Aidan Stitt

Can’t believe I suffered through this season just to have to flip a coin to determine if odds will be 7th or 8th best

Grizzlies Jazz is an atrocity I have to say it

@All_Things_Mavs It's a team option.. he has two-way guys getting in before him consistently. The roster spot is more valuable.

@aidanstitt_ Nah but I’m not desperate to move on from him

Next year's roster could look like... Flagg (19) 1st-Rd (19-22) 1st-Rd (19-22) 2nd-Rd (19-22) AJ Johnson (21) Lively (22) Nembhard (23) Cisse (23) Poulakidas (23) Christie (23) PJ (27) Gafford (27) Naji (28) Caleb Martin (30) Kyrie (34) Klay (36) I hope we can move on from Caleb Martin Cisse & Poulakidas are both two-ways that I want to keep. But if I have to choose one, give me Poulakidas Bagley (27) is the only free agent I REALLY want to keep around Middleton (34), Dwight (34), Brandon Williams (26) and Tyler Smith (two-way, 21) are also free agents, but I don't have much interest in retaining them

Mavs undrafted rookie John Poulakidas career-high 23 PTS (8-12 FG, 5-8 3P, 89% TS), 1 AST, 1 REB, 1 BLK, 0 TO vs. Suns Who does he remind you of? 👀

@EckhartsLadder Actually such a good book iirc

Probably my favourite new canon book. So bummed we’ve never gotten a continuation.

These are the consequences I immediately foresee: - The tank line moves to the 10 seeds. Teams will tank in March and April to avoid the Play-In. - Rebuilds will delay adding meaningful veterans to stay out of the Play-In longer, which hurts the development of their young guys. - The Play-In will become, for lack of a better way of putting this, "idiot proof." I'm thinking of teams like the 2022 Lakers or the 2026 Bucks. If you want to be in the postseason and have some big-name players, you'll be able to get away with more injuries or bad moves because the teams ahead of you will want to clear the way for you by losing for lottery odds. So I guess in a roundabout way this might get more big names into the postseason. - Drawing for all 18 picks will inevitably go very poorly for one or two teams that are really bad for several years at a time, essentially locking that team at the bottom of the standings until the lottery finally turns their way. I saw someone earlier describe this as a "permanent underclass" and I think there's something to that. There will be genuinely bad teams who can't improve because they keep picking 16th with the fourth-worst record. - The trade market surrounding picks is going to change drastically. While the absolute *most* valuable picks are now less valuable (your 2010s Nets-esque old, declining, inflexible team picks), the majority of picks thanks to the 18-team drawing will suddenly get MORE valuable just because you might trade for an unprotected pick from a playoff team and suddenly wind up with like the No. 11 choice, which is still enormously impactful depending on who you are. In the short term, this really favors the teams that have stacked a bunch of picks (Spurs, Thunder, Grizzlies, Nets, Rockets come to mind). For the same reasons, swaps become much more valuable. But in the long run, I imagine this makes it much harder to trade. You won't be able to predictably protect picks anymore if there's no longer a record-based floor for where a team can pick. We might see teams hoard picks more aggressively. The big losers here, I imagine, will be teams trading sub-star level players. You'll always be able to get hauls of picks for superstars but I imagine there will be way less appetite to trade like four picks for Desmond Bane. - The thing that triggers the next wave of "we have to change the rules" discourse is going to be a team winning from the first round of the playoffs. People will react to that the way they did Orlando winning in 1993: pure outrage. Those are the ones that seem apparent to me from the outset. There will inevitably be ones we don't see coming.

I just know there are some Mines students participating here

Gore is insane

Gore really just had 5 strikeouts in the first inning wow

Do the Rangers know ABS is a thing?

@TBJxLAL @LuhRangersFan @BaseballWRLD_ Exactly

@LuhRangersFan @BaseballWRLD_ Id add langford

The Top 15 unluckiest hitters in baseball so far this year

Rangers are so ridiculously unlucky

I’m straight up hate lifting right now

How to fix the 65 game rule for NBA Postseason Awards:

@Travis_Frase Cmon man. You know why.

I don't understand why teams waste time playing 10 day guys starter minutes for weeks/months to end the season when they have no future with the team. The Grizzlies, Wizards, Nets etc..... have plenty of young guys that are actually on the roster long term who could use the reps.

He is risen!

This is probably the most incredible baseball photo I've ever seen.

It’s bad that I had no idea this game was being played. Cmon NBA…

The first teenager in NBA history with a 50-point game.