Junk Drawer 06/24/09- Dreaming Edition
by twiggs on Jun 24, 2009 7:38 AM PDT
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Last night I had this dream that I was playing video poker and won $120,000 (playing nickels I might add). It was awesome. I was going to be able to pay off my debts, put down a ton of money on a home and buy a new car. Then of course, I woke up and realized that I am still in debt and not anywhere close to being able to buy a house or new car…it was quite the disappointment.
So I ask you Bedgers, what is the most realistic dream that you have ever had? Were you disappointed to wake up and realize that it was all a fake? Or did you wake up relieved for the life you do have? Or maybe just enlighten us with the weirdest dream you have ever had so we can attempt to analyze it (I have some crazy weird dreams).
Happy Wednesday ya’ll
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One time when I was a kid
I had a dream that there was a plate of chocolate chip cookies floating above my bed. I reached out to grab them and nothing. I was sad.
Kobe Bryant, on the other hand, has four delicious chocolate chip cookies, each of which representing an equally delicious NBA Championship ring...
You’ve gotta be HUNGRY, Lebron!
"A bizarre and extremely rare hybrid Blazer/Laker fan, Timbo has always struggled to contain the Beast Within, like Dr. Jekyll, Bruce Banner, or Ted Kennedy." — Miled Animal
ok, enough with the Lakers
you had your big post
"It’s a good ol’ fashioned Rip City beat down!"
by Magnum on Jun 24, 2009 12:07 PM PDT up reply actions 1 recs
True story
I had this dream about a week ago that involved me trying to help this priest (or some sort of religious figure) inside of this structure that was like a giant sheetmetal barn during a fierce lightning storm, with the barn being built on an airport runway with planes taxing back and forth. He kept having me go to this grocery store to get supplies, but every time I went, I’d get attacked by this kid near the checkout lane, who was about 12, but sort of acted like Gollum from LOTR. I had to pick up a shopping cart and hit him with it to get him to stop attacking me.
I have no clue what it meant, but I think I need to test my drinking water and/or stop having tacos and beer so close to bedtime.
Wow, just wow.
I would also check the mushrooms you’ve been eating. Sounds like you got slipped some shrooms.
I went to the malls and I balled too hard
'Oh my god, is that a Black Card?'
I turned around and replied, why yes but I prefer the term
African American Express
Shrooms would be a cop out
‘Fraid that’s all me. I will admit, that’s one of the weirder dreams I’ve had (at least that I can remember). Also, it seems like the more off the wall the dream is, the more vivid the images and sensations.
I do remember a dream where I shoved my jerk of an old boss into a giant display of Oreos (I worked at a grocery store) after he was reprimanding me for something I did on the job. That one was pretty fun.
by Furious Styles on Jun 24, 2009 10:04 AM PDT up reply actions
I used to dream almost daily that I was having sex and would wake up with a diamond cutter
I didn’t know why until I woke up early once and realized it was the hippie lady upstairs who always got busy in the wee hours of the night. She was really loud and it always took over my dreams. Beyond that, I probably remember one in ten dreams.
Oh.
And remembering one in ten dreams..that’s usually me too. It’s weird, but the last couple months I am remembering more and more. Or maybe it’s just because my dreams have been getting more strange so they stick out to me? I dunno.
"We believe" -Rudy Fernandez
i really hate
the gradual loss of remembering when you wake up. Five minutes later I can’t remember a thing.
I hate remembering dreams
Where you know you know someone in your dream but you never recognize them.
I'm really into analyzing my dreams
I keep 2 big dream books on the dresser by my bed, so when I have a particularly salient dream, I can grab them and start looking up the key images. I know if I wait until morning its likely I wont recall as much or anything. I have to admit if its a really pleasant dream that I wake from, I often try to go right back to sleep and re-enter where I left off.
I have recurring bigfoot dreams, which actually I call night terrors they frighten me so much. I will almost always have a BIG nightmare when camping out. I get really panicked in them and my friends will either yell at me to shut up, holler from another tent that there is no BIGFOOT out there, or toss shoes at me to wake me up. As soon as I go back to sleep, BIG returns. I haven’t found a dream book yet that explains Bigfoot.
I believe that folks that are starving for a trade have Adult Friend Finder accounts and are in relationships It just makes sense. -- TiHa
or maybe ...just maybe
you are scared of bigfoot
"You're welcome friend
I love you."
- Tom "Dragline" inHawaii
by 92wastheyear on Jun 24, 2009 12:09 PM PDT up reply actions
no doubt about that
I’m a firm believer Sass is legit. Couple years ago I went camping with friends up around Opal Creek Wilderness, pretty moderate hike into. That night I was having trouble sleeping and saw something poking the tent from the outside. It freaked me out. I just covered up in my sleeping bag and shivered with fear. I cant say for sure it was Big but something was out there.
