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Username Post: Jeff Foote of the New Orleans Hornets        (Topic#13329)
mrjames 
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03-10-12 08:17 PM - Post#125257    
    In response to pennhoops

Gotcha. I was pretty stunned by the mixed reaction to Lin making the NBA, and I'd be stunned if anyone thought Foote making it was anything but positive. Sometimes I feel like Ivy fans eat their young. We're all in this progression to a single-digit conference RPI together!

 
RedRover 
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03-11-12 01:39 AM - Post#125270    
    In response to mrjames

I'd guess that in a best case scenario where the Hornets got to the airport around 11:30 Eastern Time, a charter plane from MPLS to New Orleans would get in around 2 or 3AM (which I guess would be 4AM with daylight savings). I wonder how Foote (or any 10-day player, for that matter) would find a place to live. He went straight from Springfield to the road game in Denver, so he hasn't been in New Orleans yet (at least, not as a Hornet). Since as a 10-day player, you could be cut at any time, are you just expected to find a hotel with your wages? If so, do players get per diem for home dates too?

I'd guess NBA teams have protocol for treating their "reserve army of labor" well, but I'm curious how it would work. I can't fathom how intense the experience would be of suddenly criss-crossing the continent and playing your first two NBA games with unfamiliar teammates and systems, plus moving to a new city, over the course of roughly 48 hours. Playing back-to-back games in Denver (which has a notoriously inconvenient airport for NBA teams) and Minnesota, before returning to New Orleans on the day the country switches to daylight savings, is also a fairly brutal travel schedule.

 
Chip Bayers 
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Chip Bayers
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03-11-12 01:55 AM - Post#125273    
    In response to RedRover

Teammate's couch. See Lin, Jeremy.


 
RedRover 
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03-11-12 02:35 AM - Post#125274    
    In response to Chip Bayers

I'm sure Chris Kaman would appreciate an archery buddy and someone to play board games with.

 
pennhoops 
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03-11-12 08:49 AM - Post#125279    
    In response to RedRover

10 day experience, from the NYT recently:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/28/sports/bas ketbal...

(See? Everyone's on topic now. All's well.)

 
RedRover 
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03-11-12 11:23 AM - Post#125285    
    In response to pennhoops

I posted that article yesterday in this thread to disabuse your "98% claim." I'll be nice and leave it at that.

 
pennhoops 
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03-11-12 03:20 PM - Post#125294    
    In response to RedRover

A true mensch. He uses olive branches as toothpicks.

 
Penn94 
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03-11-12 06:00 PM - Post#125301    
    In response to mrjames

  • mrjames Said:
Gotcha. I was pretty stunned by the mixed reaction to Lin making the NBA, and I'd be stunned if anyone thought Foote making it was anything but positive. Sometimes I feel like Ivy fans eat their young. We're all in this progression to a single-digit conference RPI together!



You give BRF a lot of power if his lone, dissenting, racist voice in the wilderness leads to a conclusion of a "mixed" reaction. All are rooting for him except one sad person who runs a Cornell blog.


 
H78 
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Jeff Foote of the New Orleans Hornets
03-13-12 07:18 PM - Post#125771    
    In response to Penn94

  • Penn94 Said:
  • mrjames Said:
Gotcha. I was pretty stunned by the mixed reaction to Lin making the NBA, and I'd be stunned if anyone thought Foote making it was anything but positive. Sometimes I feel like Ivy fans eat their young. We're all in this progression to a single-digit conference RPI together!



You give BRF a lot of power if his lone, dissenting, racist voice in the wilderness leads to a conclusion of a "mixed" reaction. All are rooting for him except one sad person who runs a Cornell blog.


I agree. It's too bad we can't be pulling together in these kinds of situations. I kind of like the postings about "Foote Fever"!

 
penn62 
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Re: Jeff Foote of the New Orleans Hornets
03-16-12 11:46 PM - Post#126655    
    In response to mrjames

Is Ibby playing in Europe at this point?

 
mrjames 
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Loc: Montclair, NJ
Reg: 11-21-04
Re: Jeff Foote of the New Orleans Hornets
03-17-12 02:01 PM - Post#126745    
    In response to penn62

I lost track of him after his preseason stint with the Rockets, but I'd bet some of the Penn folk know.

 
Ben Franklin 
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04-15-12 11:45 AM - Post#128313    
    In response to mrjames

RedRover has clearly never heard of a figure of speech.

 
RedRover 
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04-16-12 09:58 PM - Post#128378    
    In response to Ben Franklin

So, it's cool to contrive incorrect facts and call them a "figure of speech"?

 
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