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DeimosRising posted:Having watched the highlight now, that's a pretty boring 70 points. Almost no impressive individual plays. It's obviously a hell of a performance but Giannis's and Jokic's highlights from last night are a lot more fun to watch. Not to mention a big load of weak whistles.
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I feel like by the time the Suns are good they're going to be one of the most hateable teams in the league
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I don't hate Devin Booker, I just think he's about as exciting and good as the common cold. He's the ur AAU player. Any personality other then "heh, I'm a good shooter, heh" has been coached out of him
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Mar 25, 2017 20:43
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BobHoward posted:Hating the celtics is cool and good. It is the natural order of things. Teams from Boston, NY, and LA all exist to be hated. When they are laughably terrible, or surprisingly likable, the sports universe is out of balance.
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ChickenMedium posted:It is the natural order of things. Teams from Boston, NY, and LA all exist to be hated. When they are laughably terrible, or surprisingly likable, the sports universe is out of balance. Two of those three cities have been irrelevant most of the time I've followed the NBA.
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AggressivelyStupid posted:Why would anyone want Cleveland to have anything nice, I'm not following your line of thought LBJ fulfilling his birthright as some kind of folkhero. Capitalizing on the halfcentury of Cleveland sports mediocrity. LBJ planting the seeds of NBA super fandom in Cleveland. Shear Modulus posted:I dunno. Cuban spent a while saying exactly this as loudly as he could and nobody really listened. It'd be different if the NBA as the whole league was saying it. A lot of people are dismissive of single owners. Cuban gets a bad rap as being an Ayn Rand fan or something. The best case scenarios for these owners is to lay low and hope nobody notices how many people they screwed over to get to where they are today. edit: I meant to say "Silver" in that quote you responded to. attackmole posted:Any given result of four lottery's in the low is mathematically improbable in retrospect. The highest result chance, that the worst team wins it each year for four years in a row is 0.4% and it just gets lower for any other combination. Yes, the best chance team winning four straight years is a 1 in 256 shot which doesn't sound good. But that's way, way more believable compared to a team with a .1% chance winning four years straight: 1 in 10,000,000,000 attackmole posted:Sure, the chances of Cleveland winning it were low., but you can look at any given series of four winners and say "WOW THE CHANCES OF THIS WERE UNREALLY LOW" and you'd be right because any sequence of events is going to be a dumb low probability, people just notice when it's the same team. You have math errors in your game but let's cut to the chase and take it to its logical conclusion. From 1994 to 2016 the way things worked out the odds were roughly one in 1,442,152,629,974,250,000,000 (1.4 sextillion). But that doesn't mean it's a conspiracy. The 1990s four year intervals don't look "unreally low." We're talking 1 in 4 and 1 in 10 ranges. However, some of the more recent ones are on a different scale (I did mention that was I suspicious of the Rose draft). If the best chance team won from 1994 through 2016 (usually has a 25% chance) that comes out to approximately 1 in 40,725,980,418,000 shot (40.7 trillion). If the worst chance team won in that period (usually a .5% chance) that works out to about 1 in 5,469,165,177,868,040,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 (5.4 sexdecillion). The suspicious part isn't the inordinate number of possible outcomes it's that the same team is winning. To take an extreme example. It's not suspicious when different people win the powerball/mega millions despite the insane odds but if we took the individual probabilities and multiplied them together for lotteries over the last few decades (sequentially) we'd be coming up with astronomical numbers that should not be occurring. But it happens and nobody is shocked. However, if one guy kept winning the powerball in a rapid sequence he'd be accused of fraud. Are you saying you wouldn't be suspicious if some guy won the powerball outright three straight times because "he had the same odds as everyone else?" Or take fifteen straight coin flips. Both of these fifteen heads/tails sequences have the same probability of occurring in some respects (.5^15 or 1 in 32,768) but one appears much more realistic and believable: HHHHHHHHHHHHHHH, HTHTTHTHTHTTTHH Zogo fucked around with this message at 22:53 on Mar 25, 2017 |
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Niwrad posted:Did not see this coming. Proof that PEDs do not make you good at basketball or paper over injuries e: Oh, it actually was an over the counter supplement. He should've bought his PEDs from a drug dealer instead of the supplement industry, they're more honest and reliable chunkles fucked around with this message at 21:47 on Mar 25, 2017 |
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Since 1984:code:patonthebach posted:Calling it now. KD wont get a ring this year and won't get one with the Warriors. That's a bold claim. Ron Harper makes a less bold claim: http://www.tmz.com/2017/03/24/ron-harper-derrick-rose-championship/ Turdsdown Tom posted:just curious: what is the Suns defense like to allow their main guy to drop 70 but still lose the game? were they just going for the record or something? couldn't they have fed him ten more points? lol The Suns offense and defense are both near the worst in the league.
