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LeBron is one of the best passers and one of the best scorers of all time. Not having the ball in his hands a bunch with a 24 second shot clock would be stupid. The NBA is just a different game and the guys with the ball in their hands a bunch on good teams are typically incredible playmakers...

Sallis was great last year but if he can’t handle the ball and distribute it at a semi-elite level, he is going to struggle to get a bunch of NBA run. Or, said another way, if he had showcased such skills this year he would be a potential lottery pick. If he showcases them next year, along...

If Sallis comes back the ball needs to be in his hands a ton, both for him and for Wake. Boopie just didn’t pass well or often enough, and while he was a good scorer, he was not a scorer on the level of Sallis. But Sallis often deferred, to his/our detriment, inflating Boopie’s PPG. Not...

I’ll be surprised if Nuggets or Celtics lose more than 4 games before the Finals. Barring injury. West is much tougher but Nuggets are clearly the best team. Assuming they meet in the Finals it should be a good one and Celtics’ 3 point percentage probably decides it. They will have to light it...

Have always wondered why we are supposed to believe that steroids and other performance enhancing drugs weren’t prevalent in NBA at the same time they were prevalent in MLB. The way the average body-type changed from 1984 to 1998 was just remarkable. But a lot of it was bulk to play a physical...

Clips also got Leonard as a result. Injuries have hurt the intended result, but not close to worse trade ever status - either at the time or in hindsight.

Couldn’t we just “get rid” of scholarships for the revenue sports? Have the athletes pay for school with NIL-funded money. Seems like that helps with Title IX compliance issues and saves school money that can still be used for non-revenue scholarships as deemed appropriate. Makes no sense to...

Assuming the ACC is still a thing, and the NIL and transfer rules don’t change, I’ll be shocked if SMU doesn’t win a conference championship in either football or basketball by 2029. I’d bet it is more likely they win at least one in both sports than that they win in neither.

Hope only schools that beat ACC teams are ACC team. Fuck these other conferences. I’ve never pulled for UNC in a single game in any sport ever, and thankfully I am going to bed soon so I won’t have to actively do so tonight, but I hope they beat Bama by 60 points.

But can we stay “good” (which you acknowledge is really “middle of the road during the average season of our best run, ever”) in football in the Wild West of NIL? That is the point I’m making.

You do understand what the phrase “average football season” means, correct? Agreed, if we were playing for ACC Championship annually, or even every couple of years, we should go all in. But we did that twice in the 20 year run. The AVERAGE season during that run was very similar to this year’s...

The “great success” of our average football season during this unprecedented run is basically the equivalent of this year’s men’s bb “success” - middle of the road for a P5 school. It just feels differently because we sucked so badly for so long in football. If that is the goal, keep...

The thing that seems most obvious now is that Wake needs to choose to focus the vast majority of its resources on basketball over football if it hopes to really win and/or stay relevant in either revenue sport. Totally fine by me. Football had a historically/relatively great run for nearly 20...

This is an example of the biggest issue(s) with Forbes. He gives an incredibly long leash to “his guys” and gives the other guys no run at all. There is no way that makes for a truly intense practice, which then doesn’t physically challenge the starters and doesn’t encourage the bench to get...

Forbes needs to recruit some tall athletic glue guys who don’t really look for their shots but will push, jump over the back, get a rebound, dive on floor, dunk, and get the occasional flagrant foul. If Reid is gonna be in foul trouble all the time he needs to do a little Karl Malone-on-Isaiah...

Clemson and FSU could probably settle today and pay $250-300M each, but at this point everything to do with the future of the ACC hinges on UNC. If the goats decide to bolt, the exit fees likely go down dramatically and it’s over either way. The best thing going for us is the fact that UNC...

Storm It!!!

Oh god.

Thank god Boopie took it out.