SilasCoade

This dude is hilariously unfiltered.

Watching some Chet highlights from the Crawsover event and he looks so much more fluid than I expected. I don't know that he's built to last but at this moment he looks like a potential problem. I also think he looks better than the French kid for next year.

No one is going to pay him close to that if the Warriors don't.

Tatum, Pritchard, 2 picks for Durant and Curry?

Brown, Smart, and Simmons theoretically could be the best defensive backcourt in the league.

Every year the last couple years he seems to try to add one perfected thing. Last year was that little runner from three. Looks like he's working on the left hand across the lane there. He's still butter in the midrange from anywhere.

Calling KD a malcontent is libelous. No drama at okc until he left. No drama at GSW until draymond created it. No drama from KD at bkn. He wants a trade, sure, but that doesn't make him a malcontent like he's going around poisoning the locker room. I don't think the pelicans should have taken the deal but if someone had suggested a deal for zion and KD to swap they should have jumped at it.

How does that make sense for the pacers? Are they shopping turner?

The jazz should be all over that deal. Maybe even try to create a 3 team deal to take Randle for even more picks.

In what way is their coach superior to Snyder? Dude looks like a date rapist but he can coach ball.

How shitty must the journalism from a fake bleacher report account have to be?

So did Smith. The blow by finishing with the left was nice.

UW's stadium situation is one of the best in college football. An early season game with the sun setting over Puget Sound behind you? Fuck yes.

That's not the superficial analysis I was talking about. You have to figure out the appropriate weight that each of several factors plays in determining the number of viewers. Those factors are opponent, time slot, network, home v. away. So you have the data outlined there but the analysis is not simply "what are the numbers without TX and OU?"

Congrats on the attendance, but that's fickle. The TV numbers in isolation aren't really the confirmation you think. How were the ratings vs their televised opponents' average ratings. In other words, were people actually tuning in to watch Iowa State? Were a bunch of them tuning in to see the opponent? Were they tuning in because there was fuck all else on at that time slot? Even accepting your conclusion as iron clad that Iowa State is a fixture in the top 30 by any metric, it still comes down to who gives a shit? In a top-48 world it's still the top dozen driving the bus. Nobody cares if Iowa State would bring 15% (made up number, pick your own) more TV viewers than Mississippi State. You're talking about a rounding error in difference and making it seem like the most important data point in the analysis.

I'm not saying you should be happy about it. But it shouldn't be a surprise. Water is wet. No one gives a shit about Iowa State. The sun will continue to rise in the east.

You are salty as hell for a fan of a school that no one gives a shit about despite the fact they have been halfway decent for 5 minutes. And yes, halfway decent is all it takes to beat Texas 3 years in a row since the Strong years. You should feel bad it isn't 7 in a row.

That's a good argument but it's an argument about the harden trade not signing KD and kyrie. They could have kept Allen and levert (who might have died of cancer if not traded), given Joe Harris his money and let Dinwiddie walk because of the injury, and kept all their draft capital. And had kyrie and KD. I mean wtf were they doing with that harden deal?

Dragic is pretty much done at this point in his career. I'm sure if Luka had pushed hard enough it would have happened but he's not going to impact winning.

Right. It's fine. Let someone else be the cheerleader and drill sergeant. He just wants to be the best player on the court. I see no fault in that.

One of the big reasons I give KD the benefit of the doubt in all these talks about him changing teams. He played out his contract at OKC. He played out his contract at GS. At the end of his GS contract he helped them get something in return. At age 33-34 he's aware his time is winding down and he doesn't want to waste it on a team he doesn't enjoy the culture or believe they can win. I fail to see the personal fault there.

KD, Levert, Allen ... hmmm... sounds like a solid core you can build around.

Those are all management decisions. Again, no one on this board knows exactly how the Harden trade went down, but let's assume KD demanded they get Harden for him to hang out with. They still have a management decision to make there. Appease the star or do what's right for the franchise. And KD is right to judge the management on the outcomes of their decisions. They could have opted to keep a quality team around him and let it play out. If they win a title KD's happy with or without Harden there. And if they don't and he wants out, I mean, that's the business. I just don't see this as some sort of personal failing that guys want the freedom to change jobs. If the league wants to start imposing some sort of penalty for this behavior, I'm cool with that. Any contract can be broken. You just have to pay the penalty for doing so. I'll just say KD is not out here dogging the Nets. He doesn't have his reps doing that. He just has put it out there that he's ready to move on. This isn't Kawhi faking an injury and bashing the team that nurtured him from a draft night afterthought into a superstar. This is a guy who has played hard everywhere he's been and never cheated the game. He just wants to hoop and he wants to enjoy hooping. Nothing wrong with that, imo.

I don't know what KD thought about the Harden trade in private. I don't know if management asked him to sign off on it. I don't know if KD went to management and said "Go get me James." But I'm not going to just pick one of those hypotheticals and use it to bag on KD's subsequent actions. Sure if it's the last option he has less room to bitch, however, if management caved to an obviously bad idea to cater to their star player, that's bad management and KD is right to want to get out from under bad management. What rage? This thread is a 2000+ long thread of ongoing debate (mostly) against KD. Your post is a part of that. Again, your stance against "star players" wanting to work somewhere else says more about you than it does about them.

He's a weirdo headcase that no one wants to deal with, but he's a phenomenal basketball player. He has considerable value but the Nets also have no incentive to facilitate a favorable destination for him. Utah is currently blowing it up. I'd be trying to get Mitchell for Kyrie. The Jazz have a puncher's chance at making the playoffs and are only on the hook for one year of salary if they decide to tank. The Nets could send KD to NO for BI, filler, and picks. They flip those picks to the Jazz in the Kyrie for Mitchell deal. Now the Nets are still a competitive team, the Pels are title favorites, and the Jazz either catch lightning in a bottle or after 2 months choose to tank and start shopping the expiring contracts of Kyrie and Bogdanovic, and Jordan Clarkson for a boatload of picks.