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2024 NBA draft thread - who goin steal Bron from Lakers?
Mitch Cumsteen replied to Im_smarter_then_you's topic in Basketball
I'm not sure I'm buying it. Markelle Fultz was a one and done. Huge bust, at least for a #1 pick. Lonzo Ball, Tatum, Josh Jackson (bust), Fox, Isaac, Markkanan, etc. were all one and done. I'm too lazy to go down the rest of the line, but that was a pretty good draft class overall. None of the current draftees are straight from high school. This was the last year of ignite, they announced. Going forward, most of these guys are going to end up playing in college for at least one year, or will have to go overseas. NIL makes it much more palatable and it's honestly a better marketing tool for the league if they play in college. But they're still going to be one and done, because the guaranteed first round money is too much to pass up. This year is just a down year for talent. I wouldn't read too much into it. There are busts every year even at the top of the draft and even guys who played for blue blood programs and never transferred. Cooper Flagg is likely going #1 next year and is playing for Duke. Rutgers (I know, Rutgers!) has two of the top players in Ace Bailey and Dylan Harper. VJ Edgecomb will be at Baylor. Tre Johnson is a projected lottery pick. I'm just not seeing it. -
2024 NBA draft thread - who goin steal Bron from Lakers?
Mitch Cumsteen replied to Im_smarter_then_you's topic in Basketball
Disagree. You don't have to look any further than next year's class. It's loaded. I feel like the league from top to bottom is as talented as it's ever been and there's more parity because of it. It's never going back to the majority of players sticking around in college for 4 years, but that doesn't mean that the players coming out today won't be great pros, even if it takes them a little bit longer to get there. At this point I might actually be pulling for Bronny to make it. I don't think he will, but I'm a sucker for a riches to riches story. -
Thank God we're getting more basketball.
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KAT is one of the dumbest players I've ever seen.
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Texas Recruiting Notes 2025: Duck Around and Find Out
Mitch Cumsteen replied to texifornia's topic in 🤫$9.95🤫
Why is LSU so pissy? Shouldn't they be used to this? I don't see how this is any different from Bama cleaning up at WR (Jeudy, Smith, Ruggs, Waddle, etc.) when Sark was there as OC for Saban. Same offense, different school and now with NIL money and Lambos instead of bags. -
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Mitch Cumsteen replied to Michael Knight's topic in Movies and TV
Saw it in IMAX over the weekend. Have to go with the general concurrence that it's very good, but it doesn't live up to the impossible standard set by Fury Road. I got out of Fury Road feeling like I had been on speed for the previous two hours. I could hardly catch my breath. Still better than 90% of the crap out there, though, and I did like it. One minor complaint -- and I can't tell if it's just because I'm getting old and there's something fucked with my hearing -- but I had some difficulty understanding what the characters were saying at times. It seemed like they were running SFX over the dialogue. Weird complaint for a movie that is so light in dialogue to begin with, I suppose. Did anybody else have that problem? -
Absolutely loved Bill Walton. I'm sure I've told the story when he gave me one of his wheres Walton t shirts at a spurs game. What a great human being.
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By all means go into my posting history and you won’t have to go too far to find me complaining uniformly about the nba playoffs being crushed by injury. I hate it. This isn’t me whining about the Celtics even though they are benefitting in a historic way from other teams injuries. It sucks as a fan. And fyi it’s not just the teams they are facing that you keep throwing out the irrelevant regular season records about, it’s also the other injured teams they got to avoid (Knicks, Bucks, Sixers). Nothing against the Celtics and I’m not trying to say they aren’t good or take anything away from them, but this is the biggest cakewalk to the finals probably in NBA history.
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Sure, but those are three lottery teams without Butler / Mitchell & Allen / Halliburton. Literally, they would be among the 10 worst teams in the NBA. Better than Detroit, Washington, Portland and Charlotte, but even Atlanta and Chicago would have given them a better challenge. Sac, GS, Houston, & Utah -- none of whom made the playoffs -- would have been more competitive. It's the luckiest run, ever. And it's very disappointing from a fans perspective. The NBA playoffs are supposed to be basketball played at its highest and most competitive level. Who wants to watch this shit?
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They are going to let Mitchell hire the coach, essentially. It's all ridiculous because he's going to sign the extension no matter what. If he doesn't like what's going on in Cleveland, then he just asks out. There's all this posturing these days about free agents and movement, but when was the last time a bona fide star free agent actually got to the market? There is no downside to taking the extension. You maximize your money and get your security, and then just pull the cord if you want out. So, so dumb. The more interesting thing is Garland. Seems like he's going to ask for a trade if they keep Mitchell. Bickerstaff was a dead man walking. They released a full hit piece on him within minutes of their getting bounced from the playoffs. He's at odds with the front office. Mitchell (and it seems, much of the team) lost confidence in him. And he's just not a very good coach in general. That team didn't win because of him. They won in spite of him.
