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Wiggins is a good NBA player. He is not a star. Unfortunately, he is on a star contract, so he is a hard player to fit into anyone’s cap situation.

As for Westbrook and Harden, they will have to figure out how to work on the court together because there is no way Houston can avoid playing them heavy minutes together in the playoffs.

@Crimsonorblue22 The NBA ruins the NBA for me.

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@FarmerJayhawk seeing the pics it strikes me that they all are guys that will eat nails and love KU. With Q and Vick we had bad juju going. Psyched up for this group to get back to chopping wood!!!

As I have said, I am much more excited about this group than I was last. These guys have a chance to be special.

Heady move. The Braves messed up.

@approxinfinity Thanks!

+40 last game for Embiid. 😮

@dylans funny, I saved my boys ninja turtles, Mattel cars, trucks etc. my gson and gdaughter love playing w/them. They both love playing in the dirt w/the old big trucks, tractors, diggers and other farm implements. I also have farm sets, fences, animals and barns, both like. Gson really likes dinosaurs and LEGO’s! He’s 5. They both like the big super soaker water guns in the summer. Puzzles and coloring. They have a million toys, to many!

@BShark I do like the RB pick quite a bit.

@approxinfinity The ball movement in ‘08 was phenomenal. It was a combination of ball movement and lockdown D that we haven’t seen since. I’m not sure if any of the stats correlate to ball movement, but to me that was the biggest difference.

The game was ruined when they ditched the peach baskets!

@BigBad I am pretty confident that Grimes set a KU single season record for charges committed. Just speculating. Never seen anything like it. Low BB IQ was the culprit.

@dylans That style of play was definitely fun. But a 15 run game with no HRs is really strange…

@approxinfinity I don’t think people are losing the ability to be impartial but it is certainly less valued in our current environment. With everything being about money you’d think being impartial and open to everyone would be ideal but advertisers have figured out is that targeted advertising is so much more bang for the buck than a broad appeal.

@dylans I think you’re right that true impartiality is pretty much impossible but people can get continually closer by examining those biases your pointed out and others.

Seems like impartiality is a choice that fewer are making. Take the recent tournament for example. Sports casters always strive to be impartial but Charles Barkley was purposefully not. It was well documented and celebrated. I personally also enjoyed watching him cheer on his alma mater as I do.

Similarly most “news” channels are abandoning the goal of impartiality for ratings. Passion sells. I think it’s more about the money than the tech. Technology is a tool that for the most part does what people want it to do. It could just as easily be used to create an environment supporting impartiality as it has been to take us where we are now.

@wissox well, maybe you’d root for Duke too if your Alma mater was:

@wissox I agree … but I think if you miss it, say, it comes to you and just bounces of your hands (accidentally – the refs judgment that it was really a miss. Like bouncing off your back), that’s not good enough to stop a subsequent dribble. Because there was no control. But if you control it by batting it to the ground, like a dribble, you can’t then hold it and dribble again. Because the bat to the ground is actually control. Interesting.

@wissox would not hold your breath.

I should bring the board down more often thanks.havent had to do much this year. I will upgrade to latest soon once bball season is over.

I don’t know. UVA won the ACC four of the last 6 years. Yes, last year they lost first round. Why? They didn’t shoot the 3 enough, and they didn’t have redundancy in the athleticism department and Hunter went down . Both things have been corrected. Keenly watching their success this post season. If their system can translate to post season success, I will be looking if they can maintain a lack of critical flaws with the talent they recruit.