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Roses are red, violets are blue. I'm tired of this thread, I don't know about you.
 
Roses are red, violets are blue. I'm tired of this thread, I don't know about you.

Roses are red, ultra-violets aren't blue, Sergio is gone, boo hoo hoo hoo.

barfo
 
Yes, if you want to build a case based on the difference between reflect and refract then I guess you can. But then you are just saying that air is gaseous and the car is a solid, nothing more profound than that. What determines the color is the wavelength of the photons that bounce off into your eyes.

Really? Every indoor pool is painted blue? And if you failed to paint one blue, the water would appear clear?
barfo

A big difference, and a profound one at that.

Every one I have ever seen. And yes, water is clear. Got a clear glass and a faucet? (If the water looks blue, don't drink it. It might be toilet bowl cleaner.)
 
Damn, Nate ruined Sergio from 3,000 miles away. He played for the perfect coach in NY and still couldn't make it in the NBA. Maybe having the ability to throw a pass to a dunking Rudy everyother game isn't enough. He does have excellent over dribbling skills, the ability to pass and not try a layup, and of course play defense like a bull fighter. Damn you Nate, Sergio could have kept our 15 man on roster seat warm and complained about the great pass that he made two games ago.

Thank GOD for real he left. It is hard to imagine a player that can't score who is under 6'10" from over 5' away. When he sucks in Europe, Nate will still be responsible, right?
 
Wow, that's a poorly done test. The "white" paper they used is clearly greenish-blue (note the contrast with the white screen next to it, and viewed through the darker, water-filled tube merely appears to be a darker shade of green-blue.

It was your link :)
Do you really think they used a greenish-blue piece of paper? Maybe they put blue food-coloring in the water, too.

It's not very good photography. But it is clearly the correct result.

barfo
 
Define "tired"...


Well, tired can often mean several different things. For instance, tired can be about what you put on your car wheels. Also, it can included in a phrase with 'feathers', as in "I think he was tired and feathered". But in the context of which I meant, in accordance to my 8th grade PE teacher, tired means "the act of, and belief in, being able to understand the concept wholly, within the guidelines of the state requirements regarding the level of oxygen that is parsing through ones brain, at any given time during an activity which is centered on the concept of improving the overall health and well being of an individual who wishes to maintain a particular heart-rate over a 60 minute time period to fit the standard of 40 beats per minute resting rate."
 
It was your link :)
Do you really think they used a greenish-blue piece of paper? Maybe they put blue food-coloring in the water, too.

It's not very good photography. But it is clearly the correct result.

barfo

Whether you call it white or blue, both tubes show the same exact color, one is simply a darker shade than the other. Neither appears blue to me and definitely not white. From my many years in printing I can tell you actual "white" paper is a rarity, as most paper contains many tiny colored threads.
 
I'm trying to read a thread about Sergio and his future in the NBA, and the Powers that Be have turned it into a lesson in color, and how we perceive them.

Dumb
 
Amusing to see the haters doing the "foot in mouth" play here, and it will be fun to call them on it when their lack of talent recognition comes back to embarass them in the very near future.:biglaugh:

Awesome. MARIS61 showing his level of "talent recognition". :biglaugh:

MARIS61 said:
Laugh all you want but when I think of Pippen's early style of play and his awareness of the total game, only Viktor comes to mind.

This trade could end up a worse, but more predictable, one than Bowie/Jordan.
 
Maris and Sergio are quite similar. Sergio thinks he was taught enough about basketball by 7th grade coaches to play in the NBA. Maris thinks a 7th grade teacher knows enough about wavelengths, reflected and absorbed, to give him enough knowledge to correct people on an NBA internet forum.
 
Maris and Sergio are quite similar. Sergio thinks he was taught enough about basketball by 7th grade coaches to play in the NBA. Maris thinks a 7th grade teacher knows enough about wavelengths, reflected and absorbed, to give him enough knowledge to correct people on an NBA internet forum.

And it turns out we are both correct. :devilwink:
 
Does anyone know what or who Encectando.es is?

Every mention of this "story" on the internet is the same blurb quoting Encectando.es as the only source. No web search I try brings up Encectando.es, just posts quoting this blurb. I have never heard of it.
 
Better yet, anybody have a verifiable report from a credible source?
 
Does anyone know what or who Encectando.es is?

Every mention of this "story" on the internet is the same blurb quoting Encectando.es as the only source. No web search I try brings up Encectando.es, just posts quoting this blurb. I have never heard of it.

What it is is a typo. The article linked in the first post had a working link to it www.encestando.es


bad translator said:
Chosen in draft of the 2006 by the Suns de Phoenix but transferred immediately to the Blazers de Portland, he militated in the tax exemption of Oregon three campaigns.

