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  1. Prime Draymond:
    14.0 pts, 9.5 reb, 7.4 ast, 1.4 stl, 1.5 blk, 1.2 3s, 0.551 eFG%, 3.2 TO ... NBA DPOY, 2nd team all NBA, 7th MVP voting

    Prime PG13:
    28.0 pts, 8.2 reb, 4.1 ast, 2.2 stl, 0.4 blk, 3.8 3s, 0.529 eFG%, 2.7 TO ... 1st team all NBA, 1st team Def, 3rd MVP voting

    To me the 7.4 assists from Draymond are what stands out. Also the fact that he doesn’t dominate the ball. I would much rather ply with him honestly. I hate playing with ball dominant perimeter players.

    Both are great players.

  2. I’ve been thinking a bit about the Sixers. They seriously need to deal either Embiid or Simmons. They might be the worst complementary stars I have ever seen on a team.

    Was wondering if they could do something like Ben Simmons and Horford for Chris Paul and Steven Adams. A lineup of CP3, J Rich, T Harris, Embiid and Steven Adams could be nasty. CP3 would make them much better.

    And on the other side, Schroder, SGA, Simmons, Gallo and Horford would be nice long-term. OKC would probably have to throw some of their 13 1st rounders into the deal.

    Was also thinking Kyrie would be good on the Sixers. He could spread the floor which they desperately need. Then on the Nets you would have Simmons, LeVert, Joe Harris, Durant, and Jarrett Allen. That is plenty of shooting to complement Simmons. Talk about a long team.

  3. We love having a built in hot tub. Same water as the pool. Just heat it up. Plus it easily hold 10 people. It is WAY better than a fiberglass hot tub (which I think are kinda gross). Not even close.

    We have our hot tub scheduled to heat up every Wednesday and the family looks forward to it. I'm the winter we will probably bump that up to 3x per week.

    Right now the pool is 89 degrees, so the hot tub is less appealing except at night

  4. We have a new house with a pool in Leander. It is on a 1+ acre lot and the backyard is pretty bare of trees. We bought a bunch that will be installed this week. How far away would you plant live oak and crepe myrtle trees?

    I figure on the SE side they will need to be at least 30 ft from the pool. On the NE and N sides of the pool it seems like they could be more like 20 ft since the wind blows everything away from the pool. Plus it will be 20 years before the oaks are even close to covering it. Thoughts?

  5. We just moved houses and it looks like the only loss is a bag with all our backpacking jackets. Looks like it got accidentally given to Goodwill. Probably close to $2K in gear. Oof.

    The biggest loss is my Arc'teryx Beta SV and Mountain HW Ghost Whisperer jackets. The kids had some Marmot and North Face gear as well.

    Hopefully one of you are enjoying it. Took me years to collect it all.

  6. Back a few years ago I created a spreadsheet that give points for various NBA accomplishments in an effort to determine the GOAT.  It is also useful for situations like this.  It gives points for role in NBA titles, career place in various stats, All-Star appearances, etc. 

    Take a look and see what you think about categories and weightings (row 1)

    NBA Goat Sheet

    According to my sheet (which is for career accomplishments), it goes:

    1. Jason Kidd (28)

    2. John Stockton (30)

    3. Gary Payton (33)

    5. Chris Paul (38)

    4. Nash (39)

    If you are talking single year, I go with Gary Payton. That dude was a junkyard dog and could lock down 1-3, all while getting his own buckets.  

     

    Best year (by MVP voting):

    Payton ----- 19.2 pts, 8.3 ast, 4.6 reb, 2.3 stl, 2.8 TO, 0.453 FG, 0.744 FT - #3 MVP voting, 1st team All-NBA, 1st team All defense (97-98)

    Kidd --------- 14.7 pts, 9.9 ast, 7.3 reb, 2.1 stl, 3.5 TO, 0.391 FG, 0.814 FT - #2 MVP voting, 1st team All-NBA, 1st team All defense (01-02)

    Stockton -- 17.1 pts, 13.6 ast, 3.0 reb, 3.2 stl, 3.8 TO, 0.538 FG, 0.863 FT - #8 MVP voting, 2nd team All-NBA, 2nd team All defense (88-89)

    Paul --------- 21.1 pts, 11.6 ast, 4.0 reb, 2.7 stl, 2.5 TO, 0.488 FG, 0.851 FT - #2 MVP voting, 1st team All-NBA, 1st team All defense (07-08)

    Nash --------18.8 pts, 10.5 ast, 4.2 reb, 0.8 stl, 3.5 TO, 0.512 FG, 0.921 FT -  NBA MVP, 1st team All-NBA (05-06)

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  7. 17 minutes ago, Wulaw Horn said:

    Ok- so you guys all scared the shit out of me and made me decide I can’t pull off what I wanted to do. So, plan B

    https://www.demontrondrv.com/inv/2020-Thor-Motor-Coach-ACE-323-Conroe-M38274/#mainpic

     

    No money down- $93k, financed over 20 years and its $650 a month. 

