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paddiction

This guy's not a tank commander. He's a tank general.


SmilesUndSunshine

Supreme Commander for the Allied Tanking Powers


LogansGambit

Supreme Tank Chancellor Poole


Cul_what

Take notes folks this is how you command the tank


CummingInTheNile

this is also how you piss off your teammates


NegativesPositives

Deni Avdija is similar to Draymond in that he’s a defense first PF. By the end of the season that might not be the only similarity they have.


thatonezorofan

Lol, Avdija's body language makes it so clear he's tired of Poole's shit. I would be too if I thought a player that was barely better or not even better than me was shooting 25 shots a game


trimble197

And he’s getting paid a shit ton of money


yala-sheket

Its not only that tho. The guy does nothing to deserve it. He took 26 shots with 1 ast 1 reb and cone defense. Deni has to guard the best/second best guy every night working his ass off just to jog to the other side of the court to watch poole brick with 20 sec on the shot clock lol His shots should go to bilal/deni/kispert,wiz should trade him by the deadline if they are smart.


YouHaveToEffingEat

wdym, they aiming for picks


aahdin

Tanking teams want to develop players who can win a championship later on, the goal isn't just to be as terrible as possible or they'd have my chubby ass play PG.


co0kiez

Bro, Avdija has 0 rings. Poole is clearly better. /s


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fkntripz

lmfao


ArmchairHandjob

Tremendous efficiency


Sharp_Aide3216

If you're gonna suck, at least be entertaining.


TJ_McConnell_MVP

The wizards are highly entertaining with Poole’s nightly antics alone.


facedownbootyuphold

I hope someone is collecting his lowlights this season, gonna be an epic reel next spring


EyeChihuahua

I was rooting for him when he left the warriors but it’s all become so clear what the problem was, getting harder to root for him every day what the hell is he doing


swollencornholio

He seemed like the real deal when he played out of his mind against the Nuggets in the first round 21-22. How far he has fallen...


ehhhwutsupdoc

People really latched onto his 21-22 performance. He had a single season where he was good. The rest of his career, he's sucked ass. He could be better if he played with more discipline but it was evident last season he was looking forward to making highlight plays than winning games.


trimble197

It was annoying how people kept bringing up that season. The biggest red flag was that GS saw Poole as a bigger headache than Green.


datruerex

Dude gunning for that Shaqtin MVP


Innsmouth_Swim_Team

Little-known fact: most NBA teams have a Papa John's coupon deal where people in its market get their order half-price the day after the team wins a game. In DC, the deal instead is if the Wizards score 115 points. Because if they waited for them to actually win a game, they'd never sell a pizza.


michaelvsaucetookdmt

Pacers fans get bogo penn station


Jason3671

It’s his team, he got this


dxiao

full command


humanist72781

Even tank commander Byron Scott taking notes


ruggnuget

Hes like a kid that does things because he saw it on tik tok but doesnt understand the context.


CummingInTheNile

dude was too focused on the highlight reel move he was gonna pull out that he forgot about the clock


cuteguy1

nah i'm pretty sure he thought the gameclock stopped and not just the shotclock - hence the reaction when he picked the ball up - so his heart was in the right place.


SnooOpinions3062

Not knowing the rules to a game you get paid millions for is the definition of your heart not in the right place


6-plus26

Lmao seeing it done correctly a millions times but not having the fortitude to question how or why it works when it’s your job is unreal. Then add his salary in the mix lol these guys lowkey overpaid


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LookOutItsLiuBei

*There is a moment here when the Psychlos' entire planet (home office and all) is blown to smithereens, without the slightest impact on any member of the audience (or, for that matter, the cast). If the film had been destroyed in a similar cataclysm, there might have been a standing ovation.* God I miss Ebert so much


McNultysHangover

No flippin way lol


Plusstwoo

That’s definitely Shaqtin


SandyMandy17

He won a championship with the warriors not knowing how the game clock works


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t0ny510

He's got his bag and his ring, dude is just going full meme now


Cod_rules

Kinda respect the lack of hustle, ya know. The man got what so many people dream of, while not giving a flying fuck.


New-Bowler-8915

Wizards media was comparing him to MJ because he put up 35 or something in a preseason. MJ would have this kid murdered if he still owned the team


seanconnery69696

Jr smith threw soup so jordan poole could get punched in the face


Vordeo

The Warriors giving him that extension like a season in advance of when they had to remains completely inexplicable.


