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Hamilton's offense >>> Crawford's defense

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Dec 15, 2011 -> 09:22 PM) It didn't get out? We at least know the Senator who was on it. I was going to google to make sure i was correct but i'm nervous for the results i'd get at work typing in "dc escort ring"

if that DC escort ring's list never got out I doubt this does.

So I'm doing my usual "skeptical about a move before it happens, but then once it happens i convince myself that it will work out and is awesome" moments re: Rip. I'm getting really excited. The more i think about it, the more I think the running around he does on offense will have a fantastic effect for our scoring. I still wish we had gotten ray allen the year previous more, but oh well.

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Dec 15, 2011 -> 05:50 AM) I'm tempted. But I think I'll wait until a reasonably decent version hits the interwebs. that's what the MAN tells you to do.

Kobe makes like, 25 million -30 million each year for the next 3 years.

QUOTE (Milkman delivers @ Dec 15, 2011 -> 05:54 PM) As Kyle said, it was obviously for the money. There were slight differences, but I mean very slight. The biggest difference I noticed was the girl being a little more meth-y (the way all zombies are now in films) when she killed the guy in the underground walkway in the American version. I thought the way they did it in the original was scarier. But did it even make money? That's what I mean, more. They released it about a year apart in a very similar release to the original.

QUOTE (Milkman delivers @ Dec 15, 2011 -> 03:23 AM) I only half paid attention to the American version, but how was it that much better? It was basically a shot-for-shot remake. I was always confused as to why they remade that in general. It had a pretty wide release in US. I loved Let the right one in, but I"m not going to watch it twice. I heard they did change some things in the US version however.

Ohhhhh that makes sense.

I actually thought about that, how annoying it was to guard Ray Allen for the Heat just because he's constantly running in circles on the offensive end. I think the movement he brings on offense without a significant drop to defense (which is my main problem with most of these SGs we were mentioning) makes me excited to at least see what he looks like. Hopefully not washed up. Maybe jimmy butler will be amazing !?!?!

The Clips bid was COLOSSALLY better.

QUOTE (Athomeboy_2000 @ Dec 15, 2011 -> 12:39 AM) Restricted FA in 2012 when Rips contract ends.

If you trade after that amnesty auction, is that team that trades for him only responsible for what the Clips auctioned?

Wait... so eric bledsoe, mo williams, chauncey billups and CP3 ... they are like the good Timberwolves.

As an basketball fan...Griffin and Paul on the same team makes me happy. As an NBA fan...i'm sanguin.. As a bulls fan, fairly happy. But the clippers could be a super team.

That was indeed terrible quality. But it still made me hard.

So Dwight Howard comes out and says he doesn't want to leave Orlando, and there is still a good chance he stays. And then they dont' trade him and he says he's pissed and wants to be traded.

He's been dead for a while I can call him crazy again.

People, in general, don't know much about basketball pre 1980 in general. I'm not even sure that's a bad thing. The ones we remember were important culturally, or have stayed around the game long enough that we recognize them from that. I couldn't even tell you what Bob Love looks like. Norm Van Lier is a crazy guy on the post game show. I can't think of a single other team I follow that I know so little about before a certain point. probably hawks pre 60, but I'm not even sure if that's true.

QUOTE (Steve9347 @ Dec 14, 2011 -> 10:09 PM) Adrian Wojnarowski of Yahoo! Sports reports that Orlando is ending trade talks involving Dwight Howard. No surprise. A steve prediction wins!

QUOTE (Boogua @ Dec 14, 2011 -> 08:46 PM) The Russell argument is always something that interests me. I tend to agree with J4L that he is overrated, although I think a factor is the way basketball is played now. Don't get me wrong Russell dominated his era, but I feel a player of his ability would have a much easier time doing it back then than in the past 30 or so years. He was extremely agile, could run the floor well, and was a very good shot blocker and rebounder. Consider that the era that he played in was played at a very hectic pace where jump shots weren't all that common and people shot low % shots. Wouldn't that make it easier for someone like Russell to have a massive effect on the game? Rebounds were plentiful and blocks weren't all that hard to come by. Elgin baylor, a small forward, had a season where he averaged 20 rebounds per game. So I think Russell's game translates VERY well to the type of basketball played during that era (hence the 11 rings), but I don't think he's a top player if he plays in a different era. I honestly don't think anybody can really make the argument that he would be nearly as successful in today's era. The guy was not very good at offense. He was a career 44% shooter in an era where he should have dominated on offense (Wilt). Fine, but I have a real problem with people 50 years later trying to re-write the story in their vision. In 50 years, don't you think people will look back and say "how the hell did Lebron James NOT win the MVP this year?" But to the people who lived and watched, it was impossible for that man to get that award. And for the people who watched, if you ask them, it would be impossible for them to accept our assertion that, no, no, you see Wilt was actually better!

QUOTE (RockRaines @ Dec 14, 2011 -> 08:28 PM) I think they just practice together in the offseason. I think Rose is his own guy and never felt the need to bring in someone else to help him win. Its been him against the world since his birth in englewood. What about Memphis? Wasn't exactly the place to go if you wanted to be on your own.

who is vanilla ice across town?

I don't think it's awful that Rose can't recruit, but I do think that is preventing us from getting this CURRENT CROP of superstars. Rose isn't a cohort with the players were speaking of now. At some point we may very well get someone that wants to play with Rose b/c they used to ball together. Maybe Evan Turner becomes amazing...I HOPE. He'd come.