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Mitch Cumsteen

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  1. Awful basketball. Horribly officiated. Still should have won.
  2. Three point shooting keeping the spurs in this. Too many turnovers and too much foul baiting that they’re falling for. The league needs to do something about the offensive player initiating contact and it being a defensive foul. So frustrating.
  3. Fuck it I just dialed it. A little disappointed that they reported the temperature without prefacing with “downtown temperature” and they are four minutes behind, but that was oddly satisfying. Puro San Antonio.
  4. I'm not going to look it up or dial it... is it 226-3232?
  5. I'm familiar with one of them, that's for sure.
  6. This is the last thing I'm going to say about all this crap and hopefully we can get back to winning basketball tonight against the got dam Lakers (if I can find a fucking ESPN stream - fuck you Disney and Google) instead of this political bullshit... but the Spurs are putting in a substantial amount of their own cash. Compare their deal to what OKC did for the Thunder or how other cities have bent over to keep their sports teams. So the deal itself seems pretty decent and there are still negotiations to be made. It's not really over with. But beyond that, I don't think you can put a price on what the Spurs have meant to this city over the past 50 years. We are a one major league sports town. It just so happens also that the one major league team we have has been the model franchise in all of pro sports for the last 25ish of those years. They have also been fairly amazing when it comes to their commitment to the community and the type of organization they have run and people they have employed (notwithstanding Josh Primo's dick). The civic pride and cross-cultural impact that the Spurs have provided to this city is Incalculable. This isn't as simple as a billionaire bailout/subsidy. This is something that is ingrained into the fabric of this city -- and not just the white folks on the northside. Believe me, you walk into any southside or westside neighborhood bar and they are ride or die Spurs fans. The Spurs are a huge part of their lives. I'll never forget being downtown after the 1999 championship. The streets are flooded. Me and my buddies are sitting in Commerce Street gridlock in my convertible. People are running around losing their shit in a good, way. This one scary ass gang banger looking dude comes up to me, gives me a high five and says, "Isn't this fucking awesome? Normally, you and me would never look at each other or talk to each other. But today? Man, we are all Spurs fans and brothers. Go Spurs Go!" And then he waded off into the crowd. The idea of San Antonio not having the Spurs is unfathomable to me. The Spurs have had some of the highest priced seats in the league for years now, even with one of the shittiest corporate bases in the country. The average person has been priced out already. But no, there aren't going to be enough people to buy the tickets, especially since they are going to have the single biggest attraction in the sport for the next 15 years (injury or trade demand notwithstanding, god forbid). Who will attend the games when everybody has been killed by drunk drivers?
  7. I'm not sure why I'm doing this to myself and arguing with the biggest moron on this board and I won't even ask who you consider to be "SA voters" because you don't even know what area/roadways define the perimeter of downtown San Antonio. But if you go by the precincts that are inside Loop 410 (roughly the 3000 - 4000's) -- those are the ones who you would think are most directly impacted and who should definitely be considered SA voters... Prop B passed 79,403 to 69,974. That's 53% in favor. Those folks (i.e., the majority of SA voters) accounted for 60.5% of the total vote. The rest of the county? The other 97,333 voters who comprised 39.5% of the total vote in the "outlying Bexar county areas"? They went 50.5% for, 49.5% against. Whatever. Run for your lives!!!! WE ARE RUINED!!!! The drunk drivers are going to kill us all now that this 0.25% hotel tax is in place.
  8. Yes. Ruined forever. Downtown San Antonio will heretofore become a ghost town and the entire city will have been thrown into the shitter by a 0.25% tax increase on tourists when they rent a fucking hotel room or rent a car. No more conventions. No more major league sporting events. No more downtown hotels and restaurants and conventions and tourists. We are sooooooooo fucked!!!!!! Game over, bitches.
  9. It looks like 53% in favor of Prop B with 82% of the votes in.
  10. I don't even have a snarky comment to make about this.
  11. No, I think you need to re-read it. It's not the organization/company that is suing Ballmer. It's the other investors in the company who got defrauded who are suing him.
