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Basketball / Re: Knicks

« on: August 07, 2020, 02:09:14 AM »

If we're going forward with a core of Mitch - RJB - Franc/Elf -- that's three(/4) guys without a 3-ball.  And not much ballhandling/passing.  So you need shooters.
Aside from MaMo who is gone, next we had 3 guys who shot league average on 3's -- Dot, Trier, Portis.  Trier is gone, Portis not likely to return.

So for next year, we're bringing back one young guy -- Dot --who shot league average on 3's.  And likely no one who made more then 1/3 of their 3's.
Our yute core -- RJB, Knox, Franc all shot 32% on 3's.
Jr. Smith 30%; Elf 20%.  Bullox likely can do better than his marginal 33.3%.

Conclusion: Knix desperately need shooters.
(and a starting PG).

I'd love to get Ball in the draft.  But if there was a way to secure Edwards, that would be great too.

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Basketball / Re: Knicks

« on: August 07, 2020, 01:47:40 AM »

You'd think Thibs would want Hark and Taj on his squad.  Defensive role players who set screens and fill gaps.

Elf makes sense as a backup PG.  And starter if we have nothing better.
He's a quality backup, especially if you can string some shooters around him.

I don't think Randle will be easy to trade.
But his future with the Knix depends on whether he can coexist with Mitch.
I don't see it, but we'd want them to develop some chemistry and defensive cohesion and somehow not get in the way on offense.  Looks like iffy D and a clogged paint, while RJB our prized rook needs driving/cutting lanes.

Portis can help score on some team's 2nd unit.  But he's not worth $15M and doesn't fit these Knix.  Far too inattentive on D.  And just doesn't play smart.  Has aggression and scoring prowess (a bit erratic).  Could just remain a wildcard type, or maybe get more focused and understand situations better as he ages. 
Some team will pick him up for $8M, and in the right role he could thrive.

2688

Previous Administration / Re: Trump Administration

« on: August 06, 2020, 03:19:39 PM »

Beirut blast...anything is possible in the Middle East.

Good thing everything is normal in the USofA ....

2689

Basketball / Re: Knicks

« on: August 06, 2020, 02:11:45 PM »

I tune in mid 1Q.
Sacto up 28-16 after 6 minutes.
49-39 after 1Q.  Both teams shot over 70% Fg.
Pels need to play some D.

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Previous Administration / Re: Trump Administration

« on: August 06, 2020, 01:47:16 PM »

So Joe, say what?
Biden:
And by the way, what you all know, but most people don’t know, unlike the African American community, with notable exceptions, the Latino community is an incredibly diverse community with incredibly different attitudes about different things.”

Pretty sure Biden was referring to the diverse (dozen or so) countries Latinos come from.

For instance, the Biden campaign plans to run Spanish language commercials using a voice actor with a Cuban accent in Florida, a Puerto Rican accent for I think NY, and Mexican accent along the southern border, Texas, Arizona, etc.

Trump says much more garbled, unintelligible and blatantly incorrect shit than that e v e r y d a y.

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Previous Administration / Re: Trump Administration

« on: August 06, 2020, 01:41:49 PM »

New York Attorney General Moves To Dissolve The NRA After Fraud Investigation

Have to wonder why the NRA is registered in NY State and not say Idaho.

Allegations against former CFO Woody Phillips

James' lawsuit alleges that Phillips, whose job it was to manage the financial operations of the charitable organization, lied on financial disclosure forms and set up numerous deals to enrich himself and his girlfriend.

The New York attorney general claims that Phillips set up a contract for himself just before he retired and that the package was worth $1.8 million — purportedly for consulting services to the incoming treasurer. But the incoming treasurer told the New York attorney general that he was not aware of this contract. Phillips also directed a deal worth more than $1 million to his girlfriend, the suit alleges.

former NRA chief of staff Joshua Powell's salary more than tripled a little more than two years into his tenure, which began in 2016. While he began at $250,000, Powell's salary rose to $800,000.

Powell is also accused of directing charitable funds to be used for the benefit of his family members. The New York attorney general said that Powell approved of a $5 million consulting contract with the firm McKenna & Associates. That firm, in turn, hired Powell's wife and passed her a $30,000 monthly consulting fee through the NRA. Powell also arranged for an NRA vendor to hire his father as a paid photographer, leading to $90,000 in fees for his father — funds that were ultimately billed to the NRA.

Between the rapid salary increases, the kickback to his wife and the sinecure for his father, the guy pulled in an extra $1M.

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Previous Administration / Re: Trump Administration

« on: August 06, 2020, 01:33:48 PM »

Now kiidcarter8 has to support the bomb theory because Trump said it was a bomb before he had any idea what he was talking about.



No.  He didn't

I'll take the correction.  He said it was an attack before he had any idea what he was talking about.
Which is even further away from the most likely scenario at the moment.

Actually it seems Trump said an attack by a bomb.

“This was a — seems to be according to them, they would know better than I would, but they seem to think it was an attack. It was a bomb of some kind.”
                                                          -  Dumb Old Trump

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Previous Administration / Re: Trump Administration

« on: August 06, 2020, 01:11:38 PM »

I'm always surprised there aren't more industrial and nuclear accidents.
I'm sure a lot has to do with gov't regulations and accepted best practices, but there are a lot of careless people and greedy unscrupulous ones as well.

