Saturday, April 27, 2024
And you LOVE it!
Jonathan Danilich
@jdanilich
I don’t have faith in the Cavs to win another game.
3:11 PM · Apr 27, 2024
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98-73, 8:47 4Q. The people of Cleveland are the ones who lost this game, not the players, the people of the city.
They are professional victims. They revel in their own disgrace.
Oh who said that that's right me
Greg Swartz
@GregSwartzBR
Cavs are still way too soft. No adjustments. No fight back when things get tough. Same issues from 2023 are still in the DNA of this team.
2:53 PM · Apr 27, 2024
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Cleveland is just disgraceful. I mean the city, the people.
I have seldom seen anything like this. The "Magic" didn't make a run, Cleveland GAVE UP! 88-70, End 3Q
Two teams with near-identical records and the one with the slightly lesser outscores the other THIRTY-SEVEN TO 10. CLEVELAND DIDN'T SCORE A POINT IN THE LAST 5:25 OF PLAYING TIME!
HT Amway Magic 51 🚀 Mortgage Cavaliers 60
That’s a pretty steep deficit for a normal 47-win team against a 48-win team. 🚀 in control.
Amway 22 🚀 Mortgage 23, End 1Q
Beans
Tatum had some nice drives but also missed some midranges. He grew visibly frustrated as the game wore on.
This is going to be a typical "Celtics"-"Heat" series in one respect at least: I am going to spend too much time analyzing the "Celtics".
Wow. Liverpool Drew at West Ham
Good by D.C. Authorities
From The Washington Post’s report by Peter Hermann [via the Atlanta Journal-Constitution]: D.C. police rejected pleas from George Washington University officials to clear pro-Palestinian demonstrators out of an on-campus encampment early Friday morning, saying they worried about the optics of moving against a small number of peaceful protesters, according to two officials familiar with the talks.
Officers had assembled around 3 a.m. and were prepared to enter the encampment, but senior leaders in the police chief’s and mayor’s office ordered them to stand down, the officials said. The demonstrators were small in number and largely peaceful, and the city officials told their university counterparts they wanted to avoid images of violent altercations between police and protesters flashing across TV screens across the country. The George Washington campus is just west of downtown Washington, five blocks from the White House.
They must not do this and they did not. The protesters have the right to protest peacefully and tenting on university land and chanting and shouting is peaceful. Israel and Jewish supporters must be careful here.
Elda Brogi
@eldaelda
“The Gaza crisis is truly becoming a global crisis of the freedom of expression,” @Irenekhan
UN Special Rapporteur for Freedom of Opinion & Expression https://news.un.org/en/story/2024/
Pro-Israel's, let that sink in deep. Israel was attacked in the most barbaric manner. The world was on your side. Now you have shifted the battle space to freedom of expression. You will lose that battle even as you win the war against Hamas.
Take this Q and A in the the Forward with Adam Lehman, chair of Hillel:
What’s your take on the rise of anti-Israel activity on campuses in the past week, and universities’ tougher responses to those protests — including calling in the police to arrest students at Columbia and Yale, among other campuses?
These out-of-control encampments [No.] are hugely problematic. They are preventing students from taking advantage of the campus activities [too bad] they’re supposed to be focused on. However well-meaning some of the protest activities may be, they’re fostering a culture of harassment and intimidation [Gotta be more specific] focused on Jewish students, Israeli students, and in some cases even leading to physical assault.
This current wave of protest activities is just straight ahead trafficking in discriminatory, exclusionary and sometimes violent language [have to give examples] that we would not tolerate if it was being directed at any other minority population or group.
They cannot with justice demand that the state suppress free speech even if that speech, WRONGLY, labels Israeli action in Gaza genocide. Speech that calls for violence against Jews--OR ANYONE--is not protected speech. Arrests of pro-Palestinian squatters and protesters is unconstitutional. Pro-Israel people should support peaceful pro-Palestine protests and counter with peaceful pro-Israel protests. They should not call on the state to suppress pro-Palestine speech and arrest pro-Palestine supporters and squatters. When they do, the state, as the District of Columbia did, should refuse. Clap out to D.C.
Good Writing by Oliver Fox
The Celtics lost and I’m
not okay
This can’t happen again.
