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They have to be wrong. The experiment that sent Odom out there at SF ended very quickly, around the time Kwame was pulled because he couldn't maintain spacing between him and Mihm, and it was in between the time Cook was starting. Probably 30 games in. Cook was supposed to take the post, and he was an absolute train wreck down there, and Odom was bumped up because he was also the better rebounder, and having him far from the rim was hurting LA. If Odom was at the four, and Mihm and Kwame were starting (Mihm first, then Kwame after the injury), Cook was at the three after about 30 games, when Phil made the adjustment, because he was also starting.

Just an example of how much Kwame played after Mihm went down... http://www.basketball-reference.com/boxscores/200604060DEN.html

Dude, lol, if he was being played at the center position, it's different, but he was in the roster as a small forward in the triangle. When he was starting, he was at the SF position, with Mihm/Kwame and Odom at the five and four. Phil is not dumb enough to take Odom out of the starting five, and he's not dumb enough to put Turiaf at the PF position in the triangle. Cook was a SF that season, and saying that Turiaf needed to play more minutes than Cook is saying that Kwame and Mihm needed to play less (or Odom less), and there's no way on Earth that Ronny was better than those two. I'm not sure what you were wanting. There were three centers on the team. Turiaf was one. Once Mihm was hurt, Cook was starting at the SF position, with Odom and Kwame at the four and five. Cook was never playing center. Kwame was up to about 40-43 minutes a game without Mihm, and Odom was at the five at some points of the game (very few minutes there). So, again, it was either play Odom at the five for about 3-4 minutes, or play Turiaf 3-4 minutes more. It had nothing to do with Cook. He was pushed up to the PF position, and Walton was getting around 35 minutes a night because of it. You can go check the games if you'd like, but the triangle doesn't operate with a center pulling out to the three-point line every play, and Odom was the only guy that could take the low post on the roster (other than Drew, who didn't play, and Mihm being injured).

Hahaha, that was hilarious...Detroit's line just stood there.

Multiplication and division happen before addition and subtraction, regardless if it's stuck in parenthesis or not, and no matter where that part of the equation lies. From left to right, you look for the parenthesis and exponents, solving for them first. Then, left to right, solving for multiplication and division (in this case, the 2x0 section). Then, you go left to right, addition and subtraction.

I'm sorry, but if people don't remember PEMDAS, that's terrible. Teachers are showing students how to work these problems in the third grade today (my girlfriend subbed for a third grade teacher last year, before she got her teaching job, and she was doing it then).

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I'm sure it would've fooled more people if you slipped a minus sign in there about 3/4 of the way through the equation, lol.

Two blocked shots per game isn't going to be more significant than the scoring Brian Cook gave us, and Turiaf wasn't going to be THAT big of a deal on the defensive end of the floor. Sure, Cook couldn't rebound, but he actually boxes out better than Ronny, and without looking, he probably averaged around the same RPG in 36 minutes. We needed someone to spread the floor. Cook was the best shooter on the team, hands down, no argument. I'll stick the best shooter on the floor before I put a guy that does nothing but block a couple shots a game out there. If we're talking just the playoffs...okay, that's a bit different. Maybe Ronny should've played more against the Suns. I don't even think Mihm played at all, if I recall correctly. But, if we're looking at the entire 2005-06 season, Phil made the right decision to play Cook more.

Haha, it really was quiet in here. I sure wouldn't say much after a 48-10 prediction, either.

I'm not even sure how the Raiders won, so yeah, lol.

Both of our NFL affiliates are dead sites now.

It really didn't look like he had room to run...maybe to get to the 2-3 yard line, but he wasn't going to score. We had two guys closing in on him, one from the left, one from the right. He'd have to "Elway" his way into the endzone to get that TD, and he's not going to pull that off. But, with that said, he screwed up quite a bit. I actually think he had time to throw the ball away quickly, before he started running more to his left, but oh well.

No coverage whatsoever.

