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You tell 'em, girl. Wait...are y'all fucking? Personally, I don't want to come between you two and the special, intimate relationship that has been developed.

I think you convinced me over the internet.

He left his own team Eliminated OKC from contention Ran to 73 win team Ok, Niners is the dude who calls into random sports talk radio shows during his shift at Arby's when he is suppose to be taking out the trash.

...If you're preaching about protecting team, I'm pretty sure talking about the play itself is the exact opposite of protecting the team. If it's one surefire thing that will send a team into panic mode, it's letting them know indirectly that they have no chance in hell without their clear team MVP. Other than Simmons, every other major player on the team played like they knew what was up. Even Pop said after GM 2 they didn't play like they believed. Yeah, motherfucker because you let it be known that the rest of team couldn't carry Kawhi's jockstrap. Instead of just saying they couldn't dwell too much on Kawhi and the team needed to regroup so they could focus on splitting the games in Oracle, he showed his ass and the team played like an eight seed instead of a two seed. For a man who has an elite championship pedigree, he should know not to wear his heart on his sleeves at the most inopportune time. If you start panicking as a head coach, the team you're coaching is going to follow suit.

Yeah, except it was obvious the league wasn't going to punish Zaza in any shape or form and Golden State was going to ream them something fierce in Game 2 (and probably the rest of the series) by any margin they wanted. The officials didn't call game 2 any differently. He didn't help them at all. He just made himself like a hypocritical asshole who knows his team now has no chance now and is super bitter.

Except nobody is asking him to get into a time machine and criticize Bruce Bowen. Also, I doubt anything regarding the truth is going to adversely affect the team. Unless Kawhi Leonard's ankles consist of cells powered by Pop being a bullshit artist, then it's not going to hurt them that bad. Yes, a group of tall, strong young virile men who can fly through the air like gazelles need the protection of a constantly cranky, ornery old white man. It's practically Blue Chips IRL. They were losing the game by 40 the other night so apparently he wasn't protecting them very well.

You should probably shut up on this matter since you decided to repurpose the definition of hypocrisy for utter bullshit. Even you knew it didn't make any sense. Therefore, nobody is gonna take your word on the duties of a NBA coach. "Come on guys, Gregg Popovich isn't being a hypocritical asshole....he is just being willfully ignorant. Clear difference here."

It isn't as intriguing as it once was because now most guys don't give their fight night weight anymore, but HBO doing that for the boxing bouts was always great because someone like Lampley was able to provide context and another narrative. If they want to help the commentary, that would be a great tool because there is only so much hyperbole and so many superlatives Joe Rogan can use to say someone is big for their weight class. Why not give them evidence to prove their case? Brian Stann already goes above and beyond so why not allow him to throw a little bit extra in there?

Except they don't want to deal with having more flyweight divisions than welterweight divisions. When you know it takes at least 3 or 4 years to get something popping, you are not going to invest in something unless there is a real endgame. If there is another Conor McGregor or Ronda Rousey in those new divisions in a Cage Warriors type promotion, then they will invest in doing that. For 15 years, Zuffa profited off of letting other promotions do their dirty work in terms of developing fighters. Therefore, the better alternative is what they've been doing and that's why they became a 4 billion dollar company. I think adding a women's flyweight division and maybe women's atomweight is kinda the ceiling. You would have enough titles and enough weight classes for the women for all your events. The thing about interim titles is you can get rid of them at any time and/or unify them. For real belts, you can't do that even if the person carrying the belt is doing 135k buyrates and sub 1 million avg viewer cards. If Zuffa didn't want to do this, then WME-IMG definitely doesn't want to do it especially anytime in the near future. They want big fights ASAP and not to be committed to long term investments that might not even pay off.

Well, it is his shot to lose. No other fighter makes sense. It just comes down to if the UFC can make that fight. Neither Woodley or Bisping wants to lose what they feel is their angle to get a GSP fight. Plus, Woodley is still hunting to fight Nick Diaz. In this climate, it might hard to convey Maia and Romero respectively are your only options.

You have to because across any platform, commission, regulatory body, the fighters are the only consistent variable. It's not really an option. You're going to have promotions who don't give a damn about fighter health. Same with commissions or countries/places where there is no commission. In addition, those who claim to promote fighter health but over compensate and in return driving MMA out (ex. Ken Hayashi in Ontario, parts of Australia, etc.). The only consistent thing is fighters having to cut weight because there are weight classes. Moreover, you're relying on fighters not to mess up any new regulations you have in place. Everytime you make major changes as a commission, you run the risk of not getting major cards because of regulatory matters. California wants to be the standard bearer, but at the same time, no commission is trying to fuck up getting UFC money. Those fines won't make up for that. That's a completely different issue because the standards of testing drastically differ everywhere. Just because I pass a test the commission gave me doesn't mean I'm clean. However, I'm clean until someone accuses me of doing something or rumors float around. There are people put on trial in the court of public opinion before they ever fail a test. However, you have to make weight for any bout contested within specific, defined weight classes. In addition, you might be doing it yourself or need the assistance of several people in your camp. There is no exact science other than keeping your weight at a manageable level. However, the word "manageable" seems to have several definitions for every fighter, camp, or nutritionist/dietitian. Thus, the need for transparency as I was talking about because the endgame is always making money. The commission doesn't want to lose money. The org doesn't want to lose money. The fighters don't want to lose money. Therefore, educating fighters on what they could do the improve the weight cutting process to supplement any new policies put in place is desperately needed. Otherwise, you just have another failed attempt to curb drastic weight cutting. They want legitimate depth in every division. Even with 600+ fighters on the roster, they still have some very top heavy divisions. If they had more actual money draws spread over several weight classes, they would've probably serious experimented with these weight classes before the CSAC made the call.

