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Mitch Cumsteen

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  1. Jimmy Butler omfg. Milwaukee deserves to lose. Just one brain fart after another.
  2. And he got a great look just didn’t knock it down.
  3. Milwaukee’s defense on Butler is mind boggling. He’s killing Jrue and Bud won’t switch anybody else onto him. This last possession….
  4. I went to the Fiesta arts thing on Saturday. Good times, great weather. My wife screwed up the calendar and last night we tried to go to Beethovens, but it doesn't start until today. I should know better. May head down there tomorrow night. Doing pooch parade Saturday morning and probably King William. Last year King William was rough. Super hot, really long beer lines, and the bands were pretty awful. Hoping for a better go at it this year. It's at least supposed to be cooler weather. I used to love NIOSA but I just can't do it anymore. We would be there the minute it opened, stay for an hour or so and get out before it got packed. Last time, it was packed in about 15 minutes. No gracias.
  5. They have an interesting off season coming up. CP3's $30 million contract is only partially guaranteed for $15 million next year, and there's a team option for the year after. Durant, Booker and Ayton are locked in for multiple years at big numbers. Booker has a supermax deal that kicks in after next season. Brooklyn owns their first round pick, so no help there. Shamet and Payne along with two other guys at the end of their bench are the only other guys under contract. They got rid of Saric for cap purposes and ended up with Darius Bazley, who is a RFA. I would imagine they want to bring back unrestricteds Craig ($5m) and Okogie ($2M) but I don't think they can get them at those prices. Craig is having a really good playoff run for them. The new CBA rules could really hinder them from building out their team. They are about $8 million under the projected line (including CP3's $30 million) with 6 roster spots to fil. If they are over, then the taxpayer midlevel exception goes away as does their ability to sign guys in the buyout market. Or take back more money in a trade. Outside of a ring chasing vet willing to take the minimum, I'm not seeing a ton of ways to make this team better.
  6. The Phoenix bench is hot garbage, gutted in the KD trade. They are just asking for it playing Durant and Paul and even a younger Booker all those minutes. Once the schedule moves to every other day, it’s only going to get worse with shorter recovery time. It’s not sustainable playing Durant 44 minutes a night. He’s either going to get hurt or be gassed at crunch time. And Chris Paul has always been an injury timebomb ticking. They should have waxed the Clippers without their two stars. The Suns stars should have been sitting on the bench eating popcorn in the final six minutes of those games. Or at least only needed around 30-35 minutes total to seal the deal. And oh yeah, next round Denver plays at altitude.
  7. Pulling for Denver in the west but there is something about them that I just don’t trust. Can’t put my finger on it. And Minnesota showed more heart in the last two games than probably the rest of the season combined. Maybe it’s a different series with their full complement of players? I doubt it but that will give them something to chew on all off season.
  8. Memphis really isn't getting nearly enough credit for being as hate-able as they are. How the fuck am I actively pulling for the Lakers and Lebron in this series? Double fuck the Griz for doing this to me. Least likeable team in forever. Funny thing about Butler is that pre-Heat, he had a reputation as an asshole teammate who was impossible to get along with. That's fair, but I'd much rather see close, dramatic, pressure-filled games than a 7 game series where each game is a blowout. Who wants to watch that crap? Even the Wolves/Nuggets on Sunday night in a 3-0 series was a fantastic watch. There have definitely been some stinkers and there will probably be three more of them tonight, but overall it's been really fun to watch. The Milwaukee, Memphis and Cleveland 3-1 series are little more interesting because the trailing teams all have home court in game 5. I think all three of them go at least 6. And if things hold up, the next round should be great as well: DEN/PHX, LA/SAC or GS, BOS/PHI, NY/MIA or MIL.
  9. Did they remove the positions for this year, or does it kick in next year?
  10. Can wet revisit the take that these playoffs have been bad or boring? The injuries are disappointing but there have been great games each night not to mention a record level of dudes getting hit in the balls.
  11. Not to throw cold water on this, but I don't think Udoka is a slam dunk. He's got only one year experience as a head coach and the assistant who took over for him (who in all honesty doesn't seem that great either) in Boston still won 6 more games than him with essentially the same team in a better conference. Also, one of my good friends has hung out with him several times and the minute he got hired in Boston, my friend pounded the under on number of wins for them (and lost btw). He thinks he's a complete spare and couldn't imagine anybody ever respecting or listening to him. And then there's the shit he got fired for, which is a pretty horrible look. Nick Nurse would have been a better hire, IMO. But you never know...
  12. For sure. Really good player but certified dumbass.
  13. Overtime. An epic, epic choke job by Minnesota. Prolonging the agony of this season by five more minutes. Somebody needs to put old yeller and @MNLonghornFUKM out of their misery.
  14. I can’t believe we’re still having this argument about Ja. I went through and looked at those games last year and there were so many with extenuating circumstances (injuries to other teams stars, back to backs, etc) that the numbers didn’t match the conclusions. But ok I get it. I also look at that roster and don’t see a lot of guys above replacement level except JJJ. Does the rest of that team look like a playoff squad or the number 2 seed in the west without him? I can’t buy it. I hate that I’m defending the dude too, because he seems like a grade A piece of crap. I look at him a little differently than Luka and Harden and I’m not sure exactly why. Maybe it’s because he gets so many paint points? Maybe it’s because he doesn’t settle for so many step back threes? I dunno. I just get a different vibe from him but I could definitely be wrong.
  15. They were 3-25 in that first quarter. He was 1-2. Sure, his handle looked iffy getting used to playing with his jacked up hand in a brace but the rest of that team was complete dogshit. I can’t put that on him. And It's not like Ja not being there was responsible for Davis going 4-14 in game 2 and LeBron going 1-8 from three. Correlation does not equal causation. The notion that they are somehow a better team without him remains absurd.
  16. I just think the narrative around Ja is different if Adams and Clarke play and they are more competitive in the series. That's the relevance of the comment. I think game 2 was an overconfidence / letdown for LA. They won game 1 handily and Morant was out. They probably thought it was going to be easy. Meanwhile Memphis knows they can't go down 2-0 with the next two in LA. And tonight? I don't think it's his fault that Dillon Bricks is an idiot. They were going to lose tonight regardless.
  17. I think this is a different series if Adams and Clarke area healthy. Davis is doing whatever he wants. But yeah, it is a ridiculous argument that they're better without him. That's a lottery team otherwise. He's still a freak of nature and he's still really young and getting better. And at least he had the balls to go out there and play through an injury unlike most of the rest of the league it seems.
  18. Otherwise known as a Lillard.
  19. Why again do they let Tony Brothers work playoff games?
  20. I wasn't actually referring to you as the angry message board poster, just that pretty much everyone here is intimately familiar with that demo.
  21. The angry college football message board poster demographic on the other hand...
  22. That's just really, really shocking. He usually just plays right through the pain. I'm heartbroken for him because I know how much he really wants to be out there. It's so unfortunate when bad things happen to good people. BTW... other than him winning a ring in Toronto (which they would have never won if the W's were healthy), this is what Kawhi's post-San Antonio career looks like: 2020 played 57 games in the bubble season. Blew 3-1 lead to the Nuggets. 2021 played 52 games, got hurt in round 2 of the playoffs 2022 missed entire season 2023 played 52 games and knowing him, is probably done for the season. For that, he has been paid $148,958,492. The Clippers are going to pay out $142,000,000 in luxury tax this season, paid $81,000,000 last year and $83,000,000 the year before that. For those of you keeping score at home, that comes out to right at $455,000,000 between KL and lux tax. You could hire four Jimbo Fishers for that. They've won 18 total playoff games over that period.
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