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Mitch Cumsteen

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  1. Well, that’s certainly one take on Kawhi’s history.
  2. He’s been incredible. Maybe he’s grown up? Maybe he realized how much money he cost himself? Maybe he’s still a time bomb ticking? Things were great in Boston and Cleveland until they weren’t. And his durability is always a question but holy hell he plays a beautiful game. I saw game 6 and it was fun. Mitchell was incredible. Orlando has a very nice young core. Point of clarification: he signed up for the Kawhi experience. It’s completely his fault. He had other options.
  3. I loved Fujiya, especially the original location on Fred but also when they moved to Wurzbach. Other than Nikkis, that was the only place to get sushi in SA back in the day.
  4. Not sure how you fire the guy who just coached you to the In-Season Title.
  5. Anybody up for some chicken wings and jenga?
  6. That Market Square event has notoriously been the one of the sketchiest fiesta events for several years now. This isn't close to being the first incident. Like the rest of you, I avoid most events with big crowds anyway, but I remember going to that thing several years ago to see a friend's band and feeling unsafe. Bad vibes, all the way around.
  7. I would be surprised to see PG leave. He spent half his career trying to get home to LA. Ballmer will give him more money than anyone else. The Clippers really aren't in that bad of shape, cap-wise. Kawhi's deal is dumb, but they don't have much committed beyond that. PG will change that, though. They are going to have to make a decision on Harden who is unrestricted this off season. Westbrook has a NBA minimum player option that I can't imagine he opts into. I wonder what kind of interest either of them gets on the open market.
  8. If he's Mackey 2.0, then he will absolutely kill it in San Antonio with the overweight cholas.
  9. I don't agree with his assessment that he's not a playmaker or passer. He did plenty of that at Kentucky and that's not really a prerequisite to play "point guard" in the NBA today and particularly in the Spurs system. And he's plenty quick. The question about him is strictly on defense. Can he hold up? Is he going to get hunted mercilessly? All of this is bullshit speculation until the lottery order shakes out anyway, but Dillingham makes a lot of sense. Most of the other lottery teams don't need point guards so there's a decent chance he's available no matter where the Spurs pick.
  10. The NBA ref conspiracy theory trope is so lame and tired. This just in: they miss calls. They are human. It happens. Anything beyond that is black helicopter shit. Except for Tony Brothers. He's just fucking incompetent.
  11. Anybody playing Oklahoma or A&M. Or when they play each other, the second favorite team would be a meteor.
  12. Nobody is discounting the Celtics place in NBA history. Let's face it, they are arguably the third greatest franchise behind the Spurs and Lakers. But since the Heat entered the league in 1988, they have been to 7 finals and won 3 titles. Over that same period, the Celtics have been to 3 finals and won 1 title. You want to throw out the Lebron years, then you should probably throw out the KG/Pierce/Allen years that started all of that super team bullshit in the first place. In that case, it's 3 finals and 1 title for the Heat and 1 finals and 0 championships for the Celtics. Other than their first few expansion years, the Heat have been a better overall franchise than the Celtics by just about any metric and especially since Pat Riley got there. The series haven't been necessarily close, but there have been some fantastic games. Both the NY/Philly and LA/Denver series have been incredible to watch, even though they both look like blowouts on paper. I would much rather have those series than something like Cleveland/Orlando that is tied at 2-2 without much compelling basketball. Really looking forward to this series. Great matchups all over the court. Denver is beat up a bit. Minnesota looked great but how much of that was Phoenix stinking up the joint? Phoenix was so thin to begin with and once Grayson Allen went out they were really screwed. In addition to his shooting, he was probably Phoenix's best hope at defending Edwards. Denver will have some more options to throw at him on the perimeter.
  13. The only con to it conveying this season is that the draft class blows. Everything else points to it being a good thing. Also, they have two more years after this one for it to convey, not one. It's definitely a possibility that it doesn't ever convey but Toronto has a young star in Barnes, some decent vets, a clean cap, and they play in the shitty east. I can't imagine a three year tank job with that group and their front office. For roster building and balance purposes, the Spurs already have two guaranteed FRP next year, and could have two more (Chicago and Charlotte) plus the Toronto pick. Doubtful they all hit, but adding five rookies to the youngest roster in the league seems a bit insane. Even adding two this year and two next year seems like a lot. Gonna be some trading going on, for sure.
  14. No flex zone is arguably worse - less cringy but much more aggressively irritating. Both of them send me scrambling for the mute button, almost reflexively at this point. Fuck Wingstop, fuck jenga, and fuck whatever shitty product those assholes from Oklahoma are pimping. The more I think about it, this offseason could be bananas. The Lakers, Warriors, Suns, and Clippers all have aging stars, are in varying degrees of cap hell, aren't legit contenders, and are going to have to make some difficult decisions. You could throw the Bucks in there, too. I can't imagine all of them running it back and paying huge tax bills just to fight for the play in or an early exit.
  15. Frank Vogel is so fired. And this killed me:
  16. Yeah I figured it out right around halftime that people aren’t restricted to only watching sports on broadcast television. Early adopter and shit. I don’t even have the heart to say fuck Kawhi any more. He’s already been fucked enough by his broken down body. Get well soon. You’re never winning shit.
  17. Fucking ABC affiliate in San Antonio has preempted Lakers / Nuggets for the got dam fiesta night parade.
  18. Third highest payroll in the league, completely mortgaged future, and going to win the same number of playoff games as the Pistons while being only moderately more competitive. I’d say that’s a helluva first year as an owner.
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