Real Deal

Haha, compared to what happened a year ago (the hack), this is absolutely nothing.

How many games until Favors is inserted into the starting five? And, hey, look...Devin Harris is trying to win games now...lol.

TEAMWORK BABY! This was [expletive]ing awesome.

Superstars are starting all-stars (deserving starting all-stars) that can lead a legitimate team to 50+ wins OR produce off-the-chart numbers (because I wouldn't leave out guys like Kobe, who were averaging 35 points on a 42-45 win team). Players that you can build around and possibly win a championship with, or at least contend with. Superstars (Kobe) All-Stars (Gasol) Borderline All-Stars (Odom) Stars (Artest, Bynum) Role players (Fisher, Blake)

Lakers (Kobe, Gasol, Bynum) Heat (James, Wade, Bosh) The Celtics could pull it off (Rondo and Garnett for sure) because they have that talent, but I don't know. Drew will need to come back by the first of December to get in, though. If he doesn't make it back for a while, maybe Odom can be considered?

He forgot to add the part, "You get on TV by leading your team to 50-win seasons." Kevin Durant averaged more points (25) than he won games (23) in the 2008-09 season. Nobody cared, right? However, when he dropped 30 a game and won 50 games last year, all eyes shifted to his game and his team. Bosh thinks people are dumb. I know what Monta Ellis did last year. I know what Danny Granger is capable of. I know that Tyreke Evans put up a season that few rookies have ever accomplished. Their play doesn't exactly reflect their records. The casual fan, yes, they would have trouble identifying those players' abilities because they never see them play, and they could care less about the bottom half of the league. So, if Bosh is worried about the casual fan, he's got a point...but then again, he's in Miami. Why does he care about the casual fan today? Not only that, but being the only team in Canada, the Raptors do get quite a bit of attention from the fans in that area. People did recognize him as a top power forward in the league last year (maybe even casual fans). Technically, this is a guy that should not be considered a superstar, yet the talk of "three superstars getting together in Miami" was running wild all offseason. Why does he even talk?

LOL, yeah...the last time we were that busy, it was during LeBron's decision (which was insane as far as activity goes). Figures it would happen on opening night, though. We haven't had a problem all year, but on the one night we didn't need one...

Thanks for re-posting some of your topics, guys. I really appreciate the work most of you have been doing lately...you have no idea.

Nah. When they moved the site, they literally moved it...made a backup of it (before the games started, of course, because I have awesome luck) and moved it to a new server. Domain propagation happens when your ISP updates their IP records. In other words, all sites you visit have an IP address, like houses have addresses. Usually, every day, your ISP (ex. Comcast) updates that list of addresses, allowing you to connect to those sites. So, when you thought you were connecting to the new server that OTR was on, you were actually still posting on the old one.

Hahaha, you beat me to it. That sucks. Your dad should just give you the ticket, though...not really going to be a big game (at least that's what I'm thinking), because despite chemistry issues, the Heat should tear into the Sixers tonight. But, maybe Evan Turner plays like Brandon Roy, Iggy plays like Pippen, and Elton becomes Karl Malone, and the Sixers' big three pull out a win?

It wouldn't make sense if it were to happen again, so I'm pretty confident it won't. Domain propagation depends mainly on your ISPs. The site immediately changes over to the new server (duh), but your computers don't exactly "see" that until all IP addresses of all sites on the internet are updated for you. A lot of ISPs update them daily, so typical propagation takes up to 24 hours.

It looks like more and more members are logging into the new server, so it's a good thing. Earlier, there were a lot still viewing the old one.

I just posted an announcement about it. Basically, the site was moved to another server, and I wasn't aware of it. Domain propagation usually takes a while (allowing members to view the new server), so many of our guys (including me and basically everyone) were still viewing and accessing the site on the old server.

Kobe's 81.

Posted in another topic, but I'll put it in the announcements... If you can see this topic, you're on the new server (at least I believe so). The old server should still be showing members the gameday posts, unfortunately. I wish I could flip-flop that around, but there's no way of doing so.

Good to hear.

Sorry we lost all of the posts, for all of you that contributed to the topic.

Man, this absolutely sucks. 16 pages of posts gone. Sorry guys.

Some are still viewing the site on the old server, some on the new server (this may be the new server, actually). About 30 minutes ago, I logged in and saw the gameday posts. Right now, I see this topic, no gameday posts. Domain propagation screwed everything up last night, since our site had to be moved. I'm really sorry, guys. I'm pretty pissed about it, but there's nothing I can do to reverse what happened.

Uh...yeah, there's a problem. I'm going to look into it immediately.

Guys, I'll try and provide updates on OTR's Facebook when stuff like this happens. We had server problems early morning, and thought a HD went out...but that wasn't the case, so it took extra maintenance to figure out the problem. Sorry for the inconvenience. I'm not sure if we'll be kicking it in full gear right now, but I'm hoping we'll be stable by mid to late afternoon.

Nick Young gets to play!

LMAO, for real. Sick commercial. That's about it. Props to Nike.

Based on knowledge... OTR First Team NBA (no particular order): OTR Second Team NBA: OTR First Team NFL: OTR First Team MLB: Yeah...it's a boring night. Can't wait for tomorrow night.

To be honest, I gave the Southeast to three guys with moderating experience (Legacy was a moderator here, Cobb has been doing a lot of forum moderating, and you've done it outside of OTR). There are definitely a few others who I could've given it to, but those actually gave me two divisions...and I believe you stated you wanted the Atlantic or anything else. Cobb and Legacy listed the Southeast as their second choices. I filled out the Southeast first. The Heat forum could be the busiest of the season, or second to the Lakers. Because Kyle and I frequent the Lakers forum more than any other team forum, I figured the division that needed the most attention would be the SE.