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2012-13 Oct/Nov NBA Season |OT| Mavericks Attempt To Defend Title

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shira

shira

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Bowling might cost Bynum season
Sixers center Andrew Bynum, already on the sidelines, has found an unnecessary way to land himself in the headlines, too, on Sunday confirming reports his left knee began swelling after he went bowling on Nov. 10. ... A prominent, highly respected orthopedic surgeon who is not involved in Bynum's treatment and has not seen his MRIs, told The News Journal that Bynum has likely been diagnosed with osteochondral lesions. The condition may heal on its own, but will likely keep Bynum from practicing until March or April, at the earliest. If it doesn't heal, Bynum will require surgery that could sideline him for up to a year. He should find out if he needs surgery by as early as December, the surgeon said.
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http://www.courierpostonline.com/ar...could-cost-him-season?gcheck=1&nclick_check=1
 
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ClovingWestbrook

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linsivvi said:
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Is it a PC game?
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Ugh. Tryin to keep it on the DL Hughley.
 
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LegendofJoe

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h3ro said:
I don't think it's appropriate for a physician not involved in a patient's care to be speaking to the press about what medical issues that person might have. Regardless of how 'respected' they are, you just don't do it.
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Educated speculation is at least better than idle speculation, but nontheless I agree.

and wow does it suck to be a Sixer fan. What in the hell are they going to do about Bynum in the offseason? Do they sign him or let him walk?
 
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MorisUkunRasik

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LegendofJoe said:
Educated speculation is at least better than idle speculation, but nontheless I agree.

and wow does it suck to be a Sixer fan. What in the hell are they going to do about Bynum in the offseason? Do they sign him or let him walk?
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No Moris, don't say it. Knux is good people, keep that one to yourself.
 
shira

shira

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h3ro said:
I don't think it's appropriate for a physician not involved in a patient's care to be speaking to the press about what medical issues that person might have. Regardless of how 'respected' they are, you just don't do it.
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So if a guy/girl was scamming workers comp and a health care professional knew about it, they should just keep quiet. No harm, no foul?
 
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reilo

learning some important life lessons from magical Negroes
*ahem*

Fun trivia morsel for your Monday lunch: These Knicks are the first team ever to get outrebounded in every game of a 6-0 start.
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*ahem*x2

The party hasn't started quite yet. Not with Steve Nash (leg) potentially out for another week and not with L.A.'s five wins coming against teams that are a combined 17-35 this season.
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*ahem*x3

The victims in this five-game winning streak have a composite record of 13-27. (Brooklyn)
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Jeff-DSA

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iamshadowlark said:
The tablet controller is by at large the most expensive part though.Thats probably the whole reason you can't buy an extra one.
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Processing power to push to two tablets would be too much. You'd have to split the frames per second for games like NSMBU and it would be a disaster.
 
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reilo

learning some important life lessons from magical Negroes
So, how bad is the Wii U? I read a comment that early discussion went from "how much developers would have to scale games down to port them to Wii U" to "whether it can be up to part with PS3/360". Is that true? If so, lol.
 
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charsace

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Nintendo fucked up imo. They should have focused on parallel computing like everyone else because I feel the next systems will be the biggest shift we have seen since the PSX/Saturn/N64. I believe game play is going to change due to general computing, procedural design, greatly improved physics, and the geometry shader will lead to great things once people figure it out. Nintendo needed to save the tablet for the system after the WiiU because by then they could have probably put together a tablet even better than the one the WiiU has for cheap.

reilo said:
So, how bad is the Wii U? I read a comment that early discussion went from "how much developers would have to scale games down to port them to Wii U" to "whether it can be up to part with PS3/360". Is that true? If so, lol.
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The ram has less bandwidth than the ram in the PS360 and the CPU is worse than what's in the PS360. It has the advantage in the GPU, but the GPU has to do the work for the tablet and is bottlenecked by the ram bus and the CPU. People are making excuses for the launch ports, but this isn't the devs fault.

People expecting the WiiU to match something like Metro 2033 on PC with some advanced physics are gonna be really disappointed.
 
