@TSpeth5 @SCK4068 @bballbreakdown Only one of the two teams playing in that game ran the swing so seems a little strange to blame it on the offensive system and not the players execution and low pace.
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Alex Schmidt
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@SCK4068 @bballbreakdown People crap on the Swing offense because it resulted in 36-33 atrocities to college basketball and I’m a Wisconsin fan
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It wasn't easy watching Wisconsin run the Swing offense for so long when the modern game was clearly better. Well, coach Gard has revamped it, and here they run Spain PnR to generate a wide open three as they continue to hammer Michigan from deep
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@ZachHeilprin They currently have the 4th and 5th highest scoring seasons in program history.
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Been some debate as to whether Boyd and Blackwell are the best backcourt in school history. Becoming more difficult by the game to argue they aren't.
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@bballbreakdown @JoRy_MaMa Holy crap imagine trying to tell other people what to do and then later admitting you think a team runs an offensive system that they have used in over 3 years.......
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@JoRy_MaMa To be fair, I haven't watched them this year but for many seasons, they do swing offense, triple threat every catch, didn't utilize spacing well.
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Folks, we need to have an intervention, here. THIS is the exact reason why you foul up by 3. Wisconsin even called a time out to set up their defense, which was suboptimal since Illinois didn't have any timeouts! You may have heard me screaming in the greater LA area
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@bballbreakdown @JoRy_MaMa About as often as players hit a 35 footer with 2 hands right in their face.
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So that's an interesting point about being small. Let me ask you this: did Wisconsin struggle to get rebounds off of missed free throws during this game? And another question: how often do teams make the first 3 Ft, miss the 2nd on purpose, get the offensive rebound, and then put the ball back in to tie?
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@t_olp @totally_t_bomb Another tech was called on Nick Boyd for....... Getting yelled at?
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@totally_t_bomb Another foul was just called on someone not touching john blackwell
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@ZachHeilprin 3 Braeden Carrington
Just as everyone expected...
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Most 20-point games since 2000
20 Alando Tucker (2006-07)
18 Nick Boyd (2025-26)
17 Frank Kaminsky (2014-15)
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@dodgers_burner The funny thing to me about the "homegrown" narrative is they could easily be very homegrown and honestly not even that much worse, they just chose not to. Swap Freeman, Tucker, and Scott for Seager, Bellinger, and Jansen and suddenly they're like the most homegrown team ever.
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An analysis of the top 22 players based on WAR…
The 2025 Dodgers had 13 homegrown players.
The 2025 Yankees had only 9.
This is how GMs construct their rosters nowadays.
YankeesRevolutionary@YankeesRising
The Yankees' dynasty began because of their 'Core Four' of homegrown players they developed. The Dodgers didn't develop anything. in just THREE YEARS they bought Ohtani, Kyle Tucker, Mookie Betts, Freddie Freeman, Teoscar Hernandez, Yamamoto, Tyler Glasnow, Blake Snell, Roki Sasaki, and Edwin Diaz all in their PRIME.
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@jacobzanolla The dodgers could actually go pretty lean by 2028 if tucker opts out and a couple of their young outfield prospects pan out.
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The Dodgers fire sale will be generational (although I'd assume this would be grandfathered in)
Underdog MLB@UnderdogMLB
Heyman: Early estimates suggest proposed salary cap might be set around $260M-280M and floor around $140M-160M.
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@BrewerSooner Funny how every model that is unemotional and unbiased says that Brewers probably won't be great.......
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“The Brewers will have 3 pitchers in the ASG along with their catcher in Contreras, their 2B in Turang, and their LF in Chourio… however they will be a 81-81 team because small and they should trade everyone to the Dodgers immediately.” - ESPN… probably
Ryan@BrewPack8
ESPN predicts Contreras and Misiorowski will be in the All Star game
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@redturn2 Everyone loves to talk about "parity" but the real question is how can you have parity when the pirates get to pay the cy young winner 800k next year?
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Question for the “parity” people who are pro salary cap in #MLB. Do you implement the cap and then wait for all the (dodgers) deferrals to expire before you start seeing if the cap works for parity? Do you not think this gives them an even bigger advantage over the next 5-10 years?
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@CollegeHoopsTIk Two quad 2 losses and 1 quad 1 loss counter act 3 quad 1 A wins? It must be tough living with a sub 70 IQ.
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A truly terrible loss by Wisconsin, who essentially counteracted wins at Michigan and at Illinois with losses to
Oregon, Indiana, USC and Ohio State — all teams struggling to stay on the bubble other than Oregon, who is out of the running altogether.
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@abnercasanova1 @jestb99 OSU was literally a quad one game are you mentally impacted or something? OSU is 12-3 at home this year.
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@jestb99 Well tonight, USC, OSU makes three. Not to mention last years end of season debacles
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I like Greg Gard and I think he’s a good coach. There are 2-3 games every year where his teams look asleep and unprepared and it causes them to fall seed-lines before March Madness. The elite coaches don’t seem to have that issue
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@SteelCityBucs30 Imagine whining about how a system that just allowed you to pay the cy young winner 800k is unfair to you.
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Sadly, you don’t understand why we’re upset. We don’t think a cap/floor will make the Pirates good.
