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  1. 8 hours ago, Art Vandelay said:

    King posted this on his FB page earlier...

    That's it. No apology for accusing someone of rape and blasting it all over the Internet.

    https://medium.com/@ShaunKing/when-the-victim-you-fought-for-turns-out-to-be-the-victimizer-sherita-dixon-cole-and-the-painful-cec6ca8f3670

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    But Sherita Dixon-Cole is not one of those victims. She victimized us. She victimized the man she falsely accused and she victimized those who stood up for her?—?believing that she had experienced the worst crimes. Thankfully, she does not represent anyone but herself. 

     

  2. Shaka's defenses have been ranked 14, 40, &12 (kenpom rankings) in his 3 years here. While it's reasonable to foresee some fall off on the defensive end next year, I have trouble predicting the fall off will be substantial. As has been the case under Shaka, our success (or lack there of) next year will be determined by what we do on the offensive end of the court. 

  3. On 4/25/2018 at 2:29 PM, Beau Vine said:

    Ricky, I don't agree with much of what you said, but that's just purely opinion vs opinion, and I don't think either of us has actual facts on our sides relative to what you said.

    I will say that Adam Silver can say what he wants to say, but he works for the owners, and a rule change would be a result of negotiations between the owners and the NBAPA.

    The "one-year" rule was established through collective bargaining between the owners and the PA, and the owners gave up significant concessions to get the NBAPA to agree.  I don't think the owners would drop that rule without a return of at least part of those concessions (just out of principle/stubbornness), and I can't imagine the PA agreeing to that.

    Regardless, the current NBA CBA doesn't expire until 2024, so nothing's going to happen for six years, which makes it even more ridiculous that Condi's report led off with that contingency.

     

     

    THE NBAPA gives 0 fucks about the rule. The owners had to give concessions to get the 1 and done rule in the first place. And now they're going to have to give concessions to make any changes to it. It's simply a negotiating lever from the NBAPA's perspective. 

  4. On 5/18/2018 at 3:07 PM, T’Boo Ted Marshall said:

    I know Michelle and she is not afraid of HSO’s, she just knows where her bread is buttered. The climate is too hot to give them out these days as you can become an instant pariah.

    She attacks Mayweather for his wife/gf beating ways any chance she gets.

    Plus, she loves the Horns.

    I actually think Beadle has something and would be much better served with a wittier/funnier set of co-hosts. SVP would've easily been a better fit with Beedle than the Greenberg. The same is also true of Ryen Russillo who apparently quit ESPN of his own volition. If for whatever reason Ernie decided to hang it up I think Beadle would do well on that TNT pregame set depending on how quickly she could build rapport with Chuck and crew. And in all honestly ESPN doesn't have the depth of personality filled/funny/provocative athletes to fulfill whatever role Jalen is supposed to be filling. He's complete and utter garbage and owes his entire media persona to Bill Simmons, who for some reason finds Rose funny. ESPN has other anchors that would probably do well in a morning show role as well (Neil Everette, Stan Verrette, Elle Duncan, and Matthew Barrie). 

  5. Everything about Roach's actions this offseason say he is under immense pressured to leave, even without any assurances. Still, he's doing his best to take the sober approach and is doing everything he can to not make a decision he can't come back from. According to the paysites he's been a full participant in the offseason program, handled his books, and maintained his position as a leader in this program. He hasn't signed with an agent and has seemingly only received indirect feedback on his draft prospects (or the lack thereof). Being a prideful athlete this has to eat at him that it doesn't look like he'll get a chance to show off his wares in front of actual NBA front office personnel. Hopefully it motivates him to come back and give everything he's got to prove that they're wrong.

