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Legendary KD game tonight. Played every minute and had 49 points on 16-23 shooting, 17 reb and 10 ast. That being said, huge choke job by Milwaukee. Harden clearly wasn’t himself (1-10 shooting including 0-8 from 3) since he only took 2 shots from inside the arc. Milwaukee led by double figures but couldn’t put them away. Giannis desperately needs a post game. There was a possession late where he got the ball in the post with Harden guarding him and he settled for a fadeaway turnaround jumper. There’s no reason he shouldn’t be able to get a layup or dunk there. He’s trying to force becoming a three point shooter and I think we’ve got enough evidence that’s not going to happen. So do the next best thing and learn to destroy dudes inside in the post.

Holy horsefeathers that was dumb.

So if removing the super sticky stuff will lead to an uptick in UCL injuries, we should have seen a downturn in UCL injuries the past few years. Not buying it. Sounds like a pitcher who is angry at what’s probably pure coincidence.

Well this inning is going well.

KB leaves the game after getting hit on the hand so that’s great.

I wonder why they didn’t just do what basketball reference does with the ABA stats where they have a combined column, an NBA only column and an ABA only column.

I wouldn't say more of the regular season is meaningless, it's just a different portion that matters. Instead of competing for a top-4 spot, they're competing for a top-12 spot. The top 8ish teams will be locked in so the games largely won't matter as much to them. And personally, I'd prefer to reward perfection. Of course Illini fans didn't think that game didn't matter. They're a fan of the team. Just like it mattered to Michigan fans. I'm not a Michigan fan and I'm not an Illinois fan. I didn't watch a second of that game and if you had asked me to guess the result of that game just now, I couldn't have told you. So for the national audience, no, that game didn't matter at all as far as the National Title picture goes or even making the tournament. And considering Illinois still got a 1 seed, it didn't really matter at all when it came to seeding either. 30% is an exaggeration. Games between highly ranked teams won't matter anymore because they're both getting in. You're not adding many games that matter, you're just shifting which ones matter. The kick-6 years ago mattered because it ended Alabama's season. In this format they still get in (I think that was before the playoff and I think Bama would have been top-4 but whatever). All of a sudden, that 10-0 vs 9-1 matchup isn't the one that matters, it's 8-2 vs. 8-2. I get that having a bye on the line matters, but it doesn't matter as much as having your season ended. 5 of the last 10 SEC title games featured two teams in the top-6 (by the AP Poll). Those games no longer really matter. Florida finished 7th in the CFP rankings so that doesn't matter either. Go back a couple years further and you can add the two Bama-Florida games right when Saban started. In the Big 10, 2015, 2016, 2017 and 2018 wouldn't matter because both teams are getting in. 2014, 2018 and 2020 would only have mattered to OSU so they could get a bye, but their season isn't over if they lose. We're coming at this from different perspectives, I think. You have a dog in the fight since you're a Michigan fan so you want your team to have a better chance of getting in. Completely understandable. I don't have an FBS team though. I like it because it's different. I like that the title games always feature two great teams. I like that there isn't an 8-4 team that wins it because they got hot for a month.

I always liked the uniqueness of college football. I liked that, outside of that one LSU year, you couldn’t go 10-2 and win the title. I liked that it made every game mean something because you never know if one loss will knock you out. Last year, where’s my incentive to watch the SEC, ACC and Big 12 title games knowing both teams are in the playoff regardless? Or the Big 10 where OSU is in regardless? Sure, Bama would be the 1 with a bye if they win and the 5 or 6 if they don’t. Same goes some late regular season games. But they’re not out of the playoff. I don’t need to potentially see two SEC teams play three times in a season. I don’t need 4 or 5 SEC teams in the playoff every year. I don’t need to potentially see rematches of conference title games a week or two later. I’ll watch the playoff games because they’re playoff games and I’m a sports fan. But how much of the regular season I watch and care about will drop dramatically. I love March Madness but I barely watch any regular season college hoops. What’s the point? That’s what college football will turn into because if you think they’re going to stop at 12 you’re crazy. They’ll see how much more money they’ll make with 12 than they made with 4 and it will be 16 or 24 in no time.

