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I bet any money during those periods, you were highly irritable or easily annoyed by anything... than during when you have the weed in supply.

With what they have to offer in trades, the Bulls should feel lucky if they can get J.R. Thibs is a defensive first coach, so it explains why he likes Bogan, the way he liked Tony Allen on Celtics. But now he's a HEAD coach, not just a defensive specialist assistant coach, he has to think about the offensive end too. J.R. has averaged at least 15.2 ppg off the bench in the previous 2 seasons before this one. This season he's averaging only 11.4 ppg, but at this point last year he also was averaging similar ppg, and it's becoming a norm since he became a Nugget he had offensive explosions after the All Star break every year. No matter if he has brain irregularities, 15 ppg off the bench don't lie. HIs instant offense production would be welcomed with open arms by Bulls, but I doubt Nuggets would be interested in any Bull offer.

He probably felt he's not gonna do it again, once in a lifetime thing... which explains it.

^I did weed for a year... you're "cool" now because you got your supply in check. Now I know you're a regular user, so try this, when you run out, try going weed-less for 1 week... and see how well you can control your emotions. It's intensity + side effects of drugs. Everyone knows Shawne is on drugs.

I don't really follow their stuff, but I am definitely a fan of this. Video is well done. Even better than the video is the beat, is just nizze

I am impressed Mahorn didn't even flinch when Thomas punched him. He didn't even bother to go at the small guy... what a tough guy. And few years later Mahorn would join them on Pistons lol

You're much more likely to be emotional if you're on drugs... Some people are naturally emotional without drugs, but with drugs they can't control their emotions. Uncontrolled anger is a common side effect from virtually any drug... even weed (which is supposed to make you laugh & happy). Try this (if you smoke weed regularly), stop smoking for 1 week, and see what it does to you.

Shawne Williams' fights are stemmed from the anger and moodswings sidefeffects of drugs.

All I can say is stats don't lie, except the +/- stat (lol) You gotta be crazy to take Kobe Bryant (31.3%) over Melo (47.7%) in clutch. Melo has had his shares of double-triple teams in clutch.

^So if any NBA player is guarded by more than 1 player in clutch and he keeps missing those shots, he should pat himself in the back, "I should cheer up. I'm missing because they guard me with more than 1 player"? Get outta here. Are you saying, "Kobe is actually clutch, but because teams are sending 2-3 players at him in clutch situations, he's missing the shots he was supposed to make"??

I thought I posted this back then... They don't cover Kobe with 3-4 defenders in clutch like you Laker fans want us to believe. It's a large sample size of his career game winning shots. Only 7 out of the 22 plays (31.8%) below, was Kobe guarded by more than 1 player.

AIM is goat... I remember doing mock GM talking trades with members here :o)

http://espn.go.com/blog/TrueHoop/post/_/id/24200/the-truth-about-kobe-bryant-in-crunch-time Kobe Bryant is 36 of 115 (31.3%) when Lakers trail by 1-2 pts or tied, in the final 24 secs, good for 25th in the L. Carmelo ranks 1st with 21 of 44 (47.7%) when Nuggets trail by 1-2 pts or tied, in the final 24 secs.