Did anybody see that old Bigfoot movie from like the 70’s, where the miners in the log cabin got attacked by the Bigs in the middle of the night? That scene where Sass’ shadow creeps up to the window before a huge hairy armbusts thru the glass and shakes the guy around by his neck… Fuh…reaky.
I believe that folks that are starving for a trade have Adult Friend Finder accounts and are in relationships It just makes sense. -- TiHa
god...I haven't thought about that movie in years
Cool
"You're welcome friend
I love you."
- Tom "Dragline" inHawaii
by 92wastheyear on Jun 24, 2009 12:23 PM PDT up reply actions
Tent encounters
I had a cow falling over a fix line on my tent, that made for an interesting wake up moment. I also woke up once and heard a dog barking, looked around, saw no dog, then ultimately discovered an elk making those noises. And I had a bear crawling up on the tree where we had hung up our food and it wasn’t possible to dissuade him.
have you seen buzz aldrin + snoop?
“Y’all have to read this book. Buzz Aldrin is so gangster”. Hilarious.
Martell Webster was in my dream last night
He was trying to solve some murder that had happened at the Portland City Grill
Excuse me, do these effectively hide my thunder?
I can rarely remember my dreams. But if I do, they seem very real.
One day after high school, we had winter conditioning for baseball. Mostly running, but the pitchers could have a small workout to start strengthening their arms for the season. After a particularly grueling workout, I went home, fell onto my bed, and took a nap.
I start dreaming that I’m wandering around in a forest. No big deal, just hiking about and seeing cool stuff. All of a sudden, this peaceful dream turns violent as a bear jumps out of nowhere, attacks me, and rips off my right arm. I instantly wake up, but can’t feel my arm and start panicking.
I spin/sit up real quickly and SMACK, my arm whips around and hits me in the face… then I get the tingling feeling as all the blood rushes back into it. I had fallen onto my bed face-first with my pitching arm (right arm) pinned underneath me.
I also have some pretty intense dreams of a similar nature (teeth falling out, running into psycho ex-girlfriends) after I travel long-distances.
I rarely remember dreams, many of the bad ones are about not being prepared at all for some important task
Like I learn that I should submit my portfolio on Monday in an art class but haven’t done anything yet. Or that I will get tested in French today but am highly annoyed because I’m not even sure I had French classes in the last semester. I think I was much more scared of some classes in my dreams than I ever was for real.
Sometimes I have very long dreams that are exciting and have real story lines, but tend to forget the interesting details of those quickly. I also tend to incorporate old friends, experiences of the day and current noises into those.
I thought the school anxiety dreams would go away after time.
But no, I had one two nights ago. I’ll probably still be having them when I’m 85.
I got a TON of those after graduating college
I would always dream that I was late with papers/assignments or that I’d missed a final. I’d wake up actually thinking that I was late for something… then slowly I’d remember that I was done with school.
The Princess of Blazersedge
You ever have the one . . .
Where you discover that you’re two credits short and that you never really got your degree after all?
Hmm nope
Mine was always the same scenario. I’d be at my computer and suddenly realize that I either forgot to do a paper or assignment or that I missed my final.
Graduated in June of 07 though and I’d wager I haven’t had that dream since last summer.
The Princess of Blazersedge
Same here
School (especially college) gets so imprinted on your psyche early on that it never really goes away from your subconscious, apparently.
I still have dreams that I am late, or have missed class.
My favorite teams are the Blazers and any team that is playing the Lakers.
by OCBlazerFan1 on Jun 24, 2009 7:00 PM PDT up reply actions
yea the havent finished school dream is weird
I’ve had a few profound ones to that effect. There have been times if I didn’t have actual diploma to verify it, would actually believe the dream was true.
I believe that folks that are starving for a trade have Adult Friend Finder accounts and are in relationships It just makes sense. -- TiHa
Couple days ago
Had a dream that my roommates cat was biting my big toe off. I tried to fling her off and actually kicked the wall. I woke up in pain.
Stupid cat even attacks me in my sleep…
The Princess of Blazersedge
Ha! Moving violently in a dream only ends badly.
Ever try to kick someone in a dream, then actually throw a kick?
Ever do that with your gf/bf/sig other next to you? My gf wasn’t too happy, even though I couldn’t control it. I tried to laugh about it later on, and I was kicked for laughing…
so I laughed some more. Haha…
by Quik_Baller on Jun 24, 2009 10:28 AM PDT up reply actions
Oh man, I've kicked Mercury my dog (she sleeps at my feet)
And the Wife a billion times…
I also wake up with a super bad cramp in my calf that hurts all day. It wakes me up out of a dream and I gotta stand on that foot to push the cramp out. It makes me kick before I wake up.
