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QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ Mar 29, 2014 -> 10:12 PM) It didn't matter in the end, but damn Arizona getting that ball seemed like an absolutely terrible call That was off Jackson. Not enough overturn but the prior call was drastically worse. Gasser fouled Johnson before the push off and that push off happens all the time without it being called. Wisconsin got away with at least 3 or 4 drastically more obvious offensive fouls that weren't called tonight.

Horrendous call to decide an Elite 8 game.

Nigel Hayes hasn't made a move without committing an offensive foul yet.

QUOTE (RockRaines @ Mar 29, 2014 -> 12:47 PM) I don't think so. He's eligible immediately.

QUOTE (Brian @ Mar 29, 2014 -> 12:45 PM) Doesn't he have to sit? No. He is a grad school transfer so he is eligible immediately and next year will be his only year at OSU.

Anthony Lee going to Ohio State. That is absolutely huge for OSU. They badly need someone else who could score for next season.

QUOTE (Steve9347 @ Mar 28, 2014 -> 04:40 PM) Oh, s***ty Sixers. I'm hoping they lose out just because I think it would be awesome to see a team have a 36 game losing streak to end a season.

QUOTE (Boogua @ Mar 28, 2014 -> 11:31 AM) Michigan is going to lose tonight. I say this based only on the fact that they're -2.5 and it looks like a gift from God. Vegas knows something that we don't to have an 11 seed only +2.5 against a 2 seed. Dayton is +10.5 against Florida, for example. Tennessee is statistically a better team than Michigan. Dayton is by far and away the worst team left in the tournament.

QUOTE (RockRaines @ Mar 28, 2014 -> 09:32 AM) Verlander and Cabrera will cost them 60 million per year. For two players. Wow. I mean who wouldn't want to pay a 35 year old Miguel Cabrera and a 35 year old Justin Verlander a combined 60 million in 2018? That is just good business.

Terrible move by the Tigers. I like it.

QUOTE (Steve9347 @ Mar 27, 2014 -> 05:01 PM) It's sad when a movie released in 1990 looked better/more realistic than a pile of crap that will be released in 2014. Bring me zombie Jim Henson. This is a guaranteed pile of garbage. As soon as they announced the director this movie was guaranteed to be terrible.

QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ Mar 27, 2014 -> 01:52 PM) Hopefully the director was able to tune Bay out and make it how he wanted Have you looked at what the director has directed previously? I can't believe I'm saying this but that would probably be a bad thing.

AJ Hammons going pro. Purdue may be the 2nd worst team in the Big 10 next year ahead of only Rutgers.

TMNT trailer is predictably awful.

QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ Mar 27, 2014 -> 11:43 AM) Let me apply my surprised face Did you see the play? There shouldn't be any further action taken against LeBron.

QUOTE (buhbuhburrrrlz @ Mar 26, 2014 -> 09:31 PM) stephenson gets ejected lolol A bit weak there but just such a stupid move by him.

QUOTE (bmags @ Mar 25, 2014 -> 04:37 PM) Rather than adding another rule to safeguard NBA owners from running their franchise into the ground, as a fan I'd prefer Adam Silver take on the derelict, terrible owners out of the league. Maybe if more teams were run like San Antonio we wouldn't think there was a talent drop off. No league has more rules to prevent owner incompetence than the NBA, and the number of incompetent owners just seems way way too high. Yep, there are no quality of play issues in the Western Conference. They only exist in the East where you have a number of teams that have gutted their rosters on purpose to tank or have zero idea how to run a franchise (I'm looking at you Michael Jordan). Add in key injuries to two of the 4 East teams with legit talent (Chicago and Brooklyn) and you have a disaster of a conference.

QUOTE (Boogua @ Mar 25, 2014 -> 04:27 PM) Yes. Lots of busts. Can someone please explain what the downside is for the NBA here? No downside other than keeping stud talents like LeBron or Durant out of the league for a year for no reason and there is limited to no upside to doing this. It basically just f***s the players without really providing a real benefit to the NBA.

