The Swamp

Joe K

Having a "ground presence" during a pandemic -- when your opponent is actively gathering lots of people into crowded spaces! -- is not the brightest of ideas when you're trying to get people to stop getting sick and dying I disagree that having masked volunteers ring doorbells is overly r...

Joe K

Read the same stories on trump in 2016 fwiw. Weren't those part of the "he doesn't actually want to win" storyline? Theoretically, Biden does. Biden is probably going to win because so many of the fundamental underlying conditions are in his favor. But I hope that Dems don’t then use his ...

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Tatum getting stuffed is doing a nice job of making everyone forget the last possession in regulation where he got the ball and a switch via pick in an iso, dribbled out clock, and threw up a 28-foot brick that was closer to being an airball than actually going in. Related: Is Brad Stevens getting ...

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I’m definitely rooting for Denver at this point. I know I said the same thing about the Clippers series, but I reeeaaaaly can’t see them beating the Lakers. If Jokic somehow cooks Anthony Davis, I’m buying a jersey. They’re both great big men, but complete polar opposites on the athleticism scale.

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Obviously I've got a big time chip on my sports fan shoulder when it comes to the narrative around Harden, but if he was tweeting trash talk from his couch to a player just eliminated a round after him, there's no way NBA Twitter/journalists are laughing with him, regardless of the backstory. But D...

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tennbengal wrote: ↑Wed Sep 16, 2020 6:24 am So...paul George, NOT a championship type player...

I almost feel bad for him, then I remember that he impregnated a stripper while dating Doc Rivers’ daughter and go back to laughing.

Joe K

Joe K wrote: ↑ My 2019-20 season predictions:

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Teams that will be worse than expected: Celtics, Nuggets, Lakers

This take aged significantly worse than AB’s correct pick that LeBron would lead the league in assists!

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Are we sure Doc Rivers’ job is safe? Because this is now two stunning 3-1 collapses since 2015 for him. How long he can he keep banking on the 2008 and 2010 postseason runs with Boston?

Joe K

Holy shit, that Adebayo block was incredible!

ETA: Heat up 2 with about 5 seconds left when THIS happened:

Joe K

According to ESPN scroll, no man born in the 90s has won a major. The great 3 have prevented a generation of players from winning in most of their prime years. Yes that is true. A women born in the 2000s (Andreescu) has won a major before a man born in the 90s has. There are also many great players...

Joe K

The Nuggets have gotta be the most fun team in the NBA.
This is the third time this postseason they’ve come back from 15+ down in the second half while facing elimination. Also their fourth straight playoff series over the last 2 games to go 7 games.

Joe K

That was the first time the Lakers really looked like a championship caliber team to me. Having Rondo back makes a big difference. Seeing the Clippers give away that game last night and more importantly, their supporting cast continue to underwhelm, made me for the first time think “oh shit, the La...

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I think the scoreboard had a message stating that the teams were united against racism and police brutality (among other things). I’d guess that a not insignificant percentage of NFL fans thinks that racism is dead and that there’s literally no such thing as police brutality. Last time I went to an ...

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Is there anyone good in the AFC besides KC? Who's 2nd? Buffalo? NFC seems stacked with the rest of the contenders. Bills fans get very uncomfortable reading things like that... The Ravens at the top, Steelers, Bills, Titans and maybe the Colts? If Cam is anything like what he was pre-injuries, Patr...

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It’s too bad it won’t happen at Staples Center but Lakers-Clippers is still going to be epic. I think the Clippers have the most complete roster in the league, but I’ve been really impressed with Frank Vogel’s coaching and LeBron and Davis are both always capable of destroying anyone. The LeBron v. ...

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I can't fathom any sane person not being terrified about this election or being simple enough to think it'll just be about the EC and actual votes. I have no doubt that Biden will win the national popular vote. But with the GOP’s built-in Electoral College advantage, the margins between “Biden wins...

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Giff wrote: ↑Wed Sep 09, 2020 9:49 am I mean, Rondo probably won't do that again. And the Rockets missed House big time last night.

Gotta give him points for ingenuity. That’s one way to deal with the bubble’s “no outside guests” rules.

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tennbengal wrote: ↑Wed Sep 09, 2020 8:54 pm I need a cigarette. What a great fucking game that was.

Incredible rally/finish by the Raps in 2OT. They looked completely exhausted to me and all of a sudden started hitting everything. Kyle Lowry has the heart of a lion.

Joe K

The one-issue anti-abortion people will never come around. The idea of Tom Cotton or Ted Cruz on the SCOTUS is a wet dream they believe (perhaps correctly) that a re-elected Trump will fulfill. Trump’s 20-person “shortlist” of potential Supreme Court nominees that he announced today was absolutely ...

