Chris P.

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Posted Sunday May 11, 2008, About: NCAA bids irk ACC coaches
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Posted Sunday May 11, 2008, About: NCAA bids irk ACC coaches
Throw out auto bids? That's ridiculous. Why even play the season then, why even have conferences? That's stupid, and would make the NCAA selection process more like the BCS system in football - an utter mess. It would never happen, nor should it.

And a loss isn't necessarily a loss, not when you're a major conference member versus a mid major. I went to a mid major school, and even I realized that 3 or 4 losses by my school wasn't the same as 3 or 4 losses in the ACC.

Do the math: if 8 or 9 of the top 64 schools are in the ACC, and there's a 16 game conference schedule, and you're the 8th or 9th best, you could easily have a 8-8, 7-9, even 6-10(if you play some of those schools twice) record in conference play, and you wouldn't be ranked, but you could still be better than a Butler or St. Marys, who played a cupcake schedule.

I'm not in favor of letting schools in simply based on name, the way Kentucky got in when Az State didn't. But both of those schools were from the weaker major conferences. The Big East and the ACC are the premier leagues for a reason, and at least 6 teams should come from both almost every year.
Posted Sunday May 11, 2008, About: NCAA bids irk ACC coaches
Throwing auto bids out? That's ridiculous. Why even play the season? Why even have conferences, why not then just have a free for all? That's not ever going to happen, and it shouldn't.

As for losses being losses, that's ridiculous. I went to school in a mid major conference, and even I know that my school getting 3 or 4 conference losses wasn't the same as an ACC school getting 3 or 4 losses. If 8 or 9 of the top 64 teams are in the ACC, and you play a 16 game conference schedule, do the math: if you're the 8th or 9th best team in that conference, you could easily have a 8-8, 7-9 or even 6-10(if you play some of those schools twice) record in the conference. Doesn't mean you're not as good as say Butler or St. Marys, which played a mostly cupcake schedule.
Posted Saturday April 26, 2008, About: Source: Brown eyes Bobcats job
This would be a terrific move. Yeah Brown's old, but that's a non-factor. He still leaves teams better off than he found them, and it wouldn't be any different with the Cats. (the Knicks situation doesn't count, that's a no-win situation with those players and Isiah breathing down his neck)

The Cats are a talented team, they have another lottery pick coming their way, and there are plenty of bigs in this draft, which is exactly what they need to complement Okafor on the front line. Drafting a center means that Okafor only puts in token minutes at the 5 and does his real damage at 4, and May can ease back into the lineup. And it allows Wallace to stay away from the 4, which hopefully keeps him in the lineup 10+ games than usual.

And Brown has a way of helping point guards reach their potential. Look at his track record with Rod Strickland in San Antonio, Mark Jackson in LA and Indy, Eric Snow in Philly, and Chauncey Billups in Detroit. Hopefully he'll have the same impact on Felton.

In fact, I see a lot of parallel between this Cats team and the Pistons team that Brown took over in Detroit, althought that team was a little older and more experienced. Still, the team is bound to improve over this season.
Posted Friday April 25, 2008, About: Stackhouse: Scott's a sucker
dmill - I know more about basketball and the NBA than you ever will. What I said was that the Lakers of the 80's were capable of winning championships w/o Scott in the lineup, not whether they won any with him, which they obviously did. Too bad I can't do some experiment where they Lakers could try competing without Byron Scott for a couple years and then...oh, wait a second.

FACTS: 1980 NBA championship, 1981 season marred by injury to Magic, 1982 NBA championship, 1983 western conference championship, lost in NBA finals. They only got Scott in a 1983 draft day trade with San Diego(who soon became the LA Clippers, before you start running your mouth some more).

Plus, I won't dispute the moron comment, perhaps I am, but how am I a Lakers hater? Because I said that they were so good in the 80's that they didn't need a spot up streak shooter to win championships for them? Yeah sorry, I didn't realize calling a team good was an insult to them. I guess if I mentioned that 3 of the players Scott was playing with, Kareem, Magic and Worthy, are in the Hall of Fame, would be an egregious insult to those guys.

Besides that, I never said that Scott was a role player, which Stack currently is. But when both were in their primes, Scott couldn't hold a candle to Stack. If you claim otherwise, then YOU don't know much about the NBA or basketball. At least watch some old footage while you're sitting in your parents' basement.
Posted Friday April 25, 2008, About: Stackhouse: Scott's a sucker
perchic - are you serious? how are you so worked up about someone saying that the Lakers could have won w/o Scott? They did win 2 rings w/o him. And they traded Norm Nixon b/c he was a POINT GUARD. Guess what position Magic played? Yup, that's right. Nixon was only in the league two years longer than Magic, so they could have kept playing with him alongside Magic, they just felt it was a better fit to put a shooting guard alongside him, which Scott was. But it's pretty easy to figure that they could have won at least one more title using Nixon.
Posted Friday April 25, 2008, About: Stackhouse: Scott's a sucker
Stack can definitely talk smack to Byron Scott. He's twice the player that Scott was, and though Scott won 3 rings, Stack's definitely right in that he won b/c of those other guys he played with. Still, maybe this can be the fire the Mavs need to get back in this series and make it exciting.
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