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9 hours ago, Bozo_Casanova said:
I understand you point, but there’s a significant amount of personal maturing that happens from 26-30 years old.
And you were not making the comparison or defending the trade but it’s worth mentioning that Anthony Davis has only played 70 games once since 2018, when he was 25.That's where I was even when it happened. I get the logic behind wanting to move off Luca but you traded for him for......Anthony Davis? M'kay. Poetic that he got hurt the first game in Dallas.
Speaking of that, they're bringing him back last night to compete for that #10 spot. Why?
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On 3/21/2025 at 11:31 AM, Bozo_Casanova said:
Mike Finley is a professional’s professional in everything he does and Jason Kidd is … Jason Kidd.
I have no doubt that both of those guys spent years frustrated with the fact that Luka didn’t focus maniacally on rehab/conditioning in the offseason and maintained some vices during the season in addition to being creatively irrepressible on the court. They probably talked about it with Nico and had some communication issues with Luka.
That said, both of those guys know what a GOAT-tier player is, the importance of working around them, and what they are worth.
I am 100% convinced they didn’t know this was happening until it was in motion and were very uncomfortable with it, whether or not they tried to stop it, particularly Finley.You can't be a GOAT level player and not focus on fitness and conditioning, though. Did anyone see Luka playing 70 games a season 10 years from now at age 35? I certainly didn't and still don't. All time talent, though.
I've said it before and I'll say it again, the trade was unbelievably bad but they weren't wrong in their original reasons.
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Josh Giddey messed around and had a triple double last night. While not a great fit in OKC, I was always a fan of his skill set unrelated to guessing the ages of girls. He's played really well as of late. 20/8/6 during February while 50% FG and 53% from 3. So far in March, 21/9/9 and 52% FG and 35% from 3.
He's a RFA after this season so it'll be interesting what the Bulls do. If he's in a system where he's the full time PG, I always thought he could put up All Star level numbers like he has the last two months. He's not great on defense, though.
I still think that trade worked out well for everyone involved. Caruso is a better fit in OKC and Giddey is getting more exposure in a contract year.
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23 hours ago, mchookem said:not the poor Ukranians and Venezualans escaping war zones and whatever horrible plight in their home countries... but fuck them cubans.
‘Deport every person under the sun’: ICE detains Cubans during immigration appointments
Federal authorities in South Florida have recently detained at least 18 Cubans during scheduled immigration appointments, local attorneys say, highlighting that a group that has historically enjoyed special immigration benefits is not immune to the Trump administration’s intensified mass deportation efforts.
In recent years, hundreds of thousands of Cubans who crossed the U.S.-Mexico border have received I-220A forms, an Immigration and Customs Enforcement document that records someone’s release from custody subject to certain conditions.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/deport-every-person-under-sun-172343782.html
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38 minutes ago, billfromlaketravis said:
In all fairness, there is a lot of sensory overload at most NBA games.
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1 hour ago, Thiefery said:
yep, apparently he is TE #1
Your mom is the #1 tight end....
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10 minutes ago, Francisco 2.0 said:
Thats....low. One of the reasons the League was paying close attention to what the Celtics brought was to get a good idea of what the pricetag was going to be for an expansion team.
It is going to be closer to $6 billion.
I would disagree. $6B for a team without an arena is absurdly high but it's the Celtics, which is one of the top brands in all of sports.
A new team is just that. It has no brand. It also depends on which city the teams are in. Seattle would be worth more than Vegas. (I assume those are going to be the two.) Actually, I'd add teams to those two cities and move the Grizzlies or Pelicans to Nashville. I'd let one of them buy into that option, if possible.
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1 hour ago, Thiefery said:
I have a friend that works with the recruiting visits there.. he says Mitchell is looking more like an OL now.. and that they are raving about Kanak lol
They are ecstatic about Mateer and they feel they have a future 1st rd WR (the Ark-PB transfer)
It's full koolaide season up there right now..
