"You Gotta Love It Baby" Official Jazz thread

[UtahJazzFan88]

Math, reading, basketball prognostications, discussing City Creek, what is SloanHater not bad at?

Not admitting defeat and lame insults.

[Blueintheface]

I heart Jerry Sloan's ghost. You make the football offseason bearable and for that, I thank you.

[Blueintheface]

With the whole Wet Willy(ie?) incident I've been curious since it happened what set West off. I somehow missed G-Time taking the first swipe at him. Pick up Hayward as soon as the clip starts or you'll miss it.

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Love me some G-Time.

Not bad for a "punk-ass white boy" huh, Delonte?

[Blueintheface]

http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/blogsjazznotes/53948449-62/ahearn-jazz-season-utah.html.csp

The Jazz are expected to sign point guard Blake Ahearn for the remainder of the season, The Salt Lake Tribune learned Thursday.

I can see why.

Ahearn, 27, is averaging 1 point and 5 minutes in three games.

I refuse to believe there isn't a more qualified PG in the D-league avaiable to the Jazz even if he does nothing more than help the jazz practice 5 on 5 prior to a possible playoff game.

[UteStar]

http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/blogsja...-utah.html.csp



I can see why.



I refuse to believe there isn't a more qualified PG in the D-league avaiable to the Jazz even if he does nothing more than help the jazz practice 5 on 5 prior to a possible playoff game.

You may be right, but Ahearn's D-League stats this year were pretty fabulous:
23.8 points per game
5.1 assists
47% shooting from field
41% from 3
96% from foul line
1 steal per game

[SloanHater]

Excellent. So if Golden State moves into the top 3, that move--the move which is a result of a mathematical probability--will have no impact on whether or not the Jazz receive Golden State's pick?

Brilliant. Keep the insults coming.

Lol. You're as thick as a brick. The move to the top 3 is a lateral move. The Jazz go from 0 chance of getting the pick to 0 chance of getting the pick.

Would it help if I explained it in purple text or perhaps with pictures?

[Donuthole]

Lol. You're as thick as a brick. The move to the top 3 is a lateral move. The Jazz go from 0 chance of getting the pick to 0 chance of getting the pick.

Would it help if I explained it in purple text or perhaps with pictures?

Hey, look who showed back up. School must have just let out.

[SloanHater]

Hey, look who showed back up. School must have just let out.

That's the best you can do? I just embarrassed you and your basic math skills and your retort is to insinuate I'm younger than you.

[Blueintheface]

You may be right, but Ahearn's D-League stats this year were pretty fabulous:
23.8 points per game
5.1 assists
47% shooting from field
41% from 3
96% from foul line
1 steal per game

I saw those on the day he was signed and have been shocked at how it has not translated at all (small sample size to be sure). Maybe he'll pull a Sundiata Gaines and secure 8th place on a last second shot.

[Jacob]

That's the best you can do? I just embarrassed you and your basic math skills and your retort is to insinuate I'm younger than you.

You are embarrassing somebody.

Just to be clear, are you still standing by this, which has been proven false half a dozen times?

I was talking about a singular team helping the Jazz out by moving from 8-14 to the top 3 and that remains, at best, 4%.

[Maximus]

Lol. You're as thick as a brick. The move to the top 3 is a lateral move. The Jazz go from 0 chance of getting the pick to 0 chance of getting the pick.

Would it help if I explained it in purple text or perhaps with pictures?

Why havent you attacked the 'false' newspaper article yet that proves you were and are wrong?

Seventh-worst record - 75.0% chance to keep the pick (4.3% for No. 1, 4.9% for No. 2, 5.8% for No. 3, 59.9% for No. 7), 25% chance at 8th or lower.

http://bayarea.sbnation.com/golden-state-warriors/2012/4/18/2958138/2012-nba-lottery-draft-odds-warriors-chances

Done and done.

[smokymountainrain]

You may be right, but Ahearn's D-League stats this year were pretty fabulous:
23.8 points per game
5.1 assists
47% shooting from field
41% from 3
96% from foul line
1 steal per game

Those are great stats, but IIRC, he's had seasons in the past that are even better than that. He's always really struggled in the NBA, however.

[SloanHater]

Why havent you attacked the 'false' newspaper article yet that proves you were and are wrong?

http://bayarea.sbnation.com/golden-state-warriors/2012/4/18/2958138/2012-nba-lottery-draft-odds-warriors-chances

Done and done.

You're as simple minded as donuthole.

First of all the article you linked is drawing their numbers from a different article, so perhaps you should link to the original content. Second of all, the sports writer, not a math guy, is simply adding up the odds of GS getting the the 1st, 2nd, or 3rd picks with the probability of staying at 7th and then saying the remainder is the probability of moving down. That's not good math.

I've shown the math multiple times, but you keep on believing a sports writer who uses a chart from wikipedia and some bad math to come up with some bad numbers. Moron.

[Maximus]

You're as simple minded as donuthole.

First of all the article you linked is drawing their numbers from a different article, so perhaps you should link to the original content. Second of all, the sports writer, not a math guy, is simply adding up the odds of GS getting the the 1st, 2nd, or 3rd picks with the probability of staying at 7th and then saying the remainder is the probability of moving down. That's not good math.

I've shown the math multiple times, but you keep on believing a sports writer who uses a chart from wikipedia and some bad math to come up with some bad numbers. Moron.

Actually that is good math. If your options are A, B, C and you have X% chance at A and Y% at B, then the % chance for C is 100-A-B.

[SloanHater]

Actually that is good math. If your options are A, B, C and you have X% chance at A and Y% at B, then the % chance for C is 100-A-B.