    If I hate it and need to sell it back, looks like maybe I will be able to get 80-85k based upon what I see 2 year old RV’s going for. 

    Brand new. Am I getting a deal?  Too much? Better idea? 

    I used to have a class C license and drove a bus when I coached soccer in high school. My bet is that it’s easier to drive this rig than it would be to pull a 23 or 30 footer on a trailer behind my truck.

    Again, thanks to all you miserable sons of bitches who decided to make me spend an extra $89,000 on this fiasco. 

    That thing is nice, but I can't imagine being trapped with my 3 kids in it for a full week, much less 6 months.

    Why not just buy one that is 5 years old?  Something like this for $75K:  RV Trader Link

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    the west coast is likely to be locked down longer than other potential destinations, which is why he put them on the back end.

    Hmmm. I guess it just depends on what "locked down" means.  I would assume there are places you could park an RV along the pacific coast and it would be fine.  Quick check shows Olympic is planning to reopen on June 12 (at the earliest).  I had heard that Mt. Ranier is already partially open.  

    Regardless I would much, much rather take my family to a National Park, National Forrest or Wilderness area than Washington DC.  Not a chance I would go to the National Mall to watch the fireworks.  Honestly, I prefer them in small towns anyway.  Places like Ourey, CO are fantastic on July 4th.

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    Does the winter then become too cold?

    I guarantee the fall / winter will be colder in Wyoming, Colorado and Montana than the winter in the Northeast.  I would plan to spend late September and October in New England, which is just fantastic.  It will be cool weather, but you also get amazing fall color.

    Then gradually work your way south along the Appalachian trail.  Also, that would give some time for the Covid hot spots in the east to die down.  No way would I want to be in DC 6 weeks from now.

    I think this would be my route:

    Austin --> Santa Fe, NM --> Arizona / Utah Canyons --> Yosemite -->  Northern California --> Oregon Coast --> Olympic NP --> Mt. Rainier NP --> Glacier NP --> Yellowstone NP --> Grand Teton NP --> Rocky Mountain NP --> Northern Wisconsin --> Northern Michigan --> Maine --> Vermont / New Hampshire --> Gettysburg --> Washington DC --> Shenandoah NP --> Smokey Mountains --> Florida Panhandle (Destin?) --> New Orleans --> Austin 

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  10. Not sure I mentioned, but my wife is the realtor / broker for our house sale.  We are cleared to close in 2 days, so hopefully it goes through.  Still amazed given where we were a week ago.

    Because of the wire fraud, my wife has been talking to all of her co-workers and any other agents she comes across about the issue.  An agent for another firm said that her clients had JUST narrowly avoided a similar scam attempt...

    The scammer had mocked up an email exchange between the agent and the title company discussing wiring of closing funds.  The scammer pretended to be the title company and said that there is a lot of confusion about the wire account and that they had received the wrong one and forward the long mocked up correspondence with the "realtor" where they were "arguing" about the specifics.

    The client called the realtor and said "I'm tired of all the bickering between you and the title company. The title company says one thing and then another and then you say another. Can y'all please get your shit together?"  The client completely bought that all of the dialog was legit and was close to wiring the funds to the scammer account.

    Bottom line is that these guys are VERY good at this.

    Also we have learned from the FBI that it is likely the buyers emails that are getting hacked. The thought is that they have thousands of hacked emails from accounts all over the country.  Then they have bots that look for key words like "contract" and "closing" to narrow it down to potential marks.  They strongly advised my wife to stop using words like that in any email correspondence and to keep the titles generic and not real-estate specific.  Not because she could get hacked, but because the recipient might be hacked.

    Anyway, food for thought.

  11. Played Avery Ranch yesterday and they are now mandatory 2 to a cart... but also encouraging social distancing. Last I checked the golf carts don't allow 6 ft spacing between riders. Moronic.

    I don't see how this is allowed by Texas and Williamson County ordinances.

  12. 23 minutes ago, LCHorn said:

    I think they are finding it relatively easy to penetrate the title companies.

    I would assume the same.  Maybe they are sniffing the wifi and intercepting traffic. Who knows.

