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Alright, caught a gift. Punch Brothers, who are as good a live act as I’ve ever seen and I would enthusiastically recommend to anyone regardless of genre taste because they’re simply ridiculously talented, are playing in St Louis this weekend. Couldn’t go because of a family commitment that I was just released from. Checked tickets and found a single resale for $35 in a great spot. I’m an owner. So pleased. Punch Brothers and MJ Lenderman on back to back nights. Strong, strong weekend.

Playing his senior year at Prolific Prep. 3rd school in 3 years.

7’ 260lb C originally from Mongolia. He attends The Ensworth School in Nashville, TN and plays travel ball for Wildcat Select on the 3SSB Circuit. Unranked by 247 and Rivals. In addition to IU claims offers from Xavier, Butler, Illinois, Rutgers and Ohio St among others.

This is a little weird: Apparently, the NBA is giving the Chuck Daly Lifetime Achievement Award tonight to Don Nelson. Never heard of it but that’s certainly a good call because Nelson was a pretty good player and hell of a coach. Apparently, it’s being presented an hour before tipoff. So, they drug an 85yo man from Hawaii to OKC to give him an award in an arena that will probably be less than half full? Isn’t that a halftime sort of thing?

Desmond Claude to Washington. Interesting team, but we’ll see how cohesive it is.

Have tried to get into hockey for 10+ years and it just hasn’t come. Our niece and her husband have ridiculously good Blues season tix that I can have whenever I want and I’ve never taken them up on it. Too many basketball games to watch. Now, if they’d just move the NHL season to summer we might be on to something. And, yeah, the summer has racing and nothing else. And when you get excited that Formula E is running this weekend you’ve officially run out of stuff.

The extra off day is pi$$ing me off. There should be a game tonight.

Nah, we’re gonna go with what we’ve got and we’ll see how that goes for us. But if it’s any consolation, we did sign Chaz Lanier, but he’s enrolled under the name “Lamar Wilkerson.”

When some Nate Silver, stats to the exclusion of all else, type tries to say that there’s no such thing as clutch, they really need to shut the hell up.

Ok, I don’t know if this is actually accurate but I just heard Legler say it and I trust that guy so I’m going with it: In this year’s playoffs, shots taken with under :15 left in the game to tie or take the lead: Every other player in the playoffs 4-27 Haliburton 5-5 To steal from the 2 guys in Tombstone: ”You ever seen anything like that?” ”Hell, I’ve never even heard of anything like that.” Un-freaking-believable.

https://x.com/NBAMemes/status/1930839318769107000 Have become such a fan of international calls.

Hope this dude’s right. That’s a nice.uni.

https://x.com/IndianaMBB/status/1930988050378543592 When was the last one of these you saw where a coach is busting a kid for getting lazy in a drill? Love it.

Pretty sure if Thibs had preemptively broken up his 2 big starting lineup, played them something like 40 mins total combined and gotten out-rebounded by a million by a pretty bad rebounding team they’d have locked him out of his office last night.

https://www.thedailyhoosier.com/is-iu-football-coach-curt-cignetti-comfortable-with-his-backup-qb-situation/ The fact that in basically 18 months we’ve gone from, “God, we’re the losingest program in history and it’s never gonna end” to “God, is our backup QB good enough” is so funny I can’t even believe it.

I don’t think he’s gonna get you this one, but based on what he’s brought in and what I’ve been able to see of his most recent offers I like your chances. Keep an eye on Alexander-Moody. He’s not gonna dazzle with his rating, though I imagine he’ll be rising, but that kid plays with his hair on fire all the time. Pretty big fan of his.

Anybody looking for some 1st rate Pacers X’s & O’s geekery before tonight needs to check out the great Caitlin Cooper with Zach Lowe previewing the series yesterday. Starts at about 29:00. Lowe is a really good basketball guy, I’m a fan, but Caitlin makes pretty much everyone sound like a basketball Neanderthal.

https://www.theringer.com/2025/06/03/nba/indiana-pacers-tyrese-haliburton-pascal-siakam-nba-finals-2025 Really fun Pacers article. Strictly gushy, but it’s incredibly fun to be rooting for a team that deserves being gushed over.

https://x.com/JonChep/status/1929607627526553891 Holt was named MVP of the Adidas Eurocamp. Hell of a player. Kid’s the textbook definition of a dawg.

I won’t listen to it because Coyle likes to hear himself talk way too much for me, but Shaw and DeCourcy are really good guests and Shaw might have some recruiting stuff worth hearing. Fwiw

Will be an interesting year for LaLu. Holmes has been there a while now and the last couple of years the roster has started to erode. Last year they had Haralson, Adams and Love(meh) and that was it. They were uncompetitive with the better programs. Will be really curious to see what they put together this year.

https://x.com/IndianaMBB/status/1929673440019030078/mediaViewer?currentTweet=1929673440019030078&currentTweetUser=IndianaMBB I assume this is the clip.

3 and 10 assigned. Huh

Very few sounds as cool as a net snapping. Does the old heart good.

Watched about 3/4 of this game and Holt was the best player on the floor. Even if that kid never scores a point he can impact games because he’s such a ridiculous athlete and a really committed defender. But that’ll never happen because he’s so explosive downhill that he can get to the rim on anyone. Big fan.