Stephan Curry’s impossible three point shot was the talk of twitter as team USA won gold again in basketball and is rightly considered a huge moment for the team in the Olympics.
But the real story is European basketball has progressed so far since the days of the original dream team of Bird, Jordan, Magic and Barkley that both France and Serbia are making these games, GAMES.
I may live to see another country win the Gold vs a dream team.
Between Walz’s issues with Stolen Valor and Kamala’s fake crowds I’m really wondering if the Democrats won’t be changing one or more horses in next week’s convention.
Given the coup against Biden it’s very possible. I think they just should have done the 25th Amendment but they don’t want to risk a 50-50 senate for the next 100 days or more.
Eventually reality wins out and the reality of the same Kamala that the were saying was a weakness for Biden remains.
The real question in Russia right now is what will the Ukrainians do with the initiative they have seized.
Will they like Stonewall Jackson in the valley use this initiative to try to turn Russian forces out of the Donbas region or will this like Jeb Stewart try to wreak havoc on a wider area or will they like Braxton Bragg that Lookout Mountain await the Russian response.
This decision might decide the war or at least as much of the war that takes place before the election.
In Venezuela Maduro fresh from stealing an election is getting all kinds of offers for amnesty if he leaves the country rather than continuing his crackdown to suppress the people after the steal.
What it really comes down to is does he want to spend his stolen money there or somewhere else? Of course if he leaves a lot of those folks who are doing the grunt work of Murder and oppression will have their days numbers so even if he wants to go they might not allow it.
I’m sure there are more than a few Democrats in Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin watching what happens there.
Finally can someone explain to me how Boeing gets a new giant defense contract given their massive problems lately?
I don’t know how much they’re paying their lobbyists in DC but apparently they’re worth every penny and more.
When Marcus Smart was traded away for Kristaps Porziņģis I thought this was one of the biggest mistakes the team had ever done.
How delightful to be wrong although in fairness getting Holiday was likely just as important if not more.
Derick White had his face smashed into the garden floor in the first have which cost him a tooth. As the game. White says he’d lose them all for a title. If you look at that play in slow motion you’ll be surprised that he was able to come back in.
Was a tad surprised that Brown got the MVP over Tatum. I thought Jason played one of his best games, particularly in terms of passing but Brown has been first rate right along as well.
I suspect this won’t be a bid deal to anyone except for sports writers on talk radio looking for something to argue about.
Dallas actually didn’t play a bad game at all but had plenty of shots that really should have fallen but didn’t.
Of course Dallas’ biggest problem was the Celtics defense that was smothering.
If Dallas adds a piece or two I would not be surprised to see a rematch next season.
Now that the title is in had a few questions:
Does Horford retire now that he has a title?
Given their salary cap situation do they simply try to run it back with the same team?
With a title in hand will the Celtics still be hunger enough to repeat?
Will Jason Tatum finally get credit as a leader by the Boston press (I’m guessing maybe)
One of the side effects of the Boston Celtics being blown out in game four vs the Mavericks after winning the first three is to remind us just how Great Tom Brady is and why he deserves a place in the Pantheon with Bill Russell (11 rings) and Yogi Berra (13 Rings) or maybe even beyond them.
Both Yogi and Bill had an advantage that Tom did not, the ability to either:
Have a bad game
Have your opponent have a great game
This advantage is inherent to a playoff series. You can lose a single game or multiple games, you can have a bad night, your team can have a bad night, you can make a huge mistake in a game, and you can still win because it’s a best of seven series.
Not Tom Brady.
In football it’s one and done, if you have a bad day, tough luck, you’re out.
If your opponent has an incredible game (think Pats Eagles) even if you played great, tough luck you’re out.
If your opponent has a lucky break (Think Pats Giants and the Helmet catch) tough luck your out.
That’s why it’s so hard to win at that level in football and that’s why Tom Brady is and will remain the GOAT until someone matches his level.
