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But this isn't a feature of a two-party system, this is a feature of electing the head of state directly. And yes, I know, electoral college and all that, but the president of the US is elected more directly than say the president of Germany or Israel, who is simply voted on by their respective...

More like useful idiot, but we're kind of splitting hairs here.

In before the "peace at any cost" crowd.

What really bothers me about this is that context get lost so easily. Hayward was easily a max player in 2017, but we're talking about 2014 here. He did not have a very good season, though I supposed the team as a whole had a bad season. The Jazz won 25 games. If you look at advanced...

I don't think anyone's holding a gun to his head. Also, does this policy include Kirk Snyder?

It is possible for both the Jazz to have been foolish and for Hayward to have been an idiot. And of course he's pivoting now that he's retired and looking for a "home," so to speak. Where else might fans remember him a 5-10 years from now but in SLC?

Throw in a plane crash in which every member of the Lakers team dies(you know, so they can make a movie years later) and I'll need tissues.

I grew up in Zagreb, Croatia back when it was the clear-cut second best country at basketball in the world. Obviously a fan of my hometown Cibona when I was a wee boy. By the time I was 12, I used to take a tram across the city with a couple of friends every other Thursday night to watch...

Right, nothing more. No difference between my job and a job that ensures that if you're not complete moron, your great-grandchildren won't ever have to work.

I mean, I'm sure you're aware that the NBA is nothing like my job or yours. It's a parallel universe where grown men get paid hundreds of millions of dollars to put a ball through a basket, while complaining that taking a few million fewer would make it hard to feed their families. Comparing...

I like seeing people learn that grass is not greener on the other side in harsh ways. I like seeing hubris(you may call it ambition) punished like it's a Greek tragedy. I think schadenfreude feels almost as good as an orgasm. Sue me.

What makes me feel better about everything that went down back in 2017 is that human brain is a wonderful, wonderful thing. You can bet your house that Gordon Hayward's brain will ask him many, many times "What if I never left Utah?" And the only answer possible, of course, is "You never...

Why does anyone need to contribute to different lawmakers and why do lawmakers need contributions to begin with? That's probably a bigger issue to fix.

My fear after watching quite a bit of SL this year(unlike past seasons) is that the best hope for the 7-8 young guys who are on guaranteed contracts is end-of-bench player. Not role player like Joe Ingles was a role player. I don't know if any of these guys will ever be good enough to carry...

For both teams, though. I'm not worried about our first and second year players not looking great against NBA vets. That's to be expected. I'm worried about them looking like garbage against other first and second year players and 30-year-olds with no realistic chance of making the NBA.

Like someone's forcing me to, that's how.

Last time I checked, Cheech and Chong did the smoking, they didn't get smoked.

Much better second half. Lofton looks a little bit trimmer and you can totally tell why he stomped the G-League like it was late-harvest Gewürztraminer. I'm really curious to see if trimming down more will make him effective against actual NBA-level opposition. Kyle Filipowski is shooting...

It's kinda messed up that everyone who's checked in for the Jazz so far is on a guaranteed contract and not some scrub trying to catch on and yet we look this bad.

Read the thread again. I did not mention those guys, I actually pointed out that most of those guys have done nothing in the league thus far. It was @idiot who listed those players. And yes, I'd be unhappy if the Jazz had a top 5 pick and got KAT, Beal or Young. Not one of those players is...