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Finance Minister P Chidambaram's Budget for 2013-14 reflects an intent to tax the super-rich across multiple segments.
That is also reflected in the key indirect tax changes proposed in the auto sector. The excise duty rates on SUVs (other than those registered as taxis) have been increased to 30 per cent from 27 per cent earlier.
Also, basic customs duty on import of cars belonging to the luxury segment has been increased to 100 per cent from 75 per cent earlier, while on motorcycles with engine capacity of 800cc or more to 75 per cent form 60 per cent earlier.
In order to promote eco-friendly vehicles - hybrid and electric cars - validity of the concessional excise and customs duty rates on parts of such cars has been extended till 31 March 2015. Also, basic customs duty has been exempted on import of the lithium ion automotive battery, which is used in the manufacturing of lithium ion battery packs supplied to the manufacturers of the eco-friendly vehicles.
On income tax front, although the tax rate for the corporate segment has been maintained, the surcharge has been increased from to 10 per cent from 5 per cent earlier.
The withholding tax applicable to non-resident taxpayers on royalty and fees for technical services earned from an Indian company has been proposed to be increased from an existing rate of 10 per cent to 25 per cent except certain specific cases.
To boost setting up of manufacturing facilities in India, an investment allowance of 15 per cent for taxpayers investing Rs. 100 crore or more on plant and machinery.
Overall, in the auto sector, the major impact would be on the industry players specifically catering to the luxury car segment.
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The widely-hated Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) is causing its supporters to suffer boycotts. Organizations such as GoDaddy and 3M are being targeted by serious activism. In IT Blogwatch, bloggers ponder protectionism and DNS Balkanization.
Your humble blogwatcher curated these bloggy bits for your entertainment. Not to mention: The 45 Most Powerful Images Of 2011...
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A Boycott GoDaddy website has been set up to collect pledges for a boycott and transfer of domains from GoDaddy.com. ... Several domain registration services...are offering discounts to users wanting to transfer their domains...while expressing their opposition to SOPA.
Edward Berridge adds:
GoDaddy has officially voiced its support for the...SOPA Bill...which will give copyright holders the sway to effectively shut down websites or online services if...they might so much as think about infringing material.
We think [GoDaddy] will change [its] tune the moment that Big Content demands Big Daddy is shut down for hosting...illegal content. SOPA does not really require anyone to provide any proof.
...Since announcing its support for SOPA, GoDaddy will be getting a nice Christmas present as the sane-thinking web turns its back on the company.
Go Daddy general counsel Christine Jones gives her side of the story:
We have a unique view into the dangers...[of] foreign websites dedicated to infringing US intellectual property. ... Although we believe that the DMCA works...it does not address trademark infringement, nor does it [permit] enforcement actions against illegal foreign-based sites.
...[T]his debate is not about Hollywood vs. Silicon Valley. [It's] about...American jobs, and protecting American consumers. ... We wont get very far by resorting to the denial of responsibility or the pointing of fingers. ... SOPA is not going to break the Internet.
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[The bill] basically puts every single domain registered under generic TLDs under the authority of the United States Attorney General.
[I]t's a short stretch from SOPA to NODA (No Online Dissent Anywhere) and if you think I'm a nutcase...I'd like to remind everybody what happened...when US politicians were tripping over themselves to shut down wikileaks...and to this day, they have not been charged with a crime anywhere.
...The internet root will have to be under the stewardship of [a non-US] honest broker who can respect the rights of all sovereign interests. ... Otherwise, it ends with a split internet root...[an] intolerable risk.
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[I]t's pretty damn difficult to find too many individuals who like SOPA...but there are a fair number of companies who might [want] to cause all sorts of problems for foreign competition.
Neither of [GoDaddy's] statements address the concerns...and appear to be very much a "talk to the hand!" response...this may not have been the keenest strategic move.
Others on the list of supporters are starting to feel the wrath...as well. 3M...is discovering that their customers are not pleased. ... Others are starting to feel similar pressure. ... Paul Graham...has announced that he will bar...any of those companies from attending YCombinator's famed Demo Days...[which] can really hurt those companies.
...[If] some companies support the law, it's not because it's good for their customers. ... It's because it'll be...a protectionist law to stomp out competition or to protect against having to adapt to innovation.
