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My college coach used to describe dudes that were just tough as hell as being “all balls.” The Pacers are all balls.

Obviously not the subject matter of the moment, but in a week or so, after the victory parade, I really need someone to explain the Durant trade to me from the Houston perspective.

Was in a mood to look for re-worked versions of great songs and found this. From Peter Gabriel’s 3rd album, which I love. Maybe my favorite track on the record. Incredible song. Re-done by a truly great creative artist with a giant catalog of fascinating alternative versions. Literally yelped when I found it. Couldn’t turn it on fast enough, and….. it blows. Seriously, it’s bad. How did that happen? Hate the vocal so, so much. Unvelievable.

https://m.youtube.com/@KKDynamicTV/videos For anyone wanting to see Ristic in actual games, sort of, his club team, KK Dynamic, has a YouTube page that posts 13-15 min summary videos of their games. They’re a little odd because they’re cut to only show them on offense, but you can get a good look at the schemes he’s used to playing in and and a fair look at his skill level. Watched 1 tonight and will probably watch a few tomorrow. Ristic wears #1.

Yeah, transferring to New School in Fayetteville, AR for his senior year. Unsurprising.

Matt Gatens, who might have been the next Guy at Iowa if Fran’s tenure had ended differently, takes the GM job at Auburn. That’s a pretty soft landing.

That is such a good event

Yup. Even if they wanted to try influence things a bit now and then there are just way too many uncontrollable factors. My 1 exception , and I will die on this hill, is I 100% believe in the Patrick Ewing to the Knicks frozen envelope conspiracy theory. Stern couldn’t have looked guiltier during that entire process and he was relieved as hell when it was over.

Transferring to Prolific Prep for next year.

Shot 40% and still kicked their a$$. Amazing. Best defensive game I’ve seen them play. So synch’ed up. They put another defensive effort like that together Sunday they’ll absolutely win it.

https://x.com/TheHoopCentral/status/1935885699867459986 The Portuguese call is awesome. SI-AAAAHHHHH-KEM I don’t care that I don’t speak Portuguese, I want these guys on the gm 7 call.

I’m wrong plenty on this, but I always assume if the kid is doing the big public event and he’s got a local school on his list he’s staying home. St Joe’s is like 10 mins from Roman Catholic.

Ok, am I the only one who would not have guessed 48 hrs ago that the Fever’s James Johnson is Sophie Cunningham? Throwing that girl down and getting ready to rip her ear off while talking $hit the entire time is objectively awesome. If your superstar is never gonna shut up ever you better have that woman right there signed to a long term deal.

Juwan Morgan now on board, per Lasley.

Does anyone remember a pic from one of these with that many people in it? Kid brought the whole entourage.

Genius

https://www.indystar.com/story/sports/college/purdue/2025/06/18/former-purdue-basketball-star-zach-edey-charged-with-reckless-driving-tippecanoe-county-kia-sorento/84263023007/?taid=68530233b24c5f00014bd3d0&utm_campaign=trueanthem&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter So, so much to unpack here.

Big, big fan of that kid. I’m telling ya, Wilkerson’s gonna have a Chaz Lanier-type year. He’ll create so much space Conerway won’t believe the driving lanes he’s getting.

Had she even left the country yet?

Hell of a day.

DDV threw me. I was pretty confident they’d add a Eurokid. Did not cross my mind it would be a guard. Welcome aboard, Aleksa.

Gonna go out on limb and suggest Dwayne Stephens is not recruiting Thompson for Western Michigan. Guessing he’s recruiting him should he be the next guy at Michigan State.

That would be a great result. And if Gardner’s good enough to go after a year, that’s really good as well. I’m more whining about the inevitable Painter thing where Zachary chooses them from a final 4 of PU, Toledo, some directional Michigan school and maybe DePaul and then shoots 45% from 3 every year and he and Luke Ertel are just a straight pain in the a$$ together for 3 years. And that is complementing both of them.

Illinois’ Ty Rodgers out for the year. Blew out his knee playing pick up ball. Unusual player but I’ve always liked him. Competes like crazy.

Kid’s a hell of a player. Was really good at GEICO. They lost to the Boozer twins but that kid as a Soph completely belonged.