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Now I know many of us have commented on it in threads, but it's time we discuss it individually. He's been a huge addition as a coach, doubt anyone here will dispute that. As a GM though he's been atrocious. For every good move he's made.. he's made 2-3 bad ones. We had some pretty huge things to address and all we could muster up was to trade two minimum contracts for a SUPER protected 2nd rounder and cap relief? Nevermind that he's the one who brought the two bozos in to begin with! People gripe that we had no assets to acquire anything and I think that's a big load of crap. What I think happened is Doc's been too slow to see the flaws of this team and has no clue in hell what it takes to build a team as a GM, rather than a coach POV. How many times have us fans screamed for backup bigs, only to have this guy offer a ton of wings/guards 10 day contracts? How many times have Barnes/Dudley been complete zeros yet Doc still refuses to play Bullock, the guy he chose in the draft BTW?
This team has some severe roster holes rearing ugly right now and not one weakness got addressed. The only way Doc can remotely redeem himself is if he goes out and signs Glen Davis and a few other solid free agents. I want Doc to step down and let Gary do what he's good at, which is assessing talent and making moves. Coming from Olshey and Sacks... it's tough to take the way Doc is trying to build this team. I also don't like how he manipulates fans/media like a snake. Today he claimed the trades today were to open financial flexibility for this summer. Yet anybody with sense will know that we are way over the cap right now and next year and cutting a couple minimum guys won't change that. Bottom line is he was saving Donald some precious tax dollars. Be a man and say it, don't pull BS acting like you did it for some greater good. Then I'm pissed at how he handled Jamison. Pulled the "saving him for the playoffs because I know what he brings" BS, only to trade him for literally nothing.
Still year 1 but expectations are insane with his damn parade route planning, so he doesn't get the luxury of years to build this team.
I think you need to relax a bit man. He signed JJ and DC. You can't base his GM duties after one season/trade deadline.
You can expect him to go out and trade for. Give it time man! I know you love the team, but I let it takes it course.
Good additions:JJ/DC/Hedo
Bad additions: Dudley/Barnes resigning/Mullens/Jamison/Morris (not bad but definitely not a big need)/Vujevic/Hollins resigning.
3 to 7 as I said, twice as many bad choices and I'm probably forgetting a couple.
Can't afford to let things take it's course because this roster isn't good enough for the conference finals right now. Another 1st round exit will get us obliterated by the media and be pathetic to the fans.
Reference cavs gm....end of discussion
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Doc: "I don't think we're in any rush. We may be at 12 for a while. We're out looking and there's some guys out there."
How come no sense of urgency? We are gearing for the fu**ing stretch run and are just like 3.5 games ahead of the 7 seed. Things can get ugly very fast if we don't fill these holes.
Even as a coach he hasn't impressed me all that much...
We are exactly where we were a year ago.. with a team that probably maxes out in the 2nd round...
I forgot who i was telling but i remember telling those many individuals that vinny wasn't the only problem..
Now being rumored to go after Glen Big Baby Davis after his buyout. Not the best trade deadline but some redemption could be had if we get Granger or Johnson (more so Granger) and Davis. Davis does not have the length was looking for but the bulkcan be useful.
Maybe we can out score everyone to a title.
Chris Paul was a pretty good signing in my opinion, but that's just me. Drafting Bullock was a good draft pick for the future at the 25 spot. Barnes and Dudley were good pick ups at the time, injuries and bad play can be more put on his coaching than his ability to sign players.
Is the Pacers GM awful because he signed Orlando Johnson, Solomon Hill, Chris Copeland, Donald Sloan, and Rasual Butler? Nope.
This absurd to judge him after half a season.
I agree, he has made some bad decisions, but JJ and DC were great pick ups. Plus, who would've thought Dudley would have one of his worst seasons this year? I sure didn't. I expected Dudley to be much better than he's turned out to be.
ya they just released Orlando Johnson
Wait and see who gets bought out in the next few days and then immediately signs with us....this isn't over by any stretch. Doc's got this. Just watch.
I couldn't resist
Settle down, Mike Smith. Let's see how it all shakes out.
Svp I'd BBall operations is a fancy way of saying gm.
Kyle that's not true. VP of ops is the boss of the GM and has to sign off on everything the GM does. He's Sacks boss.
He's not awful, but he's still learning with a team that could benefit more from an experienced GM.
Bringing in Dudley, Mullens, and Jamison were awful moves, as were bringing back Hollins and overpaying Barnes. No denying that.
Bringing in Redick was a genius move, getting Collison for dirt cheap was a steal, and even though we couldn't get an impact trade done, at least Doc corrected some of his mistakes and set us up nicely for the waiver market by dumping Jamison and Mullens.
Overall, I would say he's middle-of-the-road as a GM so far, amazing of course as a coach.
Doc has done fine to grade him properly you'd have to know what could've actually been done and that he chose not to do it and since no one here knows that how can anyone say that he is been horrible
This whole Doc sucks because he didn't sign Dwight or Iggy thing is crazy.
why the sense of panic? Good things are happening. Settle down Mike Smith
I didn't think he would come in and be a great GM. I think it usually ends up being best to have two different people. Pop gave up GM to Burford a couple of seasons after he started coaching.
I thought his signings in summer were not so good outside of some of the more obvious ones. I said that I think part of the issue is the since he's also a coach, he overrates his ability to coach and transform players, while a separate mind would be more balanced.
Still, let's not get too carried away. There's a learning curve, so as long as the mistakes aren't repeated. Some fans always end up hating on a coach no matter how good. I also said this after we signed him. After the honeymoon is over, we see the reality.
I think we should be fine though
In Doc we trust!
Damn that is so messed up getting kicked off the plane like that.
Biggest mistake happened in the off season. Ebled's value was underestimated.
I wasn't big on giving him a title a title over our GM, but really no harm no foul. Hedo and Mullens was really the only pick ups I questioned, and would say Mullens is the only bad signing. Every other signing made some type of sense. I don't think anybody could have guessed Duds, Barnes, and Jamison having relatively bad years for them.
