Everything posted by Mitch Cumsteen
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San Antonio Spurs 2025-26 - Release the Kraken
Ugly win tonight but I’ll take it. I can’t believe the spurs have the third best record in the league after 28 games especially with wemby missing as many games as he has and coming back on a minutes restriction. Not to mention Castle, Fox and Harper injuries. OKC on rest disadvantage at home Tuesday and then in OKC on Christmas Day. Big time measuring stick games.
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San Antonio Spurs 2025-26 - Release the Kraken
The wiz are one of the worst 5-6 teams in the league to begin with. They have little chance against the spurs at full strength. They got no chance with this mash unit they’re putting out there tonight.
- 2025 CFP First Round - The "U" @ aggy
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San Antonio Spurs 2025-26 - Release the Kraken
This team might be halfway decent.
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San Antonio Spurs 2025-26 - Release the Kraken
Dear God this is a blood letting.
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San Antonio Spurs 2025-26 - Release the Kraken
Well... I did say almost. I don't want to get too into the weeds on this especially with how great that 2013 team was around Parker and the limited sample size we have on Harper. But look at this per 36 min comparison and per 100 possession comparison. That we're even having the conversation 16 games into this dude's career is insane. Again, this is the worst version of this cat that we're ever going to see unless he gets hurt or plays until he's 40 vs peak Parker with 10+ years under his belt.
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San Antonio Spurs 2025-26 - Release the Kraken
For the time being, I think he should come off the bench and run the second unit like they used to do with Manu, Take Vic and Fox out, let him run pick and roll with Kornet against the other teams backups. There's plenty of minutes to go around and it's a long ass season. You saw them try to close out the Knicks game with Fox, Harper, Castle, Vassell and Wemby. I think that's where they would ultimately like to go depending on matchups. Every one of those guys (with Vassell being the obvious weakest link) can hunt the poorest defender and get a shot off / get to the rim / get fouled at really high rate. Harper is virtually unguardable after 16 NBA games. He gets to the rim at will and finishes as well as anybody with either hand. He never turns it over. He plays really good defense. He reads the pick and roll and finds the open guy with amazing consistency. And for past couple of games he's been on fire from three. I don't know what the ceiling is for him, but this is the floor. Barring injury, this is the worst version we're ever going to see of this dude and I'm almost ready to say that he's already better than Tony Parker ever was.
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2025-26 Houston Rockets Thread - Back to Contention?
That’s a brutal L but the Pels aren’t as bad as their record.
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San Antonio Spurs 2025-26 - Release the Kraken
Harper… man this franchise is blessed.
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2025 Texas Coaching/Support Staff Thread
I was confused and on the fence about all of this until I read this. We fucked.
- Texas Roster 2026
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San Antonio Spurs 2025-26 - Release the Kraken
I think Kornet for sure would have helped but his minutes were wonky since Vic was on the restriction. Kornet had already played 33 minutes. I don't know how much he had left in the tank at the end for the French Vanilla combo.
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NBA 2025-2026 Season Thread
Thanks for the article. He's such a physical outlier anyway, One of one. I don't know how analogous adolescent academy soccer players playing for a club team in Europe are to the type of specific training and attention to injury prevention that Wemby has been going through since he was 14 years old. The strained calf and the ankle sprains I think are par for the course for NBA players in general. I was speaking more specifically to the deep vein thrombosis than growth-related injuries like Osgood-Schlatter´s disease. Since that's what knocked him out of the season last year. I think the reports that he's still growing are bullshit, but who knows? He played 71 games as a rookie and then 46 out of 52 games last year before the DVT. But for sure injuries were always going to be the biggest question about his career.
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NBA 2025-2026 Season Thread
They always have been and will continue to be extremely cautious with him as they are with all of their players coming off injury. But he's not on any sort of permanent minutes restriction as far as I know. He played 20 minutes against OKC. 25 last night. They are just ramping him up. He was playing ~35 minutes a game before he got hurt. He's 21. You guys are dreaming / being ridiculous. With regard to comparisons to Holmgren, you're the doctor... you tell me the likelihood of the deep vein thrombosis coming back to be something chronic or that is career altering? That seems like a one off, especially in the upper body. Chet, on the other hand, had a lisfranc injury before he ever played an NBA game and fractured his pelvis. He seems a lot more fragile to me and he doesn't look like he's filling out the way Wemby is even though he's two years older. I hope the Spurs remain extremely cautious with Vic not only for his long term health but also to the point where they keep him out enough to not hit 65 games and isn't eligible for the super max. Helps their cap down the road. As long as he's healthy for the playoffs...
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San Antonio Spurs 2025-26 - Release the Kraken
Great experience for this team regardless. Future is ridiculously bright.
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San Antonio Spurs 2025-26 - Release the Kraken
Completely killed on 50/50 balls. Horrible on the boards. Gave up way too many open threes.
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San Antonio Spurs 2025-26 - Release the Kraken
He’s going to hit about five in a row once he sees the first one go down.
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San Antonio Spurs 2025-26 - Release the Kraken
Not getting any calls tonight. Honestly, I don’t mind it as long as they let them play on both sides.
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NBA 2025-2026 Season Thread
The nephew is a bum and a loser. They should have never traded Norman Powell. Harden was playing for a contract last year. They are old as fuck. And as mentioned, they are the Clippers and they do Clipper things. I think Ty Lue is one of the best coaches in the business, but they may be tuning him out at this point.
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Joe Ely RIP
And Jim Stringer too. Rough day.
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NBA 2025-2026 Season Thread
If you look back at the playoff games OKC lost last year, it was mostly the ones where Williams laid an egg shooting. Also, the Spurs didn't shoot particularly well, either. Barnes has been their best three point shooter and he went 0-8 from downtown. Harper was 3 / 13 from the field. Wemby only played 20 minutes. Not sure either team really played their A game. Regardless, I think we're looking at the next great rivalry in the league over the next 5-ish years. 12 people outside of San Antonio and Oklahoma will watch it.
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NBA 2025-2026 Season Thread
OKC is a great team, possibly an all time great team, and they're probably going to win 70 games and the title again. But their record and point differential at this point of the season is a little bit of fool's gold. I said it a couple of weeks ago, but they have played the weakest schedule in the league and they've had some opponents injury luck as well. Granted they've been without Williams almost the entire season but they're so deep and they've been getting teams into garbage time so early, that their second unit keeps pouring it on so the numbers are a little skewed. Credit to them for being damn near 15 deep, but they are running it up on some scrubs. That isn't going to necessarily help them come playoff time. Go back through their schedule and tell me what their best win of the season is? Maybe opening night at home in 2OT against Houston? They smashed a mostly healthy Golden State at home. They beat Minnesota by 8 at home in a cup game. I guess they smacked the Lakers without Lebron pretty good. Maybe the league is a bit overrated this year? I'd really like to see them match up with Denver. I'd like to see them against Houston again. I'd like to see them play anyone from the east with a pulse. Those two games against the Spurs over the next 10 days should be fun, too.
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San Antonio Spurs 2025-26 - Release the Kraken
Aggie. You forgot Aggie. Fuck his fouling Aggie ass.
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NBA 2025-2026 Season Thread
- San Antonio Spurs 2025-26 - Release the Kraken
We’re going to lose one of the next two against those assholes by 40. Time to go get that cup. But for now? Fuck you thunder. - San Antonio Spurs 2025-26 - Release the Kraken
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