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Basketball is easy; just a complex, relative, and multidimensional phenomena. ☕️ 🏀 🦌
Basketball is easy; just a complex, relative, and multidimensional phenomena. ☕️ 🏀 🦌
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@mebartl8.bsky.social
· Oct 2
I can be positive, too.
Tldr: stop doom and glooming my Bucks because they need a year, ok?? National media?!
Tldr: stop doom and glooming my Bucks because they need a year, ok?? National media?!
It's very important to me Giannis is a one franchise guy. I still care about that stuff. Maybe no one cares anymore. I want stuff. I'm taking as long as I can, still, to fix things around him. But this is the one I'd have to take a real long hard look at doing early.
Add in the 2026 NO/MIL pick, the 2027 NO/MIL pick and 1-2 more distant ATL 1sts... 🤔
December 3, 2025 at 9:26 PM
It's very important to me Giannis is a one franchise guy. I still care about that stuff. Maybe no one cares anymore. I want stuff. I'm taking as long as I can, still, to fix things around him. But this is the one I'd have to take a real long hard look at doing early.
Counter: just start them
Also if you deal Giannis you have to deal Turner, Kuz, Bobby, etc. Go full tank mode
December 3, 2025 at 8:52 PM
Counter: just start them
We're not watching Giannis waste away on another team losing their legs
This possibly happening fast obviously isn't a good thing for the Warriors' hopes to get into the Giannis market -- since Kuminga would probably have to be part of any offer and he can't be traded until Jan. 15.
Sources: Giannis Antetokounmpo, Bucks discussing future - via @ESPN App https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/47191857/sources-giannis-antetokounmpo-bucks-discussing-future
December 3, 2025 at 8:41 PM
We're not watching Giannis waste away on another team losing their legs
I listened to the report. There's nothing imminent. A lot regurgitated. All the slop about "lockerroom" feels like the biggest hurdle. Why that was suddenly reported a bunch. Why KPJ said the lockerroom needs to get on board. Etc.
December 3, 2025 at 8:17 PM
I listened to the report. There's nothing imminent. A lot regurgitated. All the slop about "lockerroom" feels like the biggest hurdle. Why that was suddenly reported a bunch. Why KPJ said the lockerroom needs to get on board. Etc.
Congrats to all involved. You put enough losses on the board.
So it’s pretty universally recognized the lakers get the most premium whistle in North American sports, and somehow the nba just decided that a team with GIANNIS is somehow earning a whistle the other that makes the Lakers whistle look reasonable.
December 3, 2025 at 8:09 PM
Congrats to all involved. You put enough losses on the board.
Ah man Bobby Portis is out and they might have to trade him? Too bad Pete Nance just had another 33 mins, 24 pts, 4/8 from 3, and 3 blocks this morning.
December 3, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Ah man Bobby Portis is out and they might have to trade him? Too bad Pete Nance just had another 33 mins, 24 pts, 4/8 from 3, and 3 blocks this morning.
I thought we already went over this? This was almost verbatim what was reported a couple weeks ago.
December 3, 2025 at 5:51 PM
I thought we already went over this? This was almost verbatim what was reported a couple weeks ago.
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think of how annoying CP3 mustve been for the clippers to cut him and release a statement about it at 3am on the road. that's some OHMYGODSHUTUP type decision making.
December 3, 2025 at 4:30 PM
think of how annoying CP3 mustve been for the clippers to cut him and release a statement about it at 3am on the road. that's some OHMYGODSHUTUP type decision making.
I'll cut him, I'm not that way.
December 3, 2025 at 4:08 PM
I'll cut him, I'm not that way.
There's no sledgehammer of mortality like being a sports fan. It's every day. Chris Klein is now a head coach. Bury me someplace nice.
BREAKING: K-State coach Chris Klieman is retiring, per source. Texas A&M OC Collin Klein, the former K-State star, is set to replace him. The Mercury first reported the news.
December 3, 2025 at 3:33 PM
There's no sledgehammer of mortality like being a sports fan. It's every day. Chris Klein is now a head coach. Bury me someplace nice.
Sending him home so you have 2 weeks to negotiate a trade that no one wants without risking anyone able to see him on the floor anymore is the exact type of galaxy brained idea that happens at 2am when you should be sleeping and recovering.
December 3, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Sending him home so you have 2 weeks to negotiate a trade that no one wants without risking anyone able to see him on the floor anymore is the exact type of galaxy brained idea that happens at 2am when you should be sleeping and recovering.
Amazon. Doesn't matter what I try. Blurry, crashing, and behind.
I’ve yet to watch a peacock game where there wasn’t at least 50% of the game where the picture was blurry.
December 3, 2025 at 2:48 AM
Amazon. Doesn't matter what I try. Blurry, crashing, and behind.
CJ is 3/11, 0/6 from 3, has 6 pts, in 20 mins. Thanks for your good game of the week. My team didn't *deserve* to win, but you didn't have to give a shit either.
