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There really shouldn't be a rep system to begin with, because it's not being used correctly. For the same reason people would give positive rep to a funny post, someone would give a negative rep to a topic they don't like. For instance, that LeBron mock commercial...if Lkr were to post it (being a Lakers fan), there would be negative reps from the Heat fans here. He would get it just for posting the video. Same with a post dealing with religion or politics. Anyone could write up a very well-written post defending God (or not), or against Obama (or for), and it would be hit with negative reps by those who just don't agree with it, which would be half the site. In addition to that...seeing who gives you the positives means you'll be able to see who gives you those negatives. I can't code in something that does one and not the other in this system. I don't need to explain why that's a bad thing. Ask the RSZ members how groans work over there. You can go into some topics and see people "groaning" others' posts for no reason at all, only because they have done the same to others...and it got out of hand QUICKLY. This is a bad, bad thing to implement into the board. I would honest rather just drop the word filter if we're going to make any change at all.

no, it takes away from discussion. people don't care for explaining to someone why they're wrong, they just give them a neg rep and move on to the next topic.

Since I haven't rode Jordan's dick in a few months, I thought I'd share these jaw-dropping stats with ya'll.... Jordan vs. Boston, 1986 Playoffs - 43.7 ppg 6.3 rpg 5.7 apg 2.3 spg 1.3 bpg 51% FG Jordan vs. Cavs, 1988 Playoffs - 45.2 ppg 5.4 rpg 4.8 apg 2+ spg 1+ bpg 56% FG Jordan vs. Cavs, 1989 Playoffs - 40.0 ppg 5.8 rpg 8.2 apg 2+ spg 1 bpg 53% FG Jordan vs. Philly, 1990 Playoffs - 43.0 ppg 6.6 rpg 7.4 apg 3 spg 1+ bpg 55+% FG Jordan vs. Miami, 1992 Playoffs - 45.0 ppg 9.7 rpg 6.7 apg 3 spg1 bpg 61% FG Jordan vs. Phoenix, 1993 NBA Finals - 41.0 ppg 8.5 rpg 6.3 apg 2 spg 1 bpg 51% FG G.O.A.T

That's a very, very flawed arguement. Williams has played in far many more playoff games than Paul, so to use one example is kind of silly. In the regular season Paul's clutch stats (according to 82games.com) have been FAR better than Williams each of the last 3 seasons, and through 2009 he had 2 more GW shots on 3% better shooting in those situations, and the same amount of assists and turnovers in those situations. Paul can also do it off dribble penetration extremely well, better than Williams. And without a doubt Paul is a better PnR player than Williams, which is a vital play for any offense. As for teams stopping Paul's bread and butter PnR play, let's look at what he's done against arguably the best PnR defense of the last decade, the Boston Celtics. Last season, in 1 game, Paul averaged 22/8/3 on 69% shooting against them. In 08-09, in 2 games, he averaged 17/10/4 on 36% shooting. In 07-08, in 2 games, he averaged 21/9/5 on 50% shooting against them. So, in the last 3 seasons, that's 19.6PPG/9.1APG (11 TO's through 5 games, so only 2.5 TO's per game) on 47.0% shooting (about Williams' usual averages) against a team tailor-made to stop Paul's greatest offensive strength. Not too shabby. What about the way Derek Fisher's physicality completely threw off Williams' game last post-season, forcing him into sub-40% shooting for the series and not a single game of double digit assists? And Williams has never had a post-season as good as Paul's 2008 campaign, where he averaged 24/11/5 with less than 2 TO's per game, and where he pushed the defending champs to 7 games with a less talented supporting cast than Williams has routinely had. Bingo. Until Paul is given teammates that aren't best suited to have Paul create their offense, I think it's foolish to use what the Jazz as a team (who have been much more talented) have done over what the Hornets have done. But in strict head-to-head analysis, Paul can score more on better efficiency from the field/3pt/FT line, rack up more assists with less turnovers, rebounds better, is at least very close to (at worst) as good a defender as Williams, is IMO a better clutch player and on-court floor general. I just don't see the arguement for Williams being better.