Oil spills and pipeline leaks are basically every day occurrences we rarely hear about.  And now and then there are toxic sludges that escape and take over a river.
Most likely a lot of the nasty toxic danger that  occurs happens slowly over decades giving poor people cancer and such.

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Basketball / Stashing My Rant Here for Reference

« on: August 06, 2020, 12:07:11 PM »

Has there ever been a budding young star, still on a rook contract, who forced his way out?

KZ left because of organizational dysfunction.
Phil thinking that he and his retrograde system was the star of the show.
The crappy way that Melo and Noah were treated.  The coaching carousel.
The antiquated system.  Never got KZ a PG partner.  Etc.

Most teams coddle their star, pay them more than other teams can, keep his trainers and end-of-the-bench friends with the team, etc.
Knix completely and thoroughly blew it.

And then to make matters worse, rushed a trade for useless parts.
Just embarrassing.

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Basketball / Re: Nets

« on: August 06, 2020, 12:04:52 PM »

Bring it to Jerome looked okay in the half I saw.  Aggressive, but one sloppy turnover/bad pass.  Rushed a reverse layup that became an airball.  Canned a nice J.

But I quite liked Troy Brown Jr.  Mofo is fearless.  Just goes at guys.

Edit: just checked and Troy Boy has a pair of 8 assist games in the quartet of restart games.  Nearly a triple-double v. Nets 22 /10 & 8 Assists.
I'd like him as the NYK starting SG.

2nd Edit: The Philyl announcers apparently had never seen Thomas Bryant and came away impressed, saying he'll have a 10 year career, etc.  Seemed odd, since Bryant was the Wiz starting C last year.  A moose with good hands, scores well inside, has a decent J, just needs to improve on D.  Just turned 23 last week.

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Basketball / Re: Knicks

« on: August 06, 2020, 11:56:47 AM »

In addition to Elba I follow other Knicks communities.  This is the only corner of the internet where ...

I wasn't aware Kam was cheating on us.
I feel so violated ...

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Basketball / Re: Knicks

« on: August 06, 2020, 11:50:56 AM »

Thinking about it more, ATL would have to be crazy to give us two defenders for one offender.  They need defense around Trae.  Can't rely on Capela alone.

DeA Hunter fits the prototype of the modern NBA wing.  Qucik, rangy, swicthcable, plays D, can make some 3's.  Randle a bull in the china shop, throwback post-up Big, who plays one position and likes to spin out of control and turn the ball over.  They can get enough turnovers from Tre.

Not happening.
I'd go it for the Knix.

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Previous Administration / Re: Trump Administration

« on: August 06, 2020, 11:44:17 AM »

New York State flattened the curve, and since the initial outbreak has largely handled the virus.  If New York's success was duplicated nation-wide, the US would be one of the success stories. 

Well, I hardly think half a million cases in NY, another 200K sliding across to NJ + 1M or so nationwide would have been any kind of success.  Though of course 2M cases would be much better than the current 5M and rising.  Bad rather than horrendous.

Again, for some reason in the US everything has been reactive, waiting until the virus flares up and then taking serious measures.  But after an outbreak takes hold it's rather late and much harder to contain.

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Basketball / Re: Knicks

« on: August 06, 2020, 11:02:31 AM »

I like that deal.
Get a promising yute and a backup C for Randle.

But how does that work for ATL?
You can't really play Capela and Randle together as that would clog the paint.
And you don't really want Julius jacking 3's (though he's willing).

Collins is a very nice young PF.  Does Randle come off the bench?  Is so what's the point?   And Randle is a one position fella.  Can't credibly play backup C, so his time is all at the expense of Collins.

ATL needs more defense around Tre.
Isn't DeAndre a 3&D wing and their best young wing defender?
I don't see ATL trading away defense and positional versatility for Randle's offense and PF fixture.

I didn't realize Hunter makes $7M.  A high pick. 
And yeah you can just pretend Hunter is getting $13M and Dedmon $7M.
Maybe they'd give us Cam Reddish, who struggled mightily then came on ... ?

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Previous Administration / Re: Trump Administration

« on: August 05, 2020, 07:01:23 PM »

https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2020/08/04/an_effective_covid_treatment_the_media_continues_to_besmirch_143875.html

I was very surprised and distrustful of the way that hydroxychloraquine side effects were portrayed.  When I was given it's relative chloraquine for a year long stay in AFrica, the doctors presented it as a proven medicine with few to no side effects.    I figured, okay maybe for patients compromised by CV-19 heart arrhythmia or inflammation or whatever might be a bigger problem.  But the way HCL was portrayed as unsafe seemed very unreasonable to me.

Without any training, my intuition was that if a non-specific drug was going to be any help against CV-19, it would almost certainly be in the early stages and not after the virus and symptoms had progressed.  I know I posted such thoughts here.  That seems to me to be basic logic.  I find that very peculiar and misguided that Fauci only wanted to use HCL on hospitalized patients in bad shape.  Indeed harmful.