Or they are the same team but their opponents can (1) keep their best players on the court longer because of time off between playoff games and (2) have more than 8 hours to prepare for GSW, unlike the regular season.

Because the great players had plans B and C.

During the regular season teams only have a day or two to prepare for a new squad. The best players play limited minutes, meaning that a unique team with a deep bench can rack up a ton of wins.

And also, those examples were close - clearly he flails to try and create contact, a long standing tactic going through Reggie Miller to Ginobili to Wade...etc. - but they don’t really look like the swinging of the leg after the momentum is over right into a guy’s nards, like you see with Adams.

My feeling is that now that the league has outlawed any sort of on-court justice from other players, they have to suspend Green. Either you turn your head while Adams or some other enforcer gets their revenge or you make the consequence severe enough to deter that from happening.

Missing: Both teams play well; one wins.

Pilot/episode 1 is rough. The timing is weird, it doesn’t flow well. This is true of a lot of pilots. The subsequent episodes are better.

Yeah, I agree with that. Definitely don’t want to excuse the poor choices of Democrats, and part of the reason I support Bernie staying in the race through the convention - with the caveat that tonal and strategic changes are made - is to make exactly that point: people will get out to vote for real progressive ideas.

Sure, but that cuts both ways. Bernie has shown that sufficient money can be raised in small donations to run a national campaign. That + hard work can get you more than enough for a state Senate race.

I agree with most of that, but as we saw from the failure of Walker, Bush, and the other candidates with a shitton of money behind them, the important thing is translating dollars into votes.

I agree with the OP:

Aiming that frantic hysteria at a woman applying the clear rules fairly (Hillary had people disqualified, as well, just not as many) is as stupid as aiming disgruntled, desperate hysteria at death panels. Just because things aren’t going great does not mean lashing out randomly is a good idea.

I mean, a comet could land on Hillary’s head and then Bernie would win going away.

Give me a list of important political movements in American history that have worked that way.

You are not confronting reality. Bernie essentially has to win every remaining state 85-15 to win. That will not happen. He lost.

When the Tea People didn’t have candidates who they wanted, they found their own, supported them, and primaried out the Republicans they hated.

It’s obviously right. What happened in Nevada shows that. There was no grand conspiracy, the Sanders people just didn’t organize correctly (and lost a whopping 4 delegates because of it - certainly a good reason to call the woman chair a “cunt” 100x’s on various media platforms).

Sure. You can complain and vote how you want.

The way I phrased that is misleading. I agree with you in principle. I don’t think Orlando regretted the contract they gave Howard in his prime.

I’m ambivalent about that point. On the one hand, I think you’re right about how difficult it is, but some criticism is legit. Think about LeBron digesting the low-post/dribbling at the top of the key while the defense sets criticisms. He changed that and won championships.