Ken Berger of CBSSports.com reports that the league is working on anti-flopping policies: “The NBA is finalizing a new procedure to deal with flopping this coming season, with an off-court remedy expected to be in place before the start of the regular season. After meeting with their newly revamped competition committee two weeks ago in New York, the league anticipates that incidents of flopping will be adjudicated on a postgame basis with fines assessed for the offenses, a league spokesman said Thursday. “The procedures will likely involve a postgame review as opposed to calling it as an in-game infraction,” the league spokesman said in a statement to CBSSports.com and other outlets.”
Anthony Slater of NewsOK on Harden being a distraction: “As a Thunder fan, recent NBA history should scare you. Carmelo and the Nuggets became an everyday sideshow, then Dwight and the Magic made them look like a toned-down opening act. But Harden doesn’t possess the stature or personality of those two and the stable Thunder organization certainly can’t be compared to the mess in Orlando. So I don’t think it should become too much of an issue. Something to follow though.”
KD didn’t really give an answer for his top player in the league. Also, Kris Humphries and Blake Griffin look identical to me.
If it’s your kind of thing, NBA2K13 is getting rave reviews.
John Schuhmann of NBA.com: “The Miami Heat, Oklahoma City Thunder and San Antonio Spurs were the three best teams in the league last season. The Heat and Thunder met in The Finals, while the Spurs tied for the league’s best regular season record and fell to the Thunder after winning their first 10 playoff games. So it’s logical that Miami, OKC and San Antonio are three of the four teams that are returning more than 80 percent of last year’s minutes on this year’s roster.”
Chris Broussard on if LeBron has peaked: “But if James merely saved face, while he’ll still be recognized as a champion, it might be as one who fortunately — and barely — escaped universal ridicule with one magnificent tour de force that he was unable to maintain. Fair or not, some will say the LeBron James who put together spectacular individual seasons but failed to consistently win rings was the real LeBron James. They will say the LeBron James who wrecked Kevin Durant and the upstart Oklahoma City Thunder in the summer of 2012 was an aberration.”
http://www.dailythunder.com/2012/09/saturday-morning-cartoons-thunder-rising/
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@dynamictrio Thanks, Hasheem Thabeet :-P
NBA2k13 is realistic
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HR_TgpoI_vw
@OkcBaby seems like you stay up all night
Okay, I'm outta here. Glad y'all were still awake--except for Jooseppi who really was sleep-posting. Please don't critique my post quantity/quality in my absence. Good night!
@ThunderChick2010 See u later alligator
How about a bit of music? Here's what I've got on at the moment: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Tdu4uKSZ3M&feature=related
@ou_sas i'm planning on doing a thunder pregame music submission post closer to the season. be ready it will be all ignorant rap music.
@OBoymuzik Man, I'd love to see a DT fan album or something.... with favorite songs picked by certain fans. It'd be so random. FREE_COLE could pick Cole's song, EST could get Thabeets, of course TC'd get Serge's. We'd have Rap, country, Jazz, and rock and roll all mashed together. It'd be gloriously awesome.
@ou_sas @justin_mia @OBoymuzik Dare i say Daequan cook is hot n cold by katy perry?
@justin_mia @OBoymuzik I'd go with either Bad by Michael Jackson or Shoot to Thrill by AC/DC for Russ.
@ou_sas @OBoymuzik perkins can get slow motion, by blondie
@ou_sas @OBoymuzik Considering the offseason he'shad, James Harden should get "Why Does it Hurt when I Pee?" by Frank Zappa
@ou_sas @OBoymuzik
First thought for Serge's: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ml_JfFA0Vss
@OBoymuzik John Cage's 4'33"?
@ou_sas CP2 gets the hidden track
Wish Harden would sign already. Having trouble sleeping:)
@OkcBaby does maynor know you're cheating?
@OBoymuzik Iam not worried about that ;)
lightweights
Anyone still awake? Anyone? Anyone?
