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Catdaddyhorn

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  1. Bird was in college an extra year after transferring from Indiana to Indiana St so he technically didn't graduate on a 4 year timeline. Back then there was some sort of loophole where teams could draft a player as long as he was 4 years out from high school even if said player didn't declare for the draft (There goes Red Auerbach with his Belichick like ability to take advantage of obscure rules). So Bird was actually drafted in 1978 while Magic was drafted in 1979, however both guys entered the league the same year (1979-1980 season).
  2. The Celtics as an organization weren't racist at all (the city of Boston,,..well that's another story). Red Auerbach was just a super early adopter of finding market inefficiencies. In the 50s and 60s that market inefficiency was with black players. In the 80s it happened to be with how white players were valued. Had Auerbach lived long enough I imagine he would've been an early adopter of seeking out global talent.
  3. Arterio Morris a Texas signee plays for Kimball.
  4. We were actually a 3 seed last year which makes the loss to ACU even more ridiculous.
  5. You can say that again.
  6. The 80s was my favorite version of the NBA but as for the 90s and early 00s, outside of Jordan, the basketball was horrible. The ball and player movement of today's NBA so far surpasses the 25 years prior to it in terms of beauty and fun basketball that it's not even funny. As for "Winning Time" I've been looking forward to this ever since the notice went out. This show is going to be so good. I still remember Magic announcing he had "attained" the HIV virus like it was yesterday. I was a freshman in high school and came home early for a little bit prior to going back to catch the team bus for our freshman football game. That shit shook me and marked the end of my childhood in terms of innocence. His announcement hit me hard. Magic was my favorite sports figure at that time in my life and an HIV diagnosis meant his death was imminent through my adolescent eyes.
  7. Yep the 90s NBA of isolating 1 guy on one side of the court while putting the rest of the team on the other side so they could all collectively watch 2 guys play 1 on 1 for the entire game was a joy to watch. Nothing like a 73 to 67 game to get the juices flowing.
  8. Dak's salary is only obscene because Stephen has no ability to forecast the market. Had he signed Dak a year or 2 earlier for 25 to even 35mil per Dak would've been a bargain. But Stephen waits and then proceeds to lose every negotiation he enters and ends up paying more than the players initially even asked for.
  9. There are a number of free agent TEs who could fill Schultz role for a lot less. I'd take anyone on this list for half the price of Schultz.
  10. Schultz is a slightly above average starting TE. He a minus in the run game. He excelled or us in his role because Cooper and Lamb cause issues for opposing defenses. Without Cooper, Schultz' production will fall off considerably.
  11. If a team has no plans of signing their #4 pick (highest pick for the franchise since Troy Aikman) to an extention after their rookie contract then it pretty much makes them choosing said pick at #4 completely and totally illogical on its very face. Consequently, the #4 is too high a pick for a position such as RB with such diminishing returns regardless of how talented said RB is.
  12. Franchising a TE with the route tree above would be fucking idiotic. Schultz is a safety valve TE who ate because he played alongside two #1 WRs. If anything the loss of Amari means we're in even more need of a TE with gamebreaking traits to his game. I'd rather go after Zach Ertz than keep Schultz.
  13. There was a stretch of play during that 2011 season where we won 16 ot 17 games by double digits. We started off conference play around 13-0 all being double digit victories including an 11 point win in Lawrence. In my eyes that stretch of play was the best any Barnes team ever played during his time here.
  14. Askew's skilset is fine. He needs a change in his mentality
  15. 2011 was pretty fun...... .....until the end. Beat the shit out of KU at the Phog. I'll always enjoy that. Too bad we can't find that game on YouTube. CBS seems to have their inventory on lock.
  16. Yeah people don't realize how much more basketball stars can make in NIL deals compared to football stars. Somebody like Zion would've made so much money he wouldve hesitated before leaving for the NBA. He would've had national endorsement deals.
  17. That Jaden Greathouse kid is really good from what I've seen. I know he's a 4 star WR, but he's pretty good in basketball too. And not just as a great athlete who dominates with his athleticism, he's really skilled.
  18. Personally, I'd rather not have Carr back.
  19. Your alma mater was the #1 team in the nation and just lost in the UIL playoffs on a tip in.
  20. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/white-space-black-hood-with-sheryll-cashin/id1382983397?i=1000552551591 Pretty good discussion on the podcast and I figured this is as a good a place to stick it as any. "Residential segregation and unequal allocation of resources continues to play a profound role in areas of concentrated poverty, and conversely, high opportunity. Georgetown law professor Sheryll Cashin has spent decades studying housing and how geography is central to American inequality. In “White Space, Black Hood: Opportunity Hoarding and Segregation in the Age of Inequality,” Cashin traces the history of anti-Black residential caste, which she says manifests in three forms: boundary maintenance, opportunity hoarding and stereotype-driven surveillance. She joins to unpack her findings and to share strategies for abolishing state-sanctioned practices that further perpetuate inequities."
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