The Celtics can not lose to the Heat on a string of mathematically outlandish shooting performances again. They can not stand around like deer in a boxing ring made out of headlights again as their opponents rain threes on their bewildered heads. They can not look confused or defeated when Miami brings their A-game when the Celtics were bracing for a chill C+.
And it’s not going to happen again, but we all got a glimpse of what it could look like if it did on Wednesday night. Armed with their recently-outlawed bioweapon known as M.I.S.S. (Miami Induced Shell Shock), the Heat proceeded to make every three in human history as the Celtics MISSed (see what I did there) every opportunity to take control of the game.
It’s not like the Celtics got blown out, and they had lots of chances to snag that game from the inevitably encroaching jaws of defeat. Jaylen Brown scored 11-straight points to close out the half, but the Celtics failed to follow it up with a strong start to the third. Derrick White brought a lightning-strike six points to cut the lead to five in the fourth quarter, but the Heat had the answer.
Each time Boston tried to finally turn the tide, Miami hit a three. It was a brutal spectator experience, made even worse by the fact that I’m actually in Germany right now and stayed up until 3:45 AM to watch the game. I’ve endured the Heat’s barrages of black magic before, but doing it with the throes of physical exhaustion is a whole new animal.
In no way did the Celtics deserve to win or had the game stolen, as they certainly didn’t and it certainly wasn’t. Boston was outworked, outplayed, and most of all outshot to a degree that a win would have felt disingenuous. I still would have accepted a disingenuous win, but Miami earned it.
But there’s a certain cruelty to how they earned it, hearkening back to every insufferable tendency that sank the Celtics last year and doing so in a way that defies logical understanding. Boston could have weathered a storm of threes, but Miami left the rain clouds at home and brought an avalanche to TD Garden.
Avalanches are the deadly cousins of rainstorms. Someone at the wrong place at the wrong time could get into trouble in the rain, but avalanches have an uncontrollable license to kill whenever they decide to appear. And while rain clouds give some warning to potential victims, an avalanche can happen in the blink of an eye.
The Heat didn’t just make a bunch of threes Wednesday night to beat the Celtics; they threw the entire force of their organization behind making a bunch of threes. Never before have I seen a team so maniacally committed to finding and launching threes, nor did it seem like the Celtics ever had either. Per NBA tracking, most of these shots were wide open (closest defender 6+ feet away) or only lightly contested. Shooting nearly 53.5 percent from deep is a preposterous clip, but none of them were crazy shots.
If anything, the Heat played Celtics basketball. Everyone on the roster was clearly under instructions to fire at will, and everyone from Jaime Jacquez Jr. to Haywood Highsmith was locked and loaded to produce as many points as possible from beyond the arc. These guys are below average shooters, but found an endless well of confidence in the face of a confused Celtics team.
The Celtics rightly didn’t offer too much resistance, since letting a shaky shooter launch triples isn’t always the worst strategy defensively. But that mindset only holds water with guys that would rather drive than shoot, such as Giannis Antetokounmpo or Ja Morant. …
But the Heat do not have Giannis Antetokounmpo or Ja Morant. They have Nikola Jovic and Delon Wright, guys who were in and out of NBA rotations all year and aren’t polished scorers at any level. For them, if Head Coach Erik Spoelstra said “take a three whenever you have the chance,” they aren’t giving up any real advantages by doing so.
The Heat hit a ton of threes and won the game, that’s the truth of the matter. But we’re not going to sit here and play the victim since I’m fresh out of victim juice after last year, so instead I’ll end with a personal apology mixed with a lesson.
I underestimated these guys… again. I wrote not one, not two, but three articles explaining how the Heat are not to be feared nor are they even really our rivals. For all of that, I would like to issue a formal apology.
I naively hoped that this would be easy, that this Celtics team was different and would be able to dispatch of this buffoonery without the same strife and anguish of seasons past. I naively believed that the universe-bending lightning of last season couldn’t strike twice. But of course it wasn’t going to be easy, since this hydra of a team won’t die no matter how many heads you cut off.
