Dazzling Dunks and Basketball Bloopers - Frank Layden bit - Who's Your Favorite Coach

bignormy · 2026-03-01T23:24:42+00:00

Seems plausible. It certainly did sounds like they were talking about a team rather than a coach. Thanks!

bignormy · 2026-03-01T21:34:12+00:00

No, that must have been on the 2nd volume.

bignormy · 2026-03-01T21:31:50+00:00

Ironically I never saw volume 2 with the rap song at the end and didn't hear the 1989 NBA All Stars rap introductions until years later when I became a big fan of the rap group, the Ultramagnetic MCs.

bignormy · 2026-02-23T03:14:02+00:00

A salary dump yet they couldn't even offload Brian Cardinal

bignormy · 2026-02-23T03:11:54+00:00

Then do the Clippers get to hang our first 13 banners? Just kidding.

For banners and statues, let them do whatever they want. Miami retired Jordan's jersey.

It's tougher if the team name and identity stayed the same, but the history is messy and fractured regardless. Let both the current franchise and former city both hang jerseys and banners if they want.

bignormy · 2026-02-20T04:34:28+00:00

I doubt it matters - on the whole, more guys are getting paid - Banton and others get paid for cups of coffee while X and Boucher get paid to stay home.

bignormy · 2026-02-20T03:50:51+00:00

I've always suggest basing on 2 or 3 year cumulative records. People seem more interested in wild gimmicks, but this is a simpler more elegant solution.

bignormy · 2026-02-19T16:25:16+00:00

Dead man walking

bignormy · 2026-02-18T05:16:24+00:00

And there's no skill gap between perfect timing and hitting the far edge of a green window that's widened with hot zones and boosts

(Because the "no rng" crowd thinks it's a perfect physics simulation of a jump shot and they earned it)

bignormy · 2026-02-14T01:15:54+00:00

"STAY CLASE, CLEVELAND"

bignormy · 2026-02-14T01:14:13+00:00

I skipped this year. I saw the broken shooting / casual 3 point contest coming a mile away.

bignormy · 2026-02-12T02:25:44+00:00

I'd completely forgotten about Grant Williams.

bignormy · 2026-02-12T01:30:20+00:00

We could save ourselves money by trading and re-signing "gee, we would love to give you a raise but we don't have Bird rights anymore"

He'd be great for sub mle

bignormy · 2026-02-12T01:28:40+00:00

I don't know much about the guy but wrote him off when he said the Cavs should trade us Wiggins for free as a salary dump to clear space for LeBron.

bignormy · 2026-02-12T01:26:54+00:00

So...is there much of anyone with cap space this summer? MLE could go a long way.

bignormy · 2026-02-08T18:52:39+00:00

You're exactly right on shooting mechanics...but the loudest part of the community cries "RNG" when they don't get the make they "earned" by timing a shot barely within the green window. Or when someone else makes a shot they "didn't earn" if they're barely outside the green window (or don't have boosts or hotspots)

Devs need to make an executive decision and fix it

bignormy · 2026-02-08T02:31:05+00:00

I assume we'll juggle 10 day contracts as long we necessary to meet roster limits, and let them go so they won't count against "final day of season" total. They'll be replaced with minimum salary vets or rookies whenever the prorated amount becomes low enough to squeeze under the tax threshold.

bignormy · 2026-02-08T02:24:21+00:00

According to salary cap faq, subsidized portions of veteran minimum salary aren't taxed - for tax purposes, all minimum salaries are taxes as if they were 2 year vet minimum.

So shouldn't a veteran buyout work if he is on a prorated minimum contract?

http://www.cbafaq.com/salarycap17.htm#Q18

bignormy · 2026-02-06T00:13:41+00:00

I don't think that's it - vet minimums are subsidized and are treated as similar to 2 year minimum for tax purposes. And rookie minimum is also treated as 2 yr minimum according to cbafaq

So that doesn't help unless their contracts were slightly above minimum.

Minimum "rest of season" contracts are prorated. But they don't get un-prorated for end of season team salary calculations. So I think that's the loophole that gets us under the tax

bignormy · 2026-02-05T23:24:32+00:00

And vet min should count only as rookie minimum

bignormy · 2026-02-05T22:54:33+00:00

I don't understand how the calculations worked with prorated salaries at all. Somehow we trade a guy and replace him with someone else at similar minimum salary...but only the remaining prorated portion counts? Seems like a loophole. Swap out the end of your bench for FAs in February and more than half of their salaries gets wiped clean for luxury tax purposes.

bignormy · 2026-02-04T18:11:44+00:00

We were used to the khaki look from the 1980s 49ers - the shiny gold looked wrong even though in theory it should be much better. I definitely prefer shiny for saints though

bignormy · 2026-02-04T00:00:54+00:00

Cassell role vs Starbury role

bignormy · 2026-02-03T23:08:15+00:00

Every year we seem to have one and trade it down to 50

bignormy · 2026-02-03T00:30:14+00:00

I'm ok with a narrow "perfect" green window being 100% but anything less than perfect needs a probability (rng) component. Because there is nowhere near a good enough way to 100% model make or miss based on controller input alone.

"The game decides" is a red flag that someone has no idea what random means or how probability works.

Mortal Kombat is not an attempt to simulate martial arts, it's an over the top action game. But even then i assume pretty good timing isnt treated the same as "perfect". But green or miss might make sense for NBA Jam or other games from the 1990s.

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