Or if only Ish could score like Brooks. Either way I would be happy.

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Can you say why it's so great lmao? Besides raising a family lol.

Jordan's performance in the 1996 NBA finals: 27 PPG 41% FG 5.3 RB 4.2 AS Game 6: 5-19, 26% FG, 9 RB – Finals MVP Kobe's 2010 Finals: 29 PPG 41% FG, 32% 3pt FG 8 RB 3.9 AS Game 7: 6-24, 25% FG, 15 RB -- Finals MVP Keep in mind that Jordan was being guarded by Gary Payton in the 1996 Finals, who is only the best defensive guard of the 90s OTHER than Jordan. I know, Bryant went up against a great defensive team, but here's one difference. Those were by far Jordans worst playoffs of his career. For the most part, these were on par or above average numbers for Kobe. That's a BIG difference.

This is also the same guy who said he didn't know there were any black people in London. (Link) Derrick Mason's comments were great.

Hey Htown, Ginobili wanted me to tell you " Go F*** yourself"

To be honest, I've seen enough of Kolb to know he won't lead that team to a Super Bowl, so you might as well win as many games as possible. Is it a reach to think that Vick can lead the Eagles out of the wildcard game (assuming they play it)? If we're talking a seven-game series, probably so...but this is much different. Question: after beating Atlanta (granted it was with Kolb), what indication do you have that the Eagles can't find their way into the NFC championship game? They may not be the favorites to get there, but look who was at the beginning of the season, and how it didn't take much to change that. I think that, if Kolb isn't showing the potential to be as great as one of the previous SB champs (Brees, Ben, the Mannings, Brady), and if your team can get into the playoffs, you focus on winning. Vick is playing like an MVP candidate. In fact, he's throwing the ball better than he ever has in his career, BY FAR, and he can still give you 50-60 yards a game on the ground, which is what he was doing back in the early 2000s with Atlanta. That particular player is scary with the ball in his hands. Throw Manning and Brady out of the question, and suddenly, it's hard to argue against Vick as being the deadliest weapon at QB in the league. I don't see why anyone would want to play Kolb at this point. Not when Vick is doing better than he ever did when he was in his prime. Yeah, you made a mistake by paying him and dropping Donovan, but sometimes, you have to accept your mistakes and move on, not live off of them and hoping they correct themselves.

Thats cause you know you would get nothing but negs

That's crazy. First off, it also includes 3pt shooting, where CP3 for the last 5 seasons has been anywhere between 36-41% (40%+ the last 2). Secondly, FT shooting is very important, and for guys that get to the line 6-8x per game like Paul/Magic do/did, it is certainly a factor. To be fair, though, for their career's Paul and Magic have identical FT shooting percentages, but Paul's FT shooting was much better in 08-09 than the two seasons you brought up for Magic.

Blake Griffin Eric Gordon Terrence Williams Wesley Johnson And Fish..Gordon wasn't in the contest last year..only the dunk-off. Gerald Wallace was in the contest.

It amazes me how you are still missing the point of why Kolb should be the QB instead of Vick. I think it's been drilled into your head thousands of times by Phightins yet you still don't understand. Let me explain it fully for you one last time so we don't have hear the Vick vs Kolb debate anymore. The eagles plan this year was go with youth. So they let Sheldon Brown walk and they trade McNabb and aquried as many picks as they could to build one of the youngest rosters in football. They did this, so in 3-4 yeas the Eagles will be competing for a superbowl again. Now with Vick here, they aren't competing for the superbowl, they are a play off contender sure, but they are nothing more than a wild card team living on a dream. Which is what they were last year. If they wanted to be the same team as last year they could have kept McNabb, instead they decided to let Kolb their 2nd round draft pick not to long ago, 36th overall, build chemistry with the young core of players. So in 3-4 years when Jackson Maclin Celek McCoy and Kolb know each other like the brothers they can be a power house. Now instead with Vick, you are prolonging the sense of mediocrity while at the same time offering killing your future with Kolb. Unless you really expect Vick to be same QB at 34-35. That is why Kolb is the answer to this team. Yes Vick has been incredible and if he played the whole year he would actually be an MVP candidate, but the Eagles simply do not have the pieces on their team to win a super bowl right now. Their defense is way too young and inexperienced, and their line is in need of a bit of patching up. However sacrificing these couple years let the defense grow and come into it's own and sure up the line was the plan when they traded McNabb. So they made a plan, and went back on it, it's quite laughable to me as a Cowboys fan, although we are the laughing stock of the NFL.

