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What about the team we just beat by 10 points on their home court? They have a $101 million payroll and will be paying over $80 million in luxury tax, and are currently in last place in the worst division in the NBA (the 1st place team is 2 games under .500) with a 3-7 record.

Their roster was assembled using the exact opposite of money ball principles. They went out and over paid a bunch of big name players who are way past their primes, hired a coach with a recognizable name, but no prior coaching experience, threw it all together and thought they be contenders and seriously challenge Miami's dominance in the Eastern Conference.

In my East vs. West thread I started last week, I hypothesized that this year's Nets are the equivalent of last year's Lakers. Old, expensive and injury prone. But, this Nets team is even worse and more overpaid.

$101 million payroll + $80 million luxury tax = 3-7 record. That isn't money ball, that's waste-of-money ball.

BNM


I did not want to jinx the game tonight, so I didn't go anywhere near mentioning BK. But this comparison is exactly what we're talking about. Portland can't get LeBron, so what players can they get who, combined, can give the Blazers a statistically equal advantage? The problem is how does Portland compete with Miami? You score more points than they do. The Blazer are on the right track.
 
Don't flatter yourself. If you wanted attention, you just had to ask.

In response to your on-going inquiries: no, I’m not a fan of baseball, I am not single (it’s Mrs.), and no, the point of my post is not to draw player to player comparisons between the former A’s and the current Blazers, simply that both teams sought to win a different way from the big market teams. And Blazer fans should accept what the Blazers are trying to do before screaming about what’s wrong with Portland.

But those were all very clever and witty questions an observations, and I assure you I am thoroughly intimidated by someone that can’t find the edit button. I just want to apologize on behalf of intelligent, attractive, socially adept people everywhere, for whatever happened to you as a child that turned you into the colossal attention whore of a man you are today.

Of course, a great deal of blame lies in our education system. They obviously didn't take into consideration your special needs. I mean how were you able to keep up with the normal kids? You can barely string a sentence together. Think how happy you would have been in a classroom of your mental peers. You’d just be there all day in a room making things out of play-doe and elbow macaroni, how grand that would have been. Why couldn't they have realized that you are boarder-line retarded?

Oh, there's no reason to deny it. Your IP address and persistently antagonizing posters say it all. But by all means, please, go on.

Oh shit, mixum's getting sonned.
 
What you failed to grasp isn't the actual "money ball" series of events. It's that certain statistical concepts are winning the games. The things like trying to stop paint points more so than three pointers aren't as important. Shit like that.

Just sit down and make that top forty mix

Repped. Great Point.

Oh and is there really anything worse than top 40? :shudder:
 
Don't flatter yourself. If you wanted attention, you just had to ask.

In response to your on-going inquiries: no, I’m not a fan of baseball, I am not single (it’s Mrs.), and no, the point of my post is not to draw player to player comparisons between the former A’s and the current Blazers, simply that both teams sought to win a different way from the big market teams. And Blazer fans should accept what the Blazers are trying to do before screaming about what’s wrong with Portland.

But those were all very clever and witty questions an observations, and I assure you I am thoroughly intimidated by someone that can’t find the edit button. I just want to apologize on behalf of intelligent, attractive, socially adept people everywhere, for whatever happened to you as a child that turned you into the colossal attention whore of a man you are today.

Of course, a great deal of blame lies in our education system. They obviously didn't take into consideration your special needs. I mean how were you able to keep up with the normal kids? You can barely string a sentence together. Think how happy you would have been in a classroom of your mental peers. You’d just be there all day in a room making things out of play-doe and elbow macaroni, how grand that would have been. Why couldn't they have realized that you are boarder-line retarded?

Oh, there's no reason to deny it. Your IP address and persistently antagonizing posters say it all. But by all means, please, go on.

Great post, well articulated and eloquently typed! The best part is his replys further insult himself.
 
Hahahaha who is the unlucky guy?! Jesus I bet he's happy when a blazer game is on!

As for ur moneyball theory.... Who said the fans aren't buying it?? Are the blazers in last place like the a's were?! Did the blazers lose 3 elite free agents? Is their GM strapped for money cause owner is cheap???

I could go on but it's time for u to sit down jr... I mean mrs.

Sssshhhhhhhhhhhh just used edit button

Really last place, check the stats, Oakland finished last in their division 1 time since money ball started. Considering the NBA failure to spend money has to be treated in a different capacity. The Blazers are 9-2 this year but they are doing it with smart trades, and picking up cheap pieces. The fact that they are significantly under the tax when the title contenders are all significantly over lends credence to the comparison.
 
It seems like a pathetic reach if in order to argue against a basic premise of a thread, you have to take an all too literal approach to it. Wait, there's actually differences between the Blazers and the A's??!!!? No shit. Did she say everything is the EXACT same, and we are the A's? Nope. But since there's not a great way to just dispute the premise, why not be an asshole and troll the thread instead by trying to see ways we differ from the A's. Makes sense.
 
It seems like a pathetic reach if in order to argue against a basic premise of a thread, you have to take an all too literal approach to it. Wait, there's actually differences between the Blazers and the A's??!!!? No shit. Did she say everything is the EXACT same, and we are the A's? Nope. But since there's not a great way to just dispute the premise, why not be an asshole and troll the thread instead by trying to see ways we differ from the A's. Makes sense.

I'm almost scared of what he would be like if he didn't troll.
 
Who's Fabio?

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