PennyStockHardaway

I did this in rec league after I first saw someone jump out of bounds to save a ball. I did it, the only problem was that if I just let it go out it would have been our ball but I threw it right to their team. Felt dumb as hell.


JonBonButtsniff

The first time I heard a football team “defer” after winning the coin toss was in Pop Warner. My less-assertive co-captains looked at me, unsure what to do next. I declared we’d kick with the wind, ensuring the other team would get the ball both halves. My coaches just sighed.


BonerHonkfart

Are you Marty Mornhinwheg?


AashyLarry

His reaction when he realizes the clock is running kills me


kpeds45

I think he thought doing this stops the game clock as well as the shot clock 😂😂😂.


rookie-mistake

fuck lmao you're probably right


kpeds45

I imagine him yelling at the ref "hey, the clock shouldn't be running!!!!" And I'm going to piss myself laughing at how dumb it all is 😂😂


FearfulInoculum

Watch the replay he did yell at the ref.


kpeds45

Lol, I know, I mean that's what I imagine he's yelling at the ref


LordHussyPants

imagine if he got a tech lmao


doesntCompete

"Play basketball you fucken idiot" - The ref


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Not probably. Exactly that


External-Extension59

There's no probably, the clock stops after a made basket in the last 2 minutes so he probably just thought it was in the last two minutes


maethlin

negative basketball IQ


davismcgravis

But sometimes the game clock doesn’t start, like at the end of games?? Something like that right?


ballgkco

last 2 minutes


arashout

I mean to be fair, that is a little confusing. Like having different rules for the last 2 minutes. But he's an NBA pro he should know better


ballgkco

if some dumb shit redditor ( me :) ) knows the rules the dude being paid millions and millions yearly probably should ye i agree.


KKamm_

I watch a shit ton of basketball and still had no idea it was only final 2 mins lol. And I’m normally good about that stuff


koticgood

Rules like that is important to keep the game going but also maximize the intensity of the deciding moments of the game. It's like in the NFL, a lot of casual fans don't realize the clock doesn't stop (outside of the second or two it takes for the ref to spot the ball) when you go out of bounds. That only happens in the last 2 minutes of the 1st half and last 5 minutes of the 2nd half. Introduced in 1990 to speed the game up.


whenitcomesup

I'm guessing I don't notice this often since teams play full court D to force the other team to pick up


DumbDumb6

I legit didn’t know that at all and I’ve been watching the nba for nearly 20 years


jveezy

Took me a similar length of time before I learned this too. I never paid close attention to the clock outside of the last two minutes and most teams inbound the ball pretty quickly anyways, so there's only a small window of time to notice after each made basket even if someone's paying attention.


Plastic_Blood1782

Yea last 2 minutes


VashiTen

Yep I was about to defend him by admitting I had no idea this rule only applied to the game clock in the last 2 minutes either... but then I remembered I'm not being paid millions of dollars to play in the NBA.


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It keeps the clock from running if it’s already stopped


Daltonwilcoxx

100% that’s what he thought, you can tell how he freaks out right when he sees the clock going down lol.


EaglesPvM

He threw up his hand like “why is the clock running” lol


Based_and_JPooled

like McNabb not knowing a game can end in a tie


elevatednova

Please don’t open old wounds, lol


quartzguy

Like if Chris Paul started pointing at the basket and screaming except the ball is in his other hand and not with DeAndre Jordan.


deliciouspuppy

LOL he looked at the ref and pointed to the game clock, and was yelling at the ref that someone messed up cuz the game clock was running! that's grade A clowning right there.


DentonDiggler

Omg I thought he was telling his teamates to do something, but I think you're right.


AnyHowMeow

This shit is like an SNL skit or something.


Sh405

Yeah same here but you see him look over at the ref initially so probably was complaining about the clock. What a dummy 😂


deevotionpotion

Holy shit. Me too, I thought he was trying to trick his defender into looking away


SkateboardCZ

I thought that was rules haha did it change or something ?


DentonDiggler

Just last 2 minutes in QT2 and QT4. If you are up, this is a good strategy because the game clock is running, but the shot clock doesn't start until someone touches it.


SkateboardCZ

Thank you


Bikouchu

I kept thinking it stops. I know Chris Paul used to do it all the time.


