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Murfdogg21

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  1. Pre-lottery mocks offered Derik Queen (C, Maryland) as a big man with the most ball skills in recent drafts that could play 5 if we want to use bigger lineups.
  2. Rian Johnson is guest director and he has Luthen second guessing himself and crying, when he accidentally gets landed on by an x-wing. Splat. Fin.
  3. I assume it was more likely post-Luka trade and Mavericks landing in the lottery, when the black hats got together they decided to award #1 to Dallas.
  4. I remember the public backlash of Paul to Lakers being more universal across the country (especially with optics of NBA owning the Pelicans) than the recent Luka to Lakers deal. It sat there for a little while, then the NBA canceled it and turned around and sent him to the other LA franchise.
  5. The 1984 Olajuwon/Jordan draft was the last of the "coin flip" era before the lottery. It was Houston vs. Portland (who owned Indiana's pick). It was probably corrupt that NBA said Houston won assuming they'd pick Olajuwon. 1985 was the first lottery with the "frozen envelope" where the Knicks got Ewing. They went to weighted lottery odds after 1990. Some of the most anticipated #1 picks since were: Shaq (Orlando had 15% odds) - Trying to help new franchise/market? Chris Webber (Orlando had 1.5% odds) - Trying to build a powerhouse with Shaq? Tim Duncan (Spurs had 21% odds) - Seemed destined to Celtics. San Antonio is an odd choice to be an NBA darling Yao Ming (Rockets had 9% odds) - Decent Asian population in Houston, uniforms are still Chinese-influenced, but if that was the reason it's odd because Warriors had top 3 odds that lottery. Lebron (Cleveland had 22% odds) - Obvious place to put him, expecting him to be the anointed super star anywhere AD (New Orleans had 14% odds) - Trying to keep Pelicans from folding or relocating again Wiggins (Cleveland had 1.7% odds) - Pairing a star with Lebron so he could win (pick traded for Kevin Love) Simmons (Philly had 25% odds) - 76ers coach was former Australian national team coach Zion (NO had 6% odds) - Thanks to NO for trading AD to Lakers Wemby (Spurs had 14% odds) - Spurs/Pop had become darlings by now, and had a huge French following due to Tony Parker Flagg (Dallas had 1.8% odds) - Thanks for trading Luka to Lakers, need to calm the Dallas pitchforks Definite room for conspiracy theory on most/all of them.
  6. I’m a casual who reads summaries and box scores but only watches about 10 games a year. Has Jalen shown much improvement year to year? He’s an incredible athlete that can go off for a game then disappear for multiple games, while not making his teammates better. That same trend showed up in the playoffs. He seems like the type who should be alpha dog on a shitty team and put up great fantasy stats.
  7. Nick seems to believe that giving players what they want on their contract will translate to better results on the field. I thought it was dumb to restructure Stephon Diggs's deal (Buffalo ate the $21.5m signing bonus, so Texans had him for 4 years @ $18m/yr (but only $3.5m in 2025 guaranteed, so they could've cut him at any time)) and Nick just added that $3.5m from 2025 to 2024 and voided the last 3 years. They gave Joe Mixon an extension after he was about to be cut by the Bengals and he would've been in a contract year in 2024 (expect max effort and results).
  8. It was like a more destructive version of fracking. Sorry your planet’s destroyed, bro.
  9. FVV already got his bag and was grossly overpaid relative to his performance the past two seasons. We overpaid because we had cap space and wanted a veteran PG. Hopefully (LOL yeah right) FVV and his agent can be reasonable based on the money he already got and how much he'd likely bring on the free agent market. The only teams with significant cap space are Detroit, Brooklyn (who may get Giannis?), Philly, San Antonio, and New Orleans. Would any of those teams want to sign FVV for $30m? Would he prefer playing for one of those teams vs. staying with the Rockets? Hit the google and there are multiple articles about how screwed free agents are this offseason, and even the really good fringe-allstar guys may get offers in the $20-22m/yr range. FVV could FAFO if he plays hardball and end up taking some team's mid-level exception. Houston may not be able to trade FVV unless it's before June 29 as salary filler (receiving team would just decline his option), because I doubt any other team will want to pay him $45m+trade kicker and I doubt FVV would agree to a sign-and-trade at <$25m/yr. I guess Houston could lie to him, resign him closer to market value then turn around and trade him.
  10. It would be interesting if someone combined the mature edginess of Andor with Jedi/Sith content instead of cheese dialogue and questionable plot lines.
