Open Thread: Countdown to October 2025-08-17 Off By Chris Francis Good evening CtB! Sorry for the lack of action, the bros are busy tending to business until camp opens up in the fall. Yours truly will be working on a little piece wrapping up the offseason this week, so #staytuned and Go Cavs! Open Thread: Cavs vs. Warriors Summer League Finale Offseason Open Thread (or, Almost There)
HEY RAOUL “ MR GAURDIAN” —— BIG SERIES COMING UP THIS WEEK VS THE TIGER s —- GO GAURDS 👍
KJG / FTS BOTH SEEM CONCERNED WITH KNICKS PICKING UP MALCOM BROGDON —- THOUGHT s / OPINION s ON THIS??
LMFAOOO I fully support the Knicks picking up another loser who doesn’t play defense. Go Cavs
ha-ha!
Just prisoner of the moment stuff. We made our moves early with Lonzo and Nance, who are better players than anyone NY has picked up – Clarkson is productive but not a winning player – and you have Tyson / Tomlin as improvement candidates. I like the idea of Brogdon and I think he’d be decent here but I’m not losing sleep over NY. Also there’s no minutes for Brogdon in NY even if he is still decent. Ultimately vet min guys come and go. For now based off of summer league I’d rather give Tomlin a shot over Boucher… Read more »
GREAT SERIES BY THE GAURDS!!!!—- GO GAURDS !!
yup!
REMEMBER 911 —- IN TODAY s SOCIETY—- GOD BLESS THIS GREAT COUNTRY—-PRAY 🙏🙏🙏
Less than three weeks to training camp! As always, I am optimistic, but this time I have plenty of good reasons to be so.
Arguably the best top 1 – 4 going.
Damn near the best 5 – 10 going.
Really nice 11 – 13
And things are lining up for the ultra rare long run in the cap era.
GO GAURDS—- GREAT GAME TONIGHT RAOUL 👍👍
and another one tonight!
Testing AGAIN—-?? — posts aren’t posting??
refreshing the page often seems to help.
I’ve had issues sometimes too NOMAD, thanks for letting us know!
BRING BACK LOU “ THE TOE “ GROZA
RAOUL——GAURDS HAVE A CRUCIAL 4 GAME SERIES WITH THE ROYAL s THIS WEEK—— MAKE or BREAK SERIES FOR THEM —— GO GAURDS!!!!
the Guards are like a B movie of a monster that keeps coming back from the dead! I don’t expect much, but they are fun to follow!
OK MY BROWN s POST WAS PREMATURE.
with the reasonable assumption that the Browns are not ready to make a run this year, yesterday’s game was OK: bash the Bengals around, but lose on some astounding flukes to help next year’s draft choices. I rate the Browns’ FO as pretty good: despite the problems resulting from the worst trade in history, they have put together a team that will scare anyone. if they can steal a win in Baltimore next week, we will be having a more interesting discussion. I also think Haslem is a quick learner. the trade probably made him realize he is inept as… Read more »
AS AC WOULD SAY “ THROW THE HAMMER DOWN “ ON THE CLIPPER s 👍👍👍👍👍
“ FROWN – CLOWN 🤡 s “ SUCK
the Clippers: not as bad as Joe Smith, or much worse than Joe Smith? Mark Cuban sez:
https://www.basketballnetwork.net/latest-news/mark-cuban-thinks-l-a-clippers-leadership-is-done-if-kawhi-leonard-scandal-gets-proven
AGREE WITH YOU JASON ON ORMIER
THANK s BUCKAROO 👍🙏
WILL BE INTERESTING TO SEE PUNISHMENTS FOR THE CLIPPERS/ KAWHI ——— SILVERN “ HAS TO GROW SOME ROCKS “ LEVY SEVERE PUNISHMENT
https://www.sbnation.com/nba/1078101/kawhi-leonard-clippers-salary-cap-nba
DAMN ABOUT NIANG / HOPEFULLY NOT SERIOUS
Niang out for a while with an ankle
Testing—my posts haven’t been going through 🤬🤬
Sorry, man.
A YEAR OLDER— A YEAR WISER —— LIKE FINE WINE I GET BETTER 🍷👍—— “ BACK OFF FATHER TIME “ ———— “ THE “ MRS NOMAD TOTALLY DISAGREES ———-“ MORE BEER 🍺 PLEASE “ 👍
NOMAD bro.. as long as the little soldier can salute the flag at least once a day, life is good.. have a nice howl at the moon dude.. regards to your better half.. she must be a woman of great strength..
