“Misdirection”

Any good streams? Traveling in Europe and locked out of the fox broadcast on mobile

Watched a video where the Dev team said this is not part of the game; that this is focused on the Jedi. Presumably because it’s canon and there’s a cohesive storyline to stick to 🤷‍♂️

I would agree with this, there are certainly teams that shouldn’t have done it. To pick on Steve, as much as I respect his views, his posts the last few years have suggested everyone forfeit and build for after this dynasty. I haven’t gone gone back to read any posts but I remember most folks thought them trading for Kawhi would end up a pointless one year rental. They had just fired their coach. Lowry was old. It was laughable compared to what the Celtics and 76ers and maybe the bucks were supposedly building towards.

For the last few years, and especially this summer, people have been saying why bother building a team to contend right now, when GS is a freight train. Id like to commend the Raptors for going all-in, making a ballsy move to win now, and it working. Injuries always happen. You can’t keep kicking the can down the road because there’s a super team nobody can beat. They saw an opportunity, jumped on it, and the injury gods have blessed them with a soon to be championship.

Anybody hear the Leonsis interview? Basically said the arrangement with Ernie was hands off; and that Ted didn't check in with anyone other than Ernie, which he took responsibility for. Said he ran the Wizards different than the Caps, and every other business he has. Wants it to be more collaborative. The interesting thing is people are lambasting him for hiring a GM, and letting him run the show... which is what normal sports teams do. Because it was Ernie, and for so long, it's right to question, but that decision in and of itself is what a respectable organization should do. I hope he simply hires a more competent GM, and checks in a bit more. But to go the Snyder route would be disaster I think. https://www.nbcsports.com/washington/video/ted-leonsis-takes-responsibility-wizards-shortcomings

I don’t get the Arya hate. People complained for several seasons how much time she wasted training to be an assassin. And now that there is some ultimate payoff to her massive sacrifice and immense screen time (and the only character in the show we see actually train for something outside of a 30 second clip) people lose their minds.

I agree that pro day numbers aren't as reliable, but you can only juice them so much.

I can understand lack of strength, but lack of speed, based on these numbers? That's ludicrous. 4.48 = 40-time 6.77 = Three-cone

There are some pretty definite statements in here about how the white walkers are now no longer relevant. We still have 3 episodes to see how the main characters, background characters, and overall citizens of the North/Westeros deal with the aftermath... are we sure theres no price to pay to pay for Cersei sitting this one out? We all seem to think she’ll get her ultimate justice soon.... maybe it’s Jamie/Tyrion; but maybe it’s also her constituents that she detonated that take turns stabbing her Jon snow style....

I thought the absolute hellstorm of missiles was an incredible scene, didn't exactly see that coming. Usually they don't go the obvious 'blow it all up' route in scenarios like that, even though it's the obvious thing to do. (The fact that nobody died, though, was predictable) All dudes say this, but my wife and every other girl I saw in the theater loved that moment... I think it's just something that we can't relate to. It's made for a wide audience, and a 10 second scene like that can have a massive effect on the perception of the marvel universe in the minds of casual fans like my wife and others.

That’s what they said during the panel basically. They created new enemies called “Purge Troopers” that work alongside inquisitors that would stand up better in a fight with jedi. They also said regular storm troopers are expected to die in 1 good hit, and engagements with them are typically when there’s 10-12 in an area to make it challenging. But there aren’t a ton of those types of engagements either

Live look at LeBron

https://www.nba.com/wizards/john-wall-injury-update-2-5-2019 "Washington, D.C. – Wizards guard John Wall will undergo surgery to repair a ruptured left Achilles tendon. The procedure, which has yet to be scheduled, will be performed by Dr. Robert Anderson in Green Bay, WI. Wall is expected to return to full basketball activity in approximately 12 months from the time of the surgery. Wall had developed an infection in the incision from initial surgery on Jan. 8 (a debridement and repair of a Haglund’s deformity and a chronic Achilles tendon injury in his left heel that was also performed by Dr. Anderson) and he suffered the rupture after slipping and falling in his home. The rupture was diagnosed by Wizards Director of Medical Services and Orthopedist Dr. Wiemi Douoguih during a procedure to clean out the infection. Wall averaged 20.7 points, 8.7 assists and 3.6 rebounds in 32 games for the Wizards this season."

Continuity in an offense for a young quarterback might be the most important thing for them. And if your OC made him that much more effective than the guy before... you need to keep that guy for your QB. Kitchens probably isn't the best HC fit for every team, but I think he's right for the Browns right now. In the NFL, you don't have time for a young QB to master yet another scheme, just in time for his contract to expire. You need to strike quickly. He's also not a guy who was in football because his dad or uncle was a coach. He's self-made. Good hire for the Browns, in my opinion.

Gotta have them on weekdays to drive attendance, weekends will be well attended anyway. Player TBA = Bryce Harper or player signed with the money they would have spent on him

Idk about posturing, if it’s false it would basically be an outright lie; what team would want to work with Boras if he constantly did that? i think it’s more likely they put out a good offer they knew would be ‘under-market-value’... signed a bunch of other guys with his money, and acted like they couldn’t spend more on him, so they could say they don’t ‘need’ him. All the while knwoing they they would come back in with a stronger team, and be able to say, “hey we feel we’ve already got a great team with more weapons, and having you back would put us over the top, so we’re willing to up the offer to make it happen. Let’s win a championship” that all plays way better than waiting to see if he’ll re-sign before doing anything else, keeping you hostage with the same team he was just on. hopefully this is a master stroke by the FO; and I don’t sound like an idiot a week from now 😂

None of this is surprising. This is exactly what we thought the beef was last year. There's also a stat on the page that Wall had exactly (1) off-ball cut last year.

Disagree. Ernie Grunfeld might be the only GM in the world with enough job security to actually see those picks through... even if they all turn into half season rentals of Bojan Bogdanivich's future children

I'd reach out to anyone with "Marketing" in their headline under "Business Operations". This page below links to their emails. You could also try via linkedin, or by tweeting/DMing the Wizards or Monumental Sports social media accounts, as the people that run those are the same guys. https://www.nba.com/wizards/wizardsdirectoryhtml

Not a Galdi fan. Don’t like his voice, the subject matter, anything really... it all just feels so forced. Never thought I’d long for Kevin sheehan lol.

Chris Haynes‏Verified account @ChrisBHaynes 11m11 minutes ago Milwaukee and Washington are in advanced stages on a trade in which the Bucks would receive a player and a future pick, league sources tell Yahoo Sports. In a separate move, Tim Frazier will be waived. https://twitter.com/ChrisBHaynes/status/1051928219719413760

Jimmy Butler requesting a trade https://twitter.com/SLAMonline/status/1042477282437283841

RIP MGK https://twitter.com/Eminem/status/1040673588502773761