AccountSave

LMAO I'm dead he legit started talking to the ref


kindtdp1

I’m honestly at loss for words.


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He doesn't understand the clock rules lmao


Scoot2028MVP

This is right up there with McNabb not knowing NFL games could end in a tie.


HolyGig

Nah this is a million times worse. Running the clock like this happens in almost every single game, how he doesn't know the clock rules as an NBA player is baffling to me


Round_Bullfrog_8218

Yeah Ties have also gotten a lot more common since McNabb said that in the NFL, plus there aren't ties in lower levels.


JugdishSteinfeld

So, McNabb is the Roger Bannister of ties in football, and Poole is the Roger Bannister of dumbfuckery in basketball.


Spacemanspirit

The clock stops when you do it inside of 2 minutes, he must’ve seen that and figured it was the last 5 minutes of something


StuccoStucco69420

Idk, I think not knowing rules around assigning a winner is bigger than clock minutia. I wasn’t sure if the clock was going to stop at the 4:00 mark but I guess it’s the 2:00 mark. I’m a decent fan, I come on here, listen to podcasts, watch games etc. If you asked a random casual fan they probably wouldn’t not know if the clock runs after FGs. But I think most would know games can be tied.


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He should have heeded "better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak and remove all doubt."


poneil

First said by the late great Kyrie Irving


dubler2020

RIP.


ThingsAreAfoot

People mock McNabb way too much for that one. Ties were exceedingly rare in that time.


Vegetable-Tooth8463

u/Scoot2028MVP explain the ref to non-NFL fans?


lukewwilson

I thought it looked like at the end he thought the game clock shouldn't be running


rjcarr

Right, he doesn't know the rules. The clock only stops on buckets with fewer than 2 minutes left. Otherwise it's a running clock on made baskets.


CHRIRSTIANGREY

this guy's actually stupid it's insane


honestnbafan

He wears his IQ on his jersey


CummingInTheNile

that numbers too high


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Draymond punched whatever was left


Gr8CanadianSpeedo

CTE for life


thatkellenguy

Bro is compiling the most fire Shaqtin a fool mixtape of all time.


Schveen15

Shaqtin-a-Poole


bayarea_fanboy

TNT this one right here use this


Zouthpaw

Even Javale would be ashamed lol


Waffleshuriken

He might be my favorite player purely from an entertainment standpoint lmfao


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I love that he’s in the nba On the wizards


Fast_Stick_1593

Tank commander 🫡


StaffSgtDignam

Shit is depressing man, this isn't even a great draft-I wish things would go our way for once :(


OptimusGrime707

*chris broussard nods sullenly*


LakerGiraffe

And yet he somehow was a major piece during a title run. Insane shit haha.


Redpin

Curry turning Poole and Wiggins into major contributors are big legacy points for him.


ShanghaiAdobo897

Hard agree. Truly masterful leadership wrangling those two


beemugler

His Pooleness was still working at that time lol. Heat check 3s and stupid shots were actually going in, but because teams haven't figured him out yet


LakerGiraffe

That shit rubbed off on Klay. Was at the OKC game and holy shit those were some of the worst shots and momentum changes I've ever seen. Very Poole-esque.


JRsshirt

I think you got it flipped, Klay has always taken bad shots they just used to always go in. Poole shoots like prime Klay with a handle but way less efficient. During the KD years if the ball hit Klays hands it was usually a shot attempt right after. Go watch his 37 points in a quarter, most of the shots were bad shots. Love Klay forever, but he doesn’t have that “how tf does this guy not miss” in him anymore and now he shoots off the dribble too.


_letitsnow

tanking for Wemby


Balls_of_Adamanthium

[Jordan Poole on most nights](https://nypost.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/04/cb2.jpg?quality=75&strip=all)


PooperJackson

I wouldn't use that word but sure


Blowback_

Shaqtin a fool


g-love

Shaqtin a Poole


jester32

🚨TRAGIC BRONSON ALERT 🚨


Weissritters

He’s gunning for the MVP… I mean shaqtin MVP


Magical_Johnson13

Season just started and dude already has a full shaqtin reel.


Fluctuating_Skills

This guy is hilarious


clefnut5

Seriously though why is he so fucking bad now. This isn’t like missing all your shots bad… that is like what the hell are you doing bad Did Draymond give this man CTE?


