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*Updated Lester 0 Champeens Liverpool 1. All that needs happen for Arsenal to snag the title is to win their last five games and for Livers to lose three (they've lost two all season) and draw two.🙄
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Today is the 15th anniversary of the Deepeager Horizon explosion which birthed one
of the iconic photos of modernity.
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Since Pelle got hurt (he's mended and was available last night but got a DNPCD), that has been Erik Spoelstra's starting five and rotation: Davion never starting, being the last rotation player inserted, yet playing starter's minutes. Such are the ways of Spo and who am I? However, you would have to search awhile to find a starter who was yanked after only 11' who had not gotten injured. Talking Alec Burks. Alec played fewer mins than the 8th guy in, Kyle Anderson. He played just-to-get-your-jersey-wet mins while seven other guys played more: fellow starters Kel'el 2x as many, Bam and Tyler 4x, and Davion, the last guy off the pine, 3.6x, 29 minutes more.
This was not a one game aberration. In 🌬️, Burks, starting again, played only 17', scoring only tyoo points; Davion as the tenth man, played 33 and had 15 points and 9 assists.
There are some players who thrive in a sixth man role. They get to read the game before coming in. Maybe Davion is one of those players, but he's not the sixth man, he's the ninth, or tenth, man. It is just illogical to have the 9th guy play 40'! I have called previously for Davion to start. Now a fanzine has weighed in: Spoelstra's most baffling call. It is baffling. Let me flip it: Davion played 40 of a possible 53' last night. You cannot reasonably want Spo to play him more minutes. So what do we care when Davion comes into the game? Let's move on.
Every time I woke up last night I had been dreaming of a USMLE flashcard and couldn't get the right answer.
Ben, don't you think they should build a statue to Davion Mitchell?
I DO think they should build a statue, yes. I hope also that the County Commission of Miami Davion County meets in emergency session to declare April 18 Davion Mitchell Day a holiday on which work is strictly prohibited. I also think that the County should pass a related ordinance that every resident should be named Davion Mitchell on every April 18.
Andrew Wiggins and Tyler Herro came pretty close to 3Ws: Drew: 20, 8, 8, but 4 t.o.s. Tyler 30 to lead all scorers, 8 rebs, 7 asts, but also 4 t.o.s.
Bam had 17, 11, and 5 blocks.
The "Heat" five in mins played:
Bam/Tyler 44
Drew 43
Davion and Hi-Ho 40. Davion had 16, 3, and 5; Hi-Ho 12 pts and 10 boards.
No rest for the weary! Sunday 7 pm in Cleveland.
On that play Young went under a screen—or at least he would have if he had been close enough for Tyler Herro to try to screen. Young simply settled in the paint as Mitchell shot the ball. As Young turned, Mitchell chased his miss, grabbed the rebound and ended up getting another wide-open look a few seconds later to the ice the game as Trae Young walked back into the lane.
Pretty much everyone who captures videos from NBA games posted the clip. All pointed out Mitchell's hustle. Many pointed out Young's lack of effort.
You could see this coming from a mile away. Trae Young and Davion Mitchell yelled at each other a couple possessions earlier. Young dares him to shoot the first one and thinks he won the battle when Mitchell missed. As soon as Mitchell broke for the ball, you knew he had it. https://t.co/mLpxIQIMxX
— Andy Bailey (@AndrewDBailey) April 19, 2025
Trae Young just stood there and let Davion Mitchell snatch that rebound pic.twitter.com/IPGXJ3NgWc
— Tedd Buddwell 🏀🏈 (@TedBuddy8) April 19, 2025
This type of defensive effort from Trae Young is CRAZY with the season on the line.
Doesn’t even try to contest the wide open three, then gets the rebound ripped out of his hands by the SHOOTER 🤯 pic.twitter.com/JacFPW40S6
— KnicksMuse (@KnicksMuse) April 19, 2025
Davion Mitchell just snatched Trae Young’s chain 😭😭 pic.twitter.com/clGg6bIMGh
— BricksCenter (@BricksCenter) April 19, 2025
Tyler missed the back end of two fts. Tres Young made the tying bucket. Wig-o missed the last shot of reg.
Would be a fitting end to this season, wouldn't it?
For I don't know how many games now, it's
The line is up to MIA -2.5. It opened Hotlanta -1.5. Don't remember seeing a flip-flop like this in a high-profile game.
Anything can throw your day off. Yesterday was our tenth straight day. But yesterday was cut short after 1 hr 18 mins in the morning by a WiFi outage in D-2's condo complex. It wasn't restored until 9:30 pm. Then at 11:19 pm my son called and said that his mother had called him. His 17-year old cat was experiencing separation anxiety. They were driving to the Beach to get Bird. So guess what that did to today? In the car D-2 saw the writing on the wall and texted me at 12:49 am. "Let's start at 10 tomorrow". They didn't get home until after 1 am. We haven't started yet. I don't think we will and that's FUCKING FINE WITH ME (see below)! I've been tired and have been running an energy deficit that I have not been able to entirely make up the next day. I know what's going to happen. Ana will text me that she was "bad", that she feels "guilty", that she "let me down." I'll show her the iterations of this post. This will set us back, it is true. But who cares? Are we being timed? No. Does Ana have a window to become licensed in the U.S.? No.
The USMLE makes inhuman demands. People have real lives: spouses, families, friends, pets, homes where the WiFi goes out. My message to Ana and her chat friends: Don't feel guilty about being human.
8:48 am:
I am not feeling it today. I'll do it but I'm not into it.
10's were wild last night, both rolling over their 9-betters. Las Vegas extinguished the Purple Beams in Excremento 120-106. Fat Cuban Horse plays Memphibians Friday night and, if they win, The City of Oklahoma City in the first round of the playoffs.