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Mar 25, 2017 21:36
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When's the last a teams 2nd best player was out for 3 months and still won a championship
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straight up brolic posted:I don't hate Devin Booker, I just think he's about as exciting and good as the common cold. He's the ur AAU player. Any personality other then "heh, I'm a good shooter, heh" has been coached out of him https://twitter.com/studentatheltes/status/843493343422304256 This is Devin Booker's twitter
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lmao this whole loving twitter
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Zogo posted:The suspicious part isn't the inordinate number of possible outcomes it's that the same team is winning. To take an extreme example. It's not suspicious when different people win the powerball/mega millions despite the insane odds but if we took the individual probabilities and multiplied them together for lotteries over the last few decades (sequentially) we'd be coming up with astronomical numbers that should not be occurring. But it happens and nobody is shocked. However, if one guy kept winning the powerball in a rapid sequence he'd be accused of fraud. Are you saying you wouldn't be suspicious if some guy won the powerball outright three straight times because "he had the same odds as everyone else?" Sure, but the odds of the Cavs winning 3 out of 4 is about 2000 billion billion times more likely than someone winning the Powerball 3 times in a row. You're comparing "practically impossible" to something that's simply improbable. At any rate, do you really think that all thirty owners agreed to give Cleveland a potentially franchise-altering compensation pick three different times?
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That can describe any AAU product
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sum posted:Sure, but the odds of the Cavs winning 3 out of 4 is about 2000 billion billion times more likely than someone winning the Powerball 3 times in a row. You're comparing "practically impossible" to something that's simply improbable. At any rate, do you really think that all thirty owners agreed to give Cleveland a potentially franchise-altering compensation pick three different times? Why would anyone ask for the approval of the people they're screwing over if they're running a conspiracy? Of course the cheaters didn't get broad permission to cheat. They did it in secret. That's a silly irrelevant argument.
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Draft rigging for Cleveland to make LeBron a folk hero doesn't make sense because the lottery for the Wiggins draft happened before LeBron decided to come back. Now, if they were making them win the draft to make up for Bennett being a bust, that'd make more sense. Unless LeBron masterminded the whole thing to get Love to Cleveland and colluded with EY and the commissioner.
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The Houston Rockets are playing the Oklahoma City Thunder tomorrow for the season championship of Me versus My Friend Metapod. I'm posting this so I can quote it tomorrow evening and laugh at him.
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Strawberry Panda posted:Draft rigging for Cleveland to make LeBron a folk hero doesn't make sense because the lottery for the Wiggins draft happened before LeBron decided to come back. Now, if they were making them win the draft to make up for Bennett being a bust, that'd make more sense. Unless LeBron masterminded the whole thing to get Love to Cleveland and colluded with EY and the commissioner. LeBron isn't above colluding, however I don't think he would have in this case as the lotto happened before the Heat lost.
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Time posted:The Houston Rockets are playing the Oklahoma City Thunder tomorrow for the season championship of Me versus My Friend Metapod. I'm posting this so I can quote it tomorrow evening and laugh at him. Ryan Anderson is out with an ankle sprain 
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it's amazing to me how quickly noah cratered, it really blows having him and the ghost of luol deng floating around on lovely teams sucking and hinrich out of the league. at least gordon's roasting dudes in the d-league.
