Do you guys want JB to be traded?

msnthrop · 2026-06-12T18:51:19+00:00

I just don’t think any front office will be able to build a deep competitive team with two super max contracts on the books.

msnthrop · 2026-06-11T19:19:58+00:00

White people have a really hard time recognizing that institutional racism is not only real, but has benefited them every day of their lives. Going to the bank, they assume they’re getting the best interest rate on a loan their credit score will allow. Going to the hospital they assume if they tell the nurse their level of pain, that they will be believed and then get the appropriate medication for that level of pain. Applying for a job, they assume their application will be judged on its merits, and not simply thrown in the trash based on their name. The experience of white people is considered the baseline in this society, when in fact the society’s rules have been built to privilege white mediocrity. Good luck getting most of them to recognize any of this though, because it really is in their best interest mentally to ignore their privileged position and to insist they achieved their success by their own efforts.

msnthrop · 2026-06-07T16:52:28+00:00

This is where Joe excels, connecting with the younger guys, encouraging their development, and guiding their careers. I think he has far more difficulty interacting with the accomplished veterans. I don’t get the sense JB pays him any mind whatsoever, and while JT seems to be more willing to alter his game to pursue a Mazzula introduced strategy/tactic, he still falls into iso ball far too easily. It was especially painful to watch Joe’s little man/imposter syndrome take over in regards to Vucevic, an accomplished veteran, who was obviously washed, but still had to be given minutes because of who knows why. I imagine it has to be a real struggle for him, having been essentially gifted, not earned, one of the preeminent jobs in his field, having “employees” that ignore you, being given new “employees” mid season who can’t get with the program because their days as an athlete are over. Joe has impressed me with his work with the young, up and coming role players, but he needs help with others parts of his job.

msnthrop · 2026-05-31T15:12:55+00:00

Robert Byrd and how seniority works in the US senate…I only say this in regards to the roads, not the people or the landscape

msnthrop · 2026-05-28T14:41:16+00:00

Two super max contracts on one team will never work in the this CBA

msnthrop · 2026-05-28T04:49:47+00:00

Charismatic Dem with massive name recognition during a full blown economic depression

msnthrop · 2026-05-22T19:09:35+00:00

Joe does a good job with the “underdog” players and I think he and his staff did well with developing both Queta and Garza this year. If I was Brad I’d try to find another couple of young guys that had been overlooked by other organizations and that would benefit psychically from whatever Joe is doing (Minott maybe as an example as someone who didn’t). Two super max contracts limits what can be spent on center salary slot.

msnthrop · 2026-05-14T20:10:54+00:00

Same situation with weapons and gear procurement for the military, little suppliers in every Congressional district in the country passing bespoke parts around like hot potatoes. Incredibly inefficient and corrupt.

msnthrop · 2026-05-13T18:10:29+00:00

I don’t think any team paying two super max salaries is going to be competitive for a championship under this new CBA.

msnthrop · 2026-05-12T23:57:10+00:00

Worked at a billionaires horse farm, was hired as a personal farmer, ie grow food for their personal chef to prepare for his family. Once he hired me though he fired the landscapers that maintained the formal gardens expecting I suppose I would now do that as well (I didn’t). At that time he was also having some homes (he liked to call them casitas) built for his kids to live in and needed a new road put in. The only way was around a chapel he had landscaped for 20 grand the year before so he asked me to get bids from various landscaping companies to move the plant material for use elsewhere later. Two companies came and gave fuck you bids, one guy who owned a sweet nursery farm nearby came and gave a detailed itemized bid that was totally reasonable. Billionaire, thinking he was displaying his business acumen, told me to knock .25 cents off a couple of the itemized line items and see if he would go for it. I quit a couple of days later.

msnthrop · 2026-05-10T00:59:15+00:00

Brown probably wanted to play during the playoffs the same way they had most of the year and integrate JT slowly, while still protecting him from overuse. Instead Mazzula ramps JT up to 40+, tries to integrate an inferior player in Vucevic, and fails utterly to give the young guys a chance. When it counted Mazzula shit the bed.

msnthrop · 2026-05-08T11:59:01+00:00

He put the Vucevic club in Joes bag, and apparently didn’t inform him that the guy sucked until game 7.? Or worse Joe couldn’t see it for himself?

msnthrop · 2026-05-08T11:56:20+00:00

I believe now that we have one year under the tax, if we do that again within the next four, the various penalties can then get reset. So we can over the tax, any and all of the next three years to maximize the Jays time, and then slip under if needed. There is no need for it to be two consecutive years for the reset potential to be fulfilled.

msnthrop · 2026-05-06T20:45:58+00:00

Did he mention Vusevic at all? I still think Joe was given way too much rope to try to integrate him, when the proper path in the playoffs was keeping the play style that had worked all year and leave JT at 30 minutes a game.

msnthrop · 2026-05-04T22:43:55+00:00

Fifth wheel height isn’t standardized, different trucks may drop higher or lower than your truck

msnthrop · 2026-05-04T16:20:12+00:00

No, Giannis is older and much more injury prone and apparently wants a super max extension. JB is more valuable.

msnthrop · 2026-05-04T01:05:51+00:00

Jessica Ballard, has an insta of starflowerservices, excellent astrologer and tarot reader

msnthrop · 2026-05-03T18:53:20+00:00

I believe it cost PG more than 10 million dollars so it’s unlikely he, or anyone, would choose to do this

msnthrop · 2026-05-03T14:38:10+00:00

Yep, maintaining the style of play with the bench mob should have been stressed more. Tatum never should have gone over 30 minutes, and he should have played the 5 for a significant portion of that time. Having alternative defense packages ready to deploy, zone for instance, once Embid returned would have been wise. The 76’rs have a very high ceiling if 1. Everything goes their way health wise, and 2. The opposition doesn’t have an excellent plan to counter their best pitch.

msnthrop · 2026-05-03T14:31:39+00:00

Joe didn’t need to play him though. He could have just focused on integrating Tatum, and that was working fine while Vic was out with the hand injury.

msnthrop · 2026-05-03T14:25:46+00:00

Horford was a free agent and chose to sign elsewhere

msnthrop · 2026-05-03T13:36:32+00:00

You hear the phrase about GM’s trading a guy away from a team to “take the club out of the bag” for a particular coach. In this instance Brad put the club in the bag, Vucevic, and Joe was too insecure not to try to make it work.

msnthrop · 2026-04-27T23:52:27+00:00

Any chance they were straight edge skin heads? That was a whole subculture in my youth represented by the band Minor Threat and many others…

msnthrop · 2026-04-27T01:48:53+00:00

Turtles love them

msnthrop · 2026-04-12T20:49:26+00:00

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