The winner of this one goes on to play the winner of the other finalist [leaving a name out in case you’re just joining us and haven’t caught Tuesday’s episode yet] in the finals.
The finals match-up goes live next Wednesday, July 1st.
Tag: Greg Navarro
Game of G.R.A.T.E. Semifinals — Antonio Durao v.s. Mark Suciu
Siri play “This Is What You Came For” 🎵
FWIW: Anyone up in arms about what “counts” and what doesn’t (mainly in reference to previous installments, but here as well) needs to understand the pick-up basketball concept of calling your own fouls, because that’s the policy we instituted for this series ;)
Game of G.R.A.T.E. — Kader Sylla v.s. Johnny Cumaoglu
The #form in this episode is absolutely incredible on both ends … and if you want to know why he stepped off that, none of us have any idea. You can’t hear the reaction as well in the video, but pretty much everyone there had the same one: “DUDE, WHAT?! WHY?!”
Game of G.R.A.T.E. — Frankie Spears v.s. Salomon Cardenas
Thank you to everyone for the kind feedback and words of support for this series (also shout out to the homie from Win Son the day after the boys won the title.) It means a lot that everyone is enjoying these because the first two the came out were the only two shut-out games that went down. [Spoiler? …maybe? But like, as someone pointed out with the last one, sometimes the runtimes themselves are spoilers.] All the rest are, to use a word used by one of the skaters in this episode, sword work.
Game of G.R.A.T.E. — Antonio Durao v.s. Dennis Busenitz
For the past, idk, ten months maybe — Antonio Durao has been referring to everybody as “O.G.” It didn’t matter what your age was, you were O.G. The dude pulling up to Tompkins? “O.G.” The cashier at the store? “O.G!” An actual O.G? “O.G!!!” O.G. Anunoby? OMG.
Things come together in cosmic ways, because the name that he matched up with from the mystic Quartersnacks Knicks hat was the O.G: Dennis Busenitz.