1 hour ago, closetojumping said:Posters on Sooners Illustrated aren't big fans of Joe Jon Finley as the TE coach. They have a thread right now talking about how former highly rated TE prospect Davon Mitchell is now clocking in at 275. He's "shaping up to be more of a blocking TE", per some of their sunshine pumpers.
"He's only 18!"
"He'll lose it by the summer time!"
"He's really carrying it well!"
Schmidt and JJF have a history of swelling their TEs up to unhelpful sizes, per some of the haters there. I haven't tried to verify further.
I found the spoilered post below to be both insightful and hilarious (as a Texas fan). Kanak at TE cracks me up. The hagiographic tale of his turn from solid Clemson commit to OU signee, tearfully apologizing to Coach Dabo for having to go with his heart and begging Coach Vegetables to take his top 100 ranking and let him sign with his first class in a painful act of betrayal to Coach Dabo for both of them - what a guy. Whispers of "Coach BV's next great All American LB" could be heard on Norman podcasts and in coach/booster gatherings. Now? 7th string TE. hahahahahaha
Joe Jon has 8 players in his TE room. Mitchell is one of six players that did not take a TE snap in a game for OU last season. With that many new options to put on the field, one would think that performance on gamedays for the TE group has to go up this fall. Even if Mitchell can't run routes and/or catch the ball, his size suggests he is going to be an asset to the offense as a blocking TE.
84 Davon Mitchell TE 6-4 275 R-Fr. York, Ala. (Los Alamitos [Calif.] HS)
81 Will Huggins TE 6-6 262 R-Sr. Lenexa, Kan. (Pittsburg State University)
44 John Locke Jr. TE 6-4 252 R-Jr. San Antonio, Texas (Louisiana Tech University)
86 Carson Kent TE 6-4 244 R-Jr. Milton, Ga. (Kennesaw State University)
18 Kaden Helms TE 6-5 238 R-Jr. Bellevue, Neb. (Bellevue West HS)
22 Trynae Washington TE 6-4 233 Fr. Midwest City, Okla. (Carl Albert HS)
12 Jaren Kanak TE 6-2 230 Sr. Hays, Kan. (Hays HS)
19 Kade McIntyre TE 6-3 220 R-So. Fremont, Neb. (Archbishop Bergan HS)@Constant @Pdawg88 @kilroydos and any sooner I am forgetting, what are y'all's thought about JJF and the TE position at OU right now?
On the Ikard and Lehman podcast a few weeks ago, they were talking about Mitchell's weight. Ikard came to OU as a TE originally before moving to center. He said "Be careful, my man. Just a few more pounds and you're going to look down and see the ball between your legs."
I laughed.
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5 minutes ago, Francisco 2.0 said:
$6.1 billion seems like a lot for a team that does not own its own facility, does not have a partner WNBA team, etc.
Yeah, that's a steep assed price but it is one of the brand names in all of American sports.
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30 minutes ago, ocugolf said:
If Presti had this bench (and head coach) when KD and Russ were in okc, they’d have a couple banners. 38 year old Derek fisher was our best bench guy for two years. Lol
Oh, easily. Outside of KD and Russ and maybe Paul George later, those teams were painful to watch on offense. I wouldn't watch much during the regular season and I remember being surprised about how bad some of the supporting cast was on offense. I get what Presti was trying to do at the time with "positionless basketball" but he'd get these guys who were great on defense and fit that mold but had zero offensive skills at all. They're were asking the 2 or 3 stars to basically bring their A game every single game.
He nailed it this time, though. Outside of the bigs, they've got 7-8 guys who fit that mold but they can all shoot this time. They're all wings that are long and athletic who are great on defense but can all shoot reasonably well. Even the bigs are pretty versatile and they can shoot, too. Seriously, who is the 9th man on that team? Is it Caruso? He was first team all defense in Chicago and is a 35% 3 point shooter.
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37 minutes ago, ocugolf said:
To be fair, Dort, Wallace, and Dub have actual injuries. They just played 8 games in 14 games. Absolutely no reason for SGA to potentially roll an ankle against a 76ers team that isn’t even trying. And they won by 33.
