Horn of Gabriel

Flop on the Spurs, don't remember who. It was earlier in the play and they let the play end and then assessed the foul

They definitely coulda folded after being down 20. Champenny with the nice dunk

Love it when the heat check lands, that was about a logo three

When do we find out about Michigan tickets? I requested 2 but requested don't mean you get 'em...

Damn, high roller! 4/29 for me

Good article on why Wemby/Sochan probably won't work: https://www.poundingtherock.com/2024/3/28/24110793/victor-wembanyama-jeremy-sochan-spurs-spacing-starting-lineup?fbclid=IwAR3y1GQ0R3B0yV8I3oTycdgRCyDGJc9MwWGKahMMxoEMFqxvfee92jq8g0g TL;DR - Sochan can't shoot. Even though he's (slightly) improved, he's so bad of a shooter that the defense hides their center on him and sags help off to cut off passing lanes and provide help defense on Wemby.

It's been separate for at least the past few years.

This is a ratings vs. nostalgia fight. Neither #15 Princeton or #9 OU has any shot of winning the bracket, and only the slimmest of shots making the FF. So the question becomes what's more interesting (nostalgia) vs. what will people actually watch (ratings). For me the mid-major/small team is more interesting than the 9th team in the Big12 or 7th team in the SEC making it in, even though the ratings disagree because those brands pull along their viewership. Case in point, I actually flipped over to the Oakland vs. NCState game in multi-view and during halftime of the Texas game because I was interested...but to @TKthunder2 point it was in the final 5 minutes and OT. I'd argue the "magic" March Madness is the broad inclusiveness and the feeling of "everyone has a shot" (even if they really don't). Start dialing down the small teams for the 8th place SEC team, etc and you lose that magic at the alter of the dollar. It will happen, because money, and people like me will complain, because nostalgia. But railing against it is railing against inevitibilitiy.

I don't doubt this but you're citing this stat about the final minute - what is the source on that? Asking honestly, not as a gotcha. Yes, I did google first, and most of what I found was ratings in the aggregate, not minute-by-minute.

Gerry is 100% right that RT waited far too long to get Hunter off the floor and off of inbounds. That's just low-IQ bad coaching.

Hunter was BAD last night. Really really bad. Yeah he got some buckets at the end but we never would have needed that if he hadn't put us behind the 8-ball over and over and over again. You can't have 5+ turnovers including 3 on inbounds, especially as a mature player. At his very best he is streaky AF, at his worst he's a team killer. Love his energy, hate the streakiness and low IQ play. If he wants to come back as a bench player and demonstrate that energy and higher IQ, great. If not, good luck in Europe.

Pretty much what I was saying upthread: https://theathletic.com/5346282/2024/03/16/spurs-regional-team-san-antonio-austin/

It's good for this Spurs fan living in Austin now I see it more as the Spurs laying claim to the Austin metro area for the future whenever expansion happens again to pre-empt any possibility of a discussion even starting of a new franchise in Austin, regardless of Austin's growth, size, or money. Kinda surprised that the new arena discussions for S.A. are focused on downtown vs. on the Northside for that reason. In the next 20 years the Austin/S.A. metro area will be even more contiguous, not quite DFW integration yet but getting there. I remember 25 years ago when I would drive from the N. side of S.A. (bitters/blanco area) to my apartment off of Oltorf in Austin it was 50-60 minutes max and it was all fields full of cows. Now Austin to S.A. is 90 minutes on a good day and it's one gigantic strip mall the entire way...' It's kinda a good thing that Austin FC has been solidly established as a franchise in Austin first actually. Spurs Sports and Entertainment (SSE) feels kinda mafia-esqe in S.A., like any other franchise has to kiss their ring and grant a significant ownership % or SSE will foreclose any chance they have of starting up.

Yep. I think they just brought the floor up from S.A.

Fun to see Wemby in person last night. He looked kinda dejected at times thou, some bad body language. Probably because his team completely missed him wide open several times in a row in the 4th. Part of his growth needs to learn more aggression - he's very streaky with being aggressive. There were several times where he absolutely setup in the paint with a much smaller defender - that's when you just jump and go for it, but he was looking for kick outs, cutters, and cross court passes that would get tipped and stolen. Abuse the smaller defender when you're that deep, damn! Joker abused his lack of physicality several times backing him down: dribble, bump, dribble, bump, layup. He doesn't have the size to absorb that shoulder bump. Still you can see a vision of what he can be once he puts on some strength and armor. My question is his body and game going to evolve like Giannis (more physical) or KD (I wanna shoot fadeaway jumpers a lot and I'm really good at it). He's already a great instinctual defender with regard to his spacing and his length but hopefully Pop can coach him out of one really bad habit: he bites on fakes and jumps. He does not need to jump hardly ever due to his size. Especially not when someone is driving the lane and he rotates as a help defender. So many times Denver faked and Murry/Joker just threw themselves into his chest when he was in the air and got a foul.

Got the same errors using Safari. Switched to Chrome and it worked.

I'll be canon fodder for somebody. My Runny McRunsalot RB typically runs the ball 85 times a game and gets about 6000 yards/season.

Herman really was a great example of how we view coaches' results through the lens of how we view them as people. Sark, while imperfect, bought himself some more time to get to better results this past year by showing humility, growth, and listening. Herman cut his time short prematurely by acting a fool, being thin skinned, and not listening.

I'm sure the Groza and such thought that their name is worth $1M+/yr to be in the game...but guess what, nobody cares. "Best Defensive Player" "Best Defensive Lineman" "Best QB" etc is fine.

It's coming. The only real question is how many micro transactions/pay to win are they going to attempt to stuff in there on top of the $75 price of the game. I'm guessing a lot and they'll push you to sign up for some kind of recurring $14.99/month fee for online play or something too.

You can have a playoff without the Big12. You can't have one without the SEC or B1G. That's the leverage.

Just got back. It's good, very well executed. It's a lot of plot ground to cover and while it drags a little in the first half the 2nd half makes up for it. Harkonen planet felt Frank Miller-ish in how they shot it, which was fun/interesting. Both battles for Arrakeen in part 1 and part 2 felt truncated, coulda done more here. Austin Butler was great. They managed to contain Christopher Walken's...Walkenness enough that it wasn't super distracting. Florence Pugh is hot.

I was right: https://theathletic.com/5306903/2024/02/28/college-football-playoff-expansion-big-ten-sec/ A person aware of the discussions told The Athletic a 3-3-2-2-1 model would feature three automatic spots each for the Big Ten and SEC (with those leagues’ champions earning the two first-round byes, according to another source briefed on the model), two each for the Big 12 and ACC and one for the Group of 5, along with three at-large spots. Yahoo Sports first reported the specific model being discussed among administrators.

Tapa creates...strong feelings for and against. For - it's fast, definitely faster than loading the web/mobile version in safari on your iPhone. Especially moving back and forth between threads. If you read multiple forums beyond Surly, it can consolidate them all into a single app. Against - it's a pain for the board to keep up with their updates, their app is notorious for bad support/crashing, tapa really wants to monetize you and serve you ads of their own or sell you their ad-free version (not sure how it impacts Surly's ad views). Disclosure, I use tapa on my phone and have forever. Love it. Don't subscribe to it and the ads don't bug me. I've tried other solutions at the urging of various admins here and at Shaggy, mainly the web/mobile version and concluded that they all suck - they're too slow, the load time blows, there is latency/lag issues from when you click to an action occurring that doesn't exist in the app, basically everything else I've seen is a downgrade. But to be fair, everyone says that their HTML5 app is as good as a bespoke iOS/Android app...until they launch their iOS app.