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UncleSonny

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  1. This feels like a separate conversation, but why do I care that the grandchildren and great grandchildren of a wealthy individual may only have 18 million to divide between them as opposed to 50 million? I'm especially interested in the bolded part that it's horribly unfair to the folks affected by it. The person who earned that fortune is not affected, so you are referring to the heirs who receive a windfall purely because they were related to the right person and managed to not be removed from the will before they died?
  2. I guess the calendar flipping to June still can't really save the thread from turning to complete shit on occasion. Anyway...apologies for the recruiting related post but Nahlin says this guy is expected to visit: https://247sports.com/player/lander-barton-46097947/
  3. but who owns the yacht that is needed to support Bezos' yacht? https://www.cnn.com/2021/05/10/business/jeff-bezos-yacht/index.html
  4. The salary thing is one reason (among others) that an average citizen not paying unrealized gains on their house in Austin is a pretty bad analogy. Hornbri made a good investment, is seeing the value of his house grow every year and that is contributing to his "wealth growth" but nobody here is advocating that he should be paying taxes on those gains before they are realized. Unless he is a Surly .000001% playing coy, I'm going to guess that wealth growth is not approaching 11 figures in five years. It's likely a couple hundred thousand dollars at best. I'm also going to guess he's not in a position to bring down his annual taxable income by taking a nominal salary and sheltering the majority of his income through a myriad of perfectly legal avenues. It's just not even close to the same. I would bet good money that hornbri's effective income tax rate is substantially higher than any billionaire's despite him being protected from paying taxes on his unrealized gains of his house in Austin. I don't have the answer but I'm always shocked that so many average Americans are so blasé about the richest among us paying substantially lower tax rates than us (whether you are using true tax rates or effective income rates).
  5. Ah, I forgot about that but not exactly. Justified had to call her "Karen Goodall" to avoid copywrite infringement because they didn't own the rights to the character. They never called her Sisco at all even though it was pretty obvious who she was supposed to be, especially with the casting. I'm kind of surprised they got away with that. Anyway, according to Wiki Miramax owned the Nicolette character and Tarantino convinced them to let Universal briefly use it without a fee.
  6. Yeah I know that. It's pretty uncommon for the same actor to play the same character in two different movies released by two different studios though. I'm not sure if I can think of another example.
  7. I'm assuming Jimbo's FSU tenure would firmly qualify as route #1?
  8. So stupid. Not to mention they mostly ran back the same team as last year...who got the same experience of losing to the Clippers in the first round of the playoffs.
  9. The trailer for the new Soderbergh move (which looks great) got me thinking about him so I watched Out of Sight last night. First time in probably 15 years. Great movie. Clooney is right in his wheelhouse and JLo is blazing hot. Not really profound but it bounces along and it's a fun watch like most of his movies. Great score too. I forgot that Michael Keaton has a quick scene as the same FBI agent he plays in Jackie Brown, so it makes those movies part of an Elmore Leonard film universe I guess.
  10. Nope. Watch the KOC video, he’s not been criminally misused. Carlisle used him the only way he provides any value right now, as a floor spacer on offense and a tall person on defense. They traded for him and extended him with the reasonable hope that he would be all the things you are saying he is but it didn’t work out. But that’s on him (and Donnie) not Rick. Carlisle is just doing his best to make chicken salad out of his chicken shit play.
  11. This Wang Zhizi erasure will not stand. Yeah, pretty fucking bleak. Even using your really low “usable” standard there just isn’t much there. At least he traded Dennis Smith early enough that he still had some trade value and not after it was clear that Donnie picked another borderline NBA player.
  12. It's my understanding that this kind of thing is fine when you are committed to Jimbo provided he's notified (and allowed to watch).
  13. Lol, nailed it. Assuming by “capable” you meant, “worst in the league at it”. KP is not capable of getting his own shot and any possession that Rick gives him the ball and clears our space for him is a wasted one.
