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Mitch Cumsteen

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  1. Yeah, his shooting is terrifying especially with how horrible the rest of the team shoots. But his stroke doesn’t look fundamentally broken to me and he does everything else at an elite level. He’s got a lot more in his bag offensively than he showed at UConn. I watched his high school tape and I think he’s going to be really good in the midrange, creating his own shot. I do believe the three point shot will come for him. His shooting got better as the season went on. Carter at 4 seems like a reach but who isn’t a reach in this draft? Odds are he’s still there at 8 but who knows how this thing shuffles out. He’s also got some questions about his shooting but I love the tenacity that he plays with. I do like Knecht too but drafting two of the oldest dudes in this draft doesn’t seem like the spurs mo. They have to take at least one upside swing with those two picks.
  2. Draft day. I’m hoping for Castle at 4 and either Carter, Knecht or Williams at 8. Preparing myself to be pissed if they end up with Salaun. I think we’re going to see some wacky shit tonight regardless. Not necessary with the Spurs but this draft board is so loose that there should be a ton of movement. Should be fun. GSG
  3. Gotta hand it to the nets. They looked dead in the water as a franchise and now they have a real path forward for the rebuild. Unbelievable reclamation project. Did they not get either of the Knicks frp this year? I’m a little surprised Houston agreed to give up the nets 2025 pick. That one was for sure going to be in the lottery and the 2025 draft is tasty.
  4. Jordan was a great defensive player. But he was never even the best defensive player on his own team much less in the entire league. Pippen was better and always guarded the other teams best player.
  5. Going to have to break out the narcan tonight boys.
  6. If that motherfucker recruited better at dline, he'd still have job.
  7. I caught it yesterday afternoon at the Alamo. It was fine but I think it left a lot of meat on the bone. One thing that threw me off was that they had a brief interview with Jeff Nichols before the movie where he talks about his influences and specifically Goodfellas. And that he was essentially trying to make Goodfellas for bikers, where he focuses on world building and less on plot, and then watches it fall apart. Knowing that kinda screwed with me, so it felt contrived and derivative. I may have thought that way regardless. I also think he tried to stay true to the source material, and maybe he shouldn't have. There was probably a better story in there than got told and there was probably a better way to tell it.
  8. I don't know that Toronto had much of a choice. They just hit the reset button on their roster and he's the only real asset they have left. Depending on what they do with Quickley, they should have a good amount of cap space moving forward.
  9. I don’t believe those spurs rumors for one hot second. First off they don’t telegraph shit over there. But if they want to move some future seconds to move around then fine. They aren’t giving up 8 to move up a couple of spots in this flat, bad draft. It would be malpractice.
  10. Holy Jimbo Fisher, batman. They're giving him a raise off of 10-3? That schedule was deep fried garbage. I could have coached that team to 10 wins. The only ranked team they played besides us was Arizona in the bowl game and they lost that one. Credit to him for winning in Dallas last year, but I'm way more inclined to chalk it up to weird TX/OU shit. Can't wait to see how this fuckstick does this year with a green QB and a brand new oline. They have a fucking joke of a non-conference schedule again, but get Tennessee, Ole Miss, Missouri, Texas, Bama and LSU. That's 6 teams that will be probably ranked in the top 15 pre-season.
  11. Lavine can’t stay healthy. His contract is toxic, like nearly Ben Simmons toxic. Re: Giddey. He put up good numbers for a tanking team. Once they started winning, it certainly wasn’t because of him. He may be the greatest inbounds passer I’ve ever seen, but he is impotent from outside and a poor defender who got targeted repeatedly in the playoffs. He didn’t just have a “not great” playoff. He was atrocious. Unplayable. He’s the polar opposite of how Boston just constructed their championship roster. He’s obviously got upside and is still very young, but they were about to have to commit some big money to him that could come back to bite them when it’s time to re-up their big 3. I don’t blame them from moving on. The fact that they got a massive upgrade and a true two way difference maker in Caruso for him is just aggravating. That they did it and still have all their cap space to make more moves is even more infuriating. There has to be some draft capital involved. There just has to be.
  12. Ha. The spurs have the bulls 2024 (protected) first too. They can’t trade it.
  13. Chicago has got to be one of the most incompetent front offices in the league right now. OKC was absolutely dreading having to pay Giddey and the Bulls bailed them out and made them an even bigger contender. Unbelievable. Can’t wait to see what gymnastics they pull with Zach Lavine next. Are they finally embracing the tank?
  14. I just went down the wormhole of the Battle of the Network Stars, specifically the dunk tank videos, which are beyond spectacular. And then I got to this... and while initially being mesmerized by the hotness of Randi Oakes, Larry from Three's Company comes out of fucking nowhere throwing absolute gas.
