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QUOTE(SoxFan1 @ Dec 29, 2005 -> 01:45 AM) My resolution is to be back in shape before conditioning for baseball starts. Yep, I've gotta lose like 5 to 10 pounds. I don't know what I'm going to do without beef jerky and jalapeno krunchers, but one thing is for certain. I'm not as sexay as I used to be. I have got to do something about that.

Hey, an admin should pin this. There's a lot of stuff that I don't post because it's not worth creating a thread for. I'm sure that plenty of other basketball heads on here could say the same.

Although it's not mentioned in this article, Olin said "He's just mad at me because I stole his cheeseburger".

I did a search on Marcus Camby at basketballboards.net, and I came across this absolute gem of a thread. Camby Breaks His Finger If you thought that the Shawn Kemp and Karl Malone rumors were pure comedy, wait until you read this. QUOTE(Nuggetsfan @ Dec 26, 2005 -> 01:21 AM) I'm still bumming over this. Camby was playing such great ball this year. It's so unfortunate. We have to get another Big for our front line, and Artest. QUOTE(Nuggetsfan @ Dec 26, 2005 -> 01:21 AM) id go el cheapo, Kendrick Perkins. And bring up Marcus Fizer QUOTE(Nuggetsfan @ Dec 26, 2005 -> 01:21 AM) Yep good idea. I believe Horax has been big on bring up Fizer as well. I'm not much of a fan of the guy. However right now Najera needs someone else to help. To bad Melo wasn't more of a board crasher. QUOTE(Nuggetsfan @ Dec 26, 2005 -> 01:21 AM) fizer can rebound and score QUOTE(Nuggetsfan @ Dec 26, 2005 -> 01:21 AM) Do you know how tall he is ? He reminds me of a Najera size big shoulders. QUOTE(Nuggetsfan @ Dec 26, 2005 -> 01:21 AM) legit 6'8. he wont block shots, but he is a beast. nba career never took off because the coach that discovered him ruined him. Fizer (the son of Tim Floyd's mom's maid) was discovered in Lousiana by Tim Floyd. Later was a high school all american and played in the mcdonalds all american game (with Ron Artest). Floyd said he wouldnt draft Fizer. Which is exactly what he did. Fizer played for Floyd at Iowa State. Floyd had Brand at PF and wanted Fizer to play SF for the bulls. Fizer is a physical beast and too big to play SF. He is capable and has scored 30 plus points in an nba game. Will score in the post. get to the basket. will draw fouls. nose for the ball. rebounds well. was a candidate for 6th man of the year. despite limited time and sometimes playing out of position. He just needs to be healthy and get extended minutes at the four spot. QUOTE(Nuggetsfan @ Dec 26, 2005 -> 01:21 AM) Interesting background story regarding him. Didn't know about all that. Thanks for sharing that nbanotiall. Now I hope the Nuggets are going to take a serious look at the guy. No way will Fizer give us what Camby was doing, but he would be a big help. QUOTE(Nuggetsfan @ Dec 26, 2005 -> 01:21 AM) fizer is destroying the opposition in the D League. IN just over 30 minutes per game. Its only a matter of time before someone calls him up. why not us?

QUOTE(Rex Kickass @ Dec 28, 2005 -> 12:52 AM) Not to go all derailed and such, but aren't the Robert Taylor homes gone too? Yeah, that was a reference to what Stuart Scott said. "People are going wild in the Robert Taylor homes after the White Sox won!" or something to that effect.

QUOTE(watchtower41 @ Dec 27, 2005 -> 11:03 PM) Sexy Rexy on the other hand, will choke in out firsty playoff game. In 6 quarters he already has 3 pics and was a stellar 11-23 against one of the worst defense's in the league. Hope they gets his wing in Canton done soon. to Grossman, the most overrated Chicagoan since Kerry Wood Have you actually watched him? He's been making solid throws. Orton makes Rex look like f***ing Warren Moon. Come on bud, get with the program.

QUOTE(SleepyWhiteSox @ Dec 27, 2005 -> 08:54 PM) Oh, I'm eternally grateful for those Jordan teams. Always will be. Greatest of all time, in my opinion. I was talking about post-Jordan Krause. And yeah, the health issues worry me. I wanna know how severe and lasting they are. I want tyson healthy. So do you want him back starting or do you like the reserve role? He looks better off the bench recently...Well, actually last year too...And he gets booed less by the home crowd. As long as Tyson gets 30 to 35 minutes per game, I'll be happy. None of this 15 to 20 minute crap out of the C slot. I thought that it was beyond amusing to have a 235 pound dude covering the 340 pound Shaq. What good can come from that matchup? Foul trouble, an injury, etc.

