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So how exaclty does that work with bank? Will you still have access to the bank on those systems but just not be able to move them over to the new ones?

HaRRicH posted...

Between John Oliver talking about this and also talking about on-brand video games, I feel like he willed this into existence.

John oliver being a sponsor at the time definitely was a huge push

Clearly you weren't around during covid when marble racing was at the peak of its powers

andel posted...

the trade made the bucks better in the short and longterm but most importantly for them it will make giannis happy and almost certainly make him willing to resign considering dame seems to have been the main guy he wanted to team up with lately.

This is the only thing I hesitate to agree with in this post. Stars have been getting more and more mercurial, and giannis already put the squeeze on milwaukee after already winning a title. If they don't win another in the next 2 years, dame or no dame I'm not convinced he will extend because the bucks won't have the stuff to keep a competent core around giannis. Dame will almost certainly be declining by then, Middleton already has been a bit, lopez is old. They traded most if not all of their picks. This is it for them I think.

I think they make the playoffs. The young guys they drafted will probably be able to contribute in some small way. Also I fully expect them to try and offload duncan for a useful piece

They tried and they failed but that's not the same as just straight up not trying. They thought mccollum would be an ideal 1/2 punch, they were not, they did not think nurkic would end up such a liability. But you don't trade for a guy like jerami grant if you just aren't even trying.

Restrictions yes, but if you already have 2 supermax caliber players on your roster you're already most of the way there. If you have other good homegrown talent on top of that that would push you into the luxury tax, chances are you probably don't need the things that you are restricted from doing, like getting your MLE.

Like if these restrictions had been in place 5 years ago, golden state would care exactly 0 even as they blow past hte new 2nd apron. I don't think most teams in the lux are going to be getting to the 2nd apron specifically anyway. IIRC just being at the first apron doesn't terribly restrict a team.

Shattered posted...

Having a supermax on the roster financially cripples you cap wise and increases the chance of you becoming a non contending team though

I think we had this debate once before but ultimately it is an owner issue. If you draft the talent, you can technically afford to have them for however long you want.

What is wrong with the bengals anyway? Is their o-line still crap?

Honestly I don't think the supermax is the issue, it's just that more teams need to stand up to the players. For the bucks at least it makes sense since they are an actual good team with a superstar instead of a team on life support, but they are still somewhat culpable here as a recent example.

If more teams tell players "Hey if you want a trade we'll try, but it's possible it won't happen, if that happens sorry not sorry" then I think this will correct itself over time.

Leonhart4 posted...

The Knicks are still out there convincing people they're a free agent destination huh

I was referring to the nets

Leonhart4 posted...

I wouldn't even consider what Lillard did to be "nasty" unless you just feel bad that he made the front office's job too hard.

I consider the front office's job as important too, so yeah I do.

I don't eve think what the blazers have done is particularly egregious in terms of team building. Nurkic and mccollum were good players and with nurkic on the way down, simons is on the way up. I have to assume they tried trading the #3 pick and simply could not find any suitors. Dame himself missed tons of time over the past couple of seasons, there are tangible reasons why the blazers have underperformed besides "Wow the blazers just suck the most ass at everything like the angels in baseball." It's not their fault that LA and NY are super popular free agent destinations where they can ask lebron to go there and he will, and boom you have a superteam. They even overpaid jerami grant just to try and convince dame to stay, which by the way I still have issue that he waited till after they did that to ask out, even though they already drafted scoot by that point.

The bottom line for me is, I don't think the player should have power over the franchise. The franchise's duty is to pay the player, and the blazers fulfilled that. The player has a responsibility to be comfortable with the contract they are signing and the full implications of it. He signed his 2 year deal last year, when things were laready going squirrely, he could've been out by 24-25 if he had not done that. But he did, so I don't care about what he wants. He has done it to himself by signing the contract with full knowledge of what it entailed. That he expected he could just force his way out at any time is a him problem, not a blazers or anyone else problem. The worst thing I think of is that they hired billups and dame himself endorsed that move. So they don't deserve to be put on blast for that considering they did that to placate dame.

Leonhart4 posted...

Because I think Lillard actually wanted to be there when he signed the extension. The dude genuinely seems to love the fanbase there. I just think he finally got tired of being in a dead end situation, and it didn't seem like it was getting better anytime soon.

We just expect players to suck it up and deal with it because they're being paid so much, but the Portland GM or coach could leave for another team anytime he wants if they offered him a job, or the team can get rid of the players if they feel like it. It's just the players who get stuck because of the contract.

I don't think that the coach/GM making several mil per year and the player making dozens of mil per year is comparable. When you make the kind of money that the players do, there are sacrifices and I think that is fair.

tough imo. Like I said I'm okay with requests. But they are just that, requests. Demands are too much for me.

Like if the difference between dame and harden iyo is "harden is a noted buttmunch while dame has always been a good soldier" I just don't care about that at all, which is where we differ I guess. But fundamentally they both have tried/forced their way off teams by getting nasty with ownership and the front office.

Leonhart4 posted...

