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25-26 Dallas Mavericks Thread: The Season of Our Discontent
UncleSonny replied to Bozo_Casanova's topic in Basketball
They were still alive for the post season when they made the decision, itās right in your screen grab. They lost the game to make sure they didnāt make the playoffs no matter what the outcome of those games. Just because their tanking wouldnāt have mattered either way doesnāt change that -
25-26 Dallas Mavericks Thread: The Season of Our Discontent
UncleSonny replied to Bozo_Casanova's topic in Basketball
This is wrong. They tanked to avoid the play-in/playoff in order to keep their draft pick. They were fined for it: https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2023/apr/14/dallas-mavericks-fined-tanking-investigation FWIW, that was 100% the correct decision for the organization at the time. -
25-26 Dallas Mavericks Thread: The Season of Our Discontent
UncleSonny replied to Bozo_Casanova's topic in Basketball
I feel like this his been covered 100 times, but this as a conspiracy doesnāt make any sense. The Mavs plan was to make the playoffs after the trade, and they would have if one or both of AD and Kyrie donāt get hurt. Playoffs equals no lottery equals no Flagg. Even with all the injuries, the Mavs were still fighting to get in. Beat the Kings in the 9-10 play-in and they were clearly trying against the Grizz for the privilege to get swept by the Thunder. Nothing about the way they handled the last month of the season indicated they had a wink wink deal for a rigged lottery. It wouldnāt shock me if it was rigged for us once we missed the playoffs and the NBA threw a bone to an entire fan base on the ledge. But it wasnāt part of the initial trade or thrown in as a sweetener because the NBA was trying to keep the Lakers relevant. -
I just looked it up, this movie had a $15M dollar budget. That is a pretty small for a theater release in 2025. The second lead is Ben Fosterā¦who is a great character actor but not exactly anyoneās idea of a box office draw. This wasnāt put together to be a box office smash, even if Iām sure they expected (hoped) it would do better than it did. She hoped to get some Oscar buzz in the grand tradition of hot chick bravely makes transformation to less hot for a role (Charlize Theron, Nicole Kidman, Ann Hathaway) . Itās not complicated. The reviews seem not terrible but not great, one critic I like basically said she did surprisingly well in the boxing scenes but still canāt really act.
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25-26 Dallas Mavericks Thread: The Season of Our Discontent
UncleSonny replied to Bozo_Casanova's topic in Basketball
On board with all of this, assuming you left out āStep 1: Fire Nicoā because itās implied -
Alabama got their shit pushed in by a very average FSU team a few months ago and the committee has them at #4 (and the highest rated 1-loss team). They are completely willing to overlook a bad loss if the rest of the resume is there
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Holy shit you dipshits: 9-3 Texas is probably in the playoffs
UncleSonny replied to Wulaw Horn's topic in Football
For any other poster, yes. For Helobious, it was just a Sunday -
Too hysterical. We beat a top ten team, that is all that will be discussed when it comes to resumes. Fuck the refs, they did everything they could to give Vandy the W, but they failed.
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Holy shit you dipshits: 9-3 Texas is probably in the playoffs
UncleSonny replied to Wulaw Horn's topic in Football
I already pointed out with regards to Indiana and Ohio State last year, this isnāt true. Maybe Iām forgetting someone, but was there a bubble team with with a comparable OOC loss as OSU this year that missed out last season? -
Holy shit you dipshits: 9-3 Texas is probably in the playoffs
UncleSonny replied to Wulaw Horn's topic in Football
Iād suggest we all stop being bitches on this talking point. First of all, we have no evidence of just how much (if any) we will be penalized for losing on the road in week one against the #1 ranked team in the country. We have not been screwed out of anything as of now. Second, we have a really fun upcoming slate of marquee games. Those games will be awesome and fun, pretty much the best games September could possibly have to offer. And weāll win our share of them, and when we do, weāll get a big boost in our resume come end of those seasons. If we lose literally off of them, fuck it, sounds like we have bigger issues that need to be addressed that isnāt solved by scheduling cupcakes. Let Texas be the leader on doing the right thing on this specific fight. -
Holy shit you dipshits: 9-3 Texas is probably in the playoffs
UncleSonny replied to Wulaw Horn's topic in Football
Pretty controversial stuff here -
Holy shit you dipshits: 9-3 Texas is probably in the playoffs
UncleSonny replied to Wulaw Horn's topic in Football
Regarding Vandy, the committee has already shown they arenāt only concerned with W/L record. Last season they seeded Ohio State higher than Indiana, despite Indiana having one fewer loss and being in the same conference. Indiana had a joke schedule and Ohio State won the head to head A three loss Texas may miss the playoff, but it wonāt be Vanderbilt taking their spot -
Holy shit you dipshits: 9-3 Texas is probably in the playoffs
UncleSonny replied to Wulaw Horn's topic in Football
The BCS was a computer algorithm. The committee started with the playoff -
Holy shit you dipshits: 9-3 Texas is probably in the playoffs
UncleSonny replied to Wulaw Horn's topic in Football
Even if their resume is more impressive than the two loss teams under consideration? -
Holy shit you dipshits: 9-3 Texas is probably in the playoffs
UncleSonny replied to Wulaw Horn's topic in Football
What is the point of the committee then?
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