@ThunderChick2010 'two sleepwalkers talk to each other over internet'....sounds like a yahoo news headline
@action jack$on
Yeah, it's like I don't really have anything to say, but I want to see who might be awake to hear me not say anything. :)
@ou_sas @action jack$on
Brings back some memories . . . my son did this strange lurching worm-like thing to get where he wanted to go 'til nearly 10 months. Everyone says they grow fast. Everyone is right.
@ThunderChick2010 @action jack$on Close on all 3. He's closest on the crawling front, I think. He's had the front motion and the back motion down for a couple of weeks, he's been working on figuring it out at the same time lately. Then he has to pick his stomach up and... away he goes.
In the meantime, he just rolls where he wants to go. Which means keeping an eye open at all times.
@ou_sas @action jack$on
You haven't shared any baby_sas news in a while. Crawling? Sprouting teeth? Any first words?
@ThunderChick2010 @action jack$on You know, for whatever reason, I tend to be wired on Friday and Saturday nights. And yes, I'll be up at around 7 tomorrow for some reason or other. Liverpool's not playing, so if I'm not up right in time for kickoff, it's only a minor tragedy.
@ou_sas @action jack$on
I'm surprised you're not getting your beauty sleep. Don't you have to be sharp bright and early in the morning for your pre-arranged date to talk soccer/football?
@ThunderChick2010 @action jack$on Well, at this hour, it doesn't take much provocation for me to break out the puns.
@action jack$on @ThunderChick2010 Did you hear about the sleepwalker convention? It was a real snooze-fest.
@ou_sas @action jack$on
And that's bad. :)
@ThunderChick2010 I'm not.
@Jooseppi
I'm not either.
@ThunderChick2010 @Jooseppi Nor I.
Just got NBA 2k13 and James Harden is 81 overall. *takes out the disc*, * frisbees the disc out the window*. That is it folks.
@Remify no wonder harden felt sluggish
@Remify His beard is an unlockable character worth 99.
@ou_sas Its bs though.. Kevin Martin is the same rating.. now go and compare their seasons last year.
@Jooseppi @action jack$on nah, this was a while ago (at the beginning of last year I believe), so his opinion (or stats) may have changed, but he definitely had a list of players he would take over westbrook. maybe this was during westbrook's slump at the beginning of last year. could explain things.
and yeah, of course ryan anderson is a very good player.
@action jack$on I have a feeling you may be misunderstanding something Crow said (I didn't see the exact convo so I don't know), but in defense of Ryan Anderson, he does two very important things well: offensive rebounding and three-point shooting.
I'd rather have Ilyasova but Anderson is underrated.
@action jack$on @Remify I was just thinking making it so that Kobe's 30% from 3 reflects his actual rating at 3s in the game, rather than some Kobe fanboy giving him an inflated rating off how good he used to be. That sort of stats.
@ou_sas @Remify maybe so, but i'm just saying that crow's advanced stats tell him things like ryan anderson is better than westbrook and amir johnson is basically serge ibaka with less hype...I'd probably trust the writers at grantland or something more than I would advanced stats.
@action jack$on @Remify Sure, but if you had him program the algorithm absent player data, you could theoretically remove bias. Or at least minimize it.
@ou_sas @Remify don't know about that. crow said he would take ryan anderson over westbrook.
@remify Probably so.
@ou_sas Only 1 worse than KD. And Wade is 93 as well. KD should be 95 at least
@Remify That sounds reasonable enough, given how these rankings tend to go.
@ou_sas Russ is 93.
@Remify Russ would round the important people out nicely I think. I saw Serge's and KD's leaked ratings already.
@ou_sas Let me know if you need to know someone's rating. I have the game right here. Stupid that they changed the controls so much.
@Remify No, bs is when you compare it to Jeff Green and JG is a 79. (JG's ranking was leaked a day or two ago).
All of those rankings are pretty arbitrary though. I'd like to see 2kSports put Crow on the Real Stats to Ratings conversion team to get some really accurate ratings.