So in an official CelticsBlog press release, I declare the Miami Heat an official rival of the Boston Celtics. Filled with hatred for the life decisions that resulted in my total dejection and despair at the rich hour of four in the morning, I had no choice but to take this step. I’m not happy about throwing my highly-sophisticated historical explanation out the window, but I’m so sick of these guys that I had to.
The good news? Now that the Heat are an official, Oliver Fox Approved™ Rival, the Celtics can unleash their full fury to sink this ship once and for all without worrying about historical justification. They should be closing out on threes like these guys are their mortal enemies, because—as of now—they are.
👏 👏 Oliver Fox. You’ll win this series because you’re so much more talented. But. however. Stupidity is the great leveler of talent disparity and you have the greatest leveler in the whole history of the basketball miniverse. You know who I mean. It is not as simple as your simpleton coach instructing your players to patrol the arc. Master Spoelstra will have some different wrinkle(s) plural and your guy will have to think. Which...My entire Carnival ship of buffoons hates your org as its mortal enemy and has for decades. You know you can't spell hate without h-e-a-t. You're late to the hate and far behind. You’ll win tonight because we’re at home, your advantage, the maddening fury of which only a true fan like you can appreciate, as the North Pole appreciates its mortal enemy the South Pole. You're a good writer. Get some sleep.
Suns Set on United Wholesale Mortgage
🧊 iced them 109-126 last night to put them in a 0-3 gopher hole as dues-paying stakeholders fled the Footfault and it rained boos from the desert skies.
Friday, April 26, 2024
The faces of Tatum O'Neal. Little devil-angel. My God, what an actor in this movie.
I am reposting this as the last post of the night. Paper Moon is a perfect movie. Tatum O’Neal is a phenomenon.
OT in INDEE
You know how the "Heat" are something like 38-37 or whatever in the last two seasons with the "Big Three" Jimmy, Bam, Tyler? That means we had a better record without (all) of them playing. Do you think we should trade Jimmy this summer?
My (second ex) Missus and I were conversating re who Trumpie will choose as his “running” “mate.” She suggested “that SD governor who wanted to put him on Mount Rushmore?” I said Noem wouldn’t do as she was running around with Corey Lewandowski. She didn’t think Trumpie should discriminate against women like that and did some more research. She sent me this and I responded as indicated.
Reading these last-to-first:
And now we're adjourned for the day. Trump looks utterly spent as he rises at the end of the long first week of testimony in his criminal trial. As he passes reporters, he grimaces, then glares, putting on a braver face as he leaves the courtroom.
[Erik Spoelstra]'s one of the greatest in-series adjusters in the history of the sport. Sometimes the scheme changes are subtle. In Game 2, they rang loud. From the opening tip, franchise fulcrum Bam Adebayo picked up the assignment on Jayson Tatum.
I DIDN'T KNOW THAT. That will fuck with Joe Mazz' Bean head!
“They make us think. They do this on one possession, then they do another thing on another possession, then they switch, then they don’t,” Kristaps Porzingis told reporters on Thursday. “So that can freeze you a little bit, because you start to think a little bit, then you rush.”
That WILL make you think. And it hurts Joe Mazz' head to think.
Placing Adebayo on Tatum kept the Celtics from getting to their preferred areas of the court expediently, as one doesn’t just bump Bam into submission. The lack of doubles meant fewer clear release valves on the weak side to swing to. Adebayo was almost omnipresent—trained on Tatum, which allowed him to remain engaged both on ball and as an active helper on switches. ...
It's brilliant! Imperfect analogy here: I once saw...what was that fucking big lug from Pitt's name?...Damn...guarding, successfully too, Steph Curry. The principle of verticality. ...Stephen Adams!
He [Bam] was the wellspring of a Heat defense that, by sheer force of will, junked up the Celtics’ best-laid plans. ...
...the Celtics,... managed only 32 attempts from deep.
I can understand that. Having a Big on the perimeter makes you think twice about launching. I don't understand what comes right after that:
Miami successfully goaded Boston into a game that was not its own.
...the Celtics all noted the issue of having to close out better on the Heat shooters, who were wide open on a majority of their long-range attempts.
Not ALL the "Celtics". Not the HEAD "Celtic".
...their [The "Heat's"] sudden departure from expectation is all part of the adaptation game.
