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I wonder if a team has ever won a series while shooting below 40% from the field. Orlando is currently shooting 38.7% from the field for the series. Two teams, the Lakers and Spurs, are shooting higher than that from three.

It won't shock anyone, but Detroit has the worst offensive rating in the playoffs at 100.3. For some context, Brooklyn was the worst in the regular season at 108.2. Detroit was 117.2

if you lose 10 straight the problem is not your manager, it's your pitching staff, which means it's your GM. But GMS's don't fire themselves. 🙄

Maybe this is a repeat but if you are repairing a dryer yourself, just go ahead and get all the potential parts. If you have a simply dryer they are easy to repair and the parts are not that expensive. I had an issue a few years ago with heat. Visited a friend's appliance parts business, got 3 parts for $30. I tried the first one, that worked. A few weeks ago same issue so I tried the two parts I already had. Didn't work. Did some research and saw 3 other potential issues and since I'd have the patient open, so to speak, so I tried it. The work wasn't hard but I wish I had just went ahead and bought all of them at once becuase it would have saved me from having to remove the drum twice. I'm not handy and was able to do this for under $100 and I have about 5 new components on my dryer. I also was able to get a good vaccuum in once I removed the drum.... and best of all. I found $30 in change. Somehow coins escape the drum and exist inside the shell of the dryer.

if they lose in 5, the cya stories will start. about how trajan knew they werent ready yet and that's why he didnt go all in. youre already starting to see it. he "wanted to see how they would react to the pressure" or some bs like that. the team needes shooting and you traded for robinson and heurter. both of whom stink. i get that beasley screwed you over, but you had all year to watch the team without him and yoy chose to do nothing about it. the team needed other ball handlers besides cade and you stuck with danniss jenkins. with predictable results. there were decent role players available and they chose to do nothing. you could have made a play for cj mccollum and overpaid, perhaps it was wise not to do so? the easiest thing to do was to do nothing. and that's what he did.

Might be this - https://www.espn.com/nba/stats/rpi/_/sort/SOS Pistons had the easiest schedule in the NBA

Pistons had 15 3PTA's last night where there was no defender within 6 feet of the shooter. They made 3 of them. Cade 1-5 Harris 0-3 Robinson 1-3 Green 0-2 Stewart 1-1 Jenkins 0-1 With no defender within 4-6 feet they shot 12 3PTA's and made 3. Cade 2-5 Harris 0-1 Robinson 0-3 Jenkins 0-2 Green 1-1 So combined, with no defender within 4 feet or more on 3PTA's they shot 6-27 or 22%.

Another manager bites the dust https://www.cbssports.com/mlb/news/phillies-fire-manager-rob-thomson-don-mattingly/

it's part of the price we pay for the stuff we do like. For instance we were traveling last week and had put AirTags in our bags. They will ping of any phone they can find and then the apple network gives you your AirTag's location based on the system knowing where those phones are. So apple is hijacking someone's phone without them knowing to tell me where my tag is every time I check. If everybody opted out of the system all the time, that kind of stuff wouldn't work. Similar kind of concept behind traffic conditions on navigation apps.

Didn't watch the full game but DID see a replay where Mantha did a beautiful forecheck and made a nice pass to Soderblom who buried it. Nice to see them wake up a bit, Pitt needed that.

Yeah, but it's so weird to be standing for maybe 3-5 minutes in one section of a store and they knew EXACTLY what I was looking for. Just creepy. But I think I am a fairly young-thinking old guy at 61, but I don't need non-stop adulation on social media. To me it's a form of mental illness and there's a lot of really sick people out there and they don't know it. I've read about a growing trend of people unplugging from social media and finding themselves to be much, much happier. It's crazy. It's like the Black Mirror episode "Nosedive", which is the most realistic episode of the whole series. Great episode and 100% happening in real life.

Maybe its a blessing Langdon didn't make a trade. His big free agent acquisition played 25 minutes and scored 2 points last night.

the tattletales are Bluetooth and Location Services. Turning BT off when you don't need it and locking down location services so apps can only use it when they are in focus or not at all is about all you can do other than a hard shutdown of the phone.

It's funny, but I don't bring my phone into the store probably 80% of the time. And the reason was I was once shopping for a streaming device in a target. All I had was my phone on me. I did not take my phone out check anything and the next thing you know, I started getting a bunch of ads for streaming device sales. So, based on where I stood for a few minutes, I guess. That **** is scary to me. I no longer have Facebook on my phone because I found it to be a major distraction, but also, I don't want people to know where I am at all times and I think Facebook is a major contributor to that. I do use loyalty rewards at Kroger and Meijer, but they have physical price labels on their shelves. If I see those disappear or see electronic ones, I will dump that rewards program.

First turnover and the fans will be letting the Pistons have it. At least, I hope so. Being so casual with the ball, making lazy passes and missing free throws cost them all 3 games in this series. And possibly the whole series. Totally unacceptable.

Fans who are screaming about the Pistons not making a move makes them feel better but I also read an article about teams making a big trade deadline move hadn't won them a championship in 8 years. Could we have been the next team? We'll never know. I see their point though, at least we could have tried. The heck with the future, I wanna win now

Well, if they could sweep the end of this series, I think we could look past your prediction.

good point

I had an argument with my then pulmonary doctor over this a few years ago. At an appointment he asked how I was doing under a certain medication. I told him I hadn't heard from anyone. "Do you answer your phone when it's an unknown caller?' No "You should aways answer your phone". If it was important they should leave a voicemail. We went round about this for several minutes. Then he said "you'll enjoy Dr. XXX" and walks out. It turns out his "assistant never sent the prescription in (the prescription comes from s speciality pharmacy). And never contacted the specialist to set up an appointment, until I called his office the second time. I stll don't answer my phone on unknowns. I figure if they needed to call me they'd leave a message. If it's not in my directory...

I wonder if there's betting going on whether Tork makes it 6 games in a row? Probably.

Don't worry, he usually finds his car keys eventually after he sobers up. one of the other parents will pick his kid up from little league practice nobody with any sense would put a drunk in charge of this much destructive capability