Real Deal

...how the hell does Carmelo have 22 boards? Phoenix is truly too small on the glass.

Got em!

Haha.

Maybe for most fans, but I like our two-time champs as they are, and I can't stand LeBron James. I know you'll assume I'm just saying that, but I really don't want LeBron James on our team. I'd rather have Wade, Durant, Howard, CP3, Rose, Williams, Griffin, or Wall, guys that won't make my fanbase any cockier than they already are, and guys that are more likely to stick to their word and not wear "Check my $tats" shirts on the way out.

There's the mistake. Really, there's no reason to have medical marijuana because 75% of the people using it are just wanting to smoke. Might as well legalize it. It's not difficult to go into a doctor's office and get your prescription because you have severe and chronic back pain.

Hate the Eagles, but I love Vick. Dude is a beast.

I suppose whatever you'd like, as long as it's appropriate. Some will talk sports, music, their personal life, doesn't matter. You can scroll down near the bottom and see the old forum blogs, if you want examples.

If you guys have any problems, let me know in here...but give me some time to figure it out, also, haha. I'm new to the app. The old blog app was much, much different for us a few years ago.

No, not a forum set up for your blogs...but a real blog embedded into the forums, a blog application. http://www.otrbasketball.com/forums/blogs Everyone gets one blog, as long as they aren't a new member (the rookie group). All rookies are promoted to the "player" group after 30 posts...so, uh huh, 30 posts are required to access the blogs. Still working on the team forums and the front page, but I decided I'd give you guys a little something to keep busy with for a while. You guys deserve it, with the way you've been contributing lately.

Miami is already the team of the century, so they might as well give LeBron this award for the next five years. I don't see anything wrong with this at all.

Fisher had the flu that game.

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Sad, if that's the case...but I guess that makes sense. Still, it would be more difficult to get away with it today.

Okay, I'll talk about Houston. They seem to be better when Brooks isn't able to allow guards to drive past him all game long.

I definitely believe it to be true back in the 80s and 90s, but it would be much more difficult to get away with that today because there are way too many statistics to keep, and too many people pay attention. Imagine someone boosting Kevin Love's rebounding total to 33 in that last game of his. Guess what? ESPN ran a highlight showing all 31 of his boards, totaled at the bottom of the screen. What happens if they find out there weren't 33 boards? Someone gets fired. Plus, even shots made...pretty tough considering the sites that produce shot charts, and it seems like there are way too many fans that watch the game today. Even when Kobe was chasing that triple-double the other game, people knew exactly what his numbers were without looking at the box.

Someone needs to slap Cousins across his face.

Either that, or it will show in the loss column...and so far, both are the case.

I don't feel bad because his status messages have talked a lot of crap on the community, and then they end up getting deleted by me, OR he deletes them. At the end of the day, registering four times in three months isn't going to cut it, especially when that person is making topics asking to be banned and to make everyone here happy (which is basically another slap in the face at the community), then going ape-[expletive] in a few other topics for things that nobody should be freaking out about to begin with. No need for me to try so hard to keep him here if he's not going to put forth the effort to stay here with one account, and to stop bad-mouthing the site when he gets the chance to.

Chillax. Both of your teams aren't as good as the Raiiiiiidaz.

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It's the system for both players, really. You stick Amare in a pick and roll system, one that is ran by an elite point guard (yes, like Nash), and he becomes dangerous. Scola would be useless in that system, in that manner. Nash would have to turn him into a shooter. Luis is fortunate to have that Princeton offense somewhat implanted into the scheme of things, because it gives him options to play off of, and it makes a few of his teammates dangerous shooters. Less attention to Scola, who can maneuver his way to the rim, in a one-on-one setting, against someone like Amare, who plays zero defense.

By the way, just a couple of things... 1) That was your fourth account here. I deleted one, and I merged one with your STL account. This one is your fourth. No need for me to continue breaking my own guidelines just to give you chances to post here. 2) People were jumping all over you because of the way you were to them. You went into Delonte West mode when I said something about Michael Jordan. You were bothering a couple of posters about their baseball teams over in the sidebar, which led to them going hard at you about the Cardinals. You've made other posts I won't bother showing you that have had people upset...yet I still kept you here, even after you ASKED me to ban you on your other account. Don't try and make out of here like the victim. You spammed OTR as "TyTheSportsGuy" and should've been permanently banned for that. It's long overdue, really.

The Lakers game is over, so I'm not busy. Done.

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