Upon the foundation of Miami’s top-five defense, the Heat have been emboldened to ramp up the variance against a team that knows intimately what a procession of 3s does to an opponent. ...
Joe Mazz said post-game that the solution was for the "Celtics" OFFENSE to be more "efficient", that good Defense feeds off good Offense. It is just one more example that if a bird had Joe Mazz' brain it'd fly backwards.
...The percentages won’t always be there for the Heat the way they were in Game 2, but something tells me that the attempts are only half the fun. ...It’s the psychology of...[the thing].
Maybe the Celtics will actually bother to contest the likes of Haywood Highsmith from here on out, but Miami will relish in creating punishing obstacle courses all the same.
Guys like this, this guy's name is Danny Chau, can often write about basketball the way Jacques Derrida wrote about philosophy, in confusing, nonsensical gibberish, muddying the waters to make them look deep. Think Zach Lowe or, when he was with the Miami Herald, Ethan Skolnick. But I think Chau nails this. Spoelstra is so good because his strategies are so good and because they're sometimes so outside-the-box that the opposing coach (especially those named Joe Mazzulla) never thinks about it. As Porzingis said, Spo "makes you think". It's X's and O's + psychology.
Chau then posts this video clip sequence. The "Celtics" are totally helter-skelter on that play, a successful D-Ro trey. They have no idea what they're doing, no idea even what the "Heat" is showing them. Coaching.
[Derrick White] starts off attached to Tyler Herro, and by the time the ball gets to Duncan Robinson’s itchy trigger fingers, he’s out of the play entirely. It’s not just the 3s, it’s the work that Miami will put Boston through in defending them.
Alvin Bragg's second witness was...what the fuck was her name?...Rhona something, Trumpie's "gatekeeper" in his business. She kept his contacts logged among other things. She had entries for Karen McDougal and one for "Stormy". She saw said Stormy in the lobby at Trump Tower one time. On cross Trumpie's lawyers insinuated that the two could have been in his contacts as wanna-be's for The Apprentice.😏
Trump: Charlottesville Death, Injuries "nothing", "a little peanut", compared to student protests over Gaza
WASHINGTON (AP) — Speaking in a Manhattan courtroom hallway at the day’s end of his criminal hush money trial, Trump blamed President Joe Biden for student protesters who have set up encampments...
Donald Trump on Thursday claimed the 2017 white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, was “nothing” compared to ongoing pro-Palestinian campus protests...
[At Charlottesville] torch-wielding white supremacists marched to protest the removal of a statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee, chanting “You will not replace us!” and “Jews will not replace us!”
“We’re having protests all over. He was talking about Charlottesville,” Trump said [of President Biden]. “Charlottesville was a little peanut. And it was nothing compared — and the hate wasn’t the kind of hate that you have here.”
Trump has tried to pin reported instances of antisemitism around the campus protests to Biden.
Hundreds of white nationalists descended on the city on Aug. 11 and Aug. 12, 2017. Clashes between white nationalists and anti-racism protesters broke out both days, prompting authorities to declare the gathering on Aug. 12 an “unlawful assembly” and to order crowds to disperse. It was after that announcement that a man rammed his car into a peaceful group of counter-protesters. One woman died; 35 others were injured.
Days after the deadly rally, Trump told reporters that “you had some very bad people in that group, but you also had people that were very fine people, on both sides.”
“When those folks came walking out of those fields — down in Charlottesville, Virginia — carrying Nazi banners, singing the same garbage that they sang in Hitler’s streets in Germany in the ‘30s, carrying torches, accompanied by the Ku Klux Klan, and a young woman was killed, I decided that I had to run. I had to run,” [Presiden Biden] said. “Our democracy is at stake, and it really is.”
Conservative Justices Take Argument Over Trump’s Immunity in Unexpected Direction (NYT)
Thursday’s Supreme Court hearing was memorable for its discussion of coups, assassinations and internments — but very little about the former president’s conduct.
It was other-world imagining.
Perhaps the most alarming aspect of Thursday night was Cleveland’s lack of fight. As the Magic strutted, stuck their chests out, scowled and verbally assaulted players on the court and the bench, the Cavs just … took it.
