boy the board is sooooo slow
[quote]therajraj wrote:
[quote]scj119 wrote:
[quote]therajraj wrote:
[quote]scj119 wrote:
I do Investment Analysis for the FAA (Federal Aviation Administration)
Basically, a bunch of companies want to build tools that will help reduce flight delays in the country, and it’s my job to tell the gov’t which technologies are worth their cost.
Edit: The reason my posting in this thread has gone down is that our office location has changed, and I’ve moved from having my own office to having a (highly visible) cubicle, so I have to actually pretend to work. Can only post on my lunch break and after everyone leaves (i.e. when I get back from the gym).[/quote]
Are you a CFA?[/quote]
I’m not sure what that means, so probably not.[/quote]
Chartered Financial Analyst
It sounds like you are of a similar educational background to me (Finance and Econ major). CFA was a designation I’ve always been curious about was going to ask you about it, but not anymore :P.
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I’m not TECHNICALLY a financial analyst… my job has more to do with figuring out how adding stuff into the airspace system will affect the air traffic (i.e. effect on flight delays). We do end up monetizing that obviously, but 95% of my work is more Operations Research than Financial Analysis.
[quote]therajraj wrote:
boy the board is sooooo slow[/quote]
Yea, WhiteFlash and randman both leave when I change offices, or what?
Ajinca is (iirc) an offense-first 7th-8th man. A useful cog, but if logs 15 minutes it says a lot about the depth of your team.
Derrick Rose is the fucking man.
I agree with OP analysis of LeBron; “hate” will subside and what WhiteFlash said about his tarnished image (and never recovering from it) is horseshit. Celebrities/athletes almost always recover, especially the great ones.
And it’s not the “Blake Griffin Show” it’s “Blake Superior” – if you’ve been following.
I still haven’t caught Blake Griffin play except for a few clips off youtube.
This is why there wasn’t any NBA regular season thread last year. Hopefully it will pick up in 2-3 months lol.
[quote]Gettnitdone wrote:
This is why there wasn’t any NBA regular season thread last year. Hopefully it will pick up in 2-3 months lol.[/quote]
I think 1.0 was a really steady stream of traffic. It was an instant dropoff when 2.0 started.
[quote]Gettnitdone wrote:
This is why there wasn’t any NBA regular season thread last year. Hopefully it will pick up in 2-3 months lol.[/quote]
Also, my NBA watching has gone downhill a bit since I had a female roommate move in. Which sucks, but she cleans and brings over all her sorority sisters on the weekends, so I’ll take the good with the bad haha.
scj ever thought about getting league pass or just streaming the games?
Also, I want to know how some Laker loyalists are reactings to Jerry West’s opinion that the Lakers are getting old and haven’t got much longer. A shot at Kobe?
Meh… look the Spurs, their team is old yet they’re killing it this year. They didn’t really make any changes from last year either. Weren’t they supposed to be done?
Also, the Miami Heat have basically ruined basketball video games forever.
Everyone I play now picks the Heat, and if they know what they’re doing the opponent has no chance.
[quote]therajraj wrote:
Meh… look the Spurs, their team is old yet they’re killing it this year. They didn’t really make any changes from last year either. Weren’t they supposed to be done?[/quote]
Richard Jefferson is playing like Richard Jefferson and not like a double agent sent to destroy the Spurs season (i.e. last year)
Splitter has given useful minutes and lessened Duncan’s load inside.
Mainly, Ginobli has been healthy. Also you forget Tony Parker actually isn’t old, dude is only 28 he just seems old because he was playing point for an important team since his rookie season.
[quote]Gettnitdone wrote:
scj ever thought about getting league pass or just streaming the games?
Also, I want to know how some Laker loyalists are reactings to Jerry West’s opinion that the Lakers are getting old and haven’t got much longer. A shot at Kobe?[/quote]
I could stream them online, but I prefer not to be anti-social in my house (I don’t have a laptop so would have to sit in my room).
She usually doesn’t mind if I watch sports though. It seems like latley whenever I turn on NBA TV (the only channel I get good games on, because the Wizards are my local team) they have no games being played. TNT only broadcasts like once during the work week.
Speaking of the Wiz, they are now 0-21 on the road with a game at OKC tonight. They play @CLE in like 5 games, it will be the unstoppable force against the immovable object (unless there’s a little-known rule I’m unaware of that allows both teams to lose)
[quote]scj119 wrote:
[quote]therajraj wrote:
Meh… look the Spurs, their team is old yet they’re killing it this year. They didn’t really make any changes from last year either. Weren’t they supposed to be done?[/quote]
Richard Jefferson is playing like Richard Jefferson and not like a double agent sent to destroy the Spurs season (i.e. last year)
Splitter has given useful minutes and lessened Duncan’s load inside.
Mainly, Ginobli has been healthy. Also you forget Tony Parker actually isn’t old, dude is only 28 he just seems old because he was playing point for an important team since his rookie season.[/quote]
My post was to point out the ridiculousness of Jerry West’s statement and I was talking about the collective age of the team.