     

     

  6. Mark. It. Down-
    Two years from now when Mo Bamba is hitting threes and handling the ball on the perimeter a bunch of lukewarm UT hoops fans who barely pay attention to the program when we aren’t great will all come running out of the woodwork asking why we didn’t win more with this guy, or asking why he didn’t play like this at UT. Bamba’s skill set projects very well for the more open NBA game. He’s going to be great.
    Yep people don't realize how much more space is available in the NBA compared to college. Assuming he doesn't have any injury issues I expect Mo to have top 3 career out of this draft class.
  7. 1 hour ago, D_Goose said:

    Like everyone else I was pretty dissapointed when the pick number was unveiled but holy fuck balls, from the looks of Mavs Twitter and the extended Mavs media machine, you'd think the league just announced they're shutting the team down or something. Yeah, I'd say Ayton/Doncic are a pretty firm cut above at 1-2 but that 3-8 range looks very promising this year. There will be risk, sure, but at this point who can really project much difference in future success between Bagley/Bamba/JJJ/MPJ/Carter? 

    Exactly. Some of them are acting like Bamba is Hasheem Thabeet. And they're being absolute dicks if you disagree with the opinions they formed from the collective 5 games of college basketball they watched this year.  

  8. 16 hours ago, D_Goose said:

    Fucking 5th. Goddamn. Probably looking at Bamba or Wendell Carter I'd imagine.

    Now Wendell Carter is the player that I'll be absolutely pissed about if we draft him. There's absolutely nothing positive about what he can do in today's game. He's a dime a dozen player in this NBA.  Even if Bamba never develops on the offensive end there's no way he's not a plus defender/rim protector sans injury. As for Porter I don't know what to think of him. He was the #1 player in the class coming into the season and was thought of as a playmaker, (which is really what the Mavs front office wants), but that back injury is hard to get over.  

  9. best immediate reaction guess:
    1. phoenix - ayton
    2. sacramento - doncic
    3. atlanta - bagley
    4. memphis - jarren jackson jr.
    5. dallas - bamba (i hate this)
    I really hope it falls this way. We'll see. I'm worried Atlanta or the Grizzlies go after Bamba.
  10. Let’s hope. But most mavs fans im seeing are hating the idea of Bamba. 
     
    Tanking is stupid for the mavs. They can’t eben mention that crap next season. 
    Most Mavs fans are stupid. Pretty much all of BaD Radio thinks Bamba is just this side of Hasheem Thabeet.
  11. 5 hours ago, Onboard 2.0 said:

     

    Not sure how one makes any kind of argument about examples of slavery being better than other examples of slavery.

     

    And, I think breeding with slaves was a thriving practice as well.

    Yeah subtle nuances such as only one or two generations being enslaved vs you and every single one of your descendants into perpetuity. No distinction whatsoever. 

  12. 5 hours ago, DixonHur said:

    I'm sure the slaves throughout history would by comforted to know the nuanced differences between their subjugation and suffering.

     

    Beep, beep, beep...back it up...in Ancient Rome, the law stated that children of slaves were also slaves and breeding slaves was big business. 

    Contrary to your assertion, it was sub-Saharan (West African) slavery that was the exception...not the other way around.  There are many possible explanations for this, but the most commonly accepted version is that African societies had a different view of ownership in general.  Land was communal so, the only way to acquire wealth was from selling the products you could produce from the land.  Since the ability to generate products was predicated on how many "hands" you had available, slavery became a popular way to acquire workers.  While many were indeed eventually absorbed into their new families, they always had a lower status.

    The most common form of slavery was of the chattel variety, in which slaves were property...and the children of slaves were born into slavery.  This is how it was in ancient Egypt, Greece, Rome, Arabia, India, and China.

    Neither are fast food or sugar...heart disease and diabetes are nos. 1 & 6 respectively in terms of death in America....but I don't think they should be banned either.  Dumb people gonna dumb...some people are always going to be their own worst enemies.

    Well who am I to believe? You? Or those who pursue academic research on the subject? 

