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Mark TitusMark Titus

Standing at the beach and just staring at the horizon is a definitive sign of getting old.

Staring at the horizon at the beach. You're at the beach and you're standing there and you're just looking off in the horizon. Dudes in their twenties are playing spike ball... and then you'll just see like an old dude who's got his hands on his hips and he's just looking off in the horizon.

This is a subjective social observation.

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Jun 12, 2023
#23629
Big CatBig Cat

The NBA Finals were officially over the moment Nikola Jokic picked up his fifth foul and the Heat still couldn't take the lead.

Friday night we had a little Scott Foster. Jokic gets his fifth foul on a phantom foul... They take Jokic out in the fourth quarter with the Nuggets up 10 with nine minutes left. He doesn't come back in for another five and a half minutes. And the Nuggets were up nine when he came back in. So that was it. That was the moment that the series was officially over.

The Nuggets went on to win the series in five games, confirming Big Cat's assessment that the Heat had no path back.
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Jun 12, 2023
#12411
PFT CommenterPFT Commenter

The Denver Nuggets winning the 2023 NBA Finals is the start of a dynasty

This is the start of the dynasty. This is, this is merely, but the first chapter that we're writing with Nuggets. If, you don't get three titles then. It's a failure.

The Nuggets won the 2023 title but failed to repeat — eliminated in the second round in 2024, with Boston and OKC winning the next two championships. One title does not make a dynasty.
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Jun 12, 2023
#23630
PFT CommenterPFT Commenter

Heat culture is dead; it has been replaced by Nuggets culture.

It's almost like the Nuggets have out-Heat-cultured Heat culture in this series to a certain extent by having those role players. It's this Nuggets culture that's winning this. ... This is Heat culture's dead. Nuggets culture. Viva la Nuggets culture.

This is a subjective assessment of team identity and momentum.

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Mark TitusMark Titus

North Carolina's inclusion in the tournament is the most egregious committee decision ever

I thought North Carolina, at no point in the season did they look like an NCAA tournament team. They, they, yeah. They, their, their, their highs weren't very high. Their lows were pretty damn low. And I was, I was stunned. I was, in all the years of, you know, that's how the bracket works. It comes out, we, we lose our minds about teams that got in that didn't deserve it. We, we feel bad for the teams that were left out. This is the most egregious example that I've ever seen.

Whether UNC 'deserved' to be in is subjective, but Titus's claim that they didn't look like a tournament team is a strong opinion on their 2024-25 performance.
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Mark TitusMark Titus

The 2025 National Champion will be a 1 or 2 seed

I think the national champion is in that group [of 11 teams meeting KenPom criteria]... I have a really good feeling that it was gonna be a one or a two. 'Cause if you watched all season, it just felt like these teams are just way better than everybody else. I feel that way this year for the first time since 2015. I have that same feeling again.

Florida, the #1 seed, won the 2025 NCAA Championship. In fact, all four #1 seeds made the Final Four, only the second time that has happened.
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Mark TitusMark Titus

The 2025 NCAA Tournament will be very 'chalky' with high seeds dominating

I think this is the year of chalk... I have a really good feeling that it was gonna be a one or a two. Because if you watched all season, it just felt like these teams are just way better than everybody else... I'm very, very confident that your national champion will be a one or two.

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