QUOTE(heirdog @ Dec 27, 2005 -> 08:39 PM) The guy single handedly won us many games last year...games we had no business winning. In Rosenbaum's defensive ratings system, Gordon was the second best defensive SG in the NBA last year. In reality, he is like the second worst defensive SG in the NBA. His rating is based on the fact that he was out there in the 4th quarter with the "closing squad", if you will. We won 47 games last year by holding teams to the worst overall shooting percentage in the NBA, even better than the Spurs. The 4th quarter defense was insane. That's how we won games. Gordon just kind of went along for the ride. Now, our entire game plan is all f***ed up. Chandler is playing out of position, we have not one legitimate center on the roster, etc. Time to send Paxson some hate mail.

QUOTE(SleepyWhiteSox @ Dec 27, 2005 -> 08:30 PM) Regardless of your hard-on for tyson, any sane person who pays attention to basketball knows that the moves done by the previous GM were infinitely worse than that...I put the Brand trade at the top of my list...If you think the Gordon pick pisses you off, I like that trade even less...Watching Brand, Artest, Brad Miller, Donyell and others become so great on other teams pisses of even more than that draft pick ever will...Hell, at least Gordon was serviceable in his role last year, helped the team make the playoffs, and did it well enough to win an award. And as far as tyson at PF, I hope you mean 2nd-string right now... Fine, but we win zero championships without Jerry Krause in the picture. I'll concede that he went senile in the end, but he's still a legendary GM. Put Chandler back at PF, and he won't be in foul trouble anywhere near as often. I can't defend him on the breathing issues or the lack of conditioning this past summer, but the tools are there. Maybe people don't want to hear about it anymore, but I'll back him to the death. The combination of height/wingspan/quckness/agility/work ethic/intensity/mean streak combined with his mental progression should make for some terrific, 1st team caliber defense in the very near future. He can't bang with these 265 pound centers, that is for damn sure. He's a PF through and through.

QUOTE(SleepyWhiteSox @ Dec 27, 2005 -> 08:08 PM) He's made his mistakes, and is far from great, but I'm not ready to put him in the moron category myself. He hasn't even been at it for that long and is still in the process of cleaning up somebody else's mess, although a certain contract he just gave isn't looking so good so far... He's done decent so far with the tools that he has. Yeah, he certainly can do better, but he didn't inherit much talent, and opportunities of getting a superstar talent are few and far in between. I mean, how low would you rank him league-wise? Not yet in the moron category in my opinion. The Ben Gordon pick pisses me off to no end. The fact that we can't put Chandler back at PF is the clincher for me. I'll give Paxson some credit for finding a few diamonds in the rough (Duhon, Nocioni) and drafting Kirk Hinrich and Luol Deng, but otherwise, I'm not too happy with his overall plan of attack. I won't even elaborate on Trenton Hassell. I know that he's a brutal offensive player, but god damn do we need someone who can defend the perimiter. Wouldn't it be nice if we had someone who could hold Lebron James to 20 as opposed to 35? As it is now, that guy is gonna singlehandedly beat us 4 times this year. That's why I root for him to sprain his ankle, as controversial as that might seem. It seems like our road to victory this year is via the 3 point shot. That might work in college, but not on the NBA level. Pax is making Skiles look really bad right now. There are a lot of dumbass GMs in the NBA. I'm not saying Paxson is retarded like Isiah Thomas, but I'm pretty f***ing far from impressed right now.

QUOTE(SleepyWhiteSox @ Dec 27, 2005 -> 07:45 PM) If you can make a case for Paxson, feel free. I don't think that he has the brains to put together a contender, much less a team that can get out of the first round. Maybe I'm wrong.

QUOTE(maggsmaggs @ Dec 27, 2005 -> 06:32 PM) That Tim Thomas looks good. The guy is an absolute phenom. Best high school player EVER!

Happy Birthday, dude.

