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Damn.
I was really hoping we would lose that game.
Fresh Loss = Better chance.
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woah... 999 feet ehh?
Was he shooting from the Natural History Museum?
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Um...
Trap?
first off, its hard to compare a center and a shooting guard and determine who is the better overall player. These two positions are entirely different and there is no legitimate debate for either side.
Second, positions aside, Jordan changed the game as a whole and every franchise completely revamped roster structure because of him. Hakeem while fantastically dominate, did not do any of this.
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Who Will Win? Kansas
Who do you want to win it all? Kansas
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$65?
You can get MLB 10 the show for $60 anywhere else and amazon was giving $20 credit towards another game with purchase of that or bfbc2
Included shipping costs.
I mean, im just throwing this out there. Im not looking to constantly have to discuss my prices or what not as i will sell these no matter what. You guys can bid on them on EBay and get them at a cheaper cost then the buy now, or you can buy now for 65 flat with no shipping cost or tax. Even in a store it would be around 67 dollars after taxes and if you bought online you would add another 8 dollars for shipping.
So for people who do shop online these are not bad deals at all, and unlike a store, i am willing to negotiate.
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How much for MLB 2K10 and why are you selling all these?
65 free shipping.
My buddy owns a business and i'm getting games at wholesale costs.
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Great post.
How much you selling MLB 10 for(if I may ask)?
65 with free shipping.
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I am currently selling NEW PS3 and XBox 360 games.
All are in original wrapper and unopened (a few have a tear or two in the plastic but that is it) and everything is in perfect condition.
I am currently selling:
XBox 360:
BioShock
Dante's Inferno
Mass Effect 2
MLB 2K10
Battlefield: Bad Company 2
PlayStation 3:
BioShock
Dante's Inferno
MLB '10: The Show
Battlefield: Bad Company 2
I have multiple copies of each game so if you are interested in any and want to avoid Ebay then feel free to contact me via PM.
Also, if you want to order 3 or more games we can negotiate prices, i am a reasonable man.
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Cavs and Atlanta.
Orlando will spit some fire but this is not the same team that was able to make it to the finals last year, they are weaker.
Boston, done unless KG and pierce can manage to be 100% for the play offs.
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Not a huge LBJ fan myself.
I will never deny his talent, but right now i view him more as a product then a player.
Some of these no-calls are absolutely ridiculous btw and is the reason why i will take a bad NCAA game over a good NBA game any day of the week.
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There are a lot of younger players i would like to see successful, but for now i will just go with the older players whose career only needs to be topped off with a ring.
Steve Nash, Grant Hill, Jason Kidd, Antonio Mcdyess, Chauncey Billups (yes, i would love to see him with 2 titles), Peja, Nick Collison, K-Mart (the real one, not the fake Sac one).
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Great start. I hope this is satire. You realize that Pierce and Wally were injured for pretty much this entire season, right? Also, where was the young talent? Which player, besides Jefferson (who played no D at all back then), has amounted to anything more than a decent role player out of that group? You also forget that after the All-Star break, the Celtics were tanking to get as many ping pong balls in the Oden/Durant sweepstakes as possible. You either have a selective memory, or you're just delusional.
Pierce was injured half the season. Wally was injured over half. Ok, sure. This one can be slightly excusable. But nothing else. Even so, good coaches create winning systems that do not have to rely on superstar players. BTW, Pierce played 47 games, win half of those and you are at 23, a good coach would have been able to pull out at least 7 more wins with a good system while PP was out.
This is hilarious! Ricky Davis? Garbage. Always was. A me-first player who did nothing but shoot a lot. What has he done is his career to convince you he's good? Mark Blount? Are you kidding? I hope so. Gerald Green? He still sucks after years of development, imagine how bad he was as a HS rookie. These teams were Pierce and nobody else.Rickey Davis was 20 point guy who was a good defender. Like it or not, he was a great role player for that team and any team that has two guys talented enough to get 20+ and 3 or so players who can get 14+ and 5 or 6 more who can get 8+ should not be expected to be below 500. If they are, then they are being very poorly coached.
Wow. You realize Grant Hill was injured for his entire Orlando Magic career. He played a total of 14 games that year. And Shawn Kemp? Please be joking. He was a great player in Seattle, but a complete joke in Cleveland and Orlando, especially Orlando. You listed him first, too, even though he wasn't on the team that year. Please tell me you are 12 years old because that would be the only acceptable excuse for thinking Kemp was good that late in his career, anyway. And Ewing, he played that one year in Orlando. he was 39 years old and averaged 6 points a game. Who's Brown? Dee Brown? He played 7 games and scored a total of 7 points that year. Horace Grant was 36, and past his prime. But anyways, excuse me while I GTFO.
