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HookEm

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  1. Yes the Big 3 are a year older, but people don’t talk enough about how good Jordan Poole is. That guy is a straight baller with championship swagger. Wiggins was also great. He is much better than Harrison Barnes ever was: scoring, defending and especially rebounding. Looney is also better than Andrew Bogut, especially on the defensive end. The Big 3 may have lost a step, but the team is deeper and more talented than the early GSW teams in my opinion. And they have elite young talent that isn’t even really seeing the floor yet.
  2. Curry was awesome, but I don’t think they win without Wiggins. He had so many key defensive stops and rebounds. Hit a few big shots too. Also did it all with a little humility. Glad to see it.
  3. Clown question bro.
  4. Any idiot security guard who thinks he looks like Klay should also be banned for life.
  5. I’m not saying he is going to be Embiid. But nobody expected much from Wiggins either and look at him now. Golden State has shown they have an eye for talent and know how to develop their players. Almost every player they have drafted in the last 10 years has outplayed their draft position. Wiseman just turned 21. Embiid didn’t even step on an NBA court until he was 22. I think I will withhold judgement for 3-4 years and see how things play out.
  6. It is crazy to me that they still have Kuminga and Moody just sitting there soaking it up and getting better. And then you have a #2 pick in Wiseman who could turn out to be a future nothing... or Hassaan Whiteside... or even Joel Embiid. They can develop those guys for YEARS before they are needed. Who knows if they will ever be good enough to carry a title team, but they are assets for sure. They were very wise not to unload them (and Poole / Wiggins) to try to chase a title with Curry's expiring window. It is like they got to rebuild while keeping all their main title pieces. It is amazing.
  7. I LOVE to travel. Or rather I USED to love to travel.
  8. As a defender, Gobert and Draymond are on a similar level. But somehow people forget that Draymond is averaging 7 assists per game - close to his career high. People will argue that Draymond's assists are a result of playing with Steph, Klay, etc. Blah blah blah. Complete BS. If that were the case, you would see a spike in assists when other players are in the Golden State system. Andrew Wiggins is averaging almost exactly the same assists in GS as he did in Minnesota. D'Angelo Russel averaged more assists in Brooklyn and Minnesota than he did in GS. Durant is averaging more assists in Brooklyn than in GS. Odds are that if Draymond went somewhere else, he would still average 7-8 assists per game. Draymond has a tremendous talent for getting people involved on the offensive end. He manages the whole flow of the offense from his point forward position. He has an infectious way of eliminating hero ball. The ball hits him in the high post and it is out of his hands in a millisecond finding cutters or open players on the perimeter. And then on the defensive end, he is directing other players and challenging them when they F up. It doesn't matter if the other player is Curry or Durant. Draymond will challenge them. If you put him on say Portland a few years ago, they would have been soooo much better. If I were a team like New Orleans, I would do whatever I could to sign Draymond. Dude makes plays that result in wins. Tonight, watch how many times Draymond sets a pick or makes a skip pass that results in a mismatch. He makes a huge impact outside the stat sheet.
  9. I've mainly gave her credit for the savage jeans jacket skin roast. Wife and I looked at each other like, damn... to be 16 again.
  10. Went to the movie with my teenage kids. They thought JC's character was "gross". My daughter: "Eeew. Her skin looks like a jeans jacket." They must think I'm hideous.
  11. Draymond is key to keeping the ball moving, setting screens, tipping offensive rebounds, etc. Swap him with a black hole of a big like Myles Turner and the Warriors are much worse off.
  12. Don't forget about Kuminga, who is still just 19. The Warriors have a great young core that they can take their time developing: Kuminga - 19 Moody - 19 Wiseman - 21 Poole - 22
  13. Give me those odds and I will take GSW all day every day. I would take them at EVEN odds.
  14. I think Beard had the players putting in effort on defense to a higher degree than at any time in their careers. My assumption is that this is the reason for the worse shooting. I chalk it up to conditioning as much as anything. Hopefully with another year in the system and a full offseason, we will see the percentages increase.
  15. Congrats to Ramey. Again, once a player GRADUATES, I have no problem with them going anywhere they want if they have eligibility. Just like grad school. I will root for them with zero ill will.
  16. Just went on a golf trip for a week to Ireland with friends. Amazing trip. I will say that the Dublin airport is an absolute shit shoe. Took us 2 HOURS to get our luggage on arrival. Then when we were leaving, they said "get to the airport 4 hours early". Seemed absurd to me, but whatever. It ended up taking every bit of the 4 hours. I would estimate that the line to get through security was over a mile long. No exaggeration. It was the longest I have ever seen by a considerable stretch - and I travel all the time. We ended up playing Old Head, Ballybunion, Tralee, Dooks, Heritage and Castlegregory - and drank in more pubs than I can remember. Probably enjoyed Dingle the most of all the small towns. Just one great pub after another. Stayed at a decent hotel in Tralee and used it as our base. Not the best town, but the location was great for our needs.
  17. Man that was a good game
  18. I enjoy most shows that don't have a happy ending. As such I was satisfied with this one. Main complaint is that Ruth should have immediately run to the woods as soon as she saw the SUV. Then they could have had Camila waiting for her there.
  19. I stand by my view that this is one of the worst movies I have ever seen. Not entertaining. Not deep. Just really really dumb.
  20. I have a very cheap company rate on the car and it has to be round-trip. Also my flight out of Raleigh was a lot cheaper. It wouldn't matter if it was just me and the wife, but it gets expensive dragging along the whole family.
  21. Also, I don't really need recs for DC. I've been there a number of times, including taking my Longhorn granddad there on an honor flight - which was AWESOME.
  22. Thanks all. We are going June 4-11. So hopefully it will be a little better weather than later in the summer. Here is the general route, but I'm not certain what section of Shenandoah NP we will do. We will get out and do at least a hike or two, probably under 5 miles total. I'm not set on staying in Richmond on the way back or going down I-95, but it is pretty far back to Raleigh so I'm thinking we will make it part of the way there on Friday. We fly out at 4 PM on Saturday. I also have a couple of Marriott 35K nights to burn if there are better options. Looks like we will be close to Luray Caverns. Is it worth a detour? We basically have one full day to get from Charlottesville to Dulles (staying there to make it easy to get to the Air & Space center the next day). That includes any hikes or anything. We will try to see Monticello the day before.
  23. I can see this is a popular destination, lol
  24. HookEm

    Moody Center

    I think it would be cool if they found a way to put longhorn symbols in the 3-point line or lane, but VERY light and in such a minimal way that you couldn't see it unless you were on the court playing. I think as a player I would think that was cool. Something like this...
  25. We’re just stopping for the night in Richmond on the way back to Raleigh to fly home. Other option would be somewhere on the outskirts of DC like Alexandria. Or drive all the way back to Raleigh and spend the day there before our flight.
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