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2012 NBA Offseason |OT2| Lakers Fans Despise Freedom.
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Oh god I will avatar bet and bet so many more things
MorisUkunRasik
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You'll take that bet but not the overall record bet?
Season record bet. If Nets record is better than Knicks after 82 games you get to Don a Nets avatar with "Nets record > Knicks record", if Knicks win you pick my avatar with "Knicks record > Nets record".
I think the entire offseason is a good length for the avatar.
What's in it for me? I don't care if you got a shitty humiliating avatar of a half-naked Fatlon.
The Frankman
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Simple enough.
The Frankman
Banned
I'll probably do the Knicks/Nets bet, but I'm waiting for the pre-season to end before making any.
LegendofJoe
Member
A+ entertainment. Why is the season so far away?!?
You'll be the one wearing a dumb looking avatar. I've made a few of these bets on GAF and I haven't lost yet. I've seen Amar'e and he's in much better shape. He's at least 10lbs lighter. Still think he won't play 75 or more games.
And what was the record bet? I gotta see what Faton and Drunkard look like in the preseason first and how much Wood Mike has for JR this season.
ItWasMeantToBe19
Banned
The Nets have a lot more good players than the Knicks, the Nets have five while the Knicks have three or four and two of those players are just limited role players in Brewer and maybe Camby.
MorisUkunRasik
Member
Yea.
Melo and Chandler compliment eachother pretty well, but Amare and Melo are pretty bad together.
Melo needs a PNR showrunner like Lin, Melo needs defensive bigs who can rebound.
Boombloxer
Member
Let them hold on to their delusions of relevance, been the first time in years.
The Frankman
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Ignoring the Felton/Amar'e PnR in 2010? Wait, Chandler and Camby aren't defensive rebounding bigs?
Seriously, you guys are awesome today with the half-facts.
darkside31337
Tomodachi wa Mahou
Don't worry Lakers fan he already signed with the Hornets.
If only the Hornets had a point guard, they'd be pretty damn good.
Syphon Filter
Member
This man knows. Factual evidence my friends.
Phew.
MorisUkunRasik
Member
I said Melo and Chandler compliment eachother well...the problem is Melo/Stat
PnR isn't nearly as effective when the guard running the play can't shoot very well. Can Felt bring back old Amare? Will Melo give him the ball enough for that to even happen?
Camby is alright too, but he's a really old 38.
The knicks are always relevant. You guys wouldn't be talking about them all the damn time if they weren't. Most Knicks discussions are started by people on here that want people to know the knicks will suck. You never see these posts in regards to the Hawks, Suns, Bucks, Warriors, Blazers, etc. Its always the Knicks. If the Knicks weren't relevant people on here would target another team.
The Frankman
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Fact: Amare was shit most of the year due to his back issue and Carmelo played hurt for 20 games.
Knicks fans already know the Carmelo/Amare dynamic didn't work well. Or at all at times. Last year wasn't the best year to use that argument unless you're going to ring up the "Carmelo had most of his success at the 4" issue, which is another argument altogether.
I think STAT will be better by having a full offseason to work out and try and get back his jumper. Regarding Camby, put it this way:
It's still a good deal, I'll be interested to see how many minutes Camby gets a night though.
CoffeeJanitor
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or maybe it's because they're a NY team
The Frankman
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so... what? They just talk about NY because it's NY? That doesn't happen in any other Sports-GAF at all, and I should know: I post in almost all of them.
that makes even less sense.
And we have two of the more well known players in the league. Doesn't explain why you guys choose to go after them at random times throughout the day. Trailblazers have been Knicks east and no one talks about them.
ItWasMeantToBe19
Banned
Because they don't fail in a hilarious fashion.
Dominican Power
Member
Picking Greg Oden over Kevin Durant isn't hilarious failure?
You mean like when they were the Jailblazers or recently the IR Dynasty? Because I remember blazers fans talking about winning multiple titles and I don't see people going after them for that. If Knicks fans pulled that shit after a terrible season we would be hearing about it every day. So don't pretend there haven't been other teams that screwed up a lot.
ItWasMeantToBe19
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Oh man, the laughs I get about catastrophic knee injuries.
The Frankman
Banned
Chars, let it go. We've seen this shit for years, it never stops getting pathetic. If it was calling out the shit wherever it is, that's fine. Knicks have had plenty of hilarious mistakes over the years, and they're probably have a few more. But the talk is so over-dramatized on this board considering the other shittalkers on other NBA Team-GAF it's hilarious.
There is no iamshadowlark on Knicks-GAF (makes logic irrelevant)
There is no TripleU on Knicks-GAF (The Three U's)
There is no thekad on Knicks-GAF (overhyped troll w/o a team)
Hell, you can make a case there isn't even a reilo on Knicks-GAF (equal opportunity troller that can't judge his own team fairly)
So why the effort to shout people down who don't crow much? NBA-GAF is the only Sports-GAF who does this, and it's hilarious.
There is no iamshadowlark on Knicks-GAF (makes logic irrelevant)
There is no TripleU on Knicks-GAF (The Three U's)
There is no thekad on Knicks-GAF (overhyped troll w/o a team)
Hell, you can make a case there isn't even a reilo on Knicks-GAF (equal opportunity troller that can't judge his own team fairly)
So why the effort to shout people down who don't crow much? NBA-GAF is the only Sports-GAF who does this, and it's hilarious.
CoffeeJanitor
Member
They're a big market team that consistently fails and gets heaps of coverage.
It's funny.
You mean like how guys want to see Amar'e get hurt next season so that they can laugh at the Knicks? People don't want to see him play 75 games this year. They want him to have serious injuries like he had last season so they can call Amar'e washed up and call the Knicks dumb for paying him. Saying anything about the Blazers is a big no-no though.
The Frankman
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btw chars:
so basically stashing him in the minors.
You're not. You're not the troll this board wants, you're the troll this board doesn't need.
I wonder why... couldn't be the slanted commentary.
ItWasMeantToBe19
Banned
High payroll teams that win nothing in the playoffs.
nobody said that, nobody has the same stupid and pointless confidence you have about his health
and for you to criticize others for carrying a "i told you so" attitude is fine irony
The Frankman
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Err, two years ago? Or did the "It'll be so funny when Amar'e gets hurt and Knicks have to eat the contract" posts get deleted? How about the "do I hear the sound of a retina detaching?" post?
C'mon now, even in a trollish manner they exist.
MorisUkunRasik
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No one wants Amare hurt. Medical professionals said he had little time left and the knicks didn't care.
The Frankman
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I'm not talking want, I'm talking said. And those post definitely exist.
Nobody wanted Oden hurt either.
I don't recall the Blazers going 0-16 in the playoffs over a decade long span.
MorisUkunRasik
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Syphon Filter
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I see that I hold a sanctuary in bestgaffers' hearts, and in the hearts of their descendants, generations hence.
The Frankman
Banned
Yes, changing the subject will do wonders for an argument. How foolish of me, of course the doctors have said that and I'm being completely irrational. Excuse my folly.
Have people been wrong about Amare's injuries these past two seasons?
The Frankman
Banned
... yeah. He had another knee injury I didn't know about? He detached his retina again?
If people were saying he was going to get injured again back then, hey it's a crapshoot. People get injured in the NBA, and he did have a higher chance of getting hurt. But he never suffered an injury directly related to his previous ones.
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