The problem is at some point you have to trust the fighters to handle this correctly or else you wouldn't need new policies in place. You would just let them continue to bungle the old ones. I think the biggest problem is transparency between the fighters and the promotions. The promotion can't be transparent with the commission if the fighters aren't transparent with them. The UFC tried to the "you can weigh no more than ______ on this day" , but they couldn't really enforce it because you would probably lose several fights on every card. On the other hand, it is ridiculous that have fighters train for several weeks and then decided on fight week or the day of weigh-ins they can't make weight. Even worse, they become seriously ill and the fight is off because they need an IV and/or go to the hospital. No matter how good the new policies sound on paper, the fighters have to be truthful to the promotion and also themselves as to what their bodies can handle. I'm guessing these weight classes can be used by any promotions that wants to use them. I am guessing they will be probably used in Cali's amateur circuit if they aren't being used already. However, I don't see the UFC making changes to their weight classes because the shift in the roster between the weight classes would be crazy. I think they might experiment with more catchweight bouts (using the classes that CA came up with), but I don't see them doing it full time unless they have to due to people missing weight.

I've been wondering what the hell that was. I kid you not...the smaller Malco theater in my area has three auditoriums for one in Malayalam, one in Tamil, and one in Telugu.

Yeah, that's pure bullshit. He is a hypocrite, and I don't hate him for being one. There have been tons of coaches like that. He just is one. He's not above being one just because he is a great basketball coach.

And people are allowed to discuss that hypocrisy. That's what comes with coaching.

Women's 145 update: Dana said that the bizarre GdR situation should resolved soon. Also, he mentioned Cat Zingano as possibly one of the opponent choices for Cyborg in her next fight. I've been beating the drum for that fight for about 2 years now.

I watched it again on Friday, and it's a great film. Can't say that enough.

Well, if his strategy was to kick and keep Stipe off balance...then it worked somewhat. He managed to hobble Stipe with the low kicks to the shin. The inherent problem with that strategy is that generally only works with lighter weight fighters. Both of these dudes are pushing 240+ and over 6 feet tall. You don't have to move much to cover that much space at that size. What Junior should have did is meet Stipe in the middle, head on because it was going happen sooner rather later. I think Junior's team likely thought he got hit too much in the first fight and wanted him stay away for the most part. However, when you know being against the cage is a weakness, you know your opponent is going to press you on that. It's exactly what I said in my post some replies back. They went against what was their best chance of winning really. Your guy can punch (and kick), and you're taking him out of position to throw potent strikes. That's always going to put you at a disadvantage.

I like how the San Antonio Spurs are paying LaMarcus Aldridge a ton of money to be a shrinking violet in crunch time of these games. He is the Joanne the Scammer of these playoffs.

But Golden State put up some really bad shots in the 4th quarter. Really bad. That first three by Steph when he got back into the game with like 7 minutes left in the 4th and Klay's three right around the time Golden State lost their one point lead were horrendous. Those were just two off the top of my head. How the fuck did Curry get the second chance on the three to tie it at 106-106? He should have never gotten that shot off. San Antonio played like they were sleepwalking besides the fouls the refs did call when they were able to get off boards. They had some key shots go in when Golden State cut it to 5 but boy did they choke something fierce after that. Pop got outcoached by MIKE BROWN. MIKE BROWN. Also, if it was that easy to stage a comeback, teams would be surviving getting blown the fuck out by the Warriors in the first half.

They shouldn't have lost GM1 even if he did go down. They were up by as many as 25. How big of a lead do you have to put on Golden State before you feel like your role players like Mills and Simmons can contribute the rest of the way and help keep the lead at a comfortable distance? What the hell happened the David Lee? All these dudes who took advantage of Harden being DOA in GM6 looked out of sorts in the 2nd half of the WCF GM1.

Have we learned nothing from Thursday night how well relying on one player to be on the court and always on point turns out? If they can't protect a 23 pt lead with or without Kawhi, they are in huge, huge trouble.

So so many crying Jordan faces needed to be handed out. I'm dying laughing.

Man, that would be quite a loss for ATT. Based on Joanna's reaction, it seems like they were very close.