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Bob Shabazz posted:What exactly is a trade exemption? It's just a technicality for teams over the cap (or who would end up over the cap after the trade) to make trades. All part of the "soft cap" system (since you can't do anything over the cap without an "exception").
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thegloaming posted:- Join a fantasy league (still not sure how I should go about doing this) - Make a yahoo.com account/e-mail if you haven't got one already (may also use Google/Facebook) - Goto http://basketball.fantasysports.yahoo.com/nba - Click Join a League - Try to do a Public standard draft, 12 person, normal scoring, Head-2-Head league - Once you have your team and are logged in, check out the "Players" section for stats, and "Draft Central" for tips and Mock drafts. - Bookmark this site. Visit often: http://www.basketball-reference.com/
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| # ¿ Dec 21, 2011 16:07 |
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kwohlge posted:I don't think it's arguable. Kobe, Wade, Ginobili.. Kevin Martin?! Eric Gordon is probably 4th or 5th. Ray Allen and Monta Ellis might be part of the argument. ne: Even Joe Johnson should have a comeback year
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| # ¿ Dec 24, 2011 20:43 |
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Yoshifan823 posted:Are there any Iowa Hawkeyes in the league right now? Bolded names are active players: http://www.basketball-reference.com...gi?college=iowa So looks like only Reggie Evans rebounding all day e'ery day.
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| # ¿ Dec 27, 2011 01:33 |
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Luminous Cow posted:Just got done watching the Suns game, and I have two stupid newbie questions. 1) When a player starts a dribble, stops it, then starts dribbling again. 2) Ever since the Donaghy scandal, refs were given the power to do pretty much whatever the gently caress they wanted, so no there's no recourse. e: ^ 
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| # ¿ Jan 3, 2012 00:19 |
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Either way, Rubio's jumpshot looks ahelluva lot better than it did pre-2009 draft.
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| # ¿ Jan 10, 2012 15:31 |
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Speewah posted:Underhand works for some people Well, that's one way to put backspin on an underhanded one-handed shot 
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| # ¿ Jan 14, 2012 14:26 |
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Mechafunkzilla posted:That's not how it seems to be called. A few times this year I've seen Tyson Chandler literally run into an opposing player on a switch, and then get called for defensive 3 seconds. No, that's because you have to be actively guarding an opponent (edit clarification: in a guarding position). It's possible to be in the paint while the ball is in the paint but not actively guarding someone. AnacondaHL fucked around with this message at Jan 24, 2012 around 18:30 |
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Mechafunkzilla posted:But if the definition for actively guarding someone according to the rules is having them within arms length, then Tyson Chandler would be guarding that ballhandler by default. That's part of it. The other part is a legal position. Say Chandler is down in the paint for 2 seconds. On the third he starts moving towards an off-ball player, starts setting a screen, and as the third second ends he's still moving in an illegal direction so that the screen is illegal. Technically he's committed two fouls simultaneously, so the refs call the defensive 3 seconds by priority I guess, or they say he committed the 3 second violation split seconds before establishing a legal/illegal screen, whatever. So despite being within arms reach of someone in that third second, he hasn't established a legal guarding position and should be called. If you find a video example of this, it will probably be like this example, where an illegal move doesn't reset the 3 second timer and he gets called for it. edit: Rule 10 Sec VIII on how you have to be in arms length AND legal http://www.nba.com/analysis/rules_10.html Rule 12B on a bunch of ways to legally defend, Sec III for the screening example I made http://www.nba.com/analysis/rules_12.html AnacondaHL fucked around with this message at Jan 24, 2012 around 19:32 |
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Mechafunkzilla posted:Thanks for this. Now if only it were called consistently... That'll be the other half of your YouTube results 
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| # ¿ Jan 24, 2012 19:38 |
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MorningView posted:I'm still not sure how they decided that allowing teams to play zone was going to increase scoring. by deeming it unmanly to use it
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| # ¿ Jan 24, 2012 21:53 |
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OASE posted:Can someone explain the +/- stat to me? How is it calculated and what exactly does it mean? Raw +/- for a player is the amount their team outscored the opponent while that player was on the floor, negative meaning they were outscored. It's calculated by game logs, just seeing which 10 players are on the floor during any given score. For a given game, if you add up all the +/- on a team, you should get the point differential of the team versus that opponent in that game, multiplied by 5 of course.
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| # ¿ Feb 20, 2012 04:51 |
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PER is also one of the better stats that can be used to compare players across eras, despite its limitations. Win Shares is probably the best for this task, imho.
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| # ¿ Feb 21, 2012 16:31 |
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F201 posted:Why does everyone hate LeBron James? And, I guess, to what extent can one good player 'carry' a team? He's made some bad decisions, and some good decisions in bad ways. Hakeem Olajuwon 1993-94, and Tim Duncan 2002-03. These are the highlighted examples of one
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| # ¿ Mar 4, 2012 21:18 |
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Next summer is when the big BRI crunch hits, and there will be much schadenfreude in seeing how different teams handle it.
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Monday Bandele posted:Whose silly idea was it to make the season 82 games long? It seems like a ridiculous amount for such an exerting sport like basketball. No wonder players dog it towards the end. Aside from the obvious  reasons, there is a mathematical argument that you could take with a grain of salt which revolves around the concept of any of the big 4 sport seasons broken down into parts of a Fibonacci spiral for maximum aesthetics:http://skepticalsports.com/?p=1088
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