NORCHARD ORMIER— POTENTIAL PROSPECT —- KJG / ARTICLE ON HIM —- 20ppg — 18rpg in FiBA TOURNAMENT——- A BRUISER / CAVS SHOULD OFFER HIM A CONTRACT
Testing
“ OL NOMAD “ SURVIVED “ FATHER TIME “ FOR ANOTHER YEAR——— YEAR OLDER – YEAR WISER ——- LIKE A FINE WINE – 🍷- I GET BETTER WITH AGE ——-“ THE “ MRS NOMAD TOTALLY DISAGREES——- ALTHOUGH SHE DID PROMISE A BIRTHDAY SURPRISE LATER ON 👍😈👺
NORCHARD ORMIER ( who I liked when cavs signed ) KJG UPDATE ARTICLE—- HE IS DOMINATING IN FIBA TOURNAMENT—- 20ppg / 18.5 rpg ——THINK CAVS SIGNED HIM TO CHARGE CONTRACT——- HE IS AN “ OLD SCHOOL “ BRUISER 👍
anyone understand his contract situation? KJG says something like “Cleveland has the best chance to sign him”?
He is a FA. If Tomin makes the team, I think a 2-way deal for him makes sense.
I think he played well enough in SL to get a camp invite. That is probably what KJG is referring to.
I think Mobley, LNJ, Wade, and Tomlin are all ahead of him as PFs.
At 6’7″ 248 he is an old school bruiser for sure. I don’t think he has the shot to stretch the floor nor the verticality to protect the rim or be a lob threat.
But he CAN rebound.
HIS SHOT NEEDS WORK/ REFINED—- QUICKER / SMOOTHER—— OTHERWISE THERE IS ALOT TO BE EXCITED ABOUT
I CHECKED HIM OUT RAOUL—— LOOK s GREAT—- REALLY GOES AFTER THE BALL—- GREAT LENGTH/ ATHLETICISM
check out the Niang at EuroBasket highlights on FTS. he looks like a monster!
He’s been really good in the tournament, averaging 10 and 4 while shooting 60% from three (admittedly sample size is really small and he’s been left wide open) . Since I am Greek, I watched him in the game against Greece – he scored 11 pts mainly off cuts and ORBs and was really active on both ends. He matched up against Giannis a couple times and even tried to bring the ball up after rebounds. He looks skinny and though he did hit a 3, his shot was slow and a mechanical. I saw highlights from the other games… Read more »
thnx, good stuff.
OK RAOUL “ THE FAT LADY IS SINGING” —— BRING ON THE “ FROWN- CLOWN s “
GO BUCKS— NICE WIN 👍🏈——-RAOUL OWE YOU AN APOLOGY ( HAVING THE GAURDS DEAD ) – FAMILY WERE UP TO GAME LAST NIGHT/ GREAT ATMOSPHERE/ ESPECIALLY THE 9th INNING——- GO GAURDS 👍👍👍
well, they are pretty much dead, but there is always a chance.
MY BAD I FORGOT/ OVERLOOKED TYSON — GOOD OPPORTUNITY FOR HIM TO GET MINUTES
OK JUST READ. 3–4 MONTHS—- OUCH—— DG OUT / BALLS QUSTIONABLE HEALTH——- DOES TAVERES GET MORE TIME / PROCTOR/ DO THEY LOOK TO SIGN A PLAYER—— SUCKS —- I NEED..,………” MORE BEER 🍺 PLEASE “
WTF HAPPENED TO STRUS —- THANKSGIVING OR CHRISTMAS/ 2 YRS IN ROW NOW 🤬
Strus out until the holidays.
Jones fracture. Hopefully only that long
RAOUL—- HATE TO SAY —- BUT “ THE FAT LADY IS SINGING ON THE GAURDS SEASON “ 😭
YEAH READ FTS ARTICLE ALSO—- CAVS CHANCES ( and also Knicks ) SEEM SLIM ON GETTING BEASLEY
Cavs potential interest in Malik Beasley.
Seems redundant with Merrill, but you can never have too much shooting.
yeah. Jackson at FTS has a nice analysis of where he is likely to wind up, and it is probably not the Cavs.
