@jordanspurs Especially because Hart and KAT both had 5 fouls, so OT was going to extend our advantage. Timeout ensures one of two outcomes: game winner at the buzzer or OT.
@DamienPetersNBA The issue isn’t Wemby bringing the ball up (lol) it’s that there isn’t an established PG who the team expects to run the offense as much as possible. If you’re a coach and you put your very young team in these ambiguous situations then you obvs need to call TO in spots like these
@kwakujr23@Jacobtheclipper It was too slow coming together, though he still caught it at ~3 seconds left. Would’ve much preferred a pump fake & one dribble then shoot moving toward the basket so you have a chance at a putback with Robinson out of position. But he ideally needed to catch it at 4.5 seconds.
@frutiger_sof Offer you a trade: US permanently ends support for Israel & in exchange IRI steps down, Axis of “Resistance” dies, peace & democratic elections in a multiparty democracy secured in Iran occur you pick status quo. You prefer subjugation of Iranians as totems of “antiimperialism.”
@Audead0k@lucastalkss@CastleFor3 It was a 3 way tie for the 1st pick. All 3 had the same odds. Move up implies some other team had higher odds than they did. Thats not true. Castle was one spot. The only really lucky one is Harper. It has less to do with lottery luck than elite once a decade talent in 2/3 years.
@peterawolf I’d love to read this. But I’d be expecting legit scholarship about the nature and extent of all the online/troll farm operations of the IRGC, CCP & GRU that have been instrumental in constructing and cultivating a substantial portion of the related algorithmic media patterns.
@mattyglesias I think there’s a narcissism/self-aggrandizement element lacking in this otherwise awesome framework. But eg Neo-Brandeisians are setting new records for Main Character Syndrome affliction in their Abundance reactions over the past year.
@ArashHejazi Sorry I’ll stop. What you describe definitely happened, just disputing your timeline. Khatami’s rise to President via Rafsanjani was another inflection point. By 97 you couldn’t get Not Without My Daughter greenlighted in Hollywood v a few months after Khomeini’s 88 executions.
@ghostworldsteps@ByMSA21@Keijothewizard@ThatchEffendi They put Mousavi under house arrest after 2009 & didn’t let Khatami speak publicly. Those are the approved candidates in the controlled opposition. You’re wrong. It’s a complicated, but highly managed autocracy where real power is held at highest levels of the clerics & military.
@ghostworldsteps@ByMSA21@Keijothewizard@ThatchEffendi That’s a fundamentally inaccurate description of the IRI as it omits the candidate selection role of the state re the Assembly of Experts and the Supreme Leader’s role, also the “regulatory” kleptocratic non-mil functions the IRGC has insinuated itself into across the economy.
@shereeny Henry Kissinger & literal Communists in Iran opposing the IRI/calling for regime change are all one thing: Zios obviously. There’s only one cause that matters to the International Left: taking Iran’s mineral wealth & turning it into support for IRI proxies. Whose side are you on?
@KMooreGilbert Hundreds of clips of protesters chanting Javid Shah & holding up the Lion and Sun flag were certainly a new high watermark. But I think the regime’s fall sometime between now and 2030 will be a higher one. And I pray to God Pahlavi has the good sense to stay in Potomac throughout
@DPGSpurs Vegas *still* agrees with BW. Basically a coin flip that we beat them 4/6 instead of them beating us 3/6. Time for us to all slap the Ted Lasso sign and send every last positive vibe we can muster to them because they really are right at the precipice of sport-defining greatness.