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You're right, they all have different styles of play, but overall value to their team, Klay beats Steph. Steph is a liability on defense and GSW wouldn't have much of their switching D success without Klay on the wing making it work. And every team has a ball-dominant player or five. Klay being the best off-ball player in the league as well as the best wing defender puts his value through the roof. There's not a lot I don't agree with Charles Barkley on. I hate him because he's a little prick. I liked him back when he was quiet and had bad legs and Mark Jackson was their coach. Friendly bet? I'll take GSW straight up.

@seanbrock Klay is definitely the best player on the Warriors and probably the 2nd or 3rd best player in the league. LeBron and Kawhi are the only two contenders. Klay is a hair worse than Steph on offense which is why nobody pays him any mind. But when you take into account that Klay is probably the best wing defender in the league, Klay's value shits on everyone sans maybe Kawhi and then LeBron. I've been on this train for years and months ago I saw some clip of Barkley saying the same shit back in 2017 or so. I'll try and find it. Edit: Here we go. In 2016 Barkley put Klay and Kawhi up above Durant. https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/nba/2016/10/25/charles-barkley-klay-thompson-durant-lebron-curry-kawhi/92745052/

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I'd never started GOT cuz I had too much other shit to watch or catch up on. Once the final season got announced I figured we'd try to power through to avoid series finale spoilers. Last night we finished Season 4. Tyrion smoking his dad and killing that dumb cunt Shae was dope as hell. The fight between Brienne and The Hound was super well done. If he's truly dead, it's too bad because he was one of my favorite characters. His leg was fucked, but idk about an off-screen death for him. I think we finished the first 4 seasons in about 10 days. So hopefully we'll get caught up before anything gets ruined for us.

I like how hopeful you are.

Nobody is going to take GSW down. After the Thunder got bitched again I'm really just on auto-pilot as a fan until KD leaves this summer.

This is exactly how I feel. I generally like Steve Keim's moves, but this whole situation was handled ridiculously unless Kyler truly is the real deal. To me, though, I think he has "bust" written all over him. He played 1 fuckin' year and had stats identical to the guy that played ahead of him in the same system...He's fuckin' tiny and frail and looks like a walking injury. The Cards were apparently worried about Rosen's outside interests, yet they drafted a dude that originally committed to baseball and whose agent insisted he wasn't going to the NFL...

Yikes, I didn't get to hear any of it.

Haha. It's a newer (last few years) chat service where you can host your own servers. A lot of our members hang out in one for TGP.

Yeah, it definitely seems worse than they want to let on. He's a great player and by all appearances a super nice guy, so I hope it's something as simple as a cleanup scope like Rowdy mentioned.

A lot of Steeler nation believes that the hit he sustained from Burfict fucked him up because that concussion coincides with the start of all of the drama with him. imo that's a bit of a stretch, but could definitely play a part. Brown was a big part of the christening of the "young money crew" in Pittsburgh (AB, Sanders, and Mike Wallace all got drafted around the same time and were all beating their chests and calling themselves that). Brown always had an attitude, but waited to exercise it until he had leverage. I am super pissed that the Steelers let him negate the Buffalo deal, because that would have been amazing to watch him suffer with a garbage QB. He'll prolly get his stats with the Raiduhs, but it still won't mean anything. Fuck him. Bell, to me, is not an asshole, but a colossal moron. He held out for a year thinking he was going to make money, but ended up taking less than the Steelers offered him to play for the fuckin' Jets. He turned down two contracts that beat his new contract to go vacation for a year, get fat, and go to a shitty team fighting to be the best of the scum NE stomps all over twice every year to guarantee a playoff berth. Charging $50 for his party when he was about to be worth millions?

So glad to have you! We're a tightly-knit community that has largely grown up together over the last 13+ seasons, but we have had a lot of wonderful people come and go over the years. Talk to BLUE about getting in on the discord.

Great first post and analysis! I confess that I've become super out of touch with the draft, but I don't think two high picks spent on protecting Ryan is a bad thing. He's one of the best regular season QBs in the mold of Peyton Manning, but he's had a lot less help than desired the past couple years. That being said, Indianapolis and the Saints have been intent on winning with great offenses spearheaded by HoF QBs with atrocious D and only each have one SB win for it. Maybe Atlanta should conjure up a top-flight defense while Matty Ice is around and see what happens? That's what I'd do, but who knows.

idk anything about this dude, but if he fixes the D, screw it. I just like that they're pretending they want to win now. Also, this is hilarious

"Not dedicated to football. Baseball announcement a concern." Really, though, he is RGIII part deux.

