Damien Lillard moves up the draft board to fourth, Chad Ford's predictions on point as always

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  1. blue9

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    There's an audit trail. Any changes made would be linked to whatever log-in was used to gain edit access.

    Hacking a web page? C'mon - I think Occam's Razor can be used with a high degree of certainty here. Apply it to these two choices:

    1 - Chad Ford retroactively changed his predictions to increase his "credibility".
    2 - A hacker hacked into ESPN to change old articles that nobody (other than Chad Ford) cares about any longer, and made changes to them so that Chad Ford would appear to be better at predicting NBA drafts than he actually is.

    What's the motivation for the hacker?
     
    blue9, Jan 26, 2015
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    What I love is they move Damian to #4, which the Cavs owned. There is no way they would have drafted him, ever, with Irving on the team. It almost hurts him more, even knowing what we do now between the two, who in their right mind would predict Cavs would draft him? Am I missing something?
     
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  3. KeepOnRollin

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    That is because I believe a draft board is ranking of talents not predicting where they go. Above I pointed out that they tried to fudge it but not go full on as they didn't put players high as they should go just higher then they went at the time.
     
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    You missed the more clever angle of #2: making Ford look like a douche once it came to light. It's not really that far-fetched, if someone had an axe to grind.
     
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  5. Natebishop3

    Natebishop3 Don't tread on me!

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    I find that highly unlikely.


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  6. BBert

    BBert Weasels Ripped My Flesh

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    To DESTROY Chad Ford!!! BWA-HA-HA!
     
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    BBert Weasels Ripped My Flesh

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    Fess up Nate! It was you! You've hated Ford ever since he rookie hazed you and took your parking spot!
     
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    jlprk The ESPN mod is insane.

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    Next time I get ESPN to hire you, remind me not to.
     
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    It's inflate-gate.
     
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  10. Boob-No-More

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

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    Why go to all the trouble when simply posting a picture of Chad Ford is sufficient to make him look like a douche?

    BNM
     
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    I did it! Or at least Canzano will soon say I did it.

    True story, when Indy and Chicago played in XLI, Canzano on Oregonlive predicted that Chicago would win. After Indy won I was reading articles on Oregonlive when I found that prediction again. Except now his prediction said Indy would win. I posted in the comments that that was a weak ass thing to do. Comment soon deleted. I posted again, this time, it was a weak arse thing to do. Comment deleted again. It pissed me off so I emailed Canzano and asked why did he change his prediction after the game. He replied right back and said he didn't. We go back and forth, trading emails, finally he accuses me of hacking into Oregonlive and changing his prediction to make him look bad.

    But even with him claiming that he didn't change his prediction the edited prediction was still up on O-live.

    Anyway, it freaked me out that Canzano would claim that I hacked Oregonlive's website so I emailed the editor, Sandra Rowe and forwarded her all of Canzano's and my emails. A few days later I got an email back from Canzano apologizing for saying I hacked Oregonlive but nothing about the prediction being changed.

    Canzano is a strange dude.

    So yes, I know first hand that journalists will change what they write and will lie about it when caught.
     
    SlyPokerDog, Jan 27, 2015
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    So, the balls being deflated DID happen?
     
    Strenuus, Jan 27, 2015
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    And here I thought my opinion of the guy couldn't get any worse.
     
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  14. Natebishop3

    Natebishop3 Don't tread on me!

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    tl;dr sly hacked oregonlive to make canzono look bad.


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