This. --- I don't want to compare heroin addiction with cigarette smoking addiction, but I'm going to share my story how I quit smoking... perhaps it can help if you relate the two... after all they're both addiction/ temptation. So I had been smoking in the past 2-3 years and when one night I felt chest pain... and difficulty to breathe... it went on for 2-3 straight nights, and I began to fear for my lungs. I started imagining when I am 55 years old, with breathing support, lying down on bed, weakened by years/ decades of smoking. The visualization was pretty real as my chest continued to ache... finally I decided to quit smoking. Only... it was hard. How can I JUST decide to quit it, when I was pretty much addicted? This is when you can try this method: 1.) Most people want to quit their smoking/ drugs addiction but they keep doing their bad habits... so they actually try to do something right, but they seem to always fail. When you fail, you lose. So what defeats them? It's called "TEMPTATION". 2.) Begin to visualize this TEMPTATION as SOMEONE or a person. - And now imagine if you're a smoker, and want to quit, and you keep lighting that cigarette. EVERY time you take out that ciggy stick and light it, "Temptation" just beats you, yet again. - And now imagine if you have wanted to quit 500 cigarette sticks ago, and have still not quit now, "Temptation" just beat you 500 times IN A ROW!!! Ask this to yourself: "Where's your pride, man? You gonna let someone beat you 500 times in a row??" If it's still hard to visualize, imagine your favorite sports team getting beat 500 CONSECUTIVE times by the same bloody team!!!! You just wanna shoot the other team's best player/ kidnap him right...? You will do ANYTHING so your team actually beats them the next time. 3.) Also imagine that "Temptation" doesn't just beat you, he beats everyone ALL OVER THE WORLD who wants to quit, but "can't". Visualize billions of smoking/drugs addicts, and how "Temptation" beats ALL OF THEM with seemingly greatest of ease. Everyone seems to FEAR "Temptation", and everyone bows to him when he passes. He then turns to the people, laughs and screams, "I WANT YOU SLAVES TO REMEMBER THAT YOU'RE POWERLESS AGAINST ME." The powerless people are holding out hope there might be a hero one day that can stand up to "Temptation", beats him, stops him, and just show to them that it can be done. 4.) Build up ALL your RAGE, ANGER, your MOST DESTRUCTIVE HATRED, toward... this person called "Temptation" who has beat you time and time again. 5.) Visualize yourself actually beating this "Temptation" with your fists and brute force to a pulp. Imagine the "Temptation" himself and everyone (all smoking/drug addicts) who are at the scene seem shocked at the turn of events. Intensify your attacks, and punch "Temptation" so thoroughly he begins to yelp, "help". 6.) When you're satisfied (if not, you can always go back to Step #5 ), shake "Temptation" and threaten him, "if I ever see you again, I'LL KILL YOU! You feel me/ you understand?" 7.) Now it may feel great to finally beat the team that had beaten you in the previous 500 times. But are you going to celebrate this one LONE win and be miserable in the next 500 games again? Are you going to settle for 1 win? Of course not. Even more impressive than 1 win is to COMPLETELY turn the table and actually DOMINATE the team that had previously dominated you. Now that would be the ultimate satisfaction! Only, how do you dominate "Temptation"? By defying his orders. You beat "Temptation" every time you defy his order. You don't want to do this 10 times, you don't want to do this 50 times, you don't want to do this 100 times, you don't want to return the favor and beat him 500 times, no. You want to shut "Temptation" and so thoroughly dominate him that he wishes he'd never met you, and never has to see you again. --- Yep, I used this method... and it works for me for quitting smoking. I'm dominating "Temptation" right now... I even once found an opened pack of ciggies with even a lighter. I took one cig out and almost put it in my mouth before my pride in my accomplishments so far against "Temptation" took over, and I decided I meant it when I said I wanted to dominate "Temptation". If you can't stop temptation, it controls you, it dictates you how you should live your life, it controls you like a puppet, it bosses you around "light that cigarette/ shoot up now", it toys with your pride... you position yourself lower than this lowly thing. By dominating (not only defeating) your temptation, you place your entity-being higher than it. Your pride has to be the driving force, to never let anyONE/ anyTHING dictate how you should live your life. Remember, temptation is NEVER a part of you. You, your body, your soul, and your pride/ dignity are fighting a battle against it. It's up to you if it's a winning/ losing one. Me, personally, I don't want to only win against "Temptation". I want to dominate it. Hope this somehow helps my friend

Saw T-Mac... he can still take people off the dribble, although you can tell he's lost some of the explosiveness. But a 60% T-Mac is still better than the average SGs on offense.

lol Nene the underachieving rebounder did too...