Part of the problem for some of these players is that the only way for them to get out of a bad situation is to make a public stink. You can call it unprofessional (in the cases of Kyrie, Simmons, and Harden, I'd absolutely agree), but they're also kinda stuck between suffering in a bad situation or looking like the bad guy in order to get out of it.

Lillard deserves better than to spend the rest of his career on a team that wasn't trying to win, but they weren't going to get rid of him unless he forced their hand.

Then he shouldn't have signed the extension. He had years of precedent that the blazers hadn't been able to make it happen before he signed it, if he had doubts then he shouldnt' have re-upped with them. But I do not find it acceptable that the mindset is "Well I'll sign it and get my money, and then I can force a trade if things go south." That's just not how I want it to work.

If I recall correctly, he didn't even give the blazers a reasonable amount of time before he started going on the way he did. Like, at least ask and give them time to survey the land, and actually negotiate with the heat. But it was trade request, then boom "Hey other teams, don't trade for me." That's not acceptable. I don't believe that players, even franchise ones, deserve both the monetary security of an extension and the freedom to choose where they want to go mid contract.

Leonhart4 posted...

He did this during media day last year with the giant fake dreadlocks. He wants them to have to use a picture of him with ridiculous hair whenever they display his profile during games, and it's such a great troll job.

I honestly had no idea that was the case I thought he legit had dreadlocks lmao.

Yeah, I don't think dame is a bad person by any means. I just think he acted unprofessionally.

He probably reports no matter who trades for him because the NBA told him to. We've seen what happened with simmons, they can withhold your pay and your year on the contract if you hold out. I suspect harden will be coming around before too long as well (The NBA told him the same thing and I assume they will get involved if they suspect him of not giving his full effort).

I mean, if by yield you're referring to his last second rescinding of his request, I don't think that means anything. By that point portland had been resolute that they werne't accepting the heat's package as presented, and dame had already been reprimanded by the NBA that "You had better play for whatever team has you", so whether he rescinds that request or not based on him going to toronto than milwaukee, I don't think that made a difference.

Leonhart4 posted...

Also one more thing on Lillard and I'll be done. Regarding him "sabotaging his trade value," he isn't obligated to help Portland maximize their return any more than they're obligated to send him where he wants.

If anything, it benefits him to lower his trade value because his eventual destination will be better off if they have to give up less to acquire him.

I mean, it's a double edged sword. In theory that could happen sure. But we have seen what happens when the coin lands on the other side. If the franchise calls the bluff then the player is boned.

BlueCrystalTear posted...

While the Bears still suck, they at least didn't sign a mediocre QB to an egregious contract that has locked them out of getting a team to support him. Dimes thinks he's in the league of Josh Allen and Joe Burrow, but he's actually on the Derek Carr level. Once this contract is done, I'm willing to bet Danny will be a journeyman backup at best. Nobody's gonna invest that kind of money in him... well, maybe the Jets will. They seem willing to embarrass themselves.

You say that like derek carr is a bad qb

Devin Vassell gets a 5/146 rookie extension from spurs

Leonhart4 posted...

I think you give GMs too much credit if you think they're above stuff like that

Perhaps, but I don't tgink correlation equals causation here. They got a better deal than Miami offered. That doesn't automatically mean they were never going to deal with Miami, generally it means Miami didn't make a good offer. Which is dames fault.

Leonhart4 posted...

Nah, don't put this all on Dame. Reportedly when it was clear he wasn't going to Miami, he said he wanted to stay in Portland, and he was told it was too late for that. Portland did him dirty by blatantly refusing to do business with his preferred destination, regardless of whether you think Miami's offer was good or not. They weren't sending him there.

Also I don't want to hear that "Herro didn't fit" what the Blazers wanted to do. Then just flip him like you just did with Holiday. You could have gotten a good return on Herro, too. They just didn't want to send Dame where he wanted to go, so I don't want to hear that he's the bad guy here.

If anything, the problem is that Dame wasn't willing to be more of a bad guy and a bully because he didn't want to alienate himself from the Portland fanbase. Portland called his bluff, and he folded.

Hard disagree with this, I don't think any GM will do something like that out of spite. The fact is that they got more than the heat could reasonably offer.

There is 0 chance they get for herro what they got for jrue

Every game they lose makes it less likely he will. They took a gamble by having him start and they lost, now they're behind the 8 ball. At this point they're in the sunk cost fallacy.

Boston has to be right there with milwaukee as favorites imo

I think the blazers did amazing, and I'm not a fan of how dame handled the whole thing. But the fact the blazers were able to get more than the heat's best offer (that they could've offered, not that they did offer afaik) is a huge win. Between dame and simmons, I am hoping players start to get it in their head they can't bully these franchises around as much as they think they can. Making a trade request is fine, but if the franchise doesn't feel like they can get good value then the player should play out his contract.

wg64Z posted...

It's just so frail, I get slammed around the mosh pit so much I never have the stamina or acceleration to have any long game. It feels more like a "Win harder" machine that excels if it gets a lead, but struggles to get it in the first place.