I am as heated as ever with Paxson for not bringing in a body at the C slot. Otherwise, we could have put Chandler back at PF by now. Right now, Chandler weighs 235 pounds. Your typical C in this league weighs about 260 to 265 pounds. It's f***ing bogus. I want to see Chandler gain about 6 to 8 pounds this offseason and get up to Jermaine O'Neal's weight of 242 pounds, and I never, ever want to see him play center again. Even Kendrick Perkins weighs like 285 pounds. You can't be banging with guys that have unbelievably gigantic thighs and asses when you're 7'1 at 235 pounds. Maybe we'll need to bring in a C who could score 12 to 15 points a game. Who is that guy? I'm just some random asshole, but if I was in Paxson's shoes, I'd have been all over Zaza Pachulia this past offseason. I am baffled as to how John Paxson can be in charge of putting together an NBA squad. He's clearly a moron.

Has there ever been a worse FA market for SGs? Ronald Murray, Seattle Fred Jones, Indiana (Restricted) Derek Anderson, Houston (Player option) Jon Barry, Houston DerMarr Johnson, Denver Voshon Lenard, Denver Keith Bogans, Charlotte Anfernee Hardaway, New York Jimmy Jackson, SG, Phoenix Lamond Murray, New Jersey Fred Hoiberg, Minnesota Aaron McKie, LA Lakers (Player option) Eric Piatkowski, Chicago Greg Buckner, Denver (Player option) Matt Carroll, Charlotte (Team option) Shandon Anderson, Miami Rawle Marshall, Dallas (Team option) DeShawn Stevenson, Orlando (Player option) Stacey Augmon, Orlando Charles Smith, Portland Linton Johnson, New Jersey Bernard Robinson, Charlotte (Restricted) Reece Gaines, Milwaukee Tony Bobbitt, LA Lakers (Restricted) Von Wafer, LA Lakers (Team option) Alan Anderson, Charlotte (Team option) Devin Green, LA Lakers There ain't a guy worth signing on that list. On the other hand, the SF market is looking good, but we already have Deng and Nocioni, so forget about any of these guys. Al Harrington, Atlanta Peja Stojakovic, Sacramento (Player option) Bonzi Wells, Sacramento Matt Harpring, Utah James Posey, Miami (Player option) John Salmons, Philadelphia (Restricted) Ruben Patterson, Portland (Player option) Trevor Ariza, New York (Restricted) Devean George, LA Lakers Devin Brown, Utah (Team option) Walter McCarty, LA Clippers Laron Profit, LA Lakers Tim Thomas, Chicago Rasual Butler, New Orleans Jiri Welsch, Milwaukee Eric Williams, Toronto (Player option) Justin Reed, Boston Jumaine Jones, Charlotte Lee Nailon, Philadelphia Ronald Dupree, Minnesota Maciej Lampe, New Orleans (Restricted) George Lynch Adrian Griffin, Dallas Calbert Cheaney, Golden State Matt Barnes, Philadelphia 76ers Bryon Russell, Denver Ndudi Ebi Ryan Bowen, Houston (Player option) Toni Kukoc, Milwaukee Sean Banks, New Orleans Qyntel Woods, New York Terrence Morris, Orlando Donta Smith, Atlanta (Team option) Shavlik Randolph, Philadelphia I'd love to have Al Harrington, but it just doesn't make any sense to sign an SF to a damn near max contract. Al can play PF depending on the matchup, but he's a true SF. And besides, our PF rotation needs to be Chandler/Sweeney. I think that one of the true gems in next year's FA class is Boston PG Marcus Banks. You want to talk about a guy with unbelievable defensive tools out of the PG slot? His ball-handling skills are superb. I'd love to have this guy on the Bulls. He'd come pretty cheap too. I see no centers that are worth bringing in. Vanilla Gorilla is going to be overpaid. Nazr Mohammed can rebound with the best of them, but he can't do anything else effectively. I guess that I'd call him decent on the defensive end, but nothing more. He's listed at 6'10, but he's more like 6'9. He looks like f***ing Gumbi out there. He's a tad too slow to play regular minutes at PF, and besides, like I already said, our PF rotation needs to be Chandler/Sweetney. It's times like these when I say to myself that I need to start paying attention to college basketball, but it's just so freaking boring IMO. With the Knicks pick, you take the best C available. I guess that would be Aldridge or whatever his name is. You take that guy without hesitation. Ben Gordon needs to go. Personaly, I hate reading bulls*** trade rumors, so I'm not even gonna speculate out of my ayass. Just get him the f*** outta here and get some picks/raw up & coming players in return.

