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Mitch Cumsteen

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  1. Like I said in the spurs thread, the Fox extension was assuredly negotiated before they made the trade. It’s a lot easier to swallow while Wemby, Castle and Harper are on rookie contracts. The Keldon Johnson and Devin Vassell contracts are probably worse deals if you want to criticize the Spurs front office.
  2. I’m not surprised at all. This was negotiated back when they made the trade, I assure you. I like it that Fox is on a little bit of a different timeline than the rest of the team. This is the time to give a vet big money while you have Wemby and Castle and Harper on rookie deals. Next contract for Fox is going to be a different deal. If he’s still around, that is.
  3. Bryant doing damage in these practice sessions. And that's a nice use of the off arm btw.
  4. Maybe we've moved beyond all the historical rat poison media hype with Sark, but holy shit I've never seen so much Kool Aid flowing. Especially when they haven't even practiced in pads and started hitting yet. How the hell can you judge anything about the offensive or defensive lines right now?
  5. I think it shows how much he's matured that there was no gun play involved.
  6. I always figured Terry for the inside. Is he just not big enough, yet?
  7. Did PK tell the media he would see them in December too? That's the last we will hear from that guy until the playoffs.
  8. Anybody else slightly concerned about DT? We've gotten very spoiled there the last three years. I know there are a lot of new bodies and highly rated transfers to throw at the position and the future looks really bright, but I can't imagine we won't see a little step back there. The only guy we've actually seen play is January, and he's a true sophomore.
  9. I think Venables will cobble together a good defense. And I think their QB transfer will be pretty good. But that offensive line and lack of talent at the skill positions is going to make it difficult for them. They are going to have win ugly rock fights and hope they win the turnover battles and special teams. Going to need lots of Sooner magic. I think they are going to be better than we think, generally. The schedule that looked so brutal last year doesn't seem as bad this go around. Or maybe I still have PTSD from the Sam Bradford seems like he sucks thread from god knows how many years ago. I'm still trying to figure out how they waxed Bama 24-3 and ran for 257 yards on them.
  10. I think the move is to let him commit to OU now, then flip him at the last minute leaving OU empty handed with no replacement.
  11. They must have some special kind of math in Georgia.
  12. I’m not saying this list is bad but Tre Wisner is first team RB for the entire conference when he’s not even first team RB for his own team.
  13. Needs more Mr. Nimbus.
  14. This thread title is so living up to its name, in the funniest most ironic way possible. Suck it Georgia. What comes around goes around.
  15. You have to watch summer league with a discerning eye for what translates and what doesn’t. IQ translates. Hustle, effort and having a knack for being at the right place at the right time translates. Athleticism only translates if you don’t have it. In other words, there are some great athletes at summer league who can’t play in the league. Shooting doesn’t necessarily translate. The looks you get in summer league are so much better than the real league. That said, Harper, Bryant and I’m pretty sure Jones-Garcia can play in the league. I’m not as sold on Minix but he’s at least worth keeping around on a two way. Filipowski knocking down threes like that… yeah for his size if he’s really that accurate there’s definitely a NBA future for him. There’s no way to judge where he is defensively though against that competition. Nor is there any way to judge how effective he can be down low on offense but a stretch five like that for sure has decent career ahead of him if he can play close to league average defense. Also, that was one of the most fun summer league games I can remember. Entertaining as hell.
  16. Yeah... he needs one. They did it for Jonathon Simmons and Gary Neal after a few summer league breakout games. Unless he's got some character issues, I don't see why they wouldn't add him either on the minimum or as a two way. They have the roster spots. He may have played his way out of a two way, actually.
  17. I'm not as high on him as you are, but I do think he's going to be a special player. I don't see either of those two in him. Lebron was a physical freak of nature since he was like 12 years old. Bird was an offensive machine with impeccable instincts. Flagg is one of those guys where the ball just somehow always magically finds him. I don't know how much of an offensive mismatch he's going to be, but I do know that he is going to impact the game pretty much everywhere. John Havlicek was the best comp I could come up with - a guy who does everything and impacts winning everywhere. Dallas is going to be an interesting rebuild. Before the inexplicable Doncic disaster, I thought Nico Harrison did an unbelievable job remaking that roster. They had a bad cap situation, very little draft capital, and he shrewdly managed to put together a team that made it to the finals. Other than the Grant Williams deal (that he quickly rectified), he made one great move after another. He took a relatively terrible roster that was a poor fit around Luka and completely remade it. I thought he was one of the best GM's in the league until he temporarily went insane.
  18. I kinda liked Wesley but he was going to get buried after they drafted Harper. They needed another big and they needed three point shooting and Olynyk gives them both. They can also move his contract if they want to do something bigger later in the season. Really nice move by the spurs. Three roster spots still open and they have some money to play with. I don’t think they’re done. Adding another solid vet who can shoot wouldn’t hurt my feelings.
  19. And the inability to re-sign Karl Anthony Townes. You forgot that you gave that up in the trade, too, although you did get Randle and Donte DiVincenzo. I still wonder what kind of assets they could have put around KAT and Edwards with more picks and more cap flexibility.
  20. It's a great question. Utah is either dumping salary to facilitate more trades for picks or going after a free agent. Between this, the Sexton trade and the Clarkson buyout, I would have to say it's the former but I'm not sure exactly why. I get that they are clearing the decks for their young players to get more playing time, but they already have so many young players and picks that acquiring more doesn't seem to portend that much more marginal of an improvement. I don't know how much more they can bottom out (worst record in the league last year) or why or what they are going to do with even more picks. What was the whole point in extending Markannan? The Jazz turned Sexton, Clarkson and Collins into Jusuf Nurkic, Kyle Anderson, Kevin Love and a second round pick. Austin Ainge era off to a booming start.
  21. I hope we don’t end up with buyers remorse passing on VJ Edgecombe. I know everyone considers Harper on another tier but VJ is at a different level athletically and is going to be tremendous defensively. He and Maxey are going to be the most dynamic backcourt in the league.
  22. You ever listen to K-Billy's "Super Sounds of the Seventies" weekend? It's my personal favorite.
  23. Anybody want to take a stab at ranking the west right now? Tier 1: OKC, DEN, HOU Tier 2: MIN, LAC Tier 3: DAL (I'd have them tier 2 with a healthy Kyrie), LAL, GSW Tier 4: MEM, SAC, SAS, POR, PHX Tier 5: NOLA, UTAH
  24. He played decently well when Chris Paul was riding him and setting him up in Phoenix. Maybe Luka and LeBron can get him going a bit.
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