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Question on Cardwell

He is such a great contributor. Love his energy, etc. His passing skills for a big have become elite. Always seem to get the ball out to the open player on the perimeter. My one question though, is why hasn't he developed more as a back to the basket inside scorer? I know it's not his game, but I would have thought it would be better at this point. That one off balance hook shot attempt last night looked very awkward. Again, I know he has a defined role in the lineup, just wish he could be more of a traditional scorer at times.

Diamond Sports Group/Braves news

Diamond Sports Group, the owner of what was the Bally Sports regional sports networks, now called FanDuel Sports, has emerged from bankruptcy and will continue as a business:

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The big news for Braves fans that have had trouble finding games the last several years is that as a part of their plan they have reached a deal with Amazon to stream games on Amazon Prime:

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Bronny aka GOAT JR now a full time work from home player


Bronny is too valuable to send on the road. No longer will he have to commute to work, wasting valuable time he can now spend training with his father aka GOAT SR

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OT - Legacy Bands vs New Music (Linkin Park)

This is going to be a rant so please feel free to ignore...

I am little fired up this afternoon about Linkin Park and not in a good way.
I love live music, I love nostalgia and I am willing to put up with a lot of stuff to see the live music I love.
This LP reunion tour has me pretty pissed for a number of reasons and none of them have to do with the new lead singer.
I respect bands need to evolve and I know some of the heavy bands I love can lose their edge after years of success and money changing things.
There is no better (worse) example of this than Linkin Park.
The first three albums were probably close to perfect, I loved them but after Minutes to Midnight...they changed.
The music got soft, it got experimental and it got boring. It was too soft to be played on the radio stations that made them huge and the live shows started to suck.

I was excited about the possibility of the refresh...I did not love the new singer but that was more to do with Chester being irreplaceable and that isn't her fault.
What is avoidable is the setlist for their shows now which is absolute garbage. Half the set is stuff from after M2M and a bunch is off their terrible new album.

This comes to my title which is when bands need to go full Legacy and stop with the new music.
For LP specifially, no one wants the new stuff...we tolerated the bad music with Chester but will not put up with new music without him.
I am sure the tour will be successful but I have a feeling that anyone who saw early LP is going to walk away pretty disappointed.
There are money grabs and then there are MONEY GRABS...this appears to be the latter.

Some bands can do the reunions right after members have past away, it is never perfect but there is a right and wrong way to do it.
Pantera did it right, Alice in Chains has done it right...LP has not.

TL : DR
I want to go to the Linkin Park shows of my youth and the current iteration has ruined that for me. I am sad.

If my bb team is up by 20 points with 2 minutes to go....

...I don't have anyone important on the floor. No starters, no important subs. The risk - reward isn't worth it.
The best thing that can happen at that point is getting the game over with. The worst? Someone blows a knee or twists an ankle
or lands funny and breaks his hip (e.g Chet Holgrem)

With a huge lead and 2minutes, I have my scrubs out there. Let them have some fun. If they get hurt, so big deal.

Which brings me to last night vs Kent State. Coach Pearl played 9 deep, which is great. Each of the 4 subs played 10+ minutes, so they are
important to the team.

When they went up by 20 with 2 minutes to go I don't know who was on the court,
but none of them were scrubs (since none played). Actually, since he only played four subs, at least one starter was out there at game's end. Why?
How could the risk reward calculation justify having a starter out there? Makes no sense.

In Coach Pearl's defense, many coaches do the same thing. Their thinking is you might be up by 20
but the other team could always sink a 21 point shot. Oh wait, that can't happen, can it?
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