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LeBron is still amazing at age 36. The Lakers-Houston series has 3 former MVPs plus a perennial 1st-Team All-NBA and All-Defense player, and there’s still no question that LeBron’s the best player on the floor. If the Lakers win the title this year, which is a real possibility, I’d have to say he’s ...

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Great story phxgators! I think I've mentioned before that Bill White's daughter is a friend of mine. She has related to me how all the kids of the black Cardinal players from that era grew up together - The Brocks, the Gibsons, the Floods and the Whites. St. Louis was pretty segregated, then (at le...

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And actually, Nikki Haley, fuck you. Should've used #dependa as the hashtag since you're acting like one. https://twitter.com/NikkiHaley/status/1302238684201189377?s=19 Haley is going to run for President in 2024, and she can't let Tom Cotton one-up her on support for Trump and love for The Troops.

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I don't think Texas will be in play until/unless it gets a Democratic governor who works really hard to ensure fair access to polling places. I would bet that the Democratic votes statewide are heavily concentrated in urban Houston, Dallas, San Antonio and Austin. Those are all very large cities, bu...

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Resisting the urge to talk myself into a Rockets upset but they look like a team that was understandably scared shitless of the disaster scenario of losing to OKC but has now loosened up. LeBron is going to have to take on tougher defensive assignments because the Rockets guards had their way last n...

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I didn’t watch but was checking score regularly. Wow. I’m now fully convinced that Giannis had already decided he’s leaving Milwaukee as soon as possible and his teammates all know it. The parallels with the 2010 Cavs are off the charts, The three teams that have been rumored the most are Miami, To...

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I didn’t watch but was checking score regularly. Wow. I’m now fully convinced that Giannis had already decided he’s leaving Milwaukee as soon as possible and his teammates all know it. The parallels with the 2010 Cavs are off the charts, The three teams that have been rumored the most are Miami, To...

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I think the 2 minute reports are pretty legit. I thought the Butler turnover clearly should have been a foul or a travel before he threw the ball away. I didn’t even notice that both he and a Bucks player were also out of bounds. But it’s not the first time I’ve seen refs let things go at the end of...

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NBA refs making themselves part of the story yet again. That was absolutely ridiculous. Last 10 seconds of the game, two massive calls... that were both clearly wrong. Also, on the earlier play when Butler threw up the terrible pass that Lopez ended up with - I thought I saw a couple clear fouls ag...

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Where’s the lie?

Joe K

What a bunch of group masturbation. Nothing is changing for Pelosi anytime soon. Pelosi isn’t going to lose her Congressional seat this year, but I’d hope that Dems are at least thinking about who will succeed her in that leadership role. An extremely wealthy 80-year-old who came of age politically...

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You left out abortion and racism. Yeah, abortion is #1. Totally agree with this. Some of the smartest Republicans I know sincerely believe that opposition to abortion is an issue of the utmost moral significance. If that’s how you truly feel, it’s easy to justify a vote for even a terrible Republic...

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Still thinking about the fact that Dort had the greatest Game 7 performance by a rookie in NBA history. We are all witnesses.

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This is one of the best Game 7s I can recall seeing.

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DORT IN BEASTMODE!

Joe K

NBA refs making themselves part of the story yet again. That was absolutely ridiculous. Last 10 seconds of the game, two massive calls... that were both clearly wrong. Also, on the earlier play when Butler threw up the terrible pass that Lopez ended up with - I thought I saw a couple clear fouls ag...

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mister d wrote: ↑Wed Sep 02, 2020 4:34 pm Can't wait to hear how Pelosi masterfully played her hand in a few weeks when Republicans issue a second stimulus to avoid going into elections with millions of their own constituents in need.

Joe K

So you’re assuming that Pelosi is such an adept negotiator that she got the maximum amount of concessions from McConnell, even though by your admission “no one wants to go on the record as voting against pandemic relief” and the bill passed 96-0. Agree to disagree.

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Why don’t you instead name the 45 Senators who voted for the bill that were at their absolute breaking point and wouldn’t have agreed to any further relief efforts? You're asserting she could've gotten more. I'm simply asking for the basis of that assertion. Basic logic? If you get a surplus of 45 ...

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I'll never understand your "this person hasn't done literally nothing as a Democrat so how can you complain" as a rebuttal strategy. Just unbelievably low standards. And it could, again, very easily be used to prove I should be all-in on Romney. I'm not arguing that she's progressive beca...

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