Throughout the season, it became clear that opponents had a specific perception of this team. ...soft... the level of disrespect coming from Orlando’s side was palpable.
Banchero did the too-small gesture to Mitchell after a fadeaway jumper and kept pointing at Cavs veterans Marcus Morris Sr. and Tristan Thompson who have been standing on the sidelines trying to distract the young Magic for a duration of this series.
Wagner appeared to call Thompson or Morris — perhaps even both — an asshole. Suggs and Thompson exchanged words — even before Suggs punctuated the Magic statement victory with a showy breakaway windmill dunk in the third quarter, gesticulating back to the bench.
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It shouldn’t have been a surprise that Orlando would put Carter into the starting lineup...It shouldn’t have been a surprise to see Banchero finally come alive... It shouldn’t have been a surprise...It shouldn’t have been a surprise...
But it was.
...for the Cavs, this year was supposed to be different. ...This team was supposed to be ready for the bright lights. More seasoned. More mature. More prepared. Better. Deeper. Tougher. ...
...The Cavs got a little too comfortable up 2-0. Perhaps that [original emphasis] is the lesson. No matter how harsh.
Just how much have they learned? How much mental toughness have they gained?
Oh who said that should be the defense oh right me
Under cross-examination, Trump’s lawyers are trying to show that any dealings Trump had with Pecker were intended to protect Trump, his reputation and his family — not his campaign.
Can the defense successfully create reasonable doubt on that issue without Trumpie testifying? I don't think they can. There is going to be no direct testimony that I am aware of that that was the motive unless it comes from Trumpie himself, and putting him on the stand will, I believe, hang him.
"The Mountain of Evidence"--NYT
After the first witness, the New York Times is going to regret that category heading.
Emil Bove
Pebbles (3-0) Sank the Lake Last Night 105-112
Don't think anybody's gonna beat Denver again this year.
AP for ESPN:
...a tenacious veteran core...
They play like that. They know each other so well.
...Denver stretched its winning streak in this lopsided rivalry to a whopping 11 games.
Against La-La Bron-Bron. Damn.
...defending NBA champion Nuggets win their seventh straight playoff meeting with James and the Lakers in dominating style.
...Denver, which took control in the third quarter and cruised through the final minutes to its fifth straight road win over Los Angeles, starting with its sweep of last season's Western Conference finals.
No NBA team has ever rallied from an 0-3 playoff deficit.
...the Lakers, who haven't beaten the Nuggets since Dec. 16, 2022 — and have rarely looked capable of ending that streak.
...Los Angeles, which surged into the postseason with largely outstanding play since the holidays, capped by an impressive play-in win over New Orleans to snatch the seventh seed. The Lakers had won 12 of 15 heading into this series — but now they're one loss away from failing to win a playoff round for the third time in four years since their 2020 NBA title.
All of that. Poof!
...Lakers coach Darvin Ham said about the Nuggets. “That starting group has been together for a long time.
It matters. What Erik Spoelstra calls "connectivity" matters and the longer a core has been together the more of it you have.
Davis and James were outstanding once again...
It just doesn't matter against Denver. Not even when you've got two HoF'ers playing their best, it doesn't matter against Denver.
D’Angelo Russell went scoreless in 24 minutes of play for the Lakers...Gordon had the highest-scoring playoff game of his 10 NBA seasons
You think: If we can keep A.D. and LBJ from beating us...But no. The "Nuggets" are a TEAM. If, which almost never happens, Fat Boy is off or not full on, or if Michael Porter, Jr. is not, then you have Aaron Gordon step up.
After blowing a 20-point lead in the second half of Game 2, the seventh-seeded Lakers were left feeling frustrated, outmanned — and occasionally confused, according to Davis, who said the Lakers sometimes don’t know what they’re doing when faced with Denver’s offensive versatility.
And coaching matters.
Los Angeles hadn't played a home game in 16 days, and it has won just once at home since March 24.
Jeezus.
Russell's disappearing act was compounded by another quiet game from starter Rui Hachimura...
To have a chance against the "Nuggets", you need everybody to be on their A-game. And usually that isn't enough.
While the Lakers' fans left the building in the final minutes, a small group in the Lakers' end chanted “Fire Darvin!”
