Forum Replies Created
-
Posts
-
My money is on Donald making this all about freedom of speech and the fact that no private party can force another party to sell what legally belongs to them. I also bet that lifetime ban will go away under a restraint in trade law suit. When Donald bought the team my guess is there were no “provisions” that would preclude him making remarks that “may” be detrimental to the league or the franchise. With that in mind unless he agreed to abide IN WRITING to any provisions that the league sought to bring into their rules after the fact of him assuming ownership then the NBA had better stand by, they will lose on constitutional grounds.
Smarter than the average bear
HAD NO FREAKING CLUE on lots of them and by just guessing I wound up in #7 Violence…. hmmm some poetic justice perhaps? Yep, could be. Let’s see, I got my CCW permit this year, for my 60th birthday in Feb. bought myself a Glock 17 WITH 3 magazines and glow in the dark sights and a ghost trigger (ultra fast shooting). For Christmas got an AR 15 with laser sight, reflex sight, and scope. Stop, drop and roll… jump up and kick some a$$. Let’s go boys, bring it on! LOL.
Smarter than the average bear
No way Arizona St. ever got their monies worth. How long has HWSNBN been there and he’s only made the dance once??? Oh wait, he did get there in 09. His conference record is 64-80 during his tenure. Impressive wouldn’t you say?
Smarter than the average bear
I say the coaches need to start whacking poor reffing in the post game and refuse to pay the fines. AND sue if the NCAA cannot PROVE what they say in the news conference is true.
Smarter than the average bear
What gets me is one moment it requires almost murder to get a foul called, then the next it’s a touch.
Smarter than the average bear
Tau, my gripe had much less to do with in game coaching as much as preparation. The staff should have seen from the UNX game that we were atrocious at handling pressure. It’s what lost that game and it’s what cost us in the NCAAT. We turned the ball over and looked foolish. The announcers lamented at how poorly we handled it and they were dead on. The turnovers on pressure killed us just as badly as the missed free throws. Plus it wound up being a mental thing that overwhelmed the kids. It looked as if we had never practiced breaking pressure. And that is on Gott and staff. If he didn’t recognize we needed to fix that after the UNX game then someone who works for him sure should have!
Smarter than the average bear
In all of the discussions/lamentations I didn’t hear one person ask for Gott’s head on a stick. Not one. That being said 84PackFan hit the nail on the head. Sorry DrWuffette1day, sometimes it’s all about coaching, and this particular loss it was. One other thing that hit me in what 84 said was just how big a collapse this was. I didn’t have the numbers but my feelings told me it was a dumpster fire and the coaching staff did nothing (my perception) to fix it. Remember, perception overrides truth every day of the week. Everything you said may well be truth DrWuffette1day but the perception of some of us is the staff lost this game. I saw the same thing happen when we played UNX. Did we get robbed by the refs? Yep, but the perception was we couldn’t handle the pressure. I’d be willing to bet 100 dollars to a doughnut the St. Louis coaches saw that on film and said “if we are behind this is our most favorable path to victory”. The problem is they were right. The coaching staff did NOT fix that letdown. Say what you want but St. Louis won with pressure, simply because we had no answer for it. And the reason we had no answer was because the coaches did not recognize this as a glaring weakness. The biggest rule of war is expose and exploit the weaknesses of your enemy and that’s exactly what they did, AND THE LEADERS (COACHES) ALLOWED THEM TO DO IT. Gott REALLY needs to learn from this. PERIOD. Breaking pressure is FUNDAMENTAL!
Smarter than the average bear
I guess the folks who don’t want to blame the coaching staff didn’t see the fact that this team COULD NOT play against pressure. At times they looked lost and at other times they just plain lost the ball. THAT IS COACHING, plain and simple. it’s not like they don’t have the athletic ability they just looked stupified by the pressure. That game was lost by the staff.
Smarter than the average bear
Kids make mistakes, they had a bad night shooting free throws, BUT ultimately they turned the ball over way too many times due to PRESSURE, and THAT is coachable, BUT someone has to actually coach them on it. Say what you want, this was a coaching loss.
Smarter than the average bear
It is on the staff, they were horrendous in breaking the press. It was like they had never even practiced it. And that very thing is what lost the UNX game. Plain and simple the staff blew it.
Smarter than the average bear
GOTT lost this game. They didn’t teach them how to break pressure. This is all on the staff!!!!
Smarter than the average bear
Oh yeah one other thing. Granted he played more games than Thompson did but breaking that single season record is BIG no matter how you look at it!
Smarter than the average bear
Was thinking when he was putting up those 40+ games that everyone on the team must be wearing 24. It sure seemed that way.
Smarter than the average bear
Tyler was a monster. isn’t it funny how just two months ago the discussion was about him leaving the program. I guess he got his head on straight and dug in because he has been playing REALLY good ball lately. The feed to Vandy was unreal and TIMELY. In lots of ways he reminds me of Towe, but much better in lots of ways because he is an unreal passer.
Smarter than the average bear
Thompson had at least two things TJ doesn’t, Burleson and Towe, plus some other supporting cast, but without those two we don’t win that championship in 74. That being said I think if TJ came back and had another year like this one then he’d maybe pass KC. Carr was a beast though and only Dean’s whining and crying made the writers pass him by. Matter of fact Dean hardly played him in the Olympics and that still pisses me off.
Smarter than the average bear
Watching womens hockey. Those gals are GOOD! Kessel, the guy who scored the hat trick yesterday, has a sister on the womens team and she’s pretty good too! Looks like the women are on their way to the gold medal game. They can do no worst than silver.
Smarter than the average bear
Ply, you’d have an insurrection on your hands if you tried to remove curling. I could do without ice dancing, never been into any of the ice skating. As other great olympic sports how about badminton and ping pong? There’s a few other in the summer games that could go.
Smarter than the average bear
As for Curling USA has s****d this time around. When I was living in upstate NY back in the late 80s the wife and I drove by the Schenectady curling club. She wanted to know what a curling club was. I proceeded to explain how curling is played and she swore I was feeding her a line of BS. Had to look it up in the encyclopedia when we got home to show her (no internet back then). She still didn’t believe it until I showed her during the winter Olympics. Men’s hockey is on a roll though, they can sit until the quarters start on Wed. Great overtime win against the Ruskkies.
Smarter than the average bear
Strom rolling over in his grave
Now THAT is funny and brings up a valid question… Is Strom really dead? I mean the man WAS 96 and still in the senate and actually had some waking moments even at that age.
Smarter than the average bear
That’s one thing nice about a solar farm, it’s your land, solar poses no problems from an environmental aspect, and the permitting is easy. I’m looking at 6 to 8 K a year in return above my electrical consumption.
Smarter than the average bear
Actually Pak I’m in the process of having a solar farm set up on my property (I have quite a few acres). Looks like i can have my electricity for free AND actually make some bucks.
Smarter than the average bear
Bill that plant has always belonged to Duke Power.
Here’s a link to view the map.Smarter than the average bear
