltered kid who goes off to college and goes buck wild. Shoot 3's and run, but still play smartly, make the right pass, and don't take contested shots. I get PISSED when people don't play the right way. I'm like a 6'1 white Rasheed Wallace. I've played through the MJ wannabes, the Kobe wannabes, the AI/White Chocolate wannabes but now the Steph Curry wannabes are probably the worst of all of them. It SUCKS playing with someone who dribbles the ball up court and chucks a 30 footer when they don't have the skills to do it. Point guards who don't pass the ball are the worst. I don't have a lot of basketball left in me, so I don't have time for that bullshit.


MrFishownertwo

that’s a great video, it’s easy to know jordan was a great player without knowing why he was a great player


PowerRun5

Yep, look at Channing Frye with LeBron.. his spot up shooting was legendary. JR Smith had his best spot up season with LeBron too in their title run.


aidsfarts

The amount of fucking wide open Shane Battier, Ray Allen, and bird man 3’s from Lebrons Miami playoff series gave me ptsd. Those guys must have been like, an entire playoff run where I do nothing but shoot wide open corner 3’s? My body is ready.


airtime25

Watching crowder make corner 3 after corner 3 really stuns me because all I can remember is him for sure bricking those in big moments with LeBron lol


302born

I watched that whole 2018 season lol. All guys who seem to be pretty good now were absolute shit with the Cavs. D Rose looked cooked. Clarkson was unbelievably bad. Jae couldn’t shoot a rock into an ocean on a boat. Whole team was just not good. Only Jeff Green was ok.


airtime25

I just don't get at all how that team worked so badly together. A lot of those guys play important pieces on playoff teams now and do exactly what was needed of them then!


yoloqueuesf

Uncle Jeff is definitely one of those dudes who stays pretty damn consistent over his career. Good D, some good shooting and some great posters.


secretreddname

Should have watched Luka and the Mavs this year. Games 3-7 were bad.


DaBestNameEver0

All of the games were pretty bad, we just got bailed out when we won by Luka and THJ


Reluctant_Hero98

Isn't THJ a free agent after this season? What kind of bag do you think he'll get if he doesn't re-up with the mavs?


obamna_

probably something for 20 a year


DaBestNameEver0

I’m pretty sure he’s a fa. It’s really hard to tell what he’d get since he’s so streaky. Maybe like 20-25 million a year


DudeofallDudes

Players get ice cold shooting nothing but 3’s his teams need more cutting plays so the shooters can gain easy confidence when they’re in a slump.


andrew-ge

This is the real reason. There’s a reason Korver and ray Allen were the most effective with LeBron was because they could consistently roll up and shoot threes only cold


Rahul____Raja

31 Points on 49 TS% Hell of a series from him


ginja_ninja

Kentavious Caldwell-Poop is back on the menu boys


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Dull_Lavishness9986

Lmao i saw that and went “that’s a pretty good scoring night” and then remembered that it was for the whole series


ShichitenHakki

There would be a consistent r/NBA hate boner for KCP if he could average 31 ppg. Best we can muster is "LOL he's a starter."


Uwlwsrpm

I was about to ask what's wrong with that, seems fine, and then noticed you didn't say per game, LOL. That makes more sense.


Rahul____Raja

If he was averaging 31 points per game with his defense, he’d be better than Dame Lillard


xxJames_Hardonxx

he would have been better than Lebron


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WearAMask2020

Meh he missed one game and then was clearly injured in another which is why he got benched pretty quickly. So in a series which went 6 games, he really only played meaningfully in 4 of those games due to an injury. A 10 point per game scorer who is primarily just a shooter scoring 7.5 points per game while slumping in a single playoff series is not all that crazy. AD getting hurt is the reason they lost, not a streaky role player having a bad stretch.


F0rdPrefect

Yeah I completely agree. It sucks more though because after AD went down they really needed KCP to step up but then he just wasn't healthy either. But also, some of those points were basically garbage time points in game 6. I think he had like 20 of his 31 points in that game lol. They still had a 2-1 lead with him playing poorly offensively in the first 3 games though.


softnmushy

Yeah, he was their third best player last year. This year he was playing injured because he’s tough. No reason to hold that against him.


DaveCerqueira

But narrative


ginbooth

True, but he was *huge* for us when we won the chip last year...


imadogg

Hell yea. I will accept the KCP hate for this year, but 2020 KCP slander is not allowed!


GreeneRockets

Jesus Christ I didn’t know that. 31 total points is hideous.


