Hongbit

Learned something new today watching the Giants/DBacks today. The instant replay room in New York is part of the rotation for umpire crews. They are manned every night by at least one active crew. This explains the oddities last week against the Mets. CB Bucknor must have been the replay ump for our game.

As much as I want the steak to continue there’s no way in hell I’m ever pulling for Tom Dundon with the bs he’s pulling with the Trailblazers. F that guy

I’d love to see an “umm off” between Brad Holmes and Trajan. Over/Under of 200 umms at least.

Even if he can get eligible, does Texas Tech really plan on letting him play and paying him $5M to do so. This sport is slimy but this would be a new low. Fortunately, I don’t think there’s any way the NCAA lets him play.

Luke Walton and Sidney Lowe are JB’s guys. He brought them with him and won’t be firing either.

I’m interested to see what buttons Trajan plans on pushing this offseason. I can’t say that I’m very confident that he will make good ones but I’ll wait and see. I’m not sure anything really matters as JB isn’t going to take any team to the Final, much less win it. He’s all rah rah and a tactical train wreck. That’s never going to be good enough to win deep in the playoffs.

You left out Adam Silver and whatever the name is of his toad that does the draft lottery. This is going to take a huge effort to get it done. Home court advantage is lessened considerably by the fact the league was already advertising a Cavs/Knicks series. They want the Cavs. Btw, it doesn’t make any sense to me. The horrible fake fouls will become so obvious and fans are bound to get sick of the constant free throw series featuring the Four Tops of Flops in SGA/Wemby and Brunson/Harden. They need the Pistons in there to balance things out.

They can’t use the normal JB 2nd half rotation. Cade needs to play 20+ minutes.

No team should ever count on non-lottery 1st rounders on their team for at least 3 years and even if they make it at all. The lack of picks won’t have any impact on their team for a few years at least. The Wild took a big step forward this year. They will have another shot at it next year. If things don’t turn out how they want, they will be able to trade Hughes at the deadline for a big haul. Honestly; I’m not sure I’ve ever seen a playoff with two teams that look so dominant. It’s like nobody else has a chance. Can’t fault Minnesota for losing to that wagon. (Watch both lose in the conference finals now that I said that 😆)

The final play was close to being an even bigger catastrophe. Ausar touched it last and if he had just a little more momentum, the ball goes out of bounds with a second left to Cleveland. Can you imagine if that no call led to the Cavs getting another chance? You’ve got to make that call even with .5 left.

Criminal to play Caris that much when he was 2-7 and 0-3 on 3’a all wide open. Not sure why Javonte got a DNP-CD.

One positive is that clownshow finally figured out to sit Duren and play Paul Reed. He kept Reed in and didn’t go back to Duren down the stretch and into OT.

That’s 100% Harden kicking out but he does that on every play and they let him.

4 min to go in the 3rd in a tight game and clownshow has a lineup of Daniss, Sasser, Caris, Duren and Green.

You got what I was saying. Whoever they choose as the goalie of the future, we won’t know the results for a number of years. I think it’s probably a good idea to give one of the kids a legit shot next year.