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A fair bit of uncertainty in Pittsburgh as well. 8 years without getting out of the 1st round.

Sure would be nice if the Pistons came out and did their best Knicks impression tonight.

Man...I need to use the blue font.

Just dont fall behind early again and play catchup all night long. Survive the first 6 minutes, tied or ahead and I like our chances. Just....win. And stop turning the ball over....just stop it.

Da Meat Hook

I’ve got a bad, bad feeling this is the night where Desmond Bane catches fire and goes for 35+ and shoots 70% from 3. That won’t be enough on its own but it means Banchero can just be good instead of Superman for the Magic to win.

Totally disagree on doubling. Don't give up open threes to a team at home where role players play better. Paulo has been bad on drives all series and he was the leagues worst jump shooter all season long. The only reason he had 45 was because he was 6 of 11 from three out of the blue. During the season Paulo had exactly 1 game with 5 threes made and one with 4. That's it. He shoots 30% from deep. Paulo taking 30 shots is a good thing for us as long as we simply keep a body in front of him. Let the most inefficient jump shooter in the league take 2s and don't double him to give shooters open looks. That's how you loose the 3 point math game. Orlando was only in that game because of three point shooting and mostly because we gave up 21 wide open threes (a crazy number) because we collapsed in the paint. They hit 10 of those open threes. Stay home on shooters and play it straight. This is just one more reason (as if we needed another) to play Stew more minutes.

Fascinating to read the Jim Nill is going to have some tough decisions to make thought pieces already coming out after the Stars fall short yet again. GMing seems hard!

BTW what is even “establishment”? Is establishment being in congress for 35 years never having actually held any sort of job in the private sector?

She received more donations from Mainers than Platner. Platner is getting bankrolled from out of state. Polls in Maine are also notoriously unreliable. Just ask Maine senator Sara Gideon.

Elmn or Dmitiri?

Right. But if there were a greater demand for what she was selling, she probably would have had no troubles raising the money necessary to be competitive to Platner in the primary. But the polls of Mainers continually painted a different story... This is sort of the problem to me... I understand the skepticism of Platner given what we know about the guy. But the qualitative and quantitative evidence suggests that she was never going to be a competitive candidate to Platner, even with his flaws. It was a miss on recruitment by the establishment here, it is what it is.

She ran out of money. She probably wasn’t going to win but voters haven’t decided anything yet.

If Mills thought she could win, why did she drop out?

She probably should have ran for MI-11 with Stevens running for senate.

The original comparison I was making was Spanberger and Sherril to Platner. Platner is supposed to be the new environment but Normie Dems won big.

Voters didn’t send any message. There hasn’t been an election in Maine. Platner hasn’t won. In 2024, when Biden was forced out, Maine elected 80 year old Angus King. Platner could run for governor and he could choose who replaces Mills if she died. Republicans aren’t attacking Susan Collins for being too old. The only difference between Mills and Sherril or Spanberger is age. Democrats have fully given into the Republican ageism.

First off, you say "besides age" as if age isn't a big deal, particularly at this moment in time for the Democratic Party. It is a huge deal for voters, particularly after Biden was forced to drop out in 2024, after RBG hung on too long to her seat, after watching four D representatives keel over in the past year and a half in a very divided house. But even setting aside the age thing, Spanberger and Sherrill both ran races that were effective to winning support over to their side in the primaries and both were clearly up the challenge of the jobs they were running. Mills, with the campaign she ran, didn't demonstrate any of these things. Voters are sending a message here, whether you and I like it or not. Hope the party establishment learns going forward.... to be fair, they have had some recruiting successes this time around landing Cooper, Peltola, getting Brown to run again, etc., but this was a pretty clear miss on their part.

I’m hopeful that my participation in all aspects of the military industrial complex doesn’t mean i can’t be represented

It's crazy that in this thread there's so much attention spent on Platner and Maine voters being idiots, but very little spent discussing the campaign that Mills ran (and how terrible it was from all accounts). Even setting aside the age thing, she transparently didn't seem invested in the race to the degree that she needed to be. And as a result, she didn't afford the voters much of a choice. Again, saying this as someone who doesn't particularly like Platner and frankly find myself distrustful of the guy, but the situation is just not all that surprising given the circumstances. Hard for me to get worked up about it.

Besides age, how so?

Holland did some good in Edmonton, the Hyman and Ekholm acquisitions were good and the RNH deal is great. Unfortunately things like the Campbell and Nurse contracts also happened. To a lesser extent things like Kassian's extension and the Athanasiou trade too.