evilwaldo
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LeBron has come out in support of the G League being a true developmental league. I can only imagine the stuff he sees but keeps quiet with regard to his sons.
“You look at pros overseas, some of those guys get signed at 14, but they get put into this farm system where they’re able to grow and be around other professionals for three or four years, then we’re they’re ready they hit the national team or when they’re ready they become a pro.
“We’re worried about kids coming into the league early but they’re not ready, then out of the league because of that. I don’t have the answer to it right now, but I’ve kind of been brainstorming a lot. If you look at Messi’s story, he was a professional for like five or six years before he actually became a professional.” -
2 hours ago, Niners Fan in CT said:
I feel anything below "world title match" is beneath Braun at this point. I could have seen Braun/Cena working but Cena has been losing fairly often. It's amazing that 5 weeks out Braun has no direction..
They have spent so long building up Braun that he has to be on the top level by now. IC is beneath him and stalls his build.
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8 hours ago, Keep Calm, Akira Hokuto On said:
Doesn't Brock's contract run out right after WM?
Meltzer has said that Vince "doesn't trust" Rollins to be the man, for some reason or other.
I assume Vince was scared by a crossfitter when he was a baby.
That and his first run as a cowardly heel champ went over like a lead balloon. Him needing HHH and Steph for protection did a lot of damage to his Champion cred.
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Both Gold Medal hockey games were classics.
Pavel Datsyuk gets to put a capstone on the career of a generational player.
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1 hour ago, muhammedboehm said:
No they don't there zero evidence that there is a boost to attendance or ratings for NHL games post Olympics.
The Olympics get the boost in ratings.
The use of footage is the key point. The NHL wanted top tier sponsor levels so they can use the footage. By putting the footage in a vault, it hurts all of the sports.
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Anyone believe Calipari runs a clean program?
http://www.kentucky.com/sports/college/kentucky-sports/uk-basketball-men/article201732504.html
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The NBA is a much bigger league so the added exposure means very little to the NBA's bottom line. Basketball is a Summer Olympic sport and does not require stopping the league in progress for two weeks. Same goes for soccer in Europe. The Olympics are during the off season.
It sucks for small sports that the IOC keeps an iron fist over past footage. Do they have a WWE style app where you can stream past footage? Nope. The current app is as bare bones as you can get.
So now, when the Olympics end everyone walks away. Sports like Luge and Skeleton that were billed as Extreme Sports will lose all their momentum because there is no footage online. Everyone will forget about those sports in a week and they drift back into obscurity.
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http://www.cbc.ca/sports/hockey/nhl/nhl-olympics-dispute-1.4054830
Problem solved, right? Not so fast. Reports then surfaced that the IIHF's offer wasn't good enough for the NHL, which was seeking something akin to "top sponsor" status with the IOC. Such a deal would give the league additional marketing considerations and the use of certain Olympic content on its own platforms.
When do you ever see Men's Ice Hockey footage used by the NHL? The whole dispute is over the ability of the NHL to use Olympic footage.
Of course, the league would use it as a bargaining chip. That is natural CBA negotiations. The players never negotiated the Olympics last time so this would require opening up the CBA.
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It is not Bettman's fault the NHL players are not there. Blame the IOC. The NHL cannot use any player footage because the IOC holds onto it with an iron grip.
Want to use the Crosby Gold Medal winning goal footage? Nope. Want to use any footage of an NHL player in the Olympics for advertising purposes? Nope.
If the IOC was not such a pain with respect to footage they would be there. Imagine the playoff commercials using footage of players in the Olympics.
The whole dispute came down to the NHL wanting to use footage of their players for promotional purposes, past and present, and the IOC refused every request. The NHL wanted top sponsor status where they could use footage of the players like Wheaties and so on. The NHL is giving the IOC their players for two weeks so they should get something in return, right? Not according to the IOC.
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The last paragraph is why I get so riled up over the NBA and NCAA.
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15 hours ago, SorceressKnight said:
The problem there is that development for basketball leagues doesn't change the simple fact...basketball is the one sport where superstars matter the most. Unlike the other big sports where there's other variables, in basketball, the team that has the best player on the court is probably going to win the game.