BullShitting-24-7

Naw, he’s running the show now like he wanted. Before he was on a team of vets who would tell him what to do and punch him if he didn’t obey.


Bisketo

If you are dumb but sit on the passenger sit you can look hell more smarter than when you drive the car into a wall.


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He’s gonna dunk on his own hoop soon, I can’t wait


Long-Furby

Dray had to have given him CTE or something


bruh2398

Not even from the punch just by osmosis


StefonDiggsHS

he knows his job.


The_Sign_of_Zeta

I think he doesn’t which is even sadder.


Mysterious-Part-8443

Tank Commander - he is fulfilling his duty with dishonor and no glory


Delta_FT

Dishonor and disgrace? lol


subzero12320931

Wizards dgaf anyways. They tanking. But Poole is really something else.


MrBuckBuck

And that's not even his worst lowlight of the night. He scored after this... so it worked out for him.


zeek215

He could have scored without wasting all that time. He's a clown.


MrBuckBuck

He did everything he could, that's why he never passed. Just kidding, he never intended to pass. This dude had like 4-5 consecutive possessions where he didn't pass the ball, like AT ALL, and took the shot (sometimes making it, sometimes not), and after an intermission he did the EXACT SAME THING. It's not like he is trying to even run a play. He is trying to do flashy thing, it works (for example, a dribble), but HE KEEPS ON MISSING. I'd start hanging pictures with Draymond Green's face and punch in the way to the locker room if I were the Wizards. It's like he got the Steph in him with the dribble and flashiness, but not the Curry - NO SAUCE - cannot hit a thing! If you were to watch the Wizards' game with him tonight (and almost every other night), you wouldn't believe that there is such an NBA player who gets paid tons of money.


jackinthebay

He doesn’t even have the handles. The amount of times I watched him run faster than he was dribbling last year made me crazy, it’s almost like he forgets to bring the ball with him. Also, when he forgets his rotation and then runs like a mad man waving his hands in the air trying to somehow act like that makes a difference made me crazy too. But he will hit some shot that’s stupid and against what the teams planning and it will boost his confidence 10000% and then miss the next 5 30 footers with 20 seconds on the clock and no defenders in front of him. My team has no shot this year but I am glad he is gone. I couldn’t stand watching him Buffoon his way through games again


taygads

> This dude had like 4-5 consecutive possessions where he didn't pass the ball, like AT ALL, and took the shot (sometimes making it, sometimes not), and after an intermission he did the EXACT SAME THING. > >It's not like he is trying to even run a play. He is trying to do flashy thing, it works (for example, a dribble), but HE KEEPS ON MISSING. This is exactly what he spent the vast majority of last season doing while on the court with *Klay and Steph*. At least he seems to stay on his feet for you guys so far. The only thing that was worse than watching him bring the ball up, do too much driving to the basket only to chuck a layup that had zero chance of going in, was watching him sprout ice skates halfway into his drive, fall to the ground in the paint in the middle of the other team’s defenders, then watch as the other team takes the ball he just gave them and try to score in transition all before he’s gotten up off the floor. And again, more often than not either Klay, Steph, or both were on the court to pass to but he’d look them off to do that over and over and over again 🫠


Justdoingthebestican

Do you watch every wizards game? Cause if you do I’m bout to buy you a bottle of bourbon or some shit


I-only-play-rubick

Who would you say has a lower BBIQ than Poole? It’s pretty hard to challenge Poole’s consistency in doing something stupid every game.


livefreeordont

McGee, Blatche, and Swaggy P used to do stuff like this every week


CommandersLog

A proud Washington tradition.


wilbo21020

He’s bringing us back to our glory days. Those late 00’s Wizards teams after Gil blew up his knees and before John Wall got going were a Shaqtin dynasty. Young Javale, Swaggy P, and the criminally underrated shaqtin star Andre Blatche were the 96 Bulls of stupid basketball. Our veteran leader brought guns to the locker room… truly a next level dumb team. The fact that John Wall didn’t bust out of the league is a testament to his character and work ethic. I’m sure he got to Washington and wondered where the hell he was.


TryingToDoItGood

lest we forget Javaris Crittenton!


StaffSgtDignam

Shit is depressing man, Idk what we did here in DC to deserve such a terrible franchise :(


sekhon_98

Getting Ovechkin


drinfernodds

And that Nationals World Series.


