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Aqua Buddha

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  1. Hey, Steve.... Go fuck yourself since no one else will, you incel piece of shit.
  2. Also, I guess I didn't realize it but Kyrie is also out next season, basically. Makes sense considering the injury. I just didn't think about it. As much fun as it was to laugh at their misfortune if you're not a Mavs fan, this kind of sucks at this point. There was starting to be a good rivalry between the 4 teams in OK and Texas, especially Dallas and OKC. Even after the trade, the roster that worried me the most from OKC's perspective was Dallas (if healthy). It was still a bad trade for the long term but for this season, you had Kryie, AD, Klay, big who are legit big, and PJ Washington plays like First Team All NBA against OKC. Now, not only is that not happening but the team is gutted for the foreseeable future. Kinda sucks.
  3. I'd agree with both of those. Should be noted that this was his first back to back since the injury. It's like he really hasn't gotten into a rhythm since he's come back, which is understandable. He was having a pretty decent offensively before that. What is frustrating to me is he's good enough to score on most anyone but doesn't seem to realize it. He can shoot over smaller players and blow by bigger ones. Just seems like of passive.
  4. Was at the game and yeah, Chet wasn't very good. Jalen Williams also went out hurt. Denver just played really well and shot lights out, especially in the second half. I don't know the splits by half but Denver shot 60% for the game and 56% from three. Even Westbrook shot it well. No one is going to beat anyone when they shoot like that. Can Denver do that 4 times over 7 games? Prolly not. A cool moment, though, right before tip. Westbrook started and ran down towards the baseline for the tip. He went over and hugged Clay Bennett (principal owner) and his wife. One way or another, he'll retire if nothing else but a ceremonial last contract.
  5. SGA also leads the league in drives so yeah, he's going to get fouled more. I don't get the hate for any of these guys. People bitch and moan about teams taking too many three's and here comes SGA with a three level, nuanced game similar to Kobe and people bitch. BS was going through how he's having one of the best statistical seasons ever for a guard and they have a 12 game lead on Jokic's team.
  6. I was surprised how good Hartenstein was. Legit great at everything except shooting, which is fine. Perfect complement to Chet. The Giddey/Caruso trade seems to have worked for everyone. Giddey is doing OK in Chicago where he's more on ball. Caruso is a great defender and serviceable shooter. Gets injured a lot, though. Both him and Hartenstein have been great chemistry fits, too, On the SGA being a "free throw merchant," can you tell me any great players that don't do that? It's been a part of the game for as long as I can remember. He just seems better at it because of his herky jerky style.
  7. He took 8 FT's yesterday and didn't have a FTA in the entire 4th quarter.
  8. Same. I know that most coaches tighten up the rotation in the playoffs but they go a legit 10 team with 7 of them basically mostly interchangeable wings. Even with the three big men, two of them can shoot. Everyone good to great at defense, too. These other teams like Denver and LA just don't have any depth and OKC just comes at you the whole game. Even today, Jalen Williams and Shai only played 38 minutes each. Meanwhile, Jokic and Murray played 42 and Porter was even at 38. Hell, the sat the top 6 players against Portland and still won by 20 or some such. Their weakness is still overall shooting. They can collectively hit long cold stretches.
  9. Yeah, I know all that. Just that calling someone a Make A Wish kid is funny but harsh. I'll allow it.
  10. "Make a wish kid?" Damn.
