Contentious C

Gotta love millionaires who don't know the rules of their own job. After your super millionaire keeps missing.

Probably, because who were they going to get that was better, but I feel like McMillan is only a relatively incremental improvement over someone like Doc Rivers. Compared to Budenholzer, he may as well be playing 7th-dimensional chess. Funny how being an actual great coach, being rewarded for being "great", and being successful can be 3 different things. Sure, it's a league where talent wins out above all else, but if the Clips somehow win a title, no one is going to point out Ty Lue's contribution to two quite different title teams. They'll just chirp about LeBron and Kawhi. On the other hand, I thought the Suns hiring Monty Williams was a great move for them, and it's sure as Hell looking that way; adding Chris Paul just accelerated their timetable. Then there's Bud & Thibs, who are "GENUISES~!" but will likely cry themselves to sleep with their COTY awards and never even make a Finals appearance.

I really hope people realize how much FUN these games can be without being badly played. Collins is having himself a quarter.

And the Joe West Fan Club is no more (unless someone can see it on profiles as a mouse-over; I don't think it works for your own profile). Eh, that's definitely OK.

Well, good to see the David Stern Memorial Small Market Steering Committee is on the floor tonight in uniform. Too bad it didn't account for Playoff P missing free throws.

Ben Simmons is the Steve Sax of Tom Watsons.

Uh-oh, PJ Tucker actually hit a shot this series. Bucks blowout incoming!

Not a good trade, but at least it means no longer expecting Walker to accomplish anything for us. Should clear some cap space, too.

If Giannis v Harden were a hotel, it'd be a Travelodge. Or maybe a Motel 6 Steps before Taking a 3.

This is why we can't have nice things.

This is like Game 1 flipped on its head, except the Hawks will possibly take both. I turned this off when the lead was, what, 25? And that was in the third. What a huge collapse. Now I just gotta pull for the Hawks the rest of the way (unless they run into Phoenix).

The replays of that Tucker foul made that look like the real Finger Poke of Doom. Eeeek.

Right, jae's pain and sadness is way more painful and sad than a Mavs fan's lately...

Hah, without Irving coming back in a real way for at least Game 6, I doubt we get to a Game 7. That ankle roll did not look good. But as they say, a playoff series doesn't start until someone wins on the road; hasn't happened yet. Guess we'll see tomorrow night.

My brain is a weird place. I had a dream the other night that Criterion chose to release Wonder Woman 1984 and I finally understood what it felt like to see a movie on their list that was worse than Armageddon.

That...sounds like it could be at a very different type of expo (though one partially populated by the same guys).

Man, that former Houston MVP must be the fraudiest fraud to ever fraud: goes down with an injury, and his team waxes their opponent by 40 without him? Fraud, make him turn in that trophy.

It seems to me you should be streaming this experience.

This Atlanta team isn't half bad. Their depth could be a serious problem for either the Nets or Bucks if they advance. Then again, how many eggs like this can Philly la--oh right, Doc Rivers as coach.

Got far enough along in the 2nd Witcher 3 playthrough to be reminded of highlights and lowlights: the cutscene after the boss fight with Imlerith has to be one of the most METAL things in all of gaming, if not in general. But it's weird that one of the quests that soon follows has that incredibly lame shared dream bit, which feels like something from a 90s FMV sequence and is easily the worst cutscene in a game full of cutscenes. Think I'm just going to barrel through and start New Game Plus to see if it's any more difficult or enjoyable. But I'm pretty sure at this stage I could never really do this on Blood & Broken Bones, let alone Death March. I also spent a little time with Her Story, which I hadn't played in probably 3-4 years after the initial engrossing playthrough. It's strange - but also kind of delightful - to be reminded there are games that want you to play them a certain way without necessarily forcing you to do so, by actually offering the true carrot of more rewarding gameplay if you do what you ought to, rather than cheese the system. I've only put maybe 7 hours into it over the years, but I think it's my favorite notion of what a video game could be for the last 10-15 years. That, or GRIS. I suppose I should give their newer game a try at some point, as well as Return of the Obra Dinn.

Fact. Particularly sad will be the company who's kept him in hair dye for the last billion years of his time on Earth as a lich. Or I don't know, maybe he's a wight, a spotted one, even.

Well, no more Celtics, so GO SUNS for the rest of the playoffs. Beating the Lakers would be enough on its own, but let's get Chris Paul that ring, too.

In addition to the usual eyebrow-raising bullshit, it's also got some serious True Detective Season 1 vibes.

And yet ESO felt like a huge step backward in terms of how it handled. It was somewhere between Morrowind & Oblivion, as far as I was concerned, and that's well beyond the "won't play this shit anymore" line for me. Played it for about half as long as it took to download and then ejected it into space. After a few incredibly frustrating bouts of trying to play Gwent on Witcher 3, I finally started buying cards and paying close enough attention to put a good deck together. Now I'm roflstomping my way across the continent for everyone's cards. Sasha was the only challenging opponent I've seen in the last 30 matches I've done. Kinda sucks there's a romance option locked behind Gwent crap, and another one locked behind the fistfighting mini-game, but I guess Geralt's gotta punch a lady in the face once in a while to get some action...

They say the tiniest human penis ever measured was 1.1 inches - I guess now we know where they located it.