ZoomSlowik

QUOTE (bmags @ Jun 22, 2016 -> 03:26 PM) I would rather watch Khalid El Amin in the back court than watch either Lopez brother play basketball. It's like convincing me Joe Johnson isn't that bad. He is certainly tall and can rebound, but they make me hate the sport of basketball. Right, because watching Derrick miss 10 or 11 jumpers 50 or 60 times next year is so much better.

QUOTE (bmags @ Jun 22, 2016 -> 03:16 PM) Clearly Butler didn't put them int he top third or else they would have been in the top third last year. I don't understand the "they would have spent it on worse" Don't worry about them taking on long term crap contract for a short term crap contract, they are so inept they'd spend it even worse next year! No reason to complain. I said ahead of a third, not top third. Lopez's contract isn't going to be complete crap under the new cap, that's the point. Festus Ezili and Bismack Biyombo will probably be in that range. Harrison Barnes is going to get 20 million a year. It has little to do with the Bulls, everyone will basically have to piss away at least 20 mil.

Of course after I finish typing that, there's another Butler rumor. Sigh.

QUOTE (bmags @ Jun 22, 2016 -> 02:58 PM) Can't decide who will be the more miserable team to watch next year, the chicago bulls or the brooklyn nets. You're being silly. The Bulls aren't THAT awful unless the next step is moving Butler. Butler alone puts them ahead of a third of the league or more. You seem surprised that the Bulls got crap for a injury-prone net-minus player that's making over 20 mil. Spanish Kirk Hinrich is only here for one year and while Lopez's contract isn't ideal, it's tolerable with the new cap. They would have to sign similar or worse contracts next year anyway to get to the new salary floor after they whiff on the decent FA. It's not really going to set them back. At least now we don't have to worry about them stupidly resigning Rose, and they picked up a semi-competent big and a young PG that should be better outside of the Triangle offense.

Some guys will eventually be good, but this draft looks really weak after #2. I just can't fathom Jaylen Brown as a top-5 pick. He looks like a poor man's Michael Kidd-Gilchrist.

Damn Rickon, don't run in a straight line!

QUOTE (Jordan4life @ Jun 17, 2016 -> 10:49 AM) 2011 definitely should be held against him. That was a choke. Flat out. they had no business losing to that Dallas team. Other than that, yes, I agree. That one, yeah, he choked. Dallas played out of their minds though. One more missed shot down the stretch in game 2 and they're in a huge hole, and they hit 20,000 threes in the last 2 games. The point is everyone loses, even Russell and the 112 HOFers he played with.

One more rant :WHY DO PEOPLE MAKE SUCH A BIG f***ING DEAL ABOUT LEBRON'S FINALS RECORD?! Does it really matter what round you lose in? Would we really feel better about LeBron if he choked in the 2nd round a few times? You still don't have a ring either way, so who gives a f***. Chris Paul is a first ballot HOFer and he's never even been in the Finals, so stop b****ing about LeBron losing to good teams.

The expectations for LeBron are absurd. He's supposed to play 45 MPG, carry their offense AND defense for 100 games a year and never have an off game regardless of how many defenders are shading in his direction. It's not like he's the only freak athlete out there either, he's routinely been guarded by strong 6'7" guys with absurd reach (Kawhi, George, Iggy, ect). If we held even someone like Kobe to the same standards, he would look a lot more sketchy. The difference is he got enough help to still get a ring when he goes 7-27 in a game 7.

QUOTE (Deadpool @ Jun 14, 2016 -> 11:47 PM) What's your plan? What gets the Bulls closer to a championship? You're going to be sorely disappointed if you keep using Bulls and championship in the same sentence. Unless they get Wiggins (which is pretty unlikely), that trade makes them Sixers-bad pretty fast unless vintage Rose shows up (stop laughing!). They'll still be a lottery team even with Wiggins and will need serious work on the rest of the roster even if he becomes what you hope he does. Butler gives you a lot more options and no one really knows what will happen with the cap exploding.

This discussion annoys me. Butler is the one thing about the Bulls that doesn't suck. Okay, he's probably not the best player on a title winner. That doesn't mean the answer is to trade him for some castoffs from a s***ty team. He's young enough and his contract is going to be a steal pretty soon. They can still try other avenues to improve and do something similar in a year or two if things don't improve (I'm assuming Wiggins isn't involved).

QUOTE (Chisoxfn @ Jun 8, 2016 -> 10:51 PM) LOL....I'll see what I can do. They're a pain in the ass, looks like you need to buy tickets online on June 26 and then pick up bottles in early July. I'd try to do it, but then I need to be in Anaheim in the middle of a work week (busy the 3rd, 4th and 9th) Heads, similar kinky offer at Toppling Goliath (Decorah) next time they have a big release!

Jason, I would do anything if you picked up a bottle of Fundamental Observation from Bottle Logic Brewing for me, and I mean ANYTHING. I may or may not have had a few beers already.