This will always make the G-League fail to develop stars, simply because any players who are stars enough to need the development from college would probably already be able to contribute for an NBA team out of the gate- and no matter how much developing the G-League does, the best they can do is turn a fringe player into a rotation guy. MAYBE.
For the G-League to be blown up and develop players, "letting high school seniors go to the G-League" won't help because any high school seniors who'd have superstar potential could just be drafted into the NBA out of high school as it is. You would have to go further and go past "let high school graduates go to the G-League for a year", and go to following Lamelo Ball's footsteps and say :if a high school freshman, sophomore, or junior REALLY wants to and a G League team would take them, they have the opportunity to drop out of high school and enter the G-League."
The NBA has never had a true farm system. The NCAA would weed people out when they stayed for three years. After three years in college, scouts have a good idea of your skillset. You can't hide your weaknesses for three years.
Staying in school for three years would dismiss the projects. They would have to learn at the college level instead of the NBA level and give kids who have good fundamentals a shot at getting drafted. RIght now, lottery picks are based on upside and the second rounders are all International kids. Good kids that have good fundamentals and can actually play the game are squeezed out because teams are not looking for talent, they are focused on upside.
When they started letting kids come in after high school, that was the moment it all fell apart. Kwame Brown and his career 6.6 ppg is the poster child.
They pushed kids into staying one year in college but that has turned out to be a joke. Kids just try not to get injured while covering their faults long enough to wow scouts with their measurables. It is not hard to hide your weaknesses when you play your first 10-12 games against poor teams and another 10-12 games against bad teams.
The reason why teams like Toronto find someone like Anunoby or the Spurs with Parker or the Warriors with Green is because they are not locked into upside. They drafted someone that fits their system and has talent. Being in the right system with talent that complements the other players helps further development.
Look at the Sixers with Noel and Okafor. They screwed up their development by trying to make them play outside their skill sets. Twin towers and then draft Embiid. Make someone with no range play the four spot.
I would love to see a true developmental league where kids can learn in a structured format for a year or so before being drafted and/or play in a real minor league system where they can develop and get called up at any time. Even those kids who have superstar potential could benefit from starting out in the minor league and get called up after 5-10 games. The whole game of basketball would benefit from better players at the NBA level.
I am talking about something like baseball or hockey where you send kids down to AAA/AHL for a month before calling them up.
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On 11/16/2017 at 2:59 PM, Tromatagon said:
So many people stealing shit from that show without attributing it to us.
I don't know how Meltzer handles it, I want to cut off their handsWelcome to the Internet where creators get sh*t on every day for doing all of the hard work.
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8 hours ago, sabremike said:
On this we absolutely 100% agree. But do you think the G League can play the role colleges have played in developing players only with them being pros and getting paid?
I think the G league should because, let's be honest, the D league is not developmental in the least and the kids sure don't get any development in college. They are one and done trying not to get injured while playing as to avoid, not improve, on their faults.
Hopefully this blows it up but they should expand the probe to football as well.
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The whole system needs to be blown up all the way down to the AAU level. I agree with Sir Charles comments. Same with Kobe. The kids never learn to play. From the moment they enter an AAU program the kids are tossed around and used by everyone from the coaches to the handlers to the shoe companies. How do you turn pro at 19 and not know how to shoot a jump shot? When I learned to play it was one of the first things you learned. Now it is all about driving and dunking. Fundamentals are not taught.
The biggest middle finger the NCAA gives everyone is Kentucky. Calipari had a Final Four appearance vacated at UMass, wins vacated at Memphis, and now at Kentucky the top kids come to play for a year before they go to the NBA Draft. We all know he runs a dirty program but nobody cares.
If you are going to pay the kids, make it above board. Kid gets a SUV and special apartment on campus along with money funneled to his cousin from a friend of some boosters. Quit playing the game that they are student athletes because there is no student here.
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19 hours ago, sabremike said:
I think we should force you and anyone else who espouses that bullshit to be an indentured servant to a disgusting corrupt and vile entity for 3 years and see how you all like it.
Someone is triggered. REeeeeeeeeee!!!!!
