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Wouldn't surprise me, dude. A lot of those guys have the talent to play at that level. I remember the day we heard about Brandon Jacobs coming to play for us...we all went nuts. And in that first game, he looked like a giant among everyone else on the field.

Very true...and it's said that the big cities have a lack of firefighters, yet my city of 13k is lacking them, and so is the city 20 miles from me, and one 45 miles the opposite direction (I know this because I have a friend who is a firefighter).

Kobe and Tyreke are bricklayers tonight.

EDIT: Damn, you beat me to it.

Yeah, I thought they looked okay for a while, not a 45-win team by any means, but still... Then I saw the Chicago game, and I quickly changed my mind.

I have a problem with it, because Arenas should want to see as much time on the court as he can with John Wall. Developing chemistry is more important than putting Nick Young out on the floor, sorry to say it. Gilbert is going to have to change the way he plays, and it's best he starts doing that in the preseason, not in November. Not only will stuff like that hurt the team, but it will also slow down Wall's development as a top-tier point guard in the league. Arenas is not getting paid to coach the team...he's getting paid to play. If Flip wants him out there, then there's certainly a reason for it. He should've just played.

Tom still recognized Garnett as their defensive anchor last season. I'm not really sure why Perkins thinks he's the best defender on the team. I'm sure even the defensive stats will tell him otherwise. Argue this two years ago, when Garnett was injured, but not last year, and more than likely, not today.

Done. I'll take the girl that is decent looking and doesn't cheat, if we're talking relationship-wise. I've gotten with a hot girl that depended on her parents, didn't work, and I ended up spending all of my money on her, including food, shopping, and even a few of her bills. Never again.

There are benefits to gambling. You can actually win money, and you don't necessarily do damage to your body unless you're not eating (pretty extreme case I've never encountered). Drug addiction...you lose money, you ruin your life, you present problems to your family, and there's nothing good about it at all.

Drugs, by a landslide. I have an uncle that gambles, and another that is a cocaine addict, and they don't even compare.

You certainly missed the point of the post...had nothing to do with me helping, more about the experience. It relates to it because I had both family and friends, and people I know, who lost their homes and struggled to recover from it. I doubt anyone else in this topic (maybe one other, but that's unlikely) has felt something like that, so I don't expect you to know just how bad it can be for a person going through it. You can say you wouldn't help, but I would...and I didn't even have to think about it. If that's not being the normal person, I guess I don't want to fall into that category of people, simple as that.

Yeah, Blake is going to be crazy good. He's still athletic despite the knee surgery, and he's a smart player for his age. I would not be surprised to see him lead the league in rebounds in 2-3 years, either. He is an excellent rebounder, and the way he boxes out, it's like he puts up four walls around him and grabs the board easily.

Funny that I have people poking inside of my brain, able to drain out my thoughts and say what I would do in a situation like this. http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_yG2HbYQQYOw/RooIvwTesjI/AAAAAAAAARw/d8GfjV9coH8/s400/!0_2007_0702_Coffeyville-KS-Flood02.gif http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_blMH8OhgwZQ/RpLm6GnP3WI/AAAAAAAAAFE/Z9jlECVO4Lk/s400/Coffeyville+Flood+June+30+2007+147.jpg http://www.eham.net/data/articles/17220/KC8VWM_Coffeville1.jpg You can't even see half of those houses in those pictures, water clear over the roofs. That's my city, in 2007. Those people lost their homes due to the oil in the water, ruined 40% of our city. Every home and building had to be bulldozed, and one of those homes was my grandmother's place. I knew a LOT of people that lost their homes that day, and spent months trying to recover. My uncle lived in my garage for over two months, too embarrassed to sleep in the house and too desperate to live on the streets, losing his job AND his house because both were destroyed by the flood. One of my good friends watched their dog drown, from the tree they were in, while waiting to be rescued. Another uncle of mine was selling his FEMA supplies (soap, and other things) so he could buy food because he also lost his job. I volunteered to help pass out supplies for FEMA, and to log names of those in need of support and needing to contact their families, and it was a sad, depressing MESS, especially when a kid walks up asking if we had shelters for missing/found dogs and cats. Animals and homes, memories and money...all lost. Same thing with this fire, and what it did to the family...they lost their home, four pets, memories and will be spending money to climb out of the hole they are in. So, no, don't tell me I wouldn't save that home. You have absolutely no reason to speak for me. After the unfortunate events I've been through that go far beyond a flood, I make sure people around me are in good shape before I think about myself.

