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Re: The NBA Thread
« Reply #450 on: December 07, 2011, 02:51:40 PM »
I'd partake in a fantasy league if asked. My legacy league on Yahoo screwed me over with the draft time and I have to autopick it so I'm desperate for a team I can actually be there to draft.

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Re: The NBA Thread
« Reply #451 on: December 09, 2011, 12:19:45 AM »
Wow, Stern should be forced to resign for this Paul debacle.

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Re: The NBA Thread
« Reply #452 on: December 09, 2011, 09:12:23 AM »
Wow, Stern should be forced to resign for this Paul debacle.

I'm so torn on this whole thing!

Obviously, players should want to go wherever the hell they want to go to. I just wish that players would consider the fact that there are great areas in the US that aren't New York, LA or Miami.

For instance, the reason why the Warriors and Clippers were hesitant to give up really good players for CP3 were because he wouldn't sign with them. Now, I understand the Clippers since Sterling couldn't be more of a cretin (although Paul-to-Griffin for even four months is a dream come true). But why wouldn't you want to play for Golden State? San Francisco is pretty similar to New York, except that it's hillier and a lot prettier and has less annoying people. And they also have the best fans in the league (one of the few things I see eye-to-eye with Simmons about) and a new ownership group that's pretty ambitious.

One of the reasons why everyone loves KD is that he wants to play in Oklahoma City. I wouldn't even have wanted to go to a Denny's in OKC until the Thunder played there and now the league's most beloved player has anchored himself there! CP3 could have been that same level person if he would've signed.

As far as Stern/owners go -- none of them, in their business lives, would have ever wanted other people in their industry to tell them what they can and can't do with personnel hirings. They should be completely ashamed of themselves.
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Re: The NBA Thread
« Reply #453 on: December 09, 2011, 11:27:33 AM »
I've really not liked Simmons' take on the whole lockout situation, but I thought his piece today was dead on. Not only does it screw up the teams involved and dealing with hurt feelings, but it also impacts a team like the Knicks that probably wouldn't have signed Chandler if they though they'd be able to get Paul as a free agent.

If this is going to make it so that the Hornets have to let Paul walk away for basically nothing, they might as well just fold the team.

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Re: The NBA Thread
« Reply #454 on: December 09, 2011, 12:33:13 PM »
Brandon Roy's retiring.

Sigh. Such a great player with too limited a peak. I loved his game -- it looked like he was walking in tar sands oil compared to almost every other player but he was so ridiculously clever.
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Re: The NBA Thread
« Reply #455 on: December 09, 2011, 04:54:10 PM »
Even as a Celtics fan, I think this whole thing stinks.

First off, we lost almost 2 months of games because the owners locked out the players and the resolution didn't fix any of the competitive balance issues that they supposedly locked out the players for in the first place. 

The owners got money back, sure..but the system remains unchanged for the most part.  Essentially everyone caved to PR pressure so they could restart the league on Christmas.
If the owners were serious about that competitive balance crap, the league would still be in a lockout and remain until they revamped the entire structure of the league.

I have no problem with players trying to dictate where they go.  Free agency is structured in such a way that stars have to force trades if they want to get max money from their new team if the current situation is untenable.  If Stern and the owners are serious about preventing the Melo's and CP3's of the league from trying to force trades, then get rid of Bird Rights.
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Re: The NBA Thread
« Reply #456 on: December 09, 2011, 04:56:34 PM »
Am I the only person who thinks that the Warriors should change their name to the San Francisco Warriors?  Wouldn't that immediately increase their cache? Granted they play in Oakland, but since when has that mattered?
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Re: The NBA Thread
« Reply #457 on: December 11, 2011, 11:15:53 AM »
Am I the only person who thinks that the Warriors should change their name to the San Francisco Warriors?  Wouldn't that immediately increase their cache? Granted they play in Oakland, but since when has that mattered?

Go full-blown hipster, change it to the Oakland Warriors. When they play the Brooklyn Nets, Flatbush Avenue gets knit-bombed. Sell kombucha at the concessions, trade for Metta World Peace and have halftime yoga. 

