That was a great night of basketball!
The Steph-Klay reunion easily met expectations and was another reminder of just how great Steph Curry is. It also cemented the Warriors as legit contenders this season.
We also had three big upsets, with Boston, Miami, and Minnesota all losing to likely lottery teams. Boston and Miami cost @siggy47, @BlokchainB, and @supercyclone their first strike (Let me know in the comments if you want to buy-back in).
The Miami loss had to be the craziest, as no one expects Spoelstra to pull a Webber and try to call a timeout he doesn't have.
Boston's loss was quite embarrassing in it's own right, though, since all they needed to do is complete a wide open in-bounds pass. This team still seems to have some issue performing under pressure.
What were your impressions of last night's games and the Emirates Cup so far?
PrizePrize
Still about 30k, but will be 45k if last night's losers buy back in (C'mon guys, it was just an off night. You've got this!).
I'll get the round 2 picks post up later today.
I know when to quit
Bummer
Enjoy the rest of your vacation.
If @siggy47 doesn’t buy back in is he out for the rest of the season?
His 3000 sats were delicious 😈
Yep, @siggy47's sats are now forfeit, unless he has a change of heart before Friday.
Screw all of you. Alright. What's the buyback?
That's the spirit! It's only 5k and you'll get a bunch of that back in rewards anyway.
You can zap this comment.
Do you know what’s tastier than @siggy47 3k sats?
5000 sats 😈
Revenge is a dish that tastes best served cold.
Boooo you will never reverse that evil eye curse by quitting.
How much is the rebuy?
5 kilosats
Hopefully that means @supercyclone wants to continue. Also, the rebuy pays for itself if he outlasts you.
He only has 3k sats on SN so I guess I will have to be his benefactor again. He needs to start winning some of these so he can pay me back.
On the bright side 1050 of those sats will come back to me in the form of territory revenue.
zapped. I like this cool feature that gives you a few seconds to take back your zap over a certain threshold. Were you aware of this? @ek told me about it after I told him of my habit of fat thumbing 10k sat zaps on mobile.
I learned about it from that conversation. I also turned it on for 10k, to prevent my YOLO mode from going too far.
SN is so good that we fail to explain it sometimes 👀
If we had the resources to evaluate and implement it, we would probably include a tooltip when you zap big to let you know about the setting.
Maybe something like this would be fun:
Clever. I like it.
I thought it was going to be a warning, but this is a lot funnier.
What I was imagining:
How much time do I have before I can re-buy
Between the Pistons and Bo Nix im just having bad beats!
You have until Friday. Take some time to recover.
Okay I’m in! How I rebuy!
Glad to have you back. Zap 5k to this comment.
@remindme in 1 day
The Mavs and Warriors game was great. I would love to see that matchup in the playoffs.
Agreed. That game was fun to watch. How about that Warrior defense? Quite suffocating if you ask me. And Draymond had several huge defensive plays; that block on was insane!
Awesome block. Steph had some big plays against Klay early, too.
I missed the early parts of the game, only caught the second half. Watched the highlights though. Saw some of the Steph-Klay battles in the highlights.
It was great. Odd to see Klay in a Mavs uniform though. He did comment that it wasn't fun to be on the opposing side of Steph going off.
I've already gotten used to Mavs' Klay. I think he looks right at home in that uniform and in that offense.
First time I have seen Mavs Klay. He definitely looked good in that offense.
I think this was the third Mavs game I've watched. They're really dangerous.
@Undisciplined and @grayruby got it wrong on the pod. Celtics wasn’t the slam dunk make it past first round choice.
Needed Magic!
We both took the Magic and we get most things wrong.
Did u both pick Magic? I didn’t hear that!!
We were undecided at the time of the pod recording but I believe we both picked the Magic on Monday.
Fake News!
I couldn't bring myself to trust Miami.
U don’t believe in calling imaginary timeouts?
I have some recollection of a coach doing that on purpose for some strategic reason, so I'm not against it in principle.
Good thing I decided it wasn't worth burning them this early.
I watched Warriors x Mavericks and in addition to the game, I really liked the tribute that the fans paid to Klay Thompson. Very exciting! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
I'm a huge sucker for that sort of thing too. It's great seeing an authentic outpouring of appreciation.
This demonstration of affection and respect for the player, who brought so much joy to the fans, is always very captivating.
I watched just up to halftime NYK vs 76ers. Match was very close at that time. But it was getting quite late for my time zone to carry on. Great to be in round 2!
I was surprised the score stayed so close. It felt like the Knicks were playing quite a bit better than the 76ers.
That was my feeling too but , at least the part I watched, every time they increased the gap, they had some turnovers and the game was close again.