Them winning by 33 is the best thing about it. It was basically the Thunder bench vs the Philly deep bench. Philly seems like they kinda suck.
The NBA is looking into them doing something similar against Portland a few weeks ago and they won by 20.
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Epic battle tonight between OKC and Philly. OKC owns the pick, top 6 protected. Philly sitting there at 6th worst in the league and rolling out a G League roster. OKC's "injury" report is SGA, Dort, Cason, Jalen Williams, Hartenstein. Chet is "available."
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2 hours ago, Thatguy said:
You are a weird dude. Take a look at all the schools in the state Rex. Now look at the numbers. Which one has been growing the most and what is fueling it's growth? There was a time when UT was battling it out year over year with Ohio State for largest enrollment in the country. In my lifetime aggy has doubled it's enrollment to now 72k. I live in an area where the majority of kids go to college, and the amount of kids that end up at aggy is astounding. So much so that my daughter's volleyball team played their elite 8 playoff game in college station and like 30 girls came from campus to support the team. My daughter told us that she would never go to aggy because it would basically be a high school reunion. Even in the high school volleyball world. Houston Skyline is one of the best clubs in the country. The kids who play on its top team can largely choose wherever they want to go. In the 25 and 26 classes they grabbed two. Aggy wasn't able to do that in the past.
If it were just about ease of access then Tech or U of H would be 72k. Getting your kid into aggy is a political statement nowadays. Sure, there are a lot of kids from conservative families who go to UT. However, aggy is a MAGA breeding factory. Your kids must be older if you don't know this.
It was Kyle Rittenhouse's dream school for god's sake. Then Blinn, then a pawn shop in Florida....
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2 hours ago, Mittens said:16 hours ago, Baboontyme said:
Tuning in late. What did Cade do to get himself ejected?
16 hours ago, Baboontyme said:You might need a Blue sky account to view this. J.B. Bickerstaff went IN on the officials in the post game presser. Dennis Green would be proud. 🤣
https://bsky.app/profile/ohnohedidnt24.bsky.social/post/3lkhkxjdlfc2r
Cade got ejected for following a ref around the court and berating them for 5 minutes and even getting one tech. He was literally spewing profanities the entire time. He was asking for it. Anyone except Draymond Green would get tossed.
Total fouls for the game were Pistons 21 and OKC 20.
SGA shot 10 FT's but 2 of them were T's and another two were from an intentional foul. He also played a masterful game and looked like Kobe doing it.
This whining thing is getting old and isn't supported by any data at all. Detroit complaining about a foul that was called "hostile" but they reviewed it and overturn it. I have no idea why sand is in his vagina.
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It's amazing really. The more he talks, the worse the market gets and he won't SHUT THE FUCK UP.
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3 hours ago, Al_4_ISU said:
Awesome. I rode this trails about this time last year, and very much agree with your assessment. I put in 17 miles and absolutely had my ass kicked.
We're looking at spectacular weather the next few days (75 tomorrow) but there's still much moisture (likely) coming out of the ground to start riding. I'll be looking to hit my local trails tomorrow, but I think it's unlikely that I'll be riding anything other than pavement.
Agree on that, too. I like Bella Vista/Back 40 but there is a LOT of up and down there due to the roads. Climb up to get to the road, ride down after the road. Repeat.
They are building a chair lift type thing that should be ready in a few years so there's that.
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17 minutes ago, Al_4_ISU said:
I've ridden NWA twice, and I honestly think I liked Eureka a little better than Bella Vista.
Hobbs State Park is my favorite spot thus far. It's more remote than either of the others, and those trails are just perfect XC.
You might double check but Hobbs might still be closed from last summer's storm damage. It's scheduled to reopen this summer, I'm just not sure exactly when. Coler was also closed for a large chunk last summer.
I agree, though. Hobbs is my favorite, especially the part by the lake.