I'm not really sure if Doc could have made all of you happy coming down to the deadline. If he would have traded a JJ or Jamal plus a Barnes or a Dudley for an Ariza and Lavoy would any of you be Happy. You could switch the names as you see fit. If we get a combination of Granger, Deshawn, Big Baby, and or Ivan wouldn't it be just about as good as any trade we could have made. Would we be that much better with a Iman and Felting combo?
How about we wait until we get a final roster before we call for his head or call him terrible. Personally being able to unload Mullens is pretty impressive in my opinion. He opened two spots for almost nothing. I know Mullens was his bad to begin with but being able to recognize that he made a mistake and making up for it in the same season is impressive for any GM. We could always go hire Dumars at the end of the year.
^I hope your not serious about Dumars cause that is not a good joke. Garbage gm....
Dumas drafts fairly well but is the worst person to give cap space to.
Charlie Villanueva, Ben Gordon when you have a lot of guards, Josh Smith. Him and cap space just spells trouble, not a good GM, though I wouldn't mind giving him some drafting / head of scouting role or something, but I don't want him signing players.
Bledsoe's value was underestimated by more than just Doc, more like by everyone, maybe even Phoenix who got him, though their stats type GM guy might have been paying attention to things like Bledsoe and Paul playing together (which makes sense for the Bledsoe and Dragic combo) and Bledsoe's production before he was slowed a little by injuries. If his value was seen as a 19/5/5 player who scores very efficiently by the masses, we would have gotten much more for him. His value was seen as a borderline starting PG, below average on offense, turnover prone, not really efficient as a scorer, poor outside shot, poor shooter off the dribble, not really god at running a team, but who could defend really well, had great defensive potential, but wasn't a true PG and for some reason considered unable to play SG despite having similar or better tools to guys like Mayo, Redick, Ellis, EJ, etc. Or maybe it is the box way of thinking that says your shooting guard must be a shooter, who knows.
I thought a little higher of him, especially as a SG or combo guard playing SG than most, seemingly including Doc, and most teams wanting to trade for him. That has passed, but maybe Bledsoe's emergence is actually part of why Dpc has been hesitant to trade Bullock. Doesn't want to get burdened twice with young player development.
Even Mullens wasn't that bad of move, it cost us basically nothing. Mullens did a few things well in Charlotte last year, his defensive rebounding and finishing at the rim were legitimately decent and his three point shooting showed promise, so we thought we could see if we could break him of his bad habits and make a real player out of him. It didn't work out, but it only cost half year of minimum salary and a very late second round pick. Mullens had more chance of becoming a real NBA player than 55th pick of some future draft, especially when you consider Mullens was a former first round pick and was considered the top recruit of his high school class.
Really all we have to judge Rivers by is one trade where everybody got hurt for both teams but our guys are under contract for next year and Bledsoe is not, the very good Collison signing, the unimpressive Barnes signing, getting the job done on re-signing Paul, drafting Bullock which seems like a pretty good and some various unimportant scrap heap signings.
Added a poll- how do you rate Doc Rivers' performance as a general manager so far?
I thought Gary Sacks was the GM?
Doc is President of Basketball Operations, Sacks is like his assistant. Doc is in charge of the moves at the moment.
We killed Bledsoe's trade value by not playing him enough last year. People often compare his trade to the Harden trade, but Harden was vastly more proven when he was traded. Harden was playing 30+ minutes on team that went to the finals when he was traded, Bledsoe only averaged 20 minutes and only got that many because Paul missed a bunch of games. Teams don't want to give up huge hauls for unproven players with only a year left on their contract, look what the return for Hawes and Turner was today, basically nothing. Honestly giving a big money contract to Bledsoe I think is kind of scary at this point given all the injuries he's had, but he'll certainly get one anyway.
I would rate him
"Inconclusive" or "in progress"
"Okay" is what I would say, he hasn't wowed anyone, but it's not like he's been bad like some are suggesting. It's a new position for him. Being a good coach does not make you a good GM either because there's also the cost vs production aspect of being a GM and trying to balance filling holes and what is most important with the available money and staying under luxury tax, etc, etc
The Dumars thing was a joke. I will hold my judgement and revisit this once we get a better picture of what we have heading into the playoffs. If we get Granger and he works out Doc will look like a genius, not to mention if we were to get Ivan and Okafer and they work out too. Everybody jumping off the cliff here would be eating crow. Isn't the final product like his version of the final test.
I think if Philly didn't hold out for so long and if they actually wanted salary back that wasn't expiring they could and would have gotten more.
Yea, he did need to play more, I thought he should have been starting over Green, but that's a different discussion, and Doc wasn't part of that decision though, so he did work with what he was dealt with in terms of that. I'm not sure without watching him in practice either that Doc was aware of Bledsoe's talent, his only reference would have been game film, whatever he had seen at that point in time.
Namzug, I think you scared us with that Dumars comment
Probably going to be one of the worst mistakes in franchise history trade wise.
Good to know. Like some others here, I think Mullens was the only signing Doc should have known better about at the time. Overall he's done a solid job for this being his first year with the organization. I'm amazed ANYONE can effectively coach a team while also handling the duties of GM- seems like an awful lot for one man's plate.
Too much hindsight about this. Bledsoe's value wasn't as high as his current production. From the looks of things, if he stayed, he would be playing a role similar to Collison's and still wouldn't be getting ideal minutes to increase his value any more, and we likely wouldn't have Caron's contract to pair with him, so he'd have a similar value at the trade deadline. Trying to trade him in the off-season (sign and trade) when he's a FAA you can't afford would mean losing him for nothing, or maybe getting a second round pick from some team.
The majority of posters did not think he should have been played at SG. The majority, even more did not think Jamal should have been moved and Bledsoe take the role of 6th man bench guard. Many thought Collison was just as good of a replacement, some better. No one thought he was worth extending to be a $7-8M backup, and I agree, that would have been stupid to pay a guy that much to play under 20 MPG.
So I mean, sure, hindsight is 20/20, but we also have to be real as to what the guy's value was if he's a backup PG (who is a combo guard) playing 20 minutes or less a game, potential or not, teams want substance, and draft position also gets tied to potential whether fair or not.
Some of the members of this forum are ridiculous! You guys are overly critical and see things with a glass 1/8 empty view of things.
