Posts made by Wolfs

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Funny thing is the NBA does that "review the calls and non-calls in the last two minutes of the game" thing and even they said the screens were legal, that there was room given for the opponents and all that. Whether you agree with that or not, that's another matter.

As far as moving screens in general, if a guy sets a screen and the player crashes into him instead of trying to go around him, of course I'd expect him to move a little. Now, if somebody is holding a screen for only a moment then leaving the spot to stay with the defender and doing that routinely, that's a different story.

Though, this may be an interesting read that goes into some of these screens:

http://uproxx.com/dimemag/golden-state-warriors-illegal-screens/

And the NFL thing is exactly what I compared this to the other day with someone else by bringing up the example of the Seahawks DBs grabbing receivers all the time. Every team - especially every GOOD team - can and should be looking for ways to get ahead. Sometimes they're on the edge of the rules, sometimes beyond, but when you put it on the officials to make a call or not, chances are you're going to get away with some stuff. If you are, it's either on the league to crack down on it or other teams to follow suit.

In other words, I don't think this is only something the Warriors benefit from. Or rather, that only they CAN benefit from. They just get the most focus because they're the best team. If you watch closely, they do a lot of clutching and grabbing on rebounds as well. Every team does that sort of thing, expecting that the refs aren't going to catch it all.

I could go into how much I hate players like James Harden throwing his head back on every drive to the basket in hope of getting a whistle, but I don't think I have to seek for much agreement on THAT one.

@ThatGuyThere I don't want this to sound the way it might, but sometimes complacency and boredom is their own worst enemy. They can just be so good, off-nights so rare, that no matter what most teams try against them it comes down more to how focused they are.

That's REALLY tough to deal with if you're trying to beat them, even harder when you get their full attention. They'll have the occasional stinker, but by and large I can watch them trail in a game and have a pretty sure feeling they're going to come back somehow.

Lots of full shows from the Houston area on this account. Chances are there will be something you'll like in there.

https://www.youtube.com/user/spacecityshows/playlists

(No, it's not mine. I came across it last night while looking up some Better Than Ezra stuff.)

Ah, Stephen Curry and the Warriors.

I'm old enough that I was born just after their 1975 title, so I never saw Rick Barry or the rest from the 70s. My first exposure to the team was Sleepy Floyd, Chris Mullin, Joe Barry Carroll (aka Joe Barely Cares), and so on. One of my earliest basketball memories is a 4OT game in Oakland where the Warriors beat the Nets.

Look at that box score - http://www.basketball-reference.com/boxscores/198702010GSW.html. Nine 3-pointers taken in the entire game, and that's four quarters plus an extra 20 minutes from the overtimes.

Curry averages 11 attempts a game (and he's on pace to make 400 this season). But before that, a little more.

Run TMC came soon after, and while that was a fun period the Warriors were never championship level as a team. I saw some sad, sad years. I remember Chris Cohan getting booed on his home court when the Warriors hosted the All-Star Game in 2000. I remember a 20-win season feeling like an accomplishment. When they had the "We Believe" team in 2006-07 that made the playoffs on the last day of the regular season, for the first time in a dozen years, I went to a home game then drove up to Portland early the next morning to watch them clinch there. Watching them knock out #1 Dallas was amazing. They ran out of steam against Utah, but eyes were back on the Warriors.

After a better season following that but missing out on the playoffs (8th place Denver had 50 wins and the Warriors had 48), Cohan tore it all up again. Finally, mercifully, he sold the team.

A lot of people thought Larry Ellison was going to get the Warriors, and maybe he was in line to, but it ended up being Joe Lacob and Peter Guber. There was some skepticism, some early foot-in-mouth things and some boasting, but...they somehow got Stephen Curry.

By all rights, he should have been taken by one of the two picks Minnesota had ahead of the Warriors, but they took Rubio and Flynn. IIRC, Curry didn't even really work out for the Warriors before the draft, but Larry Riley took a shot on him. Right away, Monta Ellis said a backcourt with Curry and himself couldn't work. He'd end up right, but probably not for the reasons he may have believed. Ellis was a me-first, team-second player and I doubt he wanted to share much with Curry.

Curry also had bad ankle problems, so bad that when the Warriors had to decide on who to keep of the two, they came so close to sending Curry away. Around that time, I read recently, Curry began to work with someone on better positioning of his body, using his hips more, taking some of the pressure off his ankles. Somehow, it worked.

Along the way, he worked and worked to become the great shooter he is now. He was already good with Davidson, but consider this - he's shooting almost 70% at the rim this season. That's territory you usually only see big men at, and mainly because so many of their baskets from that close are dunks. Curry has become ridiculously good at finishing tough layups because he practices them so much.

Anyway, the Warriors got Andrew Bogut for Ellis, Andre Iguodala ended up joining the team after that playoff series with Denver, they had Thompson, Green, and a good core. But they weren't quite there. Their defense had improved with Mark Jackson as the head coach (and Mike Malone on the staff), but offensively they were still too iso-heavy. That was part of the knock on Jackson. He could motivate, but when it came to actual coaching he came up short. He also could not get along with the front office.

That's why I was excited when they replaced him with Steve Kerr and I read about how prepared Kerr was just for the interview. He learned from Phil Jackson and Gregg Popovich. He played with Michael Jordan, Scottie Pippen, David Robinson, Tim Duncan, and so on. Hell, Kerr was part of that 72-10 Bulls team and won multiple titles as a key role player.