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52 minutes ago, Js1 said:
Agreed. NBA schedule is awful. Either reduce the number of games or extend the season out. The back end with the playoffs usually leads into boring summer months with just baseball
The dumbest thing I've ever seen was Minny and OKC playing a back to back a few weeks ago. First game was in Minny with an 8:30 tip. Both teams then flew to OKC and landed at 2 a.m. or something for a 7 pm tip the next night. Why?
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3 hours ago, MrX said:
Ant was awesome last night. Seemed like every long rebound on a Wolves miss would go right to a Wolves player and he’d then hit a three.
Nuggets with three games in four nights (back to back with OKC to start) and it showed.
This grinds my gears, actually. There are a lot of 3 games in 4 nights going on around the entire league. 7 games in 11 days or something. Can they keep the 82 game schedule but just spread it out? Maybe start a week earlier in October and go into mid to late April on the back end? No one likes seeing teams rest their players but I completely understand why they do it.
Then you get to the playoffs and they're playing games like every 3 to 4 days and THAT drags out for two months.
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16 minutes ago, Mittens said:
Man is OKC long. SGA is amazing. No weak link on D to attack. Hoping someone takes them out in the playoffs before the finals.
18 minutes ago, Pam Cummings said:OKC seems to be a bad matchup for Boston.
Jalen Williams and Caruso didn't even play, either.
This is only the second time I've watched Boston play this season and they seem limited and boring AF. They just throw the ball around until someone jacks a three. OKC is a terrible matchup them, to your point. Everyone on that team is long and can defend. They can put Dort on Jaylen Brown and let everyone else switch. Dort has completely shut down Brown in two games so far.
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OKC/Boston highly entertaining. Boston shot 36 three's in the first half. Jeez. I think they said the record is 75 or something?
OKC 18-25 on two point shots.
Okie City not playing with the good Jalen Williams, though. Caruso also out.
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14 minutes ago, cmontexas said:
They're gonna buy all these farms cheap as fuck but they'll keep dipshits like Caleb in place as stewards of the land with some fancy title that makes him feel like he's still in charge.
And they'll blame immigrants and Caleb will believe that.
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Sorry Caleb. Not really, though. You chose....poorly
Caleb Ragland, a soybean farmer in Magnolia, Ky., voted for President Donald Trump in 2016, 2020 and 2024. Now, however, he has to navigate a tariff minefield at a time when the sector is already facing major headwinds.
Ragland works with his wife and three sons and has deep roots in the community. His family has been farming on the land for more than two centuries. But in recent years, he has seen a double-digit percentage decline in crop prices while production costs rise, with soybean futures having gone down more than 40% over the past three years along with corn futures.
As pressures mount in the industry as a result of tariffs imposed by the second Trump administration — as well as retaliatory levies from other countries — he’s worried about the longevity of his business.
“My sons potentially could be the 10th generation if they’re able to farm,” Ragland, who is also the president of the American Soybean Association, told CNBC. “And when you have policies that are completely out of our control – that they manipulate our prices 20%, 30%, and on the flip side, our costs go up – we won’t be able to stay in business.”
“We’re already at the point that we’re unprofitable,” Ragland said. “Why on earth are we trying to add insult to injury for the ag sector by basically adding a tax?”
Ragland pointed out that he “appreciates the president’s ability to negotiate” and wants Trump to be successful for the sake of the country. However, he emphasized that those in the industry, especially soybean producers, don’t have any “elasticity in our ability to weather a trade war that takes away from our bottom line.”
“Folks are upset,” Ragland said about sentiment from other farmers, stressing that they all need relief through deals that reduce barriers to trade and a new five-year comprehensive farm bill – legislation that provides producers with key commodity support programs, among others. “You’re talking about people’s livelihoods,” he remarked.
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/03/11/how-trumps-trade-policy-is-putting-pressure-on-us-farmers.html
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America's Foreign Policy & Other Shit Going On Around the World thread
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Since these were all white guys, we can blame this on DEI, right?