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I have lost track of who is the villian and who is the underdog. It's switched so many times, i don't even think I care to pick a side any more lol. Who is watching game 5?

So mondays are great to log new beginnings. I stepped on the scales for the first time in ages and it read 80.85kg / 178.24lb in the morning. I'm off da creatine tho, so this is prob artificially low. I want to stabilise around 174 with creatine and just maintain that a while.

free styling training but going to emphasis movement .. become forefoot dominant, glute dominant, mobility, running, conditioning, al those things i always neglect but have no excuse to now that i have no lifts to maintain/PR

I just didn't have the opportunity to train properly bro, that i thought it would be a waste of time to bother you with my out of shape ass after a month of eating badly and not training. I'm insecure bout my athletic ability as it, even if i was in a PR place i'd still have reservations! But i also think my next trip wont be so regimented, i went with friends and family this time and didn't have any alone time .. which made it hard to plan to meet my friends and hang out. But now i want to get in shape and make my next trip back within 6 months .. and a priority of that will be in being in decent condition so you can help me go to the next level which ive never been able to. I want to be athletic enough to land windmills, move efficiently and i can't do that without your expertise.

Guys my life since coming back home has been crazy. I went from being sad and lonely to getting to know 2 girls, one i legit wanna marry, she's smart and cute and falling for her and another who is 23 year old and so hot and she's driving me crazy with the sexual tension btw us.   I feel like i have to choose btw heart and lust and it's an impossible choice! I'm torn. That trip changed my life .. and im so hungry for life now .. i wanna PR all areas of life, personal, career, relationships etc.

I need a program for training out of this slump .. not interested in my usual thing ive always done. Open to new ideas. I want to incoorporate lifting and athletic activity like running and jumping but with a stronger emphasis on teh latter than in the past.

BS 8x20, 8x60, 6x100, 8x90
OHP 8x40, 6x50, 8x50
CHINUP 6xBW
CURL 10x20, 10x30

BW: ??

Notes:
Restarted training .. did not want to, tried to put it off but i forced myself to go thru the motions. So far so  good though. I'm trying somethign different this time around. Laying off the supplements (creatine, caffeine, etc). Using the old bar. Will try to get my work cap up while im rebuilding strength and mass. I also picked up a pair of blue rehband knee sleeves. Will use all these extras after I get to a decent place, maybe a 6x130kg then add in creatine, caffeine, etc. I didnt even using lifting shoes. Need to focus on technique too. PR patience + technique ->> big squat gains later down the line.

Man... Klay Thompson this year >>> Klay Thompson last year. 

His improvement is really impressive.  He was a good shooter but that's about it when he came into the league...

that crossover and layup in the 1st was gorgeous

No i don't have a problem with those other great teams getting better by trades. It's fine to. My point is if you are building a narrative of "going home" "for cleveland" .. " to get one for the city" but at the same time playing coach and GM, you're not a team player but at risk of being a tyrant. I'm saying be clear about your intentions .. either you're taking your team to the finals as is, or you're inviting criticism for your decision making off the court. That's all. It's not disobedience. And what's a ring worth as a player, if you don't work with the rooster you're given but build one to your choosing? Why couldn't he have just gone to a great team to get more rings instead of a medicore one and getting none? Assumption is that he has that influence. Maybe he doesn't and you're right by your assumption. Who knows until the books come out later lol.

Have they though? Or was it Lebron? I don't watch much east basketball so take this with a huge grain of salt but my gut feeling is any team out in the east with Lebron is a contender for ECF.  My point isn't that the Cavs would not be mediocre without Love but at least it was an organic team without the Lebron induced changes. A patchwork of a spoilt GOAT candidate's wet dream. Lebron rightly invited much criticism because he dabbled so much off-court matters. On court too really. Could just have been a great player but no he had to be more than that. You think MJ wanted to go trade for Rodman or was he told here we have a new player, deal with it? I dont know.

One thing which i am not sure has been brought up in the LBJ conversation is Rich Paul and LBJ's inner circle dictating LBJs terms and decisions. According to this theory, Lebron completely entrusted his legacy to these unqualified (uneducated, hanger-on-ers, posse whatever you want to call them), self interested people and they've squandered his peak years in a fools errand. Todday reframed LBJ's decision nobly to go back to a racist owner and a hostile fanbase to get them a ring etc but it was a sacrifice that hasn't panned out (never will?). The alternative was entrusting his legacy to Riley and the superior Miami management who would have given him better chances at success than Dan Brown's whatever makes Lebron happy policy in Clevaland. None of us are privvy to the in-s-and-outs of management but it's not hard to see that Lebron has gotten his way in Cleveland and it hasn't panned out the way he would have liked.

To expand, Rich Paul is the common denominator btw Lebron and Tristan Thompson - who some say is vastly overpaid for what he provides to the Cavs. So Lebron at the behest of RP campaigned for TT which got his mate a better deal but put the Cavs in a compromised position to be maximally competitive. When key game are lost and won by a few pts, this is a significant factor in success and failure. Trading for Love is inexcusable to me though. People justify it as a sure thing, trading a maybe for a sure superstar etc. Now maybe to argue otherwise is racist too but i dont know if race is as important in this conversation when ppl who like basketball tend to be more egalitarian in my experience. I just hated to see a budding young core of Wiggins and Irving with a new exciting coach dismantled because Lebron thought he could do better with Love and Lue. Fuck that though. Is having a yes-man as a coach a good thing? Go back to Cleveland, great, but then gut the team and rebuild carelessly to have your cake and eat it too, hard to respect that. I wud respect Lebron a lot more if he had just worked with the team he inherited. I wud still have traded Dion though but Lebron got that decision wrong too. Maybe management wud have done that anyway but Lebron wanted him. It's hindsight now but Dion always sucked. My 2c.