The Jonas Jerebko Rookie Challenge Open Thread
by Matt Watson on Feb 12, 2010 8:26 PM EST
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Jonas Jerebko, the Pistons' lone representative at All-Star weekend, respectfully requests your attendance in Friday night's Rookie Challenge open thread. Do a Swede a favor and join the fun.
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i'll be watching
:)
there were rumous this morning of a potential three way trade between the cavs, pistons and another team possibly involving rip hamilton
but who knows, this is rumour season
If You Understood How Much Snow Dallas Got
You’d understand why the bowl was half empty.
by V. on Feb 13, 2010 2:53 AM EST up reply actions
The once (or twice) a year snowfall in Dallas probably didn’t help things.
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The MFOlympics are also starting right now, so that probably doesn’t help.
by garrettelliott on Feb 12, 2010 9:22 PM EST up reply actions
Mike Payne here to cheer on Das Sweden
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You Meant To Say
There is a high percentage that Hubie would say he knew you.
by V. on Feb 13, 2010 2:54 AM EST up reply actions
nope
that is a direct quote that I copied and pasted
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word to MFSKY
he’s so right about Jenning’s high top fade. so damn fresh.
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by Mike Payne on Feb 12, 2010 9:15 PM EST reply actions 1 recs
Fuckin FUCK yeah
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2 assists for J
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jonas cleanup basket!
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Jonas trying harder than anyone on both ends
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holy shit DeJuan!!
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then he takes the three hahaha
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you're a few syllables away from a haiku, watson!
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A solitary
salt-sained trail down my cheek as
DeJuan dominates
by garrettelliott on Feb 12, 2010 9:48 PM EST up reply actions 3 recs
rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrec
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Does anyone else think Eric Gordon looks a bit like Mark Aguirre? Stocky frame, extremely round head …
They were?
I only read a couple things on it, but both said rooks had a good shot at ending the streak.
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why Johnny Flynn
over Ty Lawson, btw?
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I have him on my fantasy team and he always seems to do pretty well. I think he’s averaging about 17 ppg or so?
by garrettelliott on Feb 12, 2010 9:55 PM EST up reply actions
for reference
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Tyreke Evans
brilliant player, brilliant speaker.
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funny enough
it was an actual quote from an actual email sent to me once by an actual person who will actually go unnamed
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I like DeRozan here.
And if he wins this, he wins it all!
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I think Shannon Brown will win it all, without any gimmicks. I think he’s just going to jump really, really high and dunk it really, really hard.
by garrettelliott on Feb 12, 2010 10:00 PM EST up reply actions
That's who I hope wins.
Grasping for anything Michigan (State) related to root for this weekend.
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That chick with the microphone
looks like a male version of Reggie Miller
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hahaha
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I thought she kind of looked like Mark Aguirre….
by garrettelliott on Feb 12, 2010 10:00 PM EST up reply actions
Nate’s thinking, “He’ll get it, just give him 300 more tries!”
by garrettelliott on Feb 12, 2010 10:02 PM EST reply actions
meanwhile
andre iguodala and iverson are sulking in the corner, kissing
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ai is sitting on his lap.
i heard they do a ventriloquist act together
by dandresden on Feb 12, 2010 10:06 PM EST up reply actions 1 recs
hahahahaha
take my wife, please!
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Barkley: “Jerome Williams is still here? He’s like part of the furniture!”
by garrettelliott on Feb 12, 2010 10:04 PM EST reply actions
it's harder to notice
if you buy KY Extreme and wipe it all over your monitor
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For those of you confused, KY Extreme is like KY Intense x 1000. Try it.
by Matt Watson on Feb 12, 2010 10:47 PM EST up reply actions
from the perspective of a publisher by trade
i find it hilarious, but am also pumped that advertisers would even consider throwing some revenue at DBB. it means that we can survive without paying server costs out of pocket, and can help to go towards generating more official content.
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and also
it means that advertisers know how much love makin’ we DBBers do with our respective hos and gigolos
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your mom did last night
ho!
retarded jokes aside, I’m just pumped for the “KY Intense Unsung Hero” award.