It's that damn measure 66 and 67 again! Driving point guards out of state.

barfo
 
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Thanks! It's all in Spanish. Is it a message board, a sports news wannabe like hoopshype, or a credible news source?
 
Thanks! It's all in Spanish. Is it a message board, a sports news wannabe like hoopshype, or a credible news source?

No sé. No puedo hablar español, sino que por lo menos sé que el agua es azul.

barfo
 
Not to distract from the dsitraction, but Maris, why didn't Sergio stick? I mean so many teams' hopes of a title have rested on the young Spaniard. How did Portland, Sacto, and NY not get it?
 
"Sergio finally realizes that he is not an NBA caliber player."

All the Knick fans said he was better than Chris Duhon last year. Duhon has been in the league about 6 years and will last about 10. Sergio could have had a 10-year career in the NBA.

He chooses to be a major player in Europe instead of a minor player in the NBA. But he is definitely an NBA caliber player.

And given 6 years like Duhon has had, he would have gotten better than Duhon. Duhon has started many games in this league.
 
Sergio is what, 22? For Webster we say, he's only 25, wait another 5 years!
 
Sergio is 23. Last year's rookie Toney Douglas will probably replace Duhon now. Douglas is 3 months OLDER than Sergio. So Sergio has many years left, and several Olympics vs. the US. He and Rudy look great in the Spanish system, and Spain with Rudy and Rubio gave the US all it could handle in that one game (can't remember the date, I think it was before the gold medal game, but it was decided in the last minute, and the US was trying its hardest all game long). The NBA way is not the only way.

Duhon was the Knick starter. Sergio arrived late in the season, yet started many times in place of Duhon. Had Sergio arrived at the start of the season Sergio would have been the regular starter. D'Antoni knows the roster will be turned over this summer and didn't want to bother trying new things at the end of the season, yet Sergio was good enough that D'Antoni was forced to install him as starter in many games.

Sergio got big offers from 3 major Spanish teams in May (unsolicited--he would have gotten a lot more offers had he solicited them), while the Knicks are keeping him waiting all summer while they first find out which FAs they will sign. Instead of letting the Spanish offers lapse while waiting for the scraps the Knicks will have remaining after their big signings months from now, Sergio went for the money. European teams normally sign their players now, not at the end of the summer, and the offers might have lapsed had he kept them waiting. He will make more in Europe than in the NBA because the dollar is worth less than the euro.
 
Does anyone know what or who Encectando.es is? Every mention of this "story" on the internet is the same blurb quoting Encectando.es as the only source. No web search I try brings up Encectando.es, just posts quoting this blurb. I have never heard of it.

I translated it. The blog entry gives no source, like, "the team announced that..." It's written by Javier Maestro, who writes many other entries on the blog. So he's probably like an editor, not a random fan. Maris is right that this isn't much of a source.

It says 4-5 teams pursued Sergio, especially one that has been after him for a year. He went with the Cadillac team Real Madrid which is a constant threat to win the European championship. It says they want experienced players and were wary that Sergio had lost the Continental style in his 4-year absence from Europe. (His detractors here would assure them he hasn't.)

Knick fans aren't very happy about not giving Sergio a chance...
http://www.postingandtoasting.com/2010/5/31/1495061/sergio-rodriguez-back-to-spain
 
This must be longhand for, " ... and Sergio still sucks and couldn't cut it in the NBA."

In a thread before the season started, I said I thought Sergio would be back in Europe within 3 Years. Nic predicted 1. Kudos, sir.
 
In a thread before the season started, I said I thought Sergio would be back in Europe within 3 Years. Nic predicted 1. Kudos, sir.

Or maybe not:

Sergio Rodriguez's agent, Jose Ortiz, denied the rumors appearead on a Spanish media on a deal already done between his player and Real Madrid.

"The news published is not real" said Ortiz who added that Sergio would love to return to Knicks next season.

"The proposal made by Knicks was better in the latest weeks. However we did not reach an agreement yet. Sergio has also offers from some ACB clubs. We are not in rush to find a new club" finished Ortiz.
 
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"Sergio finally realizes that he is not an NBA caliber player."

All the Knick fans said he was better than Chris Duhon last year. Duhon has been in the league about 6 years and will last about 10. Sergio could have had a 10-year career in the NBA.

He chooses to be a major player in Europe instead of a minor player in the NBA. But he is definitely an NBA caliber player.

And given 6 years like Duhon has had, he would have gotten better than Duhon. Duhon has started many games in this league.

FWIW, I don't think too many people see Chris Duhon as an NBA caliber point guard ... or at least a good one.
 

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