So, About that Southwest Rhomboid Trip

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  1. BBert

    BBert Weasels Ripped My Flesh

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    Re: So, About that Midwest Rhomboid Trip

    Rockets will be the roughest rodeo in the Redneck Rhomboid.

    3-0

    Then we smash the Zombie Sonics.
     
  2. Natebishop3

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    Re: So, About that Midwest Rhomboid Trip

    Dude, at some point they'll actually have AI operating systems and then you can have a REAL girlfriend like Joaquin Phoenix :devilwink:
     
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    julius I wonder if there's beer on the sun Staff Member Global Moderator

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    Re: So, About that Midwest Rhomboid Trip

    Why would I want a girlfriend like Joaquin Phoenix? he's an ugly woman.
     
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    Natebishop3 Don't tread on me!

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    Re: So, About that Midwest Rhomboid Trip

    I don't know.... you could pretty him up.
     
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    Re: So, About that Midwest Rhomboid Trip

    Ding ding ding!

    To foster that attitude, it helps to have players trying to prove themselves in new situations (usually because they're young, but for Lopez, because he's never been the starter uness injury forced it).

    Next season it will be harder to win because the players' bedroom eyes will be glazed over with confidence.
     
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    Boob-No-More Why you no hire big man coach?

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    Re: So, About that Midwest Rhomboid Trip

    Lopez started all 82 games last season. What injury forced Lopez to start all 82 games for NOH last season?

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    Boob-No-More Why you no hire big man coach?

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    Re: So, About that Midwest Rhomboid Trip

    Midwest???? Somebody needs a lesson in basic US geography.

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    Re: So, About that Midwest Rhomboid Trip

    Anthony Davis, 1st pick in the draft, was expected to start at center, with Lopez, known league-wide as a substitute center, backing him up. Due to Davis' injury, Lopez started. When Davis returned, the season was 1/3 over and already shot, so Monty Williams put Davis at PF. In the summer, New Orleans traded Lopez as fast as they could so that Davis could start at his rightful position.
     
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    Re: So, About that Midwest Rhomboid Trip

    Brain cramp. Forgot it's the SW Division for SA/DAL/HOU these days, and not the Midwest Division.
     
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    Re: So, About that Midwest Rhomboid Trip

    I changed it.
     
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    Re: So, About that Midwest Rhomboid Trip

    While you're at it, do you really think SA/DAL/HOU/OKC make a rhomboid? Looks more like a triangle with a short antenna to me.
     
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    Re: So, About that Midwest Rhomboid Trip

    Quadrilateral sounded so benign.
     
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    Re: So, About that Midwest Rhomboid Trip

    How about the TexOK Triangular Tower?
     
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    Boob-No-More Why you no hire big man coach?

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    Wow, so many errors in that post, I hardly know where to begin.

    First, Anthony Davis was not injured at the beginning of his rookie year. He played the first two games. He started at PF and Lopez at center. Lopez starting the year as NOH starting center had nothing to do with any injuries to Davis, or anyone else. Davis then missed two games and came back to play in the next 4. So, Davis was healthy on opening night and missed 2 of NOH first 8 games. Lopez was the starting center on opening night and remained so for all 82 games, regardless of Anthony Davis' injury status.

    Davis missed a total of 18 games. That's only 21% of the season - and 5 of those missed games were after the All-Star break. The plan from day 1 was to start Lopez at center and Davis (when healthy) at PF and that's exactly what Monty Williams did.

    This season, up until yesterday Jason Smith was starting at center and Davis at PF. Davis then moved to C when Ryan Anderson would come in off the bench and NOP would go with a smaller line-up featuring Anderson (prior to his injury) as a stretch 4. Again Davis has not been the NOP's starting center this season. He starts at PF and then slides to center at various times during the game. Smith injured his knee yesterday, will require knee surgery and will be out indefinitely. In his absence, Monty Williams has announced Greg Stiemsma will start at center tonight against the Warriors (Greg Stiemsma to start at center for Jason Smith from nba.com). If the plan all along was to start Davis "at his rightful position", why are they not doing so now that their actual starting center is out for the season with a knee injury?

    Your entire post is fabricated bullshit. There isn't an ounce of fact or truth to it. You just made it all up to try to save face for an inaccurate statement you made two posts ago. Deal with it. You're statement "but for Lopez, because he's never been the starter uness injury forced it" was incorrect.

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    Re: So, About that Midwest Rhomboid Trip

    Details. Redneck Rhomboid sounds better and more dismissive than Texas Triangle with a detour to Hillbilly Hell. ;)
     
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    Re: So, About that Midwest Rhomboid Trip

    I wasn't trying to haze, just curious about his post pattern. Since he joined, Greg Oden has happened....KP/Cho/Miller has happened......Brandon's knees and career has happened......Rebecca Haarlow has happened....... and Quick/Canzano/Haynes/BlazersEdge has happened......YET HE CHOSE TO POST ABOUT BEVERLY!!!!!!?????

    I was just wanting to know from him what made him post about that? At the rate he posts, I won't get the answer until after we've 3Peated and it's 2018!
     
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    Boob-No-More Why you no hire big man coach?

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    Re: So, About that Midwest Rhomboid Trip

    We will 5peat in 2018.

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    Re: So, About that Midwest Rhomboid Trip

    Just caught the thread where new alliterations were discussed -- totally agree.
     
  19. Boob-No-More

    Boob-No-More Why you no hire big man coach?

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    Re: So, About that Midwest Rhomboid Trip

    I like Redneck Rhomboid. It has the added panache that the rednecks won't know what it means. They will think it's something involving painful itching and swelling.

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    Re: So, About that Midwest Rhomboid Trip

    Oh, it will. For them. Hopefully the team didn't pack any lube.
     

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