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Just now, Deleterious said:

The good news.  Nobody in the east can do this to the Pistons.

until tatum comes back.

ivey washing out kills this team.  he was their second scorer to help cade.  

without him, they tanked for one superstar, a defensive small forward who can guard 1-3, a rim running center, and a defensive role player.  

that's not a championship core.  they have to get another scorer.  but trajan sat on his hands and did nothing in a season where the second best team is the flawed knicks and the injured celtics.

this game is a bit flukish that the pistons are shooting so poorly, but it does show how they are going to struggle if teams double cade hard in key moments.  if he isnt superman, they could be in trouble becauae their other two best players (ausar/duren) cant score without him.

1 minute ago, Deleterious said:

The entire Spurs defense is focused on Cade. They are fine giving up the occasional Duren tip in or dunk, maybe a Robinson three. They know nobody else on the floor can beat them.

isnt this what theyre going to see every night in the playoffs?  if cade is going to be human in any game the pistons are in big trouble.  there is no other consistent scorer on the team.

but thank goodness they didnt go all in at the deadline for a #2 scorer...

if cade is shooting 5-25 youre going to lose to the pelicans, much less the spurs.

shooting less than 20% from 3 = loss

if there is one franchise that has received their success largely from the league, its the spurs.  yeah yeah, parker and ginobli.  but they dont win **** without duncan.  and befoee him robinson.  and now wemby AND castle AND harper.

**** you, nba.  and **** off, spurs.

49 minutes ago, Shinzaki said:

Talk on X is that the Wings are in on RHD McKenzie Weegar from the Flames.

They also employ the irascible Nazem Kadri...he would add an ahole dimension to the top six

weegar's play has fallen off, iirc.

they beat the knicks in new york and now everyone is on the bandwagon.

today has been the greatest "make fun of canada" day of all time.

no offense to canadians.

1 hour ago, Deleterious said:

I would pay a lot of money for a subscription that filtered out arena music.  That OKC arena is awful, just nonstop background noise.  

try the mute button.  not only does it filter out annoying background noise, but you dont have to listen to doris burke either!  

Just now, Shinzaki said:

Kings are giving our old pal Killian a 10 day run

adam silver is going to fine them $650k for making such an obvious tanking maneuver.

And its George Washington's birthday too!

it was destiny.

1 minute ago, lordstanley said:

And then drifted back. I can see why McDavid would stay back a bit, your forwards do that in 3 on 3 so they can be sprung after a save, but no excuse for Makar when he saw Jack Hughes alone. 

the real reason we scored was dylan larkin distracting everyone, pulling the defense away from a wide open jack hughes.  🙂

watching that replay, makar with a terrible pinch attempt led to the breakaway.

5 minutes ago, Mr.TaterSalad said:

My mom had a routine colonoscapy and her insurance provider tried charging her $2,500 because they said she was high risk. Of course she's high risk, her father had colon cancer, that's why she was in there for a preventative freaking screening. She fought it for a month and won thankfully. 

Anyways, great game, that was fun to watch. 

so she paid $0?  cool!  and she didnt even have to give half her money to the government to do it.

enough.  good hockey result even if the team you hate the most won.

1 minute ago, Mr.TaterSalad said:

And I'm not going bankrupt because they gave me a Tylenol in the hospital and did an MRI.

dont worry, you wont.  

i sliced off a chunk of of finger the other day, went to urgent care.  it cost me $20.

5 minutes ago, lordstanley said:

If you think Canadian healthcare has problems (true), wait until I tell you how horrible is Tim Horton’s. 

my wife made me take her to tim hortons when we went to windsor.  i told her "its canadian seven eleven!"  but she had to have ketchup chips.  always with the ketchup chips.

Just now, Mr.TaterSalad said:

Cool, this means we get single payer healthcare. Hellebuyck is the real hero though, even though Hughes got the goal. He kept them in this. 

nyah bro, i'm not paying 50% of my income to the government so i can wait 12 months for an mri.  canadian healthcare is mythologized by the american left (not to say us healthcare system works well, it doesnt, but life is about tradeoffs, my communist friend).

hopefully we get tim hortons in the deal.

jack hughes almost cost them the game with his stupid tripping penalty at the end, and then wins it in ot.

usa baby!

sorry canada, you are now the 51st state.

US has been completely dominated.  only reason theyre in the game is hellebuyck and luck.

canada should be winning by 2 or 3 goals.

53 minutes ago, MichiganCardinal said:

Found the degenerate bar that opens at 7am for this one. Don’t serve Irish coffee, but that’d have been a bad omen anyway. Bloody Mary is strong.

I’m coming to believe a certain kind of character tends to gravitate towards a bar that opens at 7am

i used to get up at 5 or 6 most weekends to watch United play.  back when there were no soccer games on regular tv.  trudge over to the bar with a few englishmen.

now every game is on tv and its a bunch of milennials and gen z "man city and chelsea fans" there.  vibe totally sucks now.  

i remember being there one morning and there were a ton of people in the backroom all drunk at 8 am.  it was six nations pay per view.  packed crowd that day for ireland.  the big rugby games still get crowds at the bars here if its ireland or england (but especially ireland).  being the only francophile there gets lonely.

speaking of which, allez les bleus.

13 minutes ago, lordstanley said:

Yep, McDavid waited too long. 
 

Team USA is sitting back like Finland did against Canada. 

terrible strategy.