    In this case, the scammer sent email instructions for the wire - and of course included phone numbers in the email.  The buyer called the FAKE title company phone number to confirm the wire, instead of the ACTUAL title company phone number that they already had.

    I feel bad for the buyer.  Sad deal all the way around.  Hopefully they get their money back.  Sucks for us too though.  We had multiple offers above asking price within a day of listing back six weeks ago.  Who knows what the situation will be now.  Not looking forward to having a stream of people in my home.

    PM me if anyone is looking for a nice place on 1.5 acres in Leander.

     

  13. Interesting twist in my home sale. It was supposed to close on Monday. Turns out the buyer wired their money to a scammer posing as the title company. Pretty sophisticated scam. Their $120,000 is long gone and the deal is obviously dead. Devastating for everyone involved.

    PSA: You guys might want to hand deliver cashier's checks for your own deals. These scammers are good. It is easy to get fooled if you don't personally know the title agent.

    House goes back on the market Monday. Yay!

  14. I don't remember much of the last two movies, so forgive me if I get some things wrong, but here is how I would have ended it. 

    Obviously, we need a big bad.  That big bad has to be either Kylo or Rey.  Everybody half-expected Rey to flip, so that is too predictable.  Plus it would require Kylo flipping the other way for balance.  So it has to be Kylo.

    So if Kylo is indeed the big bad, you have to lean into it and make him even more evil.  And make him bad ass while you are at it.  One of the great things about the original trilogy is that Luke went from being whiny kid to bad ass.  Repeat that here.  Kylo goes from being a kinda powerful whiny kid to being a very powerful and very cunning.  But you don't need him to be any more powerful with the force (by inventing any stupid new tricks), you need him to be more mentally powerful.  Give him some credibility that he can actually win and rule.

    That starts with him killing Leah.  Build some depth with him struggling over the decision or whatever, and then have him kill her anyway.  Either way, she has to go in the first 5 minutes of the movie. She is terrible and actually dead in real life. Too distracting otherwise. 

    To really save the series though you need a shocking ending.  And the best ending would be for the bad guys to win.  Let Kylo try to turn Rey.  How to do that?  Take a page from the OT.  Capture all her friends, but this time actually start killing them one by one.  Darken this mofo up.  After they are all dead, she has an almost turn similar to Luke.  But in the end he kills her in a way that can leave no doubts and ascends to universal dominance.

    Maybe a final scene with Kylo looking into space like Luke and Leah did at the end of Episode V.  Or Al Pacino in Godfather 2.  Wondering if it was worth it.  If the Michael Jordan documentary has taught us anything it is that we love someone with singular focus even if they are an a-hole.  Make Kylo that a-hole.

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  15. '93 was the first time of their run that they didn't have HCA in the Finals.  They didn't even have Eastern Conference Finals HCA.  Their regular season win total was a ten game drop off from the previous year.  They won that title of grit and fumes.
    I was a huge fan back then and lived in Illinois where I could watch any Bulls game.  It's hard to repeat, and I don't think anyone has three-peated since the Bulls.  It's hard to quantify, but just seeing them play almost every game for three years, one could tell that run was done.
    Lakers had a 3-pear with Shaq and Kobe. Should have won a couple more.

    Kobe was close to another 3-peat in the Gasol years and win 2 of 3 Finals.

    Golden State just won 3 in 4 years and should have won 4 in a row were it not for Draymond's suspension.

    The Heat won 2 in a row and almost won a 3rd. LeBron played in like 8 Finals I'm a row.

    The Spurs won 3 titles in 5 years.

    Bottom line, once you get a dominant team it isn't really that uncommon to win a bunch of titles. We will definitely see it again.
  16. 23 minutes ago, realgreggym said:

    Very few fans know who any of these kids are. 

    This isn't exactly true in Greg Brown's case.  Dude already has 250,000 instagram followers.  Some of his dunks have millions of views.

    Here are the projected top-5 NBA NBA draft picks and their # instagram followers.  Only one stands out: LaMelo Ball, and that isn't because of him as much as it is his family.

    186,000 - James Wiseman (projected 2020 #1 pick)

    180,000 - Anthony Edwards (projected 2020 #2 pick)

      60,000 - Obi Toppin (projected 2020 #3 pick)

    5,300,000 - LaMelo Ball (projected 2020 #4 pick)

      54,000 - Deni Advija (projected 2020 #5 pick)

     

    Here are a couple of former Texas NBA players for comparison

    849,000 - Mo Bamba (followed by Greg Brown)

    278,000 - Jaxon Hayes (followed by Greg Brown)

    The high school kids definitely know who these guys are. And they are the ones buying shoes and jerseys.

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