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BLUEBLOCR
Social climber
joshua tree
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Jun 21, 2016 - 09:08pm PT
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^^^ odd's, smodd's! i hope everybody else brought home a suitcase full of cash ;)
We weren't robbed! LeBron took home what he deserved.
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Lorenzo
Trad climber
Portland Oregon
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Jun 21, 2016 - 10:01pm PT
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Gary
Jun 21, 2016 - 11:47am PT
Hey, is the Big O palming that ball?
Shooting...
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Jaybro
Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
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Jun 22, 2016 - 05:16am PT
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And silly putty?
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zBrown
Ice climber
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Jun 22, 2016 - 08:08am PT
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Say Roger. Who knows. May try to beat this dead horse back to life yet.
Thanks Mr. Nelson for that link. I love all the speeds, heights and distances. Gives me some good targets to shoot for in training for the over-70 league (only a few months away).
Lacking the [hopefully] definitive evidence a backboard cam would have provided, it looks like this may became a job for the resident physicist and occasional meta-physicist Doc Hartouni. Doesn't meta have a kind of bball ring to it?
I think Mr. Jim (don't Confuse with James) Brown was advocating a statue of Lebron in San Diego since Mr. James is rumoured to be considering purchasing Romney's house in La Jolla (you know the one with the car elevator). :)
I can see it now, "how are the waves today LeBraj?"
I'd love to hear some punk surfer yelling "comin' down" at him.
Yikes, is he following in Wilt's footsteps?
Yikes2 - and Walton? (Bill just got a statue in San Diego this summer)
Yikes3 - LeBron can do most anything bettern us, but he can't outdance The Hardest Working man in Showbiz
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zBrown
Ice climber
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Jun 22, 2016 - 08:28am PT
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Anyone ever wonder what happened to Luke? Not Bill's kid, we know he's in L.A. now promising that:
"We're going to play a brand of basketball ... that L.A. fans will appreciate"
If he's successful maybe SD can work out a trade for The Chargers.
Anyway the Luke in question is the inimitable Luke Harangody. Well here he is along with 9 amigos. You won't find Steve Martin here.
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zBrown
Ice climber
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Jun 22, 2016 - 12:29pm PT
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I claim no known relation to Devin Brown, but he got quite a gift here.
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Lest we all forget, there is very definitely a player hierarchy in the NBA and the refs recognize (and some might say reinforce) it.
It might be informative to speculate on whether, had Mark Eaton come from a couple feet away and used the "pin and roll" move that LeB used, it would have been a GT or B.
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Ed Hartouni
Trad climber
Livermore, CA
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Jun 24, 2016 - 09:59am PT
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Lacking the [hopefully] definitive evidence a backboard cam would have provided, it looks like this may became a job for the resident physicist and occasional meta-physicist Doc Hartouni. Doesn't meta have a kind of bball ring to it?
an analysis of whether or not a rule in basketball has been violated at the margins of detectability?
or a meta analysis? which is easier to provide... in this case, we might look into the intention of the blocking player, is that player trying to execute a legal block or an illegal block close enough to the detectable margin for it to be decided as legal?
In any case, the margins exist, and are their for a number of reasons, due largely to our finite ability to determine the exact dynamics of the situation. One might contemplate what generates these limits, and at what point the precision of human action spans the boundary of what is detectable.
But inviting physics into the discussion will draw it out to times much longer than those decidable on the court.
Here is an interesting idea sure to be rejected as a vile intrusion into our need for immediate gratification: collect the best possible data on the position of all the important features of the game as a time stream with, say, microsecond resolution. The data set is large, but it can be analyzed with results available sometime after the game (it is unlikely that this can be done in "real time" but perhaps in a few more Moore's law foldings...).
A list of post-game violations are tallied, and points subtracted (or added, since ball trajectories can be continued and likely outcomes calculated) and the game is rescored according to the analysis.
The actual victor is then determined in the aftermath of the analysis.
Or you can just use humans to judge if the rules were followed, that is my preference... if you don't like that, we can get robots to play, programmed not to break the rules.
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zBrown
Ice climber
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Jun 24, 2016 - 11:17am PT
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I was thinking more along the line of the distances of the ball, Mr. J and Mr. I from the backboard and their relative velocities.
Anyway, need I say it?
Hartouni for the win.
Remember rules are a bit looser on the outside courts, but the calcs are harder due to the wind..
Little Hawk, The Claw, aka The Doctor
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monolith
climber
state of being
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Kevin Durant agrees to sign with Warriors.
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zBrown
Ice climber
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I just saw that.
Marc Stein of ESPN is reporting it's a two-year deal for $54.3 million and the second year is a player option.
Has anyone ever seen one of these contracts? I'm curious how they get structured for minimizing the tax hit.
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monolith
climber
state of being
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Bogut traded to Dallas.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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"Two ringie-dingies..."--counting rings in Middle Earth
If anyone can be compared to Durant it’s Dirk Nowitzki, who’s still a Maverick despite winning just one championship. Durant made the NBA Finals in his fifth season; it took Nowitzki eight. He didn’t win until 2011, 12 years into his career. Durant is entering his 10th season. Who’s to say what could happen if he stayed? Now we’ll never know. Nowitzki made his decisions, Durant made his. Neither are wrong.
http://www.complex.com/sports/2016/07/kevin-durant-golden-state-warriors-pursuit-of-ringzzzz
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donini
Trad climber
Ouray, Colorado
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Sorry....same results next year.
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zBrown
Ice climber
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I know this is gonna be a cliffhanger (ha ha - get it). By installment only.
Deferred compensation appears tohavebeguninthe 1970s with the American Basketball Assn. As the league tried to steal top talent away fromthe NBA,it offered enormous salaries. But many of the deals were constructed to pay out in small chunks long into the future.
Teaser (are you out there Licky?)
Deferring salaries also delays payments to agents and tax collectors. States such as California collect taxes fromathletesbasedon the number of days they spend working in the state, including as members of visiting teams. Players who deferred a significant portion of their salary a few years ago to this year must now swallow California’s higher rates for high-income earners.
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Mike Friedrichs
Sport climber
City of Salt
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Jul 11, 2016 - 01:31pm PT
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Thread drift... Tim Duncan retires. End of an era. Kobe gets star treatment every game in his final year and Duncan just sort of slips away quietly. Amazing player. Five titles, two MVPs. Consummate teammate.
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mike m
Trad climber
black hills
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Jul 11, 2016 - 03:14pm PT
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Tim Duncan was the best player in the last twenty years.
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David Knopp
Trad climber
CA
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Jul 11, 2016 - 03:48pm PT
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Tim Duncan is awesome, no doubt. But sometimes i get the sense he is so well liked by white folks cause he is so un-ghetto. Quiet, humble, self-effacing. Am i wrong, or just racist?
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