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I'm leaning Wolves in the series, but only by a hair because of homecourt. Overall I think the games will be low scoring. Minnesota has been the best defensive team all year, and you can't discount what Dallas has done defensively since the trade deadline. They've been incredible, even Luka and Kyrie. Both teams will have to play a little differently than they did in the previous rounds. Dallas shouldn't be able to exploit the paint like they did against OKC. Minnesota is going to have to work harder on offense than they did against Denver. I think it eventually comes down to a few things: 1. Can Dallas small ball Gobert off the court and get Minnesota out of their defense? Denver couldn't do that because they have to keep Jokic in at all times. 2. Can KAT stay out of foul trouble and will Naz Reid be the X factor? 3. Which team's role players make their open threes.
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I've hated the Celtics going back to the 70s when the ABA/Spurs merged with the NBA. Red Auerbach continually talked shit about the ABA -- that coaches were bad, the players weren't good enough to play in the NBA, that Julius Erving was a nice kid but not a great player, and that the ball belonged on the end of a seal's nose. And then of course, post-merger the ABA players dominated. Then they backdoored their way into Larry Bird and continually fleeced dumb GMs in trades.
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Indy going to kick themselves for this one. Huge choke.
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I give Indiana a better chance in this series than most. Their pace (no pun) is weird for Boston. The Celtics get over reliant on the three point shot. Indiana will push it. Boston wants to play fast but nobody wants to play faster than Indiana. Boston is going to have to slow it down and it just ain’t their thing.
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I could be talked into Sarr, but I'm not giving Atlanta any of its draft capital back to move up three spots for him. Clingan is a hard no for me. The last thing they need is another big clogging up the paint for Victor. They can find a big in free agency who can suck up some minutes and take some fouls. I haven't watched that much of Salaun, but he looks very stiff to me. Not a fan, and he seems like a massive reach at 8. I can talk myself into just about any of the top 10 or so prospects in this draft, but he is the one that I would be outright disappointed about the Spurs picking.
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I think it's less about piling on when he got knocked off the throne and more about piling on after watching his reaction to being knocked off the throne. And he did look like a fool in the parade last year. I don't think he's any sort of villain. He just comes off as bush league. Not that a Spurs fan like me has any room to talk as horribly as Pop has treated the press over the years.
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Everything he gets is off of Jokic/Murray or somebody else. He can't create his own shot and they don't run any actions for him, which is weird for such a knock down shooter. Why aren't they running him off of 10 different screens and pin downs at least every once in a while to mix things up? I suppose the Jokic/Murray combo is so good that they don't have to much, but it wouldn't hurt them to be more diverse on offense. Having a secondary creator like Bruce Brown last year made them much more difficult to defend. They've become more and more Jokic-centric, which isn't necessarily a bad thing, but it seems that they could open up a lot more by being less predictable. The jackass is strong in Mike Malone. His bit at the parade last year was awkward. I felt a little embarrassed for the guy. I don't necessarily want coaches who are robots and act "classy" all the time, but it just seems like there is an unjustified pettiness to him that is unsettling for someone who has had every advantage possible moving into and up in the coaching ranks.
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I wouldn’t do that trade. I don’t know if there is much difference between 1 and 8 in this draft and Sarr is duplicative to a lot of what Wemby does. Plus there is a bigger cap hit. Looking at the west, the Spurs are going to have to deal with Ant, Luka and SGA for the foreseeable future. Assuming Risarcher is gone, I’m thinking Castle makes sense at 4 as a point of attack defender and connective piece. Even if he ends up not being a point guard, he can play on the wing. Dillingham will still probably be there at 8.
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I’m still in shock. Great win for the wolves. Horrific brutal choke by Denver. They are going to kick themselves all summer for this entire series and especially tonight. That stretch in the third quarter, they acted like the game was over. One lazy possession after another. Then second chance points killed them down the stretch and when Gobert is throwing in 17 foot turnarounds to beat the clock, it may just not be your night. Conference finals are going to be interesting. Both teams present such different problems than each faced in the previous round. I think I like Minnesota's chances.
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Brunson fractured hand. The Knicks were done before that, but that should make it official. Still, great run for them. Much respect. They would be a bitch of an out at full strength.
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Is the okc coach getting shit for challenging that foul? That wasn’t going to get overturned and that was their last timeout. 2.5 seconds is a lot of time.
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Texas Recruiting Notes 2025: Duck Around and Find Out
Mitch Cumsteen replied to texifornia's topic in 🤫$9.95🤫
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Denver clearly thought this series was over. They are some switch flipping motherfuckers for sure. They went into this game with zero appropriate fear and all the intensity of a mid December game against the pistons. I’m sure they will run Minnesota in game 7 at home but you play with fire enough you’re going to get burned. They still got a wide open three on that. He’s going to kill you one way or the other.
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After the game, Draymond commented on OKC's offense being too iso heavy with the only action being SGA and Williams screening for each other and how it gets easier to defend in a series, and I remembered I posted something similar back in March. On the rare occasions that I turn out to be prescient, I am damn sure going to remind everybody of it. And then I saw the rest of the post and I think Sam Presti should have hired me as a consultant.
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