mrjames
Professor
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Loc: Montclair, NJ
Reg: 11-21-04
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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!
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RedRover
Freshman
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Age: 43
Reg: 02-16-12
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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.
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Chip Bayers
Professor
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Loc: New York
Reg: 11-21-04
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03-11-12 01:55 AM - Post#125273
In response to RedRover
Teammate's couch. See Lin, Jeremy.
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RedRover
Freshman
Posts: 12
Age: 43
Reg: 02-16-12
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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.
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pennhoops
Postdoc
Posts: 2470
Reg: 11-21-04
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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.)
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RedRover
Freshman
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Age: 43
Reg: 02-16-12
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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.
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pennhoops
Postdoc
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Reg: 11-21-04
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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.
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Penn94
PhD Student
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Loc: Dallas, Texas
Reg: 11-21-04
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03-11-12 06:00 PM - Post#125301
In response to mrjames
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.
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H78
PhD Student
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Loc: Los Angeles, CA
Reg: 01-06-11
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Jeff Foote of the New Orleans Hornets 03-13-12 07:18 PM - Post#125771
In response to Penn94
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"!
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penn62
PhD Student
Posts: 1053
Reg: 11-27-05
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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?
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mrjames
Professor
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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.
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Ben Franklin
Masters Student
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Loc: Cleveland
Reg: 02-19-05
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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.
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RedRover
Freshman
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Age: 43
Reg: 02-16-12
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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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