  11. America will be least partially great again.
  12. Good thing she covers basketball then, am I right?
  13. BOWIE, Texas—Last week, 17-year-old Gauge Bass enlisted in the Air Force with his mother’s support. Both agreed that he wouldn’t have done so if President Trump hadn’t won the election. “Trump is a more reliable source of direction for the country,” said his mother, Joy Story, a maintenance worker at an apartment complex who has struggled to support her two children. The recently enlisted Bass, who lost his father to addiction when he was a child and became a father himself at 15, said he had increasingly felt despair in recent years over the economy and the state of the country in general. His mother, though she relies on Medicaid and food stamps, said she resents other forms of government assistance that she thinks encourage people not to work. Bass learned more about politics through his grandmother, Melody Gillespie, who serves as the Montague County GOP chair. https://www.wsj.com/politics/trump-voting-county-montague-texas-b42e3a4b?mod=hp_lista_pos2
  14. He bet his life savings on paper straws. Trump may destroy his business. After 50 years toiling in the country’s paper mills, the 75-year-old plunked his life savings into creating a “24 hours strong” straw that he manufactures in Woodstock, Illinois, and sells to more than 1,000 restaurants, bars, coffee shops and casinos. But now, two years in, Spinelli says the party is over. President Donald Trump’s executive order last month calling to “end the use of paper straws” dealt a swift, decisive blow to his business, Boss Straw. Orders have stalled, even though the action only stopped purchases of paper straws by the federal government. Instead of selling $800,000 worth of straws this year, Spinelli fears it’ll be one-tenth of that. “Our distributors are saying, ‘Everyone’s going back to plastic now because of the president,’” he said. “The president I voted for, the man who says ‘Let’s make America great again, let’s help small businesses grow,’ that man is going to put me out of business.” https://www.yahoo.com/news/bet-life-savings-paper-straws-161301480.html
  15. I don't think Moser was a bad hire. I just think that's a dead end program now. Almost no fan support, what NIL money they have goes to football and softball, not a great arena, no in state talent, etc. They had a good program for a long time but that was in the pre NIL days. What demand there is for basketball in that market goes to Thunder games for a whole list of reasons. It killed all fan interest for both OU and OSU.
  16. Jalen Green is borderline undersized and FVV and Reed Shepard are wildly undersized to the point you can't play them at the same time. God forbid you play them at the same time with Green at the 3. For Green to be a 6'4" (if that SG, he needs to be offensively elite. He is not elite. He's a PG body playing SG. I guess Smith is tall enough but he's 6'10" and getting 6 rebounds per game so I'm not sure what the height does.
  17. I'm sure we have a lot of newly minted wildfire experts on here from back in January. Have they weighed yet to blame it on Abbott?
  18. She's basically just heavy Tesla and always has been.
  19. #3. 100%. We legitimately like going to the movies but most of the movies we want to see either aren't anywhere near us or in some obscure theater at an odd time. I want to see Anora, Babygirl, and The Substance but I can't find any other them so I'm just waiting until they come out on streaming. Instead, all of the theaters are stacked with cartoons and comic book movies.
  20. Punch to the balls after a punch to the gut. In theory, they were still going to the playoffs with a (maybe) healthy AD. Now they likely fall out if Phoenix gets their shit together. (Even if the Suns do that, they're not winning the play in games.) Kings playing well, too, and no one saw that coming. Races seem to be tween the Lakers and Nuggets for the 2/3 and the 6-10 for the order and if they can avoid the play in.
  21. I tuned in last night to watch the Rockets play OKC and was a bit disappointed to see everyone was hurt except Green. "We'll see if Green can score when he's the #1 option," said to my miniature dachshund who seemed unconcerned. (Especially with OKC being on the back end of a back to back and it being their third game in four days.) Green then offered up....6-14 (42%) and 1-5 from 3. If that 42% sounds familiar, it's because that's his % in every single year he's been in the league. Green's ceiling is basically what Fox is right now. Career 47% shooter with one season at 51%. Yes, he's older but by his 4th year, he was at 48%. Good three point shooter (not great) but for Green to improve to 48% would be a whole other tier. Maybe he can do it but don't pretend his ceiling is a tier above Fox. He's just not a good shooter. Little Reed Sheppard finally got to play, though. He put up some decent numbers but on defense, showed why he can't be on the court with another 6'0" PG, which is why he doesn't play. SGA's face lit up like it was Bronny James. 51 points in 36 minutes. Houston's problem is the best players are still B guys without any A's. The shooting isn't great and they're undersized at some positions. Despite the injuries, last night they had a #2 pick and two #3's and two of them aren't starters on a title team. One barely plays. Thompson seems like he has some upside in the future, though. I will give them credit for all playing hard, though. Coach seems legit. They have enough assets that they can maybe deal for Durant or someone next season. Package Sheppard, Smith, and some picks and the Suns may bite.
  22. Canada slapping a 25% tax on electricity they supply to the US.
  23. Paul Pelosi!! The jab!!! He played the greatest hits. Eat shit and die, Tad.
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