ESPN Insider story on Wesley Matthews

Fair enough, I didn't have the terminology right. Summaries are not violation of intellectual property rights, is what I meant.

 

^ ya, what he said!

 

Exactly!!

 

These are pretty impressive:

Matthews’ Career Stats
Year GP GS Min Avg FG-FGA Pct 3FG-FGA Pct FT-FTA Pct Off Def Tot Avg PF FO Ast TO Blk Stl Pts Avg
2005-06 23 13 573 24.9 65-163 39.9 14-32 43.8 63-80 78.8 34 59 93 4.0 51 0 51 52 5 29 207 9.0
2006-07 34 34 1062 31.2 133-304 43.8 23-80 28.8 141-183 77.0 64 115 179 5.3 84 4 75 84 5 49 430 12.6
2007-08 35 35 1009 28.8 121-279 43.4 31-67 31.3 132-167 79.0 58 97 155 4.4 76 0 59 57 10 34 395 11.3
2008-09 35 35 1191 34.0 193-406 47.5 42-114 36.8 213-257 82.9 46 155 201 5.7 76 1 86 82 18 43 641 18.3

 

While I do like what I see so far, I still question how much we paid for a backup SG.

 

^ Man, that shit is giving me a headache!

 

If you don't want to have sex with him, just say so!

 

Why is it that stats never align correctly when posted here?

 

DennyCrane!

 

Yeah, damm lawyers-types anyway!

 

I like it, not my money, it's PA's money!

 

With a few combo guards on the roster I have to wonder if Wesley will be looked at as primarily a SF on this team. With his skill-set it'll be like we have two Batum's at the three.

 

Ok, look at it instead of as paying that much for a key part to our championship run.

 

The bottom line is, do news services ever take message boards to court over reproduced articles, especially if the link is given? No, because the link gives free advertising for the source. There are no damages to the source site, which loses no revenue. "The commercial value of the original expression" is not undermined.

Copying 38% of the article happens all the time, and no one ever raises a problem. I wish someone would excerpt 675 of the original 1791 words. It might seem long, but it's only a third of the article.

 

The main reason I would doubt this is he is only 6'5. Most of the SF's he'd be guarding are 6'7 and up and weigh 20-40 lbs more. They will shoot over him, post him up easily, push him off the block... I see Cunningham as our backup SF due to his size & strength.

 

It's a valid point. I guess my main concern is that the NBA is going to have to change the financial model for the league. Too many teams are borrowing money to get by. That means either a hard salary cap or non guaranteed contracts. Of those two, I think the players union would choose the hard cap. If so, $7,000,000.00 for a backup SG is way too much. And it won't matter how much money PA has then.

 

I don't know how many lawsuits happen, but newspapers are absolutely against their articles being reproduced in full, even with a link, because the majority of people simply read the reproduction and don't click the link, so the newspaper loses traffic, it doesn't gain it.

Excerpts with a link are perfectly fine, because then if you want to read the entire thing, you need to go to the newspaper's site. If you feel the article is worth reading, it's perfectly reasonable that you give them the traffic.

And it should be quite obvious why you cannot reproduce in full paid membership content, like ESPN Insider content (as this specific article was). You can still excerpt and link, excerpts should just be much less than half the article.

 

For skeptics out there, I would suggest you watch NBATV for playoff re-runs from last year. They have been playing a lot of Utah games, and if you want to see Mathews in action in a high pressure environment, there is nothing better to watch. It's not like he just had a good game or two. He played solid throughout the playoffs.

 

Yea based on what he's been through to get to this point I'd say he's a rock

I can finally see why we splashed on him

 

So you're leaving it up? You fell for the 38% number.

Just joking. It's really 38%, as counted by Word's word count command.

(I thought 50-50 you'd delete the post so I made it separate.)

(No one's posted about the excerpt yet. Meanwhile I just watched Rudy have a pretty good game.)