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Baboontyme

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  1. Slightly clearer than mud now in the West. Lakers (Utah) and Warriors (Por) will win tomorrow. So the outcome of Phx/LAC will determine who is the 5 and who is the 6. I guess?? I would expect Phoenix to sit everyone being locked in and thinking they would rather play PG-less Clippers than the Warriors? Clippers will have to play to win because Golden State and Lakers are playing at the same time and will be playing to win. Most likely in my mind Clippers 5 seed, Warriors 6, Lakers 7, Wolves 8, Pels 9
  2. Extremely fair opinion. I wasn't really locked in but I watched the first half last night and I began to wonder if I wasn't having early season bias. I remember texting with friends earlier this year... He was def out of shape and laboring. He was a lot more active last night. Even so I guess my greater point is that some of these guys today are so just remarkably talented. Man they could be on Rushmore if they really cared about being great. I can't even fathom how good guys like Luka and Joel could be if they had MJ or Zeke or Magic's fire, or if they worked like Bron or Kobe or Giannis. Old Man yelling at clouds. I'm sure someone in 1997 said the same thing about Shaq. I was too busy drinking Beast Ice to notice. I am going to throw out there that I think people are sleeping on the Warriors a bit too much. With their top unit tonight they looked very much like a team that knew what they were doing defensively. Communication on point. Switches on point. It gets squirrelly when Poole gets in but GP2 is plug and play. We'll see how Wiggins acclimates but the Steph/Klay/Loon/Dray/GPII lineup was locked in and connected on the defensive end. I think the best two teams in the West are going to be Phoenix and GSW and I can't see anyone else being competitive with those two unless Podcast P is faking and comes back next week.
  3. JP thanks for bringing it tonight buddy. 😂 This is getting extremely weird. I think we're good but there are still 5-6 categories up for grabs.
  4. He's not out of shape per se I suppose. But he's not even close to in as good of shape as he could be in. And of course he tries some of the time but watch him. His team plays 4 on 5 often because he doesn't hustle down the court or takes himself out of plays, for example. Again he's banged up but he plays like that all the time. He doesn't have to be in Bron or Giannis level shape but imagine if he was in say, Sabonis shape or even Jarret Allen shape. I love Jo and I think he deserves MVP and I hope he does win it. But I think he could be better, which is a scary thought. Just my opinion.
  5. The crazy thing about Joel is imagine how good he would be if he got into shape and tried 100% of the time. He's this good and he's not in top shape. I know he is banged up, but he could do a lot for himself if he really dedicated his offseason to getting into the best shape of his career. So could Doncic. I listened to a pod with Joel last year, can't remember if it was OM3 or one of the other ones, and he is so fucking talented that the guy basically watched 30 minutes of Kobe highlights and then went out and incorporated them into his game. Not like over the course of 3 years, like in a day.
  6. Clippers Lakers and Warriors seemingly going to battle it out to see who gets to play Phoenix in Round 1. That 6 seed and the Kings is looking really appealing. LA v LA tonight.
  7. What's the keeper rule again for udfas? Can't keep em? This is challenging with so many guys getting shut down without officially getting shut down.
  8. Luka's defensive effort in a must win game is embarrassing. No effort at all. He has not boxed out anyone all day. He hasn't even attempted to.
