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If he hits .250 he will be a reserve infielder and will struggle to get to 2WAR.

I can barely remember, seems like a different world. It's a struggle to even remember stuff like the moncada/robert extensions which now all kinda seem like a cruel joke since we lose much of a year anyway, but also a huge boon (since we lost basically a year!) The funny thing about this year is if they start off hot we'll say how the youth benefitted us, where they didn't know much better and were younger/more athletic to overcome stopping and starting. If they start off slow, it's because they were young and didn't know what was needed to keep focused.

Shanghai Disney just sold out it’s reopening day. and this

never make the playoffs. In that respect sox should have been pretty good at selling it.

2,600 new cases in illinois but 18k new tests. Illinois allowing 3 hotels for quarantining nursery home employees to stay ... and a college is offering a 4 week class for tracers. ?? Four weeks. Because the feds were garbage at it, illinois has spent the last 6 weeks increasing capacity of ppe, tests, hospital bed capacity. But we are just now starting on rolling out contact tracing. We still have guidelines in many places that only people with symptoms should request tests. And we still don't have places to self quarantine that aren't homes. If Illinois wants to come down, it has to up this stuff soon. BTW Germany is opening up their factories and restarting school.

...that doesn't mean is wasn't one of the best.

Yeah...it's true teams don't want to give up free layups...and I didn't say they wouldn't guard shaq. If you guys want to argue shaq is a good passer, be my guest. He'd be a great player now. When Shaq was the best player in the nba it was an exceptionally weak time of the league. If you want to talk about where are all the great big men, you had shaq going up against 33 year old dikembe mutombo and 34 year old david robinson. Fat patrick ewing, 37 year old olajuwon. In 2000 when shaq was 1st team all nba (30-13-4), second team was dikembe mutombo (11 pts, 14 reb) and 3rd team was David Robinson with 18 and 10. Let's check out Shaq's big obstacles that year. Round 1: Sacramento 31 Y.O. Vlade Divac. He'd go onto make the allstar game next year on his devastating 12-8-3 line. Round 2: Phoenix Luc Longley ... causing Cliff Robinson to play up and he was actually pretty good as a power forward. But Shaq was going against Longley for 20 minutes a game. Round 3: Portland Jailblazers 35 Year Old Arvydas Sabonis...rough! Shaq had to go through the gauntlet! Finals: Indiana Pacers It's the finals, probably going to be a tough matchup... Zoops it's 33 Year Old Rik Smits and Dale Davis... In the time of bad big men (2019) we have jokic was first team (20-10-7), Embiid 2nd team (23-12-3), Gobert 3rd team (16-13-2-2) Ah, but then Shaq also played 40 minutes per game. We will uncharitably give the per 36 minute stats for the trash modern big men: Jokic (22-11-8) Embiid (29-15-4) Gobert (16-14) Shaq (27-12-3) (99-00) So in Shaq's best year he's a slightly worse Joel Embiid. You aren't taking him over Kareem. Taking wilt next. Pretty sure I'd take Duncan even though he's a PF next. Hakeem had less impressive scoring stats and rebounds but when he went toe to toe against the greats of his time he ended david robinson and then outplayed a very good shaq (probably the best shaq?) in the finals, sweeping them. Since we pick and choose stats, moses malone had a better single year in his career than shaq had, in 82. You are drafting an alltime nba team. You taking shaq in any team building exercise? That's why I don't believe this revisionism here. Very good. Weak, terrible time in nba history. Joel Embiid is apparently better.

Definitely a dinos guy.

well certainly #1.

I mean yeah he has to be a better passer. You are saying if you make shaq a jokic level playmaker is he the best player in the nba and I think that is probably true though I'd probably still take Kawhi. That's the hard part about imagining him as the best player on the team again, when the ball used to go to him it never left, and teams would feel fine giving a guy a 50% shot at a 2pointer over and over.

