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Post by screamingtreefrogs on May 14, 2023 13:23:42 GMT
Oh sh*t... Word just dropped that #1 James Harden Hater - The Fixer - Scott Foster is reffing today's game.....
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Post by screamingtreefrogs on May 14, 2023 9:07:14 GMT
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Post by screamingtreefrogs on May 14, 2023 8:55:30 GMT
Line opened at -7.5 Celts at a few books
7 at others
Most have it as -6.5 Celts now.....
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Post by screamingtreefrogs on May 14, 2023 8:52:50 GMT
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Post by screamingtreefrogs on May 13, 2023 22:20:34 GMT
Holy Sh*t! Per NFL Insider Ian Rapoport - 'While leading the #Eagles to the Super Bowl… Jalen Hurts quietly was getting his Masters. 🤯'What an inspiration and leader - what a man!
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Post by screamingtreefrogs on May 13, 2023 21:18:37 GMT
As far as Jo-Jo for the #1 Pick - The lottery is pretty much here - May 16th Let's say for instance a team like the Mavs wins the lottery Can you imagine Luka with Embiid (who knows if Kyrie is back)? That team right there is a title contender! Mark Cuban would salivate at the thought of pairing Luka/Embiid Luka/Wemba for 'potential' or Luka/Embiid for titles for the next 3 years? It's a wild NBA today folks - anything can happen (point is pretty much moot anyway - we're winning the title this year)All of these hypotheticals involve Embiid demanding a trade...because they lost in the conference Semis. Why would it be a guaranteed title wherever he went next? If I were you, I'd spend more time thinking about winning game 7 and preparing for a potential matchup with Miami. Weird how your fantasies start off with your team losing. My team isn't losing We're winning I'm saying 'What if' Luka/Jo-Jo = NBA Finals Dame/Jo-Jo = Dame is happy and Portland is at least a deep threat again Beal/Jo-Jo = Washington is Top 4 in the East Derozan/LaVine/Jo-Jo = Bulls are Top 3 or so in the East Zion/Ingram/CJ/Jo-Jo = NBA Finals Giddey/Shai/Jo-Jo = Top 4 in the West
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Post by screamingtreefrogs on May 13, 2023 21:16:23 GMT
Know what I loved about Game 6? We have the lead - and a 'Clear Path Foul' is called on Maxey We send Jo-Jo to the line and he sinks 2 and we get the ball back But wait a second! Like 5 minutes later the refs decide we can 'Go Back To The Future' and wipe off our 2 points - because it should have been Maxey shooting the free throws all along! Now Maxey sunk em - BUT...BUT - there was like a 15 minute break and it suck out all the air in the building completely killing our momentum! Just imagine if they did that in football. 5 minutes later - Hey wait a second! That wasn't a TD! He actually did step out of bounds! We're taking 7 points off the board after a 15 minute discussion! Absurb! Killed all of our momentum and we were a completely different team after.......... I also hate that they do that in games now, changing a call after the fact. Like when they decide a three was actually two like seven minutes later. Not the first time that's happened. But Maxey made both, not sure how this affected the game. Definitely wasn't the reason we lost We had our fair share of opportunities to extend the lead - played hero ball and shot horrifically Stat came out Jo-Jo didn't touch the ball in like the final 5 minutes or so and a lot of blame was being placed on the rest of team and particularly Harden for not getting him the ball. Jo needs to take a share of the blame. You're the MVP. Be an Alpha. Think LeBron or MJ wouldn't touch the ball in the last 5 minutes of a closeout close playoff game? Demand the ball. Be that guy. Put the team on your back - be the MVP and make sure you close it out But - after that call (stoppage after the Clear Path Foul) - it was just odd to me the momentum did shift so much. Definitely not why we lost though - fair share of opportunities
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Post by screamingtreefrogs on May 13, 2023 19:39:02 GMT
Just to piggyback that moot point above -
Or a team like Portland wins the lottery
Dame is getting older. Portland wants to win now.
