GOP_Tiger
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| Registered on: | 1/13/2005 |
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re: Latest Updates: Russia-Ukraine Conflict.
Posted by GOP_Tiger on 11/10/25 at 4:07 pm to VolSquatch
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Not necessarily for freedom of religion lovers
Vol, you and I haven't had problems lately, but this is vile.
The only "church" in Ukraine that has any problems whatsoever is the Russian Orthodox Church, run by a former KGB agent who says that those who die fighting in Ukraine are "martyrs." The ROC has been implicated in dozens of spying and subversion ops in Ukraine. It has nothing to do with freedom of religion and you know it.
On the other hand, Russia has closed every evangelical church in its occupied territories in Ukraine -- many hundreds altogether. -- from different denominations. It does this because those churches are "western."
Which one is actually restricting freedom of religion?
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re: Latest Updates: Russia-Ukraine Conflict.
Posted by GOP_Tiger on 11/10/25 at 11:22 am to Coeur du Tigre
I would like to hear some expert commentary on this sentence from an article in Foreign Affairs, discussing Ukrainian strikes on Russian refineries:
What do y'all think about that claim?
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Although the units used to distill crude oil can be repaired relatively easily after every attack, they erode after the repeated cycles of heating and cooling caused by strikes.
What do y'all think about that claim?
re: Latest Updates: Russia-Ukraine Conflict.
Posted by GOP_Tiger on 11/7/25 at 7:28 am to Coeur du Tigre
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Orders decline" is laughable. The truth is this tank manufacturor has not and is not being paid.
The truth is that the decline is entirely among the civilian division of the company. There's been a complete collapse in orders of railway cars— which shows tremendous weakness in the Russian economy and is a huge problem for Russia, but it's a very different problem from the one implied in the tweet, which suggests a decline in orders of tanks. There is no decline in orders of tanks, nor would there be a decline in production of tanks.
re: Latest Updates: Russia-Ukraine Conflict.
Posted by GOP_Tiger on 11/7/25 at 4:31 am to Coeur du Tigre
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If tweet fails to load, click here. There's no way to spin this ... it's bad news for Ukraine and emblematic of the Ukrainian political failures to properly support the armed forces.
re: Queen is trash
Posted by GOP_Tiger on 11/7/25 at 3:37 am to whatiknowsofar
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How many games have you watched?
He didn't answer.
Again, people like him really piss me off. They aren't real fans and only come in here to repeat the BS from the national talking heads who hate New Orleans and just want the team to relocate, and they present themselves as some kind of expert by talking about the EV of a pick.
All the constant media narrative about the team having no future then gets repeated constantly here, and the truth is that Fears and Queen look like a great foundation for the long-term future of the franchise.
re: What happens when Dejounte Murray is healthy?
Posted by GOP_Tiger on 11/7/25 at 3:05 am to Dantheman504
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Both of Poole/ Murray will be up for extension's soon. We will most likely need to pick 1 or trade both
Poole is on a bad contract that no one will want. We would likely have to attach a pick to him to move him, and that's not something that we have a surplus of at the moment.
re: Queen is trash
Posted by GOP_Tiger on 11/6/25 at 8:48 pm to SlowFlowPro
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Yes, but we know the % and EV of the decision, at the same time.
It's a bad decision regardless of the outcome.
This stupid crap again. No, for you and me, the % and EV of the trade would be terrible. It would be terrible trading up just to trade up for the #13 pick. It's not at all a bad % or EV trading up for the #6 pick, which is where Dumars and Weaver had Derik Queen on their board.
They had scouted him very deeply, so their knowledge of him and his EV was very different from yours or mine or the rest of the league. The post that I referenced earlier about Weaver's son supposedly being good friends with DQ only backs that up—Weaver understood DQ's mental makeup very well.
As I said at the time, if the scouting is wrong and Queen doesn't end up as one of the top six players out of this draft class, then you can say that the trade was terrible because their scouting was wrong. But if they were correct and Queen is really one of the best six (and that's looking a lot more likely), then the trade was a great one.
re: Queen is trash
Posted by GOP_Tiger on 11/6/25 at 8:29 pm to spaghettioeauxs
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Does Zion work beside this offense with Queen running it?
The Zion/Queen minutes have been very good, and it's precisely because of the reasons you see in the video breakdown I linked.
Queen is fantastic for Zion because Queen has a good outside shot and is also a playmaker with a handle. Zion always needed a stretch five, and Queen pulls the opposing center away from the basket so that he can't help defend when Zion drives, and opponents are dead meat when Zion can drive without an opposing big to help.