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Dear Statalist,
I am estimating an probit model where the observations are by
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Bad Day at Black Rock (1955)
In Sam's greasy-spoon Bar and Grill, Macreedy sits at the counter and orders "chili with-out beans" and a cup of coffee. Pot-bellied Coley, who by now has plotted to kill him for interfering in the town's business, goads Macreedy into a fight by insisting that he vacate 'his' stool. He then douses his meal with the contents of a bottle of ketchup (cap and all), facetiously apologizing: "I hope that ain't too much."
Coley: I'm half-hoss, half-alligator. You mess with me and I'll kick a lung outta ya. Whaddya think of that?
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Coley: You know, talkin' to you is like pullin' teeth. You wear me out. You're a yellow-bellied Jap lover. Am I right or wrong?
Macreedy: You're not only wrong - you're wrong at the top of your voice.
Coley: You don't like my voice?
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Smith: I don't think that'll be necessary. You're so scared now you'll probably drown in your own sweat.
Coley: No, before that happens, couldn't I pick a fight with you if I tied one hand behind me...?
As Macreedy rises to leave and passes him, Coley swings him around by his limp left arm and repeats: "If I tied both hands..." Macreedy artfully defends himself one-handed with a solid, karate-chop-like blow to Coley's neck. Macreedy's counter-attack is a strange form of judo - an appropriate act of vengeance on behalf of the dead Japanese farmer. When Coley recovers and attacks, Macreedy punches him in the stomach, karate-chops him behind the neck, and knees him in the jaw. Bloodied, Coley falls backwards against the pinball machine in the corner of the cafe. A third time, Coley snaps back, but this time is karate-chopped in the back of the neck and in the lower back - he is propelled into the screen window on the front door and tumbles down onto the dusty street. The fight ends when Macreedy upends him and spins him into one of the counter stools. Coley lies helplessly defeated and unconscious on the floor.
Macreedy removes a switchblade knife from Coley's front pocket, springs its blade out, and then looks over at Smith. Macreedy accuses Smith of murdering the Japanese farmer and then plotting to cover it up:
Macreedy: Wouldn't it have been easier to wait until I turned my back? Or are there too many witnesses present?
Smith: You're still in trouble.
Macreedy: You're in trouble. Whatever happens, you're sunk.
Smith: You got things a big twisted.
Macreedy: You killed Komoko, Smith, and sooner or later you're gonna go up for it. Not because you killed him, because I think in a town like this, you can get away with it. But because you didn't have guts enough to do it alone. You put your trust in guys like this - and Hector here - not the most dependable of God's creatures. And one of these days, they're gonna catch on that you're playin' 'em for a sap. And then what are ya gonna do? Peel 'em off, one by one? And in the meantime, one of 'em's gonna crack and when they do, you're gonna go down - but hard. 'Cause they got somethin' on ya, Smith. Something to use when the goin' gets tough. (He tosses the switchblade at Smith.) And it's gettin' tougher every minute.
In the hotel lobby later that afternoon, Hector puts coins in an unyielding slot machine at the foot of the stairs and Pete amuses himself with solitaire at the hotel desk. The Sheriff sits in one of the badly-upholstered chairs with his boots off and Sam is across from him on the sofa. Near the front door, Smith reads a neatly-folded newspaper. Macreedy descends the stairs with his suitcase as Doc enters and reports that Coley will "live" - after Macreedy's tough display of self-defense: "He's wicked. He defends himself when he's attacked." Macreedy waits for a reply to his telegram - but Hastings hasn't sent the message. Doc accuses Hastings of committing a federal offense and advises the weak-willed Sheriff to "do something about this." The Sheriff momentarily stands up to Smith, but then is silenced and decommissioned. Smith rips off his badge: "You're not Sheriff any more. You're so pathetic you just lost a job." Hector, the newly-appointed Sheriff rips up the original telegram while asking Macreedy: "You want to register a complaint, boy? To register a complaint, you've got to have evidence, boy. You got evidence?" Macreedy is left with three good-hearted, but ineffectual townsfolk - a humiliated, "useless" Sheriff, an apathetic doctor, and a preoccupied hotel clerk. Doc feels conscience-stricken by the fateful event of four years ago:
Four years ago, something terrible happened here. We did nothing about it. Nothing! The whole town fell into a sort of settled melancholy, and all the people in it closed their eyes, and held their tongues, and failed the test with a whimper. And now something terrible's going to happen again. And, in a way, we're lucky because we've been given a second chance.