I honestly don't understand your guys argument. Everyone in here is basically trying to get people to say that shaq in today's game would break the nba and be the best player in the nba. It's just not true. He'd be very good! He'd probably be 1st team all nba. Shaq was a dominant player in one of the weakest eras in nba history. Joel Embiid attempts 4 three pointers a game. Shaq's career average of 3 PA is 0.0. Only 40% of Embiid's shots are from within 10 feet. Jokic had 50% of his shots from within 10 feet, averages 3PA per game. It's just not the same game anymore, and shaq isn't going to just to be fed in the post to back down his opponent. This is the equivalent of people that think that a team gets a big offensive line and runs the ball will dominate the smaller defenses in the nfl. It's a different game now for a reason, the best backs of yore would likely catch a lot more, and none would play the exact same as they did before. But passing is a better way to get points.

Interviews are so precious. Ask harper about every franchise. He's not going to shit on any except a rival. He makes a lot being one of the most accessible players in the game.

There will be no criminal case, the deck is stacked against it in every way. But this is no less negligent than a fire happening in a building with locked exits.

Yes, and the 2009/10 orlando magic. And yes, Giannis is much better fit now due to his adaptability on defense which again keeps being the thing we have to point out. But I'd keep in mind the one thing you are doing with the post is modernizing shaq to today's game. And my point keeps being that if the 2000 lakers played like the 2000 lakers they aren't winning a championship in modern nba. Shaq in today's game likely wouldn't bulk up to his late laker years. He'd be doing pick and rolls and rim running more. He wouldn't be doing so many post-ups. He'd likely be a bit better playmaker. He'd likely shoot a lot less but be at much higher fg%. And yeah, like jokic, really good. I do think jokic will win a championship on a team that he's the #2 with a good wing (a la pau gasol). Hard to see denver winning it all unless mpj progresses.

Law suits are meh. They'll declare bankruptcy, equity holders will get paid out, managers will probably get raises to stay, workers that were put in danger laid off. Criminal suits would be better.

If US and China go to war it will be a proxy war as ever.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2020-05-07/coronavirus-closes-meat-plants-threatens-food-supply?sref=vuYGislZ And his children would not be able to be by his side and likely still have not had a funeral. The article details how while meatpacking plants are very susceptible, most in Europe and many in US that showed concern were able to keep outbreaks at bay. These companies that were ignorant of worker health will be protected by the federal government from liability. The federal government is not opting to allow federal assistance for funerals despite policy available to do so. And I just hope whatever version of this guys pension was left is transferable.

Well, this loses an advantage when the opposing team isn't relying on the guy guarding shaq to "shoot jumpers" in the 4th quarter.

96-98 Rodman was good but not at the level of Detroit Pistons Rodman. Draymond is actually very good (despite bizarre board sentiment) and handled his role of defending up on positions very well. Again there is a reason the NBA is shooting a bunch of threes now. It just gets down to basic math. The Lakers shot worse from 2pt% than the GSW, and shot worse from the FTA than the GSW. Shaq would eat...but like that's fine. Their volume and percentage of threes make up for it. The 2000 Lakers playing like the 2000 Lakers would not be able to win 7 games against the GSW even Shaq is averaging 40/15.

Rodman would defend shaq and did fine. He’d get points. And the warriors would shoot them off the court.

Lori Lightfoot says to “shelter in place” but I saw her on TV today at the Thompson center and she doesn’t live there!

Weird how many people found a common place to go to get masks

I kinda think its true you've talked to a lot of people about masks but I'd imagine they tell you the many ways to get masks, and you don't listen and think to yourself "nobody knows how to get masks!" while they are talking.

Today's IL update: 15k tests 2200+ cases 15% positivity rate. 700 on respirators

Go into your drawer, take out an old tshirt. Cut it in half. Tie it around your face. Find a bandana. Tie it around your face. If you can breath in it and it is covering your mouth, it is the right mask. Have you connected with your church? Many are organizing mask delivery and handouts. There are so many ways to solve this problem: wow, a 2 second search. Voila.