  15. I'm sure I've written this before, but my friend who has worked for the Spurs for forever, only says good things about anybody who has worked/played for them. Except two people: Kawhi Leonard and Monty Williams. And compared to what he says about Monty, he talks about Kawhi Leonard as if he were David Robinson. Pop feels the same way about him (allegedly). Let me unscratch it for you: Lebron and Klutch are running the Lakers. They're a terribly run organization, and have been since the last few years of the Kobe era.
  16. So much to process here, but: 1. Huggy Bear has mad skate game 2. Braless, perky roller skating Cindy Williams is making me rethink my previously held and utterly misguided opinion on her attractiveness. Along those same lines per the first video, Mrs. C would get it.
  17. No. That's Exidor from Mork and Mindy. Which begs the question of how Robin Williams missed that coke-fueled bender. Lauren Tewes was definitely down.
  18. Gotcha. I still can't imagine they would do that. The 2025 draft is looking too deep and they have too many young players already that they don't have the bandwidth to develop. In addition to the two top 8 picks, they have 2 SRP (#35 and #48) in this draft. They drafted 3 FRP in 2022, Wemby plus a SRP (Cissoko) on a guaranteed deal in 2023, and potentially four FRP next year (their own, Atl unprotected, Chicago and Charlotte). They have to spread it out some. Loading up this year in this meh draft doesn't make any sense.
  19. I'll help you with both of these: 1. No way the Spurs are going to trade what is likely to be a pretty juicy first round pick in a very deep draft in 2025 to move up one spot in this draft for a prospect with as many question marks as Sheppard. I don't even believe he is even at the top of their board. They would likely take Risacher or Castle before Sheppard. 2. The Spurs own Charlotte's 2025 FRP, lottery protected.
  20. Not sure how his wife having breast cancer is relevant, although I'm pretty sure that she was cancer-free before he ever took the Detroit job. And for sure that's a bad roster, but they weren't "longest losing streak in NBA history" bad. He's a terrible, awful, incompetent coach who is both inept with X's and O's and a bad communicator / people person. Bad coach. Bad dude. Incredible contract signer.
  21. Monty Haul is a terrible coach and a fraud. He had one good stretch in Phoenix where Chris Paul essentially ran the team, but other than that he has been completely inept going back to the New Orleans days. Other than signing ridiculous contracts, the most impressive thing he's ever done in his career is deliver the eulogy at his wife's funeral.
  22. I'm going to go ahead and put zero stock in any of those PFF ratings. Did anyone watch Gavin Holmes last year and think this guy will be one of the top returning CB's in the SEC? How much stock do you put in what Cole did against the murderers row San Jose State faced? Vandy has two of the top 4 returning corners in the SEC? That seems... unlikely. There are definitely reasons for optimism for improved pass defense the least of which should be a better rush off the edge, but along with the DT, it's the biggest unknown going into the fall to me. There are quite a few new players to integrate and lingering scheme questions about the cohesiveness between the front and back end, and on top of that the DB coaches are perceived to be this staff's weakest link.
  23. That's a lot to take in. What the hell is going on here?
  24. Draft is in a week. Nobody really knows what the hell is going on. Below is a consensus draft that I found, and it looks as good as anything else out there. I saw something recently about the Hawks taking Clingan at 1. That would be a bit surprising and shake some things up, but is certainly not out of the question. I also saw that Atlanta hasn't been able to work out Sarr, which seems odd. The general consensus is that Risacher / Sarr go 1/2 in either order. I think Detroit is a wildcard at 5. They have new front office leadership and I think everything is on the table for them. Buzelis gets pegged to them a lot. In a group of prospects that all make me skeptical in some form or fashion, he especially sets off my spidey bust sense. Washington may be a wildcard, too. They are building from essentially nothing and have a relatively new front office as well. So they are a prime candidate to do some unpredictable or stupid shit also. I keep seeing Sheppard to Houston at 3. He makes sense there. I wonder what they do if Risacher or Sarr is available? @Fud what do you think? I would be good with the Spurs ending up with Castle and Williams. It does fuckall to fix their shooting woes, but I like both prospects and their versatility. If they burn 8 on Salaun, I'm going to break something in my house. I'm all for taking an upside swing, but not on this cat. I will be stunned if he is still in the league for his second contract. I could see Carter going higher than expected. He's a gamer. Same with Knecht. I could see Holland getting the Cam Whitmore free fall treatment. Somebody with patience will get Topic at a really good value. Probably OKC. Assholes. As bad as this draft is at the top, there will be some nice players at the back end of the first round. I kinda have my eye on Ware, Kolek, George, Tyler Smith and Carrington in particular.
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