    Michael Munger Duke university

     

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    Michael Munger: Yeah. So, the way we defined it in this paper was that racism became a substitute justification for slavery. And the reason was, the original justification for slavery, which was the Roman one of wasn’t good enough. And so Southerners cast about and found basically an alternative, which was the Greek justification for slavery. And let me just say very briefly what those two are. The one justification for slavery, and it was pretty common in Rome, was that if you lost a battle and were captured, then you might either be killed or kept as a slave. And there is a mutually beneficial exchange, if you will, in the sense that you’ve already lost. So, me saying, ‘I tell you what: I won’t kill you if you will agree to act as my slave for the rest of your life. And I may free you; I may not; but that’s up to me.’ And you say, ‘Killed/be a slave: I’m going to go with the slave thing.’ But, it meant that some slaves were very excellent. And in Roman society some slaves occupied very high positions, positions of respect. It’s just that they made this promise. It was an economic institution. And that was the way that slavery had existed in Africa: if you lost a battle, then you would be captured by the other side. It was almost like indentured servitude: you could work it off.

    Well, that didn’t work in the American South because they wanted to maintain slaves, to be able to identify slaves and to have a justification that would allow them to enslave the children — which the old Roman justification would never have allowed. You are not going to be a slave if you are born to a slave, because you didn’t lose in battle: you would have been free.

    So, the Southerners needed a different way, so they were looking for the Aristotelian notion of slavery, which is that slaves are people who are either morally inferior or lack the judgment to make independent choices. They are like children or like horses. That means that you actually have a positive-good justification for enslaving them: if I have a thoroughbred horse or a fancy dog, it would be cruel of me to set it loose to let it run around, because it’s not capable of taking care of itself. I have obligations to take care of it. My ownership actually gives me obligations. And what’s interesting and what this paper is about is how Southerners worked that out between about 1815 and 1835, and started to understand the implications for how they had to change the economic institutions of slavery to match this new ideology that they were creating.

     

     

  13. but black...Some seem to think the color of your skin limits your opportunities today in this country. I would also lament that it solidifies how important the family dynamic is. So...if there are a lot of moving parts you can zero in on family dynamic for cause/effect. Sorry the dumbfuckery is lost on you and doesnt help certain narratives.

    Why stop there? The thing that gets me about people who follow this rationale is the lack of rigor utilized when discussing these issues. You imply their family dynamic is garbage. The obvious question is what caused the black family dynamic to be in such poor shape in your eyes? Why are people in places as disparate as Memphis, Chicago, St. Louis, Washington D.C., etc making similar choices? What is it about their situation that makes their familial choices seem rational to them. Is it genetic? Your example with Nigerians seems to reject that notion. Is it cultural? If so, why did their culture evolve in that manner? Cultures don't form in a vacuum? Human beings develop behaviors, beliefs, and characteristics to help them survive. Why did the black familial structure result in its current setup? Is it welfare? If so, why was the black illegitimacy rate 8 times that of whites before blacks were ever even allowed to be recipients of welfare? What's the reason?

     

  14. Johnny Sack may or may not be a racist, but 55 and David are putting things up as "fact" that are just flat out wrong. What?  I'm pretty sure you're trolling, but come on...nobody "invented" Rock & Roll.  It was born from the fusion of many musical styles, some predominately white and some predominately black...most notably blues and country.   As for sports and Alexander Hamilton...I'd love to know which sports you're talking about, and I'm not even sure how you invent a person, so I'll leave that one alone.   Pretty sure it was the Navy Seals who killed Osama.  Obama is in my Top 10 Presidents list, so while I give him major props for having the balls to order the mission, but don't act like he stormed the compound with an M4...or without one, like Trump would.  

    Me and my 3 semesters of African anthropology classes beg to disagree.  Slavery was already a common practice in sub-Saharan by the time the Europeans arrived.  They just became another customer.  The number of Europeans in the slave trade who ventured more than 10 miles from the sea during the middle passage years was next to zero.  The slaves were brought from much farther inland...sometimes hundreds of miles away...by rival tribes and traded for textiles. 

