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Jalen Williams has also looked good so far in summer league. I think OKC and Detroit will be in the play-in tournament this season. Crazy bright future for both of those teams.

Just dumb decision after dumb decision here recently for Rip City. I mean, they just drafted Shaedon Sharpe, who tore his labrum in his first competitive basketball in about 2 years after getting dominated by Ivey and is out for the rest of summer league.

Amen. If I and Beyonce were arrested in Russia on the same day, I'm pretty sure Beyonce's coming home sooner than me.

Ha - well fuck

I can only assume that @Aqua Buddha is sleeping off a hellacious hangover after getting celebratory drunk af last night.

Yep some Chet highlights here.

Killing off Eddie was stupid af (it's been 3 days - fuck spoiler tags). He's about 100x a stronger character than the California crew and could have carried a subplot by himself. Instead, we have Byers clan + Mike who were basically relegated to being Eleven's chaffeur this season because they all suck as actors. It's an unfortunate turn of events for the Duffer Brothers, who had no way of knowing back in 2015 that puberty would be so unkind to the Mike, Jonathan, and Will actors (I'm probably an army of one on this but I think a lot of the ire directed at Dustin is unjustified - much better actor & character than the other male "kids"). The Russia & hopper plotline was completely unnecessary - not sure why they just didn't let Hopper die at the end of season 3. Max should have died as well to complete her character arc. All that said, I thoroughly enjoyed this season and thought that the flashbacks to Hawkins Lab and the Henry/Vecna/One character were among the highlights of the series. Music was as on point as always. It'll be interesting to see how the characters have aged when the series concludes in...2024.

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