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Archive for July, 2008

Planning for the Draft (from Full Court Press)

Posted by Nels on July 31st, 2008 filed in Author: Nels, Fantasy Basketball, Fantasy Draft Guide Mojo 2008

Full Court Press Fantasy Basketball provides a way to plan for your draft on a pick-by-pick basis. They started with the 2nd pick, since you’ll have much harder decisions to make this season if you’re sitting at number 2. Now, in many leagues, you won’t actually know which pick will be yours until 10-30 minutes [...]

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Give Me The Rock Turns 4

Posted by Nels on July 30th, 2008 filed in Author: Nels, Random Stuff

Last year GMTR was hosting the big Carnival party. This year, GMTR is forgetting to submit posts to the big Carnival party. Unlike Patrick, I was carefully trimming my public hair.
Since we messed that up pretty bad, and we have to have something to celebrate on our Blogiversary, here is (drumroll please) a photo of [...]

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Carnival of the NBA #58: Will Ferrell Edition

Posted by Patrick on July 29th, 2008 filed in Carnivals

Up a little late, but what the hell. Carnival #58, the brainchild of J.E. Skeets, is live over at Yahoo’s Ball Don’t Lie. And hey look, GMTR is nowhere to be found because we forgot to submit something… anything. It’s not like being linked by Yahoo is important or drives any traffic. I must care [...]

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Fantasy Basketball Draft Tip #2: If you think he’s a sleeper and I think he’s a sleeper, then he’s not a sleeper

Posted by Patrick on July 25th, 2008 filed in Author: Patrick, Fantasy Basketball, Fantasy Basketball Strategy

Whether it be stocks, basketball players, or boy bands, we’re all looking for the next hot thing (don’t lie to yourself, my money is on Los Primeros). Despite the fact that the next big thing usually comes out of nowhere, we all think we can somehow discover it before anyone else and in the process [...]

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GMTR Fantasy Basketball Big Board Updated (July 24)

Posted by Nels on July 24th, 2008 filed in Author: Nels, Fantasy Basketball, Fantasy Draft Guide Mojo 2008

Now that things have calmed down (a little), Patrick and I have gone through and updated our rankings for the GMTR Big Board.
In case you aren’t sure where that first link goes, here’s one that makes it real simple:
Link to GMTR Big Board (2008-09)

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Fantasy Basketball Draft Tip #1: Percentages are not Created Equal.

Posted by Patrick on July 24th, 2008 filed in Author: Patrick, Fantasy Basketball, Fantasy Basketball Strategy

And if you’ve played in a league that uses percentages as a category, you probably know that already. I know it, your little brother knows it, hell your little grandma with the one good hand probably knows it. But – as I’ve experienced – there’s a difference between “knowing” and “knowing during a draft with [...]

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Court Rivals – There is No Off Season in Basketball

Posted by Patrick on July 19th, 2008 filed in Author: Patrick, Diatribes, Fantasy Basketball

Many of you have either heard of or played Cyberdunk – the “world’s biggest basketball MMORPG” (I’m taking their word for it since I only know of two). Both Nels and I played it for a while and I think we stopped for the same reason – the game simulator was not good. You can [...]

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Nuggets Front Office Drunk Off Their Keisters, Trade Camby for Phantom Menace

Posted by Nels on July 16th, 2008 filed in Author: Nels, Denver Nuggets, Fantasy Basketball, LA Clippers

Points in the Paint asks if Camby is a Consolation Prize for losing Brand. Sure, Camby is not a 20 and 10 guy, but getting him for the right to switch places in the second round with a team that is not really any worse than you in 2010 only brings up thoughts of conspiracy [...]

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Release the Hounds: Free Agency Season Won’t Be Stopped

Posted by Patrick on July 15th, 2008 filed in Author: Patrick, Fantasy Basketball, Free Agency, Player News, Trades

Instead of trying to keep up with the clusterf**k of free agent signings and trades this off season, it’s much easier to let other people do the heavy lifting and then link to their work while making derogatory comments in this post about how they lack the ability to make intelligent, coherent thoughts and they’re [...]

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Elton Brand Gives a Big Middle Finger to the Clippers – And Packs His Bags for Philly

Well, that was a quick moment of relevance for the LA Clippers. A week after Baron Davis opted out of the final year of his contract and signed a 5 year $65 million contract with Los Angeles, Brand has walked away from his verbal agreement with the Clips and, according to the LA Times, [...]

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