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Mitch Cumsteen

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  1. This is why Fox got a max contract. He’s basically won this game single-handedly.
  2. He’s on fire. Fox is having a nice game as well. They don’t have have anybody who can stay in front of him.
  3. Harper has been upgraded to questionable for tonight. Good sign. He can't get back soon enough. Same with Wemby and Castle. They could really use a W tonight. Not very optimistic about the next two at Denver and at Minnesota. They need to get at least one W on this roadie and it's also a cup game.
  4. And the best part is that they will mount it onto a bloody mary. Well, at least they will mount a slider on a bloody mary. Sobelman's is insane. As a connoisseur of dive bars, I gotta say that Milwaukee per capita has more neighborhood joints than any other city I've ever been to and each one is better than the next. You can't swing a dead cat in West Allis without hitting a killer bar. I spent three nights there a couple of summer's ago, and my liver still hasn't recovered. Such a fun, cool, town.
  5. Oh man.... I haven't been to MK Davis in years. Frozen schooner game still appears to be on point.
  6. I did a downsized Thanksgiving on Sunday for my immediate family since we have to go to the in-laws ranch on Thursday and we all know their food will be ass. I gotta say, it might have been the best Thanksgiving meal I ever ate. I half-assed the presentation, but the turkey was on point. Busted out a new stuffing recipe that I found on the internet and it was pretty amazing. Also knocked out the obligatory sweet potatoes marshmallow bullshit and some mashed potatoes (no pics). I think I've finally perfected my cranberry sauce (also no pics). Zero fucking vegetables because I knew I would end up throwing 90% of it away. Plus carbs rule.
  7. After careful consideration… still hate Dillon Brooks. Spurs need to defend the three better. Tighten their shit up on defense.
  8. I’ve only been to one game in Moody but I endured some of the dullest and most lifeless basketball environments of my life in a half filled Erwin Center. Bob Weltlich, holla. And even when it was filled, it was still generally pretty sterile. Hell, I was at the strollin Nolan game which was off the charts as far as UT basketball environments go. I’ve been to hundreds of Spurs games going back to the Hemisfair arena. Yeah, you’re going to have some clunkers here and there when the team is down and it’s a 41 game home schedule but overall? You can miss me with Texas basketball ball game having a better environment than your average Spurs game and don’t get me started about the intensity of a Spurs playoff game.
  9. I can’t hate CP3 as much as I used to after his year in SA. His career was marred by never having great enough teammates and/or consistently getting injured at the worst possible time. But as far as point guards go, depending on whether you define Curry and Harden as point or shooting guards, he’s probably top 5 all time: Magic, Stockton, Kidd, Isiah and that nut punching whiny asshole Chris Paul. He’s also, as far as I can tell, the last of a dying breed of true table setting pass first point guards. You just don’t see guys play like him anymore, and it’s kind of a shame the way the game has evolved to eliminate that style of player. @ztejas point about him always making his teams better is a great one too. It’s pretty remarkable how he elevated every team he played for (notwithstanding that one weird year in GS). For a guy who never really won anything, he’s in a certain respect one of the great winning players in the game.
  10. @MNLonghornFUKM in case you missed this last night.
  11. Did they forget about Buzelis and Ajay Mitchell, too? I saw Risarcher live and in person last night and he looked like he'd never set foot on a basketball court before.
  12. Last night was the first game I've attended this year. There are certain things that you get watching in person that don't come across on TV: Specifically, Sochan's jumper still is a disaster. While the hitch is gone, he moves the ball across his face before releasing and there is still sidespin on the shot. The jackals... not a fan. I get what they're going for but it feels like you jammed the student section of a college game into 5 rows of an NBA stadium,. The rest of the crowd really isn't involved with whatever they're doing and if they are like me, they find them mostly annoying. Maybe it will take a while for them to find their place in the game but right now they are non-stop. I would hate it if my seats were in that section. Last night, we were two sections over and it was still too close. I love Jones-Garcia. Ignoring for a minute that he's a three level scorer who can create on his own, he picked up Dyson Daniels 94 feet and completely disrupted Atlanta's offense. They really don't have minutes for him once Castle and Harper get back, but I've seen enough between summer league and now to feel like they should give him some sort of Champagnie-like deal where they can keep him for cheap for multiple years. This is the best basketball Keldon Johnson has ever played. I still get a knot in my stomach when he launches a three and he's fucking traffic cone on defense, but he's found his calling as a hustle guy off the bench. Fox is such a pro and his bbiq is undervalued. He sees stuff before it happens on both ends. He understands that he's supposed to get his teammates involved early and then take over later when needed. I still don't know how the fit is going to work when Wemby gets back, but they might be better off playing through him and letting Wemby be more opportunistic off-ball instead of running shit through Vic where teams can set up more easily to defend him. I haven't seen much of Risarcher so he might have just had a bad game, but he was the worst player on the floor last night. Thank god we dodged that bullet in the draft. Any games that aren't against the dregs of the league that they win with this Mash Unit of a team should be considered gravy. I have a feeling the next 4 are going to be rough.
