It’s always bothered me that the pretense for canning Carlisle in Detroit was that he didn’t play Tayshaun Prince enough in the first half of the season, but then they hired Larry Brown who was notorious for never playing rookies and who went on to pretty much end Darko before he ever could begin.

Sure, but your brother Jud was a pretty good player and is a half decent coach. I’ll take your advice any day!

I do agree for the most part. That said, you can stunt of rookie’s development by playing him too much as well. Take Michael Carter Williams. He was thrown into the fire and overly relied upon. So of course he relied upon the things he already did well rather than working on the things he needed to. (His atrocious…

Dwayne Schintzius says hello. For some reason Brown drafted him onto a team with David Robinson.

I was SO excited to put down an awful lot of money on Mayweather. Free money, right? And then a friend went to Vegas and asked me how much I wanted on him, and I sat down and thought, and asked myself, do I really want to wager thousands of dollars that boxing isn’t fixed? Turns out I do not.

Nowhere. It’s New York—everyone’s trying to get there fast and you can’t honk a horn without annoying the 10,000 people within earshot.

I concur, and can speak from authority as someone who has guided multiple franchises to NBA Championships in NBA 2K on difficulty levels up to and including All Star.

I totally agree, though. And it’s especially indefensible when a team is not a serious contender.

Fair enough. I do think the label is somewhat warranted, but I also think there are factors to consider. Carlisle might also be out of fucks to give because the Mavs aren’t even a shoo-in for the playoffs. So bring on the rooks.

Yeah, that bothers me to no end. There are probably thousands of guys who washed out of the NBA but could have had solid careers if their coach had just played them and let them make mistakes.

Rick Carlisle is mostly “rookie averse” because the rookies that end up playing for the Mavs have never been top-10 picks before. Hell, Yogi got tons of minutes in the back half of last year after we signed him and he was undrafted!

That’s weird, because during the Summer League broadcast last night, they were talking about how he was being pegged as a starter for the Mavs by the coaching staff...

The thing is, this is like when Fox news tried to call out The Daily Show for not being “Fair and balanced.” That’s not The Daily Show’s slogan, just like winning isn’t the fucking goal of the “dirtbag left.” Winning is the goal of centrist, career politicians. That and claiming to “go high” are the only currency…

I don’t think TMac was scared of the moment....it just seemed teams he was part of never got anywhere. But as I said, I may be overrating his role and underrating this teams’ contribution...

Oh if they had pulled the trigger it would’ve been a historical fuck up. You have the second best player in the league taking less money so they can bring back everyone and you go and mess with the chemistry? It would’ve been bad.

Yes, George cares deeply about being The Man, but I’ve yet to see him demonstrate the ability to actually be The Man in high-leverage situations.

Yeah, the obsession with being The Man is a really good point. George ripped C.J. Miles for taking the final shot in Game 1 against the Cavs this year, even though it was: 1) the right play since Miles was wide open; 2) George is like, 0-12 or something in his career on last-second buzzer-beaters. After getting…

Yea, I don’t know if there’s a precise way to value “Scores 35 one night, shoots 4 for 9 the next night, busts ass off the ball on offense and plays great defense both nights. Seems content with this.” But it’s clearly worth a lot to the Warriors right now.

If I feel from even 6 inches and landed the way he did I’d be in bed for a week. Fucking young, athletic people, man.

I happened to watch Arrival for the first time on the plane... I cried like a fucking baby. (SPOILERS AHEAD) When Abbott sacrifices himself and saves Louise and Ian, I just lost it. Then Costello’s frank explanation of, “Abbott is death process” later, a statement devoid of time, made me lose it all over again.