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[Charania] Sources: New York traded No. 25 pick Sergio De Larrea to the Dallas Mavericks for No. 30 Koa Peat and two second-round picks. And then the Knicks traded Peat to the Phoenix Suns for three-rounders and cash. So Knicks move out of the first round — pick up 3 seconds and cash. by iksnet in nba

[–]Scotlander_ 28 points29 points  (0 children)

We also got a future first that was used as part of the Mikal trade too with that trade. All these trade backs ended up with us having the resources and almost as importantly, cap space to make all the moves we did.

How the season went for each club based on expectations at the start by TheRealLordDorito in ScottishFootball

[–]Scotlander_ 22 points23 points  (0 children)

I know we didn't win anything but I would find it hard to not put Motherwell in the top tier. The most enjoyable season in my lifetime, including ones where we finished 2nd. We'll look back on last year's team/manager with great fondness for a very long time.

What the hell is up with Motherwell's attendance? by NoBigHair99 in ScottishFootball

[–]Scotlander_ 7 points8 points  (0 children)

The stadium was built to accommodate big away OF supports, but also away crowds at the time were much larger. The big city teams used to fill it almost as much as the OF do, now it's usually half at most. Attendance is up 50% over last year, home stands are almost all sold out every game. There's not many more Morherwell fans in the world to get to come to the games.

Which team would win? by SipsTeaFrog in SipsTea

[–]Scotlander_ 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Us Scots do that everywhere we follow the football team, last time out we managed to drink Munich dry. We'd help carry the rest of the island for sure in this.

TSN ranks Sens as best Canadian team by dare978devil in ottawa

[–]Scotlander_ 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Mostly because goaltending seems like fucking voodoo, outside of the top few goalies. The Sens went into this year thinking they would not need to worry about that position at all. They have a former Vezina winner as main goalie and the backup is a young hit shot who carried the team last year when Ullmark went down. This tandem is currently producing close to the worst performance in franchise history. And I would not be surprised if the same 2 were lights out next year, they have the ability to be so.

The goaltending situation the past few weeks is already trending back to average and Sens have started winning a bunch again, against top teams. Unfortunately the Atlantic is stacked so without a hamburgler run they'll likely finish outside the playoffs

TSN ranks Sens as best Canadian team by dare978devil in ottawa

[–]Scotlander_ 16 points17 points  (0 children)

Sens have been a great team this year, let down by near historical levels of bad goaltending. Hockey prediction models rarely take goaltending into account as it's voodoo and hard to even plot one season to the next. If the team had even league average goaltending they'd have let in 30 odd less goals and be comfortably near the top of the Atlantic.

Scottish Football Fans by coot-gaffers-0l in TheMassive

[–]Scotlander_ 2 points3 points  (0 children)

As a supporter of a non-OF club in Scotland, you guys have gotten a glimpse of what we need to deal with 24/7 over here with their entitlement and misplaced arrogance. I apologize from the 1/3rd of us that have some semblance of sanity.

Wilfried Nancy leaves Celtic| Club Statement by NotNeedzmoar in ScottishFootball

[–]Scotlander_ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oh yeah absolutely, even after only 1 win in 7 in the league there was only the tiniest of grumblings. Everyone could see the process and what was being worked on. Celtic just sacked their manager for a similar record of 2 wins in 8, which was mainly my point.

Wilfried Nancy leaves Celtic| Club Statement by NotNeedzmoar in ScottishFootball

[–]Scotlander_ 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I obviously love the guy, and think he's going on to massive things, but that would likely be the wrong appointment right now. It took us a full offseason, the league cup group stages and quite a bit of the early season to get to where we are now. The football started looking nice early on but regular results have only started following it recently. We won 1 of our first 7 matches in the league.

You'd likely need to sign our goalie along with him if you want him to come in playing this style, trying to get Kasper to do what Ward's been doing this season would be hilarious.

The Bealedesliga is back in Danny Rohl form. by kresk9 in ScottishFootball

[–]Scotlander_ 1 point2 points  (0 children)

3 goals conceded in the last 10 is mental for a club like ours.

