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Isn't that the same as being the favorite to win the championship? I didn't say they would win. I said favorites to win. If they have the best odds of being the best in the regular season, wouldn't they naturally have the best odds to be the best in the postseason too. It's hard to say. Basketball, more than any other sport, is where you can basically mark it down that a team with one of the 3 or 4 best records in the league is going to win the championship. There are teams that go full throttle trying to lock up a #1 seed and then there are older teams (i.e. the Celtics) who seemingly only turn it on for the playoffs. Some of the old Bulls teams (in 1993 especially) and the Shaq-Kobe Laker teams did the asme thing. There's usually a strong correlation for sure. The Cavs were breaking a lot of long held stasitical patterns by winning a bunch of games over 2 years and not even making the Finals. Maybe it's just an anomaly, maybe not. I can guarantee you the idea that it's not just an anomaly has crawled into Lebron's head though.
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Favorites to get the best regular season record perhaps.
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That sounds very contradictory, imo. If you can't land Bosh how are you going to convince James to stay with essentially the same team that got eliminated by Boston. Not to mention this would Bosh is likely heading to either Chicago or Miami with Wade, and Boozer ending up in New Jersey. James would still have to get past that same Boston team, a very good Orlando team, improving Chicago and Miami teams and still relatively young and talent Hawks team, all the while your team did nothing to get you some help. Don't know how that's contradictory. Lebron and Bosh are different people. Cleveland can get one without the other. Plus, who says Cleveland would be done? If they can get LeBron and Bosh, they can get Lebron and Boozer or Lee or they could get Ray Allen and a C like Haywood. If you subscribe to the theory that Lebron only wants to stay on a team that can get a genuine 2nd banana then it makes a lot of sense. They're not getting Ray Allen or Haywood for the MLE either. MAYBE Hayward if they pull a Bosh trade out of their butt and he wants to chase a ring. I think he wants to get paid though.
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Well can they get a S&T done for Boozer? Or is that bridge burned because of the way he left Cleveland? I can't imagine the Knicks would want to help Lebron stay by S&Ting Lee to them. They could use a player like Varejao though...so could the Jazz.
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Lee/Boozer would be redundant. I'm fine with either at this point. Use the rest of the money to sign a 2 that can shoot and maybe a backup C.
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It's not ridiculous. The Celtics were generally content to play Kobe one on one with Allen & Allen. It worked, basically. Kobe had a nice series but he certainly didn't go off. Celtics lost the series on the inside and not being able to buy a basket in Game 7. That's it pretty much. Lebron at this point in his career and with the talent surrounding him commands more attention than Bryant. He has to win isolation battles all of the time for them to have a chance against good teams. It's way harder for him.
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You want a toe? I can get you a toe, believe me. There are ways, Dude. You don't wanna know about it, believe me. I'll get you a toe by this afternoon--with nail polish.
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I still don't think it would've been that easy. The road in the East would've been much easier but you still have that certain team who is poised to win three in a row, looming in the West. There's been this sort of fiction created since LA won the title that that was a great team. I don't think so. The Shaq-Kobe Lakers would've obliterated that team and I think Ariza -> Artest was a decided downgrade. I really think it was one of the weaker champions of the decade. That's nice. Kobe still has a few great years left and the rest of their starting five is still really good (replacing Fisher with Odom). You'd be foolish to say that they're not the favorites, unless we're landing two of the big three FA's. Favorites, sure. Not overwhelming favorites though. They have little bench, Artest isn't very good, Bynum is always a question mark. They're a match up nightmare for a lot of teams because of their size. Kobe's great but defenses are not awake at night afraid of him like they are of Lebron. They're afraid of being owned in the paint.
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I still don't think it would've been that easy. The road in the East would've been much easier but you still have that certain team who is poised to win three in a row, looming in the West. There's been this sort of fiction created since LA won the title that that was a great team. I don't think so. The Shaq-Kobe Lakers would've obliterated that team and I think Ariza -> Artest was a decided downgrade. I really think it was one of the weaker champions of the decade.