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Re: The NBA Thread
« Reply #458 on: December 11, 2011, 11:54:25 AM »
Warriors come out to play. na g state is roll natzy.  fo real monte steph v blake is going to to be sick.chrimbus going to be wet.  AND gregulater stinkss at ball won't even try to defend his basketball ego. roll ova beet oven. mit hamine ahh fuck this lamar odom trade is lame duck. draft considerations bah

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Re: The NBA Thread
« Reply #459 on: December 12, 2011, 05:10:52 PM »
I'm upset that we're not going to see CP3 to Blake.

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Re: The NBA Thread
« Reply #460 on: December 12, 2011, 05:52:54 PM »
So, out of nowhere, I've become interested in following the NBA. By proximity, I'm prone to be a Sixers fan. Also, the new management seems to making a lot of good moves (they just hired the kid who set up fake Twitter accounts for their shitty new mascots).

The problem is, I know nothing about basketball. I've always been clumsy and my utter lack of ability in the realm of hoops has kept my interest extremely low.

So I'm looking for a good primer or something to get myself involved and know a basic level of what's going on. I think the shortened season will be very helpful in that respect.

Any ideas?

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Re: The NBA Thread
« Reply #461 on: December 12, 2011, 06:01:42 PM »
I'm upset that we're not going to see CP3 to Blake.

Damn--If CP3 had just gone to either LA team by now, i think Orlando would have moved Howard to the Nets.  This short off-season is bonkers.

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Re: The NBA Thread
« Reply #462 on: December 12, 2011, 09:20:37 PM »
So, out of nowhere, I've become interested in following the NBA. By proximity, I'm prone to be a Sixers fan. Also, the new management seems to making a lot of good moves (they just hired the kid who set up fake Twitter accounts for their shitty new mascots).

The problem is, I know nothing about basketball. I've always been clumsy and my utter lack of ability in the realm of hoops has kept my interest extremely low.

So I'm looking for a good primer or something to get myself involved and know a basic level of what's going on. I think the shortened season will be very helpful in that respect.

Any ideas?

Start with the two FreeDarko books -- the first one's an almanac and is somewhat dated but covers most of the great recent players, and the history volume is fantastic all around.
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Re: The NBA Thread
« Reply #463 on: December 12, 2011, 09:43:54 PM »
Any ideas?

I think the number one to remember when watching the NBA is this: The shortest guy on this court is probably about 6'2", which in real life is considered to be very tall. I don't even remember the last time I saw a person who was 6'8" in person, let alone a person that tall who is also incredibly fast with absurd body control. NBA players are legitimately the best athletes in the world.

As far as a starting point: The 66 game schedule might be weird -- especially at first. There are so many crazy free agency moves and trades going on right now that a few teams will look very differently than they did last year. But there's essentially only three weeks of training camps and a handful of pre-season games that it's going to be incredibly hard for a bunch of teams to gel.  There is going to be a lot of sloppy ball in the first few weeks. So keep that in mind.

As far as another starting point: Games on TNT are well worth your time. They aren't any different than ESPN games but the announcers are, for the most part, about 75 times better. Their pre-game and halftime show is the best in sports history, largely because Charles Barkley just says whatever comes to mind. It's a bunch of pretty funny guys being pretty funny. And this year they now have Shaquille O'Neal joining them so there's a lot of hope that he'll add to this.
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Re: The NBA Thread
« Reply #464 on: December 13, 2011, 12:59:34 AM »
Stupornaut a great place to start, the court. go round there and dribble tripple. score the damn ball. dont hit people with your limbs.  get the ball across half court in 8. score the damn ball.  gregulater is a shmuck who talks ball butt. hes butt ball butt thees right in lamness. man wont take my bait and get schooled on the court. come on white devil put up or shut up. 5 on 5 whatever your team loses and you do some more clueless pod chasting.  do you understand. you a puss (Y?)  (cuz i luv the hoops and friends ub in philly)) organize the game you terribly named later (ah man parks and rec o yeah adam good scott greg let me bring the pain to ya.  o and great guests on the nodcast  (boowoo woo woo boooo))0