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The Blue Pulaski KY Intense Unsung Hero Award
RIP Blue. You were my boy.
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Wait
DBB is getting paid for that atrocity? Canadian Club didn’t outbid freaking KY?
if you drink too much Canadian Club
KY won’t even help
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(SBN is, which in turn, makes it more likely DBB will be.)
by Matt Watson on Feb 12, 2010 10:48 PM EST up reply actions
Also
Makes it really difficult to check in during the work day.
in that regard, it sucks.
But it’s a network wide ad that I’m guessing won’t last beyond Sunday. It helps pay for the Z button! … I think.
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Explain
The $$ was kicked specifically to DBB or to SBNation? I’m confused.
So
You have no say about that ad being placed prominently on DBB?
not really
they didn’t approach any of the bloggers about it before it was put up. After it was put up, a lot complained, leading the big guns to say it would be taken down. But that’s the last I read about it and it’s still up. There were literally >100 emails in the SB Nation google group about it, so I started deleting them blindly. I really don’t care about it at all, and I realize this platform/upkeep doesn’t come free, but concerns about viewing it at work are fair, for sure.
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It's a network ad.
It’s on every blog on the network.
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i don't speak officially
but I imagine SBNation > DBB. I know SBNation’s ad rep, Brash Media (owned by Glam Media) and have seen this ad on their run-of-network throughout this week. I have a silly ad buy from Armani Exchange running on my site right now, which will single-handedly cover my hosting expenses, but unless you like to see dudes embracing I suggest you don’t check it.
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I find it hard to believe
That SBNation needs the money so bad as to put up trash like that. I mean, I imagine a good number of people want to or do check their favorite blogs throughout the workday. Shit like this makes it hard to do that and in general just pisses me off. If you want to sell ad space, fine, but don’t sell ads that might get people in trouble for viewing a website they trust.
What determines the ad? Your IP/country of origin? I’m getting Canadian Olympic ads.
by garrettelliott on Feb 12, 2010 10:24 PM EST up reply actions
you're not the only one
that isn’t cool with this whole thing— and it’ll be gone by the end of the weekend. but again, as a publisher myself, I can’t tell you how much it means that an international advertiser like that would spend money on what we’re all doing here. even if it isn’t direct, coming through SBN as a buffer, it’s damn huge, representative of the growth this site has shown in time. I think if you look at it from these shoes, it’s only a sign that things are going up. Sometimes you get a bad seed, but the representation of that seed is huge for this community. In short, we aren’t going anywhere, and it’ll mean that matt and crew don’t need to pay out of pocket for all of us to keep coming here. I don’t speak for matt and crew, but honestly, I know how important this can be.
In short, don’t worry OM, this will be gone by Monday. in the mean time, it will make things much easier on the site and servers in the months ahead.
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I only have an objection about the content
I don’t necessarily have an objection about the advertising. Capitalism, y’all. My problem is that some level of trust has been built up by this site and its proprietors and SBNation deciding to put up an ad like this without giving people a choice is something that violates that trust.
I’m all for doing things that help generate revenue for the site and keep this thing functional, but not things that make my co-workers or my fiance look at me sideways because I’m viewing a freaking basketball website.
Honestly
I speak for no one, I don’t officially speak for DBB or SBN. But honestly, I think that this may or may not have been a goof on the part of the ad rep here, and that it’s quite possibly you may or may not see this kind of thing again.
But taking my “editor” title out of this (which really only means that I can publish previews here and there, nothing more), and with 1000000% respect to you Other Matt, as a brother here from the beginning, might you be overreacting just a bit? If shit is really been causing you problems as a reader, email matt or packey and give them hell. If anything has been true since the very beginning, if something ain’t working the man in charge will break his back to work things out.
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I might be
I think my biggest issue is that one of the major things you can get in trouble where I work is misuse of the internet. If I accidentally click on a KY ad or something else questionable, I have that in my internet history and it could be an issue. I don’t make it a point to do a lot of internet surfing during work (which is why I’m never commenting), but I do check in from time to time when I’m trying to clear my head for a few minutes.
