PurplePride92

Absolutely! I hope they can bring us some of the magic from GOT.

I got Richmond, VA. Winston-Salem and Greensboro, NC. I previously had Lexington, Louisville and Greensboro.

It doesn’t matter if One and Done is the best way or not. The fans of these two schools dictate that they must use the One and Done recruiting model in order to satisfy their enthusiasm.

Sorry not sorry. Sorry not sorry.

Why would an assistant make a lateral move? I ask because it doesn’t feel like a lateral move.

Good move for him. I hate that he is leaving Male but I get it.

Ya hate to see it.

I’ve been saying that for seasons!!!! Lol.

Wendy gotta go!!!!!

Agreed. If Maryanne doesn’t play her idol she’s gone and I don’t believe she was going to play it.

Keep in mind that Drea wasn’t triggered until she saw Rocksroy sitting in the jury. She kept saying “I don’t know” to Jeff’s questions because she was still trying to process the situation. Up until that moment she was simply playing the game until she felt like the game was starting to imitate life for her. I also believe that Drea was playing her idol no matter what. Jonathan planted that red flag when he said he wanted to vote out Maryanne to flush out her idol. I don’t know what Maryanne was going to do with her idol initially but once Drea began to speak her truth then Maryanne felt morally compelled to join her and played her idol as well. It was the right thing to do for both of them in my opinion.

In the moment I don’t think it matters much to her but at the end of the season looking back I think she will appreciate that they all made it to the merge. That is still an accomplishment IMO. They are both wildly accepted but I have never liked using the term African-American for black people who were born in America. Technically Elon Musk is more African American than I am so I won’t call myself African American. It bothered me when I was younger when people used the African American term but now that I am older it doesn’t bother me as much. I prefer using and being called Black. African American is probably the better term to use. It is more socially acceptable to use that term instead of Black American. At the same time I don’t know of anyone who would get publicly angry about being called Black.

It doesn’t add much but it is a very complex situation. It’s one thing to have to vote out one black person. It still usually feels pretty crappy but you see another black person voted out right behind her and you also know for a fact that you and one other black person is on the chopping block then your mind starts racing. Especially when the second one was blindsided(well executed blindside at that). Either way, once a black person’s mind starts racing and all they see is the blacks are being voted out…..good luck convincing them(us) that there isn’t some kind of subconscious or conscious racial bias at play. It is what the experience of being a black American can be for a lot of us. It’s like I told my wife, there could be absolutely zero racial intention behind the votes but if all we see is the blacks being voted out then we have to mentally put the pieces together to figure out if it was a racist move or not. That is mentally taxing and it will affect mood and attitude and we can’t escape those feelings. If we mention how we feel then folks will say we’re blaming our failures on race and then we get labeled as the angry black. We always have to be aware of what we say and how we say it because once a black person gets a negative perception about themselves then they will never be able to change it regardless of what they do or say. It’s just the way it is.

I thought Drea and Maryanne both did a great job of describing their emotions. They did better than I could have done. That’s for sure. It’s hard to explain those feelings that we(black Americans) feel without having someone react and feel the way Johnathan did. Normally the conversation is over at that point because people stop listening and go into defense mode. Fortunately they kept the conversation going and were all able to continue to express the emotions they felt.

It was a great conversation.

I wish more schools had a program like CGWA. I’ll be pushing for my grandson to attend there and he could care less about sports.

Me too. I’m guessing Jokic gets the first C slot.

He missed over 20 games and his team was better without him. He should not make it over Booker.

Booker should have been MVP. He was robbed. It’s all good. He’ll win Finals MVP.

At some point folks need to recognize how abysmally bad the Lakers front office is. They were abysmally bad before LeBron. They’ve been abysmally bad during LeBron and if the Buss family still owns the team after LeBron they will still be abysmally bad. If LeBron had the pull in the front office that everyone claims he has then why couldn’t he get his coach Ty Lue that extra year on his contract that he wanted? Does LeBron have influence? For sure. But to act like he has total control over everything is a clear exaggeration and simply an exoneration of a front office that is and has been trash since 2012. The Lakers became awful when they let Jerry West go. Period.

Russ and averaged 3.8 turnovers a game. His lowest average since 2014-15. AD was a worse three point shooter than Russ at 18% Fourth worst free throw shooter in the NBA at 67%? No way that’s real Where did you find that stat? Russ was second in scoring on the Lakers, first in assists, first in rebounds, first in steals. As bad as he was he was still one of their best and most consistent players all season long The narrative was to scapegoat Russ and show his lowlights from every single game and folks ate that up. At the end of the day Ty Lue had to coach the Clippers who were without Kawhi Leonard all season and Paul George most of the season. His best player was Reggie Jackson. They made the playoffs. That’s why Vogel is trash and should have been fired.

If anyone but the Lakers/LeBron had won then folks would be celebrating that 2020 champion like they do the rest. But the Lakers won soooooooo……..

Put me in the Suns and Bucks camp with Suns winning it all. Devin Booker is the Finals MVP.

He’d be better than Vogel. I don’t think his body can hold up an 82 game season plus playoffs but I could be wrong.

He’s retired. Who cares what he thinks about Nolan making a better move for himself and his family. I’ll miss the hell out of Nolan. He has developed the reputation as a damn good recruiter. He should fit in nicely with KP.