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Julius Thedford returning next season for Memphis is a net positive. Thedford was the only Tiger with a PPP above 1 (1.027) and led the team in rebounds last season (despite being a 6’4” G). He consistently showed effort with little to play for last season. As for some of the others potentially returning, I am not a fan. Continuity is usually good, except when a team is coming off their worst year this century. Penny must understand that some of these guys returning will do more harm than good.

WaPo just buried the admission in a headline: regime change is impossible, stopping Iran’s nuclear program, is impossible let alone defeating Iran, so now “securing the Strait for energy shipments” is the war’s "new" goal which is DC and Israel's way of saying they lost everything they came for. 4,500 US sailors and Marines heading to West Asia for weak posturing — infantry battalion landing teams, helicopters, F-35s, armoured landing vehicles, the 11th Marine Expeditionary Unit accelerated from San Diego. WaPo is reporting that MAYBE they can get the shipping lane open as a humiliating offramp that will still ultimately fail. The goal of the war just became keeping the lights on and will eventually pivot to saving what's left of the regime in Tel Aviv.