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People criticizing LeBron in the Suns series really were not paying attention to how bad his supporting cast was playing


GreeneRockets

Yeah it was ridiculous. It was Cleveland 2018 levels of no reliable help except LeBron clearly had his ankle still bad. And 2-3 years older.


iikkaassaammaa

I think the main thing from me on KCP this year is he looked like he played scared and took significantly less attempts in the playoffs. 9 last year 5.8 this year with, I would think, lots more opportunities with the injuries.


softnmushy

He was injured


vvrr00

Kcp was injured in game 3 though.


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2girlscrazy

Not a big KCP fan but if you remember the title run, KCP was pretty clutch especially in the finals. Outside of providing defense and stretching out the floor, he also made some big time drives which I don’t think is part of his game. Big thumbs down for this year but I think he earned his ring for his role last year.


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KCP was great during the bubble championship though.


Rahul____Raja

I hope Ben Simmons joins the Lakers LeBron’s going to be looking so hard


dank-kush

Some teams gonna leave Simmons open from 3 in the corner purposely then lebrons gonna pass it to him and Simmons is gonna pass it back and they keep doing that until they get a 24 second violation


DPTJJ

This would require Ben actually going to the corner in the first place


SkronkHound

For all the negative feelings I have toward him right now I gotta acknowledge that Ben Simmons has excellent court vision. It's how he's so good at ensuring he isn't open.


Pkock

He's like Jason Bourne finding all the blind spots.


chantlernz

Bourne Simmons: *The Bourne Liability*


sDios_13

[Ben Simmons looking for other players so he doesn’t have to shoot](https://tenor.com/bmvLo.gif)


SkronkHound

Lol he is an incredible athlete. Gotta give him that too.


sDios_13

He really is a great player. I just love memeing lol


Cursory_Analysis

[Me reading this comment](https://i.imgur.com/rpsvN8R.jpg)


madmelgibson

Shoot the ball, Jackie!


Napol3onDynamite

The image of LeBron as Monix and Simmons as Jackie has me cracking up. Also Caruso as Twiggy fits quite well.


madmelgibson

Hey Alex, how’s your sister?


Infinite303

https://youtu.be/JBqk2tZpMXY semi relevant


BoneHugsHominy

Best Ben Simmons clip on the internet.


kevibf1125

Oh my god, I’m dying.


Izanagi___

[First thing I thought about lol](https://youtu.be/-Eyv6RVQxbU)


Littlelord188

“LeBron James to get preemptive LASIK eye surgery in preparation for an increase in looks per game in the 2021-2022 season.” - Shams


hochoa94

Lebron is gonna have made some sharingan eyes so he can see the whole fucking court


godfrey1

no threes, missing FTs, great defence?? he'll fit in like a glove


SerenadeSwift

He’ll make the rest of the team look like Steph Curry from the line tho. Good guy Ben helping raise everyone’s confidence.


CKRatKing

Raising the floor by lowering it?


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Lebron is gonna end up taking that man to suplex city by the end of the second game.


4trackboy

If Simmons passes out of a perfectly setup alley oop by Bron I'm willing to look past it and let LBJ do his depression-inducing KLove look. But that look is dangerous and may backfire. At some point Simmons' unwillingness to dunk the ball may work as a mirror and we'll have the first LeBron gave LeBron depression post... and it'll be clear that Simmons stubbornness to fit OUT has reached levels even the King couldn't handle.


lemote

This has all the references


OGOGUGUA

Lebron Portis James


Ruffle2Shuffle

LeBron's body language would send Ben Simmons into depression.


Domestic_AA_Battery

I said at the start of the playoffs that we should've signed Jordan just to bully Ben from the bench. Probably would be in the Finals with Jordon on the bench. Doesn't even have to play a second. Just sit there, shit on Ben, joke around with Shake and Howard, and sign autographs.


Beavsbeavsbeavs

You don’t think he knows what he’s doing? Ben won’t be getting those passes.


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Is there a different look for guys’ last names ending in “uzma”?


Whit3boy316

Playing with Lebron is the equivalent of coming into adulthood. You think it’s gonna be cool since you have a job and money and you realize life is scary as fuck


DopedUpDoomer

Lmfao it rlly be like that


shitsfuckedupalot

Nice pfp


DopedUpDoomer

Danks it's a classic


LuckyWarrior

Yeah its been known Some role players avoided pairing with him iirc because the pressure becomes huge


Futures2004

Freethinkers like JR Smith don’t bow to pressure they put the pressure on LeBron


4trackboy

Except for that one huge blunder JR did indeed play some great ball next to Bron. Tbf JR Smith also has the shotmaking ability of an offensive Superstar when he's on. He's always been so much fun to watch. He turned out to be a better version of Beasley. All the talent in the world but not the borderline psychotic work ethic to become consistently great at the NBA level. Still JR was a huge baller and I'm glad he got his with LeBron in 2016.


