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Catdaddyhorn

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  1. And honestly THJ was a missing wing that we needed to give Finney-Smith and Bullock more rest. Our game 2 loss was fatigue related in my opinion. Their legs were shot. We basically played only 6 players for the entire Golden St series.
  2. I can't agree with trading Brunson. The playoffs proved that we need at least one other playmaker on the court at the same time. An offense with more off ball movement will facilitate both Luka and Brunson working better together. What I can agree with though is that Luka doesn't need another "star" to play alongside him. A better center in place of Powell who won't get played off the court in the playoffs and 2 more Bullock and Finney-Smith level 3 and D wings would make us a bonifide contender.
  3. Did Bob and Corby say anything about that ad? Or are you just talking about their comments on today's tragedy?
  4. And it's even more fascinating when you consider how Evangelicals joining the anti-abortion movement fundamentally changed the policy objectives expressed by the movement. If you read back in the 70s there was more of a push for childcare enhancements and attacking poverty. Basically way more stuff you'd expect from a Catholic based movement as opposed to an Evangelical based movement. And judging from the actions of that archbishop out in the San Francisco the involvement of Evangelicals in the anti-abortion movement is even altering how some American Catholics view this issue in particular vs other "anti-ilife" policy beliefs by politicians ie war, death penalty, etc.
  5. We'd probably have to incorporate more movement in the offense and for whatever reason, despite playing in motion based offenses for both Slovenia and Real Madrid, Luka doesn't seem to be an enthusiastic participant in that style of play in the NBA.
  6. I can't help but wonder what Steve King (former Iowa Congressman ) thinks about the fact that his party now whole heartedly endorses the exact same beliefs that got him stripped of his committee assignments and rebuked by his colleagues by a count of 416-1 only 3 years ago.
  7. This is the thing. Apparently most or many on the right have never actually met and/or befriended a good sample size of immigrants. Most immigrants are more inclined to be conservative on issues that don't increases their likelihood of being murdered, assaulted, harassed, or discriminated against. The right has so thoroughly convinced themselves that actually working for the vote of these demographics is such a lost cause that they pursue policies that push these groups even further away. Shit, when it comes to Hispanics most of them identify as white anyway so this great replacement theory is about as fraudulent now as it was with its first 3 or so iterations in this country's history (Irish, Italians, Catholics Eastern Eurpeans, etc).
  8. Is she the same lady who son was shot and killed at a gas station for playing his music too loud?
  9. What makes it even worse is Bob has absolutely no clue what he's even talking about yet he argues like he's the expert. Even with that said, Corby apparently doesnt realize that Aggy hadn't even put together an NIL collective at that time which is part of the reason why people accused them of cheating. They didn't even go through the motions of creating an entity to separate their NIL apparatus from the institution.
  10. From all the reports he's an extremely hard worker and his defensive assets are phenomenal so even I'll admit that despite some of his failings I think he'll be more of an impact player than Rashard Lewis. At the very least he will be on the defensive end. A lot of my earlier points of criticism of him may just stem from him being a young guy who hasn't been coached to improve or develop other aspects of his game. Plus being such an elite shooter at that size it's easy to understand why he falls in love with his deep range at the expense of a more well rounded game.
  11. He's never made it abundantly clear, but I don't think Corby ever graduated either.
  12. Yeah I assumed they have other gigs, but I'd imagine on air job responsibilities might limit them due to time constraints. I think back in the day Mark Elfenbein was either a loan officer or actually owned a mortgage shop. But someone like Mino is constrained by being at the ticket from 11 or 12 to 7pm. He'd be fairly limited in what he could do to make any real money and he's already 30+.
  13. I've long since wondered how the non-tier 1 guys remain on the job well into their 30s, 40s, & 50s making 30k a year.
  14. They never came back to Dallas. Could be in Phoenix or San Francisco.
  15. A potentially underrated asset that may be available next year is Jonathan Issac. Provided he's fully recovered he could be another version of Maxi Kleber minus that elite potential from outside.
  16. They have more than just Porter and Murray though. Their depth got a lot of experience this year without Murray and Porter.