Hill was injured for much of his career with Doc. And he played 29 games, not 14. Take him out of the line up and you still have a team stacked with fantastic role players, old franchise hall of famers and a healthy TMac.
Say what you want about the older players, but these are the guys that are added to championship teams year after year and many provide the necessary piece for that team to win that trophy (take a look at the past 10 years of titles for proof and see who teams added for that extra experience push).
Fact is, come play off time any team would have been better off with a 20mpg 7/7 old experienced Kemp then a 15ppg 2-3 year player with little or no clutch experience.
See a re-occurring theme here?
Doc has proven time and time again that his system (what actually matters as a coach) is a poor one.
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Wow, is this a serious question? Go back and take a look at the rosters Doc had to work with before they put a contending team together. He overachieved with those teams, just like he did in Orlando when he won his first COY award. I don't think he's a top tier NBA coach, but he's definitely above average.
Ok.
06-07 - 24-58... this is overachieving ? 24 wins is what you consider overachieving? A team lead by Pierce and Wally (sorry, but Wally was a good role player with the Celtics) with a [expletive] ton of great young talent around them... and 24 wins is overachieving?
05-06 - 33-49.... Again..... Overachieving? Pierce, Davis (who was a 20 then), Blount, Jefferson, West, Wally, Green, Gomes.... 33 wins....Overachieving?
GTFO.
Orlando...
McGrady, Grant Hill, Pat Garity, Armstrong, Big Ben, Outlaw, Mike Miller, Troy Hudson, Horace Grant, Patrick Ewing, Dee Brown, Jacque Vaughn, Shawn Kemp, Giricek.....
Really?
A first round knock out for those three seasons with all those great players for most of the years he was there and THAT was underachieving ?
GTFO.
That [expletive] was underachieving if i have ever seen it.
Kemp, McGrady, Hill, Garity, Armstrong, Grant, Ewing, Brown.... NOT make the second round? Yea... GTFO with this underachieving crap.
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I wouldn't put any team on the list who did their trades simply out of cap desperation.
Lets face facts here, a blind monkey in a wheel chair could move Caron Butler, Haywood and Jamison for expiring.
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Not buying it.
Miami should be in a better position now and i can promise that the franchise expectations were not to be out of the play-offs (which supposedly them being a questionable 7+ seed is amazing and i cannot think of one news source that predicted them even that low). This is the almost same exact team as last season so there is no reason for anyone to hold them to any less then what they did the previous.
Dallas had a little skid but they are still in the position to finish as expected.
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Has anyone ever watched the Celtics and said, man this team isn't well-coached?
Rivers has a few flaws, namely he plays his starters a ton (You can tell he's from the Riley school), but coaching isn't Boston's problem. Health, age, and an offensive spark off the bench are their problems.
I have.
Before the big 3 Rivers was a garbage coach and he has never been great with a team that has not had multiple all-stars on it.
We've never seen him take a team from the ground up and be successful with them. He was with the Celtics for what? 4 years with one(not 100% on that, but im pretty sure it was just one year) of those years being an over 500 team until they got KG and Ray Allen. And even when they did that, their championship season you could look at the bench during a time out and see KG talking more then Doc.
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The only racist part about it is their reasoning.
So this cant happen in a whites only league? Why, cause black people are the only ones that do this?
So whites are the only ones who know fundamentals? A league with only a certain race is alright but not for reasons like those.
Dunno if that second part was as racist as the first.
It just sounds like the owner is considering the olden days of basketball over todays game. Back when the league was mostly white the game itself was more fundamental, but it really had nothing to do with race, it was just the beginning of basketball.
He might not understand the concept of evolution though.
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Grades are not relative to team's abilities. Those are what power rankings are for. Grades are to determine how a team is doing relative to expectations. Dallas' defense had fallen apart, too many players weren't consistent, and Dirk's defense had been just as mediocre as ever. In other words, par for the course.
Dallas has never been a seriously defensive team, at least not more so then offense and they are right around average for defense, which is where they always are. Im not sure if anything more was actually expected of them when their system has not really changed. According to insidehoops.com Dallas is 15th in overall defense (last season being 14th, so defense fallen apart does not really ring true). Maybe some individual efforts have fallen short, but some positions have also highly increased, as a team they are relatively the same though. In fact their defensive numbers are not much different from the year they went to the finals against the Heat.
Miami on the other hand is doing almost worst in every category from last season. What where their expectations for the season with a healthy wade? Was it really to do worse?