Doc has done an okay job. Hits and misses. Let's let him get through a full season and playoffs before anybody bash him too hard.
IMO Doc did a great job in the off-season that didn't pan
out in the regular season.
1. As I watched every game last season as I do every season
I noticed our 2 main problems especially in our POs.
A. We had no half court offense.
B. We had no shooters that could open the lane for
blake. Which is why all memphis had to do was pack the paint
and put their best perimeter defender on our best shooter
(crawford) and we shut down.
Bledsoe was useless in that scenario. They were leaving him wide
open at the 3, and by packing the paint rendered his superior driving
ability useless.
I said we needed to do 3 things this offseason.
1. Bring in a coach who can put together a half court system.
2. Bring in a shooting big to come off the bench. One of the reasons
our bench was good which usually isn't mentioned, was that
Lamar (THough terrible last season) was still perceived as a shooting
threat for a big. Which generally lead to bringing the opposing back up
C out of the lane. And gave room for the drive.
I'm assuming this was the thinking with Jamison and Mullens. Just have
a big guy who can be a threat from the perimeter to stop paint packing.
Mullens I can see the argument that he was always terrible. But Jamison
a 20,000pt career scorer, and played decent for the lakers I thought was a good
pick-up. Who could have predicted he would forget how to play basketball
in one off-season?
3. Last but not least we needed to bring in shooters at the 2-3 position. With
Paul as our PG, and Blake dominating the lane, we don't need a SG and SF that
can make plays, and/or slash to the basket.
We needed spot up shooters who knocked down open 3's so
Paul can Drive and kick
Blake can kick on double teams to an open shooter. knock down 2
in a row and the double teams quit coming. Which leaves Blake room to beast.
Doc brings in JJ and Dudley
Brilliant Signings in the off-season....
JJ a known spot up shooter, and off-ball runner he came in
and did his job to perfection.
Dudley - a known average player that doesn't try to do too much. His
role was exactly what his resume showed, Spot up shooter who is going
to knock down over 40% of his shots.
Unfortunately Dudley's knee has hindered his performance.
But from an off-season standpoint his resume expressed
exactly what we needed.
To blame Doc for that is ridiculous IMO.
If I hire a guy who has a great resume, and a clean work record,
and he comes in and steals money from the register, really hard
to blame the guy who hired him. What more could he have done?
Life happens
Overall I thought DOC did a great job with identifying team needs
and filling them in the off-season with players who resume's up
this point showed the capability to perform the task at hand.
Aside from mullens that is.
You guys are right, "awful" is harsh. More like mediocre. Zero doubt if he didn't demand VP position and let Sacks handle it, we would be better though.
When we sign Dudley everybody said he is a good pick up, good job Doc,... but Dudley did not play well, so he is awful now is it Doc's fault that Dudley, or Mullens or Hollins did not play well?
Come on guys, it only been 3/4 season done. Yes Doc made some terrible move, but all GMs does. He still find gems such as DC, Redick, and Turk. I know there is more miss than make, but that the average result of all GM. Even your behold Neil Oshley whiff on his first season with Randy Foye, Ryan Gomes, and Brian Cook. Give him time, we still have a chance. Believe, damn it!
Too soon to call. Bledsoe is still injury prone, Dudley is a dud, and Redick is injury prone as well. It is a wash.
You haven't been a Clipper fan long enough if you consider one of the worst.
Rivers has been a great coach and a pretty good GM.
It's not Doc's fault that Dudley didn't pan out, he was the perfect guy to get, just hasn't clicked yet - and I do mean "yet", Dudley will play better now that he can't be traded this season
It's not Doc's fault that Dudley didn't pan out, he was the perfect guy to get, just hasn't clicked yet - and I do mean "yet", Dudley will play better now that he can't be traded this season
Exactly! we are worst for how many years? actually i can't count it using all my fingers.
We did trade a lottery pick to get rid of Baron Davis
Granger, Davis , Collins?
Bledsoe has played fewer games than Redick this season.
Enough said.
Don't think we underestimated his value at all especially since he is likely to get a near max contract and since he seems very injury prone.
Anyway so far Doc has done a poor job. Hope he makes up for things. He still has time.
He made his mistakes undone. Goodbye Mullens and Jamison. I give him credit for that. He shows that it was his mistake to sign them and fixed it.
I hope Dudley and Barnes has gotten a wake up call and will play like we expect it from then.
I hope Doc can now fix his mistake and upgrade the roster by adding a big and a SF.
I hope Davis and Granger.


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Kirk Dignum just retired from Mercy Regional Medical Center after 14 years as president and chief executive officer. Being out of the way of this tsunami has certainly made his life easier. But if you�re wanting to hear doomsday talk from an insider who believes that time is nigh for workable health care in the United States, go visit someone else.
�It�s going to be an exciting decade of change,� Dignum says, relaxed in sweatshirt and jeans in his Three Springs home. He�s texting with a friend, making plans to go mountain biking.
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He worked with a software company, and was a management consultant who specialized in doctors� practices. After three years as Mercy�s vice president of ambulatory services, he was appointed to the hospital�s head role on an interim basis in September 1998.
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His mother, dying of cancer, convinced him to go for it full time. Don�t waste your God-given talent, she told him. Well, what�s a boy to do?
After a national search, the Mercy board gave him a permanent job as president and chief executive officer in September 1999.
State Sen. Ellen Roberts, who served on the Mercy board of directors from 2000 to 2006, says many won�t fully appreciate all the balls he had to juggle to keep the hospital solvent.
�He put in so many hours,� Roberts says. �If stress counts for hours, he put in triple time.�
Dignum says he can divide his Mercy CEO tenure into three �careers.�
His first task was to help the struggling hospital achieve financial stability. After his first couple of years, Mercy was back in the black.
Next was figuring out what to do with an old facility that was falling apart. After convincing Catholic Health Initiatives to make a $76 million loan, and in partnership with the Southern Ute Tribe, Mercy broke ground on a new facility in 2004 in Grandview.
After the hospital�s completion in 2006, Dignum says he focused on the operational side, improving quality.
The top achievement was, of course, the new hospital, right?
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He and his management team set about making Mercy a top-notch facility where its nearly 1,000 employees are generally happy to work.
