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About the same as Mike Woodson's teams is the ceiling? What is the floor? Opinions are what we're here for and you are certainly entitled to yours, but I'm curious what the basis is for your opinion. Can't be roster quality because Woodson failed with far more roster star power, and Kelsey succeeded greatly last year with significantly less roster buzz. Isn't it more accurate to state that the new era is currently a big, fat question mark, but is being led by a staff that has flat-out produced results wherever they've been.

18/19 from the line for a 7’1” kid? That’s impressive.

You do realize that the Department of Justice/FBI had all the bad guys’ bank records and saw how they paid Donaghy? And that the NBA fully cooperated and nuked Donaghy? Yet the conspiracy theory is that both the FBI/DOJ and the NBA were conspiring to take out one crooked young NBA ref but not a different young, crooked NBA ref. And all because Foster and Donaghy were friends that talked a bunch. Oh yeah, and the fix is in on behalf of the Knicks, who haven’t won a title since the 1970’s.

I read about the conspiracy to help the Knicks, who haven’t won a championship in a zillion seasons here… until Halliburton started outplaying Brunson and Brunson got in major foul trouble. What happened to that conspiracy? Play great team defense and hit shots and all these conspiracies and blame the refs stuff disappears.

Let me guess; on an OKC fan board there was obviously biased anti-OKC refereeing in the games the Pacers won. Amirite?

That two guys that were friends talked on the phone? I’m trying really hard not to be snarky here, but it’s getting difficult.

Lol. No. “Refs missed some calls” is not evidence of bad refereeing. And “I don’t like calls that go against my team!” Is not evidence of bad refereeing. It’s standard human nature. It’s as silly as this “extender” nonsense. I just checked the past four years of Foster reffing game fours. 2 games won by the team that was already up- two for the team that was behind at the time. 3 out of 4 games won by the home team.

Three posters. Three posts. Three 100% evidence-free conspiracy theories.

Very much hoping you are implying it’s because he’s damn good.

Psshh… Foster and Donaghy were close friends but there apparently was zero evidence that Foster was involved in gambling. Insinuating against or assailing Foster based on zero evidence other than they were friends who talked on the phone? No sir. And taking a two second clip out of a 48 minute game with three refs, playing it in slow motion, and using it as an example of any ref’s supposed incompetence is pretty weak sauce IMO. These are world class athletes playing at full speed and in constant contact with each other, and frequently in the sight lines of referees. To say that over the course of any game some calls can be second guessed is completely irrelevant to the quality of refereeing.

lol… it’s not a league narrative to have an Indiana/OKC Finals. If the league could script things, these are the teams that would never sniff a title: Indiana, OKC, Sacramento, Portland, New Orleans, Utah, Milwaukee. Two of them are in the Finals this year. That’s a business model nightmare. And btw… those are quite literally the best basketball referees on the planet.

We don’t need another guard for the coming year. But all four of our top four guards are out of eligibility after this season. We have two spots to fill with players that could be rotation guards after this year.

Oof. Jordy was in no shape to play in that thing last year

Top 500 composite recruit. Not too shabby.

There are so many extraordinary post-Pet Sounds/Smile albums that, thanks to musical revolutions and trends, never really got their due. When y'all are done listening to Pet Sounds, Summer Days and Summer Nights, some Greatest Hits compilation (lord forbid - don't do that) and the like, take the time to listen to those 1968-1975 albums such as: Friends, Sunflower, Holland, Carl and the Passions, Wild Honey, and The Beach Boys Love You. The cuts on most of these albums are about 10% clunkers and 90% flat-out fantastic.

Oh wow; a rough week. Brian Wilson died today. One of the truly immortal, genius composers of any era, who was also blessed with the voice of an angel. His work will live on for generations and will be rediscovered and sourced for inspiration, and guidance by musicians and composers long, long after he is gone. It's hard to encapsulate Brian Wilson in a few clips, but I will try to do so in two: 1) Angelic vocal and musical beauty: Surf's Up was composed and recorded entirely by Brian during a period of extreme mental and physical decline (and at a young age). His voice was still intact, and the all too real all-encompassing sadness is undeniable, with or without lyrics. If you only listen to one minute of Brian Wilson singing, make it this cut starting at the 45 second mark: 2) Pop composition mastery...Good Vibrations. An orchestra, extraordinary tempo, mood, harmonic, and structure twists and turns, all presented in a package that the masses couldn't get enough of. By the time this was released and performed Brian was out of commission, but he wrote and arranged every bit of it. Sublime:

The class map is pretty freaking excellent. Note of interest; if you expand the map enough you see the player who went to high school in Madagascar, off of the east coast of Africa! (made you look)

Amen and Hallelujah!!

Wouldn't take a lot of convincing anyway, but all I needed to see starts at exactly the 1:05 mark of the highlight video embedded in the Inside the Hall article. The young man is 7'3" yet seems to have no problem getting out and running with coordination. Sold.

Good lord, what could have been. Before there was Prince, there was Sylvester Stewart/aka Sly Stone; incendiary genius with unlimited talent. But unlike Prince, addiction scrambled his brain only about five years after he got going. Sly Stone died last night at 82, but he wasn't the real Sly Stone for the last 55 years. RIP

Mendoza Mayhem are we.

It’s be different if it was the same terrible staff from the past five years with good talent, but it’s a second year staff that now has a strong roster. There’s nothing uniquely cursed about Washington that prevents them from being good next year.

But are you aware of the origin of that band’s name?(!)

I don’t know about Sprinkle, but that’s a talented, experienced roster.

^^That’s some wacky stuff right there^^