I sleep with a glass of water on the bedstand next to me, and I’ll wake up flinging my elbow out and knock it over. It is lame.
She always gets mad if I accidentally kick her, but what can I do? I’m dreamin’!
Morty
The water thing makes sense
When I played volleyball I had them ALL the time… so the working out makes sense too :)
Google it Mortimer, we should probably find out what causes them… we could die!!!!
I've heard the hydration tihng
and also that you should eat more bananas.
Man-slave, bring me my PB&J!
yes bananas = potassium
which also helps with leg cramps.
also eating mustard when you have a cramp works too
I blame Prez
Oh dang
I should have read more before commenting.
by tominhawaii on Jun 24, 2009 12:01 PM PDT up reply actions
Me too
Someone told me bananas help. I have to wake up and stretch like I’m pushing on the wall.
by tominhawaii on Jun 24, 2009 12:01 PM PDT up reply actions
Good question
Not in the cal/mag/zinc combo, but maybe in the multivitamins. I’ve never checked — never been worried about potassium levels. I remember once my dad had convulsions in the hospital (after ankle surgery) that were caused by super low potassium levels.
My grandma insists if you put a bar of Dove soap
at the bottom of your bed by your feet you won’t get cramps.
Certified blazer.fangirl
wow for real
thats some serious superstition right there
by GreatOden'sRaven on Jun 24, 2009 11:37 AM PDT up reply actions
latinos I love you all
but you got some CRAZY superstitions…
by GreatOden'sRaven on Jun 24, 2009 12:09 PM PDT up reply actions
way more than this
but heres a sample.. some in the comments too
by GreatOden'sRaven on Jun 24, 2009 12:11 PM PDT up reply actions
yeah no scientific proof?
im with Magnum on this one
by GreatOden'sRaven on Jun 24, 2009 6:19 PM PDT up reply actions
Once
We used to have an end table at the head of our bed because our room was shaped funny. I was sleeping and got up on my knees, took my pillow and swung it, and knocked everything off the table. That instantly woke my wife and I up, and she said, “What did you just do?” I said, “I knocked everything off the table with my pillow.” She said, “Why?” And I said, “I don’t know.”
I punched her in the face a week later while I was sleeping. And a week after that I rolled over and inadvertently punched her in the face again. I was on a hot streak.
by tominhawaii on Jun 24, 2009 12:00 PM PDT up reply actions
Yeah
It was on vacation and we were napping in an awkward position and her face was at elbow level. It was a gentle roll over punch in the cheek. She’s pretty tough because I puncher harder than Ivan Drago. She didn’t even get a bruise.
by tominhawaii on Jun 24, 2009 12:18 PM PDT up reply actions
I had this recurring dream as a kid
in which I stole a bottle of pop out of one of those old fashioned pop machines, then some crazy guy started chasing me around with a hatchet trying to cut my hand off as punishment.
And, if I stayed asleep through the chase part (I woke up scared a lot), I always ended up at the public library needing to pee really bad, but was wearing overalls and a dance leotard and ended up peeing my pants before I could get everything off. I never stayed asleep past that part.
Man-slave, bring me my PB&J!
You don't wanna hear my dreams
I stopped telling the wife my dreams because she’ll think I’m going to turn into a serial killer. Even though I won’t turn into a serial killer, gosh I PROMISE geez.
My favorite thing about a dream is the dream-logic of it, where something makes total sense within the dream but when trying to think of it is makes no sense. Or, it’s a new type of reality, a new PARADIGM if you will, of reality.
I have weird dreams, every single night. When I was younger, I could control my dreams more often, and make anything happen. It would happen every few weeks, now every few months. I dunno what part of my brain or how I am sleeping has changed that. It might be because I try not to sleep and don’t get much of it, since I hate sleeping.
Lots o’ weird dreams that will creep everyone out and make people worry about me. I think some are sending me a subconscious message, others are just having an overactive imagination. Always real vivid and realistic, even if the fundamentals of the new reality in my dream aren’t realistic anymore… but they feel realistic for that dream.
I know I’ve had Blazer themed dreams but I can’t remember any right now.
Mortimer
Yeah, I jumped through her window
Why do you ask?
I imagine her as a sexy crow. Like this—
by Mortimer on Jun 24, 2009 10:49 AM PDT up reply actions 1 recs
Directive dreaming
this can be learned and its kinda fun to be somewhat aware of your dream state and be able to manipulate the dream. I’ve tried it many times, but only had real success with it a few times. If before you go to sleep talk to yourself about wanting to control your dream (there’s more to it than this) you can actually learn to direct your dreams.