  11. ESPN or Athletic or someone had an article the day after Houston was eliminated and said FVV’s projected street value would be in the $20-25m/yr range (thus, no way should the Rockets exercise that team option). With extensions to Amen, maybe Jabari and Eason, looming I don’t know if I’d even give FVV 3/$90.
  12. Was the kalkite for a lens? I thought it was an energy source (maybe to get the Death Star to light speed?), and the khyber crystals are to generate the laser, but I'm only a 7/10 on sw nerd scale.
  13. An entire year goes by before Ep. 10 and they are already doing buddy capers, so they had to show it in 9 or not show it at all. Lol he got the disrespected ending appropriate for his life. Too bad Cassian didn’t snipe his nazi girlfriend first.
  14. We've got 6 Game of Thrones type episodes coming our way!
  15. There's also always a bias towards drafting players from the dominant college teams. If Georgia had gone 8-4 several of their players would've been drafted lower or not at all. The other side of that bias is you see players from Bama or Georgia benefit from having stacked teammates around them playing against mortal college teams, then get drafted high and they aren't stars in the NFL due to better competition and not having 5 guys better than them around them. This is assuming most of UGA's players are from Georgia, as it relates to a bump in Georgia HS kids getting drafted.
  16. I remember 3 years ago from the Final Four to draft day, everyone assumed Jabari was #1, and we'd probably end up with Banchero. Wouldn't that have been something?
  17. No. He got about half his contract’s total value early on via signing bonus and a restructure bonus. His annual base salaries for ‘25 ($4.2m), ‘26 ($4.2m), and ‘27 ($5.15m) were not guaranteed. Ravens take a dead cap hit for the remaining prorated amount of his signing bonus ($7.5m, or about $3.75m for the next two years). Net savings by removing his $4.2m base and paying rookie kicker almost nothing.
  18. The Ravens are a generally smart organization. If they had cut Tucker between February and the draft, there’s a good chance everyone would know they were interested in drafting a kicker the way it worked out, a kicker they like was still on the board of the sixth round. They brought him in into camp to make sure he could actually kick last week, then cut Tucker today.
  19. I mostly agree. I don't understand the fans who want to go all in and give away most of our assets for a 37yo KD (isn't this what PHX just tried?) and maybe a 2-3 year window before we're in a rebuild again. I wouldn't cry if they moved Green or Jabari. FVV and Brooks are overpaid and could be moved (FVV has a trade kicker though, and I don't know if they could/would move him after getting him to agree to a less $/yr extension). Fans seem ready to ship off Cam and Reed. Cam has a dirt cheap salary, lots of potential, and likely wouldn't get much trade value based on his limited minutes. Reed is fairly cheap and hasn't got minutes, but we drafted him to be a shooter and he can do that. Amen and Eason are up for extensions already too. It should always be about value. If PHX is ready to dump KD and his salary, I'd give up two good young players (Green, Reed, Eason, Jabari?) or a pick or two and fill the rest out with enough salaries to match (FVV, Brooks, Landale, Jabari), but I wouldn't gut all assets for him, or even Giannis. They should have a $14m MLE to sign someone as well. But a team that looks like KD/Giannis, Sengun, Amen, FVV, Brooks, and whatever scraps are left with little future draft assets does not seem like a good short term or long term outlook.
  20. After a rough first season, we went 2-0 on Saturday. But the park/umps were so far behind, our 6:00p game started at 7:15 and our 8:30 game started at 10:05. We have five 7 year olds and the game didn't end until 11:15pm...then PG gives us the 8am game in Waller on Sunday morning when two other gold bracket play-in games could've taken the 8am slot. Those kids were zombies, hit like trash and several silly errors. Unfortunate way for their season to end.
  21. Also don't forget he got his underqualified sons jobs as defensive coaches (again) and made their "GM"'s son the QB coach.
  22. Why would Disney or any streaming service care if people watch on opening day? It's not like they are selling time-sensitive commercials during the show's live airing. It's about new and retained subscriptions and number of total views over time indicate the relative value to other shows. With due respect to Buzzrock, I've thought Andor, Mando, and Ahsoka were great and BOBF and Acolyte were worth watching once. I'm also a SW addict and will watch any content even if it's "shitty."
  23. I may be in the minority, but I like Cam and if the Rockets can get something of real value by including Jalen Green in a trade, I wouldn't be heart broken if Cam were given a chance at the streaky athletic scorer role post-Green. Everyone is so eager to give up the PHX draft picks, but those are currency that will extend the window of this team. Giving them away for an aging star is putting all the chips on the table for the short term. I don't know what some combination of FVV and Green could get you to build around Sengun, Amen, Jabari, Eason, and if we keep them Cam, Brooks, and Reed.
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