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It was like a more destructive version of fracking. Sorry your planet’s destroyed, bro.
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2024-2025 Houston Rockets thread - Prepare for Liftoff 🚀
Murfdogg21 replied to Macklemore's topic in Basketball
FVV already got his bag and was grossly overpaid relative to his performance the past two seasons. We overpaid because we had cap space and wanted a veteran PG. Hopefully (LOL yeah right) FVV and his agent can be reasonable based on the money he already got and how much he'd likely bring on the free agent market. The only teams with significant cap space are Detroit, Brooklyn (who may get Giannis?), Philly, San Antonio, and New Orleans. Would any of those teams want to sign FVV for $30m? Would he prefer playing for one of those teams vs. staying with the Rockets? Hit the google and there are multiple articles about how screwed free agents are this offseason, and even the really good fringe-allstar guys may get offers in the $20-22m/yr range. FVV could FAFO if he plays hardball and end up taking some team's mid-level exception. Houston may not be able to trade FVV unless it's before June 29 as salary filler (receiving team would just decline his option), because I doubt any other team will want to pay him $45m+trade kicker and I doubt FVV would agree to a sign-and-trade at <$25m/yr. I guess Houston could lie to him, resign him closer to market value then turn around and trade him. -
It would be interesting if someone combined the mature edginess of Andor with Jedi/Sith content instead of cheese dialogue and questionable plot lines.
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2024-2025 Houston Rockets thread - Prepare for Liftoff 🚀
Murfdogg21 replied to Macklemore's topic in Basketball
ESPN or Athletic or someone had an article the day after Houston was eliminated and said FVV’s projected street value would be in the $20-25m/yr range (thus, no way should the Rockets exercise that team option). With extensions to Amen, maybe Jabari and Eason, looming I don’t know if I’d even give FVV 3/$90. -
Was the kalkite for a lens? I thought it was an energy source (maybe to get the Death Star to light speed?), and the khyber crystals are to generate the laser, but I'm only a 7/10 on sw nerd scale.
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An entire year goes by before Ep. 10 and they are already doing buddy capers, so they had to show it in 9 or not show it at all. Lol he got the disrespected ending appropriate for his life. Too bad Cassian didn’t snipe his nazi girlfriend first.
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We've got 6 Game of Thrones type episodes coming our way!
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There's also always a bias towards drafting players from the dominant college teams. If Georgia had gone 8-4 several of their players would've been drafted lower or not at all. The other side of that bias is you see players from Bama or Georgia benefit from having stacked teammates around them playing against mortal college teams, then get drafted high and they aren't stars in the NFL due to better competition and not having 5 guys better than them around them. This is assuming most of UGA's players are from Georgia, as it relates to a bump in Georgia HS kids getting drafted.
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2024-2025 Houston Rockets thread - Prepare for Liftoff 🚀
Murfdogg21 replied to Macklemore's topic in Basketball
I remember 3 years ago from the Final Four to draft day, everyone assumed Jabari was #1, and we'd probably end up with Banchero. Wouldn't that have been something? -
No. He got about half his contract’s total value early on via signing bonus and a restructure bonus. His annual base salaries for ‘25 ($4.2m), ‘26 ($4.2m), and ‘27 ($5.15m) were not guaranteed. Ravens take a dead cap hit for the remaining prorated amount of his signing bonus ($7.5m, or about $3.75m for the next two years). Net savings by removing his $4.2m base and paying rookie kicker almost nothing.
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The Ravens are a generally smart organization. If they had cut Tucker between February and the draft, there’s a good chance everyone would know they were interested in drafting a kicker the way it worked out, a kicker they like was still on the board of the sixth round. They brought him in into camp to make sure he could actually kick last week, then cut Tucker today.
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2024-2025 Houston Rockets thread - Prepare for Liftoff 🚀
Murfdogg21 replied to Macklemore's topic in Basketball
I mostly agree. I don't understand the fans who want to go all in and give away most of our assets for a 37yo KD (isn't this what PHX just tried?) and maybe a 2-3 year window before we're in a rebuild again. I wouldn't cry if they moved Green or Jabari. FVV and Brooks are overpaid and could be moved (FVV has a trade kicker though, and I don't know if they could/would move him after getting him to agree to a less $/yr extension). Fans seem ready to ship off Cam and Reed. Cam has a dirt cheap salary, lots of potential, and likely wouldn't get much trade value based on his limited minutes. Reed is fairly cheap and hasn't got minutes, but we drafted him to be a shooter and he can do that. Amen and Eason are up for extensions already too. It should always be about value. If PHX is ready to dump KD and his salary, I'd give up two good young players (Green, Reed, Eason, Jabari?) or a pick or two and fill the rest out with enough salaries to match (FVV, Brooks, Landale, Jabari), but I wouldn't gut all assets for him, or even Giannis. They should have a $14m MLE to sign someone as well. But a team that looks like KD/Giannis, Sengun, Amen, FVV, Brooks, and whatever scraps are left with little future draft assets does not seem like a good short term or long term outlook. -
After a rough first season, we went 2-0 on Saturday. But the park/umps were so far behind, our 6:00p game started at 7:15 and our 8:30 game started at 10:05. We have five 7 year olds and the game didn't end until 11:15pm...then PG gives us the 8am game in Waller on Sunday morning when two other gold bracket play-in games could've taken the 8am slot. Those kids were zombies, hit like trash and several silly errors. Unfortunate way for their season to end.
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