Yeah, coaching matters too.
Thursday, April 25, 2024
Eleven
Last night, in celebration of the “Heat” win I picked up Eleven. She started squirming so I slowly lowered her from my standing position to the hard concrete floor. When I gently lay her down she bit me. I felt it of course, but it was not nearly as painful as when she clawed my thumb on Feb. 25. But,
it bled like a mother. That’s after I washed and dabbed it once. Three minutes later it stopped leaking,
Her teeth are as sharp as her claws and she sliced me badly and cleanly.
Late this morning I took another pic.
And at 5:10 today another. I was trying to get one that didn’t look as bad to send my family.
I didn’t succeed. All the marks there are Eleven. My son said he was “sick” seeing the first bleeding pic last night. I didn’t send the others to my family.
Eleven is unpredictable. I never know what or when she is going to do it. The unpredictable makes you gun-shy. I’m scared to have her near my face for fear she could blind me or cut my carotid.
I love Eleven. I love her less than I did before Feb. 25. I got most of that diminished love back until last night. I still love her, more than I did right after Feb. 25, but less than I did Oct. 23–Feb. 25. I’m scared of her. You can’t really love a thing truly that you’re afraid of.
FT Quakers Quiet Quakes 125-114 (2-1)
Joel Embiid had...wait for it, 50 points. Electric Maxey, 25. The great Jalen Brunson got 39 and dished 13 asts. Hat to see either team lose a game in this one.
After Game 1
Celtics put to rest concerns over late-season
cruise control with dominant win over Heat
The Heat, playing without Jimmy Butler and Terry Rozier, will be fortunate to get a game in this series...
I'm not chortling. I had the fat lady singing at 7 pm when it was 0-0!
...They would be wise to quickly dispose of a weakened rival.
...
Forgive everyone outside of Miami, including the oddsmakers, for writing the Heat off after this one.
...
The final 15 minutes were a conditioning exercise.
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Good luck. Adebayo can cook for all the Celtics care. Of whom else are the Celtics afraid in Butler's absence?
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Miami's undrafted scrappers, Caleb Martin and Duncan Robinson...did not look so tough without their lead bully.
...
Spoelstra will swear his Heat can stick to their principles, lean harder into their available core and call on the next men, but he can only turn to so many reserves before Boston's talent gap becomes a chasm.
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Makes you wonder whether the Celtics can make healthier teams look as outgunned as they did Miami.
Quakers 102-92, 9:15 4Q
Quaker Gunners Quivering Quakes 85-75, 4:05 3Q
I love these two teams. I love Electric Maxey, new Most Improved Player, I like Joel, I love the Nova Knicks. These are two good-guy teams.
Amway Buries 🚀Men 121-83 (2-1)
Mortgagers scored the first six points of the game, led 10-3, and 21-18, 3:12 1Q when Amway ran off 13 straight points to close the quarter. They never looked back. It was the American Way. Tonight.
@RealBobManning
Porzingis on the challenge #Heat present:
“They make us think. They do this on one possession, then they do another thing on another possession, then they switch, then they don't. So that can freeze you a little bit, because you start to think a little bit, then you rush."
2:44PM · Apr 25, 2024
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"PTSD (Post-Traumatic Spoelstra Disorder)"
If Wednesday's dispiriting Game 2 loss to the Heat had you experiencing PTSD (Post-Traumatic Spoelstra Disorder), it's justified.
...
1. Joe Mazzulla vs. Erik Spoelstra
Oh boy. It's times like this when the worst fears of every Celtics fan -- that Mazzulla can't meet the moment -- tingle the spine with dread.
The sideline demeanors tell the story. Mazzulla stalks with a clenched jaw and his eyes opened just a bit too wide. Spoelstra looks alternately bemused and harried when his team is getting run off the floor, but always calm, like the grizzled editor with a loosened tie and three days of stubble who nonetheless has all the answers.
Everyone expected the Heat to play rugby after Caleb Martin's blindside hit on Jayson Tatum late in Game 1. Junking up the game supposedly was the only way they could compete.
