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Yup, those are screenshots from games alright....
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I bet you wish you could give a negative post ratingOriginally Posted by scamboogah
Where is this even a quote from? Also what's with those screenshots?
If you click the little black arrow next to scamboogah's name in the quote box, you can see it just links back to his last post. You can type anything you want in between the quote brackets.
So he's posting a bunch of out-of-context screenshots of uninteresting NBA games, and then quoting things people never said? That clears things up I guess????????????????????????????????????????
Agreed! AST is built on the trust that we will only quote the actual dumb things we each say and not made up ones.
In other NBA news, the Wizards officially got eliminated from the playoff race this week. What's that? No one cares? (83 days until the NBA draft!)
sorry, I found these images of NBA players very funny. this being the thread where NBA is discussed I found it appropriate to share. is this so incredibly strange? should I comment every time someone says something on this forum I don't like? My perception of this board was that if you don't like something you politely shut your mouth. but perhaps I was wrong and I'll go back to lurking
Really?
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I thought scammy's response was pretty funny without being that mean-spirited (especially for him). Maybe I'm desensitized to those screenshots, because that's how everyone in the Verizon Center and half of the Wizards players looked during every game this season.
Is it so strange that if you post something that you think is funny, but no one else gets why you think that, that you might need to explain what you find so funny about it?
Thanks for the passive aggressive apology though.
Also, someone should check if Chad is okay after reading the headline to this article...
The Death of Ricky Rubio
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ok you're right i was the asshole. sorry for derailing. anyways, pretty excited about the win over the celtics but still don't think the bulls are playing that well.
Hey Tim, as a Wizards fan, I often wonder if the T'Wolves regret giving up Randy Foye and Mike Miller for that #5 pick that turned into Ricky?
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WTF does Jim from the Office know about the T-Wolves?
Enunciating. And use a hyphen. And be more careful when you're calling someone an idiot. Now if you'll excuse me, I have this old picture of Ashley Judd that I'm going to masturbate to.
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Quick back-track to the discussion of Kobe's relative value: SUNS 125, LAKERS 105 (Kobe sat w. shin injury, or "shinjury")
Also, I heard an ex-NBA ref (of 26 years) on the radio the other day, and he said Griffin's elbow to Pau's head was a clear offensive foul. He said in that situation the restricted area is irrelevant, as is the fact that Pau was moving/in the air. Basically, the defender has as much right to the space as the offensive player, and in no situation is it okay to hit a player with your elbow. Griffin makes officiating hard because he can literally jump over people, but that ability doesn't entitle him to use his forearm as a snow plow (or a pole vault pole). Refs are used to calling this the right way when it's a forearm to the chest (which happens all the time), but I guess they're human and can't help but marvel at a guy who can elevate two feet higher than his defender.
I'm not going to argue Kobe's relative value with you, because we agree: the Lakers are infinitely better with Kobe on the floor, regardless of his efficiency statistics (though this has something to do with the low quality of his replacement). And, generally speaking, I think Kobe is still one of the 5-7 best players in the league.
Regarding the foul: I understand that any elbowing is going to be called. Fine. But thats a new player-safety rule, and in this case is patently unfair. The play in question was CLEARLY a defensive foul on Gasol -- he was moving forward with his arms outstretched horizontally(thereby negating his right to that space, the so-called "principal of verticality") -- his arms and body make contact with Griffin before the elbow makes contact. In fact, if you watch Pau, he originally leaves the ground with both arms up, leading me to believe that his initial intention was to foul Griffin intentionally, to keep him from making the layup. As it is, he pulled one arm down, and body-checked Griffin with his hip. Griffin simply defended himself from the contact, and unfortunately, his elbow hit Pau's head, not his body. Either way, it absolutely MUST be a defensive foul. And as far as I'm concerned, if you get hit in the face while hacking somebody, thats really just a hazzard of the job. The league may not see it that way now, but it used to (and still should).
And I can't for the life of me figure out how Pau has "as much right to that space" as Griffin. Griffin was in the air on the way to the basketball, and Pau flung his body into Griffin's (Gasol is CLEARLY moving forward). Is this legal? If so, how come more people don't just body check guys into the front row? This exact play happens 15 times per game -- a defender rotates late on a pick-n-roll, and bodies the roller. Its a foul. Its always a foul. Pau was clearly prepared to take a foul there. I am utterly baffled by this ref's interpretation.
It doesn't matter either way: its one play, and Gasol is a big boy, perfectly capable of dealing with it. But it does point to the growing problem of the total pussification of the NBA. Its not football -- concussions are not a major problem; former NBA stars aren't demented at 45, or shooting themselves by the dozens. What are we protecting them from, with all this flagrant foul and technical foul nonsense? Being bad role models? (yes) Being too black? (yup)
Listen, I have no interest in returning to the days of fist fights breaking out every fifth game, but like all other "zero tolerance" policies, zero tolerance of hard contact and stare downs and shit talking has overstepped its logical bounds, and is threatening to remove all the emotion from a deeply emotional game. Or, even worse, to make the NBA like Euro ball. Pretty soon refs will blow their whistles at all contact away from the ball, and every game will be decided at the free throw line.
Sorry for this screed at a relatively innocuous comment, but I think its an interesting point/problem for the NBA. And I genuinely believe that its one more step by the NBA to reel in the inherent blackness of the game, to make it pallatable for White America. Good for marketing, bad for the product.
EDIT: I especially apologize for the avuncular "Listen" in the 5th paragraph, but have chosen to leave it as future evidence of what a condescending twat I am. I'm like a dog what rubs its face in its own poop.
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