�One of the things I�m proudest of is I think we pulled that off,� Dignum says.
He�s talking in the past tense, but the truth is he hasn�t totally left the hospital business. He�s working for Centura Health, now Mercy�s parent company, as a part-time consultant. It entails travels to Denver, Centura�s base. His official title: senior vice president of system initiatives.
OK, so Mercy is financially stable with a grand, still relatively new facility and happy workers. But that won�t matter if only the rich can afford health insurance.
On paper, the situation is grim. About 16 percent of Americans don�t have health insurance. In many places, including Durango, even if you are insured, it�s not easy to find a primary-care doctor. Then there�s the specter of baby boomers reaching Medicare age � 11,000 per day, according to the U.S. Health and Human Services Department. On top of that, diseases such as childhood diabetes have reached near-epidemic proportions. Is that a towering tsunami, or what?
�Kids can�t afford what we�ve created,� Dignum says, thinking of his and wife Ginny�s two daughters, Megan, 25, and Kelsey, 23.
So the system needs to change. And he believes it will. It�s beginning to happen already, he says, but slowly. The key is incentives. We need systems that monetarily reward health-care providers and insurance companies for keeping people healthy. Mercy, for instance, could save a lot of money by preventing the need for the uninsured to use its emergency room for nonemergencies.
�We�ve been very good dealing with sickness, but we�re terrible at dealing with health care,� Dignum says. Health care must change its perspective from sickness to health, he says. It must intervene sooner to keep diseases such as childhood diabetes from occurring. And health-care providers and insurance companies must be at financial risk to keep clients healthy.
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�I think you�ll see a transformation in health care in the country in the next decade which will be phenomenal.�
From his modest home in Grandview, this modest man leaves his most difficult and rewarding task with one wish: �The only thing I could ever ask is I hope I left (Mercy) a little bit better than when I found it.�
email@example.com. John Peel writes a weekly human-interest column. His wife works in Mercy�s trauma services department. Coming soon: Tom Gessel, Mercy�s new chief executive, talks about his vision.

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Chris Paul is reportedly aiming for a return on Feb. 7 against the Raptors. http://thesco.re/1gvN9AN
Just hoping he'll be 100%, and not rushing just for all star game.
As long as he is 100% I am fine with this. I just wanted him to make it back for our game against Portland.
Most likely the case, best scenario would be he returns after the break and skips the all star game all together. If he is ready to go then would be a nice warm up game before we go against Portland.
As long as he is ONE HUNNID!!! Don't rush back, if he is ready and the Dr's ok it then fine.
Great news. Should be limited minutes to begin with, though. That would be best for him and the team. Get him back in game shape and incorporate him back into the sets. Let's hope Blake keeps playing like this is HIS team. His emergence as a leader has been great to watch.
I think the only reason he should come back before the All-star break is if Collison needs to rest his toe. We can manage a couple more games without him.
Okay so in a gameday thread I mentioned at the last home game watching him on the sideline dribbling before the teams came out I will say he was going at lightning fast speed, doing the same drill both arms/hands at the same time,and he did fumble the dribble a couple of times with his right hand/arm. But I agree with CapsNClips,wait until after the AS game or they will expect him to play there and lord knows what could happen
But this is coming form a fan that never wants anyone from his team in the AS game,waste of freakin time,save your strength.
If he can get back by the Portland game that would great, the game against them and the game against Spurs could important to try pass those teams and get home court in the second round. Coming back for Toronto and Philly games could help him ease in and find his timing before the Portland game.
If Chris Paul is returning of the 7th than why did we sign Sasha Vujacic? I do not understand this signing but maybe Doc does not want us to know why yet.
Yay.. he will return on my mom's birthday.
Chris Paul will play 2 games before the All-Star Game (Philadelphia & Portland) and plans to play in the game. @ArashMarkazi
Its confirmed he will play, lets rejoice!
Well, if CP3 is back on Sunday, that means he's been medically cleared to play and he shouldn't have troubles with his shoulder (I hope!). Awesome news!


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http://www.sbnation.com/2014/3/16/55141 ... hootaround
Top 5 Blake article ever IMO. Some outstanding quotes. I think this beats Grantland's article on Blake earlier this year.
The only thing I didn't like about that article was when Doc said "Darren is not a good decision maker"
That was unnecessary.
This was a great read.
I was also taken aback by Doc's saying that DC was not a great decision maker. How deflating. Doc can be blunt sometimes, but this one shouldn't have been said.
Ya maybe he thought he was off record?
Considering the way Collison had played up to that point how can anyone fault Doc for telling the truth? When CP first went down Blakes and Jamals assists shot up and that took a ton of pressure off Collison having to really run the team and set anyone up. Darren has gotten better but that was the reality of the situation at the time.
Well no offense maybe it shouldn't have been said but I feel like he's not to good of a decision maker or a play maker.I think collision should be in the offensive mind set but at the same time also keep in mind that being a play maker could help and is good like against the jazz his shot wasn't really falling and he didn't really pass. I'm a big collision fan though and love what he brings it's going sound like I'm contradicting my self but I feel maybe he's also in that mind set because Crawford is out. I personally like that but would like to see if he can look for some open players.
Truer words have never been said....What doc said.
As a playmaker DC is not a good decision maker.. He Is a scoring point and I'm pretty confident DC knows it as well.
Blake Griffin is.....
Does this forum have an off topic discussions?
^^There is the Everything Else forum (scrolling on the right side) on the main page, or direct access:
Or for non-Clipper discussions basketball talk, look at the NBA forum (below the Clipper message board):
David, what is the official homepage for this forum? When I go here clippers.topbuzz it takes me to here only.
^^Just click on the big banner on top to get to the home page.
I know one thing... Blake Griffin is TIRED!!! lol You could tell he was very fatigued last night. Probably some birthday partying plus the back to back game. Poor guy
It takes me here, Clippers talk only
Is anyone else concerned about Jamal's defense in the post season? Maybe I shouldn't be too concerned. Unless we go up against the Warriors (Klay Thompson), I can't think of a difficult matchup he'll have.


