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Sjofn
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I hate basketball, so. Yeah.
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Paelos
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I hate basketball, so. Yeah.
You hate all the things I love
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ghost
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Yall must really hate college basketball if you can't even get fired up about a couple of these games on during Rivalry week.
I refuse to believe that Duke versus UNC exists. Kentucky pounded the shit out of Florida though. They're damned good this year.
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HaemishM
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I don't pay attention to college basketball until bracket time.
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Sjofn
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I hate basketball, so. Yeah.
You hate all the things I love Part of the reason I hate it is because everyone in the world thinks I played it and was good at it. I played it for two seasons and was fucking terrible.
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ghost
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College basketball is really my sport to follow. Nobody else around here seems to give a shit though, so I don't bother to post about it.
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Rasix
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I hate basketball, so. Yeah.
You hate all the things I love Part of the reason I hate it is because everyone in the world thinks I played it and was good at it. I played it for two seasons and was fucking terrible. To be fair, all women are terrible at basketball. And while I don't care much anymore about the NCAA regular season, I love the tourney. It's one of my favorite events in all of sports next to the World Cup and tennis slams.
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« Last Edit: February 09, 2012, 03:23:15 PM by Rasix »
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Sjofn
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Har har!
Seriously, though, I was so fucking terrible. Ugh.
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Paelos
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College basketball is really my sport to follow. Nobody else around here seems to give a shit though, so I don't bother to post about it.
I give a shit. My top teams right now that I think are the best "teams" are Syracuse, Duke, Kansas, and UNC. I think Kentucky is just stupidly talented, but they will fall down in the tourney when they get pressed as a unit.
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ghost
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Kentucky has beaten UNC and Kansas out of that group. They are better than you give them credit for. Duke is crazy good when they're hitting their threes, but they often get beat at tourney time due to lack of inside presence and, shall we say, less than their typical "fair" whistles. Syracuse's D is the only thing I see stopping Kentucky. Anthony Davis and Kidd-Gilchrist are two of the best freshmen to come through in a long time.
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Paelos
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Anthony Davis is the Uni-Blocker
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ghost
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I don't know if you happened to watch the UK/LSU game, but that guy got the absolute fuck beaten out of him. He's a tough dude, and ugly as hell. Michael Kidd-Gilchrist has it going on too. He's got that MJ/Kobe thing happening, and he could end up being a superstar in the league.
Your Bulldogs don't look like they're going to do much this year. I miss the Alec Kessler/Hugh Durham Georgia.
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Trippy
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It's because of people like him that we have to deal with spam
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ghost
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I suspect he was taking it for the steroid effect and thought he could get out of being busted by using that as an excuse.
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Paelos
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Not really a "sport" but the Westminister people chose a Pekingese as the Best in Show.
Fuck toy dogs. Srsly.
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Ingmar
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Pekes are weird little dogs, for sure. But, the dogs aren't being judged against each other, but against their own breed's standards. So he's the best Peke a Peke can be, I guess.
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ghost
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Yeah, so Floyd Mayweather is a complete prick. Mayweather posted on Twitter: “Jeremy Lin is a good player but all the hype is because he’s Asian. Black players do what he does every night and don’t get the same praise.”
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Trippy
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It's true though (at least for the Toronto game)
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Paelos
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Floyd's right that this is about being Asian.
Except Lin can actually ball better than most black NBA players, so he can cram that idea.
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Yeah I never see any black players in NBA highlights.
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Paelos
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Yeah I never see any black players in NBA highlights. Wait. Is Lebron black?
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Cyrrex
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We all know full well that the fact that he is Asian has something to do with the attention he is getting. But it is also because he is a Harvard grad, and virtually came out of NOWHERE. There are few or no NBA stars that just come out of nowhere like that, it just doesn't happen that way like it can in other sports. It's as if Haemish all of a sudden came in and scored 25 off the Laker's bench 5 nights in a row. That's the bigger story to me, but I fear that the masses are unable to get past the Asian part. Which should still be celebrated, in a way, but it shouldn't be the lone focus. Most sportswriters out there seem to be getting it right.
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Mosesandstick
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In his first 7 starts (past 7 games), he's averaging 24.4 ppg, 9.1 apg and 1.6 spg. He was also undrafted. There aren't many players that have started that well.
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Cyrrex
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I may have mentioned it earlier, but I read something about his first four games were actually an NBA record for points scored. As crazy as that sounds.
The traditional thinking is that, since basketball is a relatively uncomplicated game where success is primarily driven by skill and athleticism, it is unlikely that the guy is a fluke that will fall back down to earth.
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"...maybe if you cleaned the piss out of the sunny d bottles under your desks and returned em, you could upgrade you vid cards, fucken lusers.." - Grunk
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ghost
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In his first 7 starts (past 7 games), he's averaging 24.4 ppg, 9.1 apg and 1.6 spg. He was also undrafted. There aren't many any players that have started that well.
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Cyrrex
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Yeah, that really is the thing. His numbers are quite incredible, and that is before you consider the fact that he was undrafted. This is not your average feel-good story, it is actually quite unprecedented. More important, he has been the catalyst that has led them to winning 7 of the 8 games he has played.
His turnover numbers are way too high, but they can probably work on that. Besides, it hasn't seemed to matter a whole lot.
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"...maybe if you cleaned the piss out of the sunny d bottles under your desks and returned em, you could upgrade you vid cards, fucken lusers.." - Grunk
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ghost
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Lin is providing something that Mark D'Antoni's teams need to work- energy. It will be interesting to see how marginalized Melo becomes with this setup. We have seen that Stoudemire can work very well within D'Antoni's scheme. I'm not sure that Melo can do it.
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Paelos
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Danica Patrick is a terrible driver and I wish she would go away.
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ghost
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I agree. She's not even hot.
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There are about 30 drivers that are terrible - who cares if they have a penis?
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Paelos
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There are about 30 drivers that are terrible - who cares if they have a penis?
Because they don't get shoved down our throats and plastered on modelling contracts. When you are terrible, you're supposed to get no coverage. Exception: Tebow!
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Zetleft
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There are about 30 drivers that are terrible - who cares if they have a penis?
Because they don't get shoved down our throats and plastered on modelling contracts. When you are terrible, you're supposed to get no coverage. Exception: Tebow! Don't forget kournikova, I don't care that she never won I always appreciated her highlights.
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Paelos
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So apparantely Danica won the pole position in the Nationwide, prompting many statements about how she's the first woman to ever grab the pole. I have many chuckles.
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DANICA INTO DA WALL
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