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So what you are asking for is for the players to decertify the union. This would be the pure competition you are looking for- unfortunately that also means that the draft, salary cap, luxury tax, maximum salary, and maximum contract length would all be illegal and teams could offer the players whatever they wished to. Somehow I don't think this is exactly what you have in mind.

The question is "IS Jeff Teague a starting Caliber PG" and the answer to that is clearly no. He an OK backup PG right now. Maybe he could develop into a starting quality PG but currently he is not there.

Moving screens are almost never called. I mean seriously... watch a pick and roll and see how often it happens.

Dude... trust me. If this is your answer then you should NOT be doing it at the game. IF you are nervous then it just makes the story better for her. Here are the rules: Put some effort in Make it special for her Give her a story to tell her friends. Pick the place where you guys met, where you went on a first date, or where you guys had a memorable night.

To me it comes down to predictive value. if I pick between trying to decide who is goign to win a game then I'll absolutely go to stats over someone's personal observations. There is no question that you can use stats to be misleading of you want to, but at least for me when I am looking to predict whats going to happen then I'll lean heavily on stats. I have a friend who runs a website selling sports picks. I went over 80% on my picks against the spread this season and I used stats almost exclusively. (or more accurately I looked for trends where I thought that people who don't look at stats would be wrong) I didn't put out a ton of picks and waited for the very best spots but it worked for me. Maybe there are other people who have good predictive value without looking at stats but in my experience I just laugh at people who act like statistics don't matter.

Don't do it!!!! I don't know a single girl who wants that kind of proposal. If the girl had Hawks season tickets before you met her then MAYBE but otherwise just do something else.

This to me is pretty much the definition of a C season. I expected the team to take step back but they went even further back than I thought. (outscored on the season... wouldn't have ever expected that) But its hard to give them too low of a grade considering they still got the 5th seed and were never in serious contention to miss the playoffs.

Uhhh... I think you are REALLY missing the point here. For both situations you posted the team is far better off with the 3 pointer than the long 2. Look at it as points per shot using the percentages you posted. Crawford long 2- .90 PPS Crawford 3- 1.0 PPS JJ long 2 .78 PPS. JJ 3 pointer .87 PPS. How on earth could you post these numbers trying to show that hte team is better off taking long 2 pointers? With long 2's the team doesn't get the other team in foul trouble and the team gets few offensive rebounds. Its easily the worth shot in basketball.

The funny thing is that the Magic have some pretty putrid 1 on 1 defenders. THe Hawks have guys who can beat the first guy- to me the question always is about what happens next. Do they settle for long 2 point jumpers or do they take it into the lane, draw contact and then dish to the open guys who can attack an unsettled defense.

I think that most fans don't expect the Hawks to get to game 6. I didn't say that all Hawks fans think this. Because long 2 point jumpers are the worst shot in basketball. You don't get many offensive rebounds, you don't get to the line, and you don't get the other team in foul trouble.

To me it always comes down to whether the Hawks are taking it inside and drawing contact or content to shoot long 2 point jumpers. The problem is that Orlando is a team that wants you to take long 2 point jumpers and the Hawks have players who want to take long 2 pointers if given the opportunity.

Lol... I think that for the most part people here believe that Orlando wins by game 5.

If I had to bet between the Hawks getting swept and the Hawks advancing I'd bet on the hawks getting swept.

It will definitely be interesting to see if the Hawks end up keeping Jamal Crawford now. Many of us thought that Jordan Crawford was being brought in to be a cheap replacement for when Jamal signed elsewhere.

People who are cheap enough to buy the .69 cent bulbs don't ever throw it away before it burns out.