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Dude, you're killing it, I'm hanging on every update! Thanks for all the great info, can't wait to see how this ends. Go Paige and Drobny's doggos!!!

Let's get the way-too-early starting lineup predictions for next year going haha. I'm gonna say:

PG: Hammond (Rechsteiner transfers)
SG: Young
SF: Johnson
PF: Lawal (we pony up some NIL money)
C: Wessler (he cooks in the gym all summer and comes back to average 15/10)

Other prediction: Jones transfers because CMY highly-touted freshmen curse duh.

Just as easy to blame me. I turned it on with a minute to go when I got home from work.

In terms of strategy going forward, the colder air and clear skies should speed things up. Analysts expect teams to rest up at one of the cabins on the Kaltag portage and then go through Unalakleet. I guess it's good that I never got around to getting Paige the pizza as (they think) she, Jessie and Matt will all blow through. Guess we will see. The mushers they have talked to are glad to finally be off the river and get some new scenery with the forest and then tundra coming up.

Bruce Lee gave an analogy to explain why you should not worry too much about dropped dogs. Get together with a bunch of your best friends or family. Rope yourself together and go on a long walk. Sooner or later, someone will be bored out of their minds with how slow you are going. Someone else will think they are going to die as they are moving too fast. At this stage in the race, you want to be getting down to the best dogs on the team that can work together. He felt 9-12 dogs is optimal as it also gives the musher less work to do taking care of them and you can give better care/attention to detail of the ones you still have. And re-highlighted how you are as fast as the slowest dog, so you can drop dogs and go faster. Especially if you do not have any big up hills where you want the 4 paw traction to power up them.

Latest analyst video (which was from this morning, but I'm just now getting around to listening.

Felt Jessie was in a great position out front. Again, this was earlier today before Paige and Matt Hall started closing the gap. Some speculation that he could try and go the entire Kaltag-Unalakleet stretch in 1 run, but the doubted that. Were correct as he took a break that looked to be about 4 hours on the trail.

Said Matt Hall's team looked fantastic as they went through Kaltag2. They were going 10+ mph as they arrived and running in unison as a team. Looked to be in a position where he could make a move to try and catch up to Jessie, which has proved to be true.

Did not say much about Paige or Millie Porsild, who has since moved up to 4th.

Noted that Michelle Phillips has started to dial things back. She feels she is in the second grouping of teams and, unless someone upfront falters, she will probably not push the team trying to catch up to the leaders and run the risk of pushing too hard, having the team tire and then losing several spots. More focused on defense against people behind her like Mitch Seavey than offence to get to the top 3. The team looks good and is eating well.

Nic Petit's them just roared into Kaltag2 and looked really strong. He has been "babying" the team. Actually took two 8-hour rest breaks and is resting in Kaltag2 even though the team looked eager to go. Has several young dogs on the team. If anyone not close to the front has a good shot of making a lot of noise down the stretch, they think Nic is the most likely.

I'm really gutted about Liverpool's loss to PSG in the Champions League. PSG played very very well and deserved the win - Liverpool squandered a bunch of great chances, though, and it just as easily could have been them going through. PSG is easily the best team I've seen play (granted, I haven't seen every team play) and I think they're going to be hard to stop - I think they'll win the whole thing TBH. Liverpool still has two things to play for.

It was another situation where I am just wondering why CMY isn't using his timeouts at the end of a game. We have very limited floor leadership/experience so why not call a set play? I got lit up last time on here for bringing this up because we went on to win but this time it bit us. That being said... the refs were all time awful. Like... suspiciously awful.

That was a master class in how to lose a basketball game. So frustrating on so many levels. Peak for me probably was the turnover at the end of OT. Clear midcourt with 20 seconds left, and they didn't even get a shot off. Beyond embarrassing

Not that there should have been any sort of expectations for the season coming in, but the last two weeks or so of the Season really left a bad taste in my mouth.

Couldn't beat UVA, then follow that with an embarrassingly bad loss to a horrible Boston College team, did everything we could to try and give back the Syracuse win, and then made one of North Carolina's worst teams in memory look like NBA All-Stars.

And to end with giving another game back to a really poor Cal team by completely bungling the end of game scenarios.

No one should have expected much from this team offensively, they really just aren't that talented. But when you have a team with that makeup, ball security and making smart decisions have to be absolutely paramount.

The fact that at the end of the year we were still so poor in both doesn't say great things about CMY.

Well here's to next season hopefully! Awful way to end things but this season has been awful in general ugh.

Hokies up 5-4 in bottom of 9th

If Lawal could have finished even half his takes game would have been over a long time ago