Last year, it all clicked. They moved the ball like a great team should, their defense further improved, and I got to see something I never thought I would - a title. As for Curry? Now he's even better than before. Teams are doing all they can to try to shut him down, disrupt him and more, but because he's so good and so fast at getting shots off that only he can regularly make, and because the players around him are good enough shooters (Thompson especially) that you can't ever forget the rest of them (Curry and/or Green WILL get the ball to the open guy), it's kind of a "pick your poison" thing.

I feel like the basketball gods have smiled on a franchise and fanbase that went through years of dark times with no light at the end of the tunnel, and it's so much fun to watch. To even be talking about them challenging that 72-10 record is a cherry on top, but obviously I'd like a repeat over that. This is a historically good team, without comparing players and eras, and Curry is cementing his status as a top player in the history of the league already.

Yeah, I like my sports.

After starting out with this on the PS4, I've been enjoying playing it on my new laptop. It's not a top-of-the-line gaming desktop with uber-powerful processing and graphics, but I can still run it on mostly High settings with a number of mods and pull around 30-35 FPS in the areas I've explored so far (not all of Boston, yet), and often around 50 or so indoors. That's good enough for me, especially at 1080p, if I can't run the thing on Ultra settings.

The nice thing is FNV runs exceptionally well at 60 FPS on Ultra settings, even with a bunch of texture mods installed. I'm not surprised given the fact it's older, but I have a feeling I'll get some solid performance out of Skyrim as well. I went on a little buying binge recently thanks to some sales.

Looking forward to the DLC content, too.

I didn't have any real computer access (except for occasionally looking at a few things on a friend's Prodigy account while in high school) until I was in college, and my freshman roommate introduced me to the world of online RP.

That would have been Uncanny X-Mush in late 1995, and I'm afraid to say it's been a large part of my life ever since. I never thought it would last as long as it has, but I still enjoy the make-believe worlds and doing something creative with others as part of them.

You just don't want to see how bad and simplistic my early RP was. I sure don't. We all had to start somewhere, though. Through all of this, I've never done any LARPing, never really been into MUDs or places that are more automated through coded commands in comparison to coming up with things to do with other players.

Over the years I've kept thousands of logs, and I have some stuff that goes back to as early as probably 1996 thanks to the old shell/telnet/whatever account I had in college. The most annoying part of that is all the added text characters that preface every line when I saved logs to a couple disks.

@Arkandel I would have blocked Cirno, absolutely.

@Arkandel I dunno if I'll actually have enough of a reason to block someone here, at least not now. I was more just trying to make a joke.

@Ninjakitten Ninja + cat = stealth, yep.

And you should see the version of the script I have on that other site. It has literally dozens of names in it. There's also some custom color stuff coded in with it because for whatever reason, a basic Stylish script someone had written for me stopped working after a site upgrade.

I have eyes that are pretty light-sensitive, so I try to go with darker versions of websites whenever I can.

@Arkandel I didn't see this because I'm already ignoring @Ninjakitten

Somewhat related, it's nice to have a good, working blocking script for a different site that, while generally good, is plagued by a problem of a few trolls who constantly create new accounts to screw with the message board. This is especially good when the person running the place is too busy dealing with other stuff and too slow to actually fix whatever IP banning function there used to be, so when one account is suspended these people just go over to a new one with a new e-mail address.

(Note, I'm not REALLY ignoring @Ninjakitten. I don't even know @Ninjakitten in any way.)

The AI ALWAYS cheats. In everything. Whenever it can.

@Cobaltasaurus

Maybe he just needed a Snickers bar.

@ThatGuyThere said:

@Wolfs
Aww why not. I admit i am a little curious. Not saying i would check it out right away but during a slow rp night... well that is how I found WORA in the first place.

I don't think he needs the attention, to be honest. Obviously he craves it, which is part of why he acted the way he did here.

I'll say the name he gave it is very Cirno, at least.

He wants people to share the link here to the board he created.

I won't be doing that.

@SG said:

@Wolfs said:

The one who was recently banned (yeah, Cirno as mentioned below) started up a new forum meant to be a counter to this place. I peeked in and it's about what you'd expect from him, including a bit of "I don't care" which is obviously a lie if he's going to go to the point of making a whole new place dedicated in part to crying about this one.

But how much anime porn was there?

Didn't look to be any...yet.

You probably got the same chat I did about 20 minutes ago. The name was Symeon or something like that, might be new, might not. The chats to me were also deleted. I don't have the notification, though.

The one who was recently banned (yeah, Cirno as mentioned below) started up a new forum meant to be a counter to this place. I peeked in and it's about what you'd expect from him, including a bit of "I don't care" which is obviously a lie if he's going to go to the point of making a whole new place dedicated in part to crying about this one.

@Ganymede said:

@Wolfs

Wait, it's on PS4?

SOLD.

Geralt of Rivia may have to wait a little longer before he finds his Ciri.

Yeah. A few months ago when they did their first new "vote for which of these three games will be free on PS+" things it was one of the choices. It didn't win, but for a week or so afterward it was offered at a discount. It's $20 right now, no discounts I can see.

I got this on the PS4 when it was new and at a discount via PS+ but I haven't really sunk any time into it yet apart from doing a couple introductory things. Part of the problem was until they patched it, the in-game text was extremely small and I didn't like having to strain just to read it. But, the concept seems like a fun one.

I'd say I'll miss Cirno, but based on what I've seen of him I'd be lying. Anyone who's intentionally that toxic and obnoxious is not worth it.