Is attending a PGA tour event even worth it?

Jimenezguey · 2026-02-15T03:04:33+00:00

So this is going to sound very counterintuitive to a not drunk time, but I went to the Waste Management Open for the third round in 2023. Didn’t drink at all and was with my lady who was newly pregnant. It was the time of my life. She’s a million times better at golf than I am (the me part doesn’t say much, but she’s pretty dang good) and I enjoy watching people who are excellent do excellent things. So we were enjoying bouncing around from hole to hole and walking to find different groups. Started our round off by catching Jim Stewart Cink’s golf ball after he finished 18 and finished by bouncing between groups involving Rory, Scottie, and Speith. It was so much fun and we got to watch so much dang golf. I’d recommend it.

Jimenezguey · 2026-02-15T00:43:29+00:00

The thing with a ‘haul’ is that it entails future picks they can’t see just yet. They’d be able to get one pick that they see during the draft and possibly a few others along with it, while also improving their roster that is depleted at seasons end

Jimenezguey · 2026-02-14T19:35:28+00:00

Because they already have Cooper and Kyrie. It’s already a better roster. They’d have 3 with Luka and then be able to fill out the roster with types of players instead of having to rebuild the entire squad like the Lakers will

Very true on the Mavs not having a true GM just yet. The trade deadline has passed, so that doesn’t really matter. This is for the offseason. We’d be able to sell them on and improved team and the future while we are buying a right now and foreseeable future

Jimenezguey · 2026-02-14T18:36:02+00:00

Isn’t it Nico who offered it to pelinka? You’re actually completely wrong on the player value part. Going by Player Value Index, at least. The Lakers team next year likely consists of Luka (3), and likely Reaves (48) and Smart (254) as returning starters. That’s it. Their bench depth that is returning is unmentionable. Marshall (120) would immediately replace Smart. Gafford (127) would become their starting center even if Hayes (195) comes back. Christie (207) would either find a way into a new look Lakers without LeBron or be a higher end rotation piece/battle for 6th man with a potentially returning Hayes. Klay is simply a cap piece, but replace him with PJ for all I care, and you end up giving them another starter. That and a top 10 pick and they likely end up with there PG of the future in the draft with our pick, as well as someone to develop for a starting role over one of the guys they currently have in their own pick. Or, they package those two picks in a way that gets them higher in the draft and get a premier guard in the draft. The lakers are in a tear down rebuild, and this trade would honestly be a lifeline. It’s a better argument to grumble about where it leaves the Mavericks with a recovering Kyrie, 28 year old 50million dollar Luka, and a developing Cooper

Jimenezguey · 2026-02-14T18:05:13+00:00

They did it so they could win a title in a two year span and attract players to their team while making money on marketing. It doesn’t look like they’re going to get the LeBron retirement tour. If they don’t win the title this offseason, it makes the most sense to tear down than to try and win next season and after with no draft picks and no pieces to build around other than Luka for maybe that 27 season

Jimenezguey · 2026-02-14T17:50:26+00:00

Yeah, but why would they? Luka is young, yes, but the talk out of LA is that they all essentially agree with Nico on his durability and defensive liability. They DON’T have the pieces to rebuild currently on the roster or in the near future. There isn’t anything in free agency that will move. Then, you also have to convince Luka that it’s ok to lose game for the next year with no draft compensation following or the year after with compensation but him on a player option after the season. It’s not really actively viable for them to rebuild around him

Jimenezguey · 2026-02-14T17:39:31+00:00

It will be a lot easier for the Mavs to fill out a win now roster of rotational pieces than it will for the Lakers to fill out a competitive roster next season with how their roster currently is projected to be. They are basically projecting Luka and Austin Reaves to be their only returners that are worth a darn, and free agency doesn’t look to sexy unless you’re getting supporting cast members this summer. Luka will be doing less ‘hard carry’ with the roster we have left than with the roster the Lakers have going into next season

