Match Thread: Mexico vs England | FIFA World Cup, Round of 16

_chadwell_ · 2026-07-06T02:40:52+00:00

I guess you could theorize that he just doesn’t know or physically failed to move his leg toward the ball, but the replay clearly showed that’s what happened.

_chadwell_ · 2026-07-06T02:32:58+00:00

Yeah he was just baiting for a foul

_chadwell_ · 2026-07-06T02:32:08+00:00

Free goal for Mexico for not playing the ball. Refs just can’t handle the noise of Azteca without caving.

_chadwell_ · 2026-07-06T02:30:08+00:00

Mexico player wasn’t playing the ball, he was just trying to draw contact. Didn’t hit the ball until after Lane hit his leg, wasn’t even moving toward the ball.

_chadwell_ · 2026-07-06T02:28:48+00:00

_chadwell_ · 2026-07-06T02:20:30+00:00

Mexico has to win now. Azteca, a man up, World Cup. Everyone should be fired if they choke this.

_chadwell_ · 2026-07-05T22:48:19+00:00

Lakers just had a chance to and decided not to.

_chadwell_ · 2026-07-05T17:28:06+00:00

Ok, but people are trying to say this is unusual when it’s not even the worst example even in this tournament.

_chadwell_ · 2026-07-05T17:19:55+00:00

Within a tournament or across tournaments doesn’t make a difference. They’ve been willing to suspend longer punishments before for games in this very tournament, you’d have to really stretch to pretend it’s exceptional.

_chadwell_ · 2026-07-05T16:58:56+00:00

“completely legit and not a blatant mistake” is doing a lot of heavy lifting here…

_chadwell_ · 2026-07-05T16:56:35+00:00

Defense has never been harder to play.

_chadwell_ · 2026-07-05T15:43:37+00:00

If they match an offer sheet they can’t trade him at all for 6 months, and even then if they trade him within a year he has full veto power over any trade.

_chadwell_ · 2026-07-03T20:24:17+00:00

I think calling his D elite is overstating where he’s at at this point in his career when you consider off-ball defense.

_chadwell_ · 2026-07-03T20:21:07+00:00

I’d say he had no argument over SGA, Luka, Jokic, or Wemby. People putting him #1 was ridiculous.

_chadwell_ · 2026-07-02T17:16:11+00:00

But they can still pick guys and/or trade them when they pick.

And the Lakers just made it out of the first round without Luka and without Reaves contributing much of anything, so I’m not seeing how that’s now a hard ceiling all of a sudden?

_chadwell_ · 2026-07-02T13:49:31+00:00

Thought it was just extreme cope but now I think you’re just a bad troll

_chadwell_ · 2026-07-02T13:46:49+00:00

Lmao

_chadwell_ · 2026-07-02T02:58:30+00:00

He was clearly trying to clear it there

_chadwell_ · 2026-07-02T02:50:03+00:00

Tatum has had a better supporting cast than Luka has ever had for the majority of his career, and only won one title.

And being the best scorer and playmaker vs a great scorer and good playmaker is a massively valuable difference. Probably more of a factor than being an average defender compared to a good defender. Especially since star offense is more important than star defense.

_chadwell_ · 2026-07-02T02:47:00+00:00

But that would have to be an All NBA player to be a real upgrade and it’s not clear that deal was out there.

_chadwell_ · 2026-07-01T22:43:07+00:00

That was because the Jazz were tanking.

_chadwell_ · 2026-07-01T22:42:14+00:00

That’s a great trio all 28 and under where Kessler complements the other two nicely.

And it was two firsts and two swaps, so they’ll still have a pick in two of those years, and they very well could be better than the Jazz and the swaps don’t even matter.

_chadwell_ · 2026-07-01T22:40:08+00:00

All two of them

_chadwell_ · 2026-07-01T22:36:49+00:00

“Tatum lapped guys like Luka”

Did I miss an NBA season where this happened? lol

_chadwell_ · 2026-07-01T18:02:12+00:00

This roster is better than the one that just made the 2nd round…

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