For those who aren’t familiar, british soccer commentator Andy Gray said this of Messi back in 2010/11, questioning whether Messi could dominate in tough conditions against a physical premier league club. It’s now a popular joke within the soccer and internet community.

For the NBA, is it “Can he do it after a night out in Miami?” “Can he do it on the second night of a back to back in Denver?” “Can he do it after the Lakers sent missed foul call video evidence to the league?” Something else?

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    10 months ago

    Can he do it against Danilo Gallinari when death is on the line?

    Can he do it when the lemon pepper ran hot last night?

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    10 months ago

    Can he do it on the Las Vegas strip (in the In-Season Tournament title game)???

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    10 months ago

    This comes up more when ranking all time NBA greats — could he do it back when the game was more physical and soft players got trounced? People even ask this about LeBron James, but more often they ask it about Steph Curry.

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    10 months ago

    Can he do it after a night at Shotgun Willie’s

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    10 months ago

    To actually answer your question there’s two ways of going about it:

    1. Part of the Stoke quote is because they were a physical team more than a footballing team at times. I’m not sure you really have that in the nba but the bad boy pistons and the 2000’s title winning pistons side were quite physical teams. So maybe it’s “can he do it in the second night of a back to back in the palace?”

    2. You focus on the rainy night aspect of Stoke being grim and cold. Now the obvious answer would be Toronto as it’s the most north, the coldest and no one wants to move there it seems. But I’d pitch instead Denver because there’s always this altitude talk of how difficult it is to play away there when you don’t have time to climatise. So maybe “can he do it at 5000ft in Denver?”

    That’s my best attempt

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    10 months ago

    Another one I’d throw in: “Can he do it despite being drafted by Charlotte?”

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    10 months ago

    Can he do it after tons of rumors linking him in trade talks?

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    10 months ago

    Can he do it during a June heat wave in Boston when the AC isn’t working?

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    10 months ago

    Huh, I appreciate you sourcing the quote. I’d thought it was much older tbh

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    10 months ago

    How about Stephen A saying something like “I can’t see Boston losing a game 6 in the ECF at home” back in 2012.

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    10 months ago

    “Can he do it with nothing but silence in Walt Disney World?”

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    10 months ago

    Can he do it with a dick in him