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iamshadowlark

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Jeff-DSA said:
Processing power to push to two tablets would be too much. You'd have to split the frames per second for games like NSMBU and it would be a disaster.
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So why make the dumb thing mandatory? Just seems stupid to base the whole console around that gimmick but limit it to one player.
 
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Jeff-DSA

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reilo said:
So, how bad is the Wii U? I read a comment that early discussion went from "how much developers would have to scale games down to port them to Wii U" to "whether it can be up to part with PS3/360". Is that true? If so, lol.
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It's GAFerbole.

The development tools provided by Nintendo haven't been up to par thus far, but they'll improve those. Launch day ports always suck, it's not something that's new to the Wii U.
 
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reilo

learning some important life lessons from magical Negroes
Man, I really dislike Nintendo's UI aesthetic. The pastel colors, the cheap emboss, the iconography, all of it screams amateur to me.
 
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Jeff-DSA

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reilo said:
Man, I really dislike Nintendo's UI aesthetic. The pastel colors, the cheap emboss, the iconography, all of it screams amateur to me.
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"Family friendly" is what you mean, right? It looks pretty childish, but I've never cared too much. I'm never too concerned about console/handheld UIs unless they get in they way of enjoying the machine on a user experience level. I just want to launch games and play. I don't spend a lot of time in dashboards and such.
 
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reilo

learning some important life lessons from magical Negroes
At launch, there are two ways to buy a Wii U. The Basic Edition costs $299.99 and comes with 8GB of internal storage, a GamePad, the sensor bar, and all the chargers and cables you'll need (including an HDMI cable, a rare and appreciated addition). For $349.99 you can get the Deluxe Edition, which gets you 32GB of storage in the console, charging stands for the various devices, and a copy of Nintendo Land. You should buy the Deluxe Edition, if you can find it: the actual available storage in the Basic Edition is less than 4GB, plus Nintendo Land is a fun game you’ll probably want to own. If you do get the cheaper model, you can plug an external hard drive into a USB port and get up to 2TB more storage if you need it, but the drive will be specifically formatted for the Wii U and won’t work anywhere else. Plus, games can’t be run from an external drive, so again — the Deluxe Edition is the way to go.
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... :|

The whole thing feels a little cheap and flimsy (a common occurrence with Nintendo consoles) though it's plenty sturdy in use. The build quality is one of many sacrifices Nintendo seems to make in the name of creating a lighter, smaller GamePad. Most tradeoffs I could live with, but not the battery, which insisted on dying after only about three hours of gameplay — Nintendo obviously sacrificed battery size to keep the GamePad light, and it overshot the balance a bit. I had to have the GamePad's charger, which includes yet another huge brick, accessible at all times when I was playing, because as you'll see there's basically no Wii U without the GamePad.
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:| x2

Jeff-DSA said:
"Family friendly" is what you mean, right? It looks pretty childish, but I've never cared too much. I'm never too concerned about console/handheld UIs unless they get in they way of enjoying the machine on a user experience level. I just want to launch games and play. I don't spend a lot of time in dashboards and such.
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"Ugly" is what I actually meant.
 
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charsace

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Jeff-DSA said:
It's GAFerbole.

The development tools provided by Nintendo haven't been up to par thus far, but they'll improve those. Launch day ports always suck, it's not something that's new to the Wii U.
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People say this, but when has a new system had problems running ports that are made for older systems that have less memory?
 
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Vahagn

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The way the Lakers have played the last several games, including the SA game. They're just dominant. They pretty much get everything they want when Kobe's on the floor. They probably lose 10-15 points when he sits, but that problem won't be happening once Nash is back as he'll be in some of those minutes.



Kobe's +/- is a plus 110 and Pau is +/- 105 - top 2 in the league.


Usually I don't put that much emphasis on those stats, but considering we've only had 10 games...when Kobe's on the floor the team outscores opponents by 11 points on average...that's even in the losses.


You bring back Nash and limit the crazy minuses when Kobe's off the floor, and this team should comfortably beat 80% of the teams in the NBA on any given night.


