Official "John Hollinger is a Cunt" Thread

[Zekyl]

Shaq could block shots and actually boxed out and played some post-D. Curry (from what I've seen, which isn't much, and what I've heard) has no defensive skills whatsoever. Back when they still had the two guys, if the bulls could have taken Chandler's D and Curry's O and molded them into one player, they would have had a very solid big man, but now they have neither guy.

Now that I think about it, that probably would have made Tyrus Thomas

[geerussell]

A few more games into the season, yeah, the ranking is just absurd.

http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/hollinger/powerranking

[Wilfredo Ledezma]

Hollinger gives us a 52% chance to win the Finals...


http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/hollinger/playoffodds

he also ranks us #1 in his Power Rankings, ahead of Boston

http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/hollinger/powerranking

[Timone]

I actually kinda liked reading that (the playoff odds).

[Timone]

1-5 in the West projected to have 60+ wins at best.

[Glenn]

Check out the #15 ranked power forward.

http://insider.espn.go.com/nba/holli...seasonType%3d2

[Zekyl]

Tied with Sheed. Hell yes! That's what happens when you start giving him minutes. Next year I expect to see him as an integral part of our rotation.

[Wilfredo Ledezma]

From todays chat...first question

Nick (Chicago): Celtics in 5? Did you make that one before the Atlanta series?

John Hollinger: (3:08 PM ET ) Instead of 4-3, look at this number: +84. Boston had an average scoring margin of +12, the best of any team in the first round -- even better than LA did in a four-game sweep of Denver. Boston's four wins were blowouts and the three losses they easily could have won. The first round did very little to change my impression of the Celtics.

Greatest team of All-Time...

I swear he's obsessed with scoring margins, as if it really matters what happens when your scrubs finish a game...

Danny (New Mexico): So the Celtics can't win close games is essentially what you are trying to say?

John Hollinger: (3:10 PM ET ) No, I'm saying the Celtics lost three 50-50 games. If a coin lands on heads three times in a row, do you assume it's weighted?

^^^I don't get that analogy...

[Wilfredo Ledezma]

OWN3D

Drew (San Antonio): John, when the Spurs win the series with a margin of +3 will you throw your stupid margin of victory formula in the toilet because this is so ridiculous who cares by how many pts. you lost by. What ever happened to a loss being a loss and a win just a win.

John Hollinger: (3:22 PM ET ) My stupid margin of victory formula was the reason I was picking the Spurs last year when everyone else picked Dallas. Oddly, Spurs fans didn't have a problem with it last year.

[Wilfredo Ledezma]

Ian (Portland, OR): How does the play at the end of the 3rd cost Orlando the game? They had another 12 minutes to win the game, right? I was under the impression that NBA games had 4 quarters...

John Hollinger: (3:38 PM ET ) It didn't cost them the game in the sense that they still had a quarter to win it and made several hare-brained plays in the last minute, but given the final margin it ended being an enormous play.

I swear this guy is a total fucktard...