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BurdineBandit

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  1. He looked like the best player on the floor. Apparently the Raptors' summer league team is pretty terrible, but this is 2 games in a row for Lonnie. He just glides past everyone out there. Still got caught in the air with no plan 2 or 3 times last night, but usually finds a way to finish. And his shot was ON. I hadn't had a chance to watch the Summer Spurs yet, was surprised that Drew Eubanks was the 2nd best player on the floor last night. He looks quick and springy and nimble at the rim. Also made some dumb passes/turnovers though.
  2. I will never underestimate what two plus (plus-plus) defenders at guard can do. The Rockets want to run back another season of Harden-ball with 35 year old CP3? Not scared. The Jazz want to run 32 year-old Mike Conley and Jamaal Murray at us? Not scared. I would be a lot more confident if the Splash Brothers were healthy and we had to play them too. Not scared. Two solid guards on defense with an improvement from DJM gets us extra wins this year. I was counting on extra wins last year since LaMarcus had to carry us during Kawhi's holdout year, but that was also assuming our only defensive stopper was going to be on the team for at least one regular season game. He wasn't. Now we have a healthy rotation on the bench and hopefully LW to replace Marco. This organization's identity is centered around solid defensive play, and we haven't been able to get that for two years because for two years in a row our best defensive player has missed the year due to injury. Let's try it again.
  3. Complete with "eyebrows too big like a russian, wouldn't bang" towards a teenager. What a bunch of clowns on this thread now. Commenting on this clown's thread. Let him go, fuck him. He's 18 and making stupid 18 year old decisions with a girl much hotter than what you pulled at 18. Who gives a shit.
  4. Consensus on Spurs twitter and PtR seems to be that Carroll is a great fit and not just a replacement for Poindexter/Cunningham, but a big upgrade. I didn't know much about the dude, but he appears to be a PJ Tucker type of player that averages a couple more ppg than PJ ever did (granted low offensive usage in Houston). I like it. The only real big splash I was intrigued by would've been Bojan, nobody else really seemed feasible/likely.
  5. They are definitely great, and seem pretty cool. I've seen them a couple times around town (sxsw) but really wish I could've made the album release show at Antone's Friday. Got lazy on pre-ordering the album. They were also sold out on Friday afternoon. Good for them. Going to try to catch the show at Mohawk in August.
  6. Austin's own. Dropped their debut album last Friday. Song is over a year old but just found some partners for the album release and got the video treatment too.
  7. The revisionist history about the 2014 team is probably more annoying than the sudden Kawhi perception shift re: the injury. The playing fields are so uneven it doesn't even make sense. If Kawhi wins a title that shouldn't mean shit about his injury. He's playing at less than 100% right now, and has been on restrictions the entire regular season because that thigh ain't getting better, like the Spurs' doctors originally said. If 5 years from now he plays 75+ games a season and never reaggravates it and becomes the next Lebron, then you can call the Spurs' staff full of shit, but that isn't likely to happen since he only played 60 games this year.
  8. Do we get to live through Anthony Wright, Clint Stoerner and Quincy Carter too? I'm down, let him walk, we'll luck into a franchise QB really easily, probably. Everybody does it. There's tons of them all over the NFL right?
  9. P Terry's has never cooked, sold, dropped, accidentally synthesized, or premature ejaculated a burger that's anywhere near a Hil-Bert's regular ol' cheeseburger. I feel your pain my greasy compadre. Well, shit. I'm not usually moved by random fucks' tastes on message boards, but I might have to try Hill-Bert's after that. I'm a P Terry's fan. Maybe not as much as WB or Dan's, but they're in my Top 3 fast food in Austin. I know where that location is, just never tempted me being fast food behind a strip mall next to a Taco Bell and across from a gas station. To stay on topic: sucks. Cool place, food was alright, been there sporadically (maybe a couple times a year) over the past decade.
  10. Convince you what's correct? The policy or the fact that Carlson & some right-wingers agree? I'm scratching my head trying to figure out what his play is here, because I don't really think he does anything in good faith, so I'm with you on that, but I'm not going to ditch my interest in her policy just because he thinks it's worthwhile. Because he won't actually be voting for it come next November. (ir)Regardless of how much he agrees with it on-air.
  11. This guy knows what he's talking about. As bad as Tyson was (was he bad? somebody sad he was bad), he's remembered for knocking out a bunch of random faces before meeting the past-his-prime Larry Holmes and then the only other true greats in Lennox Lewis and Evander. Heavyweight isn't a great division to see great fighters all the time. Tony Tucker, Spinks, Frank Bruno, are any of those guys even talked about these days other than being Tyson fodder? Nobody will remember them. I use that same logic to temper the "legacy" of GGG a bit as well. He came up in a shitty MW period that is just now starting to overlap with Canelo's rise. It's not completely his fault, but I can't help but think whether he would've earned his place in the HOF as easily during the MW era of 2008-2012, where names like Jermain Taylor, B-Hop, Kelly Pavlik, Paul Williams, Sergio Martinez, maybe even Arthur Abraham, etc. He's actually the age of taylor/pavlik/martinez/williams but just didn't come over to the USA in time.
