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What is going to be your favorite offseason storyline? This poll is closed. |
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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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Hand Knit posted:Mark Hendrickson is another player who played in both the NBA and MLB. Wasn't Tracy Mcgrady a really good baseball player in high school?
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Sep 6, 2017 05:54
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Bo Jackson could have played in the NBA if he wanted to
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Sep 6, 2017 06:13
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What about NBA players' portability to track and field? Surely some of them could be high/long jump stars, or sprinters?
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Sep 6, 2017 06:14
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tbf he was on some MRA poo poo just before that so I'm assuming this is gonna get reversed into a curse https://twitter.com/LILBTHEBASEDGOD/status/905110395349680128 RIP Jaylen
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Sep 6, 2017 06:33
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Darude - Adam Sandstorm posted:Danny Ainge played actual major league baseball. John Lucas played pro tennis. Scott Burrell is the only athlete to be drafted in the first round of the NBA and MLB drafts. Dave DeBusschere pitched for the White Sox for a year. John Havlicek went to training camp with the Cleveland Browns when he was younger. Pat Riley was drafted by the Dallas Cowboys.
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Sep 6, 2017 06:37
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Carlosologist posted:Zogo what's LeBron's z-score across your selected categories? I bet he's at least 1.5 to 2 standard deviations above average in each category code:Kevin Garnett and Julius Erving are the only two guys with 1.5+ in all five categories. A hypothetical guy with 2+ in each category would need: 21,901 PTS, 10,564 TRB, 6,004 AST, 1,648 STL, 1,557 BLK If you add the z-scores across the five it looks like this: code:code:
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Sep 6, 2017 06:42
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MourningView posted:I think your perspective on what "most high school and jr highs" have might be slightly skewed It's definitely possible. Is this just like a warm weather city thing? I guess I don't drive around inspecting schools but I went to six schools in my K-12 journey and all had a tennis court, even the ones in "bad" neighborhoods. Tucson seems pretty similar.
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Sep 6, 2017 07:06
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Darude - Adam Sandstorm posted:Wasn't Tracy Mcgrady a really good baseball player in high school? He played a single independent league (here in Houston!) game, pitched poorly, and was banished to the land of winds and ghosts The team is called the Sugarland Skeeters which I fend endlessly hilarious. I want to go to a game and start shouting skeet skeet skeet but I'm sure that's been done to death by now e: Oh wait I was mistaken, he actually did pitch more than one game. He retired after getting his first strikeout Intruder fucked around with this message at 07:17 on Sep 6, 2017 |
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Sep 6, 2017 07:13
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Punkin Spunkin posted:tbf he was on some MRA poo poo just before that so I'm assuming this is gonna get reversed into a curse Hoo boy the Twitter ratio on that one is disappointing
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Sep 6, 2017 07:23
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Patty Mills played Aussie Rules football and was apparently pretty good, let's assume that's true of all Australian NBA players.
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Sep 6, 2017 07:43
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Chairchucker posted:Patty Mills played Aussie Rules football and was apparently pretty good, let's assume that's true of all Australian NBA players. We including Australian NBA players from north of the Barassi line?
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Sep 6, 2017 08:21
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Schlesische posted:We including Australian NBA players from north of the Barassi line? If I say no, that only seems to rule out Aron Baynes. So, no.
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Sep 6, 2017 09:11
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Darude - Adam Sandstorm posted:He was a pitcher! Ainge was famous for his 105mph fastball that he never threw but often thought about throwing and told people he was thinking about using it.
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Sep 6, 2017 12:49
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Rick posted:It's definitely possible. Is this just like a warm weather city thing? I guess I don't drive around inspecting schools but I went to six schools in my K-12 journey and all had a tennis court, even the ones in "bad" neighborhoods. Tucson seems pretty similar. There are almost 0 in K-8 schools here in Minnesota, though almost all of the decent sized high schools either have them, or they are attached to public parks that do. There are also a bunch of courts in the city at various parks, so either way I think you're right that courts are pretty common. The barrier for Tennis is you need real instruction on form and body placement, and it probably needs to be 1 on 1, at least at some point. Basketball is more forgiving on that in general, and 1 coach can coach 12 kids pretty effectively for a longer time. If you like the game you can screw around pretty easy, and I bet a bunch of kids do, but if you want to get on a pro trajectory it probably does take more means than poverty and lower class people are able to put together.
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Sep 6, 2017 13:10
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I imagine all individual sports minus track are significantly more expensive as people strive to get better. Even something like hockey, which has a high barrier of entry, gets evened out because you're splitting costs with an entire team and more importantly, by the time you're like 16 (and somewhat good) you are technically getting paid to play and be trained (like $50 or something) when you join the OHL, Q, etc. Similarly, in football, baseball and basketball the training aspect for the most part is often folded into the structure of the leagues. It's not until much later that people get individual/private coaches and training, and in those cases its probably either b/c the parents are rich or the kid is so precocious that they think it'll lead to a scholarship. Of course there are tons of exceptions with guys like Bryce Harper and others who are being groomed to be a pro from day 1 but there are still a lot of avenues to make it big without spending a fortune on individual training. In tennis especially, I imagine there are a lot of costs with getting the training you need to get to the level where you'd get sponsorship/endorsement to cover costs. There was a girl at my high school that basically stopped competing on the junior tour because her parents (who were middle class) didn't want to spend a fortune to move her to a warmer climate and pay for the intense training. I also feel like individual sports like tennis have a higher opportunity cost and really take up a poo poo load of your time but i'm just guessing BWV fucked around with this message at 13:41 on Sep 6, 2017 |
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Sep 6, 2017 13:39
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Rick posted:Tennis as a pro sport is weird because the structural classisim that exists in the sport in a lot of places on the planet diverts so many people from a sport that just at least in theory should be pretty wide spread; there's a tennis court in almost every midsized park and at most jr highs and high schools. A lot of basketball players have some physical traits that would at least give them the basic foundations to be good at the sport. There are a lot of public courts but it costs serious money to be at the top of the sport. Lessons are expensive and people whose kids have pro aspirations often spend a ton of money on personal coaches.