But Doc is left empty-handed as the paralyzed, afraid-to-fight Sheriff "gets out."
A crippled, one-armed nomad in post-war America, Macreedy explains how he was "washed-up," planning to resign "from the human race" in South America or the "islands," and "looking for some place to get lost" because he was afraid he "couldn't function any longer." But his encounter with Smith became a catalyst to renewed action for him. Enraged, he challenges Pete to divulge the town's dark secret - "an unpleasant subject" - but first he explains his own mission. He is a World War II veteran there to present a posthumous Congressional Medal of Honor for heroism to the farming father of a Japanese wartime buddy (Joe Komoko) who had saved his life in World War II on the battlefields of Italy:
Pete: My memories are so pleasant as it is...
Macreedy: (scornfully) It's gonna take an awful lot of whiskey to wash out your guts. Go on, go on! Swill it! What is there left for you to do? You're as dead as Komoko and you don't know it....
Pete: You don't have to remind me. I've never forgotten.
Macreedy: Oh, isn't that noble of you. You haven't forgotten. And you're ashamed. That's really noble of you. I suppose four years from now, you'll be sittin' around here tellin' people you haven't forgotten me either. That's real progress. In the meantime, I'll be as dead as a - WHY DON'T YOU TELL ME WHAT HAPPENED? (To Doc) What happened?
Doc: Why did you come here, Mr. Macreedy?
Macreedy: Did Komoko have any other family besides his son Joe?
Doc: (puzzled) Son? Nobody around here ever knew he had a son.
Macreedy: Yes, he had a son. He's dead too. He's buried in Italy...Why, this Komoko boy died trying to save my life. They gave him a medal. I came here to give it to his old man. I figured the least I could do was give him one day out of my life.
The town is able to purge itself of its collective guilt and restore law and order, by admitting its past involvement in a brutal, racist act. At last after discovering Macreedy's noble mission, Pete cooperates by explaining the circumstances of Komoko's death. The Japanese man had bought an arid farm area from no-good Smith, but resourcefully made it prosperous after digging a sixty-foot deep well. Along with other "patriotic drunk" men one night after Pearl Harbor, Smith harrassed the farmer, set his house on fire, and shot him. Afterwards, the accomplices covered up the unjust, heinous murder:
Doc: Smith owned Adobe Flat. He leased it to Komoko. He figured he had cheated him because you gotta have water to raise anything. There never was any water on Adobe Flat. Komoko dug a well. He must have gone down sixty feet.
Pete: He got plenty of water. That made Smith pretty sore. He didn't like Japs anyway. The day after Pearl Harbor, Smith went to Sand City.
Macreedy: Yeah, he got turned down, trying to enlist.
Pete: Well, when he got back, he was pretty sore. Around ten o'clock, we all started drinking.
Macreedy: Ten in the morning.
Pete: Yeah. Smith, Coley, Sam, Hector, and me - we were all drunk. Patriotic drunk. We wanted to go out to scare the Jap a little and have a little fun. Well, when we got there, he heard us comin' and he locked the door. And then Smith started a fire. And the Jap - he came running out. His clothes were all burning. And then Smith shot him. I didn't even know he had a gun.
Macreedy: Then you got scared and buried him, and kept your mouths shut, hmm?
Pete: Yeah.
Macreedy: (He shoves the bottle toward Pete) Well, go ahead and have your drink now. You're gonna need it.
Pete calls his sister Liz on the phone through the switchboard, telling her that he's planning on getting Macreedy out of town and enlisting her help to find a means of escape: "I might as well be dead. Yeah, I told him everything...I'm asking you because I need your help. You'd be saving two lives, Liz: Macreedy's and mine, if that means anything to you."
That evening, after Pete lures Hector into the dark shadows of the hotel's rear alcove, Doc knocks him out the heavy brass end of a long fire hose. Macreedy is buzzed in his upstairs room and then led outside to an awaiting jeep driven by Liz. As they barrel through the night, she admits: "Well, I sure would have liked to have seen you tangle with Reno Smith." Suddenly, she brakes among some boulders - explaining that the jeep is overheating and needs water. She has driven him into an ambush. Suddenly, they are hit by a pair of headlights, and they both bail out of the jeep. Liz stands in the headlights, calling out to Reno: "Smitty! Smitty!" Macreedy cautions her to seek cover behind the jeep: "Liz, you fool. If he gets me, he's gotta get you." When she runs toward Reno's car, she turns back toward Macreedy, bantering: "So long, Macreedy." At the rocky ridge where Reno stands with a shotgun, she becomes another victim of his vengeance to intentionally prevent another witness to his violent crimes:
Smith: Just a few more steps, honey.