Improvements from their youth, Beasley, Chalmers, Cook, ect. Bringing in guys like Q-rich and an ultimate goal of keeping Wade happy this season and their expectations are for a questionable 7th-8th seed? Highly doubtful. They may not expect to be contenders, but right now they are questioning being in the play-offs.
A B+ for a team that is falling apart (which definitely did not have those goals set for the year) vs a C for a team that is a solid 2-4 seed in the West (which is definitely an expectation) and is one of the few true contenders in that conference is not a very good grading scale.
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Gonna go with two teams here.
Blazers for picking up Camby. Most of the other trades really do not matter as none of the trades are really necessary for the teams success.
Portland on the other hand really needed to pick up another big man, even a low level big man would have sufficed but instead they manage to get a great big man in Camby, this really helps them for the rest of the season and could be the difference between even making the play-offs and a WCFs appearance.
And.. Other...
Memphis, These guys did a fantastic job picking up Brewer with what could be a 15 pick or worse, lets not forget this team is only 3.5 games out of the POs. Brewer is a highly overlooked and underrated player. A 4th year 2/3 who is a great role player and provides some pretty good defense. With him on the team the Grizz could also try out a Mayo-Brewer-Gay guard line up since they seem to be getting little production out of Mr.Conley.
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Lakers, but not a fan of either.
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Why did the Heat get a B+?
The reasons given do not really justify a B+ grade for them (Who will most likely be knocked out in the first round) but a C for the Mavericks (who are one of the few teams who have the depth and experience to contend in the West).
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lol at Lebron having more votes both Shaq and Duncan.
+1
Shaq
Duncan
Kobe
That covers all but two rings.
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Pierce and Allen were on Bryant, together, and Garnett was lurking when he drove. You seriously can't say that Pierce defended Bryant by himself, can you?
And as far as being a top ten Celtic of all-time, just take the list and see how far it drops from the top five (where Paul Pierce is nowhere near)...
Larry Bird
Bill Russell
Bob Cousy
John Havlicek
Kevin McHale
Robert Parish
Dennis Johnson
Dave Cowens
Bill Sharman
Sam Jones
You can stick Pierce somewhere near the bottom of that list. That doesn't make him an "A" defender, and it doesn't make him the offensive player you claim he is. If he was both of those, he'd be right there with Larry Bird, and I hope you really don't think that's true.
No it does not automatically make him an A defender or great offensive player, but you are really the only person to suggest he is not. What puts him in that top 10 category (not me saying this btw, people who make millions to analyze games and players are the ones saying this) of Celtics is the fact that.... he really is a true badass.
Offensively Pierce can do anything that any of the greats could. He has a great mid range jumper, has shot a career of 37% from the 3 (Kobe at 34 btw) being 4th in the NBA, 45 from the field (same as KB) and 86 for FTs (81 for KB) with an average of 23ppg career (2 shy of KB). Now, a cross SF/SG that has made eight all- star appearances and win a three-point competition, multiple All-NBA teams, a finals MVP award, ect. ect. ect.is not someone who is lacking anything offensively at all (given position at least).
Defensively there is not much evidence to give simply because there are not many ways to accurately measure defensive production, however the best ways we currently have is by using Defensive Win Shares and Defensive Efficiency. Both of which he is rated higher then Mr. Bryant (with DWS almost 20 spots better).
Also if you have not figured it out, i am using Bryant as a comparison because it is clear you think he is everything that Pierce is not.
2008 NBA FINALS SCOUTING REPORT OF PAUL PIERCE:
.......Pierce has asked for and received the defensive assignment versus Bryant at key times during this series and he has done a very respectable job guarding the league's best player, just like he did a good job earlier in the playoffs defending against LeBron James, the league's second best player.....Pierce and Allen were on Bryant, together, and Garnett was lurking when he drove. You seriously can't say that Pierce defended Bryant by himself, can you?Not all the time, no. But Doc Rivers would have been labeled a defensive moron had he not sent double teams at Kobe. But as the scouting report said, PP did a very respectable job guarding Kobe, which is about as high of praise as you can get when defending that man.
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It would be nice to see them start doing the Dunk Contest once every two or three years instead of yearly. There is a limit to how many original dunks we can see and if they turned it into a bi-annual event then then anticipation alone would increase the value for the viewer. It could also push players to be more creative and innovative and hopefully push them to use less props and more natural skill.
Kansas Jayhawks Thread
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Its still a game that didnt matter.
We would have locked the number 1 overall no matter what and had we gone 2 of 3 vs KState that would have been fine, hell id rather get the extra life lesson for the tourney then beat KState yet again.