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| The Big3 Tourney |
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67 | 22.41% |
| Will Lakers draft Ball |
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40 | 13.38% |
| Where will the Pauls go |
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54 | 18.06% |
| Will LeBron jump ship to the Spurs or ?? |
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41 | 13.71% |
| Will every team in the league just pivot towards tanking |
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97 | 32.44% |
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G-Hawk posted:the rockets rotation as it stands: Rockets are going to be a real good team this season. It's too bad Pierre Jackson signed with a EuroLeague team. He would have been good on this squad.
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Jul 17, 2017 00:58
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WhyteRyce posted:Q: you are Carmelo Anthony and you are stuck in space with an asteroid headed straight for you. How do you get out of it's path? You're in the pick and roll in Vegas and you see a Terrapin in your path
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Jul 17, 2017 01:06
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WhyteRyce posted:Apparently the kid is a 16 year old Trump supporting Boston fan If I was dwight I'd reply with a sportrac link showing my $181M career earnings, but I'm super petty.
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Jul 17, 2017 01:46
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Dwight's probably nailed more 16 year olds than that kid too
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Jul 17, 2017 02:09
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EvanTH posted:"Throwing someone under the bus" is a pet-peeve of mine. First, it grew in prominence during the Writers' Strike when a bunch of reality TV contestants (aka The People Broadly Accepted As The World's Worst And Dumbest) would use it 5 times an episode to indicate someone else callously trying to gain advantage over them. Naturally it spread like cancer. my dude this is some high grade 
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Jul 17, 2017 02:32
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Yeah there’s no need to throw the throw under the bus metaphor under the bus
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Jul 17, 2017 02:36
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2 to 200 restaurants in 4 years!? That's crazy growth.
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Jul 17, 2017 02:57
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Dexo posted:lmao at someone getting legit mad at someone using the bus toss metaphor. Is pet peeve is the same thing as legit mad? It's more like I regularly think a lot of people sound real dumb for using an idiot phrase they seen on TV Like how some logic professors don't like the misuse of "begs the question" for "raises the question" but the misuse became so common it's now accepted as a correct use, sucks to be them.
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Jul 17, 2017 02:58
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Charlz Guybon posted:2 to 200 restaurants in 4 years!? That's crazy growth. Yeah I like Blaze Pizza.
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Jul 17, 2017 03:08
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EvanTH posted:Is pet peeve is the same thing as legit mad? It's more like I regularly think a lot of people sound real dumb for using an idiot phrase they seen on TV How is it an idiot phase again? Just because you don't like it? The english language is pretty much nothing but people constantly creating new idioms.  In an actual paper that's going to be reviewed I wouldn't recommend using it, but lol at being bothered by it on an internet forum. WhyteRyce posted:Wait, are we seriously claiming that putting someone in front of you a whole foot or two will prevent you from being hit by a moving bus? And that a moving bus can stop on a dime once the driver hits the brakes? Yeah man it was literally was raining cats and dogs here earlier today. https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/why-do-we-throw-someone-under-the-bus
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Jul 17, 2017 03:09
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Charlz Guybon posted:2 to 200 restaurants in 4 years!? That's crazy growth. Phil Jackson says that their pizza is like crack
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Jul 17, 2017 03:22
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Charlz Guybon posted:2 to 200 restaurants in 4 years!? That's crazy growth. Probably bought out all the non-chipotle failed franchises of the early 2010's. Quizznos died for Lebron's empire
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Jul 17, 2017 03:25
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Hashtag Banterzone posted:Phil Jackson says that their pizza is like crack Hahaha
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Jul 17, 2017 03:26
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Doltos posted:As others pointed out Chandler not getting resigned was a bad move. I still think their championship was flukey because of how powerful all the other title contenders were that year. Dirk played like a HoFer (like he does every season) but especially so in those playoffs. That team was a powerhouse during the season too but I'd bet on the Lakers or the Heat to win the chip that year 9 times out of 10. Him going like 1879/1879 from the free throw line that one game was the hypest I've ever been for free throws
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Jul 17, 2017 03:54
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WhyteRyce posted:Q: you are Carmelo Anthony and you are stuck in space with an asteroid headed straight for you. How do you get out of it's path? Big time lol at this really funny post
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Jul 17, 2017 03:56
