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PNT Don't you mean the KG-Perk double Tech? Even better!

ou_sasPNT Lol, i just picture them getting a double tech then bowing to the audience before heading to their respective benches.

walle I guess I agree with that reasoning.. but I actually LIKE some of that stuff. I will tell you one thing I *do* like... and maybe you could steal it, modify it, whatever -- is the Thunder Up - 3's Down with D-Cook last year. I thought those were stinkin cool.

Tronchaser Haha. Thanks! I loved that tee too! I was thinking of doing something with a hand raised with the three fingers, so I'll kick the idea around a bit. I hope I didn't come off as defensive. Some of the stuff made by the bigger companies is definitely cool!

walle Not at all. I wish you the best of luck making some shirts. I just don't think *I* could pull off some of them. lol

walle and +1 for not being a dirty hippy. :)

Jooseppi i just didnt like how he says kd is only a scorer... he has been 2nd in rebounding for like two years for small forwards, and hes not an empty scorer like a tracy mcgrady, who never made it out the first round

f5alcon Well once excuse is that teams sometimes just lose games, but I feel you.

I also feel that Boston crowd could be really, really quiet.

Jooseppi yeah, losing in boston wouldn't be the end of the world, but they are not like the teams that have beat us, those teams have depth, boston doesnt.

RodneyRosavelRusanWilson Can't stand melo for some reason.

LasersRodneyRosavelRusanWilson Legacy hatred from the (Butt)Nuggets days. Perfectly understandable.

TronchaserRodneyRosavelRusanWilson Nah, it's his chin beard. But(tNuggets) i like your reason too.

Lookin like it so far. Memphis with 55 at a minute to go before halftime. Welcome to the West.

Lasers yea, their loss will only help DRose's mvp campaign

RodneyRosavelRusanWilsonLasers We don't have to worry about DRose's MVP campaign this season. People saw the ECF.

ATHRodneyRosavelRusanWilsonLasers lebron and kobe are the most likely mvp candidates right now.

f5alconRodneyRosavelRusanWilsonLasers LeBron will probably deserve to win (again). Kobe will have to keep up his scoring efficiency and get them to a top-four seed. I don't know... KD is better but probably less-valuable than ever this year (with Harden playing so well), but if the Thunder run away with the West, especially with the League's best record, he may steal it.

f5alconATHRodneyRosavelRusanWilson I'm thinking Kobe (unless he gets hurt) gets it. Hard to shake off LBJ's finals. Though he has a good opportunity to do just that with Wade injured.

Lasersf5alconATH durant will have to start dropping more game winners to get the mvp, which seems to become more arbitrary every year

RodneyRosavelRusanWilsonLasersf5alcon MVP is mostly about perception. People forget about the game-to-game ups and downs. It just takes a few big nationally televised moments (KD already has one) and a superb team record.

Chocolate Ginobili "Who wouldn't want to watch Perk or Aldrich being chased down by 5 defenders while to trying to finish a breakaway a couple of times a game?"

Everyone's ACLs.

ATH If Perk gets tired of running, he can just wait for Westbrook to zoom by and toss it to him for a dunk, or he can kick it out to Cook for an open 3.

Plus the fans would get a free slam dunk show from guys like Griffin every game. Other than the blown ACLs and injuries like this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ex2ryik9j9g, what's the drawback here?

Chocolate Ginobili I refuse to watch that injury again. Geez.

ATH Yeah, I have to resist the urge to projectile vomit when I watch the super-slow-mo.

Chocolate Ginobili There's something similar to this called landruns in soccer, thought of as an alternative to penalty kicks. It's 1-on-1 with the goalie from half, like a hockey shootout.

Injuries galore, both to the keeper and the shot taker. Same thing would happen here. By bye Bynum's knees.

Jooseppi Yeah, I remember sitting in Taft Stadium back in the day watching some semi-pro soccer game that had the land run and thinking it was pretty great.

It's pretty rare that someone running for their lives from an angry mob ends well, and I guess the same would be true in basketball. But couldn't we just strap some knee pads and a helmet on the guy?

Chocolate GinobiliJooseppi oh taft stadium how loath there sloped soccer field btw i play there or played my home games there go classen comets

Chocolate Ginobili What if you just kept track of how many free throws each team gets during the course of the game, and then you shot them all at the end of the game after time expired. Home team gets to choose if they shoot first or second. Gives new meaning to home court advantage (knowing how many you'd have to make). Adds pressure to the guys on your team shooting last. Once the game ends, there's still drama and intrigue worth watching. Free throws, though not mathematically, become a more important part of the game. Speeds up the flow of the game.

The biggest drawback would be no more game winners during the course of play.

Jax Raging Bile Duct No one is being chased in this scenario so I'm not sure if I could sign off on it. It's a little bit like ending every game with a penalty kick shootout which I also can't sign off on. Maybe do it for the first 3 quarters and then people can shoot free throws when they're fouled during the 4th quarter?

ATH The thing with that third point guard, is you can take a third real one (I put Lowry in my list below, but I'm a bit shaky on it) and have him play garbage, or you can take Russ (I listed him as a 2 for FIBA ball) as a slasher who can play the 1 and rough up guards at both positions off the bench.

Jooseppi But Lowry isn't a finalist. They will have an abbreviated training camp since the playoffs are pushed back. Colangelo and Coach K will already have an idea of the 12 before camp, but there's no way a new guy will be added/have a shot, especially in the crowded backcourt.

ATH I know he isn't. I was just spitballing.

Jooseppi I think Lowry makes tons of sense, in theory. So do some other guys who have never attended a Team USA camp (Greg Monroe, Ryan Anderson...). Luckily, the talent level is so high we'll probably win gold regardless.

ATHJooseppi yea monroe would be a good choice... id take harden over gordon, but hey, im a thunder fan

ATH a lot of people seem to have forgotten how much of a pace changer Russ was in FIBA 2010. I don't think Coach K will overlook how the game ran when Russ was in, even though all of the pundits have.

ou_sas Yeah. Beyond the big-name guys--who will make it regardless, for marketing reasons--Coach K will have who he wants.

and for all the talk about the defense of chicago, can people please mention that they play in the east, where you might get the wizards, nets, bobcats and raptors 4 teams a year each? The west has bad teams, but our bad teams are the wolves, warriors and rockets... much better competition to go against day in day out... i think that will help us in the finals... but do people honestly think the bulls would hold people to 80 points a game playing in the west?

RodneyRosavelRusanWilson the bulls is still a better choice than miami, they at least have played most of their games in the road.