  17. Jokic would fit easily although we'd have to match contracts within 10 or 15% in the ensuing trade which would pretty much gut the roster. Regardless Jokic wouldn't do that. Assuming all his injured teammates come back fully healthy his roster on Denver is light years better than what he would be left with here in Dallas, even with Luka. Next year the west is going to be ridiculously tough. Teams like Denver, Clippers, and even New Orleans will have significant talent returning from injury. I imagine perhaps a team like Utah will probably fall out of the mix, but the top 6 teams will all be legit championship contenders.
  18. Pat Beverly is putting in a 12 hour shift today to get that hate in.
  19. Woke with my face hurting because I was smiling so hard during my slumber. I've consumed every bit of Mavs media possible this morning and I can't get enough. Everything from Bill Simmons podcast to the Athletics to even Get Up on ESPN. Patrick Beverly was on this morning absolutely eviscerating the Suns. Said Chris Paul should've fouled out and claimed his nickname in the NBA is cones because he can't guard anyone and is allowed to get away with nonsense because of his status in the league. I love this shit.
  20. DFS may have Poole over Klay but we'll see.
  21. Whataya know, it's possible for coaches to improve just like players improve; especially early in their careers.
  22. The narrative between Bird and Magic is often depicted as rural vs city in addition to the obvious black vs white dichotomy, but people forget that Lansing wasn't that big and beyond that Magic's parents were part of the great migration that saw black folks move from the south in search of manufacturing jobs in the north. Magic's parents and the community he grew up in was made up people who picked up and moved from places like Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, and the Carolinas. He was just as "country" and rural as Bird was.
  23. Every fucking year they do this. My Mavs had couldn't see this level of player development with binoculars on.
  24. I want to say that I got this article from earlier in this thread, but it could've been from the discussion in the "Supremes" thread. https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/05/south-abortion-pro-life-protestants-catholics/629779/ But basically what yall are describing in Ireland and Italy was part of our political spectrum before Jerry Fallwell and the rest of the religious right got involved in the 80s. Before the mid-1970s, active opposition to abortion in the United States looked almost exactly like opposition to abortion in Britain, Western Europe, and Australia: It was concentrated mainly among Catholics. As late as 1980, 70 percent of the members of the nation’s largest anti-abortion organization, the National Right to Life Committee, were Catholic. As a result, the states that were most resistant to abortion legalization were, in most cases, the states with the highest concentration of Catholics, most of which were in the North and leaned Democratic. This fit the pattern across the Western world: Countries with large numbers of devout Catholics restricted abortion, while those that were predominantly Protestant did not. Sweden—where Catholics made up less than 1 percent of the population—legalized some abortions as early as the 1930s; Ireland did not follow suit until 2018. If the United States had followed this script, opposition to abortion probably would have weakened with the decline of Catholic-church attendance rates. Like Canada and England, where the leading conservative parties are overwhelmingly supportive of abortion rights, the Republican Party in the United States might have remained what it was for most of the 1970s: a heavily Protestant party whose leaders generally leaned in favor of abortion rights. .......................................................................... Only a minority of white evangelical Protestants were politically progressive; the majority (especially in the South) were conservative, and they combined their commitment to moral regulation with a faith in free-market economics and opposition to social-welfare spending. American evangelicalism had long been the most individualistic of the nation’s Christian traditions, and in keeping with that individualistic theology of sin and salvation, most white evangelicals thought that the government’s interest in morality extended only to the punishment of individual vice, not the reduction of poverty. Thus, as the anti-abortion movement’s political influence shifted away from Catholic states toward evangelical-Protestant regions, it abandoned its earlier calls for federal antipoverty programs, expanded maternal-health insurance, and federally funded day care, and instead focused exclusively on the narrower issue of overturning Roe v. Wade and making abortion illegal. A few activists (including a number of the northern Catholic veterans of the movement) remained committed to poverty relief and a comprehensive culture-of-life ethic, but with the Democratic Party’s current unequivocal endorsement of abortion rights, some of them felt politically homeless. Those activists began voting Republican despite their reservations about the party’s stances on social-welfare issues—which brought them into alliance with the southern evangelical conservatives who now had the political power to restrict abortion in their region.
  25. Bob elicited a preemptive "none of the other coaches answer our calls" excuse for why the Hardline has the Aggy Power hour segment every couple of months.
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