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On July 05 2017 21:49 Keyboard Warrior wrote:
What about a wager? gsw, hou, spurs, and whoever else is in top 4 whether wolves, okc, or kings lol will all have winning record against your cavs and lechoke. 1 year ban starting end of last game of the season?
you accept?
u realize ur original post said "top 4 teams in the east", right?
any how, i assume this is a cumulative 8 game record against all 4 top west teams combined rather than each and every top 4 west team going 2-0 versus the Cavs?
what if the Cavs go 4-4 against the top 4 teams?
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I didn't even get what the wager was... I also thought we were talking about East teams. Now I realize he might have meant "the top 4 teams in the West can easily beat the Cavs". You can understand my confusion.
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Sorry zenith, i mistyped. i meant west, mistype was understandable since the previous statemnent was "east is a joke". the wager still stands if you accept
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Even if we're talking about the West teams, if you want to wager you have to define "easy". Your claim was "easily beats". Do I think the Rockets can beat the Cavs. Sure, absolutely. Do I think they sweep them in a Bo7, or even 4-1? I have a harder time seeing it.
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wager is heavily in favor of you actually. any of the top 4 teams in the west will have a winning record vs. the cavs
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uhh you realize Cleveland plays each Western team only 2 times right?
so a winning record is 2-0 against a team.
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So what would be the wager KW? Top 4 record West teams go 8-0 vs the Cavs? If that's it, I think I'm favored in this bet, this season the Cavs were 3-3 vs (Rockets, Warriors, Spurs), splitting with each. But I won't wager a 1-year ban with a low-postcount guy who's been trolling the NBA thread to no end, I hope you'll understand :D. The bet outcome is in my favor, but I'm risking more too. I like posting on this forum, I'm quite sure I would miss it more than you.
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earlier in the thread i provided a rebuttal to someone stating something like
"Ainge not going after PG13 was a bad move."
i said something like "hayward will only cost Boston money..."
welp, that's wrong... the Hayward signing won't just cost Boston money...
" With Gordon Hayward now agreeing to a four-year $127M max contract, Celtics management now has a series of transactions to do in order to create cap space. The Celtics would have to pull the qualifying offer on Kelly Olynyk, renounce free agents Jonas Jerebko, James Young, Gerald Green and waive the contracts of Jordan Mickey and Demetrius Jackson (or trade). The Celtics would be left with $27.6M in room and likely need to move the contract of Jae Crowder, Terry Rozier or Marcus Smart. Trading Rozier would have the Celtics short $1M of a max salary a lot."
http://www.espn.com/espn/now?nowId=1-19833921
after reading all that... i don't know enough about Boston to say whether or not the Hayward signing will actually improve the team.
i guess we'll just have to wait and see how the other dominoes fall.
i know everyone in the thread follows the Atlantic division very closely; so i realize i've created a very valuable and important post.
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We have to amend the original condition since we won't know the top 4 until the playoffs. So I win if either: 1. cavs do not win more than 2 games against consensus top 4 gsw, hou, san, wolves to satisfy the "easy" win of 6-2, or cavs lose in the finals against top 4 teams then by 4-2 or better. you choose which one. Accept?
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^who the fuck cares. let the teams worry about management stuff. this is the offseason, let us talk offseason things. trades, summer league, and preseason games. you do not control how they will manage their teams, so theres no use jerking armchair managing it here on tl.
and no one really cares about the atlantic division at this point. al;l we care about is the nba in general. no need to justify your shitty post with that disclaimer. lol
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On July 05 2017 23:49 Keyboard Warrior wrote:
^who the fuck cares. let the teams worry about management stuff. this is the offseason, let us talk offseason things. trades, summer league, and preseason games. you do not control how they will manage their teams, so theres no use jerking armchair managing it here on tl
Raptor followers care ... as the team embarks on their quest to regain the coveted atlantic division crown.
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Oh shit its you, the one troll everyone told me here to avoid. no wonder.
Sorry guys, I wont feed the troll anymore, was too late when i realized.
Anyway, this went under the radar:
Casspi to gsw
Hill and Randolf to kings
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now you are hurting my feelings. the double-entendre troll call-out by a troll. 
it is a serious discussion though... about whether Boston will be better or not. I think they'll certainly be better in 2+ years. Next year they might be worse due to the Hayward signing.
i'm thinking the Atlantic division will not be the worst division in the NBA next year.
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On July 05 2017 23:41 Keyboard Warrior wrote:
We have to amend the original condition since we won't know the top 4 until the playoffs. So I win if either: 1. cavs do not win more than 2 games against consensus top 4 gsw, hou, san, wolves to satisfy the "easy" win of 6-2, or cavs lose in the finals against top 4 teams then by 4-2 or better. you choose which one. Accept?
All of this is way more likely to happen than my 8-0 thing (I mean, wtf, the Cavs just lost 4-1 in the finals, why would I bet they will do 2+ games better next year...). Which I wouldn't have accepted anyway . Like I said, a lot more riding on this for me than for you. If Kyrie or Lebron is injured I ban myself 1 year from TL? That's silly :D.
Anyway I don't tend to bet on things outside of my control (I really like to bet when I'm involved though  ).
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We can still amend it further. 8-0 is not easy, its annihilation. 3 out of 8 is a good number i think? and lets agree, injuries on the starting five and bets are off. lets do this!
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the chance of 4 teams in the west and the Cavs keeping their starting 5 intact for all 8 games is pretty much 0. what if the worst starter on the 4th place team loses his job to the 6th man in the rotation half way through the year?
TL;DR : this bet will just get called off... the bet is unwieldy and poorly defined and could end up in giant shouting matches all year long about the "rules" of the bet.
this bet will be good for giant + Show Spoiler + posts about the Cavs and LBJ though.
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Otto Porter signs with Brooklyn. The Wizards have the right to match the deal on Thursday.
guys who realize they have no shot at a ring are going for the most money they can get.
Washington has a tough decision on Thursday. Do they give an above average player $25M/Year?
![[image loading]](http://i.imgur.com/iPIMg1I.jpg)
http://www.spotrac.com/nba/cap/
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On July 06 2017 00:40 Keyboard Warrior wrote:
We can still amend it further. 8-0 is not easy, its annihilation. 3 out of 8 is a good number i think? and lets agree, injuries on the starting five and bets are off. lets do this!
I remind you that you started this off talking about East teams. I won't be baited into a crappy bet just because you don't even know what you're posting.
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y r u guys being so mean to each other?
pretty good mad max reference in this look at the Eastern and Western Conferences.
https://streamable.com/q3pev
and another look at Pat Patterson Raptor Career:
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EPT