Like he said, you can't use the drop-down menu while you're in a team forum. And I didn't mind the team bar (the logos at the top), but they weren't very friendly with certain monitor resolutions (they would fold up and break the page), loading times were a tad bit slower (having to load 30 extra images, not THAT big of a deal, but there was a difference), and most of all, those drop-down menus are going to be needed for the actual website portion of OTR, and I can't have drop-downs AND team logo images in the header at the same time.

GET RID OF CAMPBELL.

Thought this was funny, since I "half-ass know" both of these guys (partied with both of them a couple of times, probably 3-4 years ago). http://www.giants.com/news-and-blogs/article-1/Down-the-same-road/ce6dedad-038f-4ddf-98e1-5e47c2bd2956 Seriously, what are the odds of that?

I was bored, so I found a way to restore fully-deleted accounts. I did it with those that I deleted in the past (Diesel and OldChili), just so we would have accurate post content. Never knew I could be able to pull that off, but it was a bit easier than I realized, once I sat down and thought about how posts and topics are sorted and called.

Try using the drop-down while you're in profiles and non-team forums now...see if it works for everyone. If so, I'll have to change the team forums' codes as well.

Well, that's weird...first it was being unable to from profiles, and now from other forums...hmm.

For one, Ronny Turiaf was a center. He wasn't going to play the four...no way, no how. It's Mihm and Kwame you should be upset about, not Cook, because Cook and Odom were rounding out the starting frontcourt trio when Phil finally realized he coudn't play Kwame and Mihm together. In 2005-06, Cook was very useful. He was the most efficient shooter (from 23 feet in) that we had, and the second most efficient player on the roster (51% FG, 43% 3PT). At some point, you have to play those guys. Kyle Korver is no defensive stud, pretty bad at that end of the court, but he gets playing time to spread the floor and give more space to guys like Rose and Kobe, so they can operate. Like Mihm and Kwame, Turiaf clogs the paint and doesn't know when the hell to move out of it. Turiaf over Kwame or Mihm was a no-no, though. Kwame is a much, much better defensive player, and Mihm provided better offense. Both Kwame and Mihm are also better rebounders, and are true centers. Phil made the right decision. We couldn't afford finding ourselves in the penalty early against a Suns team that was winning 54 games despite being dead last in free throw attempts, but at the very top of the league in free throw percentage. He hurt us more than he did help. Swatting a couple of shots a night doesn't make up for six fouls, no assists, giving up double-digit rebounds, clogging the paint and keeping a prime Kobe outside of it, and not spreading the floor and being a legitimate threat on offense.

No way to Turiaf. He may have blocked shots, but he did absolutely nothing else, especially on defense (ask Knicks fans), and the real reason why he didn't play was because he averaged 6.7 PF/G per 36 minutes in both of those seasons we're talking about (pre-Gasol). He hacked people and sent them to the line because he couldn't play defense, and on a lot of those blocks he did get, he got away with bumps and STILL was in foul trouble the entire time he was in there.

Well, that score will end up being 160-159. No post players at all (don't call Bosh and Amare post players, please, and we all know Eddy Curry is there for the lulz), at least six guys capable of scoring 40 in this one...seven seconds between each bucket isn't unlikely, lol.

Well, I said it before...I'm kind of glad I'm done hooking up with chicks, now that I'm 28 (I was done over four years ago, though, but it's whatever). One of the hottest girls I know now has an STD, and nobody will touch her. She's cheating material (maybe not for me, since I don't cheat) as long as you're standing back and looking at her...but, her STD would spread faster than the news of her getting it, if nobody knew. That has always been one thing that freaks me out, and it's because the hottest girls around here are easy as hell.

Right, so if they wait these first two weeks, or even a month, and at least hope for a deal that gives them 53%, then they will end up getting a bit more money than they would if they just took the 50% tomorrow. Give it 10 weeks (2 1/2 months), and it's basically like them taking the 50/50 deal tomorrow...except, they actually held out and had over two months to get the 53%. That's basically what I was saying...not about making up the money, so that may have been a bad wording on my part.