OUCH/ DAMN TOUGH WEEKEND FOR THE GAURDS ——STILL ROOTING FOR THEM TO MAKE PLAYOFFS/ GOING TO BE AN UPHILL CLIMB ———————GABRIEL > SANDERS 👍🏈
SORRY TO SAY RAOUL IT IS “ WAIT UNTIL NEXT YEAR “ FOR THE GAURDS
GABRIEL WITH SOLID PERFORMANCE 👍🏈
MY BAD —- FATHER OF JAYLEN BROWN
Yep. Big difference.
CELTICS IMPLODING —- JAYLEN BROWN ARRESTED FOR POSSIBLE ATTEMPTED MURDER —— WOW 😮
the story is pretty ugly
RAOUL—GAURDS LOSE ANOTHER TOUGH ONE AFTER A STRONG PERFORMANCE BY THE ROOKIE—-NOT LOOKING GOOD RAOUL
yeah, but we still got six weeks
SIMMO / RAOUL —— MINE WAS A PERFECT 10.0 THEN I COLLAPSED—-👍🍺👏
GAURDS / KWAN IN A MINI SLUMP RAOUL —-NEED TO SNAP OUT OF IT QUICKLY
👍-RAIUL —-“ LOOK BOTH WAYS TWICE “——- MY MOTTO———MAN GAURDS STUMBLED THIS PAST WEEKEND/STILL BELIEVE THEY CAN STAY IN PLAYOFF HUNT —— REALLY LIKED ( EVEN THOUGH HE HAD 2 TO’s —-BOTH WERE NOT HIS ENTIRE FAULT) AND WOW — HOW HE HANDLED THAT SIDELINE INTERVIEW—- ARTICULATE/ INTELLIGENT/ MATURE—- REALLY HAD GOOD COMMAND OF THE OFFENSE——- “ GABRIEL 2nd COMING OF BRIAN SIPE 👍🏈
Guards looking better tonight. Kayfus!
27 YEARS AGO—- 7:49 PM —- AFTER A GREAT 9 MILE RUN — “ NOMAD s LAST GREAT RUN 🏃 “ —- A TRUCK HIT ME GOING ABOUT 45MPH —-FLEW ME OVER THE TRUCK—— NEXT THING I KNOW I AM LIFE FLIGHTED / TOLEDO —GIVEN THE LAST RITES AND GAVE “ THE “ MRS NOMAD POSSIBLY MY LAST HUG ——- BY THE GRACE OF GOD / FAMILY/ FRIENDS/ COMMUNITY SUPPORT ( AND ME BEING TOO STUBBORN TO GIVE UP ) SURVIVED TO …………. “ DRINK MORE BEER 🍺 PLEASE “ — SEE MY KIDS / GRANDKIDS GROW UP / STILL… Read more »
I got my car hit out of the way early. first time I was allowed to walk home from kindergarden alone, I ran straight from the school door to the playground gate and accross the street, and got hit by a retired school teacher going about 4 mph. gotta give me credit for good planning on that!
the good thing about getting hit by a car is that you look both ways 100% of the time for the rest of your life.
LMFAOOO CtB rite of passage apparently!!!
haha!
reminds me of when I worked as an engineer. at lunch one day with a few coworkers, including the founder/owner/boss, we all had a story about having almost blinded or injured ourselves with homemade bombs when we were kids.
In my thirties training on the road bike, I took a green arrow right turn at an intersection, pedalling hard – an old lady pulls out of a drivethru bottleshop and doesn’t see me. I combat roll over her bonnet, somehow unclipping shoes from bike and landing on my feet on the other side of her car. Onlookers gave me a 9.95 because I stuck the landing.
I also got a 9.95 after tripping and flying headfirst down a set of cement steps, toward a wall. I grabbed the hand rail with my right hand and reflexively did a shotokan raising block with my left fore arm, then rolled down the steps without hitting my head. a martial arts pro who saw it said it looked like a planned stunt. I got a last beer and went home.
my right bicep and shoulder have never been the same.
Lmfaooooo @ simmo sounds like you need to try out for the Olympics!!!
Still trying to teach my son to look….he head is in the clouds and I’m constantly terrified for him.
WOW!! Glad you survived and thrive NOMAD!!!! No wonder you have an attitude of gratitude!!!
👍👍👍🙏🙏🙏🍺🍺🍺🏀🏀🏀
#MOREBEERPLEASE
Thanks for getting this, chris
Yes sir!!!
same