Real Deal

I had him as fourth in my list back in March: http://www.otrbasketball.com/forums/topic/9951-nbas-fab-five-point-guards And I'll keep him there, at fourth, although he's closing in on Nash just a bit. Still have to say Nash at three, though. And it's not really fair to bring this up a year after we all discussed it. At that time, Harris was probably the better overall point guard. This season, he wasn't. Rondo improved significantly since then.

Timeline... Kobe, Game 4 vs. Thunder: 5-10 (50% FG), 12 PTS Kobe, Game 5 vs. Thunder: 4-9 (44% FG), 13 PTS Barkley, after LAL/OKC Game 5: "Kobe's 30-point days are long gone." Kobe, Game 6 vs. Thunder: 12-25 (48% FG), 32 PTS Kobe, Game 1 vs. Jazz: 12-19 (63% FG), 31 PTS Kobe, Game 2 vs. Jazz: 10-22 (46% FG), 30 PTS Kobe, Game 3 vs. Jazz: 13-24 (54% FG), 35 PTS Kobe, Game 4 vs. Jazz: 11-23 (48% FG), 32 PTS Did Charles just make a mistake by saying it, or does Kobe even care?

How is your aunt 20 AND 23?

I'm not sure if he was actually expected to step up. I think that would've been Beasley more than O'Neal.

No-show Joe! (looks at Cobb)

Hope the old design, and a new banner, is good enough for now.

Yep, very obvious when a 50-year old man tries to make a fastbreak layup on a young, athletic kid.

Leaving town for good, actually, haha...moving. Well, moving half of my stuff tomorrow, grabbing bits and pieces of it for the next month, until the lease runs out. Cable will be shut off tomorrow, though, and I'll be tied up for the next 3-4 days, so I'll try to get a halfway-decent skin up very, very soon.

Fisher is amazingly stupid...just got destroyed by Miles on that block. Wow.

Edited poll.

...and Fisher has some of the worst defense I've ever seen.

Kobe hits some amazing shots.

Baseball and football divisional forums? Enough activity for hockey divisionals? Voice your opinion.

Gotta try and get a skin up soon, guys. Sorry for not having it available when I re-opened the site, but I think having the board up and running was a bit more important, skin or no skin. I'll do what I can before I leave town tomorrow.

Nothing wrong with CTS, guys. AboveLegit does a great job over there. Let's just keep this OTR, please. EDIT: Hey, cool emoticon.

Part of it was because I was irate, the other part was because the site was already going nuts from the playoffs. That was 2006, when the Suns/Lakers series was a MONSTER to admin through...and every series had baiting in it, big time. A few of us remember the Suns/Lakers, haha.

That's not really my problem. I didn't merge with them. AboveLegit seems to understand the situation. That's all that matters. I don't even know who that one guy is, the one that has a problem with it. He wasn't in these chats, he didn't even post here, so it's nothing he should be concerned with...haha. As far as me closing OTR down, I've closed it down twice...once after the Heat won the championship, once a few days ago. I closed it down once, on purpose, to catch our hacker (you guys remember that). Other than that...never did. Gotta get those facts straight.

Some have an idea, but I can't really point fingers until it's 100% certain. I have mixed emotions...we've done a few things to try and catch him screwing up, slipping, etc...but nothing. You missed out on some interesting chats.

I expect a lot of people to come back, because I've already talked with almost all of them...and we've been in the same chats with the guy causing all of the problems. Some of us have been up until 2 or 3 in the morning, talking with him in those chats. But, again, doesn't matter to me, either way. I won't beg anyone to come back. I found a new way to recruit through Twitter, and to get some of our 40+ guests to register when our new topics are posted, so for the members that don't want to return, we'll do our best to cover for them. Simple as that, really...so no hard feelings.

Gotta read the first post to understand how it happened. I think people were listening to others WAY too much hours after the board was closed down. However, I'm not going to worry about it this time around. If you post less, or don't post at all, that's perfectly fine. We'll move on.

It was going to stay closed down, until I found out ONE person was responsible for turning me against everyone (and now he's trying to turn the members against each other, some know what I'm talking about). But that will die down. One guy isn't going to get what he wants. He outsmarted me...good for him, but his "success" (if that's what you want to call it) is short-lived.

All avatars and profile photos are deleted...didn't have those recovered, just the database. And I'll design a skin soon. I need a break. :\

This was posted while the board was down, just in case you missed it. A lot of us were dealing with this person over the last 2-3 days, so there doesn't need to be much said about it. Let's continue what we've been doing for five years, guys, and leave the outsiders looking in.

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