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  1. 2 hours ago, LurkingHorn said:

    Was listening to Skin and he was saying Donnie does not believe next year is a good draft class. They are not going to tank this year, that's for sure. 

    Nobody believes next year's draft is any good. During the Mickey Ds workouts the scouts were complaining about how garbage next year's class was. 

  2. 1 hour ago, LurkingHorn said:

    Protections for the future 1st according to Stein:

    2019: top 5 protected

    2020: top 5 protected

    2021: top 3 protected

    2022: top 3 protected

    2023: fully unprotected

    We're more likely to fall in the top 5 in 2019 or 2020 than we are in any of the other 3 years during this period so I'm good with it regardless of what happens. Luka was the best player in the draft and we got him. In my opinion he has the highest floor among all the prospects. I simply can't see him being a total bust. At the very worst he'll be Eastern conference level allstar (ie that level of player) and on the other end of the spectrum he's a more pass first focused James Harden. 

  3. 11 hours ago, Larry T. Spider said:

    Obama opens a facility for normal border operations. Trump uses the facility as a staging ground for sepating children as young as 8 months from their parents to send them across the country with no plans for reunification. And the response is “but Obama”? Some of you hypocritical pieces of shit can go die in a fire. 

    All the bitching for years about the Obama catch and release policy and now you are going to claim that he was separating kids from their families and detaining them.....which was it?

     

    A catch and release policy where 90+% of those released returned for their court appointments, including those who were eventually deported. 

  4. 11 hours ago, Patricio Swayze said:

     


    One guy in my office offered this nugget of genius: stop breaking the law and they won’t be separated.

    Not surprised as this is a guy that referred to Obama as a monkey and has no problem dropping a nigger or nigress without a care.

     

    I'm guessing this is the same guy calling black people animals from another thread back on shaggy. 

  5. On 6/15/2018 at 9:03 AM, Mileslong said:

    I guess I was one of the few who actually liked TC. Thought he was nerdy and looked at things from a different perspective than the others which made him interesting to me.

    The only other C-D listers which are in line to take over that I will listen to now are Sirois and Jake. I like Davie Lane but I don’t know if he will ever get a realistic shot as a full timer.

    I'm right there with you. TC  improved over the years and actually is a pretty good interviewer. Like someone mentioned earlier in this thread, TC contributed a lot of good bits to BaD radio over the years. 

  6. 10 minutes ago, ChickenSandwich said:

    Dylan was never that bad last season.  The role he was forced into was inefficient and didn't play to the strengths of the team.  With no other real options on offense, he was forced into the role and wore down as the season went on.  The talent and skills are clearly there if allowed to play to his comfort level. 

    We needed him to be the chucker last season.  He had the mental capacity to not be destroyed by the negative, ex. if you asked Roach to do the same thing you may break him.

    DO took one for the team last year and got shit all over for it.  We were a better team with him on the floor vs not.

    Go big DO, hoping you have enough help to see what you really have

    The Duke game was the perfect illustration of this.  He still shot too many 3s, but his overall role in that game is what you want him to have.  Rewatching that game really gave me sense of what we missed out in losing Jones for the season.  Jones was a much better decision maker than I gave him credit for.  We probably win that game if not for 2 fouls Bamba picked up due horrible decisions by both Coleman and Dylan. One of Bamba's fouls came on the inexplicable decision by Coleman to go behind his back against the top of a 2/3 zone and the other bad foul came when Dylan tried to lob it to Bamba on a 2 on 1 in the lane.  Duke makes their run with Bamba on the bench nursing his foul trouble. 

  7. 27 minutes ago, Don Johnson said:

    Can you imagine Jordan ever being a little bitch sidekick like this?

     

    You mean the Jordan who brought the dude who beat him out for the high school varsity team to his Hall of Fame induction ceremony for the expressed purpose of holding the ultimate scoreboard over him? That guy? You're asking if that particular Jordan is a bitch?

  8. 20 minutes ago, BigOrange1 said:

    i think he sees himself more in the mold of embiid than capela or gobert.

    He's gonna have to get his weight up. Beyond that. at this point in his career Bamba doesn't seem to have the natural aptitude for post play. He's more like a new age David Robinson who is going to look to turn and face in the post rather than being a technician with his back to the basket on the few post he gets a game. 

  9. 26 minutes ago, Goo Punch said:

    He and Capela are different players. Bamba wants to handle the ball, shoot the ball, and spend ample time on the perimeter. The comparisons to low post players like Capela and Gobert are off base.

    Unfortunately Shaka didn't emphasize Mo rolling hard to the basket. I listened to a Dallas Mavericks focused podcast a few weeks ago and they said Mo only had 29 hard rolls off of screens all season, which is an absolute travesty. He'll be utilized differently in the NBA. For one there's more space because of the illegal defense rules and the length of the 3 pt line, but also the pick n hard roll is a big part of the NBA game. With Mo's wingspan this will be an area focus as he develops his shot so he'll look a lot more like Capela despite his desire to roam the outside. As he gains prominence in the league he'll be at risk of becoming an Ibaka or Enes Canter who almost never roll are off screens at this stage in their careers. 

  10. 1 hour ago, realgreggym said:

    BigO, I would like to see him pattern his game like Capella assuming his team has a reliable point guard. Once he gets stronger, I agree with you. He can become one of the best in the NBA.

