Early on Walsh seemed like a guy that had the body but didn't know where to be. Mistimed jumps on rebounds, overextended on rotations, etc. He's tightened it up FAST

I'll be honest the rest of the Sixers roster does nothing for me, but if I were a sixers fan I'd be excited to see where that's going

I dunno what's happening the rest of this series but I think Maxey and Edgcomb is a really fun starting point for team building

Me either. I was not a believer. Big respect for him and the coaching staff

I've heard too many people say they're putting him there for him to not get it

I've always felt Tatum was a lot better but the way Brown has become so much more purposeful in how he draws fouls and attacks defenses is super impressive. He put together an entire season of 2024 Finals MVP play

Optimistic: Bad games happen in the playoffs. Even great teams drop games especially when a lot of threes are involved.

Pessimistic: Sometimes shooting variance knocks you out of the playoffs, like the 2023 ECF

God bless him it's not his fault but Jordan Walsh especially looks like a 2K glitch every time he takes the floor.

Dalano Banton also looks like a MyPlayer that hasn't earned many skill points yet

I mean, Strange(r) things have happened than a team like the Sixers shooting over 40 percent from deep while the better opponent shoots under 30 percent and then the same thing happens 3 more times over the next 5 games

Feels like the worst they have played in months

"ugh, I can't believe the Celtics are dropping a game against a clearly inferior opponent. this should be an easy sweep. clearly they aren't what I thought they were"

- me, watching the Celtics drop game 2 to the Miami Heat in 2024

The positive spin here is Maxey is a 36 percent three point shooter, Edgcomb is a 35 percent shooter. Sixers probably aren't getting 9 combined 3PM from those guys again

Too close to an election

I really thought they were at a level where even on an off night they would beat up a lesser opponent. Disheartening to learn that was wrong

Annual tradition of the Celtics playing like complete trash in Game 2 while the opponent gets hot from 3

I gotta be honest I thought this Celtics team was too good to have a half of basketball like that

Feels like the Celtics came out in Q1, decided they had solved this matchup, Philly started getting hot from 3, and the Celtics' defensive discipline is kind of falling apart. On offense their only move right now is trying to draw fouls, for some reason

oh you hate the radical left? how do you feel about Medicare? Social Security? Unemployment insurance?

yeah i agree, the path to addressing what Jason is talking about is to work hard (probably over years and years) to re-associate "left" in people's mind with New Deal type policies that EVERYBODY loves

easiest way for a Democrat to make voters think they are weird and out of touch is to be out here talking about Hasan Piker

I'm voting "Literally What Are You People Even Talking About" 2028

Why Does America Hate the Left? YouTube video by JasonKPargin

I think this is essentially correct, and it does a good job explaining why Democratic politicians respond to a literal fascist in the White House by going on rants about lefty voters

youtu.be/syW8GoRGSyk?...

I'm learning to fear Jalen Johnson. That guy looks really, really good. Reminds me a lot of young Tatum tbh.

Anyone coached by Erik Spoelstra not named Tyler Herro

I've always liked CJ McCollum

What gets me is how the same people that will talk very adroitly about how essential it is in politics to signal to voters that you like them and share their values, then turn around and lament how selfish and stupid left voters are for not grudgingly pulling the lever for pols that disdain them

Who, ultimately, is responsible for a politician losing? Is it only ever the voters who failed to vote correctly? If not, why does it only ever seem to be the disaffected left voters that are in line for finger pointing after the fact?

Sure, and I would posit that the number of people that consider themselves left of center, living in a jurisdiction that was meaningfully in play, who chose not to vote for Harris bc they didn't agree with her policies ... was very small! But centrist pols want us to argue about them. Why?

there aren't many things i think the republicans could do that would guarantee they don't win another national election for like 16 years. bringing back the mandatory draft is one of them.

(almost but not really)