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He's ok, but questionable for Saturday
If we get the 3rd seed and the Rox the 6th seed, that would be a nice 1st round matchup for us.
Cleepers is our resident celebrity insider...
She's not a Scientologist either. I don't think she's ever was. She's Catholic from what I remember.
True, but Tom had her under control.
Pretty damn sad and disrespectful ESPN morning shows did not talk about either game that was on ESPN last night. That was a huge game in the west and all they want to talk about is a Lebron mask and Westbrook.
Well, you know how it is... if LeBron's wife's cousin's next-door-neighbor's dog licks his balls... that's "Hold the front page" territory for ESPN.
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Great lecture thank you Jeff and Eric.
Thanks again for this great lecture.
Thank you Jeff, Eric, Ann
For WS - Windows
For product -Linux
Thank you Eric!
@Ann - very limited use of oss (legal issues, etc...)
@Ann - windows, linux, Unix (Solaris)
Great to have access to the recorded sessions
Missed the live lecture...
Windows, visual basic
I use both Windows and Linux on my workstation. My product designs are almost always bare metal.
I use linux, build linux, and use lots of open source software.
Thanks Eric and Jeff. Very informative session
thank you
Thank You. Rod. R.
thank you sir for guiding me. It will be helpful in my project. I will be glad if you can do the same after I start working more on open CV. Thanks again, great work.
bye for now :)
Yesterday, Jeff pointed me to an application Eric has worked in, a dice counter using a dual-core processor from Analog Devices, I'd like to ask, was the two cores feature of the processor a key to the project? Also, if possible, did you use OpenCV for that application?
thank you great info
@DaveWR: I found your reference about Harr. Thanks.
Thanks again for this great seminar.
Thanks, everyone for attending this class series. I hope you found it wortwhile. For additional (free) embedded vision educational resources, including discussion forums, please visit the Embedded Vision Alliance at www.Embedded-Vision.com.
ok, Qt creator has other parts like linguist and designer, so I want to work in that with using of camera , so which of them should I use or you cant tell more about Qt?
Kind of levels the "multi-core" playing field, brings back an element of "portable". Haven't really played with it enough to judge it, but thought I'd mention it as YOU are much more likely to find good use for it.
time to go. thanks all for a great week and see you next time.
I have installed Qt creator in linux and open CV library for linux from the website you suggested, how to install oepn CV library in Qt creator?
I do not use QT. Check the OpenCV WiKi. It has all kinds of great install guides that should be able to help you out.
This seminar along with all the other Design New seminars has been great. Thanks.
Have you run into Halide yet?
The first time I had heard of this was on these chats. I Googled it and it looks very interesting.
i have installed Qt creator in linux and open CV library for linux from the website you suggested, how to install oepn CV library in Qt creator?
And you!
(humming "thank god it's FRIday!")
@flaredOne Later flaredOne !
Thanks All
Overall a great week
Have you run into Halide yet?
Very enjoyable week, thanks, all!
PTZ - controllable pan,tilt,zoom for AI controlled object tracking,
@Eric&Jeff, Any recomendations on a low light PTZ camera to use with OpenCV ?
I am not familiar with PTZ cameras? If they have DirectShow drivers, they should work with the Windows version of OpenCV.
thank you Jeff,
Thanks I will check it out
@Eric Any of the 200 algorithms geared to provide trackibility feedback to a PTZ camera ?
good day to all
Does OpenCV integrate with LabVIEW?
As far as I know, OpenCV is not officially supported by NI in LabView, but there are third-party tutorials and I believe even one third-party software package for this purpose.
thanks good session, and good week.
@Eric: I remember your using the term "haar" features (as in "haarcascade") in the lecture, but didn't see it on the slides. Is it an acronym, and if so, what for?
I'd also like to recommend the discussion forums on the Embedded Vision Alliance website for ongoing questions such as the ones that have been asked this week:
Jeff, Eric and I all regularly monitor it, as do other BDTI engineers and (more generally) the site visitor/user community at large
@Eric - I notice some of these demos detect eyes well.
What is the best method to detect Eye(s) on the face ?
can you suggest me about algorithm to use webcam inbuilt to laptop or use another cameras connected through USB port ?
All the demos I talked about can be used with a USB camera or a in laptop camera, as long as you have the camera drivers.
Eric and Jeff, you've introduced me to a new addiction! :) Thank you, and thank you DigiKey! Excellent week!!
I have one question, could you please direct me to some OCR resources, specifically for car plate recognition?
there are some great demos in OpenCV for OCR. Check out http://opencv.org/
can you suggest me about algorithm to use webcam inbuilt to laptop or use another cameras connected through USB port ?
Our pleasure, danlafleur. Glad you found the time to be of value. Best of luck on your projects!
@Eric&Jeff, Any recomendations on a low light PTZ camera to use with OpenCV ?
@Eric - Did you discover any Cascades that worked better (or faster) than others ?
Definitely faster. haarcascade_frontalface_alt.xml
Was the best tradeoff for frontal face detection and low cpu cycles. it even ran on my Atom netbook.
Thanks for an interesting week of sessions Jeff, Eric, Brian and Ann.
I have a few more things to try out with a simple CV system on the bench.
I'm starting with 8x8 b/w, possibly a few gray levels to start. A hardware guy, it will be breadboarded so I can make changes at will.
Is the delay in ms???
Yes the delay is in ms
Thanks Eric and Jeff, very informative.
Eric, do the demos allow you to capture the data?
If you modified the code, the output could be redirected to a file.
OpenCV has very good support for video and image file IO.
@Eric - Did you discover any Cascades that worked better (or faster) than others ?
Thank you for the lecture.
Thanks all
Thanks for the presentation...
I have one question, could you please direct me to some OCR resources, specifically for car plate recognition?
Thanks for the info.
now to down load the files from yesterday.
Thank you Jeff for a week of informative presentation.
I am going to look into OpenCV to evaluate how much we can use it.
Thank you for all of this week's presentations!
Thanks, great lecture
great stuff! thanks for presenting to us.
Thank you, Great presentatiom
Hope you're feeling better by next week... Now anybody giving transportation-funding grants?? Orlando-to-Boston not TOO bad, but more than I can swing...
