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Someone translate this geek talk into English

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You've been the coolest kid on the site for a while now

Wow Kobe just wants to be like Jordan doesnt he, Jordan had a missed up finger late in his playing career and Kobe intentionally injured it to be like Jordan, Kobe needs to be original.

Work at a sneaker store here in Miami and yeah my dad bought me a car but I don't see what that has to do with anything?

Where do you work? Didn't your parents just buy you a car?

haha so true

Slaven wanted me to post this because he is so jealous: http://www.xgcdb.com/pub/gc/xfx_radeon_hd_5850_hd-585a-znfc.jpg Am i the coolest kid on the site now?

[backseatmod] Stop these flame wars[/backseatmod]

It don't matter if he's sensitive. There's no need to be an a-hole in the first place..

Also LMAO at being called Hitler. Your pathetic bro.

http://www-uxsup.csx.cam.ac.uk/~fanf2/hermes/doc/talks/2004-02-ukuug/crybaby.png

Ghana is going to have ALL of Africa on it's side so don't underestimate them too much.

Just got word that Rivers is more than likely retiring. If Ray Ray is gone, and Rivers is out...I have this gut feeling Pierce strongly considers going to the Clips.

Pffttt.... Those teams got nothin on: DeRozan, Weems, Davis, Alabi The Summer League Championshiop won't be the only championship this group hoists. Oh yeah, don't forget about this guy: http://www.otrbasketball.com/forums/uploads/av-125.gif

You're a moron.

I have security alarms installed on my computer, so if any fingerprints other than mine were to touch the keyboard, the entire system shuts down, the cops are called, and OTR automatically changes my password.

Thought we're in the FIFA World Cup section. Talk about being waaay off-topic. EDIT: Why did you delete your post, Paul?

I'm going to just quote your actual "points" and then sum up the other stuff in the end. Who do you think the 3 most knowledgable basketball people are on here besides me? Blasco? Real Deal? Even though you'll just dismiss them as ignorant as well, let's take a look at what they said... Blasco didn't say that because you gave a half-hearted effort in your post, as neither of our points have changed since that post. He said that because I keep refuting your points, and you have no answer but to say I'm ignorant. I said this before, and I'll say it again- Using worst case scenario injruies is pointless. Talking about injuries that happen once every maybe dozen or more games in a soccer team's schedule has NO BEARING ON ANY OF MY POINTS. The more relevant point to this topic which I made is the consistency of the physicality. That's the one thing you have not refuted once and has a huge impact on this topic. This doesn't happen during some in-bounds plays/jump-balls in the NBA? When players are called for defensive/offensive fouls fighting in the post? Did you watch Fisher/Allen pushing and shoving almost every single Celtics possession in the Finals? C'mon... And again, there are only so many corner/free kicks in a game in soccer. Let's say for kicks that soccer players get more physical in those situations of the game than NBA players ever do...that's still only a few minutes worth (if that) of physicality in a 90min game in off-ball situations. In the NBA there's a sustained physical element the ENTIRE GAME, especially in off-ball situations. In soccer, there isn't. Major difference that is completely relevant to the flopping situations and how refs control it. Apples and oranges. And honest to god that is fine...but you can't say, "The NBA should do this because FIFA does that, or FIFA should do this because the NBA does that." Apples and oranges. I mentioned in one line in my first post that it's the hardest to ref because there is so much going on every single possession, basically to show that refs should not get so much of the blame for the flopping. And I only said to stop comparing NBA to soccer because you analyzed my first post, which was strictly devoted to the NBA's issue with flopping, and compared certain aspects to FIFA. I refuted your points, didn't just say, "STOP COMPARING THE NBA TO SOCCER!" If I didn't refute your points, Blasco wouldn't have said that directly after that post. Once again, you're not getting the point. When did I ever say stars in soccer don't get fouled? I said that it doesn't happen nearly as often as in the NBA, and the rewards for getting fouled are so much different. Most star players in the NBA have the ball in their hands most of the time they are in the game, and they usually get fouled on 4-5 shot attempts per game, not including all the non-shooting fouls. They get directly rewarded with points when they get fouled on those shot attempts, and those non-shooting fouls can put a team in the penalty which once again directly awards his team with points. You can fill in how star players in soccer are affected by fouls and see just how different the sports are and why they shouldn't be compared. The ability to give "superstar" calls that affect the game is vastly different. That's my point. Not that soccer stars don't get fouled. Show me how a referee in soccer could directly affect a superstar's impact on the game with fouls nearly as much as they do in the NBA, and then you finally can make an arguement. I used a random game. I could go through all the box scores of the entire World Cup and the fouls are always going to be roughly between 10-30 per game. That's in 90min (and more) of game-time. In the NBA it's usually between 30-50 per game, and that's in roughly half the game-time. Why is that relevent? It's not to diss soccer, or necessarily even to say NBA is more physical...if you want to call soccer more physical, fine, that doesn't even affect my point. The point is that because refs have to call so many more fouls in the NBA game per minute, there is a lot more to referee regarding physicality and foul calls. When you mix in all the other penalties NBA refs have to enforce each and every possession, it makes judging what is and isn't a flop on the spot that much harder. In other words? Apples and oranges, once again. Do NBA refs have to enforce any rules besides in the 48min of gameplay? No. Making what you just said completely irrelevant. As for the rest of your post...PROVE TO ME WHY MY POINTS ARE INVALID! Instead of just saying I'm ignorant, actually refute my points. You haven't done that the entire thread, and when you have tried you took a stance that's completely irrelvant to my point at hand. Read my posts more carefully, look at what I am actually arguing, take in my actual arguement, and then refute it. If you back me into a corner and the points I am making are completely irrelevant and unfounded, then you've won this debate.

I'm gonna say USA's B Team rapes everyone.

Two things: You ain't saying that I'm more favorable to black countries. You're tryinna make me look racist, and that certainly is staining my name, 'brah'. Get it right, once and for all -- I ain't rootin for African countries only: A'ight, man. Now if, for some strange reason, you consider The United States a 'black country' (WTH?! ), then -- Is New Zealand a 'black country'? http://www.otrbasketball.com/forums/public/style_extra/post_icons/icon14.gif I don't think so...

I DON'T root only for 'black countries', man. I think you're the one missing some points here - 2008 through 2010: SoccerPubs.com/boards/index.php?showtopic=25482&mode=threaded&pid=501894 Is USA a black country? You gotta stop tryinna stain my name, brah.

Dont know why soccer has so many haters, seems like most of them are North Americans. Sport is not about scoring, flopping or any of that other crap, its all about winning.