Edit: On a related note, Lebron isn't even on the +/- top 25 list which just blows my mind and Carmelo is 6th in the league. MVP at this point is probably Melo (the record) or Kobe (pure production)
 
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reilo

learning some important life lessons from magical Negroes
It's a disaster of a touchscreen, though: the resistive display often doesn't register taps or swipes at all, and you have to really mash on the screen to get it to register.
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... resistive touchscreen display? wtf.
 
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Red Blaster

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Vahagn said:
The way the Lakers have played the last several games, including the SA game. They're just dominant. They pretty much get everything they want when Kobe's on the floor. They probably lose 10-15 points when he sits, but that problem won't be happening once Nash is back as he'll be in some of those minutes.



Kobe's +/- is a plus 110 and Pau is +/- 105 - top 2 in the league.


Usually I don't put that much emphasis on those stats, but considering we've only had 10 games...when Kobe's on the floor the team outscores opponents by 11 points on average...that's even in the losses.


You bring back Nash and limit the crazy minuses when Kobe's off the floor, and this team should comfortably beat 80% of the teams in the NBA on any given night.


Edit: On a related note, Lebron isn't even on the +/- top 25 list which just blows my mind and Carmelo is 6th in the league. MVP at this point is probably Melo (the record) or Kobe (pure production)
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The party hasn't started quite yet. Not with Steve Nash (leg) potentially out for another week and not with L.A.'s five wins coming against teams that are a combined 17-35 this season.
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Vahagn

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Red Blaster said:
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Spurs say whats up. The Lakers dominated the Spurs when Kobe was on the floor, and lost about 15 points when he was off it.


But hey, if you actually think the Lakers can't beat playoff teams, don't quote someone else, just say so. So I can reference your claim every time they do
 
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MorisUkunRasik

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Vahagn said:
Spurs say whats up. The Lakers dominated the Spurs when Kobe was on the floor, and lost about 15 points when he was off it.


But hey, if you actually think the Lakers can't beat playoff teams, don't quote someone else, just say so. So I can reference your claim every time they do
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Don't brag about a game LAL lost, don't suck on Kobe when his weak perimeter D was the reason Green won the game.
 
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Jeff-DSA

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charsace said:
People say this, but when has a new system had problems running ports that are made for older systems that have less memory?
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Early ports are never optimized for the system. Yeah, it's mostly Nintendo's fault for providing weak dev tools, but it's not going to be an issue in the future. Devs just don't know how to work around the bottlenecks right yet. Look at the PS3, there were MASSIVE performance gaps between PS3 and 360 versions of games early on, especially with UE3 games.

I don't really care too much in the end. It's really the exclusive games that are going to be the draw to the Wii U. Ports are for single console owners only.
 
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LegendofJoe

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Anything you read about Nintendo from the traditional gaming media is pretty much guaranteed to be worthless. The hate the fact that Nintendo doesn't cater to them with handouts and advertising money.
 
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reilo

learning some important life lessons from magical Negroes
Vahagn said:
Spoken like a guy who's nuanced understanding of basketball is based on only the final score.



"Oh the team lost by 2? The team is horrible, they can't beat anyone."
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Moral Victory Parade.
 
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Vahagn

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reilo said:
Moral Victory Parade.
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smh, nuanced understanding of basketball arguments indeed.

Red Blaster said:
Laker fans literally bragging about a moral victory

lololololol
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So you weren't willing to make that claim then huh? Ok cool.


reilo said:
Mitt Romney only lost the popular vote by 3%.
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Oh Reilo. Really? Comparing the final election results for Romney's last ever attempt at the Presidency with a regular season NBA game in November?

I shouldn't have to even state this, but if you want to equate a regular season game with a presidential election...The more apt comparison would be like looking at polling data for a candidate that's down by 2% and is under-performing but you know he should be doing better 6 months before the election. Just like a Laker regular season game in November
 
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reilo

learning some important life lessons from magical Negroes
Yes, "nuanced". AKA I looked at an advanced stat sheet to infer sweeping generalizations based on the smallest sample size available: 1 fucking game.
 
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