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The broadcast re-alignments seem to have a flavor of professionalism about it. The ethos with Bally recently has been throw anyone in front of the camera or microphone that was nearby and might have a decent 'Q' score. Hopefully this is a broad push by Harris to move toward pros who know what they are doing.

4 on 3 is pretty a steep advantage. I didn't find a number for it, but given that the average 5 on 4 PP success rate is in the 20s and 5 on 3 is ~70, 4 on 3 is probably also in the 50% or better range.

Judges are on call for this kind of stuff pretty much 24/7. And it will just tick-off the judge more and make him even less sympathetic to the B1G action for them to bring it on an off day. But the other side of the coin is that maybe Pettiti doesn't care if the court reverses him. He gets to play good cop with the other coaches, the games (and revenue stream from having a top contender) go on.....

yeah - it was kind of a natural reaction brain freeze, but it ended up being costly.

bad play by Riemer, bad acting job, bad outcome.

Untied, retied. 2-2

I could see an angle where the logic was not so much about the playoffs per say as that by the deadline he knew he hadn't been sharp , maybe was nursing something and figured that the sooner the season ended for him this season, the less damage he might do to his FA value. It's just a theory.

Oxidation, stress from even low level thermal cycling, spiders crawling around the connections..... Time gets everything in the end.

Kelser was talking about that during the game - talking up the value of a 4yr college player.

right - but all that said, he still has to give the ball up faster and then be more effective with the ball in someone else's hands because to keep repeating what happened last night is pointless for the team and Cade.

White Sox tend to be a cheap org don't they?

Yup, after Lillard traffic-coned Duren the 1st time you could see it coming. The one push back I would make is that Cade also has a worse A/TO ratio than Luka or even Embiid. IOW, the TO number would be easier to accept if he were a better passer than he is. And granted, put him on the court with other better players and we should see more successful assists, but like his shooting, that jury is still out until we see it. And likewise the scoring is great but again, how impressive is it measured against his usage? His EFG is not in Luka's ballpark. Right now he is the is almost the only option on a epicly bad offensive team, which results in too much forced offense for Cade. Cade's bad luck to have come to this team and now a coach who seems to be OK with too much hero ball.

So here is a question: The bar on in person scouting is a B1G rule. Does TCU's conference even have such a rule? If not maybe they expected to have to protect their communication?

"Bally" is just a trademark at this point. It seems likely that whoever ends up owning the broadcast origination, they are likely to leave in place as much of the current asset they assume as they can - but nothing is for certain.

LOL - did they let him meet the Bally crew he has to work with before they got him to sign?

The Rangers will be bad for a long time in the future as the cost of this Championship. Whether an owner wants to go that route is his decision to make.

Yup, and half the schools in every conference realize that this outcome is would be the death knell for their programs because that paid league is not going to be more than 40 teams - maybe 50 tops. That leaves half of the CFB out in the cold. So the desperation out there is real, and justified.

this refers to standard game film' doesn't it? All teams take and share standard PBP film. As I understand it that is not supposed to include sideline filming. Otherwise what would we even be talking about here? The whole competition fairness issue is about getting what isn't on the PBP film. Distribution of 'standard' PBP film is supposed to save teams the cost of doing it themselves for all their opponents - the money is what these rules were about in the first place, not the competition. It was pure serendipity that these rules meant teams no longer had to 'protect' observation of their sidelines. That had never been true before the rules were passed. In person scouts never had any rules about what they couldn't observe.

Sure - I wouldn't argue that he is basically the only one on the stage who is not certifiable.

No kidding. Like send a play in with a player and sign something else and see if the results change? It ain't exactly rocket science.

In their defense, they did get a couple of wide open 3 looks as a result of the doubles on Cade, but Stew and Thomspson couldn't hit them.

It might not be interesting, but from a functional standpoint, the draft could probably start going deeper with the NBA having developed a more formalized minor league system. The comparison to football shows the two round draft was originally apt. Before the g-league, neither sport had a minor system and football drafted 6 rounds into a 53 man roster, while basketball drafted two rounds into a 15 man roster. That's pretty comparable. If it got/gets to where to each NBA team carried another 15 players assigned to the G league, doubling the draft to 4 rounds would follow - roughly.

That's why the public's fascination with 'new faces' is so destructive to good leadership. Talk is cheap, anyone can say anything. But your record, what you actually did, can't be waived away with 30 seconds of appealing rhetoric. If there were one thing I wish America would stop doing so much of it's *listening* to politicians. Stop listening at look at their records. That's the only thing close to truth you will get access to.

If Christie had actually been as governor the person he projects himself as now, he'd be more appealing. But with any politician I'm far more interested in 'what did you/have done' than 'what can you say that sounds good'. He did not cover himself in glory as the Gov of NJ and his rejection of Trump only after being rebuffed in his efforts to join the circle don't combine to paint a person who *acts* with nearly the level of principle he talks. That said, when it comes to the GOP the one eyed man may still be king in the land of the blind.

If Cade Cunningham weren't Cade Cunningham, Monty would have put Killian back in the game and tried to recapture the flow the offense had that went straight down the tubes when Cade came back in. It's terrible to watch a team double Cade all the way out to the time line and the Pistons don't have the movement, passing, or shooting to pick up the easy buckets that should be making available.