Quote from: cheebs09 on January 12, 2026, 03:50:56 PMNice middle finger to Reed and Phil. Seems like it only applies to Koepka, Rahm, Bryson, and Cam Smith.

It's always a good time to give those guys the finger - especially Phil.

None of us is Goose; none of us is claiming that Gold is NBA-bound.

Ben's a decent role player who plays sound interior defense, grabs some boards and, when he's hitting his shot, adds a dimension to the offense. I hope he gets healthy soon because this team needs those contributions (and lots of other things).

It sucks that his shot isn't going in at last season's 37% rate. I'm sure he's more frustrated about that than Scoopers are. But to say he's "bad" or that he hasn't improved most facets of his game, it's just sh!tting on a guy for the sake of it.

Quote from: Newsdreams on January 12, 2026, 10:34:12 AMCorrect, but those who don't know ball probably think that is a bad stat.

me bad. Gold goin' to the Association, right 'Dreams?

Quote from: LAZER on January 12, 2026, 02:19:48 PMIf UC makes a move, I wonder if Travis Steele will get a look.

Most likely Jerrod Calhoun. The Utah State coach is a Cincinnati alum.

I heard on an Astros broadcast that Bregman chose his uniform number because he thought he would be motivated by the "constant reminder he was picked second- not first- in the MLB draft." The first pick in '15 was Dansby Swanson; pick 9 that year was Ian Happ, and Kyle Tucker was taken fifth. Herr Ricketts and brass seem to really like that draft class.

Quote from: Jay Bee on January 12, 2026, 04:48:02 PM#FakeNews #Lies

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As compared to last season, with increased usage we've also seen a dramatic decrease in turnovers. His turnover rate of 8.7% puts him  at 7 of 70 BEast players (min 40% of team's minutes - we'll call those players 'regulars' the rest of the way). That's down from 13.3% a year ago.

His 3-point shooting has been brutally awful, but I think a lot of that is due to injury. Even a hobbled Ben, though, is a good option for THIS squad. He's shooting 2FGAs more often and doing so well (61.7%, up from last year's 60.0% mark) and a long with that is a hefty rise in FTrate (29.9 vs. last year's 16.7, which was a career high).

Impressively, and importantly, he's defending without fouling. Just 2.2 FC/40 minutes down from 3.4 last season (also was a career mark for him.. in the mid-4's in his first two seasons). That ranks him 10th in the BEast of regulars.

The defensive rebounding has been very good - over 20%. Ranks 8th out of the BEast regulars.

Thankful we have Ben this season.

Now, go clean some bedpans, Nurse Danielle.

Oh what's up nazi boy.

Quote from: Jay Bee on January 12, 2026, 04:48:02 PM#FakeNews #Lies

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As compared to last season, with increased usage we've also seen a dramatic decrease in turnovers. His turnover rate of 8.7% puts him  at 7 of 70 BEast players (min 40% of team's minutes - we'll call those players 'regulars' the rest of the way). That's down from 13.3% a year ago.

His 3-point shooting has been brutally awful, but I think a lot of that is due to injury. Even a hobbled Ben, though, is a good option for THIS squad. He's shooting 2FGAs more often and doing so well (61.7%, up from last year's 60.0% mark) and a long with that is a hefty rise in FTrate (29.9 vs. last year's 16.7, which was a career high).

Impressively, and importantly, he's defending without fouling. Just 2.2 FC/40 minutes down from 3.4 last season (also was a career mark for him.. in the mid-4's in his first two seasons). That ranks him 10th in the BEast of regulars.

The defensive rebounding has been very good - over 20%. Ranks 8th out of the BEast regulars.

Thankful we have Ben this season.

Now, go clean some bedpans, Nurse Danielle.

Agree on Ben.  He's not the problem with the team.

Making fun of males being nurses is dumb.

Quote from: #UnleashMalik on January 12, 2026, 04:00:17 PMBen has regressed in every single stat except usage, shot attempts, and rebounds (1.5 more per game!) From last season.

Its time.

But his perimiter defense, inside scoring, and post defense are noticeably better. Why are we ignoring that? If he was hitting 3s at his career average he'd have his career best FG% while improving vastly on the defensive end.

It's literally just outside shooting. Everything else is fine. It's frustrating as hell, sure, but I'm not sure why we're focusing only on the one negative.

Quote from: #UnleashMalik on January 12, 2026, 04:00:17 PMBen has regressed in every single stat except usage, shot attempts, and rebounds (1.5 more per game!) From last season.

Its time.

#FakeNews #Lies

*It's

As compared to last season, with increased usage we've also seen a dramatic decrease in turnovers. His turnover rate of 8.7% puts him  at 7 of 70 BEast players (min 40% of team's minutes - we'll call those players 'regulars' the rest of the way). That's down from 13.3% a year ago.

His 3-point shooting has been brutally awful, but I think a lot of that is due to injury. Even a hobbled Ben, though, is a good option for THIS squad. He's shooting 2FGAs more often and doing so well (61.7%, up from last year's 60.0% mark) and a long with that is a hefty rise in FTrate (29.9 vs. last year's 16.7, which was a career high).

Impressively, and importantly, he's defending without fouling. Just 2.2 FC/40 minutes down from 3.4 last season (also was a career mark for him.. in the mid-4's in his first two seasons). That ranks him 10th in the BEast of regulars.

The defensive rebounding has been very good - over 20%. Ranks 8th out of the BEast regulars.

Thankful we have Ben this season.

Now, go clean some bedpans, Nurse Danielle.

Ben is a damn good role player.  He just never made the leap to star this team unfortunately needed.

Its too bad his shot has disappeared, because it is overshadowing the fact he's been good and improved in pretty much every other area of his game.