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Yup, after Lillard traffic-coned Duren the 1st time you could see it coming. The one push back I would make is that Cade also has a worse A/TO ratio than Luka or even Embiid. IOW, the TO number would be easier to accept if he were a better passer than he is. And granted, put him on the court with other better players and we should see more successful assists, but like his shooting, that jury is still out until we see it. And likewise the scoring is great but again, how impressive is it measured against his usage? His EFG is not in Luka's ballpark. Right now he is the is almost the only option on a epicly bad offensive team, which results in too much forced offense for Cade. Cade's bad luck to have come to this team and now a coach who seems to be OK with too much hero ball.

So here is a question: The bar on in person scouting is a B1G rule. Does TCU's conference even have such a rule? If not maybe they expected to have to protect their communication?

"Bally" is just a trademark at this point. It seems likely that whoever ends up owning the broadcast origination, they are likely to leave in place as much of the current asset they assume as they can - but nothing is for certain.

LOL - did they let him meet the Bally crew he has to work with before they got him to sign?

The Rangers will be bad for a long time in the future as the cost of this Championship. Whether an owner wants to go that route is his decision to make.

Yup, and half the schools in every conference realize that this outcome is would be the death knell for their programs because that paid league is not going to be more than 40 teams - maybe 50 tops. That leaves half of the CFB out in the cold. So the desperation out there is real, and justified.

this refers to standard game film' doesn't it? All teams take and share standard PBP film. As I understand it that is not supposed to include sideline filming. Otherwise what would we even be talking about here? The whole competition fairness issue is about getting what isn't on the PBP film. Distribution of 'standard' PBP film is supposed to save teams the cost of doing it themselves for all their opponents - the money is what these rules were about in the first place, not the competition. It was pure serendipity that these rules meant teams no longer had to 'protect' observation of their sidelines. That had never been true before the rules were passed. In person scouts never had any rules about what they couldn't observe.

Sure - I wouldn't argue that he is basically the only one on the stage who is not certifiable.

No kidding. Like send a play in with a player and sign something else and see if the results change? It ain't exactly rocket science.

In their defense, they did get a couple of wide open 3 looks as a result of the doubles on Cade, but Stew and Thomspson couldn't hit them.

It might not be interesting, but from a functional standpoint, the draft could probably start going deeper with the NBA having developed a more formalized minor league system. The comparison to football shows the two round draft was originally apt. Before the g-league, neither sport had a minor system and football drafted 6 rounds into a 53 man roster, while basketball drafted two rounds into a 15 man roster. That's pretty comparable. If it got/gets to where to each NBA team carried another 15 players assigned to the G league, doubling the draft to 4 rounds would follow - roughly.

That's why the public's fascination with 'new faces' is so destructive to good leadership. Talk is cheap, anyone can say anything. But your record, what you actually did, can't be waived away with 30 seconds of appealing rhetoric. If there were one thing I wish America would stop doing so much of it's *listening* to politicians. Stop listening at look at their records. That's the only thing close to truth you will get access to.

If Christie had actually been as governor the person he projects himself as now, he'd be more appealing. But with any politician I'm far more interested in 'what did you/have done' than 'what can you say that sounds good'. He did not cover himself in glory as the Gov of NJ and his rejection of Trump only after being rebuffed in his efforts to join the circle don't combine to paint a person who *acts* with nearly the level of principle he talks. That said, when it comes to the GOP the one eyed man may still be king in the land of the blind.

If Cade Cunningham weren't Cade Cunningham, Monty would have put Killian back in the game and tried to recapture the flow the offense had that went straight down the tubes when Cade came back in. It's terrible to watch a team double Cade all the way out to the time line and the Pistons don't have the movement, passing, or shooting to pick up the easy buckets that should be making available.

Pistons fold like a cheap suit. Still so far away.

Pistons build a 10 pt lead late with Sasser and Hayes, Cade comes back in and turns it over 3 times.

Of course how much of that was because the reporter exercised editorial selection on what he was willing to put on the airwaves in that era, you will never know at this point.

interesting idea. He did not pitch as well in the second half of the season as he did in the first.

and of course we don't know what he was asking the Tigers for to stay, which has to be weighed against how much the Tiger FO believes (rightly or wrongly) he may have damaged his marketability with his 'eccentricities'. I don't think you can generalize with much certainty, but to do ahead and do it anyway ;), I think teams don't suffer any more overall by being too willing to let guys walk vs being too willing to overpay.

I agree with a lot of your post but one complicating factor for religious American Muslims that I would add is that Democratic liberalism on sex and gender doesn't play any better with religiously conservative Muslims than it does with religiously conservative Christians.

this happened on Oct22 last year. Hu was seen at Zemin's funeral afterwards. from WIKIp:

LOL - "True Democracy is not the way to run a country" Ron should watch his step. The Athenians made Socrates drink hemlock, probably not the least for espousing that view.

It's the NFL, there are no perfect teams, and even if there were, by week six or so they'd have enough injuries not be perfect anymore. If the outcome of games wasn't in doubt, it wouldn't be sport.

There is a deeper point about the abortion arg as well. It keeps working because it's the signifier for the broader critique that despite their rhetoric about guns and 'free' enterprise, the GOP is fundamentally not a party of personal freedom anymore. That's why the abortion issue rhetoric keeps working. It's today's shorthand for the whole debate around the elevation of religion over an open political process. Call it the left's dog whistle to avoid talking about religion directly. OTOH, the flip side of the abortion issue is that I fear it's going to drive more true believers/evangelicals more firmly to acceptance of fascist politics in the US: So for a couple of generations, US anti-abortion forces could sustain both a belief in democracy and in the righteousness of their cause because it was the evil un-elected SCOTUS that had thwarted justice and once that was finally fixed through a democratic process, all would be well. Well guess what, they got their SCOTUS that gutted RvW and surprise, the democratic process is now rejecting their righteous cause at the ballot box all around the country. The only available conclusion is that democracy itself is a failed construct because it does not conform to the will of their god. This won't be a comfortable outcome for US politics, not that one was ever possible anyway.

Agree. Or maybe put it that FP matters to US voters only in direct proportion to how many US boots are in harm's way somewhere.