Glad to hear you are getting your skis under you, geo. And thanks for remembering! We leave at 1:30 AM for the airport…not sure how I’ll be feeling in 24 hours, only that it won’t be sober lol!

Maybe he can show something off the bench in the few minutes he shares with Hali, maybe he gets buried behind Jarace

If Obi goes from the team that has Julius Randle to the team that has Pascal Siakam we have to band together to send him a fruit basket.

I mentioned that trade possibility and what it would mean for Obi the other day, but I’ve been saying all along that was the likely outcome somewhere else too. That’s why I thought the trade was a bad idea. He’s a PF that can’t defend SF or C. So he’s going to play almost all PF. The only way he’s going get more minutes is to win the starting PF position, but he’s not really a starting PF on a good team at this stage. So it was very likely he was going to get 15 minutes a night at his next stop also unless they had a bad weakness at that position, an injury prone player there, and had to start him for now. If he wants to secure more minutes on a good team permanently he has to get better.

so, three months since i’ve worked…about a month now since i’ve gotten my senses back a bit and have regained my loose grip on myself…

one big thing that has become apparent – parenting is about a million times easier without work on the schedule…it’s still parenting, which is most definitely not for the faint of heart…soon to be 60 with a couple of pre-teens is gonna take a little effort, i’m sure…

it’s just without the huge stressor (both good and bad) that was work, i’m able to focus more on dad duties…

the military gave me a strong love for mentorship, instead of the people at work – i can put all my focus and energy in to the kids…very thankful for that…

health is doing okay, my shoulder sort of feels like it wants to fall off, but, that’s been a thing for a while now…finally got all my meds sorted with the VA – it’s a handful each day…may let them have a crack at my shoulder soon…who knows, maybe it’s just old age…i do remember though tearing the medial head of my deltoid playing rugby at the prep school…i remember my shoulder turning purple then yellow…

i lasted a whole four games in that sport…i got hurt every single game, as a matter of fact, i lot of people got hurt every single game…loved the drinking and singing at a bar afterwards though…

later that year i started a racquetball club, so i would have an approved activity that i could do in the afternoons instead of some other sport or mandated stuff…i remember a guy named richard hatch (the naked survivor guy) who i had met doing scuba certification helped me get that going…he was a really good racquetball player…

kb as a whole has pretty decent basketball knowledge and we know for a fact that not everyone here is all that knowledgeable

Facts are facts, I guess, but I’d like to think I at least had a few people fooled.

[edited to add : I’m not even knowledgeable about how to do a proper block quote here]

An exception might be how certain trades are handled.

Just for argument’s sake, let’s say internally we were undervaluing KP.

If we spoke to every team that was interested, we’d get competing offers. So it’s likely our own incompetence at valuing him would be offset by the competence of the other teams bidding on him.

If for some reason we only spoke to Dallas instead of Dallas, Boston, and everyone else that was interested, we’d probably wind up taking less than he was worth. So the relatively efficient market would get short circuited.