Liz: (breathlessly) Get him. Get him now.
Smith: First things first, honey.
Liz: Help me up, Smitty.
Smith: You were gonna help me, Liz. I still need your help.
Liz: (confused) I did everything you said.
Smith: You two started out in a car and that's the way you're gonna end up. Over a cliff - burning. You can blame Macreedy for that. He said I had too many witnesses.
Liz: But why me? Why start with me?
Smith: I gotta start with somebody.
She spins around and runs down the incline, but is shot in the back and rolls into the dirt of the embankment.
As Smith reloads his rifle, Macreedy unscrews the nut that connects the gas line of the carburetor. With an empty whiskey bottle found on the litter-strewn ground, he fills it with gasoline. His necktie provides the perfect wick for a makeshift molotov-cocktail. As Smith advances carefully from about twenty yards away, Macreedy lights the dangling end of his tie and heaves the fiery bottle at his attacker. The bottle crashes against rocks next to Smith and ignites into flames, spewing burning gasoline onto Smith's body. He drops the rifle, squirms on the ground and tries to extinguish the flames. Macreedy stands about Smith with the discarded rifle over him.
As the dawn's light, Macreedy drives Smith's station wagon back to the jailhouse. The Sheriff is pleasantly surprised to see that the "situation" is "reversed" from what he expected. In the jail's cells, the Sheriff has incarcerated Coley, Hector, Sam, and Hastings, as he boasts about the restoration of some of his dignity: "I thought I'd take one last whack at my job." Pete is informed of his sister's death - at Reno's hand.
As Macreedy prepares to leave Black Rock and the Streamliner's horn is heard in the distance, Doc asks him to give Komoko's medal to the whole town to remind the people of the cowardly conspiracy that nearly destroyed them, so that it might not happen again. At the jailhouse, two state police cars haul away the handcuffed prisoners: Smith, Coley, Hector, Sam, Pete and Hastings:
Doc: Maybe we need it. It would give us something to build on. This town's wrecked, just as though it was bombed out. Maybe it can come back.
Macreedy: Some towns do and some towns don't. It depends on the people.
Doc: (pressing his point again) That medal would help. (Macreedy reaches in his pocket and takes out a blue, velvet-covered box)
At the film's conclusion, Macreedy boards the train to leave, with the future fate of the town left in an ambiguous state.
Conductor: What's all the excitement? What happened?
Macreedy: A shooting.
Conductor: Thought it was something. First time the Streamliner's stopped here in four years.
Macreedy: Second time.


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Lots of adjustment for the driving position and the dash is easy to use
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Tried and tested engines shouldn't pose any problems, and build feels pretty solid
Seats up to eight but heavy seats limit its versatility
Good enough but not outstanding, with even parking sensors a cost option
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The interior isn't particularly classy but the dashboard and centre console are sensibly laid out and cabin stowage is excellent. However, visibility is hampered by the thick front pillars.
There's a choice of body lengths and, while there are seven seats as standard, you can specify six or eight to allow for more passengers or more space for them. The rear doors slide to help with rear access and you can move the rearmost seats back and forth to adjust the bias for passengers or boot space. However, the seats are heavy to slide or remove, so the Viano isn't as user-friendly as many rivals, whose seats fold flat into the floor.
Unlike many seven-seaters, two Isofix points are offered on both the middle and rearmost rows of seats, regardless of the configuration you have; bear in mind, however, that on three-seat benches these are on the middle and adjacent outer seats so space for two child seats may be limited. Middle-row Isofix seats also have top-tether points.
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Behind Boston.
Lottery team. I kind of hope so anyway, numb to first round pastings.
The three teams at or below them right now (BOS, IND, and MIL) are all better than them and will finish with better records as the season winds on. They're probably on par with an Orlando, somewhere around a 9th or 10th best team in the east.
Celts, dead last in rebounding (37.8 pg) but beat Wolves at it by committee Wed. night, resulting in win.