Congratulations! We're all so old now.

Thanks, I will. Sadly, though, it's much more likely I don't Day 2 for a while. New set comes out in May less than month before my next regional in Madison, WI on the 31st. So I'll have to grind out a ton of testing in a few weeks and hope to anticipate the meta correctly. First tournaments of a new set always seem to be dominated by the pro players, the ones "in the know" that predict what the meta will be and what deck to counter it.

Definitely, especially the past two years as the game has exploded in popularity. Regionals used to be ~250 people, now they average ~600+. Of my group of five dudes I am one of two that has made Day 2 now, and the other guy did it back when tournaments were much smaller. Most of our trips see one or two of us last to Round 6-8 before losing our shot while the rest are done by Round 4. Luck plays a lot into that between matchups (both deck and player) and random shitty luck, no matter how consistent your deck is built. This was one of the few events that I didn't hit a handful of pro players during Day 1 Swiss. In STL 2 years ago I played 4 NA top 16 players in 6 rounds, this tournament I only faced one top player in Day 1. Next goal is to make top 8 ($750, 3 boxes), but top 16 would be nice also ($500, 2 boxes).

Pretty nuts. Was fortunate enough to see the game and it really just seemed effortless outside of the last few rebounds. If his guys had hit a few more J's we might be talking about the record for assists--felt like every shot came through Russ.

Happy birthday, Sean, ya lousy fuck.

That defense was one of the best I've witnessed, I will say. I definitely don't think they're better than the '08 Steelers, but for sure one of the best outside of that.

On principle, I will not watch that video because I hate that guy and his dumb fuckin' face. I will be reporting you to the authorities.

Anyone watched that DC Titans show? It's a live action Teen Titans. My friend had me watch the entire first season on our trip to STL a few weeks ago. It's honestly pretty decent. Refreshing to see some blood and swearing. CGI isn't the best, but the overall I really enjoyed a show I fully expected to hate. I was impressed by the writing and some of the subjects they were willing to explore or touch on. They do refer to other DC characters in this universe, but they never do more than show the backs of some of the "big hitters" like Batman. There's also a spinoff show called The Doom Patrol. I only got to see part of episode 2, but it seemed really interesting. Cyborg from Teen Titans is a main character on that show, I think to carry the group and reel people in because the rest of the cast are characters I had not heard of and they don't really jump off the screen or anything.

Which means literally nothing when it comes to the Steelers and how they have operated since the 70's. The Steelers honor their star players' contracts even when it does not benefit the team to finish out their last couple years. He'd have seen all $45M of the guaranteed money plus his base salary. And like I said before, the contract details had not been released until today. The SB Nation article you posted is incorrect and claims the only money he had fully guaranteed was $10M for year 1 when in reality it was $20.5M. They and Rapoport (a stupid fucking hack--why are we even entertaining his reporting as fact?) both incorrectly assume that the only guaranteed part of a contract is the signing bonus when in reality any part of the contract can be deemed "guaranteed," which is the case with his current contract as well as the one the Steelers offered. That dumbass SB article spent a bunch of time whining about "establishing a narrative" while in the same breath quoting Rapoport and pointing only at the $10M signing bonus to slant the narrative toward Bell being the winner. It would behoove you to read this article comparing the fine details of the contracts. They estimate that he lost $19M in real cash by sitting out '18. https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/leveon-bell-contract-details-revealed-heres-how-much-jets-new-star-may-have-lost-by-sitting-out-2018/ LeVeon is only getting $25M fully guaranteed money total. This year he will get $14.5M guaranteed while the Steelers' deal offered $20.5M guaranteed in year 1. Year 2 with the Jets bumps up to $26M total while the Steelers deal rose to $33M. Year 3 moves to $45M from the Steelers whereas the Jets gave themselves an out. In 2021 he's only going to get a $3M training camp bonus as well as $500k from per game bonuses ($31.250*16). This situation is laughably bad for LeVeon considering all the posturing and spouting off he did. I guess if we're being positive he got a year's vacation at the cost of ~$19M.