but basically i h8 fantasy sports and how it is destroying the world
― Cooper Chucklebutt, Monday, 12 December 2011 15:07 (twelve years ago) link
our league needs one more team, you can just join the draft and then let yer team collect dust, nobody'll care
― am0n shumpert (dayo), Monday, December 12, 2011 10:05 AM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Permalink
last time i played i did exactly that and still came in second /braggin abt lame things
― Cooper Chucklebutt, Monday, 12 December 2011 15:08 (twelve years ago) link
From @JaredZwerling report: LeBron James weighing 265 lbs, 5.2% body fat, Dwyane Wade at 231 lbs, 3.5% body fat. Yikes.
i knew bron was a large person but wade at 231 seems HUGE, had no idea
― k3vin k., Monday, 12 December 2011 15:09 (twelve years ago) link
dude is pure muscle and muscle weighs more than fat
― am0n shumpert (dayo), Monday, 12 December 2011 15:13 (twelve years ago) link
but yeah 6'4 & 231 seems O_O
― am0n shumpert (dayo), Monday, 12 December 2011 15:14 (twelve years ago) link
hes v solid just like huge arms n legs
― Cooper Chucklebutt, Monday, 12 December 2011 15:14 (twelve years ago) link
yeah he's got a tremendous core
― am0n shumpert (dayo), Monday, 12 December 2011 15:18 (twelve years ago) link
just an incredible thick chiseled rock hard core
― Cooper Chucklebutt, Monday, 12 December 2011 15:20 (twelve years ago) link
lol you guys prokhorov is running for president of russia
― cad, Monday, 12 December 2011 15:21 (twelve years ago) link
things are going crazy in russia aren't they
― am0n shumpert (dayo), Monday, 12 December 2011 15:23 (twelve years ago) link
this year is quickly moving from the strangest nba season ever column to the strangest thing ever
― Cooper Chucklebutt, Monday, 12 December 2011 15:24 (twelve years ago) link
prokhorov is probably thinking "fuck bully king I'm gonna be PRESIDENT OF RUSSIA"
― am0n shumpert (dayo), Monday, 12 December 2011 15:24 (twelve years ago) link
Chris_Broussard Chris Broussard LAC don't want a LOdom situation on hands. Wants to extend Gordon if CP deal don't happen. NBA running deal for NO & wants Bledsoe added15 minutes ago
― Cooper Chucklebutt, Monday, 12 December 2011 15:25 (twelve years ago) link
glad to hear the league is just straight up negotiating this deal instead of risking a repeat of that shitstorm
― Cooper Chucklebutt, Monday, 12 December 2011 15:26 (twelve years ago) link
should be 'eman shumpert'
― amon, Monday, 12 December 2011 15:27 (twelve years ago) link
i'll vote for prokh
― amon, Monday, 12 December 2011 15:28 (twelve years ago) link
I thought you retired 'eman'
― am0n shumpert (dayo), Monday, 12 December 2011 15:29 (twelve years ago) link
I mean, I def thought about it
the world is ready for a jet ski president
― Cooper Chucklebutt, Monday, 12 December 2011 15:29 (twelve years ago) link
lol
― amon, Monday, 12 December 2011 15:30 (twelve years ago) link
off to my cabinet meeting brb
http://www.kommersant.com/photo/300/News/2008/01/13/KMO_093561_00001_1m.jpg
― amon, Monday, 12 December 2011 15:33 (twelve years ago) link
so the wolves now have barea, ridnour, and rubio
― am0n shumpert (dayo), Monday, 12 December 2011 15:39 (twelve years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/8HjAx.jpg
*colludes w/BRIC nations*
― Cooper Chucklebutt, Monday, 12 December 2011 15:39 (twelve years ago) link
― am0n shumpert (dayo), Monday, December 12, 2011 10:39 AM (20 seconds ago) Bookmark Permalink
lol this fn team
http://i.imgur.com/ULKIi.jpg
just need a few more point guards and we can win
― am0n shumpert (dayo), Monday, 12 December 2011 15:43 (twelve years ago) link
oh what a waste of barea; lil dude was born to play in the playoffs
― cad, Monday, 12 December 2011 15:44 (twelve years ago) link
some on splain to me what happened w/the celtics and david west
― Cooper Chucklebutt, Monday, 12 December 2011 16:15 (twelve years ago) link
i've followed it closely and can't really figure it out but seems like it was a complex sign-and-trade that relied on one of the old versions of the cp3 deal and they just couldn't get it figured out. pacers could just sign him outright with their cap space.
― cad, Monday, 12 December 2011 16:20 (twelve years ago) link
ah ok, west wouldve been weird on the c's anyway
― Cooper Chucklebutt, Monday, 12 December 2011 16:24 (twelve years ago) link
they would have had two jump shooting big men
― am0n shumpert (dayo), Monday, 12 December 2011 16:25 (twelve years ago) link
and four power forwards
― Cooper Chucklebutt, Monday, 12 December 2011 16:27 (twelve years ago) link
yeah i was for it in the abstract because west can score with the best of em but it would have been weird team construction
― cad, Monday, 12 December 2011 16:28 (twelve years ago) link
tho allen/pierce/west/garnett playing together would be p sweet from a defense stretching perpective
― Cooper Chucklebutt, Monday, 12 December 2011 16:28 (twelve years ago) link
the clips-hornets deal is definitely going to make the hornets worse in the immediate, but if the goal is to get younger players then it's the better deal. bledsoe and aminu won't be stars, so it will all hinge on who they pick w/ the t wolves pick and their own pick, both of which should presumably be in the top 5. also if i was getting bledsoe & aminu i would ask for another first round pick instead of kaman. or if i had to take kaman for salary purposes i would demand another first round pick. not sure what the point of that one is. they already have okafor and aren't going to win this year.