Coach Rivers: "I'd like to beat [Sixers] once, because they've handled...I'd like to beat them both times, but they're playing well against us and we're going to have to deal with that. They must have great confidence against us. So those are going to be hard games." [Mark Murphy, Boston Herald, 12/7/12]
without Bynum they're in that 6-9 range, or maybe even 7-10, definitely behind Boston.
i think i figured out why i am having such a hard time caring about this team right now. i stuck with them after trading AI and loved watching the 07-09 teams that played Orlando & Detroit in the 1st round. i felt like they were building something.
in landing Bynum i felt like my loyalty had paid off, and now they were just a piece or two away from true contention.
with so much anticipation and excitement heading into this season, the disappointment over the Bynum injury has left me totally demoralized. feels like no matter what this team does, something is always going to go wrong.
I think that's a common feeling. I refuse to believe Bynum isn't going to pan out until...well, I guess I won't believe it until he's out for the year and signs with someone else this summer. That's pretty much the only way I can stomach giving up hope. I'll probably be sucked in even if he doesn't play a game this year and they re-sign him anyway.
You were more fun when you weren't so blindly optimistic with no evidence to support it :)
They're in the playoffs mostly because the bottom of the east is weak.
I just hope they avoid playing the knicks in the first round, the way the knicks are playing now, the sixers would be pasted by them, and I couldn't stomach that as much as any other team in the east.
Well, there's no evidence to support it either way, really. All we know for sure is he's had bad knees in the past, hasn't played to this point and he's being reexamined on the 20th. There's no evidence that he isn't going to play at all this year, or not be effective when he comes back. That's just a doomsday outlook on the situation w/out evidence to back it up.
Well, maybe because I live in out in Laker Land I see more 'anecdotal' evidence than you do regarding Bynum, knee injuries, recovery and his ability to tough it out.
Good thing TMZ isn't hanging out in Philly or you'd probably all be having apoplexy...Bynum had a knack for being injured but still showing up on TMZ, a lot :)
Plus, I've had bad knees since I was a kid.
And unlike you - i'm truly a pessimist in general :) - though I'm hardly ever disappointed (my gf on the other hand, optimist, so very exited the red sox signed the flyin hawaiian, i did warn her).
I think Bynum plays just enough to show people he's healthy, get that max deal from the sixers, and like I said before, maybe plays 50-60% of the game while he's under contract.
Seen nothing recently to deter from that, aside from the sixers being more vague on when they expect Bynum to play.
Then agaim, I'm the guy who believes they don't give a good damn how many games he plays, the splashy trade got them some season tickets probably, and out from under the 'horrible' Iguodala contract...
I still don't believe the franchise decision makers know how to build a winning team...and every game you reflect that whenever you talk Spencer :)
Whatever boost they had in season ticket sales is being undercut by half-empty houses now, I'd think. They should care if he plays or not.
And how's that for a pessimistic view - "half empty."
Nicely done, but I think the 'iguodala savings' makes them happy :)
Seriously though - when BYnum was injured and showed up on TMZ, Laker fans were NOT happy - and these are 'nice' fans - I couldn't imagine what Philly folks would do.
Yeah, the savings thing doesn't really work, though. They're spending $18M more than they had to this year (amnesty Brand, replace his salary), which is more than Iguodala would've made next year. If you're talking about trying to clear cap space, there might be an eventual savings if they don't re-sign Bynum, but then that's a basketball, or at least a basketball economics, decision, rather than just a bottom-line decision, which would go against your point, right?
Can't tell until what they do in the off season - I think it was about saving money - we'll see...they were paying brand no matter what this year - but now they have less money committed for next season unless they re-sign Bynum
Yes, Brand's $18M was a sunk cost this season, but when they cleared that cap space, they then filled it. So in terms of real dollars, they're paying him twice. Once to play for the Mavs (which was the sunk cost) then twice in the guys they signed using up the created cap space. Look at it this way. If Bynum walks and they don't replace his salary, they're still paying more next season in terms of real dollars, because Brand's salary this year (or the added money into the cap space his amnesty created) is more expensive than Iguodala's salary is next year. They're spending more money no matter what they do. Keeping Brand and keeping Iguodala would've been cheaper than what they did. If they wind up extending Bynum, it would've been much cheaper.
