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Mitch Cumsteen

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  1. Leon truly is one of the great aggies of this generation. His ability to carefully look at those facts and then come up with that conclusion is… well, perfectly aggie. A rare combination of hubris, delusion and ignorance, on top of a massive persecution complex underscored by not knowing when to shut the fuck up. It’s like he was made in a laboratory.
  2. Where your slice is welcome as long as you hook ‘em. Casita.
  3. Regarding Memphis… they need to run it back mostly. That’s still a very young team that lost two key front court players plus Kennard for the playoffs. And Ja is clearly bothered with the hand. That wasn’t a team close to 100%. The roster needs some tweaking but they can build around Ja, JJJ and Bane. They need some athletic wings. They need to grow the fuck up. They need to ditch Brooks.
  4. Russell out of his mind tonight.
  5. If I'm actually starting a franchise from scratch? Like an expansion team? I'm not calling any of the top guys in the league. Your team is going to suck donkey dick for several years regardless of who the coach is. You need someone who is secure enough to take a bunch of L's while developing young talent and building a culture. Look back at every expansion team or rebuilding job. The coach almost never survives to see it on the other side. Pop is perfect for the Spurs right now because he has no pressure to win to save his job. Who the best coach in the league right now is, is a different question. The usual suspects... Spoelstra, Kerr, Carlisle. I like Ty Lue as a tactician in a 7 game series, but I do think he can grate on people. There are also some people who don't like the way he did David Blatt in Cleveland. I know Bud is getting killed right now and he's probably going to get shitcanned, but his overall record is stellar. People forget that he won 60 games in Atlanta and took them to the ECF before they tore down the roster. In his first year in Milwaukee, they went from 44 wins to 60 (which might say more about Jason Kidd than Bud). He leaves a lot to be desired during the playoffs (to be kind), but there aren't many guys with a better regular season resume. Everybody loves Nick Nurse, but the only person to get more mileage out of the Raptors championship than Nurse is Kawhi Leonard. Nurse is living off that shit. The Raptors are 116-120 in the last three seasons with two playoff game wins with a roster that should be better than that. I do think he is a pretty good coach, though. I think Mike Malone in Denver is pretty good. Steve Clifford in Charlotte has always gotten the most out of his talent. I think Darvin Ham has done a really nice job year 1 in LA. Thibs is a weird dude but he's certainly got the Knicks playing at a high level. I like Willie Green in New Orleans. He gets that team to play hard, no matter what. I think Doc Rivers is the most overrated coach in the league. Not a fan of Monty Williams, at all. Nor Chris Finch. Nor Jason Kidd. Mike Brown had a magical year in Sacramento, but I can't forget how bad he was in Cleveland. I'd like to see what Quin Snyder does in Atlanta with more time. He's got a really good offensive mind, but holy shit is he twitchy and weird.
  6. This is always my favorite post draft analysis, and every team does it. Each one says they had the guy higher on their board than where he got drafted. Like they just bought a brand new Lambo at half price or something. Just once, I'd like a team to say, "You know, we had about 5 dudes on our board graded higher than him. But we just said fuck it, we were desperate for help because we couldn't stop the run to save our lives. So we rolled the dice on a freak athlete with pedestrian production and hope the hell it pans out."
  7. I’m all in on the Saban slide into mediocrity but in his defense, they lost two games on the road on last second walk off plays (a fg at Tenn and a 2 pointer in ot at LSU) last season. They were an eyelash away from the playoff and I would have given them a good chance against the field with Young. And even in most of his championship seasons they took an L somewhere along the way. Only twice undefeated. I see the cracks too, but how far off his historical norm is he in reality? I will gleefully piss on his corpse when he’s done, and hope we do our part to usher that in this September, but the dude is a witch to me until proven otherwise.
  8. The other thing is that when Giannis got hurt game 1, they lost all margin for error in the series. You can have a meltdown game like last night and still win a series, but they lost all cushion after losing games 1 and 3 without him. They couldn’t afford another off night. I still contend this is a different series if he plays every game. It’s going to look worse if the Knicks roll the Heat. And fucking Miami was left for dead after losing to Atlanta in the play in and then coming back from 11 down in the fourth quarter to beat the Bulls just to make the playoffs. You think that Miami would have ever tanked like Dallas did the last games of the season? Different organization with a much different mindset.
  9. The knives are out for Bud this morning. Rightly so. But my gosh… complete failure to adjust and throw different looks at Butler, going back to game 4. He was killing Holliday over and over and he just kept going with it. Matthews had some good possessions against him and then he went away from it. But beyond that, Giannis really screwed the pooch last night. You can’t go 10-23 from the ft line and what the hall was he thinking with that foul on Struss 25 feet from the basket? You just can’t do that. He almost threw the ball into the stands off the jump ball when they still had timeouts. There’s plenty of blame to go around. A complete choke from arguably the games best player at the worst time.
  10. The bucks are the dumbest championship team I’ve ever seen. Just so unclutch in every possible way. No composure whatsoever. Epic, epic choke. I guess Bud can take those two timeouts with him on vacation.
  11. Jimmy Butler omfg. Milwaukee deserves to lose. Just one brain fart after another.
  12. And he got a great look just didn’t knock it down.
  13. Milwaukee’s defense on Butler is mind boggling. He’s killing Jrue and Bud won’t switch anybody else onto him. This last possession….
  14. 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.
  15. 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.
  16. 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.
  17. 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.
  18. 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.
  19. Did they remove the positions for this year, or does it kick in next year?
  20. 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.
  21. 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...
  22. For sure. Really good player but certified dumbass.
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