Instead, they took a page from Steph Curry's Warriors and said bomb's away, making a staggering 23 3-pointers. The overwhelming majority were wide open, [In fairness, his too wide open eyes saw "moderately to extremely well-defended] because Mazzulla never adjusted. ...
If the coaching clash becomes the dominant theme of the series, buckle up.
Concern level: 5.
Alvin Bragg’s Gonna Lose His Case
Pecker got immunity. And Alvin’s chipmunks didn’t inoculate the jury to this during voir dire or opening statement. It’s Trial Practice 101, you don’t let a bombshell like this explode on the jury without cushioning. Trumpie was pleased:
Donald Trump left the courtroom and briefly addressed the media after court adjourned for the day. Per pool, he said:
Today was breathtaking … breathtaking and amazing testimony. This is a trial that should’ve never happened, this is a case that should’ve never been filed and it was really an incredible, an incredible day.
He had a very good day. In Manhattan and in D.C.
Pete Gillen
@Gillenhoops
I think the Celtics will bounce back and win this playoffs series in 5 games but the Heat are gutty and resilient and you never know what could happen?The Celtics are a much better team than the Miami Heat but 3-point shooting can make up for a lot of weaknesses and problems.
3:33 PM · Apr 25, 2024
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A gentleman's sweep like Pebbles. The "Heat" will not win this series or I will suck a bag of dicks. But we fuck with Boston's head. We fucking spook them. We never figured Pebbles out but we DEFINITELY know Beans. And we've got Spo. They're not going to gentleman's sweep us.
Couper Moorhead
@CoupNBA
Miami now has four playoff games in the past two seasons with 50% shooting from three...against Boston.
No other team has more than one...against anyone.
9:39 PM · Apr 24, 2024
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A Boston reporter referenced that in a question to Joe Mazz last night. What is up with that? NO OTHER TEAM IN THE LAST TWO PLAYOFF SEASONS SHOT 50%! Holy cow.
I missed the first 20-something mins of the beginning and just went back to listen. The justices, all of them, WERE highly skeptical of Sauer’s “total immunity” position. They clearly are not going to go that far. My take is that they may reverse Judge Chutkan unanimously on absolutely NO immunity and remand for hearings on what is official and what not, with effect of no crim. trial for Jan. 6 before election, a total practical win for Trumpie.
It’s weird. I remember when it was first made public, reading this Jan. 6 indictment and writing that I thought “there are holes here big enough to drive a truck through”, flaws as I saw them then, in the language of the statutes that the charges were based on. I didn’t think this was a case as open and shut as say the docs case. But then I had lunch with a fed prosecutor friend who told me that he would have charged the case exactly the same way, so I just put it out of my mind.
I wasn't sure I had posted on the SCOTUS immunity arguments today. I'm glad that I did because it saves me having to regurgitate some sour digestion. I will just add for now that I think the decision will be 5-4 with Barrett joining the libs.
Chief Justice Roberts could taken this case on the very simple question of whether former presidents are totally immune from criminal prosecution and massaged the Court to issue a narrow unanimous ruling: No; as he did in the state disqualification cases; on the same concerns: to preserve what is left of the Court's integrity with the public.
Roberts declined that opportunity and we will have a bitterly divided court opinion that will lay bare, agayne, the Court's political split, and which will allow the majority's partisan favorite, Trumpie, to escape accountability until after the election, which at the present time he is projected to win with an Electoral College landslide (he won't win at all); after which, were he to win (which he won't), he could dismiss Jack Smith and his two federal cases.
Instead of answering the narrow question narrowly, confining the arguments to this case and not future cases, and avoiding Constitutional questions not necessary to the ruling (both of which are articles of construction by SCOTUS), Roberts let his brethren and sistren range widely, viz, "We're deciding this case for all future presidents" (by Alito); engaging in hypothetical extensions of the question, even questioning the validity of the Special Counsel Act (Morrison v. Olson). The questioning of Trumpie's lawyer was slow-pitch softball, of the Special Counsel's lawyer from the ghostly ether of possibilities.
It was grieving to listen.
Alvin Bragg: YOU TOO!
New York appeals court overturns Harvey Weinstein’s 2020 rape conviction from landmark #MeToo trial
"...the Heat played chess while the Celtics were asking if there were flying kings.