Yeah, GPS, accelerometer, etc -- but if you HAVE a camera in operation, you could do a "compare delta" to make sure everything is approximately sane.
Want to give a big THANK YOU to Eric, Jeff and Ann for this seminar, I really enjoyed it.
Thanks Ann, Jeff, Eric, and all present.
another WOW lecture. THANKS.
Thanks - enjoyed it
I hope I will succeed installing this OpenCV tools in one of the three OSs I've tried. :0)
Great job. Thanks.
THanks for the great week of presentations
So long, and thanks for all the fish.
Thanks Jeff and Eric for the great course, and Ann too!
Excellent work. Thanks so much!!
Nice job all week!
Thkx Eric, Jeff & Ann - very good.
A lot of interesting material to study.
flared0one, might be easier to use GPS. accelerometer, etc to asertain velocity ;-) But ADAS (advanced driver assistance systems) use cameras for lots of purposes...including reading speed limit signs as you pass by them and telling you if you're going too fast ;-)
So if I was using a video camera in a car, I could actually do something VERY similar to how a laser mouse works -- [A] find the CURRENT visual features, compare to the LAST set of features, determine how things moved, add any NEW "best features to use", then loop back to [A]... if you have a calibrated imager, you could conceivably track your changing location, determine your velocity, etc -- just like a car-sized mouse... LOL.
interesting that the system is learnt
If I remember from my Robotic Vision course, the detection algorithm was referred to as an "Expert" system, and each of the "A, B, C, D" feature types were referred to as individual "experts". And if you started with a wide range of random "features", you could figure out over time (while generating that "cascade", approximately) which features didn't matter, which ones to keep and use.
Ah, good clarification -- glad it IS working for you. Thought you were groaning that the update seemed to break stuff.
I am going to make industrial project using open CV in linux as a college study part. I am pursuing M.Tech degree. last year in that is for project.
As a reminder, you can access archives of each day's lecture on this page:
Is the delay in ms???
I fiddled with the parameters, and recognition of glasses improved significantly
flared0one, what I meant is that Chrome is working fine for me, even with the latest Flash plugin installed, whereas it seems that Firefox and Safari folks need to downgrade to an older Flash version in order to have audio success
Important terminology: Face detection (is there a face present) vs. face recognition (who does that face belong to?)
For me happens the same, with classes the demo didn´t work. I thought it is with the pattern of detection.
Face detection/recogition is a challenging problem to solve ;-) Android 4.x includes built-in face recognition support for homescreen unlock purposes, and Google claims that it works even with glasses on, but my personal testing results have been hit-and-miss
- Which operating system(s) do you most frequently use in your products? Linux
- Which operating system do you most frequently use for your
workstations? Windows
- Besides operating systems, what kinds of off-the-shelf software
components do you use in your products?
- Do you use open source software in your products? Qt Framework
Haar features as in Haar Transform! (Used in video Compressions) Checked paper -- yes.
The characteristic patterns associated with your eyes are fairly key to the face recognition algorithm.
face detector didnt work while I was wearing my glasses, but worked without them. There was glare on the lenses, might that be the cause?
A lot of work on Vista VMware, Mac oS-X VirtualBox on XP, service pack problem, Linux Ubuntu lacking libraries, no success yet.
Haar features as in Haar Transform? (Used in video Compressions)
Viola-Jones algorithm
For those of you just joining us, today's questions are:
- Which operating system(s) do you most frequently use in your products?
components do you use in your products?
- Do you use open source software in your products?
Hi Ann, Jeff, Eric and all.
Ahh -- (re latest Flash update) -- what you're seeing is how Chrome auto-updates without asking you for permission (unless you disable it)
Oddly, Chrome (at least my copy, on Mac OS X) seems to have the latest Adobe Flash plugin version pre-installed. So it doesn't seem to specifically be the Flash plugin, per se, versus an odd browser-specific interaction
@Ann, Embedded/Software Engineer, low light object tracking
@rzeune, try Chrome if you can -- people seem to be having good results with it.
My Win 7 with FireFox worked perfectly yesterday.
I made the mistake of letting Adobe Flash install an update, not no audio. My IE is not configured, so I guess I'll have to wait to view the archive later....
We haven't tried the Virtualbox virtual machine manager product, but it's open source and free. Formerly a Sun product, now owned by Oracle. I believe, but am not positive, that it will import VMware virtual machines
Someone asked yesterday whether the VMware for MACs was free.
No, it is not free for Mac. On the Mac it's calle VMware Fusion, and it costs about $50.
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1. Embedded RTOSs - Green Hills Integrity, QNX (hard realtime), LynxOS, Timesys Linux, Ubuntu, hardened versions of Android etc.
2. Red Hat Linux, Windows, Solaris, UNIX
3. Any and all 3rd-party, most video, comms, filesystems, etc.
4. If we can.
For those of you just joining us, please let us know your job title, the industry you're working in, and the vision applications you're working on or thinking about working on.
Hi All!
slide 6, could also use XOR if b/w image
So, for people scraping the chat window: if you want to stop one of the demo videos, click one of the display windows and press "space" bar.
I have never yet had audio problems (on MY end) when using Chrome.
fort worth finallyy here
Comming in late to the show
Adobe Flash 11.3.300.xx with Firefox 15 works fine -- get archived version of Flash
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Hello from Maryland
Still no adio, no joy. F5 gets me BUFFERING... but no sound. ANy help?
Products Windows based. Adding mobile Android, Apple
Develop on PC running Windows
Little open source used
linux - ubuntu
Seems like open source is a LITTLE bit more likely to have ongoing conversational access to generic "support" (in most cases its worth much more than what I'm paying for it).
Additional audio hints from yesterday:
Mac users: yesterdays' looping issues aside, I (Mac OS 10.7 Lion) more generally was unable to hear either
yesterday or Monday's lectures via either up-to-date Safari or Firefox via the up-to-date Flash plugin. However,
Google Chrome worked (and today is once again working) fine for me.
I also observed from the comments that Windows folks running Firefox were also having problems. I'd suggest
either IE or Chrome in this case; either seemed to work for others.
