The cake..

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  1. Blaze01

    Blaze01 JBB JustBBall Member

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    This cake is missing ingredients...if you want to go for hyperbole...

    a starting caliber PG

    1-2 key veteran players

    a back-up banger at PF
     
    Blaze01, Apr 27, 2009
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  2. Wizard Mentor

    Wizard Mentor Wizard Mentor

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    Actually, mean and average are the same thing. What you are describing is the median. It doesn't hurt your argument,
    just to let you know.
     
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  3. Wizard Mentor

    Wizard Mentor Wizard Mentor

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    I am of two minds on this....

    1) We didn't use our most valuable resource - RLEC and while it didn't seem to hurt us in the season, it's hurting us here, IMHO.
    It will also hurt us next season.

    2) We lost by ONE freaking point - ONE. If we score one more basket, posters would be talking about how awesome our
    cake is. National media would bring up that Houston has lost many times in the first round, blah blah blah. I don't think we
    can really base our long or short term strategy on a one point game loss - especially when one certain official goes our of his
    way to put our bigs out of the game using phantom calls.
     
    Wizard Mentor, Apr 27, 2009
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  4. OddEnormous

    OddEnormous I'M FLYING!! I'M FLYING!!

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    GREAT post. Excellent.


    wreppt!
     
    OddEnormous, Apr 27, 2009
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  5. crandc

    crandc Well-Known Member

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    Yup, I stand (sit) corrected.

    Knew I hadn't had caffeine yet.

    Shall we call it a draw?
     
    crandc, Apr 27, 2009
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  6. Deebag

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    Shaq says we don't need anything so I'll take his word for it. Just a couple more years of growing and developing together and we'll be real contenders. Fuck elite PG's and bruising veteran SF/PF's. Let's win it with our boys.
     
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    Wheels Is That A Challenge?!?!1! Staff Member Global Moderator

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  8. Nikolokolus

    Nikolokolus There's always next year

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    Yeah let's be mediocre and soft. Lovely. :biglaugh::crazy:
     
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    How is 54 wins mediocre?
     
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  10. Nikolokolus

    Nikolokolus There's always next year

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    Not the win total, the style of play from those two/three positions.
     
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    oh, sorry. It makes sense when I go back and read it now that that was what you meant.
     
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    Wins > Style
     
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  13. Nikolokolus

    Nikolokolus There's always next year

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    Playoff basketball takes a different style to win than the regular season, love it, hate it or call it unfair that's just the way it is. Steve Blake's game is not built for playoff style basketball.
     
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  14. Deebag

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    Mediocre? Steve Blake is an average starter, yes. Batum is sometimes an offensive liability, too. But when a cake is getting baked, it usually gets bigger and fluffier. As in, Batum is going to get better. Martell will be back. Sergio is starting to get good with his shooting touch. Bayless' potential is still up in the air. PG and SF are our only real questions for the future, but we have young guys that are capable of developing into the guys we need. But hell, let's TRADE them away so we can have a guy that can play right now. Who wants to wait? Let's win a championship right now with a team with the lowest amount of playoff experience.

    Sorry, if I don't think having an all-star at every position is realistic, nor what we actually need.

    Nate will get better. Roy will get better. Aldridge will get better. Oden will get 5x better. We're a 65 win team in two years without trades.
     
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  15. Webster's Dictionary

    Webster's Dictionary I am Iron Man

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    Then don't eat it. Go find a different cake.

    I like the way our cake is tasting. Still has a little bitterness, but overall very sweet.
     
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