Einstien came up with the theory of relativity after a dream he had. He went to “sleep on it” with the purpose to solve the riddle. At least I’ve heard that.
I believe that folks that are starving for a trade have Adult Friend Finder accounts and are in relationships It just makes sense. -- TiHa
The last time I wet the bed, I was dreaming I was going potty in a large rectangle shaped rusty can.
I was in grade school, so it’s probably my longest loss of body function record, because now whenever I dream I’m going potty, I wake up and potty someplace besides my bed.
by tominhawaii on Jun 24, 2009 12:35 PM PDT up reply actions
they call it lucid dreaming
It starts with the ability to recognize that you are in a dream and progresses from there. Some believe the advanced stages of lucid dreaming allows the master dreamer to have out of body experiences.
I’ve had minor success shaping how a dream goes while it is happen and almost no success dreaming about something I considered before I went to sleep.
"...the primary focus of all obstacles is to induce labor, so progression can be born." - LiL C
Yeah
I can’t say, while awake and before I sleep, “I wanna dream about (blank)”, it’s only I start dreaming about whatever and can then control things because I know it’s a dream.
Stuff still happens that I don’t control, but I can make things happen and am aware it is a dream.
I remember at least one dream where I was controlling things because I knew it was a dream, then a lot of bad stuff happened and I started thinking, within the dream, that I wasn’t in a dream at all and I am going to get in trouble for what happened. It was scary.
Mortimer
I've solved stuff in my dreams before
I’ve had problems with this or that, a project or whatever, then think about it and dream about it and figure out the solution. It was neat, because I didn’t think that really happened.
Once thing I try to remember but I can’t right now, is jokes I make up in my dreams, because they make ABSOLUTELY NO SENSE but were absolutely hilarious in the dream.
Mortu’
I just wish
The weird thing was that the dream took place over two towns – the old pop machine was at a gas station in the town we first lived in (the gas station was real, but it didn’t actually have a pop machine like that) – but the library was in the new town we had moved to. I would run around a corner to get away, and I’d suddenly be in a town 600 miles away, only it all made sense in the dream.
I spent months thinking there was something seriously wrong with me before I finally told my mom I was having this dream – and she laughed at me!
Man-slave, bring me my PB&J!
i had a horrible dream
when i actually fell asleep. Has anyone seen the movie "last house on the left’?
It was that movie, except the kidnapped girl was me..
very sad
S
The Princess of Blazersedge
Look on the bright side
You could have been in the same scenario in the dream… only a dude as well.
The Princess of Blazersedge
POBE
do you know why google blogger is turning all my text into ??? instead of words?
"The problem with tweeners is that sometimes they’re exactly what you need to plug the hole and sometimes they are the hole."
-LaughingJon
i like type a word, then hit the space bar and all the letters turn into question marks
"The problem with tweeners is that sometimes they’re exactly what you need to plug the hole and sometimes they are the hole."
-LaughingJon
anybody?
"The problem with tweeners is that sometimes they’re exactly what you need to plug the hole and sometimes they are the hole."
-LaughingJon
yeah, it's first time it's happened to me
i just created a new page, so maybe i just need to reset something or somethingamagig
"The problem with tweeners is that sometimes they’re exactly what you need to plug the hole and sometimes they are the hole."
-LaughingJon
i think it was from enabling transliteration, not sure why i did.
unimportant factoid of the day
"The problem with tweeners is that sometimes they’re exactly what you need to plug the hole and sometimes they are the hole."
-LaughingJon
I apparently need a new sig too...
Like 4 people have called me a girl now.
The Princess of Blazersedge
You were asking for it.
Don’t think I’ve met any other guy wanting to be known as a Princess.
by Quik_Baller on Jun 24, 2009 10:22 AM PDT up reply actions
Avoided it at all costs.
Which is nothing. It costs nothing to avoid it.
by Quik_Baller on Jun 24, 2009 10:33 AM PDT up reply actions
BEdge sneaks into my dreams sometimes.
A couple of weeks ago I had a dream that took place at a ballet concert, except instead of ballerinas there were sumo wrestlers on stage. I looked at the printed program for an explanation, but it was nothing but dirty limericks written by Dave. I snickered at one of the limericks and a badger jumped off the stage and lunged for my face and I woke up.
Danny Ainge continues to throw out harsh statements about Rondo
http://www.redsarmy.com/home/2009/06/ainge-rondo-isnt-an-elite-point-guard.html
“As we saw in the Orlando series, they left him wide open,” Ainge said. “His presence hurt us in winning right now because his man went and doubled onto Ray [Allen] and Paul [Pierce] and made it difficult for us.”
Not a max money player. Attitude problems.
Now I may think it is sending a message to Rondo
No real reason to make his value low and to keep doggin’ on Rondo if they wanted to trade him.
