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aggie08

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  1. I think we all owe Minnesota our gratitude. One of my least favorite parts about the playoffs is when an hilariously overmatched team musters up all of their remaining pride and dignity to win game 3 or 4 on their home court, thus avoiding the sweep and making everyone play an extra game to reach the forgone conclusion (looking at you Atlanta). So annoying! So, thanks Minnesota for keeping your Cancun reservations intact. Only one more to go.
  2. What the fuck is a Bones Hyland?
  3. Poole plays for fouls as much as Harden in his prime, without being particularly good at drawing them.
  4. I fucking love Kevon Looney...but I definitely didn't have him pegged as the best player on the court tonight.
  5. Man, wish we could have seen Phoenix/LAC at full health (whatever that means for Kawhi these days). Bunch of big, athletic, smooth-shooting, two-way wings out there. And Russ's crazed energy.
  6. Both teams are shooting like ass. 33% for SAC, 35% for GSW.
  7. How are both teams great at offensive rebounding and terrible at defensive rebounding?
  8. Definitely feels like this one is worth two games. If Golden State wins this one, Game 4 kinda feels like a formality. If Sac wins, obviously it's over.
  9. We'll see. They don't have the horses to run away and hide, nor do they have the defense to feel good about any single digit lead. It's going to be a close one.
  10. GPII is out too? Come on down Anthony Lamb and Moses Moody.
  11. Ramona's reporting is usually pretty solid, but I'm pretty damn skeptical on this one. Is the source the ball boy? Everyone else in the organization has dealt with the Draymond Green experience for a decade. Maybe they were surprised that Dray was suspended after already being ejected with over half a quarter to play in a close game. But livid? I doubt it. The team definitely gave off the vibe of hoping for the best, but expecting the worst, on Tuesday. This isn't 2016 where the league adjusted the severity of what was called on the floor due, at least in some part, to Cleveland and LeBron's protests.
  12. That's just ridiculous. All you need is 3 Jimbo Fishers: offense, defense, and head coach. Special teams will take care of itself if you're that stacked.
  13. To be fair, I don't think this one was about the basketball. Or the shooter being afraid or annoyed. Dude's just a straight up sociopath who was going to shoot someone who happened to be near him sooner than later.
  14. Yeah, this is Ted Lasso. The most perfect meet cute ever didn't end in blackout drunk sex.
  15. This is such an awesome chicken or the egg discussion. Chris Paul has always been a chronic referee whiner. Is seeing a vindictive, biased official like Foster what validated his bitching and led to him cranking it up to 11? Did Foster, already a pretty shit official, get driven into taking shit more personally because Chris Paul is so fucking intolerable?
  16. I guess I'm just losing track of what exactly you're trying to argue here. According to the CDC, states where you'd expect stricter gun regulations--including CA and NY--have far fewer gun-related deaths than their counterparts (which is a win all in itself, is it not?). This passes the smell test: less guns in circulation, less gun deaths. Your contention is that fewer firearms--and thus fewer firearm-related deaths--doesn't automatically result in fewer homicides, when you even said yourself that 72% of homicides are from firearms? I don't think the numbers bear out what I'm gathering that you're trying to prove. Speculating, but I'm guessing that state homicide rates most directly correlate with median income and poverty rates, which helps explain most of the south and bright red states. But, when you add low income with ease and availability of firearms, you get Mississippi and Louisiana.
  17. If it looks like Golden State is going to lose the game, maybe he could start discussing which teams he'd be willing to play next year.
  18. Source? Because the CDC generally disagrees with you. No, not by orders of magnitude, but Texas is consistently higher year-over-year, getting into the 7-8 homicides/100k range during the COVID years. And what of your other example, NY? Which is indeed significantly lower than Texas in both firearm-related deaths AND homicides? What would be your explanation?
  19. I mean, duh. States with less guns in circulation, a less pervasive gun culture, and more strict gun control regulations have less firearm-related deaths, and thus less homicides. Because of course they do. Pretty obvious stuff.
  20. We also all have decades of preconditioning that tells our brain that shots fired in a residential neighborhood and someone running around with gunshot wounds is most likely 1) An armed suspect running from police, 2) A home intrusion gone wrong, or 3) Some form of "gang" violence or altercation. Though, I'd imagine that my brain is slowly being reprogrammed with all of these events, and I'd be more likely to assume it's highly probable that the wounded party was just in the wrong place at the wrong time around some coward with a gun.
  21. The PTSD that must have been kicking in in that arena when they were down 13 a year removed from their Mavs' collapse...
  22. We're already recycling this board's "if they didn't have guns, they would have used pipe bombs" argument from a couple of weeks ago? Nice!
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