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Go get that paycheck, Alex Len! 10 points already.

It sounds like we’re putting a lot of pressure on McD to make impatient, short-sighted moves... like the ones that got us into this mess. For me, it's not about the win total so much as it is the makeup of the team. Do we have players who compliment each other? Are we giving tons of minutes to guys...

Sarah Huckabee Sanders said in press conf today that Pres Trump thinks that he has the authority to directly fire Mueller without firing Rosenstein or having the AG do it. I really hope it doesn't go down that way, though that would be extremely clear-cut in terms of obstruction of justice.

Bender doesn't get many rebounds. But he's often camped out behind the 3-point line, so he wouldn't get many offensive boards that way. And increasingly the PF position roams around the perimeter, so the days of PFs hauling down 10+ boards are waning. Not making excuses for him; he does seem to lack...

I honestly can't figure out what is going on with the MIL and MIA picks. I keep seeing people posting that we want this team or that team to win or lose, but I get it all tangled up. I'll just wait until the regular season is over and rely on you guys to tell me what picks we did or didn't get.

Hopefully if Booker wants out, we can get a great haul for him such as half a year of Greg Monroe and a heavily protected middling first-round draft pick.

I hope Westbrook works his ass off, pushing teammates aside for every rebound, and ends up with 17. And that OKC loses the game.

I am happy with the way this season played out. I admit I was hoping we would be a little better and finish in the middle of the pack when the season started. As long as we were going to lose I am glad we finished last and have the best chance at the #1 pick. The guys who really need the playing ti...

I don't think I can make any predictions about our win total until I see whether we sign any major FAs or just do our draft pick and call it a day. My guess is that McDo needs to sign a big FA to try to keep his job. So we'll see who he goes after. Blue chipper rook plus 1-2 well chosen vets? I coul...

No, no, no. Asking teams to sign these players right out of college to big contracts is a recipe for disaster. Guys were getting $50m right out of school who didn't deserve it, and it was crippling teams. The rookie salary scale is important. Maybe the #1 pick or the most ping pong balls should go t...

BOOM. FBI raids office of Michael Cohen, Trump's lawyer. They say he may be guilty of bank fraud and/or violations of campaign finance law. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/09/us/politics/fbi-raids-office-of-trumps-longtime-lawyer-michael-cohen.html https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/fbi-seizes-...

Those of you who say "dump the draft," I don't understand. What do you want the system to be? Players out of college just negotiate and sign with whatever team they want? Isn't that a recipe for every player signing with the LA Lakers and NY Knicks? Or am I misunderstanding what you want t...

Indy wrote:

Marty [Mori Chu] wrote:He is 20.

I love thinking back to saucey's posts when he was 20. Such maturity!

True, but his PER (Poster Efficiency Rating) and his defensiveness per 36 posts have gone way up since then.

The league standings are pretty interesting going into the playoffs. The East has locked up all 8 of its playoff teams; Detroit is 9th and has been eliminated from playoff consideration. (How embarrassing for SVG and Blake and the rest.) The West still has 9 teams eligible, with Denver currently on ...

I mean, great, we get the top lottery odds by out-tanking the field. But the league needs to do something about tanking. It's really bad for the game. The paying fans deserved better than having healthy players sitting out games down the stretch. I think they should heavily flatten the lottery odds ...

carey wrote:My future wife wrote about Luka: http://www.espn.com/espn/feature/story/ ... yer-europe

Mina is a doll, I will give you that.

He is 20.

Bender keeps giving me reasons to hope. 14 points on 6-13 shooting, with 14 rebounds and 2 assists, in 41 minutes. Ulis with 15 points and 10 assists. Not a lot else going on; House Jr leads us in scoring with 22, yawn.

http://www.espn.com/nba/boxscore?gameId=400975949

All fair points. I agree that Bender is a lot better. He's still 20. I want to give him a few more years. I think he's going to be a really nice role player when we are a good team. He'll give us exactly what we'll want from a 2020 PF: defense, rebounding, outside shooting. And he won't demand the b...

I feel for the fans who bought tickets to see this halfhearted effort months in advance, before they knew how little the team cared about them.