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Already in midseason form.

...now where'd I leave my paper bag?

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That's a 6 pointer.

• Everton that.

• Time to break out the grief chart.

• Doucoure on for Ndiaye in the 83' up 2-0. We fall apart. Ndiaye IS the rose-tinted remembrance of what James was. Highly creative player with an actual semblance of work rate.

• Whoever advised Keane to opt for defense over striker needs to be banned from the sport.

He definitely wins best shooting moment

no injury excuses like with Adam Morrison

lol, these are categories of his wikipedia page

• All-Rookie honors (2012–2013)

• Leg injuries (2013–2015)

• Injury-plagued season and career-highs (2015–2017)

• Final years in Charlotte (2017–2020)

That 4th year '15-'16 season was the final nail in his coffin. Right when it seemed like he could be turning the corner to be some sort of threat on offense ... separated shoulder in the preseason. Still, four months later, in the 7 games he returned, he averaged 13 points and made 3 3Ps (as many as he had in his first 195 games) ... then he needed another surgery on his torn labrum and it was all over for his shot.

If you had to build a rough roadmap to get to 40 points, I think it'd look something like these buckets?

Hope to take 6 POINTS from 3 teams (+18 PTS total) (HOME win, AWAY win)

• Leicester City, Ipswich Town, Southampton

Hope to take 4 POINTS from 4 teams (+16 PTS total) (HOME win, AWAY draw)

• Nottingham Forest, Wolverhampton, Fulham, Brentwood

Hope to take 2 POINTS from 3 teams (+6 PTS total) (HOME draw, AWAY draw)

• Bournemouth, Crystal Palace, West Ham

No expectations (HOME loss, AWAY loss)

• Brighton, Aston Villa, Tottenham, Manchester United, Newcastle, Chelsea, Liverpool, Arsenal, Manchester City

Teams are debatable, but ordered based on some initial betting odds

• Surprise Keane start

• Inevitable Keane loss

• Young red card

• Wasted opportunities in the first half

• Crumble in the second half

• Sketchy VAR situation

script writers breaking out the greatest hits right off the bat

in positive news, Tim has been far and away our best player

Criminal that we were able to effectively get him for nothing

lmao already in midseason form

Offside, but Keane continuing his “but seriously, why isn’t he a striker” run with that header.

He just used whatever betting over/unders were available at the time. Here's a Forbes article from around that same time that basically has the same numbers as he used.

Note: It's wild how much of a bump France was expected to get (24.5 golds). They'd won 11/10/10 gold medals in the last 3 summer Olympics. They ended these games with 16 golds (-8.5 under the mark) even with Leon Marchand winning 4 golds himself in swimming.

Should the boys do a tiebreaker?

If you look at how close their picks were, both correct and incorrect, Geoff and Andrew are still dead even.

Correct Picks: 28.5 golds off in total for each

Incorrect Picks: 26.0 golds off in total for each

If you go by percentage variance, Geoff slightly squeaks it out by being "more right" (18.8% vs 18.0%) and "less wrong" (26.0% vs 28.0%) with his gold variance vs. the original over/under.

They should just pull a 2020 high jump and share the gold ... or run the randomizer 24 times and let fortune decide.

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Edit: Rethought my logic. It's real close.

Kevin Durant, foot on the line-esque

Never in doubt 😅.

In all honesty, hopefully them narrowly squeaking this out doesn't glaze over the fact that this needs to be a wakeup call a la the '04 Olympics bronze for the men's team ... or maybe the '23 World Cup for the women's soccer team in terms of coaching and a changing of the guard.

Never in doubt 😅.

In all honesty, hopefully them narrowly squeaking this out doesn't glaze over the fact that this needs to be a wakeup call a la the '04 Olympics bronze for the men's team ... or maybe the '23 World Cup for the women's soccer team in terms of coaching and a changing of the guard.