Well…405, you certainly had a big week-end over at The Daily Cupcake. It is what it is. It’s not the same place. It isn’t the Wild West anymore. I’m guessing when Royce Young sold the blog he signed two different clauses…1 a clause to not compete clause, and 2 a self-castration clause which would tame down the Wild West and bring the overall tone more in line with Mr. Rodger’s Neighborhood or The View.
It is what it is, but those were fun times when it was okay to have a sense of humor instead of the NY Times crossword puzzle.
Maybe Sam Anderson is consulting on the blog makeover. He and Royce Young are buds.
Let’s not dwell on this because it’s Final Four week and the NIT Final Four week as well. I’ve actually become a fan of St. Bonaventure after they beat OU and they play in the semi-finals tonight after beating Virginia on the road in Round 3.
It’s a wonderful time of the year to be a basketball fan.
Let’s go. My top six NBA picks as of this moment. I’m guessing we’re going to be fairly close given the mental notes I took from your posts before you lost your mind and were banned over there.
It happened to me as well. Been there, done that. Life goes on. I think you’ll find it a cleansing life change of sorts.
I’m going ….1 Paulo Banchero, 2 Jaden Ivey, 3 Jabari Smith, 4 Chet Holmgren, 5 Keegan Murray, and 6 Mark Williams.
The Sharpe kid from Kentucky doesn’t interest me. The Thunder don’t need another project, they need a basketball player. I’m not saying his athleticism should be ignored…I just think the Thunder with a smart draft are going to be in pretty good shape heading out of this summer.
Chet Holmgren? Why do I have him at four? I think he can be a good NBA player if he lands on a team where some of his limitations are hedged so to speak. I would worry about him if he gets drafted by a total shitshow team.
Consider the schedule he just played. Gonzaga in essence played nine legitimate games this season against Tournament caliber teams. These teams were… Texas, Duke, Alabama, Texas Tech, St. Mary’s three times, Memphis, and Arkansas. Gonzaga with Andrew Timme next to Chet creating time and space only went 5-4 in those games. If you pull out the three games versus St. Mary’s, they went 3-3.
I have Jaylin Williams from Arkansas circled as a sleeper in this draft. He’s a tough, smart kid who can do it all. I watched him play twelve times this season. Give me your thoughts on Jaylin next week.
Bill Self to the Thunder? Self has a $5.4-million-dollar buyout. I can’t remember what Billy Donovan’s buyout was when Presti snatched him away from the Florida Gators.
I just feel like if the Jayhawks ring the bell, this could be one of those times when a guy who’s been in the meatgrinder at Kansas for this long… might want a change of life move. His sister still lives in Edmond and as you know…the Thunder are a team on the cusp of being pretty good if they want to be.
Not a slight at Mark Daigneault, but “Just because you worked at a Taco Bell, doesn’t mean you should manage a Taco Bell.”
That’s it for me this morning. We’re headed off to Denver for the Final Four week-end to be with the grandchildren. My son lives five houses down from Monte Morris of the Nuggets in the lovely Bonnie Brae neighborhood which melds into the highly liberal Washington Park area of Denver.
Send me some notes for the ‘ Is Russell Westbrook a Greek Tragedy episode?’
Take care.