December 3, 2025 at 1:31 AM
CJ is 3/11, 0/6 from 3, has 6 pts, in 20 mins. Thanks for your good game of the week. My team didn't *deserve* to win, but you didn't have to give a shit either.
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I think the issue comes down to what @mebartl8.bsky.social has been saying. The salary slots they have put you at a decent 3 but their pick capital is in the range of a really good 3. Trying to square that and not overpay will be tough. Lavine or derozan? Absolutely not. Murphy? Not enough assets.
December 3, 2025 at 12:45 AM
I think the issue comes down to what @mebartl8.bsky.social has been saying. The salary slots they have put you at a decent 3 but their pick capital is in the range of a really good 3. Trying to square that and not overpay will be tough. Lavine or derozan? Absolutely not. Murphy? Not enough assets.
Oh wow Kalani Sitake is staying at BYU? I guess sometimes that's just how the big cookie Crumbl's
December 2, 2025 at 10:33 PM
Oh wow Kalani Sitake is staying at BYU? I guess sometimes that's just how the big cookie Crumbl's
There's also one very funny last hail mary; there is a coach who has ties to Giannis, who was a former player (he likes that), took over a new team that had a bad/stale offense a year ago, and in 1 year turned them into top 5 offense and got into champ series. Hire him? (I love blind resumes, haha)
December 2, 2025 at 8:30 PM
There's also one very funny last hail mary; there is a coach who has ties to Giannis, who was a former player (he likes that), took over a new team that had a bad/stale offense a year ago, and in 1 year turned them into top 5 offense and got into champ series. Hire him? (I love blind resumes, haha)
Edens has been pretty aggressive firing coaches mid-season. Very aggressive.
December 2, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Edens has been pretty aggressive firing coaches mid-season. Very aggressive.
Head coach Jenny Boucek, because that's by far the funniest
December 2, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Head coach Jenny Boucek, because that's by far the funniest
Everything they've tried to make better has made us worse. We're on an incredible run of hustling backwards. There's no pride anymore. Squeeze another penny, good enough
HBOMax has started showing a 'remastered' 4K Mad Men and they’ve messed things up so during Roger’s oyster vomit scene you can now see the crew men with the vomit hose on the right
December 2, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Everything they've tried to make better has made us worse. We're on an incredible run of hustling backwards. There's no pride anymore. Squeeze another penny, good enough
Don't know what seed is "best". Will be matchup year. Don't want to mess with playin, prob. Over last 25 years 6 seed avg 44 wins, 7 seed 42. So, besides arbitrary pressure to "look good", still time to get right. 34-26 from here gets there. That would be "disappointing", but sky hasn't fallen yet.
December 2, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Don't know what seed is "best". Will be matchup year. Don't want to mess with playin, prob. Over last 25 years 6 seed avg 44 wins, 7 seed 42. So, besides arbitrary pressure to "look good", still time to get right. 34-26 from here gets there. That would be "disappointing", but sky hasn't fallen yet.
Don't get weird about Giannis's social media. That's his go to move.
Get weird about why every single time they play any bench unit it collapses into a pile of unplayable dust.
Focus.
Get weird about why every single time they play any bench unit it collapses into a pile of unplayable dust.
Focus.
December 2, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Don't get weird about Giannis's social media. That's his go to move.
Get weird about why every single time they play any bench unit it collapses into a pile of unplayable dust.
Focus.
Get weird about why every single time they play any bench unit it collapses into a pile of unplayable dust.
Focus.
But he appreciates Khris Middleton, now! Progress!
The upshot of Doc’s press conference: He doesn’t have the locker room, and he thinks it’s a player issue, not his.
He praised ATOs/sets, but when asked if he was surprised by the young Wizards, he said, “I wasn’t. But I’m not playing, so I can’t do anything about it.”
Yikes.
He praised ATOs/sets, but when asked if he was surprised by the young Wizards, he said, “I wasn’t. But I’m not playing, so I can’t do anything about it.”
Yikes.
December 2, 2025 at 4:07 AM
But he appreciates Khris Middleton, now! Progress!
Their plan to build/play small has really backfired on them, too. The price they had to pay vs what they could've spent it on makes it fine. They had no $. But putting all your plans on an 8 game April win streak and a 5 game playoff series didn't work. The roster hasn't offered the coach many outs
December 2, 2025 at 3:56 AM
Their plan to build/play small has really backfired on them, too. The price they had to pay vs what they could've spent it on makes it fine. They had no $. But putting all your plans on an 8 game April win streak and a 5 game playoff series didn't work. The roster hasn't offered the coach many outs
The answer is probably Thibs because he wouldn't have any problem picking their 6 best guys and never looking back. It's a bad idea, but so much of this roster being unhelpful makes it the right bad idea. It's not a real idea. But it's not not a real idea
December 2, 2025 at 3:26 AM
The answer is probably Thibs because he wouldn't have any problem picking their 6 best guys and never looking back. It's a bad idea, but so much of this roster being unhelpful makes it the right bad idea. It's not a real idea. But it's not not a real idea