Diego Ricardo

That’s big 2021-22 team vibes too. Not enough respect for the opponent. Team a bit too cocky for one with such massive deficiencies in the front court.

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The US needs something similar IMO. Look at Israel - every person there women and men are on the ready with experience.

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We probably don't need all those people in law enforcement or armed forces. However, we could use young adults in mandatory public service on public works and social services.

Helping with controlled burns to avoid wildfires. Infrastructure projects. Emergency response work. You know, just all the little things in government where the taxpayers end up overpaying for the human resource because so much of it is contracted out which means you're paying someone(s) in the middle who is doing very little or basically nothing.

However, I think such an approach would help with that exact thing in the armed forces. Stop contracting out dining facilities. You're going to be carrying a larger force, so go back to soldiers feeding soldiers.

Ty is going in the first round. He’s no worse than 3rd best and the average NFL draft has 3.8 QBs in it.

I fear that this team is going to get bounced early like the JD Davison year.

The only reason that is more of a fear than rational thought is I don't think the team that got bounced by a bad ND team in the first round liked playing with each other at all. These guys seem to really like each other and pay for each other. Their problem are certain physical/talent inabilities not lack of desire to win.

They're just too damn bad defensively. You cannot have a still slightly minus guard defender like Holloway with nothing but soft stretch 4s and 5s and be an adequate defensive unit. Holloway is improved from last season and it still ain't nearly good enough from him most nights. Can't consistently secure rebounds and can't affect shots without fouling from almost any of the bigs.

That ain't fixing itself this season. I've said it before this year: Oats has got to go into the bunker and really scour the tape of college bball's best defensive units. He may need to find a new bench assistant to coach defense. Make some changes to the scouting and report presentation to the players. What this team's defense has been since the end of the 2023 season is not good enough to win a national title or even really just consistently be a credible threat at winning one.

We're cozying up on becoming one of those bridesmaid programs of college basketball that's routinely discussed in the top echelons but you know they're not a credible national title threat because their style won't win 6 straight tournament games. Edit: Still a better place than we were in my college days under Gottfried but still short of where we were hoping Oats would take us a few years ago.

This team ain't had any real tourney aspirations other than being in it past the first week and right now I don't even think that is sure thing.

We are just so fricking arse in the front court. Oats got to get a real arse basketball team's front court not a bunch of stretch 4s and 5s with absolutely no dog in em.

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1. Reports say Diego Ricardo rapes little boys. 2. Unverified reports say Diego Ricardo rapes little boys. I guess you rape littleboys then, huh?

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The report in question is not an accusation against the character of a person or entity. More accurately:

1. Federal agency warns of reported interest from terrorist groups to attack the US by some means
2. Federal agency warns of unverified interest from terrorist groups to attack the US by some means

Since the terrorist groups aren’t going to respond for comments, the functional difference between the two is negligible.

Ultimately, she’s a propaganda/PR officer and this war is unpopular so trying to minimize such reports is a vested interest of the White House I have no interest in indulging. Unlike some people here I don’t clap like a seal because the party apparatus commands it.

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I don’t understand this? If we wiped out most of their Navy how do they have any control over the strait?

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Because they can attach glorified pipe bombs to 50k drones and cause as much havoc on the straight as they could with a navy. Also, they can probably lay just enough mines out there with fishing boats - that don't get blown out of the water first - to essentially make the straits impassable.

People mention the insurance and that is enough for the companies but perhaps not those in command of the vessels. Insurance can make a business whole but getting disfigured or killed when you didn't sign up to be a warfighter is a whole other deal.

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IMHO the USA should insist on a "De-Nazification" kind of post-war structure for Iran in which a Military Occupation Government would act to hunt down and bring to justice all of the "Nazi" fanatics of this Islamic Iranian Terror regime.

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If we're being honest de-nazification in West Germany was just decapitating the high brass and letting the rank and file take over the country.

such a fricking flop

Georgia reduced to just Harden style running into men like a **** ball

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Yup SEC protecting its premier basketball program

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That's definitely what I meant and not just that these officials all get swept up in emotion and become a momentum force multiplier.