you could see that coming. Hawks dominated the first few minutes and then Phoenix just destroyed us from then on. Overall, I think the series is evenly matched but Phoenix is slightly better.
Can someone tell these idiot Phoenix fans to not jump up every single time theres a Coyotes SOG? I swear I've thought the game ended 3 times already because I couldnt see what happened to the shot and the fans are all standing up
I was already writing up my "well that sucked but we only need to win 1 of the 2 to be in a good position" post, and then you just saw a wide open net and the puck drifting onto Seab's stick. Awesome.
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Man Bill Simmons is such a homer. http://www.grantland.com/story/_/id/7801091/the-rebirth-celtics In this column, he calls Avery Bradley one of the 5 best perimeter defenders in the NBA (he's pretty damn good but come on) and pretty much thinks its a lock that Doc Rivers will win COY, and then at the end suggests that the Celtics are this year's 1999 Knicks. I mean come on, what the Celtics have done the last 2 weeks is surprising and impressive but how about you try losing the MVP of the league for 40% of the season and still have the best record in the NBA. Doc should maybe get coach of the month for March, but coach of the year when this team was toiling at .500 most of the year? lol I keep finding more funny as I read this. He just called last night's win over Miami one of the single most meaningful wins of the KG/Pierce/Allen era.
Which is why it would be nice to get some benefit from paying him. If he wants to be a dickbag and not put out any effort make him ride the [expletive] bus around in the D-League (or he doesn't get paid). How does letting him pout and sit at home because he's not with the Kardashians do anything other than encourage other dickbags to do the same thing? Did you even read my post? It doesn't make sense to make him toil in the D-League. There is absolutely no benefit to Dallas. Making him toil there would likely kill whatever value he has left. Like it or not but NBA teams base decisions on what is best for the organization and not spite. Also, this is not even close to the first player that has been sent home to collect his paycheck. It has happened a number of times in the NBA.
Um, only some? What idiot would think you had to be really bad this year in order to facilitate longterm improvement? Sorry, I worded that wrong. I just mean that most people would take a 40 win season in stride as long as improvements were made in the organization such as a strong draft, international signings, the emergence of several prospects, etc., but some people would call out Theo for spouting BS about "every season is an opportunity to win, we're going to try to win every year although the future is going to be the most important thing" and just not be able to accept their team going through so much futility, even if they knew that the organization is improving elsewhere.
I highly doubt this would happen but you never know. Obviously the expectations for Theo's first year are extremely low. But after all the talk about "the future is more important, but we'll also be trying to win now", how would you feel if this year's Cubs were historically futile? Like 41-121? Would that change your feeling towards Theo, or would you just be satisfied as long as the Cubs are making steps towards improving for the future? I'm guessing most would say that latter, but there are probably some that think that its not necessary to become historically futile and an even bigger laughing stock around baseball along the way to long term improvement. Edit: Also if this were to happen, KyleJRM's nightmare scenario might come true and sooner than he thought, because I wouldnt expect more than 20K in the stands the last few months of the season.
Guess he can stop whining on twitter about demanding a trade now and put the focus squarely on drunkenly racing around Chicago's expressways at odd hours of the night.
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He's probably more valuable as a contract sitting on his ass. They can trade him in the offseason to clear up space to sign Deron and stuff. Not sure how making him play in the D-league helps his value at all. I think making him leave the team is the best way to salvage what little value Odom has left. Playing him certainly doesn't help it, and hurts the team in the process. Plus Mavs fans loathe Odom. When I was at their game last week, they pretty much boo'd him everytime he touched the ball.
I'm trying to think of a good comparison to Vancouver in another sport. Just off the top of my head, it would be the Vikings. Always seem to be pretty good, occasionally they have a scary good season and seem to be locks to win it all then falter hilariously in the playoffs. And to top it off they always seem to have a few douchebags in big roles for them. The Braves wouldnt be a good comparison because they've actually won, and they were annually at the top of the standings for over a decade whereas Vancouver was middle of the West good until the last 2 years. The Cubs wouldnt be good because we suck most years. The Mavericks would have been good until last year.