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Also, way more than 90% of colleges have nothing to gain by gaming the NCAA system because they're not attracting pro quality talent to begin with. If you think 90% of big time college programs are following NCAA rules I think you're being pretty naive. I'll freely admit I have no real evidence to back that up but I think I'm right.
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Noah was probably 13th or 14th on the All-Star curve last year. It's not really that crazy. Jamaal Magloire and Brad Miller made ASGs once upon a time.
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I mentioned that like a month ago. Probably in this exact thread. You hate Paul Pierce because he hams it up when he gets hurt and hate Garnett because he yelled at the Bulls from the bench. Isn't that pretty silly? And I don't even hate Rose. (Except for his performance in the last minute of the title game). I don't see how pointing out that he's of below average intelligence is anything to get worked up about. It was a joke. Jokes that multiple Bulls fans have laughed at. If you're speaking to the larger point based on what I've written in college threads, that has a lot more to do with a level playing field than any sort of moral code. If there are rules in place that 90% of the schools are following, it puts them at an unfair disadvantage to the Memphis, UKs, and USCs of the world who don't. I would say Derrick Rose, and any other high school player capable of jumping straight to the NBA at a high level, is put at a much larger disadvantage by being forced to waste a year in college than fans of the angelic programs you root for. That is his livelihood after all.
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Ulimately any little fan beefs towards athletes are frivolous. But at least those are basketball reasons. And I sincerely doubt you hate Derrick Rose because some guy took an SAT for him to qualify for a college he never should have had to attend in the first place. That would be incredibly lame.
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KG had to jump straight the NBA because he couldn't even qualify for college. OMG SICK BURN
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What part of pretending to have to care about the academic credentials of professional athletes strikes you as enjoyable?
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Just enough time to avoid playing in Newark.
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Ultra whiny NCAA moralists SSR and shnsjax playing up DRose angles that no one gives a [expletive] about!
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Let's keep in mind that the last three eastern conference champions were headlined by players that are not on Wade/Lebron's level. There's more than one way to bake a cake. It makes it easier with a talent like that but if there's no super team formed in the East it can be done.
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He's always been adamant about separating Akron from Cleveland, though. Not that I want to divine too much meaning from a twitter bio.
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Spongeworthy or another USC fan, any idea of how good Jackson is? Rivals had him as a 4-star out of HS, I believe. Rotational lineman. The USC defensive line was average last year and he didn't see the field all the time.
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Well, I get that because it would create an absolute circus at a camp where kids are trying to work on their game. But I still think there's something about him doing it at his high school and not in Cleveland. To save some suspense, if he does it in Cleveland everyone will know.
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The Bulls will be perceived as failing because Chris Bosh got lumped in with James and Wade when he is clearly closer to Lee, Amare, and Boozer.
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Spurs allegedly like George Hill to take over full time at PG (which I think is nutty because he's not nearly as good as TP, although he is hurt a lot) and people think Eva is talking in Parker's ear about getting to a more glamorous market. I think Lee would work really well next to Duncan too. And I'm not sure Bosh hasn't shown interest in Texas. Broussard said earlier today that Bosh didn't want to play in his home town of Dallas but Houston would be attractive. They've got nice pieces to trade with and he can play next to a legit center in Yao. I think that's why he's interested in Chicago too because he knows Noah will do all the dirty work at C.
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Yep, it's a real possibility. Lebron + Boozer/Lee makes the most sense to me. If getting Lebron came down to getting Bosh and getting Bosh came down to S&Ting Noah then of course I would do it but that's about the only scenario I can think of. I'd rather just sign Boozer or Lee outright and keep Noah. You could be right about Wade. I'm sure the $30 million does mean quite a bit but with his star and endorsement power, I think it means wayyyy less than to him than it does to Bosh. I wonder if the money stuff is taken care of already in his divorce.
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You swap out Lee for Amare and get nothing else of consequence and you're still looking at a lottery team. Lee -> Amare is basically a lateral move.