  12. Lol. Fuck Joshua and fuck their fight. That's their problem if they didn't get it done. Calling Ruiz Butterbean is laughable too, he'd smash that 4-round clown. He took Joshua into the 7th round and finished his ass off and somehow appeared to be in better physical "condition" since about round 3. Ruiz has fast hands and knows how to time a counterpunch, and that's why he's at this level. From a boxing standpoint, that first knockdown was a thing of beauty, the bob to the left and load up the left hook, dropped it like a hammer. Otherwise I was surprised how unprepared Joshua was for the rage combos Ruiz fired. It seemed like a couple (if not all) of the knockdowns came off of Joshua landing a big punch and missing a follow up and Ruiz just getting pissed and letting 5-6 punches go (pretty fucking fast at that). The only thing Joshua could've done different is be more cautious after landing a big one, which isn't really a strategy (you want to follow up and keep him hurt).
  13. We needed wider polynesian ties apparently. He could be dumb as rocks, or he could've checked out a couple months ago, we will never know.
  14. I had a lot of fun watching Williams vs. Hurd on FOX Saturday. Hurd was starting to gain steam as a dangerous man at 154, and I thought he was better than the much more hyped Charlos (which he still might be), but Williams just took it to him, and beat him at his own game on the inside. Great fight. The two fights on ESPN were not nearly as good as two bigger/longer guys beat down their smaller counterparts. Berchelt looked much too fast for Vargas, and Navarrete looked much too long and busy for Dogboe.
  15. I drive Uber/Lyft in my spare time and all the tourists like yourself love Rainey after starting the night at Whisler's on the East side. Maybe dinner at Salty Sow or Sour Duck before (or something on S. Lamar like Loro or Uchi). I like different places because bachelor/bachelorette parties all over Rainey sounds fun but they're not as much to me. So I can't really recommend, but those are what are popular on whatever websites are sending people agendas for short trips here. With more details might could put together a better rec.
  16. Yeah I wouldn't buy otherwise. The way he pulled those two girls? No virgin has that kind of confidence just to take them to the room for conversation.
  17. lolwut I agree that Patty is the culture of this team. I have no problem with him staying put because of it. He's not the player he was, but he understands the culture in a way DeMar and LMA don't. That's important. I'm also surprised nobody has mentioned the defensive improvement that we'll have with White and DJM next year. In a league run by guards it's going to be important to have those two to battle the killer guards in the West. We're not rebuilding anything, and honestly I'm ok with running it back and playing with the team we were supposed to have this year (+DJM) and a newfound quality youngster in Derrick White. Forbes goes back to the bench (or further than the bench), and we get two quality guards to start.
  18. Yeah y'all are right, I guess I was just hoping he'd take another step (not that he was in the early part of his career or anything).
  19. Was hoping he'd change his legacy's trajectory here, but he's just about continued his path imo. Same playoff player, solid/not great, won't carry your team but a capable 2nd option. Has the occasional breakout game where he pours it on (a couple games against he warriors a few years ago come to mind, when Kawhi was off, pre-Zaza year). Still enjoy him as a Spur, but always hoped he'd grow into something more than what he is, which is still worth having but..... yeah....
  20. I was thinking about this yesterday. I definitely agree. And my next thought was whether the young guys we have on this team now (whereas you know Manu and Tony and Boris and Patty probably loved the wine/dine shit) are down for the wine-tasting 5-course dinners. They very well might be, but I also wondered whether Patty was helping pick up some of the extra team-bonding by have the Coffee Gang meetings. It's basically the same shit, and it's pretty cool to see how it started with 3 or 4 of them, but now basically the whole team invited themselves and just hang out at different coffee shops on road trips now.
  21. Now that you say they drink, I was thinking to remind you of that little brewery on one of the corners there. Cara Cara. Nothing beats a day trip to have 2-3 beers before pigging out on BBQ. Personally I switch Black's and Smitty's pretty regularly. Smitty's sides are a joke, but I haven't had terrible experiences with their bbq so I still visit. Edit: well fuck me I just made it to page 2. Hope they enjoyed.
  22. This might be the one that makes me realize this. If you'd told 15-25 year-old me that I'd be showing Dirk respect on his way out I would've told you to go F yourself (especially when I was 15), but I'm actually really happy to see the guy get his respect on the way out today. I can't think of a bad thing to say about him. I hated his flopping bullshit in the playoff days, but Manu did it too, and they were both great, great basketball players. I'm sure plenty of Mavs fans felt the same way about Timmy and Manu when it was their time.
  23. Nope, the stage has been in front of the LBJ school. East is still East.
  24. You could do a Texas baseball > orange and white game > Spurs playoff game (at a bar) run Saturday if you were so inclined and wanted to die. Wow yesterday evening (Pre-Spurs game) I had thought about the possibility of a Texas Baseball>Orange/White Game>UFC Night trifecta.... but the Spurs just sent me into oblivion. This is going to take some careful planning. Gotta make sure I'm alive for GoT on Sunday night too. Let's go to war. If we get LMA involved early and make him the focus, I say we have a damn good shot.
  25. Terminator is a Minority and Austin born/raised. Went to St. Ed's.
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