― v-shasty, Monday, 12 December 2011 16:31 (twelve years ago) link
feel like the hornets would be in the position to demand gordon if, you know, they hadn't been neutered by david stern and lost all of their leverage
omg david stern protected them from taking a horrible deal!
― Cooper Chucklebutt, Monday, 12 December 2011 16:32 (twelve years ago) link
they wouldve had no leverage because paul wouldve been traded already
― Cooper Chucklebutt, Monday, 12 December 2011 16:33 (twelve years ago) link
well they could've done it a much more discreet fashion
― v-shasty, Monday, 12 December 2011 16:34 (twelve years ago) link
like for instance if demps had heard behind closed doors that the three way lakers/rockets deal wouldn't work, he could've at least kept the negotiations of that deal going and played the clippers off of that, which might've allowed him to pry gordon
― v-shasty, Monday, 12 December 2011 16:35 (twelve years ago) link
― v-shasty, Monday, December 12, 2011 11:34 AM (23 seconds ago) Bookmark Permalink
true but i dont see how the hornets total leverage cashes wouldve been any greater
― Cooper Chucklebutt, Monday, 12 December 2011 16:35 (twelve years ago) link
its all narrative, but the reality is assets
― Cooper Chucklebutt, Monday, 12 December 2011 16:36 (twelve years ago) link
― v-shasty, Monday, December 12, 2011 11:35 AM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Permalink
this just seems HIGHLY speculative
― Cooper Chucklebutt, Monday, 12 December 2011 16:37 (twelve years ago) link
it certainly is
― v-shasty, Monday, 12 December 2011 16:37 (twelve years ago) link
i mean the lakers n rockets did reopen negotiations
― Cooper Chucklebutt, Monday, 12 December 2011 16:38 (twelve years ago) link
but in general i don't think that the way stern went about killing the trade was beneficial in any way to what the hornets are trying to do
― v-shasty, Monday, 12 December 2011 16:38 (twelve years ago) link
― Cooper Chucklebutt, Monday, December 12, 2011 10:38 AM (18 seconds ago) Bookmark
they did, but i think at that point the whole thing was kinda killed anyway -- like for instance odom was already boycotting camp so they had an incentive to just turn around and flip him to dallas for practically nothing
― v-shasty, Monday, 12 December 2011 16:39 (twelve years ago) link
― v-shasty, Monday, December 12, 2011 11:38 AM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Permalink
it certainly wasnt beneficial to his personal image nor standing on twitter, my guess is where he made his mistake is that he was pretending that he didnt own a team, theres no franchise in the league where a gm is free to trade a superstar w/o checking in w/the owner, acting as tho this was the case until the moment where the gm made a bonehead play was p clueless - not convinced it hurt the hornets chances at getting a good deal tho, all the teams still want paul, the lakers/rockets proved unwilling to raise their offer, but that prob wouldve happened anyway, i dont see this brouhaha causing them to walk away over hurt feelings, the hornets already got a better offer from the clips and youve got to think other teams are waiting in the wings
― Cooper Chucklebutt, Monday, 12 December 2011 16:45 (twelve years ago) link
hollinger on bledsoe - wouldve been interested to hear if he thinks hell ever figure it out hard to project i guess
+ Quick, athletic guard with good size and tremendous defensive potential.
+ Nominally a point guard, but no idea how to play offense. Serial overdribbler.
+ Poor outside shooter and lacks feel, but has great burst and can make floaters.
"Inefficient" doesn't really do Bledsoe's rookie season justice. Having him direct a possession, particularly in the halfcourt, was the basketball equivalent of punting on third down. For starters, there was the poor shooting -- he hit 42.5 percent from the floor and 27.6 percent on 3s, and while he could get to the basket he didn't draw many fouls. All told, his 49.9 TS% was in the bottom quarter of point guards.
That was bad, but what really put Bledsoe over the top was his woeful distribution. There were 68 point guards that played at least 500 minutes last season. Sixty-six of them had a pure point rating above zero. Not Bledsoe -- he was at minus-0.07 thanks to a disastrous 18.9 turnover rate, one eclipsed among point guards only by the miserable Chris Duhon.
Offsetting these negatives is Bledsoe's ridiculous athleticism and the fact that he was only 21 years old. Bledsoe was eighth among point guards in blocks per minute, seventh in steals and sixth in rebound rate. Even as a rookie he was a quality defender, and he could easily make an all-defense team in a couple years.
Offensively, meanwhile, Bledsoe shot 60.3 percent at the rim and can make floaters; also, high-mistake rookies are often the ones who make the most improvement in subsequent years. He has no clue on offense right now and he's still a solid backup. If and when he figures things out, he'll be a terror.
― Cooper Chucklebutt, Monday, 12 December 2011 16:49 (twelve years ago) link
the truly strage thing abt all of this is the lakers trading odom to mavs for some stuff they had lying around in their junk drawer w/out having an sort of grander scheme ready to go
― Cooper Chucklebutt, Monday, 12 December 2011 16:54 (twelve years ago) link
yeah... i mean i guess it was basically a "well fuck we have no choice but to trade him now" kinda thing
really hurts the lakers imo, but it's a good deal for the mavs. not sure him and dirk could play much at the same time cuz they would get eaten alive on D, but that's a pretty damn good sub for when dirk goes out
― v-shasty, Monday, 12 December 2011 16:58 (twelve years ago) link