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  1. He looks like a great cheerleader from yesterdays game. He’s young and he’s competing to be be Jedi’s backup. His play at Palermo in serie2 hasn’t been stellar but the season just started. 

    i’d like to see Tilman start the next game. He’s a more like for like for Reyna. A healthy Reyna has got to play midfield for the US. We are way too predictable and limited without a creative player in the attack. A backup midfield of Luca and Tilman and whoever doesn’t start from MMA is the correct path forward. Considering injury history of our midfielders we need quality depth.  Aaronson should be considered as well but I’d prefer him as relief. 

     Will Gregg listen to his assistant who had success with Reyna at mf? .  

    A backup 6 would be nice but, Tessman doesn’t look ready. Musah looks to be the best backup 6. 

  2. https://www.espn.com/olympics/basketball/story/_/id/38353307/takeaways-team-usa-fiba-world-cup-semifinals-loss-germany?platform=amp
     

    I'm not sure it is true that US and Canada lost because of no big man. I think it had an effect, but Germany cut really well in moving without the ball and shot well. There offense rebound edge was about effort and not overwhelming size. 

    idk about Canada as I didn’t watch them. 

    We’ll see next summer what happens in the Olympics. 

  3. 4 hours ago, Baboontyme said:

    Slovenia will miss the Olympics next year.

    Slovenia still can qualify next year in June euro tournament per ESPN. 

    from nbc article https://www.nbcsports.com/olympics/news/canada-basketball-olympics-fiba-world-cup#:

    “Canada joins the U.S., which also qualified Sunday, as well as host nation France, Australia, South Sudan and Japan in the 12-team Olympic field. The top two European nations at the World Cup will also qualify, plus four more nations via the last-chance qualifying tournaments”

  4. US and Lithuania play tomorrow. Both have qualified for quarters.

    Same for Germany and Slovenia as they play tomorrow but both are already qualified at 4-0 

    Winners of tomorrow games qualify for quarters in the other brackets as all teams are 3-1. Should be some competitive games. Too bad they’re not on at reasonable times.

    Italy v Puerto Rico 

    Brazil v Latvia

    Dominican Republic v Serbia

    Spain v Canada. 

  5. 20 hours ago, nineliveslost said:

    Watched this randomly on the plane back from Africa. Maybe because I am old and thought too much or maybe the airplane had something in the air I was highly allergic to.

    Slow start but damn it made me reflect on life, giving and what I am leaving behind. Really good movie  

    Living (2022) - IMDb

    I saw Ikiru (To Live) several years ago and was struck by its redemptive power and its social commentary. My brother recommended Living since it was a remake of ikiru and I intend to see it sometime. 

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  6. Old Comedies that are raunchy and funny  

    Inbetweeners - still on prime  

    Ideal - pot dealer with colorful visitors and emphasis on dark for the comedy part  

    Spaced. Edgar Wright, Simon Pegg, Nick Frost. 

    Fresh Meat - on prime. 6-7 uni students sharing a flat. Same creators as peep show. 

    Coupling - on prime. Concepts such as porn buddies, captain subtext, Dick Darlington.  
     

     

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  7. Why wouldn’t Pepi be called up?  I can see Gio not getting called up due to his injury. No matter how difficult it will be, he needs to have a face to face conversation with Gio.  I recommend he knock on his door with some beer, burgers and fries for Sunday night football. 

  8. Some hood selections on my international flight to/from Spain. I saw Aftersun and enjoyed it. Still not sure where the setting was in the flashbacks. I thought I’d read it was turkey but it sure looked like it was all English. After hanging out with some of the English in ibiza and Mallorca they certainly export their culture when abroad. Being a father to a daughter, I could connect to both of the main characters  

    And saw The Great Beauty again on the way home. I’m getting close to the protagonist’s age and being in Europe seemed to fit.  Couldn’t sleep so watched episodes of A Spy Among Friends. Compelling enough to hold my attention and I like that spy stuff in books and on screens. The three main actors were terrific. 

  9. On 2/6/2023 at 5:35 PM, Knoxtnhorn said:

    Pouring the $4 in random pennies, dimes, and nickels out on the counter while all of my friends watched was worse.  

    I can relate. While waiting in line for zz top tickets we were kicked off the sidewalk and wandered into the strip joint next door.  After giving the stripper with the magic nipples my grocery sacker tips, I should have felt ashamed but I was incredibly turned on instead. 

  10. 19 hours ago, cmontexas said:

    Also I feel like Nicky Sobotka could have gotten some fuckin hours at work considering he's Frank Sobotka's compentant nephew and clearly plugged into the inner workings and shady dealings of that operation

    Frank’s elected and needs to stay elected for Nick to be able to keep the grift going. Frank needs the money to dole it out to those in need, stained glass offering and to grease the powers to be on the grain pier. Nicky needs to get as many hours as everyone else. Frank continuing to be elected is no sure thing and with a fuck up like Ziggy, he needs to show as little favoritism as possible to Nicky. 

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  11. 12 hours ago, closetohumping said:

    Maybe we just need a Derka thread?  

    Hard to answer.  I doubt any team would win more than 55% of their game.  Are we talking all teams are at full strength, willing to play together, etc?  Hard to see AI and Stockton necessarily getting along.  I'd probably lean team 3, though they'd struggle guarding team 2 and 4.

    Team 1 has the best defenders.  Team 3 has killers but Magic at his best is running and Jordan wants the ball in his hands. Their strengths aren’t complementary and only MJ is a plus defender. Team 2 seems to be team of ill fitting parts, but Duncan/Stockton pick n roll would be fun. Three guys are ball dominant. Team 4 might be the second best team although outside of Akeem are not good on defense. 

    I’ll go with team 1. Best defenders and killers at the end of games in Kobe and Durant with always the option to dump it in to Kareem. 

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  12. Robinson was good in the Mexico game. But he was reckless last night and his passing was very poor with lofted balls. But the whole team is poor with balls in the air.  I didn’t see much of second half, but jones ball to Vazquez would be the exception to the poor quality.

    Canada marked the midfielders tightly and we couldn’t pass well enough to break it often enough. 

    Does what the “mls pro” Canadian guy did finally toss Long on the trash heap. Im not sure why McKenzie and Trusty aren’t playing in this tournament. Especially McKenzie since Trusty got a little play in the nations league. 

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