Maybe just scare him, that he could be playing in Memphis and living a crappier life if he doesn’t work on what they want him to work on…
I dunno.
Mo—
Could work, but that jumper is pretty ugly. He'd need to rework it like Parker did.
I can’t believe C’s would actually get rid of Rondo. Yeah, he was left wide open… but they had Big Baby filling in for KG and Leon Powe… did you expect to win the Orlando series?
Seriously, the guy is an All-NBA defender, and is valuable on offense since he can finish at the rim. Want a pg that can shoot? Here, take Blake off our hands, I’d go with Rondo.
by Quik_Baller on Jun 24, 2009 10:25 AM PDT up reply actions
They could be lowballing his contract negotations...
Same class as Roy. But it’s a bit weird. I can’t imagine KP talking like that about LMA or Roy.
Here is the full transcript: http://greenstreet.weei.com/sports/boston/basketball/celtics/2009/06/24/transcript-danny-ainge-on-dc/
going to memphis always scares me
what if i can never leave?
by GreatOden'sRaven on Jun 24, 2009 11:40 AM PDT up reply actions
ATTN: Blair is on Jim Rome in a few minutes...
"Tough times don't last. Tough people do."
-Chauncey Billups
you rock my friend. Thank you.
draft dejuan blair
by Cablinasian on Jun 24, 2009 10:35 AM PDT up reply actions
When I was a kid...
I used to dream I was in the old Batman TV series fighting the Joker along side Batman and Robin… it was complete with ’BAM" and “POW” and bright colors and Holy _ Batman
I think I had too much sugar as a child
formerly fromagnon... I remember back in the day... way back before you young cats were around, back when I ruled the jersey contest... back when it meant something... back when hip-hop was alive
BLAM
Kid TV dreams
I remember a dream as a kid that I was Magnum P.I.‘s assistant, and that I’d help him solve cases, while riding shotgun in the Ferrari around Oahu.
As for Blazer related dreams (aside from Blazer dancer related dreams! ;-) When I was a teenager, I remember one where Clyde, Buck, Terry and the whole early 90s squad was jogging around our barn and property, and would practice drills on the lopsided hoop in our driveway.
After the Michael Keaton/Tim Burton Batman came out
I had a dream where I won the Batcave set in a contest, and they were bringing the set to my house and I had nowhere to put it but it was fun to play in.
It was huge, and I remembered thinking “man now I know why they won an Oscar for set design, because this thing goes on forever!”. I dunno if they won an Oscar for it, but in my dream they did.
Mortimer
Adrian Wojawhatshisname from Yahoo just said that Kobe has two guys he would want as a coach when Phil retires.
First, Jeff Van Gundy.
Second? Nate McMillan.
draft dejuan blair
Kobe would be so sorry with JVG as his coach
He would try to get the Lxkers to win those 80-75 games. Borrrr-ing! – Elgin
Without you out there, we're nowhere here
I CAN FLY! (Almost)
I stole the ball near half court and was unimpeded toward the basket. I realized that I could dunk, that it all came together. I don’t know how far out I jumped from, my eyes were heaven ward. I threw the ball down one-handed. Great feeling.
Of course, in real life I could only touch the rim. I kept that good feeling of confidence from that dream and it sure felt like dunking, dream or no!
Keep dreaming BEdgers!
Oprah said the higher you fly in your dreams, the happier you are in life
Or something close to that.
by tominhawaii on Jun 24, 2009 12:10 PM PDT up reply actions
flying dreams
When I have a flying dream, I always fly feet first… I never could figure that out… I think it has something to do with landing, because I always seem to come down fast and plow myself into the ground
I believe that folks that are starving for a trade have Adult Friend Finder accounts and are in relationships It just makes sense. -- TiHa
hahaha
funny that used to happen to me too, so I started buying lottery tickets now and then… needless to say I haven’t won
The Road Going No Where
Which NBA teams have the least amount of direction, in conjunction with the least amount of potential (Clippers not to be included in the discussion)?
My thoughts: Phoenix and then maybe Dallas or Toronto. I know Minn seems to be going no where, but they just stock-piled picks (potential qua potential).
I don't know, the knicks have the LBJ 2010 Odyssey
by EvilKaramazov on Jun 24, 2009 11:05 AM PDT up reply actions
Would you put that prayer
greater than, or less than the likelihood of the Cav’s to secure a Robin to their Batman? —And therefore convince LBJ to stay?
by EvilKaramazov on Jun 24, 2009 11:08 AM PDT up reply actions
The weirdest dream I remember
Is one where I was a spy working with german spies (that I didn’t understand but sorta did), because the chinese had taken over the world with these guns that shot out little red balls, and they were on to us and chasing us… So we were on a boat, the chinese found us and sunk the boat. I swam over to shore and it was somewhere in Northern Africa, and I climbed on top of a flat roof and lay there trying to overhear what the chinese were saying (I could sorta understand them as well)…….. seconds later I woke up
As a kid I’d have the most terrible nightmares involving the movie “The witches”.
