I know what you mean but DAL has only won by 4 points on aggregate over 2 games and would have lost the 2nd had Luka missed the last three pointer.
But it certainly feels like DAL can turn it on when they have to.
Most of the guys on VSIN will be feeling vindicated about their decision to back Wemby for DPOY - they were horrified when he didn't get it and he probably would have blocked that attempt.
@emarktaylor yeah the two teams are really closely matched. But when one closely matched team is executing in the endgame and the other isn't, it's decisive. Wolves can def turn it around but at this point it will take sustained next level excellence from Ant to do it.
I'm not usually a Rudy defender but i feel like it's time for people to let that go. Guarding Luka alone on the perimeter while he dances isn't what he won the award for. No one in the league can do it reliably so 🤷
I know it's cheap, simplistic, inaccurate, surface level analysis to say this is on Ant. But if Minnesota wants to win, isn't this still really kinda on Ant?
26 minutes for KAT? I know it was the Naz game but there were a bunch of possessions he should've been in there. Maybe including that last defensive possession. What's up with that rotation?
Speaking of that last defensive possession: what the hell? (also: lol)
@claude yeah so it was def funny to see him on skates because he's so long, he looked like a baby deer. But the play isn't his fault. Defending a wizard one on one on the perimeter isn't his thing, just as you say. My point is the team shouldn't have hung him out there like that. That's not his job
From the ceremony for the Gershwin Prize for songwriters that aired on PBS earlier this year. That's Bernie Taupin hanging on the piano. An exquisite performance of Elton's best song (imo, but it is). He debuted this song in 1972 also as a solo performance on the piano, and that's the way it should be played imo. Maybe I posted it before. If so, here it is again. Incredible, I think
Saw a couple good #movies this week. First up was the classic #Hitchcock adaptation of REBECCA, one of the all time great Gothic romance thrillers. We got to see a lovely print of it on the big screen at the iconic, beloved Hollywood Theater here in #Portland. It's an extremely subversive film for the era (1940!!), with brilliant #gender themes and brazen #queer subtext. Was presented as part of a queer film series and the crowd was brilliant - knowing and engaged but respectful. Superb
Art and artists really are strange. This film has a lot of really smart, thoughtful things to say about the relations between men and women, and the damage that power disparities cause. Yet we know about Hitchcock's treatment of women. Ain't that something.
While I def agree with the takes in the Deadcast that the pre-Fire versions of Scarlet Begonias from 1974 and 1976 are fantastic, I have two additional notes:
After that era the solo section within Scarlet was sometimes pushed to new heights, with surging, thrilling peaks (like Estimated Prophet in the same time frame).
The version right after the debut of Fire is, inexplicably, another standalone Scarlet, and it has one of the finest outro jams of all:
@drewphish for decades this only circulated with an absolutely brutal cut to a mediocre audience tape near the peak. Charlie circulated this upgrade without any real comment that it fixed one of the all time harshest tape cuts on record! A true delight.
Some shoutouts for the even more superb than usual Deadcast episode on Scarlet Begonias:
the more other pods I hear the more I appreciate the role Rich plays on the production side. Always additive, never intrusive
huge shouts to Bob Weir's utterly iconic part esp. early in the song - perhaps second only to China Cat for blowing new heads' minds when they realize that's Bob not Jerry
feels like this song opened up Billy's drumming in a style that helps define the year
Karl Anthony Towns and Rudy Gobert are now both...winning basketball players?!? It's def true at the moment but I feel like saying it out loud will break the spell. Sorry guys #nba
@mrcompletely As a Celtics fan, that was the most exhausting game one of a conference final I’ve ever watched. This is gonna be an amazing series. Two completely scrappy clubs.
Neither of these teams knows how to close a game but Boston has been terrible at it longer so they have experience on their side. If they employed a head coach that might help #nba
Fwiw, anyone freaking out about the insane/idiotic/abuse enabling upcoming windows "feature" aka OS level spyware on an immediate/practical basis should realize you'd have to buy one of the new "copilot plus" line of machines to even have the hardware to run the stupid thing. It's not about to be enabled on whatever you're using now. Yes, there are lots of reasons to be mad at MS over this, all those things are valid, I don't wish to debate how bad this is (it's very bad), just a point of fact.