  14. I appreciate you listing all of the things you would have done differently but I disagree with almost all of them. Any combination of most of them would have resulted in a shorter than 7 game series. 1) Sort of agree on Maxi. When he's not hitting shots early he just doesn't seem to have it and doesn't provide enough value outside of that. Although I'm not sure how feasible giving Powell big minutes was, he has not been good since coming back from the injury. Maybe worth a shot. 2) Love Brunson, but the Clips ate his lunch this series. He had one of the worst NET ratings on the team. 3) See 1, Powell hasn't been that guy since before his injury 4) What a weird conclusion. We were making a point of not crashing the offensive glass and getting back on defense and LA wasn't scoring much in transition. So clearly we could have just starting crashing the offensive glass, not worried about getting back on defense and the Clippers would still not be a threat in transition? 5) You want KP to be that guy, but he's not that guy. 6) I don't see how we could ask Luka to have the usage rate on offense he had and also carry that kind of role on defense. Not to mention he wasn't even 100% the second half of the series. 7) Boban got plenty of time
  15. If it's so easy to refute, by all means refute it. All you are doing is stating conclusions. By the way, I never said the words "jump shooting team". That is meaningless. What I can show you is that you are being reductive and you're wrong. The Clippers shot a higher percentage of their FG attempts from three during the series than the Mavericks did. Empirically. During the playoffs, where according to you should be impossible because of how different things are they were more reliant on jump shots.
  16. No. I'm not saying Malone was inefficient, I'm saying long twos are inefficient relative to three point shots. Because 2 points is fewer points than 3 you see. Not to mention spacing. https://www.statmuse.com/nba/ask/karl-malone-shot-chart There is not an NBA star with a shot chart that looks like this anymore, because we have a ton of data saying that isn't the best way to score points. If Malone was in the NBA today, when he wasn't in a pick and roll his ass would be parked in the corner behind the arc. And he had better learn to hit that shot pretty frequently. I'm not really sure what you are arguing I guess. Spacing the floor for Luka and letting him finish at the basket or find an open guy for three was a devastatingly effective offense last year. Literally one of the best of all time. We swapped Curry for Richardson and it took a step back this year but it was still good. With the pieces we had this year what could Rick have done differently to have made us a better offensive team/closer to championship level in your estimation?
  17. You are an ocean of terrible takes but I couldn't let this go. You seem to be completely clueless about the modern game. You are reminiscing about inefficient Karl Malone mid-range jumpers and feeding KP the ball 20 times a game with his back to the basket while saying teams don't win games off of shooting? https://www.nba.com/stats/teams/shots-general/?sort=FG3A_FREQUENCY&dir=1&Season=2020-21&SeasonType=Playoffs Six of the last seven champs were in the top 10 teams in the league in frequency of threes, and the 7th was 11. 2020 Lakers 11th 2019 Raptors 5th 2018 Warriors 6th 2017 Warriors 5th 2016 Cavs 3rd 2015 Warriors 1st 2014 Spurs 10th This season 7 of the top 11 of those teams are still playing. I'm going to venture a guess that as a football fan you are a "you have to establish the run in order to pass" believer.
  18. Respect to Bear's business acumen. You know what is better than one bag? All the bags.
  19. Just adorable. I'm sure most of his subs will be able to pick up on the subtext and won't get too far over their skis here. No doubt, we got a 10/10! The difference is everyone here understands he'll visit Notre Dame next, also be blown away on that visit and likely commit there shortly after.
  20. Maybe they really did blow him away but even from their mods' glowing reports I'm not seeing much by way of prediction that they will actually win out. Feels more like they are setting up their story. "The fightin ags did all they could and staged a furious comeback to get back into the mix but due to factors mostly outside of their control they weren't able to beat out the big12 squad." Made up a ton of ground isn't the same thing as took the lead. We're at worst a toss up with our visit still to go. 'If even, we're leaving' corollary applies.
  21. Hook’em Keilan! Formations with Robinson and Robinson and the field at the same time is going to be a problem for DCs. Funny that he was #2 at Bama, I guess when you’ve had the rbs that Alabama had recently even if you are Derrick Henry you don’t get your number retired. I’m gonna guess he goes with “0” in Burnt Orange.
  22. The fuck is up with the high school girl graduation pose on the bottom right?
  23. Awesome news. What is his eligibility, 4 to play 3?
  24. Bumping this thread because I just saw this Patton tweet and it reminded me of my post and what I was trying to get at:
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