buddha

We just got back from georgia and alabama. Alabama's dorms are amazing. everything about that camous is brand new. its massive. we did a sorority house tour too. it was...interesting. Georgia wasnt as nice as i thought it would be and they didnt show us the dorms which likely means they suck. but she really liked georgia. its georgia and kentucky for her right now. maybe indiana too.

jokic, doncic, and wembanyama. are the three best players in the league europeans?

We were there in January for a tour. its a very pretty campus. We didnt do the dorm tour because we were on our way to Kentucky, so report back on that. 😉

it will be at least 7-2 against trump's EO. the odds are better that its 9-0 than the order is upheld.

who is larkin going to blame this year?

stuff coming out now is just weird. the bulls were likely to make him a QO before this. so he cost himself at least $10m.

if cossa works out, the trade is a plus.

its because monty williams was on that sours team... 🙂

mantha trade will depend on cossa, i think. early returns on the trade are negative.

i think sidney crosby and evgeni malkin make a lot of players better. including mantha and chinakov. larkin made kasper a lot better last year. then they decided kasper had to be a center and he went right back to underperformance (given his draft position). in the brief times he has returned to line one this season, the production has not followed. the grand rapids success has been built off veteran AAAA players, not prospect success. all the things the "prospect gurus" said about danielson and kasper (good, solid players who are more likely to end up as low second, high third line players) appears to be true. asp is too small. lombardi is too small. mazur is too small. mbn is too slow. tuomisto cant skate. wallinder doesnt play with size. the wings "have a type." hard working, responsible players. no more mantha's and athanasiou's for detroit. well....they have worked their way to being in the bottom of the middle of the league. theyre in the worst possible position: not good enough to make the playoffs and not bad enough to get a star. they may be in the worst position in the entire league. i think jason is right that detroit was in a bad spot when yzerman got here. i think yzerman is on the seider/raymond timeline, not the larkin timeline. but its been 7 years now and you STILL cant find a defense prospect to replace ben chairot? how many drafts do you need? if johansson v.2 hits, genborg hits, lombardi grows, mazur gets a better doctor, danielson find some magic beans that make him aggressive, asp starts lifting weights, and mbn learns to finish, maybe they have something? but right now kasper and danielson look more like andrew copp than dylan larkin. asp's ceiling is gotishbere and not karlsson. mbn looks like a plugger. that equals borderline playoff team forever. is that what we want?

yes. but the current management team hasnt done enough to keep their jobs, imo. theyve been passed by multiple other organizations, some of whom have no business passing them (boston, pittsburgh, and possibly philly). im yzerman's biggest fan. in fact, he can stay. but there needs to be some serious changes to the front office if he does. otoh, if they wanted to overhaul to entire front office, get rid of the reliance on former red wing players, and start with a fresh new approach, that would be fine too. probably even preferable.

such a depressing thread.

you need a management change.

i want to buy a ticket for their next home game just to boo them. pathetic.

yzerman has to take the blame for this. its his team now. yet another year, yet another collapse. enough is enough. pathetic.

i imagine ivey's views on pride are the majority in most nba locker rooms.

if cade got sga's whistle, he'd average 50 per game.

loleafs

wemby is such a freak of nature. the dude could play point guard if he wanted.

there is no more forgiveness or mercy. only rage anf the seeking of righteous vengeance.

"Acquired at the trade deadline from Detroit in the Kevin Huerter deal, there were some immediate red flags around Ivey when he held an impromptu postgame sermon in February about the “Old Jaden Ivey” being dead, especially now that “Christ was in his life.” Over the last few weeks, he started taking to his social media account and preaching to people his beliefs, while condemning those that he felt weren’t “saved.” Monday was more than enough in being the final straw, as there was an ongoing opinion that Ivey’s behavior was somehow spiraling.... ...There was noise out of Detroit that Ivey was not only very religious but a bit of a “preacher” in the locker room, so why was there not enough homework done on him by Karnisovas before the deal?" *** Apparently its been an issue for a while.

he's always been a big religious guy. not only is his knee injured probably beyond repair, he's also dumb. regardless of how you feel about pride month, shut your pie hole and keep it to yourself. he's not good enough to say those things and stay in the league.

marner is a much better player than raymond. i love lucas. i want him to succeed. but if the wings are going to challenge for stanley cups, he needs to be one of the best players on the ice. right now he's not. can he grow into that? i hope so. as everyone here has said ad nauseum, the wings dont have enough elite talent and they dont hsve enough hard players. right now raymond is neither. hopefully he grows into it.

fully healthy they are behind cleveland. i think they've passed the knicks because cade is now better than brunson. behind boston for sure. philly? they will never be "fully healthy" so it doesnt really matter. but a healthy embiid would destroy the pistons. without cade the pistons are 50/50 to get bounced in round one.

raymond is young, on a great contract, and has provided nothing the last two years in crunch time? would you trade him? you could get a king's ransom for him. as mad as i am at him, i probably wouldnt deal him. he's still young. if they could get a guy like tuch to be on line one, it might be different. i supppse that's what mbn or bear is supposed to eventually be. trying to thread the needle between larkin/debrincat's prime and seider/raymond's prime is proving difficult.