Portland wins the lottery they may not have patience for Wemba
Pairing Dame with Jo-Jo is intriguing
Same could be said for Beal and Washington
LaVine, Derozan and the Bulls - the list goes on and on - Jo-Jo pretty much makes anyone an instant title contender.....
** Edit - Or a team like OKC wins the lottery. Imagine pairing Jo-Jo with Shai and Giddey - title contender
Or a team like the Pels - let's say Zion is healthy. Zion, Ingram, CJ and Jo-Jo? You can't beat that team.....
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Post by screamingtreefrogs on May 13, 2023 19:34:39 GMT
As far as Jo-Jo for the #1 Pick -
The lottery is pretty much here - May 16th
Let's say for instance a team like the Mavs wins the lottery
Can you imagine Luka with Embiid (who knows if Kyrie is back)?
That team right there is a title contender!
Mark Cuban would salivate at the thought of pairing Luka/Embiid
Luka/Wemba for 'potential' or Luka/Embiid for titles for the next 3 years?
It's a wild NBA today folks - anything can happen
(point is pretty much moot anyway - we're winning the title this year)
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Post by screamingtreefrogs on May 13, 2023 18:58:47 GMT
.....I'm just sayin' keep an eye on the refs... But I digress... ..just sayin'.....
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Post by screamingtreefrogs on May 13, 2023 18:55:07 GMT
Know what I loved about Game 6? We have the lead - and a 'Clear Path Foul' is called on Maxey We send Jo-Jo to the line and he sinks 2 and we get the ball back But wait a second! Like 5 minutes later the refs decide we can 'Go Back To The Future' and wipe off our 2 points - because it should have been Maxey shooting the free throws all along! Now Maxey sunk em - BUT...BUT - there was like a 15 minute break and it suck out all the air in the building completely killing our momentum! Just imagine if they did that in football. 5 minutes later - Hey wait a second! That wasn't a TD! He actually did step out of bounds! We're taking 7 points off the board after a 15 minute discussion! Absurb! Killed all of our momentum and we were a completely different team after..........
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Post by screamingtreefrogs on May 13, 2023 16:27:41 GMT
One thing to keep a very close eye tomorrow folks -
If the refs are swallowing their whistles and James (and Jo-Jo) isn't getting any calls
1:16 of this clip - The Beard states the refs even told him at halftime of Game 6 that they missed some calls
It's aggravating as a fan watching him get hacked by 3 defenders when driving to the rim and there's no call. But it is what it is. NBA stated they were going to keep an eye on 'foul hunting' a long time ago now. Lot's of fans/refs look at it as James is using his body to create a foul / create contact. If he's not getting the calls early - got to play smarter and not keep driving and getting hacked to no avail.
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Post by screamingtreefrogs on May 13, 2023 16:11:28 GMT
French Open rapidly approaching. (May 22nd - June 11th) Kickoff to summer right around the corner The Tennis Channel - another clay court tourney on right now in preparation for The French 2023 Internazionali BNL d'Italia Tennis: ATP Second Round, WTA Third Round Coming up - 12 Tiafoe Altmaier American Wolf upsets #14 Hurkacz Women's side - #5 Garcia just got bounced ** Edit - 6th seeded Coco Gauff is coming up at 1 too. Curious if we'll get Tiafoe or Coco on The Tennis Channel
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Post by screamingtreefrogs on May 13, 2023 15:45:31 GMT
No hoops today Next game - Sixers @ Celts Game 7 3:30pm I'm on pins and needles and on the edge of my seat even a day prior. Even if you're not a hoops fan - doesn't get any better than this. A game 7. Loser goes home. Winner advances to the ECF. Could it be Doc's last game coached here? Harden's last game as a Sixer? Would Jo-Jo demand a trade in the offseason and would we dare contemplate trading him for the #1 pick (Wemba) and assets and build around Wemba and Maxey? Morey's fate if/when Harden walks? So much riding on this. I'm going to say the above is pretty irrelevant and we play our best ball of the playoffs - Jo-Jo - 42 points / 19 rebounds The Beard - 28 points / 13 assists / 10 rebounds Mad Maxey - 24 points And we get valuable contributions from Tobie, D-Melt, Bang-Bang Niang, BBall Paul and Peej Sixers - 132 Celts - 120
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Post by screamingtreefrogs on May 13, 2023 13:59:03 GMT
I think Sean Connery had other intentions and an ulterior motive....