  13. I absolutely loved Queen before the draft. But they could have given up a top 4 protected pick for him instead of the unprotected. That would have made sense and nobody would have batted an eye. But if Atlanta ends up with any of those top three guys this year…. Yikes.
  14. They needed that one last night. Schedule gets tough going forward. Atlanta (at home Thursday) has been playing a lot better without Trae. Then it’s a pretty brutal road trip- Phoenix, Portland, Denver and Minnesota. They could easily go 0-4 over that stretch. They need Castle and Harper back in the worst way to try to help hold down the fort until Wemby gets back. Also want to give Olynyk some love. He provides zero rim protection but he knows how to play. Huge upgrade from Biyombo if they can get him and Sochan to serve as backup platoon center to Kornet for time being. One other thing about Wemby. If he doesn’t hit 65 games he doesn’t qualify for postseason awards and can’t get the super max extension. Might be a blessing in disguise as long as he’s healthy most of the time.
  15. And then he airballs it. Lol.
  16. I’m having a difficult time processing Sochan’s three point shooting.
  17. I’m thinking that they need to run shit through him when Wemby is on the bench. He laid a giant turd at the end of the Warriors game but he’s averaging 20 and 6 on 50% shooting in his limited time back. He’s good enough to carry the team for stretches and he doesn’t need any help to generate offense.
  18. Nothing more on brand for Aggie for this to happen the day they announced Elmo’s contract extension.
  19. The trade was fine. They gave up peanuts for him. The new contract? We’ll just have to see how that goes. I’m not quite ready to throw in the towel on him after his fourth game back from injury.
  20. I’m wasted tonight and have a very distorted view of the game but I just think this a young team that doesn’t know how to close out games especially when one of the greatest players in the history of basketball is playing out of his mind at an age that he has no business being as great as he is. I will wait patiently for his hamstring to snap and their entire season get run into the gutter. In the meantime, they brought Fox in to be the closer and it doesn’t look like he could close down a bar. I’m not quite ready to give up on him and his atrocious contract after three fucking games but he needs to get right with Jesus / Wemby or things are going to get awkward quickly. I’ve been preaching patience for the last couple of years. I’m still preaching it. These guys are going to figure it out and Vic is the fucking messiah. So let’s all put on our big girl panties and see how this thing plays out before making any rush to judgment. Did I mention I’m really really housed right now? Apologies for any weirdness. GSG.
  21. Maybe he's partially behind because of injuries, but things are not looking good for Sochan. Bad luck being hurt the same time Kornet was out -- those could have been some minutes he filled instead of the walking corpse that is Bismack Biyombo. But otherwise? No extension this off season. They essentially drafted his replacement in Carter Bryant. You would think there would at least be some space for him off the bench as an energy guy, but Keldon has been great in filling that role. Sochan has got to make the most out of the few minutes he does get, otherwise he's going to be seeing a lot of bench. When Harper gets back, that's even fewer overall minutes available. But it's a long season... anything can happen. I imagine at some point he will get some more run. Regardless, need a dub against the dubs tonight. Cup game mixed in with a little revenge from Wednesday. Let's see if Mitch can make some adjustments to what they threw at Vic in the second half. Let's see if we get a better whistle and not have the Warriors jack 57 threes while also getting to the line 36 times. Let's see if Fox can find his way into the flow a little better. Let's see if the Spurs can stay out of foul trouble. GSG.
  22. It's allegedly in fucking Elmendorf. The Captain Gus show was shot somewhere downtown. At least, when I was five years old and my folks dragged me down to be on it, I'm pretty sure it was somewhere downtown.
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