The irony of your hate filled post is that this is the deal for football for a very good reason. Kids like Ball come out with little in the way of actual fundamentals, like a jump shot. But they have great Youtube highlight reels from ESPN in college and measurables so whatever. If they stayed in school, they would be forced to actually learn how to play the game rather than hide any shortcomings which would hurt their draft stock.
Baseball is a whole different story because of the talent gap and the depth of the minor league system.
Hockey will allow players to play out their college career.
Don't be silly. All kids in college get paid major money under the table. Cars, cash, etc. All though cousins and others who funnel the money back to the 'students.'
There are two great lies in college sports today.
1. 'Amateur student athletes' do not get paid.
2. The faux outrage when a cheating scandal is uncovered.
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On 2/13/2018 at 4:46 PM, RolandTHTG said:
I still think Lebron ends up at the Lakers, probably with Paul George, and in doing so, practically give Julius Randle away for free.
Whether or not they can offload Ball is another thing.
Ball is just too toxic right now. The dad is telling everyone that they are an all in one package. What a mess. Nobody wants that circus and nobody is signing the kids knowing the circus surrounding them.
The Ball Circus is why the NBA needs to keep kids in the NCAA's for a minimum of three seasons.
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I think that is part of the problem. If he was engaged from Opening Night, they would not have these problems.
The All Star Game is coming up and then the push to the playoffs.
My gripe in this that teams like the Warriors and Rockets have been engaged since Opening Night. LeBron is 33 and not practicing and not being engaged is going to bite him hard in a few seasons but hey he gets a max contract.
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Remember that LeBron will automatically get all of the calls in the playoffs. It happens every year.
This year is the best year to get past Cleveland. LeBron is clearly looking forward to a max contract and has little interest in the Cavs. As for the options, Toronto has to show they can win in the playoffs. The WIzards, maybe. The Celtics are young and Kyrie will go off in the playoffs to prove LeBron wrong.
Whoever wins is just fodder for the Warriors.
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21 hours ago, Infinit said:
All this talk about the Celtics and Cavs...who's in first place in the East??
They will collapse in the playoffs like they do every year. The guards cannot handle pressure and fall apart in the playoffs.
I can't blame Cleveland for not doing much more. Why give up the Nets pick if LeBron wants The Decision 3.0?
It all comes down to Cleveland and Boston in the ECF.
Boston is young but Cleveland is only one player.
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On Saturday night, AAA's Instagram account welcomed back Blue Demon Jr.
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9 hours ago, Niners Fan in CT said:
Iso Joe back with D'Antoni yep. Also, IT did come off the bench for the Lakers tonight. He had 22 points and 6 assists. Cavs might look really dumb in a couple weeks.
They already do.
8 hours ago, Brian Fowler said:Even if IT gets right, the fit with LeBron was questionable at best, and he had badly ostracised himself from the locker room. And they desperately needed even league average defense at the point, which he could never provide.
I feel really bad for him though. I wish he had gotten that shot and broken out a few years earlier, before the injury and the fact that really small players almost always age poorly could be a major issue in him getting one big contract.
When you don't practice and have a new PG come in during the middle of the season it spells trouble. LeBron could have headed this off but he is going to free agency after the season and could care less about Cleveland.
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When do we realize that the problem in Cleveland is LeBron, not IT? No practice and you have the second worst defensive rating with a PG returning from hip surgery?
There was an article a few days ago that said his former Heat teammates know he is gone at the end of the season because he is acting the exact same way as he did in his last year with the Heat. -
Kelce’s promo was amazing live. He wound up and when the f’bombs dropped it was a full minute cursing out everyone who put us down as a team and a city.
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Can we get a picture of Tom Brady showing good sportsmanship by shaking Nick Foles hand after the game? Oh, wait.....
7 hours ago, Infinit said:Only 5 more and the Eagles can match our Lombardis.
But ours was won doing something you have a problem doing in the playoffs.
We will take it and savor this moment for the longest time. 1960.
Somewhere in Philly, Brady St. got renamed Foles St.
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Raw Is I Don't Fear That Bitch - 2/26/2018
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You could always do a Tyson/Douglas where the champ gets lazy and his opponent pulls out a surprise win. Wait, that requires effort from the booking committee.