It’s not a MAJOR deal, but I am pretty annoyed. Again, it’s not that I’m against the ad revenue, it’s that I’m against something I deem to be out of the “normal” bounds of some place I might visit on the internet. I guess what I’m saying is that if the advertising is going to be so prominent it should be “work safe”.
FWIW, if you accidentally click on an ad, it takes you to their Facebook page, not the KY site. Not sure if that’s good news or not (a lot of companies block Facebook).
by Matt Watson on Feb 12, 2010 10:53 PM EST up reply actions
And Jim Bankoff — one of the head honchos on SB Nation — admitted as much. He said that they had no idea the ad was going to be so over the top and requested Glam to take it down.
Again, and Mike articulated this already much better than I could, Johnson & Johnson is a HUGE advertiser. It would have been stupid of SB Nation NOT to take on an ad deal with them. But I’ve already told you as much as I know. I also believe it’ll be gone by Monday and something this controversial probably won’t happen again.
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It's cool
Sorry, I didn’t mean to get so wrapped up in this debate. I was just annoyed when I checked in from work today. I’m not going to quit the website or anything over it, but I hadn’t seen any discussion or explanation anywhere else.
Someone posted something in the FanShots
But no worries. Like Mike said, you’re not the only one who has a problem with it. I think the work concern is more than fair, too.
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That and...
I’m cranky because my blood sugar is low and these opening ceremonies suck.
At least on my computer, if you look at the site with the “Wide” view instead of “Narrow,” it completely covers up the ads on the side. Might be worth a shot.
by Matt Watson on Feb 12, 2010 10:55 PM EST up reply actions
Yeah
I got it figured out, I just clicked over during an impromptu bullshit session with a couple of my coworkers who were standing in my cube and the ad was there in all of its prominent glory. I hid it, but it had already been seen.
Why?
Does the annoyance exist? I looked on the site and couldn’t find any real discussion about it. I didn’t really look that hard, though.
Come on Sweden, you pick fucking Forsberg? That annoys me.
I hate it when people with microphones yell into the microphone with such a shrill tone. Mics amplify your voice, you don’t need to yell.
by garrettelliott on Feb 12, 2010 10:09 PM EST reply actions
baby jesus
has been said 1,000 times in the first half
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Gerald Wallace
should have been on The Wire
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There's a Wallace on the Wire already MFMP
"I didn’t even know Elvis was from Memphis, I thought he was from Tennessee." — Drew Gooden.
Yeah I know. Mike is watching from the beginning.
so shhhh
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Blair is good. Please see my haiku from earlier.
by garrettelliott on Feb 12, 2010 10:19 PM EST reply actions
If you could
Please provide the date and time.
/khandor
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any chance MW will make an announcement?
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ovinton j'anthony mayo is a ludicrous name unless your foghorn legacorns cousin.
by dandresden on Feb 12, 2010 10:19 PM EST reply actions 3 recs
Fritos
during an all star game are just silly
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Holy crap. Tyreke Evans is only 20? He looks 30. Watch out, league.
by garrettelliott on Feb 12, 2010 10:27 PM EST reply actions
BRANDON MOTHERFUCKIN JENNINGS
Now got hair like my Avatar
Gumby cut yall
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i shouted you earlier
in respect for your respect for that chop
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Please excuse my tardiness good sir
Many gracias for your props, I like props
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you like props
i got many props for the skeeziest MF
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Answer: Mike Payne
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how is no even an option?
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I am already drinking to that
"I didn’t even know Elvis was from Memphis, I thought he was from Tennessee." — Drew Gooden.
All of these dudes are awesome here at the KY rookie challenge
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by Skylar on Feb 12, 2010 10:30 PM EST reply actions 1 recs
Word to Jonas with the untucked joint
Take that David Stern, you bat faced little man
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My only hope in life
is that i get the opportunity of answering that question.
by Kriz on Feb 12, 2010 10:31 PM EST up reply actions 1 recs
pound to MFKriz
Good luck to you, DBBSister
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Send him a transformers valentine
who knows
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by Skylar on Feb 12, 2010 10:32 PM EST up reply actions 3 recs
+1
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by Packey on Feb 12, 2010 10:33 PM EST up reply actions 2 recs
The beard belonging to James Harden
He’s on some Rick Ross Freeway Baron Davis type shit. I like it
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I must go get blitzed
I’ll catch up w/you DBB family later on
"I didn’t even know Elvis was from Memphis, I thought he was from Tennessee." — Drew Gooden.
sorry Mike Payne can't join you
and drink your ass under the table! (well, actually I’d get too drunk too quick and hobble to a cab, but I can still talk a good game)
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I'd hate to see how quickly I'd end up hobbling to a cab.
or maybe it’d be quite interesting.