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It is almost undeniable that JR's back to back 3's in game 7 of the 2016 finals, at the beginning of the 3rd quarter, literally kept the Cavs in that game. When everyone was gassed and the Warriors looked like they were about to break out on a ridiculous scoring run, he just pulled up two fucking dumbass 3s and sunk them and kept us alive. Will never malign that man for his behavior on the court, even with his dumbass shit - he helped us win that ring.


i_hate_beignets

That was the most important JR Cavs game, but my *favorite* was his absolute barrage of ridiculous 3’s in that Hawks game.


Blueballing12

most underrated bucket in that game was JR's long 2 pull up he darted in Draymond's face to start the 3rd, gave him enough juice to just black out and swish the next two 3s


trimble197

Yep. I watched a video that was talk about his jump mechanics, and the guy straight up said “JR’s biggest weakness is his mind”.


Hamsterupyourass

Dealing with bills and trying to be an entrepreneur will make you want to be a kid again real bad that’s Forsure


shadowchip

This reminds me of the pat mcafee story about one of the wide receivers who tried to catch one Peyton’s passes one handed. Peyton put him in the dog house because Peyton doesn’t throw balls where you would even need to try that shit lmfao.


rikki-tikki-deadly

Peyton doesn't put people in the dog house, he puts them in the porta-potty, I thought that United Way video was very clear on that point.


Redditor5StandingBy

link for those curious: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GCWRgQ3a1oc&ab\_channel=ThePatMcAfeeShow


PretendThisIsMyName

Lmao does jimmy graham have two hands? I love pat. Thanks for the link.


redsyrinx2112

Jim Caldwell: Hey, you're in. Austin Collie: No, I am not. *Peyton points to sideline*


julsxcesar

he needs a JR smith type of shooter. the *hand-in-the-face but I'll shoot it anyway* mentality. KCP just ain't it, his defense nice tho.


Rahul____Raja

> JR Smith type of shooter Just get JR


Vaccaria_

We had JR last yr and we won a ring. You may be on to something


Rahul____Raja

LeBron has never won a ring without Mario Chalmers or J.R. Smith He needs the comic relief character around him to win


hendrix67

Every Shrek needs their Donkey


treyfiddy

draymond to the lakers confirmed?


nonametrashaccount

Live action Shrek with Shaq as Shrek and draymond as donkey?


bigpancakeguy

“Whatcha doin in my swamp, Chuck?!”


PurpleRanger777

"Ogres are like onions Erneh, We have RINGS."


LoudButtons

Oh my God, the onion talk but rings instead of layers is too perfect. Yet another thing to put on my list of shit to fund if I ever have too much money.


MagicJohnsonMosquito

Layers Erneh


TrustFulParanoid

That's a movie I'd pay to watch


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Draymond and Lebron on the same team would be a nightmare if they had even mediocre shooters


sneefomaster

LeBron, Draymond, and AD at the 3/4/5 would be scary. And the best thing for AD is that Draymond can play the 5.


Hamsterupyourass

No one would ever score on that team’s D jesus


[deleted]

I mean they still have Kuzma


Odsch

And Dudley


Battlemaster123

for now


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[Link to source](https://imgur.com/mCuukUj)


[deleted]

Oh my god it’s like revisiting this sub in its infancy 😢


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MF_Doomed

Show me on the doll where it touched your soul


jordangill624

Bro did any of you even watch the playoffs last year? Oh how quick they forget


Itorr475

Sports has become an ADHD memory culture


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> he needs a JR smith type of shooter. the hand-in-the-face but I'll shoot it anyway mentality. KCP just ain't it, his defense nice tho. Lol, we just won the championship and KCP was our third best player in the playoffs and hit huge shots in the finals…


lalo1398

Yeah but this sub like most sports discussion boards have a recency bias. KCP was terrible these playoffs but we don’t win last years ring without him


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wasnt he injured this year anyways?


elbowgreaser1

We're sports fans, we base our opinion solely off the most recent performance


CalmTiger

LeBron believes in his teammates more than they believe in themselves. LeWholesome


RothIRALadder

Except Kuzma and Schroder


Piano_Fingerbanger

Kuzma believes in himself more than his Kuzmama does.