Honestly, I don't think the vehicle is frail, it's just a combination of factors. Low acceleration means you're suck in the middle of the pack to start the race. Low recovery means you can't boost much to get to the front. And each boost you do is that much harder to get back in the pit stop. Like per hit the stingray isn't taking a ton of damge like the fox is but it just takes so many hits because of those factors.

Honestly, I have found that if I am in the front but I'm low on boost, it might be wise to intentionally sandbag a bit and try to hit the skyway one more time and surge ahead for the win. I have not had much success at all actually holding a lead, all my wins have been me taking it on the last lap. If you get out in front then you can't boost that much to hold it, and you'll end up short on sparks for when someone eventually catches you. The stingray feels like the vehicle most reliant on proper skyway timing, and you should at least be hitting it twice each race.

It is surprisingly competent in the more turn-heavy courses, I actually did better with it than the fox on white land 2. Tracks with lots of sharp turns allow the stingray's handling to actually matter. But so far the winning strat with it seems to be either "Don't boost and rely on the skyway" or "get a KO" I've won 3 races with it and all 3 of them were due to one of those 2 strats.

They need to pull carr. He clearly isn't himself and winston is fine as a backup.

Moved over to the stingray, it definitely seems like the worst of the four vehicles. It's not unusable but man the recovery without the durability is just tough to deal with, on top of the acceleration issues.

Apparently raiders chandler jones got arrested for violating a protective order

Starting to seem like the raiders were right to keep him away

Leonhart4 posted...

It's Lions vs. Packers for a rare interesting Thursday night game

I feel lied to

tazzyboyishere posted...

what

Overused. Basically the 2nd most powerful tier behind broken ubers

Honestly the skyway is just another point to golden fox's favor I think, because you don't really have to wait for a particular spot on the course to pop it. Just using it period means you can p much boost full on the rest of the lap

I want to save everyone but frasier crane

I want to save everyone who is still unsafe but
Selma Bouvier-Terwilliger-Hutz-McClure-Discothque-Simpson-D'Amico

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_Blur_ posted...

at least you only wasted 1 ticket as opposed to 6!

One of my crash outs was near 1st place too...actually almost all my crash outs are. That's when I get too aggressive! Or I hit one of those damn red vehicles. Too bad the spin attack doesn't work on them.

Honestly just sounds like you need a mindset shift. It feels great to win but in a GP, esp early on when there's 3-4 races left, if you're unsure of yourself it's better to just conserve your energy. Especially with how many bumpers get laid down (I think there's too many). But you're still better off barely making the cut every race than if you crash out 2 races in!

Being aggressive in stuff like 99 or pro tracks is more viable because you aren't spending tix for those, but for GP/mini don't put yourself on the line so early on

So josh jacobs is garbage now huh

lmao I saw goku black trending on twitter the other day and it was all about how terrible this EZA is gonna be

LeonhartFour posted...

:(

Sorry, I forgot you were a cowboys fan, I was more poking fun at the last few posts of the previous topic lol

Topic title should've been "Diggs out for season"

and horn is injured too

I think they will give Ford a shot next week before resorting to a trade

all shine's plats, gone

Yeah I mean I like dahngrest, I just think it's overrated. It's fine, but I wouldn't rate it above plenty of other dungeons/town themes in that game.

You know what is overrated? Dahngrest theme. Every time vesperia comes up somewhere on the internet I see people gushing about it and I just don't get it.

I won a GP! I went 1, 3, 2, 1 in the first four so I could coast in Silence. Won by 40 pts lol.

Still don't have a win outside GP though, both my wins have been in those races

looking at the schedule, who in the world decided panthers/saints was MNF worthy? Lol

BlueCrystalTear posted...

I don't agree. He was an adequate QB asking for great QB money. You let him shop around and, when nobody wants to sign him for his asking price, you can get him for cheaper. If he does get a deal elsewhere for that money, then another team is in a bind while you get to rebuild. The Giants put themselves into cap hell just to sign a QB who was asking for far more than he's worth. So they're dead in the water because they signed him instead.

Also... the Commies didn't think Kirk Cousins was worth that kind of money. And if what he's done (or hasn't) in Minnesota since is any indication, they may have been right.

I think someone else would have signed him. And I don't think it matters to teams if you have to spend another 5 years before you can rebuild due to a bad contract vs starting a rebuild earlier. If you let a guy go and he actually turns out to be good, then you just boned your franchise and probably lost your job just like you would have if the guy you signed turns out to be bad.

I concede the tag would have been the best idea, but if jones said "either sign me at this or I'm leaving if you tag me" then I think they had to do it. Teams just don't have the leverage when it comes to QB imo.

You mention the commanders, have they done any better? If you're telling me they're better off having not paid cousins, I think that's crazy, cousins' critiques aside.

There was no reason not to sign jones imo. It's always easier in hindsight the moment that the dude sucks, but if the giants don't sign him they're dead in the water for several more years anyway, at least. Yes it's a lot of money but jones also had his best season last year, it's not like there was 0 reason to believe he would continue to improve. Commanders had the same problem when they had kirk cousins, and they haven't been relevant since they decided not to pay him. You just have to pay the guys and if they don't work out, then oh well. But you don't just not take the shot.