- Various Linux and VxWorks
-Reluctantly, some times
Linux for embedded robotic apps
Often no OS in embedded products
Moc OS X for workstation
I use Windows and linux (Ubuntu) at work and home.
WinXP or Win7
gordonmx: you rolled your own OS?
open source for personal work only, not for products.
I got the repeating audio header so I hit Reload. Now I just get BUFFERING... and no audio.
embedded OS: Linux
Workstation/dev OS: OS X and Linux
Open-source: various
-Windows XP/Windows 7
Linux in the machine. Combination of Windows and Linux on our workstations. We use various graphics packages. In general, we have no issues with using open source software.
If you're having trouble with audio, the first thing to try is pressing F5 to refresh your browser window.
House OS
Windows 7, Ubuntu 10.0.4
no OS in products, simple state machines.
Windows for workstation and dev tools
Workstation uses Windows. I use open source when applicable. Dont use an OS in the products.
Hello from Phoenix
"F5" refreshed 0kay -- I got a momentary glitch, then it kicked in.
Working for me.
Software Tech Lead
Industry: mobile robotics
Hello from Milwaukee
hi all
AUDIO is on:)
Audio sound good today
Not a good sign... Got "Lost Hope Radio" -- and then "buffering", constantly... No sound yet.
hi from Edmonton , Alberta
here we go again....
Hello Everyone
Hey, guys... All set for a fun session here...
Hello from Detroit. Eric, do the demos allow you to capture the data?
hi all,
Hello from Albuquerque.
Welcomen Eric.
These OpenCV demos are very good, but I'm tired at looking at my ugly face ;-O.
hello from sunny MIAMI
Hi Everyone. Just want to clrarify one thing: The classroom page says that I am the presenter for today. That is incorrect. Eric will be the presenter today.
Sr Embedded Design Eng
Defence (someone has to do the stuff)
Optical hazard detection (that's broad enough)
Hi from Casper, WY
VP Dev, Consulting in Industrial, and Mineral Exploaration and mining, looking at AUV aplications
Hello from Spokane Wa.
Director of Engineering
Maybe facial recognition
Hello from Sunny SE Lake Simcoe, Onatrio Canada
Hello from Phoenix Arizona
Hello from MI
Good morning/afternoon, again, everyone
hello everyone
Job tite: Sustaining Engineering Project Leader
Industry: Guided Wave RADAR tank level Gauges for the tank truck industry
Vision apps: only personal interest. will be starting at ground level with an Arduino based frame grabber on breadboard with open source libraries. a simple ciucuit that also overlays MCU generated video back onto the live video.
mgr des/eng hw/sw, no app in mind
good afternoon, everyone
Hello all and happy Friday from Edmonton, AB.
Hello from Buffalo, NY
Morning! from Richmond, British Columbia Canada
Hello from upstate NY
Howdy folks! :)
Hello to all
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As the horror unfolded following a mass shooting on Monday at a Naval yard in Washington, D.C., an Aiken resident and ASTV personality witnessed the chaos firsthand.
Eileen Hutson went to Washington, D.C., for a friend's birthday celebration and is staying with her son, who lives just a couple of blocks from the Washington Navy Yard where at least 13 people were killed during a shooting rampage on Monday.
The Associated Press reported that former Navy reservist Aaron Alexis of Texas, 34, opened fire in one of the Navy's oldest buildings inside a heavily guarded facility. Alexis was shot and killed by police.
The attack happened a short distance from the White House and the U.S. Capitol.
The building that was targeted is the military's headquarters for Naval Sea Systems Command, which buys, builds and maintains ships, submarines and combat systems, according to the Associated Press.
Hutson, also known as Chef MadJon, is the host of ASTV's "Cooking with MadJon and Friends." She said she and her son walked to the Naval yard to take pictures after hearing about the attack on the news.
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Hutson said a friend of hers was working on the scene as a victim's advocate. They assisted her for a short time by bringing items such as clipboards and paper towels to her before leaving.
"It was kind of scary because we heard from one of the other news units that they were checking out Andrews Air Force Base," she said. "Something had happened there, so I told him, 'I think we ought to go inside.'"
The city was on high alert, and authorities were telling people to stay indoors while the search for other potential gunmen was ongoing, Hutson said, adding that she planned to spend the rest of the day inside making pasta gravy and lasagna.
"There are some people on the streets but not many. Not around this area anyway," she said. "They have us on lockdown. They don't want you outside."
Hutson said she had already been interviewed by England's BBC and was supposed to do a live interview at 10 p.m. on Monday.
"D.C., I think, is pretty much used to something like this because they're always on high alert," she said. "There's always somebody trying to do something. It just unfortunately happens."
Teddy Kulmala covers the crime and courts beat for the Aiken Standard and has been with the newspaper since 2012.
He is a native of Williston and majored in communication studies at Clemson University.


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What do you guys & girls think are some good options? And how would you feel about a name change?
Lets wait till the team is actually sold. I doubt he changes it if everything works out.
No to a name change. Yes to changing our colors back to orange and black...or even the baby blue and red San Diego Clippers colors.
Orange and black is like Halloween. Creepy. Don't like it. They'd look like a bunch of pumpkins. Light blue and black might be cool. I love the clippers name every alternative I've heard has been bad
Keep the name, maybe change the colors. Depends on what it changes to.
Orange seems to fit the clippers more to me. Red, blue , and white is played out!
Then we all have to buy new crap
I wouldn't mind seeing the logo change, even though I'd have buy new hats. But really it is a ripoff of the Laker logo. I don't want the name to change though.
Keep everything the same. To bury our history is to diminish our redemption story.
No need for a name change. The rags-to-riches (in terms of owner reputation and Clippers' team success) story is too good to have anything changed. And anyway, if the Clippers are supposed to one day be America's team, well, we already have all the right patriotic colors, lol.
And another thing: I can't imagine Ralph Lawler saying anything else but the Clippers' name during his play-by-play broadcasts. Lol
Los Angeles Clippers forever!
Bill Simmons want to change the name not even a Clippers fan a Celtics homer.
I want Clippers. Therefore when we win our first championship, we can blast it on Donald Sterling face to realize the potential so much earlier.
