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  1. It started too slow and meandering/rinse and repeat, but 4.5 onward was nails. I loved the under the table gimmick frankly because the set kept getting bigger and bigger as more people were under there. Sure it’s a metaphor, insisting on itself whatever, but I felt it was kinda self aware when the Fak backed up to take the picture. I actually loved the conceit of the last episode just being those 3 and then Sugar comes out and validates Carmy without words. Will miss this as I don’t think it’s coming back. Hopefully not.
  2. Given their draft this week, call up Brooklyn and offer Whitmore, a vet, and a pick for Cam Johnson. Can't hurt.
  3. Dumars has zero stripes as a competent GM. I am sorry. He lucked into 2004-5. His transaction history is laughable.
  4. I immediately sell all my panini redemptions. They are a joke. I’ll sell most of my Topps too unless I intent to grade it or it’s in PC.
  5. Watched this with my 7 year old Friday night. He’s been asking for 2 months and finally got the thumbs up from Mom. It was perfect. He was sufficiently enthralled and scared and had a hard time going to sleep, then woke up and we talked about it and he was proud that he made it through and couldn’t wait to talk to his buddies about it. He want me to watch Jaws 2 with him now. I have no recollection of that movie so need to revisit it first. We are going to watch the making of here this weekend to ground things a little bit.
  6. I mean.... and I like you as a poster, but.... In any event, no one is questioning Tyrese, and if I came across that way, that wasn't the intent. It probably barely crossed his mind his Achilles might pop. Same with KD. I just think that medical staffs are going to be looking at calf strains in the NBA and NFL pretty soon the same way we look at pitchers' elbows. If the medical experts can find a correlation, then perhaps they can identify the risk of rupture early and take measures to diagnose and preventatively repair. Whether that is preemptive surgery or just plain old rest, I have no idea. And I don't think it changes the calculus in the playoffs, necessarily, outside of some kind of diagnosis that says the thing is about to go. But as stated above, that takes data and evidence, and that's hard to collect.
  7. This is my point better made. The Drs and trainers are going to start worrying about these calf strains a little more even in the playoffs absolutely the players want to play and management wants them to play. But it’s worth it for everyone to try to figure out what type of calf strain is leading to these Achilles tears because I don’t think it’s coincidence.
  8. Im sorry, I thought this was Surly. I thought “laughable” was a pretty mild ad hominem attack. Anyway, I guess the general sense I got from the posts was that OKC doesn’t deserve this, aren’t a great team and somehow won 68 games and the finals by gaming the system. The bolded above sounds like sour grapes. And you can put it on loop from opposing fans complaining about every dominant defensive team in college and pros, basically ever. I caught myself doing it re: UH basketball this year. But it makes it seem as if the other 29 teams care too much about the integrity of the game to stoop to such tactics If they had the defensive talent to play like OKC, all 29 other teams would. They are good enough to hold contact before the guy gets by them so the foul isn’t obvious. This is something that is taught the same way DBs are taught to subtly make contact with receivers in a way that avoids a PI call. They are hardly the first team to use their athletic ability to their advantage. Defenders may try to do it to SGA but he’s already by them so the contact is clearer to the refs. And sure, the MVP, as has historically been the case, gets some whistle benefit. This team was really good. SGA is a legit top 5 player in one of the most talented eras the NBA has seen since the early 90s. Just weird to see them shit on is all. They deserved this. I am hardly an OKC fan at all (Rockets), and frankly found myself rooting for Minnesota against them, but to my chagrin, the Wolves never had a chance. And I guess I’ve also never found OKC boring.
  9. Chill, Winston…. I am not blaming the players. I get why they kept playing. But strained calf leading to Achilles tear is clearly a thing. It’s gotta be fucking brutal weighing the risk at this stage of the season.
  10. Some of the SGA and OKC takes here are laughable. I am not a fan but they had a great fucking season. They may be boring but they deserved it. SGA is the best scoring SG since Kobe and he’s young enough to surpass Wade when it’s all said and done. He doesn’t finish at the rim like Wade could but he’s better all around on offense including as a distributor. Congrats to all of them. Separately, and maybe it’s upthread, but if I have a calf strain, I am letting that mf’er heal. Durant and Halliburton aren’t the only two. I can’t recall but there was at least one other recently that had a calf strain, came back and played, then tore an Achilles. May have been in football. It really sucks. You have 3 of the top 20 players in the East out with Achilles next year.
  11. No shit. Orlando is looking pretty good if Paolo can take another leap and Suggs comes back.
  12. Honestly, I hope he figures it out and makes a few All Star teams. He’s still super young and dropped 38 in the playoffs. This is a no brainer deal for the Rockets and even if KD can’t bring us to the finals and Jalen is a future all-NBA player, you do this 10 out of 10 times. If I were the Suns I don’t trade with the Rockets without getting that ‘27 pick back on principal even if I have to take the shitty Miami or SA deals. And yet, here we are. Awesome.
  13. Jabari is the more interesting one. He won’t get a great deal if he signs early like Jalen and Alpy but I am sure we will try to lock him down. If I am his agent I tell him to bet on himself and make the Rockets pay him much more by extending next summer.
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