I agree that Nets will revisit the trade if they prove to still stink even without the "distraction". Two things Prokhorov must STRONGLY consider if he decides not to trade for Melo: 1.) Can he really watch the Knicks get Melo? No matter how brilliant, genius the man is, it'd be an impossible task to compete with Knicks for fans, even after they move to Brooklyn, when the Knicks feature 2 superstars on its roster, and the Nets feature none. This is the strongest reason imo why he will get Melo at all cost: to stop him from going to Knicks. If the Knicks get Melo, he might as well put the Nets back on sale in 2 years. 2.) That means he must count on Brook Lopez to rebound from soph season slump, on Devin Harris to regain his All-Star form, on Favors to live up to 3rd pick expectations... if they are to compete with Melo and Amare's Knicks. It'd be a LONGGGG shot. I'd put my $$$ on Ty Lawson, Nene and Afflalo schooling any Knick trio (besides Amare) in a 3-on-3 game.

Nugget fans had been patient for the first 30-35 games, until he started taking games off, played like he was distracted and until this negativity started to affect the team. Kobe was in a different situation. He was ALREADY in a big market, LA, when he demanded the trade. It's easy for him to say, "Melo is not demanding trade to go to bigger market, he wants a winning situation." So, you'd go to the 22-21 Knicks than stay with 24-18 Nuggets? Kobe never felt a need to go to a bigger market because he was ALREADY in a big market. It's easy for him to say. We Nuggets on the other hand, know Melo will leave us, go to NY because besides it being his home, it's also a bigger market for him. I'd boo him too. If you go to Nugget sites/ forums, about 85% Nugget fans want Melo gone. We just don't want someone who doesn't want to play for the Nuggets/ not loyal. If you're not loyal, you're going to give half-[expletive] effort.

^I'd rather be called greedy (which I'm not, I'm pretty generous) than dumb. --- Marion also did improve steadily in his first 4 seasons... but as soon as he left D'Antoni's system, he stunk. There are plenty of interests for Fields I'm sure, but if we deal with Knicks and have to flip Fields (because we don't need him) to another team, we won't get much, for the reason that he's a role player and we'll get, in return, role player too. Heck, I'm 100% interested in Fields, if the Knicks can trade him to Nuggets for a future 2nd rounder, heck yes, I'll take Fields any day. But the interest is different when we're talking about stars... Do we give Renaldo Balkman (take him back pls) for Fields? Heck yes. Do we give Anthony Carter/ Shelden Williams/ Gary Forbes for Fields? Heck yes. Do we give Carmelo for Fields? [expletive] no. Do other teams give their Joe Johnsons, Al Horfords, Rajon Rondos, Joakim Noahs, Stephen Currys for Fields? They'd turn down the Knicks like the Nuggets have been doing. If we deal with Nets, we're talking about flipping Devin Harris (former All Star), and I'm 100% sure we'll get more than a role player in return. Here's why I think Nets-Nuggets deal could and imo will happen: 1.) Melo has stated his focus is on signing extension (not sign a new contract with a new team in summer). http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2011/writers/ian_thomsen/01/18/carmelo/index.html If this is really his #1 priority, and assuming the Nuggets would rather hold on to him than trade him to Knicks for that package (and it seems to be going that way), as it nears trade deadline, Melo will soon realize he needs to give in to Denver's demands of trading him to Nets if it's what it takes for him to sign extension... 2.) Because Melo has not ruled out Nets. He stated this... ... via Chris Tomasson (former Nuggets columnist for RockyMountainNews, still has links and inside info of organization) ... because Melo will realize the Nuggets are NEVER trading him to the Knicks for that Chandler + Fields (even if you add Gallo here) package... BUT he wants the extension! But extension not with Nuggets! What team out there Denver is willing to trade him to besides Nets or teams willing to rent him? He certainly would rather be traded to the Nets because they're moving to New York, playing for far and away richest owner in the L, and immediately sign extension. 3.) Because Prokhorov still (badly) wants Melo as his franchise's face. Moving to New York and compete with Knicks for fans will be a tough challenge for Nets. It'll be tough enough for the Nets now, without Melo... But a MUCH WORSE scenario is if Nets don't go all out to get him, and the Knicks end up getting him, and Prokhorov's Nets have to compete with Knicks that feature Amare and Melo for fans. It's an impossible challenge. Prokhorov built his wealth empire with acute sense of vision, and he sees, knows and covers 1-2 steps before his competition does. He certainly sees this and can't afford to let Melo go to the Knicks. He already had Prok-lamation in his first press conference shortly after his purchase of Nets was official: "to turn New York Knick fans into Brooklyn Nets fans". How is he gonna do that if Melo (instead of being on his team) is on the Knicks with Amare? The trade call-off was just a negotiation ploy to strengthen their negotiating position. In Prokhorov's eyes, a trade for Melo is a must because it is as much about wanting Melo to be his franchise face over the next 6-7 years as it is about preventing him from going to Knicks. If Melo goes to Knicks, his Nets will never win over New York fans. 4.) Nuggets need Nets Simply because the Nets offer the best package.

