Get Cousins, Rudy & Ben to the NYC All Star Game

9x1x6

9x1x6

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#64
#64
Money where your mouth is, ha. The NBA doesn't need any more of my money.

Fan vote is way to loaded, our best hope is the coaches.
 
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Peter_Gibbons

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#65
#65
9x1x6 said:
Money where your mouth is, ha. The NBA doesn't need any more of my money.

Fan vote is way to loaded, our best hope is the coaches.
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We know Cousins wasn't going to be in the top 3 with the fan votes from the start. The point is to get him as high on the list as possible to make it harder for coaches to snub him again. It's much easier to snub a #8 fan vote guy instead of a # 5 guy for example. That stats, the endorsements by his peers and coaches are all there. This is all we can do as fans, get as many votes in as possible.
 
Bricklayer

Bricklayer

Don't Make Me Use The Bat
#66
#66
Yep. And next year I have already decided that if the big guy is still here I'm going to try to get us organized to give him a noticeable bump. As long as they are going to allow the fan vote travesty, might as well game it. 4 different voting mechanisms now, and some of them only require daily retweets/posts/etc. Maybe 60 days or so of voting. If you could reach 1000 people that way, you would create 240k votes all by yourselves. Even with just a few hundred you are talking about 50k or so.
 
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Peter_Gibbons

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#69
#69
It's all going to come down to any remaining grudges that certain coaches have against DeMarcus and how much "winning" is gong to be factored in.

A coach that I know still dislikes DeMarcus is Brian Shaw.
 
Bricklayer

Bricklayer

Don't Make Me Use The Bat
#72
#72
I wonder how many coaches engage in strategic voting. I.e. you are worried about your borderline candidate LMA or Dwight or whoever, and so don't vote for anybody else you consider on the bubble.
 
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Peter_Gibbons

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#75
#75
Kobe has a shoulder injury right now and will be out 2-3 weeks minimum. Surgery may be needed and if so, he would be out for the year. Either way, I don't see him rushing back to play in the ASG.

His spot will allow another "deserving" guard to get picked without taking up one of the possible extra spots that could go to another front court player.
 
Bricklayer

Bricklayer

Don't Make Me Use The Bat
#76
#76
Peter_Gibbons said:
Kobe has a shoulder injury right now and will be out 2-3 weeks minimum. Surgery may be needed and if so, he would be out for the year. Either way, I don't see him rushing back to play in the ASG.
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Ha! You don't know Kobe very well then. :)

To say he's entitled would be an understatement.
 
Bricklayer

Bricklayer

Don't Make Me Use The Bat
#78
#78
HereWeBoogie said:
we failed!
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To the contrary, that's actually a nice final total. At one point Dwight had passed him, but the Boogie machine almsot caught up to LMA and is right there with the guys who didn't make it. Voting:
West Frontcourt Voting
1. Anthony Davis (NO) 1,369,911

2. Marc Gasol (Mem) 795,121

3. Blake Griffin (LAC) 700,615

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4. Tim Duncan (SA) 546,817

5. Kevin Durant (OKC) 545,226

6. LaMarcus Aldridge (Por) 498,131

7. DeMarcus Cousins (Sac) 465,334

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8. Dwight Howard (Hou) 348,275

9. Dirk Nowitzki (Dal) 292,557

10. Rudy Gay (Sac) 144,702

11. Kawhi Leonard (SA) 132,150

12. DeAndre Jordan (LAC) 117,816

13. Serge Ibaka (OKC) 107,223

14. Draymond Green (GS) 99,039

15. Tyson Chandler (Dal) 98,654


I would have loved to have gotten him up above Tim as the best of the rest, but still, that's not a bad showing at all for a guy stuck on a franchise that can't even find a way to win 30 games in half a decade with a pissed off fanbase who's emptied out the arena. Now it goes to the coaches, but the recognition is there elsewhere.
 
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Peter_Gibbons

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#80
#80
Bricklayer said:
Ha! You don't know Kobe very well then. :)

To say he's entitled would be an understatement.
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Haha, but this is the broken down kobe. He was playing on 1 arm and has been missing games on a regular basis just to rest even before the injury. The word is he feels pain all over his body and every game is almost a game time decision for him. There was a stretch where he would play in 1 game and miss 2 to rest. If he plays in the ASG and gets even more injured, that can be it for him.
 
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Peter_Gibbons

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#82
#82
Bricklayer said:
To the contrary, that's actually a nice final total. At one point Dwight had passed him, but the Boogie machine almsot caught up to LMA and is right there with the guys who didn't make it. Voting:
West Frontcourt Voting
1. Anthony Davis (NO) 1,369,911

2. Marc Gasol (Mem) 795,121

3. Blake Griffin (LAC) 700,615

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4. Tim Duncan (SA) 546,817

5. Kevin Durant (OKC) 545,226

6. LaMarcus Aldridge (Por) 498,131

7. DeMarcus Cousins (Sac) 465,334

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8. Dwight Howard (Hou) 348,275

9. Dirk Nowitzki (Dal) 292,557

10. Rudy Gay (Sac) 144,702

11. Kawhi Leonard (SA) 132,150

12. DeAndre Jordan (LAC) 117,816

13. Serge Ibaka (OKC) 107,223

14. Draymond Green (GS) 99,039

15. Tyson Chandler (Dal) 98,654


I would have loved to have gotten him up above Tim as the best of the rest, but still, that's not a bad showing at all for a guy stuck on a franchise that can't even find a way to win 30 games in half a decade with a pissed off fanbase who's emptied out the arena. Now it goes to the coaches, but the recognition is there elsewhere.
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We ended up passing Dwight and by a good margin. It just goes to show that if every member voted 2-3 times a day, we may be looking at a top 4 or better finish.
 
lwc

lwc

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#83
#83
I believe it was vital for him to pass Dwight. Now that that happened plus the Kobe injury, hopefully that allows for DMC to get in, even if that means he is a commissioners pick like AD was last year.
 
lwc

lwc

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#86
#86
Just saw that Steve Kerr will be the head coach for the West. I wonder what he thinks of Boogie? Also, could Vivek with his Warriors connection possibly get a word in Kerr's ear?
 
Bricklayer

Bricklayer

Don't Make Me Use The Bat
#88
#88
Query: anybody know is it just Conference coaches who vote for their own Conference's Al Stars? Or do all 30 get to vote for all of them?
 
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