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Dexo posted:How is it an idiot phase again? Just because you don't like it? Hah, it's 2000%, maybe even 3000% a personal taste thing for me. That page you linked there is verifying what I seen--it's a relatively new idiom that grew in prominence in the mid to late 00s, with earlier examples being more sensible uses that would correspond to standing at a bus-stop and deciding to murder someone, and more recent uses just substituting a bus for wolves. They think it's from the election or something, but I swear to Nergal and his unholy bride Ereshkigal that it was pushed into the mainstream by reality TV during the writer's strike 07-08. Girlfriend at the time loved the reality TV, couldn't get enough of it, and so by the laws of dating I had to sit through a bunch of the stuff. She liked to laugh at the people, I thought they were all disgusting and mostly wanted to leave the room. Folks on TV who think they're getting "betrayed" 2-3 times a day, enough to need a shorthand for it. Something to make a small everyday misstep sound like a grand offense against one's character, normal reality-TV self-inflation. Every time I hear it I think about reality TV contestants, hyper-inflated egos wallowing in gossip, self-aggrandizement to the n-th degree, and I doubt I'll ever break that association. I'm pretty sure most everybody's got stuff like that. Phrases they don't like, songs that remind them of something terrible, small behaviors with unhappy personal associations, that kinda thing. WhyteRyce posted:Wait, are we seriously claiming that putting someone in front of you a whole foot or two will prevent you from being hit by a moving bus? And that a moving bus can stop on a dime once the driver hits the brakes? It's a stupid-rear end idiom, more a misuse than anything. Even the silly idioms tend to have reasonable sources, usually jokes. I'd read "raining cats and dogs" has to do with bad sanitation, where a bit of flooding would wash all the corpses of dead strays into the streets. Putting someone in front of a bus is simply good clean fun. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GDCINv3zY5c WhyteRyce posted:Q: you are Carmelo Anthony and you are stuck in space with an asteroid headed straight for you. How do you get out of it's path? lol to that
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Jul 17, 2017 04:06
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pubic works project posted:Yeah I like Blaze Pizza. Anything that cuts into Papa John's is cool in my book.
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Jul 17, 2017 04:18
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NickRoweFillea posted:Him going like 1879/1879 from the free throw line that one game was the hypest I've ever been for free throws Dirk was 175/186 the whole 2011 playoffs. That's insane, both in how often he was getting to the line and then hitting them at 94%. He was 45/46 in the finals against the Heat.
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Jul 17, 2017 04:24
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Speaking of great big men, Matt Moore is looking at Cousins a lot tonight for some reason. Here's how the Pels will get spacing next season: https://twitter.com/HPbasketball/status/886786902808027136 
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Jul 17, 2017 04:26
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Instead of watching Summer League, I've been reading BOOKS, and I have a BOOK RECOMMENDATION for y'all: It's "The Golden Boys" by Cameron Stauth, and it's a really fun book about the Dream Team. Stauth focuses mainly on the selection of the players and their backgrounds, but he was also in Barcelona for the Games, so he has a lot of interesting things to say about that experience too. There are so many great Charles Barkley quotes that I couldn't even begin to list them. I also read "Magic's Touch," which wasn't too interesting. Up next, "The Punch," John Feinstein's examination of the Washington/Tomjanovich incident.
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Jul 17, 2017 04:55
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Juaguocio posted:Instead of watching Summer League, I've been reading BOOKS, and I have a BOOK RECOMMENDATION for y'all: buying this asap, thanks for the recommendation! Also I picked up the Jordan Rules a while back and I need to get cracking on that
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Jul 17, 2017 05:44
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I read The Punch like a decade ago, but I recall enjoying it
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Jul 17, 2017 05:46
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Somehow Trey Burke is one of the best, if not the best character in NBA Playgrounds. I really wish EA would just poop out another NBA Jam On Fire Edition with slight fixes and updated rosters. NBA Playgrounds (playing on Switch) is a decent arcade basketball game but ultimately I find myself wishing it was NBA Jam. It's fun for what it is and the online play works decently. Lol at them taking over 2 months to get online play working on the Switch version. The only positive that comes from that is now I'll get Shaq Fu 2 for free. After that comes out I'll let the thread know how it is. (Unless Saber messes up giving the game out free for early Switch NBA Playgrounds buyers) edit: One major flaw with the game is you can't do 2 humans vs 2 humans online still. I don't understand why I can't play with a friend online against other teams but in this game it's currently not a feature. (They claim it will be added but I haven't heard any hint of when and wouldn't be shocked if they don't.) Spacebump fucked around with this message at 06:09 on Jul 17, 2017 |
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Jul 17, 2017 05:59
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Carlosologist posted:buying this asap, thanks for the recommendation! Also I picked up the Jordan Rules a while back and I need to get cracking on that David Halberstam's "Playing For Keeps" is another excellent book on Jordan. I guess I can post one Chuck quote, since I found a newspaper clipping of it: https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1350&dat=19920727&id=FQ8wAAAAIBAJ&sjid=TwMEAAAAIBAJ&pg=6788,7328159 "We're going to win the gold medal. If people don't like it, you can turn off your loving TV."