QUOTE(3E8 @ Dec 26, 2005 -> 07:40 AM) The Sox won 73% of their regular season games when Pods was caught stealing. I've been saying this for years, but caught stealings are where it's at. That's exactly right. The team that has the most "caught stealings" is without question the most amazing, ABSOLUTE BEST team in the majors in all cases, without exception. I find it very amusing that we had the worst SB% in the AL among teams with 100+ SB chances. This was through the middle of September, though. Perhaps some AL team was better than us at getting caught by the time the '05 came to a close. Bring on Pierre, and maybe we'll have a SB success rate of 65%, as opposed to barely 70%. It's gonna be unbelievably awesome watching guys getting thrown out left and right. It's a beautiful thing, an absolute joy to watch. This is not to mention the flawless defensive skills that are on display every time a ball is hit to either Pods or Pierre. God damn are those guys gifted!

QUOTE(qwerty @ Dec 24, 2005 -> 06:16 AM) You are amazing (in a not so good way)with movies. Some ( everything actually) of the things you say boggle the f*** out of my mind. Yep. According to Josh, Ice Cube is the most underrated actor in Hollywood.

QUOTE(redandwhite @ Dec 24, 2005 -> 05:57 AM) add willie harris to the list of possible red sox centerfielders.. Uh huh, and what are the Red Sox gonna think when Willay gets a hold of the clubhouse boombox? IT'S PEANUT BUTTER JELLY TIME! PEANUT BUTTER JELLY TIME! IT'S PEANUT BUTTER JELLY TIME! PEANUT BUTTER JELLY TIME! WHERE YOU AT!? THERE YOU GO! WHERE YOU AT!? THERE YOU GO! PEANUT BUTTER JELLY WITH A BASEBALL BAT! PEANUT BUTTER JELLY WITH A BASEBALL BAT! PEANUT BUTTER JEL-LAY! PEANUT BUTTER JEL-LAY! PEANUT BUTTER JEL-LAY!

QUOTE(qwerty @ Dec 24, 2005 -> 06:00 AM) I think cotts will be the one to have a much longer and successful career. Cotts is the motherf***in' man. And that is my contribution to this thread, or lack thereof. Carry on.

QUOTE(DABearSoX @ Dec 24, 2005 -> 12:42 AM) How do you get one point? You're thinking too much! I always knew you were an advanced thinker, though. Me and you are the only dudes on this site that were born on November 10. You're brilliant by association.

QUOTE(Wedge @ Dec 24, 2005 -> 04:21 AM) I wish they'd do a better job of dropping guys into a more exotic coverage. Ayo Wedge, loved ya in Star Wars, hated ya on soxtalk. More exotic coverages...I'll be on the lookout for that. Never mind me, I'm pretty s***faced right now. I can still spelel corerctly, howerver.

QUOTE(greasywheels121 @ Dec 24, 2005 -> 03:50 AM) http://www.soxtalk.com/forums/index.php?sh...00entry887200 LOL, everyone has it out for Soxfan1. Dude, don't try to tell me anything about Tyson Chandler. Someone please post a pic of this guy so that I could LMFAO. To be fair, some of the smartest posters on this site (qwerty, cheat) were calling the Sox chokers in that thread too. It's just Soxfan1's posting style that rubs people the wrong way.

QUOTE(kapkomet @ Dec 23, 2005 -> 09:54 PM) I said that in my own post. Find the irony. Kap, just ban him already.

QUOTE(Chisoxfn @ Dec 23, 2005 -> 07:31 PM) I don't know. Bradley, Berrian and Thomas Jones all look good. Jones is having a tremendous season and the Bears signed him to a very affordable deal. At the same time I think both Berrian and Bradley have flashed quite a bit of upside. I guess that Angelo still has a chance to show that he knows what he is doing when it comes to the offensive side of the ball, but defense has always been his area of excellence since he came into the league some 20 odd years ago. Rarely, if ever, will you have a guy who excels in both facets.

QUOTE(rangercal @ Dec 23, 2005 -> 06:29 PM) Thats the First praise for Angelo I have seen in a long time. I agree 100% Really? Angelo has established himself as a brilliant defensive scout. He gets plenty of praise, at least from those who have an opinion that matters. Of course, he's also a terrible scout when it comes to offensive talent.