Yeah, I guess it's not too similar to Gilchrist, because he was an incredible PG in college, ranked right up there with Paul, Deron and Felton by some analysts. I'd like to believe Caracter's problem in college was really his attitude, though. I remember hearing stories about how he practiced (or...didn't practice), and how he would drag his feet working out with the rest of the team. That will hurt your transition from high school to college, and in his case, it almost ruined his potential career as a pro. Crazy that you played a scrimmage with him in middle school. I heard he was raising eyebrows then, too.

LOL, not so sure if I'll be the one doing that. My iPhone doesn't record vids. I'm sure someone will do it, though. I used to have a link of some guy's YT that had clips uploaded every week. He would go to every game and just sit there and record it, home and road...but that was a couple of years back.

Rest of the rankings: http://www.njcaa.org/sports_polls.cfm?sid=11&slid=5&category=polls First three, same state (Kansas), same region. How many times does this happen? :o Already got my tickets to the Coffeyville/Butler game this Saturday, too. Gonna be nasty. EDIT: Haha, we're on the banner. http://www.njcaa.org/images/themes/Fall/bkgrd_header_990w201h_new.jpg

It's too bad my dude Sherron Collins is shooting 4-21 and looking like complete trash in his first three preseason games.

Well, if it was racist, you and I would be against anyone coming into our country.

Looks stupid. Should be all black, if he's going to get a tat on his neck.

Good for Oklahoma. It should be English. Three years ago, when I got my job with an oil refinery, I had to sit through a two-hour long test. I was one of the last people to grab a seat, and I got one right next to a translator and the illegal trying to get a job. He was illegal because he didn't understand, through speech or reading, a single word of English. The translator read every single question to him in Spanish, and he answered it. All in my ear, the entire two hours. Ironically, it was another who caused a reactor to blow up a few weeks ago because he didn't understand specific directions. If you know anything about oil refineries, you know they are the most dangerous places in the world. Had that reactor blew up near one of the many oil tanks, the entire refinery would've blew, and it takes our entire town with it, plus 10-15 miles in all directions outside of city limits (everything within 10 miles of the refinery literally melts, damage outside of that caused by the explosion). From just that one reactor blowing in the ammonia plant, it caused a boom that rattled windows 10 miles away...had people running out of the school across the street from me, looking east and praying it wasn't the Coop (that's what the refinery is called). Come to the US, learn English. Have your papers. Get a driver's license and a social security number. The people born in this country have to. It's bad enough that big-name factories and companies are hiring illegals to work for minimum wage (and sometimes less) just because they are twice as cheap, and they do it because they split rent and utilities with five others in the same house. Pretty ridiculous.

They don't seem to be looking that bad, really...but when I'm watching them (I saw the entire Boston-Toronto game), I just don't know how they are going to score enough points to win regular season games. As mentioned in the other topic, I think Bargnani will need to play a lot of power forward, more than center, for the team to be successful. However, in a game against Chicago, against Joakim Noah, I don't see him at the five as much of a problem.

By the way Smith put the five, it sounds like Evans will start at center. Typically, when you speak of lineups, you tend to put them in order. C - Evans PF - Bargs SF - Kleiza SG - DeRozan PG - Calderon And that would make sense, too, because there are plenty of power forwards in the league that Bargnani CAN defend, and you don't want him down in the post trying to out-muscle someone like Howard, Bynum, Yao or even Perkins. Wasn't Evans defending Shaq in that game against Boston? And I'm pretty sure I saw him on Lopez, and Bargnani on Hedo.

Zero interceptions so far...when will he throw his first pick? WK6: @ Denver WK7: Bye WK8: vs. Green Bay WK9: @ Detroit WK10: @ Cleveland WK11: vs. Houston WK12: vs. Cincinnati WK13: @ New England WK14: vs. Miami WK15: @ Pittsburgh WK16: @ Chicago WK17: vs. Buffalo

Fact: no team starting 0-5 has ever made the playoffs. Will they get in? Current standings... NFC WEST Cardinals: 3-2 Seahawks: 2-2 Rams: 2-3 49ers: 0-5

Fesenko was playing like a top center in the league. Sucks not seeing Oden out there for the Blazers, though.