CJ Suspended

I fucking love it. I love that C.J. has an attitude. I loved it last year when he destroyed Chandler Parsons on Twitter and I love him thumbing his nose at the league over this.

Sure, he broken the rule, but by calling attention to the inconsistency of it's application and poking fun at the severity of the penalty, maybe it will lead to a future change to the rule. Something like a fine and a warning for a first time offender who doesn't actually enter the fray, saving the automatic suspension for repeat offenders and players who actually participate in the altercation.

BNM

 

Thomas Robinson is under contract with one of the better teams in Europe, but if Neil can bring a really good player for the 15th spot I would reconsider my stance

 

Don't give up on your dream so easily. TRob probably has a buy out clause in his contract.

Define "really good player". Is that simply someone better than Briscoe, or someone who is actually really good?

BNM

 

He knew the rules and be broke them. It's not like he only took one step onto the court. It's one game. Get over it.

 

The only reason I'm pissed is cause I'm gonna be at the game!

 

But you keep arguing that a rule is a rule. You're about as consistent in your posts as the refs/league is at enforcing their rules.
Actually, I take that back - you're incredibly consistent in playing your Devil's Advocate role.

 

CJ left the bench. George took a half step and stopped. Not sure he made it to the floor.

 

He came out two steps onto the court, which you can see clearly at the end of the video at this link:

https://www.cbssports.com/nba/news/paul-george-not-suspended-for-game-7-vs-hawks/

“The rule is designed to punish players for leaving "the immediate vicinity of the bench" in the event of altercations. It's meant to prevent players from rushing off the bench to fight.”

That quote is from the same article. While I don’t think anyone would argue CJ intended to get into a fight, he definitely left the immediate vicinity of the bench. The league is wise to remind players at the start of the season that it’s serious about this rule. Sucks that it’s CJ who takes the hit, but he screwed up.

 

Nope, just us. Also, Portland will be the only team that gets called for illegal defense this year. Man, it sucks to be us.

 

I'm sure Steven Adams and Kenny Mauer would also appreciate a more consistent application of the no kicking an opposing player in the nuts and no bloodying an official rules.

BNM

 

Looked like way more than 2 steps. He was basically under the basket.

 

Why some people Still have a hard on for Thomas Robinson is beyond me.

 

Denny, that new programmer you hired has vastly improved the Bot's algorithm. It's actually starting to occasionally make sense.

BNM

 

He's not being sarcastic, he's being sardonic.

"Sardonic is more extreme and negative, and one can be sarcastic without being sardonic, and vice-versa."

BNM

 

Shows how you are BNM. It's the same algorithm. More data. Better response. That's the beauty of machine learning.

 

More data perhaps, but the pattern hasn't changed. Thomas Robinson still sucks at the same things he's always sucked at. The new data does not expand on the previous data, it just reinforces the previous conclusion.

BNM

 

Sure. But the Bot now has enough data to answer properly.

 

We are just now entering peak BGD. I've liked more of its posts in the last 2 weeks than all other other periods combined.