QUOTE (Boogua @ Mar 25, 2014 -> 04:08 PM) Meh, he was a top 5 pick and he never even scratched the surface of his potential. I'll call him a bust and I don't really care how much he made. Congrats to him though. I mean I guess we could have taken guys like: Marcus Fizer, Mike Dunleavy, Drew Gooden, Stromile Swift, Shelden Williams, Thabeet, Morrison, Wesley Johnson, Tyrus Thomas, Evan Turner, Derrick Williams, and Thomas Robinson (don't care that he is only in his second year). And that doesn't even include really mediocre players like Jeff Green and Raymond Felton who all were in college for at least 2 years and were drafted in the top 5 since just 2000.

QUOTE (Boogua @ Mar 25, 2014 -> 03:51 PM) Just off the top of my head: Kwame Brown, Darius Miles, Eddy Curry, Martell Webster, Sebastian Telfair, Shaun Livingston... Eddy Curry made 70 million dollars and had a year in the NBA where he averaged 19.5 points per game while shooting 58% from the field. If you are including him as a bust than I can make an absolutely absurd list of juniors and seniors who were taken in the top 10 who had way worse careers. He was lazy but that wouldn't have changed at all had he gone to DePaul for a year or 2 and dominated crappy competition based on being bigger and stronger than everyone.

QUOTE (ZoomSlowik @ Mar 25, 2014 -> 03:44 PM) The history of the guys drafted out of high school aren't that bad. Here's a list of every player drafted out of high school. The vast majority of the drafted high schoolers stuck in the NBA. I only see 8 guys out of 42 that haven't stuck around longer than 4 years. That's a pretty damn good rate. And you have very few busts in comparison to where they were taken and who went after them either. The 2001 draft gave the straight to NBA kids a bad rap and it isn't like the non-European draft picks set the world on fire that year.

QUOTE (Boogua @ Mar 25, 2014 -> 03:32 PM) Do you really want to go through all the highly drafted high schoolers? Those guys you mentioned aren't all that common. Wade was in college for 3 years (played 2). Hinrich and Collison were both pegged fine. Go for it. The high school kids had a very high success rate in comparison to where they were taken.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Mar 25, 2014 -> 02:58 PM) No. You weed out more guys who might be drafted because POTENTIAL, but with another year you can better identify that potential is never going to become ability. Another year in college probably sorts out more of those kind of guys. Eh. Most guys are just never going to be good enough. If you take out the guy drafted on "potential" you replace him with a guy who doesn't have the tools necessary to be a good/great NBA player anyways. There are only a certain amount of guys with the elite talent needed to be stars in the league and just looking at drafts on year to year basis demonstrates that giving teams more years to evaluate players doesn't really help them with talent evaluations.

QUOTE (witesoxfan @ Mar 25, 2014 -> 02:58 PM) Well this is incredibly relevant to the discussion then http://deadspin.com/marcus-smart-did-the-r...t-go-1546498463 I'm shocked (he says as sarcastically as possible). It has always been laughable to me that people think kids improve more at the college level than at the NBA level. The only reason to stay in school is to raise your stock because from a basketball improvement and financial standpoint staying in school is stupid.

QUOTE (Boogua @ Mar 25, 2014 -> 02:01 PM) It looks like Adam Silver wants to raise the age limit to 20. Smart call. The NBA product is pretty awful right now. Lol. This will do nothing to help the NBA product and the product in the Western Conference is just fine. The East is a joke because you have a few teams tanking for picks and some horribly run franchises. If there is a problem in the NBA it certainly isn't because kids are only staying one year in college. This rule basically f***s over kids and doesn't do anything positive. I guess it makes it slightly less likely NBA teams blow an eval but the NBA is driven by elite talent and that is cyclical and teams blow plenty of talent evaluations even when they've seen a guy for multiple years (Evan Turner?, Emeka Okafor?, Olowokandi? I could go on forever). There are plenty of drafts in the 80s and 90s where teams were drafting juniors and seniors and those drafts sucked because they didn't have enough talent.