Also I once dreamt that my parents were going to eat me by cooking me in a huge child-sized cauldron with green simmering liquid and I watched on from a cage as they prepared it .
My most recent dream the walls, floor and ceiling were closing in on me and I woke up screaming, granted I just finished exams and was very anxious…
I have REALLY weird dreams… I could go on and on :)
Holy crap. Via Adrian Yahoo again.
Chicago Bulls guard Kirk Hinrich(notes) is telling friends that he thinks he’ll be dealt to the Portland Trail Blazers, who have interest in pairing him with Brandon Roy
hinrichhinrichhinrichhinrich….
draft dejuan blair
I dunno, would he fit us?
I think he’s just like a worse version of Steve Blake.
Haven’t heard much about him though, that’s interesting.
he’s white. He must be unathletic and ungood.
draft dejuan blair
by Cablinasian on Jun 24, 2009 11:01 AM PDT up reply actions
KP needs to get over it.
draft dejuan blair
by Cablinasian on Jun 24, 2009 11:16 AM PDT up reply actions
I win
formerly fromagnon... I remember back in the day... way back before you young cats were around, back when I ruled the jersey contest... back when it meant something... back when hip-hop was alive
BLAM
by The Arkitect on Jun 24, 2009 11:01 AM PDT up reply actions
I’ll make it my signature if we get him.
draft dejuan blair
by Cablinasian on Jun 24, 2009 11:06 AM PDT up reply actions
awesome
formerly fromagnon... I remember back in the day... way back before you young cats were around, back when I ruled the jersey contest... back when it meant something... back when hip-hop was alive
BLAM
by The Arkitect on Jun 24, 2009 11:11 AM PDT up reply actions
he is not a big fan of the trailblazers
as we have seen
by GreatOden'sRaven on Jun 24, 2009 11:38 AM PDT up reply actions
I am American
and I don’t think that the USA has much of a chance either. Spain has a lot of really good players on it, the USA not so much.
thanks for the reminder.
draft dejuan blair
by Cablinasian on Jun 24, 2009 11:19 AM PDT up reply actions
from the chad ford chat
Paul (Seattle)
Is KP winding up for another Pritch slap?
Chad Ford
I would be seriously disappointed if he isn’t. He has single handedly kept us entertained in the draft the past few years. I know he’s trying to be prudent and focus on adding some veteran talent to their roster. But if he can find a way to get Rubio or Curry … I think he’ll do it.
formerly fromagnon... I remember back in the day... way back before you young cats were around, back when I ruled the jersey contest... back when it meant something... back when hip-hop was alive
BLAM
Roy and Hinrich could be one of the top three backcourts in the league, though.
Roy/Hinrich > Wade/Chalmers, Fisher/Bryant, CP3/Butler, etc.
draft dejuan blair
by Cablinasian on Jun 24, 2009 11:04 AM PDT up reply actions
Curry feels like more of a KP pick than Rubio does. Seems like every KP pick can really shoot.
draft dejuan blair
by Cablinasian on Jun 24, 2009 11:04 AM PDT up reply actions
Uhm, Segio? Batum? Taruan Green? They weren't shooters.
I’d say KP drafts on value, if not need/value.
But Curry does feel like the pick if we moved up. But maybe he’s thinking “Got Blake to hold down the fort, and use time to develop Bayless next year. Then Bayless will take over, and Rubio will finally see time. Then Rubio and Bayless are both awesome, and do something with that (WIN!)”
by Quik_Baller on Jun 24, 2009 11:08 AM PDT up reply actions
Sergio was PA’s pick, and Batum ended up as a 36% 3 point shooter.
draft dejuan blair
by Cablinasian on Jun 24, 2009 11:08 AM PDT up reply actions
YUCK
I cant stand it when we do the pritchslap thing in public
and you wonder why people hate us.. Paul in Seattle.. STOP IT
by GreatOden'sRaven on Jun 24, 2009 11:38 AM PDT up reply actions 1 recs
wow, what a thoughtful guy.
draft dejuan blair
by Cablinasian on Jun 24, 2009 11:08 AM PDT up reply actions
“I just gave myself a big hug” on being happy with losing the weight.
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by Cablinasian on Jun 24, 2009 11:11 AM PDT up reply actions
alright everyone i gotta get back to work
i’ll be back around lunch time to see if KP has made the Curry + Hinrich megadeal yet
I blame Prez
We didn't have to give anyone up.