I think he was 'helping' McLeod so he could learn his skillset and then use it against him and strike when the time was right.........
He was quite a shady character
Why did he tell the Kurgan Heather was his? To protect McLeod? Or hurt McLeod? You'd have to think after the Kurgan disposed of Connery - he'd go after Heather.....and Connery knew this....
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Post by screamingtreefrogs on May 13, 2023 13:43:38 GMT
** SPOILERS **! . . . . Why did Sean Connery help McLeod? I mean - let's say they were the last 2 immortals. Wouldn't they have to face off since there could only be 1?
Did he put his ego aside and the main goal was just to stop the Kurgan?
I like movies to make sense folks....
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Post by screamingtreefrogs on May 13, 2023 12:17:18 GMT
Is the charm of this movie supposed to be - 'It's so bad it's good'? Am I supposed to be laughing? I don't think I'm supposed to but I am. Half hour in. So the main character tries to pick this chick up at the bar and she shoots him down. Leaving the bar - she's distraught like he's her significant other as he's getting his a$$ handed to him in a fight as a New York City Chopper just appears out of nowhere ** Edit - By God - the Queen Ballads. Was never a big Queen fan - but it just adds to the cheese factor
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Post by screamingtreefrogs on May 13, 2023 11:39:28 GMT
Alright... Let's give it a go... Free via Crackle, Freevee, Prime, Xumo and Plex- Highlander! (1986) - 'A New Yorker beheads a swordsman, continuing a battle of immortals.' I notice there's a TV series free too I never heard of from '92-'98 (where was I?) free via Peacock, Pluto, Tubi and Freevee Let's Do It!
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Post by screamingtreefrogs on May 13, 2023 11:21:32 GMT
I think Gladiator 2 focuses on Young Lucius - Commodus' nephew Hope there's a great character arc Like Louie turns out to be evil like his uncle - only to find his way in the end and become more like Maximus I don't know if it's the same as the 'heaven plot' you mentioned, but Nick Cave wrote a script about 15 years ago or so. I haven't read it myself, but I've heard him talk about it. He had become friends with Russel Crowe and apparently Russel Crowe was supposed to have been in The Proposition (I imagine him in the Danny Houston role), and he'd loved Cave's script for that film. So he asked him to write a sequel to Gladiator and just told him to figure out how to make it make sense to have a sequel about a character who'd died in the first film. So he wrote an intentionally wild script more or less because he knew it was never going to be made. He titled it Christ-Killer and the story was about Maximus ascending to a purgatory like afterlife (your fave) where he would be tasked with returning to earth and killing a Christ-like figure whose religious following posed a threat to the gods. Supposedly the script ended with a sequence of Maximus being something like a God of War who returned to all the major conflicts throughout history from the Crusades up through the Vietnam War. Crazy. He wrote it to be intentionally out there and Russell Crowe didn't like it, and obviously the studio would never have considered it (it's worth noting though that Ridley Scott called it a 'good idea and a good script). I think it's available online somewhere. I'd like to like to give a read sometime. It's a curiosity, and Cave is such a gifted writer. I'm sure whatever they're making now will be much more conventional and ordinary. That sounds like it could have been the greatest movie of All-Time Loved The Proposition. Great scenery, plot, imagery and soundtrack
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Post by screamingtreefrogs on May 13, 2023 11:18:37 GMT
Is this it? Haven't seen it.... I'm surprised. Right up your alley. Kind of looks like Army of Darkness to me I used to disdain Army of Darkness with every fiber of my being Over the years my distaste for it has worn off a bit - think I was disappointed they went full 3 Stooges (although I read that was Rami's intent) - still think it's the weakest of the 3.... Still have yet to see the new Evil Dead - waiting for it to become free on my package
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