  12. No, they are saying that Ballmer is part of the fraud. He didn't enable the fraud, he committed fraud by funneling cash he put in right back out of the company for his own purposes AND that his investment by virtue of the weight he carries as a legitimate businessman, kept other investors in the company. The whole thing was a sham and he's got the deepest pockets. Zero surprise that other investors are going after him. He's going to claim that he got screwed just like everybody else, but he just used the company as a shell to pay Kawai under the table.
  13. It's been a rough couple of months for Flos at Mel's diner.
  14. It would be the most aggie thing ever for them lock Elko into a Jimbo-type deal after beating up on the weakest SEC schedule possible right before Thanksgiving, only to have the Horns completely shit on them before the ink is dry.
  15. I thought it was really good. And Plemons was fantastic.
  16. In defense of Biyombo, he’s the freaking fourth string center behind Vic, Kornet and Olynyk. He should be getting Menkge Bateer like minutes. I don’t think they ever thought he’d be any sort of contributor to this team.
  17. Harper done for tonigh with calf strain. He had something similar before the season, no?
  18. Castle has seemed genuinely angry with Booker since the opening minute of the game.
  19. Bad start on both ends. Vassell chucking and suns getting out and running.
  20. So dumb. Why are you throwing the ball at all?
  21. The guy is a headcase. I watched the Amazon post game show last night with Blake Griffin, Dirk and Udonas Haslem (which is fantastic btw) and they were all calling him out for his lack of effort. What a waste of talent. He’s absolutely one of the most exciting and dynamic players of the last decade or so, but nothing between the ears.
  22. It's a great question. Basketball Reference has his HOF probability at 66.2%, right between Artis Gilmore and Nate Thurmond who are both in. I don't see how you leave off a guy who won an MVP and finished second in MVP voting two other times, led the league in scoring twice, was a 6 time all star, and had three 2nd team all defensive awards. Bill Walton is the obvous comparison, but Walton won two rings. I think Embiid needs to get involved in some sort of modern day Patty Hearst sheanigans to lock up his enshrinement.
  23. Some early season stats and thoughts... the schedule has been weak (other than Miami) and it is way early in the season to draw any conclusions, so take everything with a grain of salt but: The Spurs are essentially tied with OKC in defensive rating (104.1 vs. 104.2) leading the league. Spurs are #8 in offensive rating. They are second in net rating (13.4) behind Denver (14.4) who just got a massive boost by beating the Pels by 34. Miami (10.4) and OKC (9.9) are #3 and #4, respectively. Miami had been on fire prior to last night averaging 131.5 ppg. Spurs held them to 101. They also play at the fastest pace in the league and the Spurs are #27, if that gives you an idea on how they are imposing their will on teams defensively and controlling pace. The Spurs are #1 in rebounding percentage (essentially tied with Houston). Spurs are 5th in EFG%. The Spurs are #2 in defensive FG% (42%) - Boston is #1 at 40.1%, which makes no sense to me. The Spurs also have the league's highest differential between DFG% an OFG% at 4.0%. Spurs are 22nd in assist percentage. I'm pretty sure they led the league in assist percentage last year despite being pretty fucking awful on offense. They are 17th in TO% and 20th in AST/TO ratio which is pretty bad (thanks Stephon), but they are also creating shots differently than last year. They are 24th in 3PA and 22nd in 3PM. I think last year they were toward the top of the league in attempts and near the bottom in makes. Obviously pace plays into that, but shot selection... how does it work? Worst stat of all: they are 27th in FT% at 73%. In any event, this team is winning by playing great defense and killing teams on the boards, and playing efficiently on offense at a slow pace. That's how you win in the playoffs. Love that they're doing it without Fox, Olynyk, Sochan and for the most part Kornet. I think you will see offensive efficiency get even better once they all get healthy. I want to see them play better competition, but there's still sooooo much room for growth both from the overall youth learning curve and the return of the injured guys not to mention making their fucking free throws. KJ and Vassell finding roles that they can excel in has been gratifying and fun to watch, and I think you have to give a lot of credit to Mitch for that. Then again, blah blah blah.... it's all about Wemby. Also... has anyone looked at the NBA cup groupings? Spurs, Nuggets, Rockets, Warriors and Blazers. Nice job, league 82-0 still on the table. Just saying. GSG.
  24. Castle really strong down the stretch. Great game from him tonight.
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