And yes, we got Curry too. All for free. KP worked his magic.
Certified blazer.fangirl
When I was in high school
I had a dream where I taught a hamster how to box. Then I set up a fight between my hamster and a gerbil and the winner would get a box of Ritz crackers.
Within like 3 weeks of that dream I also had a dream where George Harrison became a Jedi Knight and fought Palpatine on the planet Hoth and another dream where I parachuted out of an airplane to deliver the mail barefoot.
Blair just said on Rome that he has lost 30 pounds since the end of season (!)
"Tough times don't last. Tough people do."
-Chauncey Billups
I’ve thought about that before.
draft dejuan blair
by Cablinasian on Jun 24, 2009 11:27 AM PDT up reply actions
Chad Ford
Sam Presti is like Steve Jobs at Apple
Muahahahahaha. There is a little difference Chad: Presti doesn’t own the thing and can’t fire people like he pleases. And the product he puts out still sucks.
Also, Steve Jobs didn't steal apple from Seattle to put it in the middle of nowhere
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by The Arkitect on Jun 24, 2009 11:26 AM PDT up reply actions
I’m not convinced that Presti is a genius quite yet. Green is overrated. Durant doesn’t play defense and was a gimme selection. Westbrook is nice but doesn’t have a position yet.
draft dejuan blair
by Cablinasian on Jun 24, 2009 11:28 AM PDT up reply actions
He is good at collecting assets and running a tight ship
But like KP he hasn’t really proven anything yet, and so far KP is a year or two ahead.
A lot of the Presti is a genuis talk
comes from him turning a 2nd rd pick into Kurt Thomas and two 1st round picks.
Without a good coach, it's hard to say how smart Presti is
Nate’s a part of the reason why KP looks like such a genius.
Better than PJ for sure
But still pretty inexperienced as a head coach. I’m curious to see how well he does with a full season under his belt.
It’s the fact that two of their three best players play the same position that befuddles me.
draft dejuan blair
by Cablinasian on Jun 24, 2009 11:43 AM PDT up reply actions
Durant and Green at small forward.
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by Cablinasian on Jun 24, 2009 11:43 AM PDT up reply actions
Hollinger's draft rater loves that guy's numbers that nobody has on the radar: Oguz Savas
http://www.draftexpress.com/profile/Oguz-Savas-268/
Um, sometimes visually scouting might be helpful. The guy carries a lot of extra weight and plays in a fairly crappy Turkish league.
His stats look good
because he ate dejuan blair
by GreatOden'sRaven on Jun 24, 2009 11:45 AM PDT up reply actions
Spain has won like 15 straight international games
they are really good. Right now they are probably the best national side in the world.
it doesnt seem that way
it IS that way
Spain was in the final for the World Cup right?
they are stacked.
by GreatOden'sRaven on Jun 24, 2009 11:40 AM PDT up reply actions
No, but they won the last Euro championships against Germany
Usually they falter in big tournaments by playing pretty but inefficient. Last year they didn’t, partly because the coach left off some big names to go with young hungry players.
I always forget
is spain a pressing team or not? Northern Europe has the english pressing style lots of crosses up the wing..
Spain plays slow passing back a lot correct? trying to get run outs down the middle?
by GreatOden'sRaven on Jun 24, 2009 11:44 AM PDT up reply actions
the worst team to watch ever is Mexico..
ugg
by GreatOden'sRaven on Jun 24, 2009 11:48 AM PDT up reply actions
yeah
their forwards could take naps between the times the balls get to them.. its all defense and middys.. just pass back.. forward.. pass back.. go forward.. pass back..
yuck
by GreatOden'sRaven on Jun 24, 2009 11:53 AM PDT up reply actions
Spain plays a high possession game
Three midfielders down the middle, letting the fullbacks attack in the sides
GOOOOOOAAAAAAAAALLLLLL!!!!!
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by The Arkitect on Jun 24, 2009 11:57 AM PDT up reply actions
US up 1-0
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by The Arkitect on Jun 24, 2009 11:59 AM PDT up reply actions
US has started alright
but Spain is starting to slowly control the game
good pressure from the US, Cesc and Xavi need to get closer to Xabi Alonso
depends what country...
some countries they might be better.. like England.. but in most of the others, they are worse
by GreatOden'sRaven on Jun 24, 2009 11:54 AM PDT up reply actions
I think their national team is excellent... mainly because
most of their star players are at home in the ECL.. they are a solid group and I think they are better than ManU.. I dont know enough about Spains national team to know who is at home and who is abroad. closer they are to home the better they know each and know how the others play…
now dont get me wrong, england isnt the worlds best country in soccer/futbol, i just think that it was an easy example.
by GreatOden'sRaven on Jun 24, 2009 11:59 AM PDT up reply actions
I don't agree
I think that ManU would thump England, regardless for whom Rooney and/or Ferdinand chose to play for.
