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8 minutes ago, romad1 said:

We did Kentucky yesterday.  That dorm tour was best seen to date.  Also a lovely campus.  My one critique.  The coke zero was out in the cafeteria.  

I'll pass along any strong thoughts on dorms.  KU compared to Louisville is like comparing something from HGTV after a remodel to my barracks in 1987 in a 100 year old building in Baumholder, Germany. 

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?

Just now, romad1 said:

I'll be on the Bloomington campus of IU today for my daughter's campus tour.  I'll report back on hubris and whatnot.  I want to like today because they have a good program for her major. 

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.  😉

On 3/31/2026 at 8:00 PM, romad1 said:

Trump is sayng he's actually going to go to the US Supreme Court tomorrow for this

 

That will be interesting.   You know an amendment is sort of a big deal.  It means that the popular will was to ratify that amendment.  Him saying things are just so does not countermand an amendment. 

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?

1 hour ago, Deleterious said:

On livestream, Jaden Ivey says he had suicidal thoughts after breaking his leg

Did the Pistons think Jesus had healed him?

At this point it isn't even about basketball anymore.  I hope he can get some help.

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.

1 hour ago, lordstanley said:

I can't be too hard on the Mantha trade because I thought it was great value at the time. And also because Vrana (just turned 25 when acquired) is the type of guy I was fine with Yzerman picking up, a potential diamond in the rough in his mid-20s who potentially could flourish with a new organization. Like Fabbri (24 when acquired) and Nedeljkovic (25 when acquired). Problem is none of them panned out. 

if cossa works out, the trade is a plus.

9 minutes ago, gehringer_2 said:

didn’t the Spurs go from 1st to worst when they lost Robinson? I think that was a default assumption of what might happen when Cade went down. 

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

37 minutes ago, Jason_R said:

The Mantha trade has not worked out. If there is a culture problem in Detroit, the explanation for it runs through the question of why both Mantha and apparently Soderblom are flourishing in Pittsburgh when we couldn’t get rid of them fast enough. 

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?

8 minutes ago, Jason_R said:

The management change needed was to trade out Ken Holland for Jim Nill. 

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.

13 minutes ago, gehringer_2 said:

The species hasn't evolved to be able to deal with the tech culture it has built..  Young people going head over heels for this or that idea/movement/vocation/avocation has always been pretty common, but in the past also usually pretty benign. 'Just a phase' you move past and maybe your best friend remembers and can tease you about it 20yrs later.

Well, no more of that kind of leeway.

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?"

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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.

50 minutes ago, slothfacekilla said:

Even thinking about trading Raymond seems crazy to me, it feels like the Maple Leafs getting rid of Marner and their fans thinking their team actually improved because of it.

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.

2 hours ago, Deleterious said:

Well, that is certainly a take.

I think they lose to OKC and San Antonio, and it's a tossup with Boston.  Nobody else in the east concerns me after Boston.  So I would have them 3rd or 4th I guess.  Assuming Cade is relatively healthy of course.

 

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.