ESPN Insider story on Wesley Matthews

[gatorpops]

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

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

 

[Fez Hammersticks]

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.

 

[mgb]

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

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

 

[jlprk]

If you copy, or borrow heavily from, the original work then you might get in trouble if you undermine the commercial value of the original expression...A copy & paste in the right context can be a fair use, but it depends on the use: criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching (including multiple copies for classroom use), scholarship, or research, is not an infringement of copyright.

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.

 

[BLAZER PROPHET]

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.

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.

 

[BLAZER PROPHET]

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

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.

 

[Minstrel]

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.

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.

 

[hasoos]

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.

 

[HailBlazers]

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

 

[jlprk]

You can still excerpt and link, excerpts should just be much less than half the article.

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.)

 

[Minstrel]

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.)

Oh yeah, I missed that. Thanks for pointing it out, I removed it. We already have an excerpt in the first post.

I know, I know, information wants to be free, how dare we have to click a link or pay for content, rabble rabble rabble. Nik gave a nice, concise summary. Wesley is good egg who works hard. We cool?

 

[HailBlazers]

Q & A with Wesley Matthews

http://www.iamatrailblazersfan.com/ArticleDisplayPlaceholder/tabid/192/ItemID/1891/Default.aspx

 

[Nikolokolus]

Q & A with Wesley Matthews

http://www.iamatrailblazersfan.com/ArticleDisplayPlaceholder/tabid/192/ItemID/1891/Default.aspx

Booooooo.

 

[LittleAlex]

Sure thing.

"You're a dummy head," "No, you're a dummy head," "Nuh uh!" "Yes huh!" "Kevin Durant!"

You forgot:
"Player X is a total pile of shit!"
"No! Player X is as good as Lebron and will lead this team to the finals. You must be an idiot not to know that!"
"PER!"
"Per 40 minutes, Player Y would average 60 points a game and 25 rebounds!"
"The roster isn't balanced"
"The roster is the deepest in the league"

etc...

 

[anonymous gambler]

I, for one, am pretty excited to see Wesley play. Perimeter defense has been our downfall for the last few years and I think it's always good to add another impact player on defense- we can probably do some sets with both Batum/Wesley locking down the opponents two best wing players.

 

[MickZagger]

I, for one, am pretty excited to see Wesley play. Perimeter defense has been our downfall for the last few years and I think it's always good to add another impact player on defense- we can probably do some sets with both Batum/Wesley locking down the opponents two best wing players.

Agreed.

 

[Nikolokolus]

You forgot:
"Player X is a total pile of shit!"
"No! Player X is as good as Lebron and will lead this team to the finals. You must be an idiot not to know that!"
"PER!"
"Per 40 minutes, Player Y would average 60 points a game and 25 rebounds!"
"The roster isn't balanced"
"The roster is the deepest in the league"

etc...

I didn't mention those because player X is a total pile of shit and PER is the greatest thing evah.

 

[jlprk]

Oh yeah, I missed that. Thanks for pointing it out, I removed it. We already have an excerpt in the first post.

Okay, so my Post #35 disappeared. Here is something much shorter, mostly in my own words, though quotations are from the article.

Before college, he was smart enough to be recruited by Stanford. In college, he was a good defender, but not a top shooter or overly athletic. After college, he nailed his predraft interviews. "We ask guys to name as many people on our team as they can," said Chad Buchanan. "They usually name one or two. Wesley named damn near our entire roster." All his life, Wesley Matthews IV, the son of NBA player Wesley Matthews III, had expected to be drafted. So he was depressed after the draft.

He sucked for the Jazz in the Orlando Summer League. Then he did much better for the Kings at the Vegas Summer League. A Turkish club offered $120,000. The Jazz invited him to preseason. Thanks to injuries to Miles and Korver before camp broke, Matthews earned a spot. "He doesn't take bad shots, he has a tremendous basketball IQ, and he's a tough SOB," says one Eastern Conference scout. "He just finds a way to make plays. Not drafting him was a grave mistake." Chad Buchanan agrees and says it's extremely rare for a rookie to be a good defender.

Here's a quote from the article.
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While the list of undrafted free agents who saw action in the NBA last season is relatively long -- 70 of 442, or 16% -- their pro tenures are typically not. (Since the NBA-ABA merger of 1976-77, the average undrafted free agent has lasted 2.9 years in the league, compared to six years for the drafted.) Even shorter is the list of undrafted guys who stick around long enough to carve out solid careers. Ben Wallace, Brad Miller and Udonis Haslem come to mind. Shorter still is the rundown of those who made a splash as a walk-on straight out of college and then signed a huge free agent deal before their second season. Wesley Matthews isn't just on that list; he is that list.