England’s national side is a bit overrated. They didn’t qualify for Euro 2008, and haven’t won a major internatonal title since 1966, only reaching the semi-finals twice since then.
One of the big debates in the EPL is whether the influx of foreign players coming into the league is going to hinder the national team in the future. ManU started a game last season where they didn’t have a single Englishman on the started XII.
your last paragraph
was exactly what i meant.. although in this scenario Rooney and Ferdinand would magically be on both teams for arguments sake.
“One of the big debates in the EPL is whether the influx of foreign players coming into the league is going to hinder the national team in the future. ManU started a game last season where they didn’t have a single Englishman on the started XII.”
The more foreigners you have the less experience your national team has getting to know each other. Its one of the things you would THINK would make the US better, but the talent isnt there.
OK maybe England isnt the best example, but I chose them because their national players are the cream of their crop and play together more often than some of the other countries.
by GreatOden'sRaven on Jun 24, 2009 12:15 PM PDT up reply actions
England probably isn't the best example
if you look at the squad from England’s most recent game, everyone except for Beckham plays in England, but the starting XII includes 2 players from Portsmouth (14th place in league), the goalie is from the 9th place team. ManU, Liverpool and Arsenal each only contributed 1 player and Chelsea contributed 3 players (so the top 4 teams in the EPL contributed a total of 6 players.
Looking at Spain’s team that is playing right now, they have 3 players from Liverpool (2nd place EPL), 3 from Barcelona (best club team in Europe), and 2 from Real Madrid (2nd place in Spain). To me it seems that there is more cohesion on from club to country on the Spainish side than there is the English side.
thats possible
but i said earlier I dont know enough about Spains team.. so that is a better example.. the more they play with and against each other the better they will be as a national team
by GreatOden'sRaven on Jun 24, 2009 2:07 PM PDT up reply actions
In Chad Fords new mock
he has us taking Eric Maynor.. how do you guys feel about that.. ?
by GreatOden'sRaven on Jun 24, 2009 11:55 AM PDT reply actions
I leave for two minutes and we score.
It’s what I hate about soccer as a spectator sport.
draft dejuan blair
great goal by altidore
plays in Spain, by the way (Villareal)
and with that i’m off to a bar to see the rest of the second half
Which team(s) is Rubio least happy to go to / least likely to be successful?
I would say Wolves and Clippers.
Memphis, Clippers or any team with an all-star point guard like Utah or N.O
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by The Arkitect on Jun 24, 2009 12:04 PM PDT up reply actions
memphis
he said basically no to them already.. draft me and i aint coming
by GreatOden'sRaven on Jun 24, 2009 12:06 PM PDT up reply actions
milwaukee
Only success he might have is developing a taste for cheap american domestics.
by EvilKaramazov on Jun 24, 2009 12:12 PM PDT up reply actions
What would you trade to Golden State for the #7 if we picked Curry there?
"Tough times don't last. Tough people do."
-Chauncey Billups
sergio and a hearty handshake..
if mullin is still there he might go for it.
by GreatOden'sRaven on Jun 24, 2009 12:12 PM PDT up reply actions
throw in a pat on the back and you have yourself a deal!
"It’s a good ol’ fashioned Rip City beat down!"
whoa whoa whoa
then we want Ellis and Randolph..
you cant go changing the terms of the deal
by GreatOden'sRaven on Jun 24, 2009 12:16 PM PDT up reply actions
There's too many fanposts flying around right now...
bothing stays up long enough to get a good conversation going before getting buried by who we should draft/trade/oggle at the moment
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by The Arkitect on Jun 24, 2009 12:23 PM PDT up reply actions
bothing = nothing
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by The Arkitect on Jun 24, 2009 12:23 PM PDT up reply actions
Spain already threatening big time
Its going to take a near miracle for the US to hold on to this lead.
Does anyone think the Minnesota Timberwolves are going to get their hands on the 2nd pick?
I mean we are talking about the Grizzlies here, they are cheap and would love to only have to pay the rookie scale to the entire roster.
unless they really what thabeet
"...the primary focus of all obstacles is to induce labor, so progression can be born." - LiL C
That would conviceably complete their front line
a center to protect the rim (Thabeet), a low post scorer (Jefferson) and Love.
Yeah
I don’t really know what is going on with that part. I’d love to see a team buy it’s way to the second pick. The sidebar of blazers edge would probably spontaneously combust.
Would it be for sale or do they want Rubio that bad? Would Rubio think it was sweet that they went through all that trouble to get him or demand a trade?
by tominhawaii on Jun 24, 2009 12:47 PM PDT up reply actions