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Mitch Cumsteen

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  1. This isn't even germane to the conversation, but there are many other passionate and loyal fanbases in the NBA that I would put above Dallas. I always considered Dallas a bandwagon sports town. There are too many other sports options. That arena was never considered one of the loudest or difficult to play in. The passion is especially high in cities that don't have any other major league teams. I would start with Sacramento -- their fans have been shit on forever and they still love their team. Utah, Portland, Memphis, OKC, and San Antonio. None of those places have any other local team to root for. Now that the Mavs committed seppuku, Dallas fans can just as easily go pour their love into the Cowboys for example.
  2. https://surlyx.com/UsherNBA/status/1886638158374158370
  3. This really is a good point. I just generally lean toward incompetence as an explanatory factor over something more complex or sinister. Stupidity explains a lot.
  4. Is Scottie Pippens kid fucking Michael Jordan’s ex or is Michael Jordan’s kid fucking Scottie’s ex? I get it all confused and frankly, it’s more interesting than this game right now.
  5. On fire from three tonight. Keep up the shit talking por favor.
  6. Castle is such a beast. I can’t imagine what he’s going to be in another year or so.
  7. I don't see CP3 getting moved. Notwithstanding what he's brought to the team via mentorship especially in light of Pop not being there, he has arguably been the Spurs second best player this season. He's 7th in the league in assists even at his advanced age. Not to mention he's probably been their most clutch shooter. Depending on the matchups, I would close out games with both he and Fox on the floor. The team has been so bad at getting valuable possessions in crunch time, that surely with both of those dudes out there they could at least generate a decent look at the basket every now and then in the last two minutes of games. With regard to Castle... yeah, his shot needs to get better. It's clearly the concern with his fit with Fox. That's not going to happen overnight but he does so many things to impact winning that he needs to be on the court. He's going to have to knock down open looks but he's also going to get more opportunities to drive from the weakside against out of position defenders with all the attention Fox and Wemby will get off pick and roll. It's no secret that the Spurs need floor spacers. It should be priority 1, 2 and 3 this offseason.
  8. Yes. It was the Minnesota pick that we got for Rob Dillingham. But we still have Minnesota swap rights for another FRP. It was a great trade at the time and looks even better now. One thing I really like about this trade is the bond that the front office seems to be forging with Chicago and Sacramento. We need to keep making more and more trades with those idiots. The Bulls somehow managed to turn Demar Derozan, Zach Lavine and Alex Caruso into Josh Giddey while greasing the skids for the Spurs to get Fox and gifting the Spurs an unprotected swap from the Kings along the way. The fact that the Spurs gave up zero of their top 8 rotation, none of their young drafted players, got off of Collins shitty contract, and gave up two of their least valuable pick assets for a top 25ish player in the league who was begging to be in SA is almost incomprehensible.
  9. Apples and oranges. Nobody was pining for a move to OKC other than that particular ownership group. So sure, the other owners went along with it, maybe even in part thinking that they could go back with a new expansion team in Seattle at a later date and get paid again. OKC sure as shit wasn't on the hot list of expansion destinations. The league owners had no problem with that. But Vegas? That's a completely different ball game. A move there takes money out of the owners pockets. Nobody gives a shit about bumfuck Oklahoma.
  10. The nba doesn’t just unilaterally decide to move franchises. The other owners have to approve the moves. Why would the owners approve a Mavs move to Vegas when they can put an expansion team there and reap billions? I assure you that there are more owners pissed off that they didn’t get a chance to bid on Luka than there are ones saying, “Oh look how good it is for the league to have Luka in purple and gold.” Don’t buy this conspiracy theory. I think Nico panicked about the next contract and the new ownership group was too green to understand the consequences. And I think Pelinka took his buddy to the cleaners.
  11. And Sidy Cissoko. The fourth greatest Frenchman to ever don the black and silver.
  12. lol they didn’t even give sac their own swap back. It’s basically two frp and they got to unload Collins and his bad contract for one of the top 30 players in the league.
  13. The spurs fucked them. None of the Atlanta picks. None of the core players. The Charlotte pick which won’t convey. The bulls pick which is unlikely to convey. They do give up an unprotected 2027 pick and the Minnesota pick. So basically they gave up two first rounders for Fox.
  14. Milwaukee too. I don’t know that OKC would bite either.
  15. Also the nba can extract billions for an expansion franchise in Vegas. The other owners get shit if they move one there. That makes zero sense to me that this is their long game.
  16. Ignoring for a minute that you never trade a 25 year old superstar under any circumstance unless he demands it, the return is egregious. They should have gutted the Lakers for every asset they had short of Jerry Buss’s toupee. They got one lousy first round pick. No Reaves. No Knecht. No swaps. Nada. Awful. They surely could have gotten a better return by opening up the process. And the Mavs themselves have mortgaged a lot of picks down the road to win now. They could have restocked all of that. And of course it’s the Lakers because that’s how this always happens. Wilt, Kareem, Shaq, Kobe, LeBron. The whole thing is just unbelievable.
  17. Man we’ve come a long way from having 90% Texas kids on the roster. Where is the outrage from the txhs football coaches?
  18. The rockets had three straight years of 17-22 wins directly after blowing it up with the Harden trade, which netted them pick 2, 3, and 4 and then 3 (from Brooklyn via Harden trade) in successive drafts along with a bevy of other first round picks. They busted on guys like Garuda, Josh Christopher, Ty Ty Washington. Hell, Jalen Green looked like a bust as recently as last season. Sengun was a spurs fuck up but do they get Wemby if they make that pick instead of Primo? Sliding doors and all. Regardless, Houston is rightfully ahead of the Spurs schedule. They started their true rebuild two years ahead. Memphis drafted Ja and JJJ in successive drafts, 6 years ago, that is the core of their team. They are vets now. They’ve done a great job finding guys late like Bane and their recent drafts have been great but they are on a different timeline than the Spurs. This thing is going to take some patience, regardless of how ridiculous Wemby is. He’s still only in year 2. Castle is a rookie and showing more every night. Getting Fox would obviously accelerate the timeline but this team is going to be contending a lot sooner than later. They need more vets and shooters, but they aren’t that far off.
  19. We still haven’t addressed the kicker issue. Helobius needs to get to work.
  20. Tough ending but the fight was there. It needs to be there more consistently. And the horrible execution down the stretch didn’t help. There’s no spacing with Sochan and Castle on the floor at the same time.
  21. Anybody else remember Kelee Ringo spending his spring break in Austin only to sign with Georgia? We aren’t even close to squaring the account with those bag dropping assholes. I really hope the adjustment for those cheating dickbags to their new station in life is as painful as possible.
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