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Again, if your point is you value the rim protection a center can offer (which AFAICT is the entirety of your premise with respect to Gobert leading the Wolves to the title), then Myles is your guy over Clint. The eyeball test tells you that, but the stats back it up. Career block % for Myles is 6.9, which would be Capela's second best single year after his rookie year when he recorded 7.8%. He hasn't come close to that number since. Meanwhile Myles has put together back to back season with block % >8. Clint's career DBPM? 0.1. Myles? 1.3. Literally an order of magnitude more impactful on the defensive end of the court. https://www.basketball-reference.com/players/c/capelca01.html#all_advanced-playoffs_advanced https://www.basketball-reference.com/players/t/turnemy01.html#all_advanced-playoffs_advanced Just for grins, Myles' block % is higher than Gobert's career 6.1 number. Also notable that Gobert has never had a single season >8, which Myles has done three times. DBPM career number for Gobert is a great 2.2, but if you just take 2021-22, the numbers there are actually pretty close: Turner with 1.4 and Gobert with 1.7. So I guess Gobert is worth double what Turner is in some universe, maybe? Again, I think you've completely lost touch with the argument. I think Rudy sucks but that is not even really my main issue in this "discussion". Rudy is paid like a top 10 - 20 player and is locked into that for four years, plus the Wolves mortgaged the future for the privilege of paying it. That's my issue. They could have achieved the stated goals of improving interior defense and rebounding while complementing KAT and the homophobe for a much much lower price. That's the point. Maybe Rudy is a net positive on the court for the middle of the playoff pack team they have. That doesn't mean it was a good decision to give him 150 million of the team's dollars and give away years of the draft. Those late round picks could have been used to find the next Rudy FUCKING Gobert!

LMFAO. Capela is a marginal player who has benefited immensely from playing with exceptional guards throughout his career. Myles Turner is not great or anything but his offensive skill set shits all over Capela. This post is some tell me you've never played basketball without telling me you never played basketball type shit.

Wait. Is there someone who would rather have Clint capela on their team than Myles Turner? Especially someone who claims to value rim protection?

Sorry to hear about your leprosy.

Don't bother with Alastair Reynolds' new book. It was a gimmick of a rejected Star Trek script stretched into a novel. The most disappointed I've been in a book in a long time. I've loved everything else I've read from him before so this was a shock.

I was wrong about him being down. I'm not wrong about whether it should have been grounding. Regardless, I'll eventually get something right while you'll always be a tiny dicked asshole.

I didn't realize the shin was considered down. Refs fucked that up bigly in this case. Found the definition in the rule book:

Ankle? That's not the rule. Knee is up, he rolls over on top of the defender, not down. Not intentional grounding b/c #2 was in the area. That's being generous, sure, but it's not the most egregious call of the game by a large margin.

Just rewatched. The safety noncall was probably correct even though the attempted butt fuckery of the initial targeting call was fucking stupid. The most egregious and impactful mistakes from the refs were the noncall on the PI in the end zone early and the non call on the most obvious face mask of all time on Bijan. That hold on Young's scramble in the game winning drive was bad but happens every game. I'm sure Texas got away with some too. After rewatching this, I can only think that the people hating on Card after this game are fucking small minded twats. He played well. His biggest mistake was taking a sack when he was trying to protect the football, but Auburn hit the longer kick anyway. His leg injury definitely impacted the game. Biggest takeaway is how dramatically better the defense was.

I don't know that girl, but I know that girl.

watching tennis instead of this, but did App St QB sneak for 6 yds on 4th and 1?

nice job by that punter to handle the snap and get off a good one.

uh, that App St QB has a ludicrous mustache. It may be more epic than Ewers's mullet.

Got it right on that call

pussy ref. make a call. arm was going forward for sure. If someone got injured in the ensuing action that ref would need to be sanctioned.

I also am serious. I don't get the point of your story.

Hyping up Rudy gobert is such a weird hill to choose to die on. He's as unlikeable as he is unskilled at offensive basketball. Why would anyone expend so much energy defending his honor?

That's not at all what I said.

I'm coming around to the thinking that Cleveland didn't get fleeced on the trade. I've always understood why they would do it. Their trade definitely makes a shit ton more sense than the Wolves' Gobert trade. On the value of late first round picks, the best you can hope for with any first round pick is a consistent NBA starter level player. If you're holding your breath for a superstar you're going to be disappointed even picking in the lottery.

I'm willing to comfort Gisele in her time of need.

That is not the game described by the game thread. I expected to see a struggling offense that managed to pull away based on a few lucky breaks. Instead it's just domination. Ewers had about 5 questionable throws. He had a couple throws that looked really nice. RBs are legit stacked. Bama's going to blow their doors off, sure, but this game was as good as you could have hoped for.

ugggggh just blow it up already

Your knees are okay. Welcome to being old. Stop being a pussy.

I don't get it

If I'm an NBA GM and Danny Ainge calls me up to purpose a trade I hang up before he's done talking. I'd love to watch him buy a used car. He'd leave the lot with the best car they have and ten thousand bucks cash that they paid him for the privilege.