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I don't know what the story will be but I'm super happy to be back in Japan.

Yea I hope Watkins wins too. Probably would have said Rodri was most impactful player of the season. When he’s out, City is not anywhere near the same team.

Except our team doesn’t look gassed. We are dominating 4th quarters (Maxey insanity not withstanding). Our conditioning is far better right now. Issue is freaky injuries (Bojan, Randle, Mitch - not really, that’s Embiid). OG and Brunson last game just sucks. Friday will be really interesting test without OG.

This is fair. Not overly stressed by it. We have 5 players with 15+ g/a contributions. Been a lot of spreading the wealth this season.

I don’t know. It’s the playoffs and best players need to play, especially in close, intense games. The bench is super thin and we have no real rotational players left. It is what it is. This is always been the problem with OG… great player but can never rely on him. Worried about giving him a massive contract.

It’s a hard one. Foden has been great deserves the recognition but feel like the expectations for Saka must be through the rough if 25 g/an aren’t recognized. Rodri has been immense but so has Rice, would have been fine with either. And yea, no defenders from the best defensive team seems kinda nuts and more on name recognition than anything. All in all, still a pretty damn good list and won’t complain.

No they can't. They're -25 with him off the court and significantly better with him on it. This Pacers team is good. As for Boston, they're the best and healthiest team in the league. Of course they're highly likely to win. Think the Knicks could hang with them if they had Randle/Mitch though. ETA: Brunson comes back and Knicks go on a run, then OG pulls his hamstring. This is tiresome.

Knicks can't win this without Brunson. Also they're playing shit defense. The lack of a rotation is catching up.

I’ve aged 30 years and it’s only game 1. Fucking hell.

I don't understand how any professional athlete has social media. In a world of anonymous ability to say whatever anyone wants with no repercussions, it's destructive to their mental health. I've read the comments on Xhaka, Havertz, Rice (when his gf is posted), Saka (post-Euros) social media posts and it's insane. I can just imagine how bad it is on Nunez's.

Also did this with my wife recently. You’re hitting all the bangers!

This is a set of rewatches I can get behind. I did this with my wife who hadn’t seen the shows recently and it was glorious. Next up for us is Friday Night Lights.

Oh it’s possible. Just like I think Fulham is possible. I just think it’s unlikely. Last season City won like 17 in a row to win the title. Doubt it’ll be massively different this time. It’s not like they’re unhealthy.

And yet, I doubt City drops points. But we really did compete. 14-1-1 in 2024. Proud of the team.

And opposing fans make fun of Saka for limping after games. Dude took studs to his knee, nowhere near the ball and VAR didn’t even check it.

The Fall Guy was great. Wildly entertaining with incredible chemistry between Gosling and Blunt. Makes me want to watch Edge of Tomorrow for more Blunt smolder.

Nah. Emery manager now wasn’t same as when he was at Arsenal. He actually learned a lot from what went wrong. Emery is a good coach but Arsenal needed a true vision post Wenger and that was something Emery didn’t have.

Most did but there were definitely loud, vocal fans that wanted to sack Arteta after finishing 8th a second time and then sack him again when we collapsed to finish 5th. Gary Neville is famous for coming out and saying that "4th is the ceiling for Arsenal with Arteta and this squad". But smart fans saw what Arteta was doing. You could see the vision he had for the team. You could see the details he was putting into the squad. You could see the purpose in who they were signing and how they fit into the team (outside of Havertz). And you could start to believe that as those pieces started to come together, there could be something special there. I think the All or Nothing doc helped some of that too. It showed the progress and the loss, it showed the leadership of Arteta and the obsessiveness over details. Even though that third season collapse was poor, you saw the hint of something more to come if he got the players he needed to to build his vision. And now you end up with a team that's competing for a title for a second year in a row, that leads the league in goals scored, goals against and while they'll probably still lose out to City, they're right there competing and bloody fun to watch.

Not sure this is totally normal though. What the Bengals have sacrificed to have insane size is athleticism as both Brown's had a very low RAS score. Mims is the first athletic OL they've drafted and add that with his arm length and you have high upside. Whether he gets there is a different story (as discussed previously).

I'm so disappointed.

The fact it’s so bonkers makes it fantastic. Highly recommended for how stupid it gets.

That the Knicks are a pack of hyenas and they want no part of them.

They could if Chris Wood didn’t hate Arsenal. Opportunities are there.

Forest is killing me.

I know. It's tiring. We're competing with perfection. So hard to win. I mean, Liverpool had 97 pts and lost the league! That's just insane.