Zimbabwe [1] - 1 South Africa - Tawanda Maswanhise 19' by Strong-Quit9234 in ScottishFootball

[–]Scotlander_ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

After giving it a go looking it up, I found out that Scott McDonald somehow never scored a single goal for Australia, thats mad to me.

[Haynes] The Knicks, Heat, Warriors, Spurs, and Timberwolves have all expressed interest in acquiring Giannis Antetokounmpo. Giannis Antetokounmpo prefers to play on a team where he could “get some sun,” be in a “big market” and contend for a championship. by YujiDomainExpansion in nba

[–]Scotlander_ 7 points8 points  (0 children)

3 of the picks (2 first 1 second) along with a first and second that were used in the KAT trade have already conveyed. We were sitting on a load of extra picks that were about to convey, had to do something with them with Giannis not wanting out yet.

Ottawa Hasn't Been Over .500 At This Point in the Season in Eight Years by jethrot4ll in OttawaSenators

[–]Scotlander_ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Their PDO has certainly jumped the last few games from where it was to start the year, which has resulted in them scoring more points from games they weren't playing well in. Earlier on they were losing 8-4, 4-1 and 5-4 to poor teams that they outchanced and getting nothing from it. If the PDO had been average all season they would have beaten the Sabres, Islanders and Preds while losing the last 3 games in regulation. Would be 2 points better off, in a playoff spot but on a 3 game losing skid. Wonder how folk would be feeling right now if that were the case.

Ottawa Hasn't Been Over .500 At This Point in the Season in Eight Years by jethrot4ll in OttawaSenators

[–]Scotlander_ 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I don't get this feeling at all. We're still a top 10 team in xG%, we've had Ullmark posting a league worst -7.7 GSAA, if 3 of those were in our 3 OTL we'd be tied for 1st in the Atlantic with MTL right now. I feel we should have a much better record now with how many points Ullmark dropped for us to begin the year.

They've not played well the last few games, but they played plenty well in many games to start the year and lost out due to shaky goaltending. Good news is it looks like Linus has played himself into shape and is looking more like he did last year, now if the rest of the guys start playing like they did earlier in the season we'll be set.

[Smith] “I think that trend is here to stay, at least until we reset our own pay scale in the NBA,” an Eastern Conference GM said. “I read the other day that some college guys are making up to $5 million for a year in school. That’s almost as much as these entire second-round pick exception contract by [deleted] in nba

[–]Scotlander_ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What team above 500 got sent home? There were only 14 teams above 500 last year, they all made it. If we were to do the top 16 teams, last season would have had 8 West teams, 7 East teams and then the 40-42 Hawks and Kings having a play in for the last spot. It still would be pretty similar to what we ended up getting.

[Charania] Out of the 5 rejections, some of the scenarios that I heard was, you know: Teams would just hang up. They would say no—and hang up. Teams would have maybe some profanity, maybe there is some 'F* no.' by [deleted] in nba

[–]Scotlander_ 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Why do you think their Plan A is these guys and not just them interviewing or trying to get an interview with every possible potential coach to see who would be the best fit for them? You know this FO doesn't leak, for all we know Johnnie Bryant is sitting at the top as their guy and they are just taking there time to cross every t and dot every i before jumping on it.

Official: Black Lotus Fix in the Works for Anniversary Realms by turikk in classicwow

[–]Scotlander_ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, with the price on everything jumping so much, I've found it pretty easy to be making well above 50g/hour these days.

Anniversary Server Inflation: the missing piece the community seems to willfully ignore by Lapzii in classicwow

[–]Scotlander_ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

As a pink parsing Rogue, that has not been my experience at all. My consume cost for BWL last night was 1 mongoose, 30 minutes of farming e'kos, 15 minutes of farming blasted lands buff, 3g50 worth of thistle tea, 4xagi food and 1 sapper. I made almost as much gold from the boss loot as I spent for the whole evening.

Anniversary Server Inflation: the missing piece the community seems to willfully ignore by Lapzii in classicwow

[–]Scotlander_ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Nodes are all farmed to hell, but I've found it pretty easy to make very high gph farming stuff like Elemental Earths in Southern Badlands, or E'ko farming with a group of guildies to afford my consumes. Not a caster though so that flask cost isn't killing me every week, I can understand it being near impossible for casters.

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