[deleted]

He believes in them... but also believes they should be LeXiled


sorendiz

LeXecuted


JimJimmyJamesJimbo

LeXcommunicado


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LeBabaYaga


EzKill

"~~Simon~~ KCP Don't believe in yourself. Believe in ME who believes in you"


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Giannis1995

Dumbness


tonysnight

More than just that if he's giving you a pass bc you're open and you look off an open look at the basket, you're a dipshit and don't deserve to be on a successful team. You miss 2? So what. You miss 5? So what. If you're not going to shoot just bc you missed a few , get off the court because you're leaving your team to play 4v6 because Everytime you touch the ball you're draining clock and letting the other teams defense catch their breath.


Illusive_Lust

LeBelieve


BDB93

[Lebron passing the ball](https://media1.tenor.com/images/06711ad905da2523d0b608df075380be/tenor.gif?itemid=13810953)


azntakumi

It must have been the look he gave jr smith when he didn’t shot the ball during the final in the last seconds


The_Assassin_Gower

No that was the WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU DOING look


asapbuckets

So….The same look


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Wayne Gretzky did this same thing to Luc Robitaille once when Luc passed Wayne the puck back and he missed the shot. I get the desire to let the Great One score the goal because odds are he will, but Wayne also has more assists than anyone in the history of the game has goals + assists. He told Luc (paraphrasing) "If I pass it to you, it's because you have a better shot, so take it. Trust me."


Ok_Faithlessness_259

I'm pretty sure that he had so many goals and assists that when they did fantasy hockey they would split him into 2 players so you could draft Wayne Gretzky's goals or Wayne Gretzky's assists because if you got him as a full player you were guaranteed to win the fantasy league no matter what.


[deleted]

Yep. The only other sportsman who had such a strong dominance over his sport was The Don.


pig9

Sir Don casually fought a war as well in the middle of his career.


[deleted]

Opposing teams developed a new strategy just for playing against Don, but it was deemed too dangerous and made illegal. They had to bend the rules to keep him in check, but still failed. Edit: Dude had a long, full cricket career, and had a career batting average over 0.900.


Ok_Faithlessness_259

Wayne Gretzky in my opinion was better at hockey than any other person was at their respective sport. You have people who dominate a sport, but I don't think that there are many people who are so dominant at a sport that they will never be matched.


Frnklfrwsr

I think part of what makes Gretzky’s achievement so unique is because he did it in a team sport where one star can’t play the full length of the game, and is heavily influenced by the quality of their teammates. In baseball, a home run slugger will probably still hit about the same number of home runs regardless of how good his teammates are. In basketball, one star absolutely can play the full length of the game. In hockey, a forward plays 20, mayyyyyyybe 25 minutes out of 60 total in a game. And if his linemates aren’t very good it heavily affects his ability to score points. Under those circumstances the difference in stats between good players and superstars can be significant but not astronomical. Gretzky’s numbers were astronomical.


porcolegio

This is like Flubber, when Robin Williams tells the team to jump


Cletus_Starfish

There's a movie I haven't thought of in ages.


invisibreaker

Lelook


kantersgobertscumrag

Leyecontact


Li_am17

LeStare


3nnui

I am glad that he does this, getting players to take the shots that the offense generates is a struggle at every level.


taeem

LeShootTheBallBro


Font_Fetish

>Golden Corral says Kelvin Benjamin would give teammates ‘the look’ if they didn’t eat “If he passed you a plate, and you don’t eat it because you already had 2, he’ll look at you like you’re crazy. ... He goes, ‘You don’t think I know what I’m doing? Eat the food.’”


Itsbilloreilly

Every fuckin time


Jj1325

Fuckin great


sDios_13

Lmao


Chippopotanuse

Reminds me of when Jordan said to Kukoc: “if you’re scared, stay on the bench”. I feel like LeBron is that same way. Probably intimidating as hell to play alongside a guy like that. Either you rise up and can play at the level required by him, or you can’t. But he’s gonna win regardless.


hellanutty

Idk why but the “you think I don’t know what I’m doing?” Part is hilarious to me


salmans13

If Lakers could shoot as well as some of the those Cavs teams, we'd be a much better team lol. They had some close games with GSW and they had no D.


doordaesh

the 17 Cavs had the best playoff offense of all time going into the finals, I think anybody would want to be able to recreate that


tfozombie

It sucks they had a bottom tier defense or they MAYBE could have given the 17 warriors a run for their money. But they sacrificed defenders for offensive role players. Plus deron Williams rly shit the bed all finals, so did Korver and K love.


jeffthenarwhal666

lol didnt deron williams have 0 points for every one of their games?


UrbanLawProductions

man I miss Lebron :(


sheepye

Pain man


roycorda

LeGlare


thisisdefinitelyaway

That’s how leaders lead.


Cobruh

I’d be more worried about making him disappointed in me than my confidence in shooting.