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Jul 17, 2017 06:30
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Spacebump posted:Somehow Trey Burke is one of the best, if not the best character in NBA Playgrounds. I really wish EA would just poop out another NBA Jam On Fire Edition with slight fixes and updated rosters. They need to make a proper Street 4
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Jul 17, 2017 07:25
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what's a street 4
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Jul 17, 2017 07:59
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It arranges the buildings such that folks can get about the town in an orderly fashion
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Jul 17, 2017 08:41
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Henchman of Santa posted:They need to make a proper Street 4 Id pay all the money for an updated vol 2
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Jul 17, 2017 12:14
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The NBA Street games were the best I want a new one as well.
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Jul 17, 2017 12:55
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Doltos posted:Maybe I'm remembering it wrong but the Lakers, Spurs, and Thunder all looked way better than the Mavs going into the playoffs and a lot of people expected the Mavs to get beat in the first round. The Mavs swept the Lakers but that was a big surprise, not an expected outcome. There were definitely people who thought the Mavs would lose in the first round but that was more because of reputation and the malaise the franchise fell into after 2007 than an assessment of the team at the time. Sweeping the Lakers was a surprise but that doesn't change that it factually happened, and in fact they beat their rear end so bad Andrew Bynum tried to kill JJ Barea. They won 57 games, including 2-7 without Dirk. It wasn't a favorite but it was a great team. I don't think they'd win another championship had they kept Chandler but I think they'd have been like a 55 win fringe contender for 2-3 years instead of what they've been. Anyway thanks guys for letting me think about 2011, the happiest days of my life. NickRoweFillea posted:Him going like 1879/1879 from the free throw line that one game was the hypest I've ever been for free throws He also went 12/15 from the floor. I still smile thinking about JVG saying Ibaka should name his first son Dirk.
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Jul 17, 2017 13:46
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Since we're talking about books (wtf is a book anyway?) I recommend Seven Seconds or Less by Jack McCullum, and seconding Playing for Keeps. Read the latter like three times in the last 5 years and enjoy it every time.
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Jul 17, 2017 15:34
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EvanTH posted:"Throwing someone under the bus" is a pet-peeve of mine. First, it grew in prominence during the Writers' Strike when a bunch of reality TV contestants (aka The People Broadly Accepted As The World's Worst And Dumbest) would use it 5 times an episode to indicate someone else callously trying to gain advantage over them. Naturally it spread like cancer. 
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Jul 17, 2017 16:48
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Still waiting on a sequel to Looney Tunes Basketball myself
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Jul 17, 2017 16:49
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https://twitter.com/barstoolsports/status/886627046780272642 Evan had a twin brother that was viciously attacked by a bus. Please leave him alone.
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Jul 17, 2017 16:52
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BIG BALLER BRAND
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Jul 17, 2017 16:55
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rockets seemed to have put together a really solid roster. i hate to say it, but i think they've jumped the spurs this offseason
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Jul 17, 2017 16:55
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RaySmuckles posted:rockets seemed to have put together a really solid roster. They will probably start off the first month slower than people expect but then get better as the season goes on and everyone gets more comfortable in their new roles and responsibilities and learn each others tendencies and preferences.
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Jul 17, 2017 16:58
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Cool Buff Man posted:https://twitter.com/barstoolsports/status/886627046780272642 The people insulting the post are people who use the phrase, lashing out from defensiveness and deeply felt shame
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Jul 17, 2017 17:01
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I don't actually understand how someone can miss a dunk this bad. He didn't even get rejected by the rim like old man Wade in the playoffs because he was never high enough. It's like when your 10-year old little brother tries to imitate you and all you can do is laugh.
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Jul 17, 2017 17:01
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IcePhoenix posted:I don't actually understand how someone can miss a dunk this bad. He didn't even get rejected by the rim like old man Wade in the playoffs because he was never high enough. It's like when your 10-year old little brother tries to imitate you and all you can do is laugh. Because he is a junior in high school. It wouldn't shock me if he has only dunked a handful of times (or never) in a game before.
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Jul 17, 2017 17:02
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