It's not ideal from the standpoint of defense and rebounding, but the improved offensive spacing more than makes up for it.
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Posted by GOP_Tiger on 11/6/25 at 8:23 pm to SlowFlowPro
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What a melt
Ha. So not even the highlights, then. I knew it.
Seriously, y'all, watch this breakdown of DQ in the 4th quarter of last night's game. It's almost exactly how Denver uses Jokic as the top of the key. Having a big who has a handle and who can shoot completely opens up the floor.
re: Queen is trash
Posted by GOP_Tiger on 11/6/25 at 2:20 pm to SlowFlowPro
SFP, everyone in here knows that you didn't watch the last two games. I doubt you even watched the highlights. You can quit posing as a Pels fan.
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GOP that argued for pages on Hayes potential being Giannis
Hayes absolutely had the potential to be another Giannis. That's why he was drafted so high despite playing so little basketball.
The tragedy of Jaxson Hayes is that he never took basketball seriously and worked on his game.
But yeah, his athletic ability was worthy of being picked even higher than he was. His natural athleticism was as good as it gets. But obviously, none of us knew back then that he was as lazy as it gets.
Why is this a topic now?
EDIT: I've had plenty of bad takes on this board. That I don't deny (though saying that Hayes had unlimited potential wasn't one of them).
And I never even said that the Queen trade was good—what I said is that it looks brilliant right now, to anyone who actually watched him play in the last two games. I don't know that the Queen trade will be a good one, and I don't pretend to know.
But one thing that I will never do is pretend to be a fan of a team and then jump all over the nuts of the national talking heads who hate New Orleans and Louisiana. Idiots on podcasts can talk trash about king cake and posters here can't wait to agree with them that our new players are worthless. That's what this thread is about.
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Queen on a night where he went 3-8 from the field. Calm down.
Queen had 11 points, 7 boards, 2 assists, and 3 steals in 25 minutes, and you come in here to badmouth him? Really?
re: Where to go next?
Posted by GOP_Tiger on 11/6/25 at 9:49 am to Yeti_Chaser
Peru is a great trip that won't completely break the bank.
Guatemala can be an awesome week, if you split it between Antigua and Lake Atitlan.
But, yeah, Argentina is awesome, though I would go hiking in El Chalten. Iguazu Falls is two days, if you want to add it
Guatemala can be an awesome week, if you split it between Antigua and Lake Atitlan.
But, yeah, Argentina is awesome, though I would go hiking in El Chalten. Iguazu Falls is two days, if you want to add it
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doesnt justify present overpayment.
It doesn't look like an overpay right now. And, remember, Dumars said he started trying to trade up to get Queen at #9, and 9-12 weren't interested. So, he made the same offer to Atlanta.
As I said at the time, it's worth it if DQ really is a top-five player in the draft. As of today, it looks like he is indeed a top-five player in this year's class.
It looks like a good trade right now. But people here love to parrot the talking heads on TV and in podcasts.
re: Queen is trash
Posted by GOP_Tiger on 11/6/25 at 8:23 am to SlowFlowPro
Or maybe you are just coping with trashing a trade that looks like it was brilliant.
I mean, just look at how uncoordinated this fatass giraffe is:
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Posted by GOP_Tiger on 11/6/25 at 7:58 am to Chad504boy
Y'all are ignoring the truth. We didn't just trade for Queen because Dumars is an idiot and only because Weaver's son is friends with him, it's also because it was all a conspiracy!
Some of y'all are so blind, but fortunately, we had people like nicholastiger to point out the obvious:
It's posts like that one that really demonstrate the value of this board; the collective wisdom here is unrivaled.
Some of y'all are so blind, but fortunately, we had people like nicholastiger to point out the obvious:
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Silver made pels make that trade
It’s all rigged
Dumars was working in nba offices
Silver wants pels relocated
It's posts like that one that really demonstrate the value of this board; the collective wisdom here is unrivaled.
re: Queen is trash
Posted by GOP_Tiger on 11/6/25 at 6:45 am to brmark70816
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Fears and Queen are raw, and we have used them a bit too much. But they have had great moments and have high ceilings. Like foundation of the franchise type of games. I think we stole them both..
What part of UN-PRO-TECT-ED do you fail to understand?
re: Queen is trash
Posted by GOP_Tiger on 11/6/25 at 6:39 am to In The Know
No, trading for Queen made us the LAUGHINGSTOCK OF THE LEAGUE. We traded our whole future for a fatass, lazy goofball who is a marginal prospect at best. Dumars and Weaver are total clowns.
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