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Sep 6, 2017 14:12
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Rick posted:It's definitely possible. Is this just like a warm weather city thing? I guess I don't drive around inspecting schools but I went to six schools in my K-12 journey and all had a tennis court, even the ones in "bad" neighborhoods. Tucson seems pretty similar. None of the four pre-college schools I went to had a tennis court. All had a football/soccer field and basketball court, though!
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Sep 6, 2017 14:13
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https://twitter.com/MrMichaelLee/status/905287653884661760
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Sep 6, 2017 14:16
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Shear Modulus posted:LeBron could probably have been a pro athlete in any other sport. LeBron would have been a hall of fame TE. He claimed he liked playing football more than basketball but obviously made the right choice. People who saw him play football said he was uncoverable.
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Sep 6, 2017 14:19
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If you can play Basketball you should never ever pick football over it. Especially when the NBA allowed high school kids.
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Sep 6, 2017 14:40
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Lebron is fast enough to be a wideout no? Why waste him blocking people on the line
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Sep 6, 2017 14:45
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 How tall is IT really. Also this more of a general sports question but why is every pro athlete trying to gently caress Mia Khalifa? Or are they all constantly sliding into IG/porn stars DMs and she just puts them on ahem "blast".
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Sep 6, 2017 14:48
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euphronius posted:Lebron is fast enough to be a wideout no? He wouldn't be a blocking TE, think like Antonio Gates (he played basketball you know). LeBron is probably too tall and too big to be an effective NFL WR but he could split out of the formation and dominate the red zone as a tight end. It doesn't really matter, I'm sure he would have been an all pro at either position but big fast guys who can catch are usually moved to TE.
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Sep 6, 2017 14:59
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zoux posted:
It's the second part. And IT is 5 foot 7-8
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Sep 6, 2017 14:59
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Weird that IT's son is so much taller than him.
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Sep 6, 2017 15:09
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Lmao IT is barely taller than Charles Barkley
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Sep 6, 2017 15:11
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Say this for IT, he's got a great hesi http://i.imgur.com/9JrNdUo.gifv
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Sep 6, 2017 15:15
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Hashtag Banterzone posted:Ainge was famous for his 105mph fastball that he never threw but often thought about throwing and told people he was thinking about using it. Lol. Hakeem was national team level keeper, Kobe and Grant Hill's first sports love was soccer
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Sep 6, 2017 15:18
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Why wouldn't Lebron be the best qb ever? I mean I know why lovely hs coaches stick their best athletes at rb/wr, but were wasting his gifts here. Femur fucked around with this message at 15:44 on Sep 6, 2017 |
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Sep 6, 2017 15:22
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Dexo posted:Lmao IT is barely taller than Charles Barkley
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Sep 6, 2017 15:22
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Brolander posted:ive got this theory that basketball is like jazz Ok, now we talking. Who's up there in the stratosphere with Bird Parker, Miles, Coltrane?
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Sep 6, 2017 15:31
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Mr. Mambold posted:Ok, now we talking. Who's up there in the stratosphere with Bird Parker, Miles, Coltrane? Wayman Tisdale
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Sep 6, 2017 15:32
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If basketball is jazz than Tyler Hansborough is the drunk guy that falls and knocks over the drum kit.
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Sep 6, 2017 15:36
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"Darius" Miles "Ricky" Davis
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Sep 6, 2017 15:42
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Mr. Mambold posted:Ok, now we talking. Who's up there in the stratosphere with Bird Parker, Miles, Coltrane? I dunno, but this playlist I've been listening to the last couple days is pretty baller: https://play.google.com/music/r/m/Lo2blfnqmkkiiqbroplishwjnj4?t=In_the_Second_Line e: I wish this was the music that was played at last year's All Star instead of the shameful performances we go. Kibner fucked around with this message at 16:03 on Sep 6, 2017 |
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Sep 6, 2017 15:51
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Bud Powell is one of my all timers.
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Sep 6, 2017 16:02
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Doubt this will have much of an effect, but it's a start: https://twitter.com/JonSolomonAspen/status/905448610841714688
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Sep 6, 2017 16:18
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morestuff posted:Wayman Tisdale  edit Kibner posted:I dunno, but this playlist I've been listening to the last couple days is pretty baller: https://play.google.com/music/r/m/Lo2blfnqmkkiiqbroplishwjnj4?t=In_the_Second_Line This is noice
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Sep 6, 2017 16:19
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Kibner posted:Doubt this will have much of an effect, but it's a start: Yeah, I appreciate them putting it together. Step one is standardizing on something.
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Sep 6, 2017 16:26
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Long but good article by Tom Haberstroh on IT's injury. It seems pretty likely he's been playing on a busted hip since December, not March like the Celtics announced.
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Sep 6, 2017 16:26
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