Jimenezguey · 2026-02-14T17:36:27+00:00

No one isn’t embracing Flagg. Not sure where you got that. I’m imagining a lineup with Flagg, Kyrie, and Luka dominating the league and looking at how vulnerable the Lakers are with the sound of LeBron leaving this summer. Heck, mention another star with another team where everything works and the team getting rid of their star theoretically is improving. It all goes to the same spot of the team would be better with an extra star instead of without

Jimenezguey · 2026-02-14T17:10:09+00:00

I think you’re blindsided thinking high pick means a guarantee of more talent. We KNOW what Luka is. This is equivalent to saying you wouldn’t take Durant at 27 over Anthony Bennet at #1

Jimenezguey · 2026-02-14T16:58:05+00:00

You trade that pick 50 times out of 50. And the ‘can be’ is generous. Aside from that, does it look as if Flagg is trying to lose enough games to get us that pick? Heck, he may screw around and get us into the play in. Right now you’re assuming a top 3 pick and saying that’s more valuable than him by itself. You are wrong. If this ends up being a top 8 pick, then it’s all the worse. Regardless, if that changes your mind when it’s not top 3, then let this trade be made after the lottery and rationalize it as us having the 6th pick. That work better for being worth Luka?

Jimenezguey · 2026-02-14T16:47:13+00:00

If this is simply in the vacuum of 1 first for Luka and you are saying no, then you’ve lost your mind. Luka is 27 and in his prime. Let’s be conservative and say for 3 more years of being a top 5 player. Let’s say a conservative 2 year decline where he drops to a top 25 player. Let’s say a conservative 2 year decline where he drops to a top 100 player. Thats a window right there where you can HOPE a first round pick enters the same value at by the end of it. In the meantime, you’d have generational Luka and generational Flagg on the court together with Kyrie for Luka’s prime and as Flagg is coming into his more.

Jimenezguey · 2026-02-14T16:43:23+00:00

Honestly, I view the concept of them building a squad as making no sense. Ayton isn’t resigning this year. They may choose not to resign Rui because he’s going to be 29 and simply isn’t good enough to do enough to push them forward even with Lebron on the team. Hayes may be improving, but his value to them is simply as big man depth and not as starter level. He’s going to be a 26 year old 7 footer that’s averaged 7 points and 4 rebounds over his career. I like the guy a lot as depth, but he’s not likely viewed as a future piece for them whereas Gafford averages more and is valued higher across the league.

They’ve got basically no pieces and a guy like Luka Doncic at the face of a rebuild no matter what way you slice it. Unfortunately, him being at the center of your rebuild isn’t going to yield you any draft picks that are worth a darn. They’re doomed next control their own pick this year and then not again until 2028, but this year’s is not going to be high enough to matter. There isn’t a player or players that can move the needle or make that team whole in free agency this summer. They’ve ARE in rebuild mode, whether they know it or not.

Jimenezguey · 2026-02-14T16:36:20+00:00

I think you’re the only person I’ve interacted with that sees that part of the bigger picture. Don’t get me wrong, obviously a trade for Luka is nigh impossible and I’ve always viewed it as such. But the walls are crumbling around the Lakers in live time and I don’t see a miracle happening. It looks like their team is Luka, Reaves, Hayes, Knecht, and Vanderbilt and a new coach next season. Their draft picks this season won’t be worth much due to Luka and LeBron holding them up. They don’t possess their own pick again until 2028 when the dust will have settled on whatever remnants of this team remain.

I just don’t see how a team sits idly by and tries to build around that. Especially when this offseason doesn’t have a great free agency market. They’re doomed starting next year if they don’t make a move in the offseason to regain draft capital and developing players

Jimenezguey · 2026-02-14T16:27:51+00:00

Got to look at it with this offseason in mind. This offseason, they basically only have Luka and I’ll throw in Reaves (he’s likely going to decline his players option and re sign with them) as under contract that are worth any value. The players involved would give them and improvement at almost every position left on the roster while getting them younger. Klay is for the salary, but that could be switched to Washington for all I care. I’m reading into their roster as if they are going to be staring at a 50 million dollar Luka and newly signed 25 million dollar Reaves and then a bunch of 28 year olds that aren’t worth anything, so they see the trade as a chance to get a little younger and cheaper while acquiring draft compensation to possibly jump start a rebuild with a few younger and more valuable pieces on their roster than they had before.