Any team that hangs a CFP participant banner is going to be relentlessly mocked. And I have serious doubts any recruit is going to be more likely choose BC (you can change the school name, I just used it because of the article you posted) because they finished #12 and got bounced by the 5 seed. Or even won that game and then got blasted by Bama/Clemson/OSU in the QFs.

I don't care if they are good. They aren't winning the World Series good and if you aren't going to sign Baez or Bryant or Rizzo, trade them all with Kimbrel before July 1. There is good regular season baseball and there is good playoff baseball. Just like when the Cubs beat up on the Mets in 2015 and got hammered in the playoffs because the Mets have better starting pitching. I thought we’ve all learned this isn’t a thing. Didn’t we all learn it wasn’t a thing like 15 years ago? Make the playoffs and take a spin on the Playoff Roulette wheel. Yep. We might have much worse chances than the Dodgers or Padres but if you can get in, you have a chance to get hot for 4 weeks and win it all. The 2014 Royals had pretty poor starting pitching but rode the Holland/Davis/Herrera trio and were a legendary Bumgarner performance away from winning the WS. Plus, in all likelihood, we’d only have to beat one of the Dodgers/Padres in the playoffs since they’ll likely be the 1 seed and a WC team. Just like the Mets got lucky in 2015 only having to face one of the NL Central teams.

Yeah, I don’t like leaving Davies in here.

That’s good they gave them the option. I suppose if the players wanted to play then you let them play. It’s obviously a different situation from PSG where they didn’t have alternative refs in the stadium so they couldn’t play.

Really wish we could have tacked on a couple more in the 2nd.

48 in the inning.

Hendricks swinging on 3-1 was incredibly dumb. Gant is trying to walk the entire team. I would have take two betting he’d throw one for a ball and if you strike out, oh well. EDIT: And he walked on 3-2 anyway.

Happ Dong

the story is Eriksen called his teammates and asked them to play. Not sure that means they should have. Physically, it would be tough to gear back up tomorrow I think. I do have to say Schmeichel saves that goal 96 out of 100 times . . . That’s true that it could have been tough to play the next day, though PSG (and their opponent) did it in the UCL this year. It’s a tough situation for sure. I wonder if UEFA even gave them the option of playing the next day.

I can’t believe they actually finished the match today. I know it’s a tournament so you can’t wait a week but play it tomorrow. Finland doesn’t play until Wednesday and Denmark not until Thursday so going Sunday and Wednesday is something teams do all the time in the club game. And if Finland says they want the extra day, move the game to Thursday also. Sorry to the broadcasters if it messes up their precious TV schedule but a dude could have died today. Give the players the night to mentally recover.

Holy horsefeathers that’s scary. Same thing that happened to an opposing player against Spurs in an FA Cup game a decade ago. I saw that one live.

Seriously. If he said that in January, it would be way more understandable. But if you don’t think it’s safe at this point, you never will.

Rizzo would have homered 5 pitches earlier if he’d gotten vaccinated.

You’ll be more interested for one season until a 9-3 Michigan team gets blasted 55-10 by Alabama/Clemson/OSU in the quarters. Is this really going to distribute the talent better? If a 2nd/3rd SEC/Big 10/Big 12/Pac 12 school in the playoff going to lead them to get better players if they just lose before making the semis 9 times out of 10?

[tweet] [/tweet] 12 teams is dumb. 8 teams is dumb. Anything that guarantees a spot to a conference champ regardless of their record is dumb. Making unpaid players play more games is dumb. About the only good thing is that it guarantees a non-Power 5 school will get a shot but the negatives far outweigh the positives. This was always inevitable because of money but that doesn't make me dislike it any less.

Chapman came in with a 2-run lead in the 9th tonight and proceeded to go Single Homer Single Homer You hate to see it.

Holy hell that lineup is awful.