    The white guilt slavery angle always bugs me because while slavery is a barbaric practice, with zero redeemable qualities, it has been practiced by every culture on Earth at some point in history.  Just because trans-Atlantic slavery was one of the last ones, doesn't make it any worse, or more historically significant than the ones that existed over the previous 5,000 years. 

    I'm a white, American male, so yes, for this period in history, I hit the genetic jackpot!  I have things way easier than black people, women and most people not living in America.  I recognize that I had nothing to do with earning any of my white privilege, but I also don't feel guilty about it, nor do I feel that I owe a debt to anyone not white, male or American.  Just as I don't get bent out of shape that tall, handsome men tend to get better jobs and hotter chicks than average sized and average looking guys.   We all have our cross to bear...it's just some crosses are heavier than others.

     

     

     

     

    There was a difference in the justification for slavery in the Americas vs that in every other part of the world outside of maybe the Ancient Greeks. Much like with the Romans, slavery in sub-Saharan Africa was a tradeoff for people of conquered lands. The choice for those captured was death or slavery for that particular person. It didn't mean every single one of your descendants would be slaves into perpetuity. This form of slavery allowed for conquered people (ie slaves) to be absorbed into those conquering societies. The justification for slavery in America was the Aristotelian idea of slavery which is that slaves are people who are either morally inferior or lack the judgment to make independent choices. The logic behind this allowed for a "good" justification for enslaving them which also happens to have the added benefit of all their offspring and descendants becoming slaves as well. This notion of slavery into perpetuity is actually fairly rare in human history.     

     

     

     

     

     

     

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  15. On 5/6/2018 at 7:53 PM, riloh05 said:

    Can you explain why the Nigerian community doesnt seem to have this problem?

    Is this a serious question? Nigerians weren't quartered off into communities isolated from commerce and any chance of greater "assimilation". Nor were their families destroyed in every era of American history. This is quite simply a dumbfuck question. 

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  16. On 5/12/2018 at 11:39 AM, Spankytoes said:

    1. Where else is gun violence common? Which country would be an apt comparison to that of the black community in the U.S., which you state is being wrongly crucified? Guns are legal all throughout the U.S. Can you point to an area in the suburbs where white people are mirroring this violence?

    The combination of dense impoverishment with access to guns always results in intense gun crime. Dense poverty (as opposed to rural poverty) breeds desperation which in humans results in pathological dysfunction. The battle for drug territory exacerbates this already endemic issue. In America, Black communities have been locked into communities of dense impoverishment for generations due to housing policies that began in the 20s and 30s. Many communities in South America and Central america suffer from similar issues. We saw it in here America with other communities as well when they resided in densely impoverished areas. 

    2. If drugs and guns are the root of the violence, why aren’t you more supportive of these offenders getting locked up and taken out of the environment? Isn’t that a good thing?

    The root of problem is isolated communities that are densely impoverished leaving those whom reside there with a large set of bad choices buttressed up against only a few good ones. 

     

     

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  17. 10 hours ago, d2o said:

    Yeah that kinda player is never really gonna shine at Duke.   Its just not the kinda system K is gonna run

    I actually think in most years that type of player would be ok or even thrive at Duke. Prior to last year, and the Jhalil Okafor year,  Duke's offense mostly depended on spacing the floor with shooters and relying on guys who could drive and kick. This has been his scheme over the last 15 to 20 years. They seemingly had no use for bigmen whose primary attribute was a back to the basket game. For many years I'd wonder why any big man would seriously consider them because that type of player was so poorly utilized by Coach K. How many times did you ever see any of the Plumlee brothers receive post entry passes while they were there. They were used as rim runners and offensive board crashers.   

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  18. Really good article from the Ringer on Trevon Duval and his decision to go to Duke.

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    Duval is a slashing guard who can collapse the defense and find the open man on the move. He would have been best in a ball-dominant role similar to the one Collin Sexton and Trae Young had this season. Young had a usage rate of 37.1, while Sexton was at 32.9. Duval, in contrast, was at 21.3.