    I would to. I don't want him to fall in love with his jump shot and never roll hard off the pick 'n roll like what Ibaka has evolved into. 

  11. 21 hours ago, Goo Punch said:

    Haven’t read it yet, but my own assessment is that more and more nba people are not only actually seeing him in person, but getting to know him, and he’s blowing them away. My guess is that his draft stock rising is due way more to seeing and speaking to him than it is anything he did with a basketball. So smart, so confident yet humble, so physical gifyed, and comfortable speaking with old white dudes. These guys are all crushing hard on Mo right now.

     

    edit: actually I did read that already, and it sounds like Mo is in the right track. Give em hell Mo!

    Everything you say here applies, but not to who you think it does. The NBA scouts have been watching him for at least 3 years now. They've talked to him and gotten a chance to see him up close. Everything you're saying above actually applies to the NBA media. They're the one's who are suddenly becoming familiar with him and as a result are enthralled by him. It's their impression that is being relayed here. His draft stock is rising in their eyes. 

  12. 1 hour ago, C-Man said:

    I'm worried for The Ticket once the Musers and Rhynes decide to hang it up.

    Maybe it's an issue of just getting used to new guys like Sam and some of the other guys, but the Ticket really needs be wary of handing over the keys to just any jabroni who happens to be working at the station when Rhynes and the Musers decide to retire. That being said they should also do their best to hold on to some of the more talented guys that they have invested time rearing and developing. Say what you want about TC, but he grew over the years and developed some broadcasting chops. Same goes for Machine (who has now left) and Jake. The current headliners owe most of their success to their talent, but their long runs also contributed to it. P1's invested time into learning about these guys and their lives thus some of their success his owed to that relationship being nurtured. Part of the reason the formula works is because we know these guys. The same silliness and jokes won't go over as well with new guys whom we have no established relationship with. 

  13. 3 hours ago, Machinator said:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c18iff8eLRs

    Link to stream of the game. Hepa is wearing 12. I missed the first quarter, but apparently he played a good chunk of it.

    He didn't start, but he was among the first group off the bench in the first qtr. He missed a layup off of a nice cut down the lane. The earlier report about him talking and being demonstrative on defense was proven true. Outside of his initial playing time in the 1st, he didn't get back into the game until maybe the last 3 or 4 minutes of the 4th. He had a strong post up, and immediately called for the ball. Once he got it he backed his man down into the middle, and then made a good drop step move over his right shoulder and  scored the bucket.  

  14. 1 hour ago, texasstrong12 said:

    Yup. I've been saying this is the biggest key to success not just in basketball but also football. We need to stay healthy. 

    You can say "injuries happen" but we've been very unlucky with injuries in recent years. Even dating back to Barnes last year when Isaiah Taylor broke his wrist. I think 3 out of the last 4 years we've lost our best player for significant periods of the season. 

    Like I said, injuries happen but this is terrible luck. Taylor (broken wrist), Ridley (broken foot)/Taylor (plantar fasciitis), and Jones (cancer)/Roach (broken wrist)/Bamba (turf toe). That's just a bad run of luck over the last 4 years. 

    It wasn't due to injury,  but at the time of his suspension Mack was our best player in the 16-17 season.  

  15. 2 hours ago, Goo Punch said:

    Well said, and I don’t disagree with any of that enough to rebut it. My outlook on the team and roster is pretty similar to yours. The thing for me is that I’d still take Shaka’s first team over this one, particularly for its depth, variety, and senior players. That team was more varied and more experienced, and yet we finished with a season fairly similar to the one we’ve projected for next year. You’ll have to give me your thoughts on a comparison of the two rosters, but if we neither one of us thinks that our upcoming team has a markedly better roster than Shaka’s first team, then we might be looking at our current projection becoming more of a ceiling.

    Do you think losing Ridley for 20+ games had anything to do with how that team finished?

  16. 10 minutes ago, Goo Punch said:

    ^^^^ Already responded to that. And you’re seriously suggesting that we should have signed even MORE players? It definitely was an either/or situation. In 2011 we brought in

    •Sheldon McClellan

    •Myck Kabongo

    •Julien Lewis

    •Jonathan Holmes

    •Jaylen Bond

    •Sterling Gibbs

    In 2012 we brought in

    •Ioannis Papapetrou

    •Cam Ridley

    •Prince Ibeh

    •Demarcus Holland

    •Javan Felix

    •Connor Lammert 

     

    Two consecutive six man recruiting classes and you think we had room for two more?

     

    Sterling Gibbs was gone by the following year thus we only had 11 scholarship players for the 2012-2013 season

  17. 1 hour ago, Goo Punch said:

    Again, we didn’t even actively recruit Holland

    That’s total BS. 100% fabrication. Everybody wanted Ibeh at the time and Holland was someone who we serendipitously found while recruiting Ibeh. 

     

    Edit:

    misread what he was saying. Responded to it below.

    You behave as if you're the only one on here who doesn't have amnesia or something. The discussion of signing Forte to ensure Smart coming was definitely brought up time and time again. And it was brought up again during that season when people started comparing Javon Felix to Forte and saying the difference between the 2 wasn't worth totally losing our chance to get Smart. Additionally, we were well below the scholarship limit that season (like was often the case during Barnes last half decade here) so it wasn't even an either/or proposition 

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