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[Nolan]

So its pretty much offical the lottery rigged.

[Moooose]

http://forums.realgm.com/boards/viewtopic.php?f=38&t=1182717

Anybody wants to represent the Spurs in a RealGM User Mock Draft? It includes the 2nd round, and trades are welcome.

I'm not the topic starter, just trying to help making all teams represented.

[Donald Kaufman]

So its pretty much offical the lottery rigged.

NOH wins the lottery as a kicker to sweeten the deal on a sale? Yeah, I'm usually the last guy to go Conspiracy Theorist, but this one reeks of gladhanding.

[LyMinh]

When LeBron was dancing on the sidelines with his headband off in the closing seconds of Game 5, did anyone else think he looked a lot like David Robinson???

[Donald Kaufman]

Not a bit.

[Nolan]

^
+1.

[Nolan]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=LJJyT6Oc0T8[/youtube]

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Outstanding S-Jax interview, its worth a listen just for the Artest/strip club shooting stuff.

[Nolan]

So Brown gets canned after 5 games?

[mitrandil20]

I can't define myself surprised but at the same time I feel kind of amazed: the former because the expectations were too high (it seems that today everything must be done immediately otherwise you are sort of incompetent, less space to growing) on the team and on the playbook players had to use, this last making me feel the latter, for everyone sayd the princeton offense is difficoult to actually learn in the in-game situation as you have to read properly every circumstance; new team, new players with roles that are differents to what they were familiar with, so i think it all demanded time to grow together as a team through losses and adjustments through the season itself, not through years. Mike Brown should have had a second chance after this disastrous start was put clearly in front of his eyes, but I guess people are right when they say he lacks control of the whole situation when coaching great players. he should have kicked his players' asses because of no defense if that has always been considered his strength.

[zordrak]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=LJJyT6Oc0T8[/youtube]

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Outstanding S-Jax interview, its worth a listen just for the Artest/strip club shooting stuff.

The beginning is great...
SJ: I never train during off-season...

[Nolan]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=LJJyT6Oc0T8[/youtube]

^
Outstanding S-Jax interview, its worth a listen just for the Artest/strip club shooting stuff.

The beginning is great...
SJ: I never train during off-season...

The Artest stuff was pure gold.

[co_laper]

You guys should tune in to a Magic game. I was reading in the general board about guys wondering how Magic stayed competitive and it was mostly credited to the coaching staff.

So I'm curious and I'm tuned in to tonight's game.. Orlando vs Cleveland and it's just kinda weird. We've had Pop prodigy around the league but I personally haven't seen a team run our offense like Orlando does.

The problem I'm seeing is probably just that they're playing a worse version of offense than us. Like in the first quarter alone, they commited somewhere around 5 turnovers simply because of moving screens. And then they lack those creative passers a la Manu. It don't seem to matter much not having a Duncan type other than on the defensive end.

Anyways, I thought it's interesting to see.

[Donald Kaufman]

Bill Simmons' Ewing Theory might be in effect in Orlando.

[mitrandil20]

Bill Simmons' Ewing Theory might be in effect in Orlando.

Can you explain, please? I don't know that!

[Donald Kaufman]

http://proxy.espn.go.com/espn/page2/story?id=1193711

Turns out it isn't Simmons' theory in the first place, but he helped popularize it.

[TwentyOne920]

https://twitter.com/WojYahooNBA/status/ ... 7787428864

And just when I thought we had a chance

[biggestbullsfan]

You guys just signed T-mac. Whats your thoughts?

[Donald Kaufman]

Meh. He was done 4 years ago, what can he possibly offer us? He was never a lockdown defender, which we need, and is he even a capable long range shooter? He won't play much anyway, I guess this move is similar to when we added Glenn Robinson for one of our title runs (can't recall which one).

[drosefreethrows]

Bulls fan here. I'm prowling message boards looking for free agents we might be able to nab, I was wondering what you guys think your FO is going to do with Gary Neil. Is he staying with you guys or will you move on without him?

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