[quote]therajraj wrote:
[quote]scj119 wrote:
[quote]therajraj wrote:
Meh… look the Spurs, their team is old yet they’re killing it this year. They didn’t really make any changes from last year either. Weren’t they supposed to be done?[/quote]
Richard Jefferson is playing like Richard Jefferson and not like a double agent sent to destroy the Spurs season (i.e. last year)
Splitter has given useful minutes and lessened Duncan’s load inside.
Mainly, Ginobli has been healthy. Also you forget Tony Parker actually isn’t old, dude is only 28 he just seems old because he was playing point for an important team since his rookie season.[/quote]
My post was to point out the ridiculousness of Jerry West’s statement and I was talking about the collective age of the team.[/quote]
I get it, but I’m saying the Spurs have had some changes.
I don’t think West is that far off to be honest. The Lakers do not have any blue chip young players. I won’t allow you to count Bynum because he’s played 1 full season out of 6 he’s been in the league. All of their players are either in their prime (Pau), slightly past their prime (Odom, Bryant), or definitely past their prime (Artest).
4 of their best 5 players (Artest, Odom, Gasol, Bryant) are over 30, and the other top-5 guy is Bynum who at this point can hardly be counted on as a staple of the franchise for years to come.
Their window is now.
Bringing it back to the Spurs – they still have some young pieces and can build around Parker if Duncan/Ginobli die of old age. Who do the Lakers build around if Kobe/Gasol suffer the same fate?
“much longer” is what I have issue with. I think the Lakers still have at least 2-3 good years ahead of them.
The Spurs window is now as well, I don’t really see any of the Spurs young players reaching Duncan or Ginobli’s talent level, they just won’t be as worse off as the Lakers once their stars retire.
[quote]therajraj wrote:
“much longer” is what I have issue with. I think the Lakers still have at least 2-3 good years ahead of them.
The Spurs window is now as well, I don’t really see any of the Spurs young players reaching Duncan or Ginobli’s talent level, they just won’t be as worse off as the Lakers once their stars retire. [/quote]
I think you’re agreeing with West and just defining terms differently. I see the Lakers’ window as being maybe 2 years, and I would define that as “not much longer”
As far as the Spurs…while I agree they don’t have championship-level talent if you remove Ginobli/Duncan, they are in way better shape than the Lakers just from having Tony Parker. Lake Show has no one under 30 anywhere near as good as TP
[quote]scj119 wrote:
[quote]therajraj wrote:
“much longer” is what I have issue with. I think the Lakers still have at least 2-3 good years ahead of them.
The Spurs window is now as well, I don’t really see any of the Spurs young players reaching Duncan or Ginobli’s talent level, they just won’t be as worse off as the Lakers once their stars retire. [/quote]
I think you’re agreeing with West and just defining terms differently. I see the Lakers’ window as being maybe 2 years, and I would define that as “not much longer”
As far as the Spurs…while I agree they don’t have championship-level talent if you remove Ginobli/Duncan, they are in way better shape than the Lakers just from having Tony Parker. Lake Show has no one under 30 anywhere near as good as TP[/quote]
Okay, then it was never really a controversial statement to begin with. People expect to the Lakers to be perennial contenders still 5 years down the road?
[quote]therajraj wrote:
[quote]scj119 wrote:
[quote]therajraj wrote:
“much longer” is what I have issue with. I think the Lakers still have at least 2-3 good years ahead of them.
The Spurs window is now as well, I don’t really see any of the Spurs young players reaching Duncan or Ginobli’s talent level, they just won’t be as worse off as the Lakers once their stars retire. [/quote]
I think you’re agreeing with West and just defining terms differently. I see the Lakers’ window as being maybe 2 years, and I would define that as “not much longer”
As far as the Spurs…while I agree they don’t have championship-level talent if you remove Ginobli/Duncan, they are in way better shape than the Lakers just from having Tony Parker. Lake Show has no one under 30 anywhere near as good as TP[/quote]
Okay, then it was never really a controversial statement to begin with. People expect to the Lakers to be perennial contenders still 5 years down the road?[/quote]
No. Not 5 years. Not with some wholesale changes. But I’m in agreement with what you and SJC said. Two to three years for sure.
And I know Jerry West pretty well. In my opinion he was launching a shot across the bow to challenge the Laker’s squad. Jerry is very smart. He knows good and well that the Lake Show will be much different in the post season than what they’ve done in the regular season thus far.
These guys have been to three straight championships AND their older now. Of course there’s going to be a lot of games in the regular season that they’re not going to dive for every loose ball and West knows that.
I have to keep reminding everyone that the 2001 Lakers team that almost swept every single opponent (15 and 1) to winning their second championship in a row had a record like 56 and 26 in the regular season. Not very good considering how dominant that team really was…
I think the Spurs have the best management team in the NBA. Think about how many unknowns Pop and that group have given birth to. Scola, Beno Udrith, Ginobli, Parker, Hill, Blair, and now Neal and Anderson. That’s why I think Pop is right up there NEXT to Phil.