Supposedly (no proof i’ve seen) the government released massive amounts of an asian type lady bug to try and find a better (non pesticide way) to kill a certain pest in soybean fields. 2009 around Champaign it was always the story, not sure how much truth there ever was, but it was crazy, litterally millions of them…

This. He was expecting to play OKC, San Antonio or maybe the Clippers. Two of those teams they match up solidly with (SA and LA) and even OKC they can put Irving on whomever was going to be the 2 guard and Love on Ibaka and be ok. If he had seen the warriors thing coming they hold on to Wiggins and use that love…

We had this dicussion last night. You could hide him against the Thunder, he could do a solid job on Ibaka. He’d get destroyed against whoever on the Spurs, and Clippers he’d have to guard Jordan, which might be a better matchup for him despite his limitations because he’s not chasing a guy around.

Blake Griffin?

Mmmm, can we get more of your delicious hot takes?

Deserves more stars

The scenario that comes to my mind is forward scouts or snipers. Intel comes in that bad guy A might be in the spot, You are talking 1-2 person teams I’d guess and in more suburban/hidden situation.

I think curry’s knee is really bothering him. He hasn’t looked the same cutting to the hoop and the Thunder know it.

The league outlawed it, but it was never legal to begin with. It was enforced in the 70-s and 80's you couldn’t do it until the pistons just did it every single time and they stopped calling it as much, then it got so bad they had to specifically call it out. But impeding progress of a player with your arm was never…

Or they just started enforcing the rules that were on the books that the Pistons took more advantage of. it’s mind boggling how people think that the bad boys were good basketball. They were solid Rugby maybe.

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Apples to oranges. Dame is the top dog on that team. If Durant were to come with their Salary Cap money, he would be expecting to give up a lot of shots and a lot of ball time. Some guys adapt, and some don’t. that’s not to say Dame isn’t a hell of a player, but the original argument was that if they had an offense…

Or Kendrick Perkins!

How many of those PGs are out there anymore? CP3, Rondo, .... Russ actually lead the NBA in assists this year

Part of it is they are exhausted. They play so many minutes and have to do so many things out there. And OKC basically had decided they aren’t going to play one without the other often because GS just swarms whichever guy is out there and neither are good enough passers to really create without the other.

I think he’d run into the same problem in Boston or Portland. Both of those systems have guys who are similar in games to Westbrook. It’s a matter of a coach reigning the other guy in and saying that Durant needs more of those shots. I don’t know if Dame would be super excited about that. Volume shooters are a a…

Exactly. Imagine Durant in the Golden State lineup, with picks and cuts and spacing instead of ISO.

This is a good bird take

I think it really changed once his book came out. He couldn’t help but always plug it and became a one trick pony after that, falling back on his old (and for the most part good) thoughts and just recycling them over and over again. I think he put everything he had into the book and said ok, now it’s recycle time.

So it Peter Carroll. So is Pete Carroll