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As the season winds down and pre-playoff time, I wanted to get everyones thoughts on a few problems I see with the way games are officiated in general. This isn't necessarily a knock on the officials; since a lot of this stuff is across the board, I can only assume they are being trained to call games this way and being reinforced when they do. That being said, here are a few common problems that I notice:1) The block/charge call. This has been my hot button for several years. I watch very little college, but they seem to get it right far, far more often than the NBA does. In the NBA, the

Right, I'm sure most teams just dominate the top 10 teams in the league.The Cavs should get themselves closer to .500 against the other teams so this number isn't so skewed. :)Me too actually

Are there any best practices to get some back end finish other than "Keep your hand under the ball" and "Crank it and follow through"? Cause I seem to have tried that. I know it isn't my ball cause the 220 bowler in our league threw one shot and it finished twice as hard as mine ever did.

Laid an egg against the Magic. Pretty clear now this guy isn't anywhere near as good as advertised...Howard just had his lunch

I often wonder if you go out of your way to be an annoying, unfunny troll or if it just comes natural to you.

? No one was getting him without giving up 2 first rounders. The third round pick plus a servicable NFL quarterback in return is what sealed the deal.

Just saw this thread. One person is getting owned in this thread and one person is doing the owning. Guess which is which?

Ballooning cashier balance

Hmmm ok well i tried it this way and it worked. Thanks!

This is true, especially with those receivers in Denver he will probably be a slightly above average quarterback this year.That being said...and maybe someone from NE or DEN can answer this best...does McDaniels really think he can just take anyone and plug them in and the ship will run itself? Listening to his press conference, he just said "There isn't a specific mild we're looking for. Cassell wasn't Brady and Brady wasn't Cassell." He sounds like a rookie in the NBA who has gone like 165-14 through high school and college and says "I never lost before, I'm not about to start now"....umm

Hmmmm yeah, not showing up for me?

This happening to anyone else?

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You are wrong.Say you ran this particiular hand three times on every hand. Should it be factored in to your thought process now? No...you're going to lose 2 and win 1, on average. Not a good push. You run it once...you're going to lose 66% of the time, and win 33%. Not a good push. You run it twice...you are going to tie a certain % of the time which I don't know the exact math on...you are going to win both a certain %, and lose both a certain %...which I guarantee you comes out to, long-term, losing 66% and winning 33%.How often you run something should never change your thought proces

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Why? Why would how many times your running it change your thought process? We've established it doesn't change the EV...so why does the variance matter to the correctness of the play?

I'm not so sure why it is so difficult to see that VT is clearly right. The justification makes no sense. Just like VT said, -EV plays are -EV plays. Hell, I don't even know if the play he made was -EV or not, but trying to justify by saying it's reduced variance when called is just ridiculous thinking.If a push there is +EV because he is going to fold a lot, why would you do it less if you are running it once? Because it's reduced variance? It doesn't make sense. A +EV play is a +EV play, a -EV play is a -EV play. How many times you potentially may run it shouldn't affect anything. Pe

Also, I'm gonna go on record as saying this about Derrick Rose. He has more athletic ability and can make more athletic plays than any point guard, I'll say it, in the history of the league. There has never been a player like Derrick Rose when you combine all of his attributes. That being said, he is an average passer, an average shooter, and a slightly above average on the ball defender, and a basically non-existent help defender. I don't think he'll ever be on the Chris Paul level and it probably won't be close. A top 5 point guard in the league that makes a few all star games sounds ab

The funny part is, on the Afternoon Saloon yesterday he said that was in fact the designed play. He said it had "worked in the past". Ok...because Gordon hits one lucky fadeaway over Bosh to send a game into overtime, that should be the play every time! After all, it worked once!I think Vinny has actually made minor progress, they don't switch every pick anymore, and his sub patterns have improved greatly from the beginning of the year. However, his improvement takes him from clearly the worst coach in the league to somewhere in the bottom 5.

Or you could just put it in a blog

I never thought I'd say this, but that was actually pretty funny Rose

Bump

Lolololol gallownage

This guy is ahead of the learning curve folks

Tell that to Rose