I think they might be tired of the lack of empathy in their show, too. This season was very different from their usual "both sides are bad, fuck everybody" humor.

Detroit Lions fans can tell you all about the joys of making a D line position coach a head coach.

Keep on rocking in the free market.

The Pistons, as you mentioned, but also the Lakers of the late 90s and 00s, the Celtics of the late 00s, the 2011 Mavericks - none of these teams did anything that resembled tanking. Even the Heat.

I don't understand the idea that tanking leads to winning, when there's no evidence it does. Name one team in the last year that tanked its way to a title?

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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