Look, just tell me how many imaginary internet points my hotter take earned.

Morality play?

"Hot take" has pretty much devolved into, "Opinion I disagree with," hasn't it?

Here's the dirty secret about Kyrie Irving - he isn't actually all that good. He's a solid scorer - slightly above average efficiency, but high volume - who provides exactly nothing else. He doesn't play defense. He can't orchestrate an offense.

Duncan's repeated "shocked" eyes made me laugh every single time.

Nope, not remotely. Because even at the 4, Smith would still be shooting them out of games. As he had been most of the season, seeing as he was starting at PF and Monroe was coming off the bench.

I understand why the Pistons are better on offense. That was going to be a given. What I can't figure out is why they can defend all of the sudden.

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Does Darin Erstad's mom have a vote or something?

Ugh, and that's not even the half of it.

Dat tie, tho

To be fair, the Cowboys had some calls go against them too, including a running into the punter no call (which wouldn't have had a huge impact), a really whimpy hold call that nullified a touchdown, and a pretty blatant hold on that Stafford scramble that resulted in a first down on a touchdown drive.

You joke, but isn't that more or less what he did to Terrelle Pryor a few years back?

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I don't disagree. And I think the suspension should have been upheld (and I'm a Lions fan).

I didn't think it would happen until this morning, when I heard how Mike Perrera (sp?) basically publicly shamed the league by saying it was inconsistent with past discipline and that the ref who was on top of it didn't see it as dirty in real time. I'm not sure I've ever heard him so critical of the league office…

This is going to be just like when the Bulls traded Michael Jordan so they could keep Doug Collins.

I'm a Lions fan, and I have exactly zero problem with this suspension. He was trying to hurt Rodgers.

Just once. He's also been fined for, among other things, two handed shoving Cutler on a play where he had scrambled up field.

Speaking of the team they just lost to, amazing how the Pistons cut Josh Smith and immediately become lights out offensively.