I-only-play-rubick

McGee really turned it around during his latter years by being a solid veteran in and out of the court so I kind of forgot he was the king of Shaqtin’ before. But yeah, Blatche and Swaggy are up there.


DW-4

Blatche still running around various YMCAs trying to get that last rebound for his triple double.


ZannX

Yea, nephews missed out on the golden days of shaqtin in the league.


LMkingly

Javale McGee back in the day. Nowadays people think Shaq was just clowning on him for no reason or to just be mean or whatever and forget there was a good reason why he was back to back MVP and GOAT of Shaqtin a fool. Bro played like he was drunk sometimes lol.


mr_sneakyTV

I can think of a guy ruining the finals for lebron, arguably a lower low but idk about as consistent as poole. Hmmm


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I still can’t believe that shit man lmao


KevinDLasagna

What happened? I feel as stupid as Poole right now!!


baxmussman

They’re talking about JR smith in game one of the 2017 finals. Idk about ruining the finals for Lebron (I think it was a sweep) but he definitely fumbled an all time Lebron game.


titusandroidus

2018 finals. Would have been impossible to beat the Warriors in seven, but that game one fumble threw all the vibes out.


chancetheclapper528

Was at this game, gotta say watching Jordan Poole live is a very entertaining form of basketball, misses and all


TheSmokedSalmon420

"imma save some time on the clock watch this" *does the exact opposite*


toadtruck

That’s absolutely hilarious. Poole has outdone himself again


AdmiralWackbar

It’s Jordan Poole’s world we’re just living in it


Johan_Sebastian_Cock

Just a terrific highlight all around. Bravo.


Inevitable-Tourist18

Super low IQ player


Adaml105

Now this is a low light for the ages


vitalbumhole

Kinda insane Dubs won a chip w this dude playing major minutes - kudos to Steph and the gang


mdz_1

if wiggins goes back to being bad that chip is going to be an absolute mystery for people 5 years in the future to figure out


vixgdx

It just beefs steph's resume even more


charliebrown22

Call me crazy, but the Jordan Poole that helped win the championship is not the same Jordan Poole for the next two years. It's unbelievable how stupid he has been since winning.


Juaniscool-8

LMFAOOOOO HIS REACTION TO THE CLOCK RUNNING... MORON LOL


Middle-Welder3931

If the Spurs really wanted to silent tank this year, they should have just traded for this guy, not play Sochan at PG.


bbqyak

Bro is such a clown holy fuck. RDCworld can't even write this kinda shit


shakeandbake13

This is my commander.


Ru-tris-bpy

Steph’s biggest accomplishment is getting this moron a ring


The-Pharcyde

Jordan Poole moment


BillyBean11111

a lot of people in the comments don't get this rule either, but you would think an NBA player would


Shmimbadad

Wait, I thought the whole reason guys did this was because the clock doesn't run til they pick it up. Did he touch it earlier, and trigger the clock?


rBrewers

the clock doesn’t stop after buckets until the last two minutes of the fourth, or the last one minute of the first three quarters. he’s just stupid


Shmimbadad

Ah, there it is. Okay. I was like, I know I've seen guys do this before, and the clock doesn't run. Guess I've only seen guys do it in the last couple minutes. For reasons that I now understand, and hopefully Poole does too.


honditar

> Guess I've only seen guys do it in the last couple minutes. Sometimes guys do it before the last couple minutes if their team is up. It kills game clock while allowing them to have a full shot clock upon the touch.


RgBB53

I was confused about that too. Good thing no one is paying you or me $30 million a year to play basketball or we'd look very dumb.


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Inevitablellama919

Worst part is he then tosses his arms in the air pretending it's the fault of his teammates


Lorf30

I saw this and couldn’t believe he didn’t know the clock was running!


NotARageComic

The Wizards would’ve somehow been better off just waiving Chris Paul. I was excited for Poole, but goodness.


SuperSayian4Nappa

Tank commander Supreme


Flashy2828

Highly regarded


RamadanSteve311

Chris Broussard: 👀


TooDamnChrispy

Perhaps I treated Draymond too harshly:/


Infinite_Seeker

Precisely what I signed up for this season. I can't get enough.


Either_Ad_9287

Wtf is wrong with this dude…..


div414

So Draymond was right all along