    Duval was a poor fit in Duke’s post-heavy offense. Like many hyperathletic guards, outside shooting was his biggest weakness coming into college, even though it’s an essential skill for perimeter players on a team that plays inside out. Duval, who shot 29 percent from 3 on 2.9 attempts a game, was never able to make opposing defenses pay for packing the paint against Bagley and Carter. Considering how dominant the two big men were, it’s hard to blame Coach K for structuring the offense around them. The Blue Devils would have been better with a guard with a more complementary skill set in Duval’s position.

    The fit between Duval and his star big men wasn’t much better on defense, either. A guard with his physical tools should have been pressing up on opposing ball-handlers and forcing them into turnovers and poor decisions.

    Playing that type of defensive style would also have improved his offense, since a more uptempo game would have allowed him to use his athleticism in transition, as opposed to playing in the half-court, which magnified his poor outside shooting. Instead, Duke sat in a zone to minimize the defensive weaknesses of Bagley and Carter. Duval, who has an only 6-foot-3.5 wingspan, didn’t have the length to be an impact defender when he was forced to guard an area instead of a man.

    Playing at Duke was a worst-case scenario for Duval’s draft stock. He couldn’t do the things he did well, while his weaknesses were on full display. That’s how he went from a potential lottery pick before the start of the season to no. 50 overall on ESPN’s Top 100 prospects list. Freshmen in that range typically go back to school to work on their games. Most NCAA coaches would love to have a sophomore like Duval running their team and would have tried to sell him on returning by structuring their offense to emphasize his strengths. The situation is different at Duke.

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  19. 23 minutes ago, In10se said:

    If I gleaned anything from All or Nothing it's a deeper sense of despair in being reminded that Jerry Jones runs this thing like his own family grocery store and no coach or team will likely ever win it all under those circumstances. It would take such a ridiculously disciplined set of 53 players and coaching staff to drown out that idiot's noise that it is not likely to happen. 

    All the hope I had that Stephen would be different in this area than his father were quickly extinguished when I saw Stephen sitting there right beside Jerry in the weekly coaches meetings. 

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  20. 14 minutes ago, Message Board User said:

    Unless Bamba walks into a workout with a blunt in one hand and a 40 in the other, I have him equal to Ayton.

    I didn't watch enough of Ayton to get a good feel for him, but his imposing size along with his skillset and touch make him a unicorn in my eyes. He's already much further along physically and offensively than Bamba. Seems like he has relatively short arms for his height though, so he may not end up being the defensive presence of Bamba. And I imagine he'll be much bigger in the future so we'll see how well he's able to maintain his agility and movement. But as it stands now he is impressive as fuck. 

  21. On 4/13/2018 at 7:22 PM, Message Board User said:

    Almost every mock I see has Bagley drafted before Bamba and I cannot see why.  Maybe I'm missing something but unless there's an injury issue I'm not aware of, Bamba's floor and ceiling is higher than Bagley's.

    Same here. Bagley strikes me as a guy whose lack of a consistent motor is a potential problem. His physical talent is tremendous so there's a chance he could turn into Chris Bosh, but I'd be really scared to draft him. He reminds me of that kid who went to Baylor a few years back (Perry Jones?) and even Anthony Randolph of LSU a decade ago. Both of those guys had all world talent, but for some reason they put off an air of listlessness.

    I'm really high on Bamba. His length alone makes me certain he'll be a defensive stalwart within 5 years. People harp on his lack of offensive game, but I think his issues there are due to a lack of core strength as opposed to a lack of inherent coordination to develop an offensive game. He already has tremendous touch, which is rare for guys built like him. Now pair that with his athleticism, earnestness, and overall maturity, and I think he'll end up having one of the 3 best careers out of this draft (ie Rudy Goldbert with the ability to open up the floor with his shooting ability and rim run on pick'n rolls). 

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