The debate is ridiculous, and I'm not going to have anyone drag me into this mess for some other reason. 18.6 PPG on .537 FG, 9.6 RPG, 9.5 APG, 2.7 SPG 17.6 PPG on .565 FG, 7.3 RPG, 13.1 APG, 2.2 SPG Give me ONE CP3 season that even comes close to those two by Magic's, and you'll have a reason to talk. Paul has never shot that well, never averaged that many assists, matched that many steals (barely exceeded it with 2.8), never even came CLOSE to that many rebounds...is this a joke? And those are just two seasons. I'm sure there are more that Magic has racked up that CP3 doesn't touch.

PER has a pretty severe bias of volume over efficiency (as I keep finding out in this fantasy league I'm in that uses PER as the stat). It's far from a foolproof baseline. Deron Williams has gotten off to a slow start this season, but the Jazz flow has been muddled by so many new faces, and Sloan's offense is all about continuity. I wish Williams played in a pure high screen/roll system so his numbers would be extraordinarily high at the expense of a relatively (compared to Utah's hyper-flex) simplistic and easier to stop offense. Or if Paul played in a more nuanced system where he actually had to give the ball up. Paul keeps proving that he's better than Nash (they run similar bases), but I'm not jumping off the Williams bandwagon. He's been commanding an extremely efficient offense at a very high level his entire career, and he's become one of the best defensive point guards in the league, especially against opposing two-guards.

No, it's fact. Charles Darwinwasn't sitting in his room when he up and decided that we're descendent from something else. No, he did decades of research as a geologist to gain information. He wasn't another Marx or Engels trying to make the world better with different social theories. Everything Darwin wrote, and even everything his predecessors wrote (there's a publication written in 1844 which deals with evolution, the authors name has unfortunately slipped my mind atm) was based on decades of research. Claiming that it's just another theory kind of implies that you don't really know much about evolution and its methods of research. No it doesn't, it just creates a whole bunch of complications. There isn't another religion in the world that has as much disagreement as Christianity. For 1700 years, Christianity has been concerned with the trinity and its definition and meaning to Christians even though it wasn't even in the Bible to begin with. And what abuot the noted corruption of the Church all through history? There are of course others, but these are the first one that came to mind. How does this sort of indecisiveness and contradictions to the Bible shown everywhere in so-called higher criticsm answer any sort of philosophical question? If you want to point to Revelations and its moral implications, there's really not another religion in the world that doesn't do the same thing, so why would Christianity be the correct one?

If getting the MVP is about being the best player in the NBA, CP3 has yet to deserve one.

So, there's this guy named Magic Johnson... You may have heard of him... http://i55.tinypic.com/15rh5hc.jpg

I REALLY hate Manu right now.

LMAO joke post I hope. Otherwise, you are just as clueless about football(especially the college games) as your posts indicate

The one bright spot - this kid will be the best WR in 2012 http://www3.pictures.zimbio.com/gi/Dez+Bryant+Miami+Dolphins+v+Dallas+Cowboys+vv0yixyRvTzl.jpg

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Yeah...seriously, Darth Childress is a joke. I'm happy to see he finally invested in a next-gen headset instead of his ps1 online headset. http://www.everyjoe.com/emqb/files/2009/11/20091011_zaf_cs5_026-Brad-Childress.jpg

First 20+ lead of the season.

I deserve some kind of award for NE/CLE

What's up with you Pats fans and bringing up teams that have nothing to do with the situation? Randy Moss didn't work out on the Vikings because they suck. He was fine for the Patroits, and no, you can't lose to the Browns and call yourself the best team in football sorry, you kind of forfeit that right, especially when you get blown out.

Good thing they dealt Moss, geniuses.

whooping dat [expletive]