Brady’s Pats were not allowed a game like the Celts had that why even if the green raise the trophy over their heads in the Garden Tomorrow, they will not be anywhere near Brady level great.
Bill Russell is in my opinion the greatest basketball player who ever lived and no man is more valuable in a world series that Yogi Berra, but when it comes to greatness Tom Brady is right there if not higher.
I’m old enough to remember when, just a few years ago, our friends in the left absolutely and positively insisted that anyone like me who claims the last election was stolen was some kind of conspiracy theorist? And yet now we have not only the story of Colorado by legal decision and Maine by practically a Royal Fiat banning Trump from the ballot.
If things are clean wouldn’t you want to make it a point to note under oath just how clean they are?
I still can’t get over the idea of how much would have been different if the left/democrats simply treated Donald Trump as a normal Presidential candidate and as a normal president and had not bothered all that was done in 2020.
He would be in the final year of his second term and riding off into the sunset. Russia would not be in Ukraine, Hamas would have been kept in check, the US economy would have been booming, the border secure and our strategic petroleum reserve still full
I strongly suspect those who did all they could to steal the last election consider those things as bugs rather than features, less opportunity for graft you see.
Older and wiser heads alas didn’t prevail
Speaking of being old enough to remember I was going through an old backup hard drive I found which had all sorts of goodies from 2015 from me guest hosing Conservatively speaking on WCRN to old podcasts and coverage of all kinds of stuff from all over the country.
One thing I noticed was from a GOP event in NH that included Donald Trump before he had announced. He was leaving the hotel where the potential candidates were and I filmed his departure in passing thinking nothing of it.
Not a single person had a clue what was coming at the time.
I’m also old enough to remember when Swatting was confined to folks like Stacy McCain and the like.
You might forget that during the Kimberlin years Stacy and others involved in exposing that crowd were swatted. At the time I even went to my local police to warn them of that tactic since I was writing on the subject at the time. People didn’t seem to take it all that seriously.
But now we have members of congress and prominent folks like Johnathan Turley now targets
This is BLATANT political intimidation and harassment
Earlier today, @JonathanTurley spoke out bc 3 GOP lawmakers were victims of “swatting” incidents this week
It would have been nice if this stuff was nipped in the bud early but like the banning of conservatives on twitter and youtube it wasn’t considered important enough to tackle so thus you get more of it
Finally yesterday my wife was working and my sons were engaged elsewhere so I went to my local Longhorn restaurant, sat at the bar, order the Spicy Bites (the single best appetizer value/taste combo that exists at any national chain) opened up Volume 3 of Shelby Foote’s epic Civil War trilogy to Hood defeat at Nashville by Thomas and watched the Boston Celtics play the Toronto Raptors at home.
It was the 2nd day of a back to back and stars Jason Tatum and Kristas Porzingis were not dressed and vet Al Horford were all unavailable so we saw a lot of reserves getting serious playing time. It was an exciting game with an odd finish where the Celtics blew a 20 point lead and had to eek out a win that wasn’t decided till the final second of the game, but two things jumped out at me that I hadn’t seen much of if at all in years
At one point in the 2nd quarter when the Celtics lead was seemingly comfortable I looked up at the screen and was shocked to see an NBA team with practically an all white team on the floor, technically you could call it an all “white” five because the only player of color on the floor was ironically Derrick White (who has really come into his own this season) who frankly is light enough to as they used to say in the old days “pass”.
I suspect it’s been more than half a century since that has been the case but there was something that was even more shocking to me that NBA fans haven’t seen much of these days and that was the play of Center Luke Kornet who instead of launching 3 point shots from the outside was actually hustling to be under the basket to retrieve rebounds and be in a position to be fed for easy layups by a charging White or Brown.
Just a decade or two ago a center playing, well like a Center would not be much of a story but in today’s game it’s practically headline news. I’d like to see more of it because in the end, that tends to pay off.
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