  9. I've got no points. I love this fucking show. It makes me happy. There is a lot of goodness in this show.
  10. Circa 2017. Book and Tyler Ulis at LCA in Detroit. We happened to sit next to Tyler's Grandma and she was amazing.
  11. I'm sure this opinion will get shit on but Doris is really good at her job.
  12. Interesting article behind the paywall in the Freep today on 6 year old Crumbley and his shithead parents. Goddamn, it feels like the parents are almost more culpable than the kid. https://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/2023/03/29/ethan-crumbley-childhood-neighbor-oxford-school-shooting/70046341007/ Ethan Crumbley's fate 'haunts' former neighbor after Oxford shooting Tresa Baldas Detroit Free Press Hear this story View Comments 1:01 6:57 For more than a year, Suzanne Jinerson has agonized about the sad boy who lived next door to her on Walters Lake in Clarkston. His name was Ethan Crumbley. He was about 6 when she met him, an aloof boy who rarely left the house or played with the neighborhood kids, Jinerson recalled. She never saw him laugh or smile, except for the one time she snapped a photo of him fishing with her son and another boy, she said. Sometimes, he would wander over to her house because his parents had left him home alone, she said, and he was afraid to be by himself. "He was never, ever OK — and I honestly believe he could have been," Jinerson said of the boy whose fate weighs heavily on her mind and heart. The boy grew up to be a school shooter. "This haunts me, big time," Jinerson said. "I will always wonder, 'What else could we have done?'" It's a gut-churning experience more and more Americans live with as mass shootings proliferate. Nashville on Monday. Memphis on Feb. 19, less than a week after three students were killed at Michigan State University. The Gun Violence Archive has counted 130 U.S. mass shootings in 2023 after more than 600 last year. After each, friends, relatives, classmates and coworkers of the shooters face the pain of wondering what else, what if, why? 'He did not have to turn out that way' Jinerson, 60, a retired officer with the U.S. Air Force who now lives in Texas, has spent the last 16 months tormented by the story of Ethan Crumbley, who is 16 now and behind bars awaiting sentencing for the mass shooting at Oxford High School that left four students dead and seven others injured. He carried out the 2021 massacre using a gun his parents bought him as an early Christmas present — a gift that would lead to involuntary manslaughter charges against the parents for their alleged roles in the shooting. Jinerson was working in Dallas when she learned about the tragedy — and the shooter's identity. "I was floored. I cried. Because I knew," Jinerson said, struggling to relay the thoughts she has kept to herself since the shooting. "It sounds terrible. And I don't want to say it's not his fault — but it's not his fricking fault," Jinerson said. "I just know with all my heart he did not have to turn out that way." That's why she is speaking out now. "I need people to understand that this was a 6-year-old boy at one time," Jinerson said. "I know he's quote-unquote a monster for doing what he did, and I'm not trying to excuse it." After staying quiet for more than a year, Jinerson is compelled to share her memories of the boy she wished she could have saved — the boy who lived next door to her for a year, came over for barbecues, went fishing with her husband and son, and skied with her family. But Ethan was a troubled and lonely boy who needed help, she said. And people need to pay attention to the Ethans of the world, she stressed. "I think of all the other kids who are out there, who people aren't paying attention to," Jinerson said. "I want them to pay attention. Pay attention to what's going on in your neighborhood." More:Parents of gunman to stand trial in Oxford school shooting, Michigan appeals court orders More:New Oxford shooting detail: Killer texted mom 'I love you' 10 minutes before attack 'They seemed nice enough' Jinerson's comments follow a major development in the novel criminal case against James and Jennifer Crumbley, who are the first parents in America charged in a mass school shooting. Jinerson reached out to the Free Press after the Michigan Court of Appeals last week ordered the Crumbleys to stand trial on involuntary manslaughter charges, concluding the tragedy was "reasonably foreseeable" and therefore the charges were warranted. Jinerson, a military mom who raised three sons and describes herself as "very Second Amendment," said she's "thrilled" that the parents were charged. Her husband added of Ethan: "He shouldn't have had a gun, plain and simple." In an exclusive interview with the Free Press, the Jinersons talked about the year they lived next door to the Crumbleys on Lakeview Boulevard, where they moved in March of 2013. The Crumbleys were already there. James Crumbley worked from home in information technology and his wife was studying for her real estate license. Among Jinerson's first memories of the Crumbleys was the dad helping her when she locked herself out of the house. She asked James Crumbley for help, she said, and he used a credit card to open her door and let her