The Pirates can suck for being poorly run, but at least they can’t suck for being cheap.
Jacob@AndThatsBB
@sageemarioo Jets exist in a cap/floor league.
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@SteelCityBucs30 Then you have to massively change the way team control works. The only way to get a real advantage in the system you just described is tanking.
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“That’s communism!”
Yes, it is. And it should be. The goal of professional sports leagues is to attract the most eyes possible.
In 10 years when only the top 5 largest market teams can compete, more than half the country won’t care about baseball. That’s horrible for the league
Nick Gonzales’s Mustache@SteelCityBucs30
New idea: NO salary cap, but 100% equal revenue sharing. Players can still get 50 AAV deals, but every team has the same exact money to spend. Every team will also be forced to spend X dollars. Anyone who doesn’t will be punished (tax, draft picks, etc).
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@GageEHC @buccosbeef Why do the Mets and angles who have all the same advantages that the dodgers and Yankees have not have similar results?
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@buccosbeef There is lacking parity in playoff appearances. The Dodgers/Yankees are basically given tickets to the postseason thanks to their enormous resource advantage in every aspect (payroll, r&d, scouting, development, etc)
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Lmao the same dumb ass talking points
Baseball has parity because of the sport itself.
Baseball’s competitive equity is the worst, by far, across US major sports
Jacob Calvin Meyer@jcalvinmeyer
Chris Bassitt, MLBPA executive subcommittee member, on the salary cap debate and why he's against it: “The salary cap doesn’t fix anything. If you look at every major sport with a salary cap, we have the best parity. The salary cap is not the issue. Having suppressed salaries across the league so owners make more money is not the answer. "If I would tell you in 25 years, the Dodgers would be going to 10 World Series and winning seven of them, is that an issue? Because that’s the Patriots. The Chiefs have been to what, six or seven? The Philadelphia Eagles have been to four or five. The parity in our sport is better than any other sport. "We will make changes to try to help the so-called bottom teams out, but a salary cap and suppressing salaries and taking from players to try to help the so-called bottom teams spend more? That’s not the answer. Because if you’re trying to make a competitive league across the board, we have proof that every single league [has] less parity than ours. So how can you sit there and say a salary cap is going to fix this when every single salary cap sport has less parity than ours? It makes no sense. "Again, the root of the answer is not the salary cap, and the root of why owners want a salary cap is not for competitive balance.”
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@GageEHC @Mr_Cummatme @ryKeough So just to be clear you would prefer the sport to essentially be a random number generator every year? Just complete randomness that no one has any idea who is going to be good and who will be bad?
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@AndThatsBB @pitchprofiler They also love to ignore the fact that no other league has anything remotely similar to the 6 years of team control, 3 of which an MVP level player might be making league minimum. The pirates just had back to back years where they were paying 800k for sub 2 ERA starter.
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@pitchprofiler I love how they use other leagues as examples. “Look at the NFL, small market teams win!”
If I’m a player, the NFL is a nightmare scenario. Average player over there has a broken down body by 30 and lost out on half of their non-guaranteed contract after one injury.
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40% of the teams are below 160m there is no chance the owners agree to this without some loopholes
(like how the Marlins and others have skated under the rev sharing threshold because the language and punishment are toothless)
Brian Householder@BHouse50
So let's actually do the math on this "supress salary" argument The current payroll of all teams combined is 5,430M The proposed cap and floor is $160M - $240M Assuming everyone above lowers to 240 and all below raise to 160, the total would become 5,700M!! Almost 300M more in payout, even including the current hyper inflated Dodgers total coming down 150+! So who's suppressing whose salary, Chris Bassitt and "executive subcommittee"? The top 5% of PLAYERS are suppressing salary for the other 95%! And for what?! For a small elite's super privilege. That's the ACTUAL purpose of a union, to AVOID that. The fans want it, the owners want it, most players want it (remember executive subcommittee voted 0-8 against last CBA, while the players rep group voted 20-8), but the super douche subcommittee wants to gaslight us into being the victim
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This may be a hot take.
I don’t care if owners make more money. As a fan of a small-market team, I care about fairness and competitive balance. I just want the Reds to have the same chance to win as the Dodgers.
The reality is, under the current system, they don’t.
Anyone who thinks the Reds can spend like the Dodgers is not living in reality.
Andy Kostka@afkostka
MLBPA subcommittee member Chris Bassitt on the salary cap debate that may be a central figure in the upcoming CBA discussions: "The salary cap is not the issue. Having suppressed salaries across the league so owners can make more money is not the answer."
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@Nutzypoo_ttv Teams have 6 years where they get to massively underpay their players. Also you literally couldn't have used a worse example considering the royals have a 25 year old HOF pace shortstop signed for the next 9 years.
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No disrespect to Fuzzy, but he just kind of outlined why MLB DOES need a cap.
Kansas City, the 33rd largest media market in America, gets to have one of the greatest QBs of all time for his full career.
That's not really a luxury smaller market MLB teams get to have.
Fuzzy@fuzzyfromyt
The Chiefs won 3 Super Bowls in 5 years, and just restructured Patrick Mahomes contract from $78M to $34M, creating $44M in cap space.. The Celtics are basically being punished by the 2nd apron cap for drafting multiple superstars.. MLB *does not* need a salary cap.
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