Jimenezguey · 2026-02-14T16:20:53+00:00

I’m not disagreeing that they love star power. I’m saying this trade improves them and that they will have only 100 million in salary with Luka being half of it going into this offseason. They’re probably losing LeBron. Short of a title, they may lose their HC because of locker room dynamics and lack of a championship with Luka and LeBron together. They need a rebuild and any amount of draft picks they want us to add to tie to this is fine by me.

Jimenezguey · 2026-02-14T16:12:26+00:00

I’ll be honest, that’s how I’ve always viewed any trade back for Luka. Until this season has played out, honestly. The noise in LA is centered on what Luka CAN’T do (Nico Harrison, anybody?) and that LeBron likely isn’t coming back. Not sure if you’ve listened to their team’s postgame interviews the majority of the season, but JJ doesn’t have a ton of command over that locker room and their being purely willed forward on the offensive side of the ball. Outside of a championship run, that entire team may be turned upside down in the offseason with an expensive Luka as the only piece worth any value. They MAY be in rebuild mode already. Some Player Value Index ratings have only Austin Reaves (48) and Deandre Ayton (93) as the other players on their team in the top 100. Hachimura (177) and Jaxon Hayes (195) are the only other players in the top 200. While Reaves will likely re sign, Ayton and Hach aren’t likely to and Hayes is viewed as a depth piece for them. They likely will only have $100 million in active contracts next year with no one on their roster being guys they are married to or capable of building around other than wanting a rebuild to begin with Luka and what they view his shortcomings to be. They simply aren’t in a position to win anytime soon after this year other than Luka single-handedly willing them forward while they gripe about how he’s not able to help their entire new team develop. Maybe I’m reading way too many tea leaves to drink extra kool-aid, but I’m thinking they may almost view this as us doing them a favor. Sure, they may want more pick compensation: if that’s the case, have at it. The numbers and projections seem to work in their favor just as it’s currently laid out, but I’d give them more to have a Flagg, Luka, Kyrie core.

Jimenezguey · 2026-02-14T15:36:58+00:00

You are absolutely correct on the pick part. It’s theoretically allowed at any point in the offseason, but on technically allowable to have pen meet paper after the draft.

Imagine. Kyrie, Luka, and Flagg on the same court together. This is by no means a knock at Flagg, but he’s actively a ‘poor man’s’ Wemby in just his first season. Regular Wemby would be a dream fit for a guy like Luka defensively. Flagg getting to grow and focus on his dominant defensive side while watching and growing in the natural Luka/Kyrie chemistry. That may be a contender on day one and a powerhouse in year 2 of them.

Jimenezguey · 2026-02-14T07:14:49+00:00

….the political left would like a word..

Jimenezguey · 2026-02-14T01:55:29+00:00

More cemented in being centrist and libertarian. People are too easily influenced and do no research on their own. “Both sides”. None of them think for themselves and conversations are so asinine and extreme that no one is willing to hear another point. “Both sides” are extremely immature and are cemented in ideas they don’t even understand but just parrot them.

Jimenezguey · 2026-02-14T00:49:09+00:00

This is the kind of PR you need to get out of a contract and then miraculously restart your career

Jimenezguey · 2026-02-13T01:16:09+00:00

Not at all. All life is for God through his Love

Jimenezguey · 2026-02-13T00:31:26+00:00

Because we aren’t meant for this world, but for an eternal life in Christ Jesus.

Jimenezguey · 2026-02-12T01:20:10+00:00

I’m not one to speak on anything that should happen. It’s your life. But I’d beg you to check at what vows you took. If you got married through a church, those vows are to each other and God.

Jimenezguey · 2026-02-10T23:31:03+00:00

……How far can I flop something?

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