Embiid had 11 points, not 17. He was +17.  Read more

From what I understand he’s been told to overplay the screens... basically giving his man a free backdoor or cutback lane to the hoop and hope Embiid is there to erase or alter the shot. The Sixers team defense the last two games has been the best it’s been all season so yeah, it’s not just the Raptors shitting their… Read more

You have to give the Sixers players some credit though for mostly enacting their defensive gameplan of “never let Reddick switch onto people” since the playoffs began. Read more

Does anyone actually enjoy watching the Raptors? Siakim’s pretty fun when he’s cooking, but everything else is just sorta drab and uninspiring. Philly inspires mostly hate and annoyance (Jimmy Butler’s corny, Simmons is a fucking goon) but at least I have feelings when I watch them. Toronto’s just sorta...there.  Read more

I don’t buy the idea that a franchise can have choking woven into its DNA. Read more

That’s a good point. The Warriors (or, with some miracle, the Rockets) will play Reddick off the court. In a 7 game series, they will simply not be able to play him. Read more

You missed the other thing that’s been consistent about this entire Raptors run: 

I was saying to my wife last night—OK, I was shouting it to whomever was in the room, which was her and one of our two cats—that the difference between elite NBA coaching and just “pretty good” NBA coaching is a vast gulf. Toronto’s complete failure to do things like “switch so Redick has to defend Kawhi every single… Read more

“This keeps happening. They changed coaches. They traded away DeMar DeRozan, the leading scorer in franchise history, for Kawhi Leonard, one of the very best two-way players in the sport.” Read more

One of the (not the only) ways to look at the reason separate some men’s and women’s sports exist is that there are 2 statistically different populations out there, and that lumping them together would be inherently unfair (or uninteresting, if you prefer) to one population. Read more

I love that he has to keep serving fast food because everyone made fun of him for it once, and he is constitutionally incapable of allowing even the implication he might have been wrong by serving better food now.
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The earnest replies to this article are depressing. If you read this article and you really think the author is saying that Cersei is the smartest than you are an idiot. Read more

I generally don’t care about spoilers because my experience is MY experience. How one person views a scene/story is usually a little different from someone else’s. Now, I kinda don’t like it when the big twist/plot turn is revealed (which, I know, is the basis of a spoiler), but I can handle it because I fancy myself… Read more

Burneko’s point is that sloppy writing and rushed storytelling have ruined our ability to judge the characters. Read more

It was the first fucking scene in the first episode of the first season. They’ve been laying it out for eight goddamn years, man.  Read more

If memory serves - and we all now fickle a thing memory is! - the first ten minutes of the first episode of the entire series presented a threat, and then for the next eight years everyone went around explaining how fucking important that threat was. Then, in the third episode of the final six-episode season, the… Read more

I haven’t done the math, but by my count literally every piece of marketing material for the show has included the phrase “Winter is Coming” which is just a pithy way of saying “the army of the dead is coming and when they do the iron throne won’t be worth dick”. So even if that’s not what the show is about, it’s… Read more

Well, the show itself has respectfully disagreed with your opinion for 7.5 years.   Read more

the stupidest thing is that Cersei can pretty much continue to pretend the white walkers never existed. Read more