Josh Giddey A tri-captain with Evan Mobley and Tyrese Haliburton on the under-25 “Guys Who Just Seem Like They’d Be Fun to Play With” team. He’s just adorable. Love the rebounding, love the passing, love the low usage rate, love love love. Gotta be honest—I wanted to put him 15 spots higher and didn’t want you to make fun of me. No, seriously. That’s the only reason. Presti’s greatest picks: Harden in 2009, Westbrook in 2008, Giddey in 2021, Ibaka in 2008, Adams in 2013. Finishing last: Mitch McGary.
Simmons isnt a total moron.
Oh snap Haliburton at 14. Simmons is on a roll, here.
Tyrese Haliburton - Nobody performed higher this year on my Table Test: How much do you bring to the table, and more importantly, take off the table? Here’s Haliburton showing up with forks, 20 points, knives, 10 assists, 50-40-90 potential, dishes, an improbable 23.8 percent usage rate (!!!!!), those long little spoons that you can stir milkshakes with … well, what’s he taking off the table? Anything? (Wayne Jenkins voice.) Goddamn, Haliburton! I didn’t realize I was watching super point guard! Can you think of four other guys you’d rather play 82 games with? The Pacers are 22-19 when he plays and 2-10 when he sits. It feels worse. I know numbers are getting out of whack in the new NBA, but it’s worth noting that only six true point guards had multiple 20/10 seasons: Oscar, Magic, CP3, Isiah, KJ, and Tim Hardaway. (I’m not counting Russ and Harden, sorry.) We’ll be adding Haliburton to that list soon.
This reminds me of the Emily Valentine story arc that culminated in her attempting to burn down the parade float. /BS
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I enjoyed his Jimmy Butler/Heat write up. Extremely accurate.
Let’s see … a truly intimidating contract ($184 million through 2025-26), a whiff older than you’d think (34 in September), less durability than you’d want (he’s missed at least 14 games in nine of the last 10 seasons), less exciting numbers than you’d probably expect (22-6-5 with no 3s and lots of FTs, basically) and there might be four other franchises total that can handle him, much less trade for him. (Hold on, big “With that said” coming up.) WITH THAT SAID … would you want to see Jimmy in a playoff series? Me neither. I think Miami’s title run is over without another trade, but still, there’s Jimmy and Spo and Bam and Riley lurking every April like Michael Fucking Myers. You know how the movie ends, and you’ll probably survive, but you’ll also probably be standing in your burning house covered in blood. Any Jimmy Butler team scares the shit out of me.
On one of Rusillos recent podcasts he start talking about some guy at his gym that benches like 400 and then starts fantasizing on air about being that guy and getting into bar fights. A real look under the hood.
On one of Rusillos recent podcasts he start talking about some guy at his gym that benches like 400 and then starts fantasizing on air about being that guy and getting into bar fights. A real look under the hood.
On one of the Rewatchables, the Town I think, Rusillo recalled going to Fenway as a kid and seeing guys get in fights in the stands, and he thought he couldn't wait until he was old enough to do that.
On one of Rusillos recent podcasts he start talking about some guy at his gym that benches like 400 and then starts fantasizing on air about being that guy and getting into bar fights. A real look under the hood.
On one of the Rewatchables, the Town I think, Rusillo recalled going to Fenway as a kid and seeing guys get in fights in the stands, and he thought he couldn't wait until he was old enough to do that.
Instead he grew up to get drunk and walk into stranger’s rooms.
The one thing I won’t accept is the PGA’s mention that the merger will “grow the game.” There is no evidence of that whatsoever. Ratings for LIV on the CW were hard to find, but the numbers that did leak out—the Washington, D.C., tournament saw a cool 3,400 in-market viewers for Saturday coverage—were slim. LIV Golf’s “innovations”—shotgun starts and a team golf concept—felt forced just to have some differentiation from the PGA. The lack of buzz was always the biggest indication it wasn’t working. I am a golf fanatic and generally a sports fanatic and have not once heard anyone earnestly discuss the team golf concept. The only time I ever heard much discussion about it was when Bubba Watson, with a straight face, named LIV teams in the same answer as the Yankees, Chiefs, and Cowboys. “My 10-year-old son was sitting in the bed with me,” Watson said in January, “and we were watching golf on the TV, and he knew the Aces—everybody knows the Aces; they keep winning. He knew the Aces. He knew the Stingers.” No one, I’m sorry to say, knows the Aces or the Stingers. No one knows that the Aces keep winning.
I had forgotten about Bubba Watson's comment regarding the team concept. Hilarious in hindsight.