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Uncle tom turned out all along to be the gluepiece holding them all together Like the literal gluepiece inbetween their bones because he worn out all their ligaments
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I had a dream Bruce Willis had a nightly sport talk show on NBA TV called Bruce Nightly. And hair.
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EvanTH posted:Why would anyone ask for the approval of the people they're screwing over if they're running a conspiracy? Of course the cheaters didn't get broad permission to cheat. They did it in secret. That's a silly irrelevant argument. I assumed the theory was that the league as a whole was compensating the Cavs for having LeBron leave by giving them a raft of number one picks. I guess you could also argue that only Cleveland and the commissioner were in on it, but the idea that both Stern and Silver would both risk prison time to help out Dan Gilbert in the most obvious way possible is even more ridiculous.
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Redgrendel2001 posted:Devin Booker just dropped 70 on the Celtics. Ya crazy
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Does Booker scoring 70 and the Suns still losing count as the best way to tank? I'm a Laker fan and I say they earned the top pick for that.
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Student athlete tweets are 😙👌
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Time posted:The Houston Rockets are playing the Oklahoma City Thunder tomorrow for the season championship of Me versus My Friend Metapod. I'm posting this so I can quote it tomorrow evening and laugh at him. Actually I'll be the one quoting this and laughing
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The Rockets are now Above League Average defense. God bless.
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straight up brolic posted:https://twitter.com/matthewacherry/status/845811985467949056 It's weird to see Russ animated and happy while talking to the media, which seems to be his least favorite activity.
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I flipped to the end of Raptors Mavs after the last college game tonight. Briefly saw Patrick Patterson hit a shot, start screaming/taunting Rick Carlisle, and the Refs double teched Patterson and Carlisle. Sorry Raptors fans but I hope your team crashes and burns hard in the playoffs now. Keep your role players in check. I won't actually care about this tomorrow or even in an hour. Don't get offended. Spacebump fucked around with this message at 04:10 on Mar 26, 2017 |
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I know this is already old, but it's still making me laugh
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quote:MORNING TIP: WHAT HAS CHANGED FOR OTTO PORTER SINCE ALL-STAR BREAK? Neither of these explanations hold any water. Last year he shot 45% on threes after the all star break after hitting just 32% before. I've done the math and run the numbers and he is getting just as open looks this season after the break as he did before the break--nobody gameplans for Otto Porter, at least not any more or less than at any other point in the last few seasons. The real answer of course is regression to the mean, the most pervasive and inescapable cause of anything that happens in life, yet the one writers almost never look at. I guess "poo poo Happens" isn't a great clickbait headline, but it happens to be the best explanation for most patterns.
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sum posted:I assumed the theory was that the league as a whole was compensating the Cavs for having LeBron leave by giving them a raft of number one picks. I guess you could also argue that only Cleveland and the commissioner were in on it, but the idea that both Stern and Silver would both risk prison time to help out Dan Gilbert in the most obvious way possible is even more ridiculous. Whoa if rigging the draft is worth prison time then rigging the world series must be worth the freakin' death penalty oops wait no neither of those things are actually crimes the players who deliberately threw games and rigged the outcome of the world series for the mafia were sentenced to not being allowed to play pro baseball anymore Hah this is a lil like a few years ago when I had to break the news to a friend of mine that the Patriots cheating didn't really have to be punished by anyone and likely would have no consequences because there obviously no actual laws about this sort of thing and the NFLeague is just a group of lawyers who represent the team owners in labor disputes. lol imagine if you went to jail for cheating at sports
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EvanTH posted:Whoa if rigging the draft is worth prison time then rigging the world series must be worth the freakin' death penalty I mean, we don't really send millionaires to jail anyway.
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DeimosRising posted:Having watched the highlight now, that's a pretty boring 70 points. Almost no impressive individual plays. It's obviously a hell of a performance but Giannis's and Jokic's highlights from last night are a lot more fun to watch. By far the best play, a circus three point shot he made as he was falling down after a collision was called off due to an unrelated foul. It would have been play of the night if it had counted.
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