I would bet my rate of parenthetical phrases is higher (though not the same posting rate obviously). I use them a lot for some reason.

QUOTE (illinilaw08 @ Apr 25, 2016 -> 03:09 PM) I don't really have an issue with them killing off Stannis generally. He was going to war with the Boltons, and it's reasonable that battle would end with Stannis' death. What I had a problem with was how Stannis went out with a whimper. The "battle" was just a slaughter on an open field. I'm all for them bringing plots together. Martin had to split Books 4 and 5 because he had so many separate threads going. In an hour show, it's tough to do justice to 13 different plots... Sort of covered in the edit, but I could see Stannis getting trampled in the battle because of his misplaced faith and stubbornness. The issue for me is Brienne somehow finding him on the brink of death and then the late cutaway. That seems too contrived for ASOIAF, we never neatly get things working out like that.

QUOTE (RockRaines @ Apr 25, 2016 -> 02:42 PM) And i still dont get why they killed Stannis off like they did. At this point, it seems like they kill marginally to somewhat important characters when they run out of interesting ideas. Off the top of my head, Jojen, Barristan, Hizdar, Myrcella, Stannis and Doran are dead in the show/alive in the books (not counting Shireen because that seems like a major planned plot point). I think the full list is like 20 names. Edit- I know some of them will die anyways in the books, but George doesn't seem like the type to throw away potential plots in the same manner. That's part of why large chunks of Feast and Dance are a mess and why he has a lot of tying in to do, but I would be surprised if he doesn't do it more coherently (assuming he ever finishes). Please note that last part, I'm not saying he is infallible but I have more faith in him than the show writers.

QUOTE (TaylorStSox @ Apr 25, 2016 -> 01:19 PM) The audience wanted vengeance for Obyren. The Sand Snakes are providing that. You can't have a slow play for vengeance with every family. The Starks' long-play is lol'bad in the books. I think the audience wants good TV, not awful dialogue and a mess of a plot. Besides, you can still do that with Arriane. I doubt I could pick Whippy out of a lineup, the only reason I know who Obarra is because she says her name so much, and the only reason I know Tyene is boobs. The whole story is a slow play, that's basically what books 4 and 5 are. Edit- Besides, I'm not confident Dorne is going to be any more productive a storyline than most of the stuff in the series. Look at what happened to Stannis, and he got way more screen time even outside of Blackwater and the battle at the wall.

If you want to cut characters, the easiest thing would be to keep Arriane and lose the Sandsnakes. You can still have your poor attempt at creating a sexy badass, but then you have a real heir after you kill Doran.

QUOTE (JenksIsMyHero @ Apr 25, 2016 -> 09:45 AM) I thought this episode was sort of a nod to people who hate the Dorne story line in the books. "We're ending this s***, right here, right now." No 15 minute scenes with him watching kids play in a pool. The women are 100 times more interesting anyway. I read/listen to too much stuff and my impression is that way more book people love Dorne than hate it (I'm indifferent). Brienne, Bran, book 5 Danny get way more hate for being pointless. The women in the show are awful and barely did anything in the books (more Arriane and Quentin). At least book-Doran had some plans even if they were taking forever. Now we're stuck with random, illogical murder, people saying their characters's name all the time, and maybe getting naked for no reason.

QUOTE (RockRaines @ Apr 25, 2016 -> 06:54 AM) He's a wheelchair bound cripple. I'm assuming he meant Areo Hotah.

QUOTE (Chicago White Sox @ Apr 24, 2016 -> 09:41 PM) What do you mean by this? The whole story line is s***, and it doesn't seem likely to get better now that it's all resting on Fox Force Five.

Seriously, f*** Dorne.

QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ Apr 15, 2016 -> 04:51 PM) You just have to keep in mind that Maker is a 7 footer playing against high school kids. When he goes up against someone his size with similar athleticism, he is gonna see that it isn't a walk in the park Definitely this. Byron Mullens looked like a monster on his high school mixtapes too.

QUOTE (ZoomSlowik @ Mar 13, 2016 -> 03:12 PM) I need a few more owners for a keeper league. It's set up with 4 keepers, but in tiers. Slot 1- any player, slot 2- player drafted 5th round or later, slot 3- 11th round or later, slot 4- 17th round or later. Categories are 6x6, R/HR/RB/SB/OBP/SLG for hitters and IP/SV/ERA/WHIP/K/9/QS for pitchers. Ideally I would get 3 new people, but I only need one to make it a 10-team league. PM me if interested and I will invite you. Need one more before I can finalize rosters and start putting in keepers!

I need a few more owners for a keeper league. It's set up with 4 keepers, but in tiers. Slot 1- any player, slot 2- player drafted 5th round or later, slot 3- 11th round or later, slot 4- 17th round or later. Categories are 6x6, R/HR/RB/SB/OBP/SLG for hitters and IP/SV/ERA/WHIP/K/9/QS for pitchers. Ideally I would get 3 new people, but I only need one to make it a 10-team league. PM me if interested and I will invite you.