in. "They seemed nice enough, " Jinerson recalled. "They invited us over for wine and dinner on their patio. We met Ethan. Ethan was very shy." How young Ethan Crumbley behaved in the neighborhood Jinerson's husband had few interactions with Ethan, but thought something was off. "As soon as I met him I told my wife, 'There is something wrong,'" Jeff Jinerson recalled. "He never looked anyone in the eye." According to the Jinersons, the Crumbleys did not let their son socialize with other children in the neighborhood, where Ethan was the youngest of five boys on the block, ages 6-10. Jinerson said Ethan went outside only if his parents were with him, and recalled pleading with Jennifer Crumbley to let her son go fishing with her son and husband "and be a kid for a day." Two months after the Jinersons moved in, Ethan went fishing with the new neighbors and another boy. Eight months later, Ethan would go skiing with the Jinersons at Pine Knob, and then out to dinner with them some weeks later at Buffalo Wild Wings — though the night ended on a sour note. Jinerson said the Crumbleys got so drunk that they ended the outing early. According to the Jinersons, the Crumbleys often left Ethan home alone at night when they went out socializing, and punished him if he wandered over to neighbors' houses when they were away. "They would go out and drink and leave him home alone," Jinerson said, echoing allegations from Oakland County prosecutors. "He was scared. He would come over to my house and say, 'I can't be here because I'm going to get into trouble.'" The Crumbleys' attorneys, who along with prosecutors are barred by the court from speaking publicly about the case, have said in filings that prosecutors have unfairly characterized the parents. "At the end of the day, (Ethan) was cared for and loved by his parents," defense attorneys argued in a September filing. "They sent him to summer school, summer camps and took family vacations. They attended parent-teacher conferences and emailed with teachers about their son." More:Crumbleys seek lower bond again: We never tried to flee. We can prove it. More:Oxford school officials: Ethan Crumbley's parents never refused to take him home Jinerson said she ended up having a falling out with Jennifer Crumbley. Jinerson said she was concerned that Ethan was spending so much time indoors with no friends that she offered to babysit him for free so he could play with her then 12-year-old son. But Jennifer Crumbley wouldn't hear of it, she said. "We got in a huge fight over Ethan’s welfare — a seriously bad argument," Jinerson recalled. "We never spoke again after that ... We all knew Ethan wasn’t OK. I never felt more powerless." The Crumbleys moved from the neighborhood in March 2014. Another seven-plus years would pass before the Jinersons heard the name Ethan Crumbley again. 'I will never forget that phone call' When the Oxford school shooting first made the news, Jinerson initially didn't recognize the shooter's face on the TV news. She was too concerned about the loss of life, the traumatized students and the fact that a tragedy of this magnitude had struck Oxford — a community she enjoyed, having dined there and where she had ridden her motorcycle. Then the phone rang. It was her stepdaughter from Michigan. "She said, 'Suzanne, do you realize who that is? Oh, my God. It's Ethan, Ethan Crumbley,'" Jinerson recalled of the conversation. "I'll never forget that phone call," she said, noting the memories of young Ethan came flooding back. "Ethan didn't have a prayer as a child," she said, adding: "As I mentioned earlier, I don't know what we could have done differently." Tresa Baldas: tbaldas@freepress.com
  13. This is not me being a turd. There is a path here for you. Giddey needs to fuck around and get a triple double and you have to take steals. I think you will take turnovers. If you can get a triple double you have a shot. Either way it's been a fun thing for me to follow this week.
  14. The BI trip dub has me feeling pretty good despite my alma mater getting Kembad. I've got two more Luka games baby Jesus willing.
  15. lol https://mobile.twitter.com/haralabob/status/1638684980854542336
  16. Yeah that confused me as well. Sorry you lost Ant. Definitely helping keep me in the game. It looks like at this point there are only 3 categories that aren't competitive. Luka is my only hope of getting a push in the trip dub category.
  17. Just ordered dominos out of desperation. Pan with extra cheese, extra pepperoni, jalapenos on half and well done. Will report back.
  18. Wiggins rumors are wild. Really hope it's not true for Wiggins sake. No link but the rumor is that he found out she was cheating with his friend and one of his daughters is not in fact his.
  19. You don't miss a week of Luka during a two week matchup and advance. I'm scrambling best I can but I expect you to start pulling away from the pack by tomorrow.
  20. We just did the Pizza Hut thing in the Pizza Hut thread below, talking about the Big New Yorker coming back as of recently. Same exact nostalgia. And Bon Jovi. Love the old Hut. If you're on Instagram and love that version of the Hut check out the account 80sthen80snow .
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