Last I check it's still 23rd Jan, and we still have a month to 24th Feb. The way I see it, Denver is confident it can get NJ back in the talks, by meeting their last proposal or asking slightly lower... e.g. Instead of Devin Harris, maybe Troy Murphy instead if it's what it takes to re-spark Nets' interest. Nets clearly are not going anywhere with or without "distraction", might as well blow it up and bring in a superstar. And shortly, after Prokhorov called off the trade discussion, Melo publicly said that he actually would have loved to meet Prokhorov, saying "he's interesting man". Nets are not out of this imo.

Pretty cool video bro, but I hope it jinxes New York lol

A wingman who averages career highs 17.2ppg and 6.3rpg because he's in a contract year? Knick fans think Chandler would go on to be a 20ppg scorer... when he's nothing short of a 3rd banana at best on contending team. He reminds me of Shawn Marion... as soon as he left Suns he stunk. A rookie forward playing guard averaging 9.9ppg and 7.3rpg (gosh he leads all NBA guards in rebounding... he's stud) when he's a role player for life with limited athleticism, limited speed, unimpressive lateral speed... We already got Afflalo, further lowering Fields' value in our eyes, and as impressive those stats are for a 2nd rounder, we don't know if many teams demand him. Sure teams would line up to get a tall forward/ guard who can knock down shots and rebound, but what do they exactly give us? I don't think it'll interest us whatsoever

My suggestion for Knick fans is to just wait until 24th Feb and see. Denver would rather keep Melo, hold onto hope that he resigns, than trade him for that Knicks package. Or it would rather re-engage Nets by asking less. Even if Prokhorov wasn't aware with the details of the Melo deal until he got here, he knew the extent to how long and how hard his organization had been in the talks. Make no wrong analysis about that is how badly Prokhorov wants Melo. One of his reasonings to end the talks is to stop the distraction, but even without trade talks, they still stink, I am sure Denver can instantly re-engage NJ back in the talks when it nears 24th and they realize they exhaust all options and NJ's offer still stands as the best... either by agreeing to NJ's last proposal or asking for less. I got a feeling Knick fans will all be disappointed... the way LeBron decided not to sign. Don't get me wrong tho, I would be happy for Knicks if they get Melo... finally they can be real contenders again. I always like the Knicks especially the arena, I am just sick of what they offer us and they and their fanbase think it's good enough cuz "we won't get anything better". Fields and Chandler? I'd rather choke on a piece of steak than witness Denver do that deal.

We can get Nets back in this if we lower our asking price... 80% of what Nets offered is still better than any Knicks package. We just have to be slightly less demanding.