Keep the name but the only name I would consider changing it to is the Los Angeles braves
That's actually good. Bring back the original. Subtract the orange and black tho
Honestly I like the clippers name but I wouldn't mind seeing a change. The clippers have bad terrible reputation like since the beginning of time and to lift the "curse" and all the BS this franchise has gone through I think it'd be acceptable and pretty exciting.
If we are considered America's team, I would love our team to change to something like the Los Angeles Eagles. It sounds great and it's our national bird. I think it sounds really cool too, would give us a mascot, and our colors would be dope. Gold/Black/White - pretty unique and a nice color scheme.
Just an idea... but how about being the Hollywood Knights? I think being Hollywood instead of LA could be interesting... just a thought.
I'm down to keep LA Clippers though.
Decent but makes me think of medieval times
I like the Hollywood idea, but not the Knights part of it.
I would just love to see better jerseys. Ours kind of suck to be honest.
LOL, Hollywood is in LA. How the heck would that make sense???!?
Brooklyn is in NY. How the heck does that make sense??
Is Ralph still plans on retiring?
Umm what are you talking about? New York is a state and it just so happens New York City is the name of the city. Hollywood is Such a small part of Los Angeles as a whole. Brooklyn is bigger and NYC is. Just different compared to Los Angeles. It's like calling a team the Beverly Hills Clippers. Just doesn't sound proper.
IDK, just sounds weird. Hollywood is Los Angeles LOL.
Well, to each their own I guess. I like the sound of it.
What I meant was, New York, New York is the city. Brooklyn (used to be a city but not anymore) is a borough of New York. I agree that Hollywood is only suburb thus much smaller, but if we're strictly only using city names for team names, they should be the New York Nets - that's what I was getting at.
I get your point, @MuteHaitian.
Hollywood is one of the most recognizable names on the planet. Back in my home country (the UK), Hollwood is synonymous with Los Angeles... much the same as Americans say "England" when talking about Great Britain.
Personally I'm against changing the name altogether, but if we were going to do it, @uncool's idea is definitely worthy of consideration.
Plus, we could have Bob Seger and the Silver Bullet band play live over player intros... that would be badass!
We should change the name to the Los Angeles Stars. We can even bring back retro jersey's of the old ABA team.
I was thinking about the play on words, like Hollywood Nights, but Knights.
I kinda like the Hollywood part too but it's way too close to the LA Knights team in Like Mike haha
How about the Los Angeles Clippers. And our colors are red, white, and royal blue.
Embrace where us Clippers fans came from. WE ARE ONE!!!
I don't like this thread. LOS ANGELES CLIPPERS!!! We've gone through all of this to change the name and colors?
I was never embarrassed to be a Clippers fan, so why would I want or need to have a new name now. When we get our first ring, I want it to be the Clippers.
The only reason behind any change would be making more money out of people who need to buy every new thing out there. I will say it now - after 15+ years being a Clippers fan, I am not going to stand us being anything but the CLIPPERS! If we are, then it is not "we"!
That's what made me change LA. lol
Changing the colors would be okay. Sterling was the one who dumped those beautiful San Diego colors for boring, overused red/white/blue when he moved the team to LA.
I think the Clippers name should stay, but since I'm a designer by profession, I'd love to see a new logo. Especially since our current one isn't executed very well, and is yawningly boring/unoriginal. I love the Los Angeles script that we use so that could stay as a secondary mark, but the main mark could be a whole lot cooler. The color scheme isn't bad, though it's used by a bunch of other teams. If we keep it, I'd like to see the blue be our primary instead of the red. A new color scheme would probably be in order too, though - maybe a dark gray and a teal or light blue. That would be sick.
If Clippers goes back to powder blue and orange like SD colors. I am so down for that.
If Ballmer decides to change the name. He should name it after himself. Drop the "m". Call the team "LA Ballers". I also like "LA Soldiers", "LA Loyals", & "LA Pitbulls". I'm down with staying with "LA Clippers" too.,
Beverly Hills Ballers
Call them the Los Angeles bears, it's the state animal
Nice! beat me to it. I was thinking Ballmers and then Ballers sounded too good!
I work for Italian company. My boss in Italy copyrighted the name L.A. Rhinos a few years ago. I refused to invest because that's obviously a dumb name. Would be great for me if they chose Rhinos and had to buy it from him because then maybe he'd have enough money to retire already.
I told my Laker buddies (which is basically all my buddies) after the purchase that the commissioner's next move will be to hereby change the name of the Clippers to the Lakers and the Lakers to the Clippers.
I would rather have the name stay Clippers, I just think we should embrace our checkered past and rise above it all and show through and through we're Clippers. That the Clippers weren't just DTS, if I'm making sense. If we were to change the name I'm completely against "LA Stars", wouldn't mind going back and being called the "LA Braves". I am also a fan of "LA Loyals" as well as "LA Bears" (though it may be a little played out because of the Grizzlies who should be renamed Jazz and Utah renamed Peaks due to their large mountains, largest in America) and "LA Ballers". As far as colors goes I like the colors we have now but I'd love to go back to the powder blue and orange. All other combinations are pretty much taken. The logo needs to be redone in accordance to the renaming and recoloring of the team, the text as well. I'm a big fan of it but I think it wouldn't work too well on other logos
los angeles rivers haha
Best post in this thread.
If anything changes, I'd feel like I'm rooting for a different team. I'd feel all the time invested has gone to waste. Embrace your past, don't try to hide from it.
I saw the stuttering dwarf's wretched article on espn and wanted to slap him for thinking about changing the name. The l.a. bears is not bad though. I personally like the red, white and blue (it's part of what attracted me to the team back in the 80's, as a kid). Still prefer to keep clippers and the colors, but if there was a change i would go with bears.
Part of his argument was that most people don't know what a clipper is? I would argue a greater percentage of clipper fans know what a clipper is compared to a laker fan knowing what a laker is. That's probably due to our higher i.q., but still a weak argument by the stuttering dwarf.
Even the colors? Why? It's not like we've always had these colors.
Personally I've always just disliked our generic colors and I'd love to have a color scheme that is unique and synonymous with the Clippers.
We've had variations of red white and blue as Clippers in California. While the Braves had different colors, it is part of our history but not as Clippers.


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