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We'll all catch wreck sometime soon
DBB drunk draft night
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a bagillion
sweaty, loving recs to you, PS
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are you serious?
i just got up for the bathroom, fuck1
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HOLY SHIT!!!!
Maxiell with the Viking helmet!!!!
"I didn’t even know Elvis was from Memphis, I thought he was from Tennessee." — Drew Gooden.
I rewinded, paused and took a photograph
it is now on the home page
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I took a pic in HD
you will all see it
"I didn’t even know Elvis was from Memphis, I thought he was from Tennessee." — Drew Gooden.
Marc looks like he’d take Pau’s lunch money and make him like it.
by garrettelliott on Feb 12, 2010 10:52 PM EST reply actions
HEY EVERYONE
Go to the DBB home page. Now.
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Blair
is absolutely disgustingly good.
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Stat line for Jonas?
I’m obviously not watching.
6 points, 3 rebounds, 2 steals, 1 assist.
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Blair is a man amongst boys. He’s a beast. This was salt in the wounds.
by garrettelliott on Feb 12, 2010 11:00 PM EST reply actions
I was so happy for him as a player, such vindication I’d imagine.
But man, I was pissed at Jod for the whole entire game.
I never understood this.
Yes, he would have been very good to have, but I’ll never understand the personal insult Pistons fans seem to have towards passing up Blair.
I guess I’m not as involved towards the draft as the rest of fans seem to be.
Personal insult? I was saying that I imagine Blair must feel somewhat vindicated after getting passed on by so many teams.
I’m not insulted. Pissed that Jod passed on him twice? Yeah, but not insulted.
Let's Review This In 3 Years
When Blair’s knees are likely totally gone.
by V. on Feb 13, 2010 2:56 AM EST up reply actions
and Summers is no longer in the league
super good idea bro
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Well, maybe Summers can be on the Sophs team next year? sadtrombone
by garrettelliott on Feb 12, 2010 11:02 PM EST reply actions 2 recs
What? Tyreke? Ridiculous.
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by Mike Payne on Feb 12, 2010 11:05 PM EST reply actions 1 recs
and humble on top of it... man, to see that man in a pistons uniform...
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Blair might be one of my new favourite players. What a classy dude.
by garrettelliott on Feb 12, 2010 11:08 PM EST reply actions
I hope San Antonio makes it to the finals and Blair averages 20/20 and kicks everyone who snubbed him in the nuts.
by garrettelliott on Feb 12, 2010 11:10 PM EST up reply actions
Anyone watching these crazy opening ceremonies? What’s up with Canada?
by garrettelliott on Feb 12, 2010 11:14 PM EST reply actions
I didn't understand
The tap dancing or the fiddle playing. It seemed very weird to me.
The opening ceremonies have been kind of a let down, I think. The projections on the floor were pretty sweet.
I am at la cantina
Opening surrymonies is boring
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by Skylar on Feb 12, 2010 11:22 PM EST via mobile up reply actions
10 years of French :-/
and I’m just imitating this guy repeating random sentences in French for emphasis.
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Ca va bien, merci. Jason Maxiell mange les bébés.
by garrettelliott on Feb 12, 2010 11:39 PM EST up reply actions
Wvu vs. Pitt
Double OT. Hype.
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by Skylar on Feb 12, 2010 11:27 PM EST via mobile reply actions
looking forward to the dunk contest and 3pt contest
my prediction for the winners:
3pt channing fyre
dunk: shannon brown
I'd be happy with anyone other than Nate Robninson
It was kinda cool the first time, but it’s past time for him to be done.
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