Behind Boston, probably the 8 seed and a 4-0 sweep from Miami if Bynum never plays.
Any idea if Swaggy P is playing tonight...I can't believe this but...I miss him.
That second unit really needs him to hit a couple terrible shots, at least, to tread water.
In my opinion the Sixers can be good but they need Bynum for consistency. It's hard to rely on jumpshooting every night. Bynum gives that extra interior option on offense, extra big body on defense, and an extra rebounder. Without him i think we're a fringe playoff team but it's hard to say because I don't know what kind of consistency we will bring and we dont have much depth.
I just hope that when Bynum eventually does heal that he is completely better and this doesnt linger. Is there any evidence that the delay in his return this season is for something that will heal completely or linger for his career?
Bynum's head will linger for his career, which is the sad part. Manchild in a promissory note land. At least Darryl Dawkins had entertaining charm, including colorfully titled dunks. Current sidelined dangly dude, a dud. Basketball passion, slim to none. Was a contributing 3rd fiddle in L.A. Won't be a savior here. Book it, Dano.
I share your concern but don't share your certainty on the matter. Neither Bynum or Dawkins has the focus of Moses Malone. But when healthy (admittedly big caveat) Bynum is a more consistent performer than Dawk was. Much more reliable. Dawkins was maddening the way he'd land and completely take over a game for four minutes and then return to Planet Lovetron for the remainder.
Too much is subterranean with Bynum's situation - from both player and team fronts. I don't trust it at all. Am afraid they've been had once again.
You're right - "Sir Slam" could dominate in stretches, when the spark ignited, which was too seldom. Hard to dislike Darryl though.
Darryl's worldview emerged in its glory with repeated listening to George Clinton. Kids just don't have role models like that these days.
I think the Sixers, without Bynum, fall in the 6-8 ranger in a weak East...
Going to the game tonight, my first of the year, hoping for double digit assists for Jrue, single digit assists from Rondo, 20+ 50% shooting from my man ET, and a Sixers W
no nick young tonight
also no ivey but not a lot of people would notice anyway
Would love for ET to build himself a rep playing well against the Celtics, would really fit the Villain moniker
it may even get Brian and Eddie's to hate him slightly less
Who's the "Villian"?
turner on rondo jrue on terry
JRich on Pierce.
JRich steal.
Evan cheats way off Rondo, He makes a j.
good ol' Jon Barry...i say that sarcastically
Mighty darn quiet in there tonight....
nice stuff j-rich
Evan with an up-the-floor bounce pass.
JRich finishes.
evan to the rim
Good help defense there from everybody, Bass misses
nice thad
Don't jump and pass Jrue... come on
Thad cleanup.
Shoot that 3 there Jrue.
Runout after he shoots, at the arc...foul on us. geez
moultrie first big off the bench!!
Jrue contested long two.
Doubling Jrue off the pick. He's being forced to give it up..
Uh oh JRich down hard, he's ok.
Wonder if the message will get through to Spence, probably not
evan jumper
Moultrie short-arms a J.
PP on other end from deep.
ET parades around the key, jumper.
There's my buddy Hawes...!
Moultrie stuffed.
Please bare with me when I just have to keep saying to myself....
6.5 per
evan corner 3
He skiesssss for a board...lol
Pierce gets every fucking call, no matter what building he's in
6.5 per
Moultrie is very uncomfortable with the NBA pace.
Moultrie stripped. ugh
3 from Lee on other end. ughx2
Yep, there's Mr. Hawes,
6.5 per
His foot was out of bounds when he touched that lol.
No Evan, Doug should spank you on the hand.
Don't pass it into a window that isn't there, but don't fucking pass it to him!
6.5 per...
Our transition defense is lacking at times, cause when we usually take a bad shot, we just don't even get back quick enough to set up a defense. They seem to score more times than not against us.
sissy jumper
We've given up 30 pts already in this game, not literally but..the D just isn't alert enough, or rather the guys in it.
Spencer keeps reminding me that the banks open...
6.5 per
nice evan
Hawes poke-away. heh
ET holding it ... Dances w/ the dribble to his spot, bucket pull-up.
Tie game? I'll take it.
That was pretty slick, made another move after that crossover left he likes.
So I guess that quarter should cure us all of wanting to see more moultrie
sissy jumper
Wish the crowd would get more into it, this is the C's you know..
Jrue pass to Wilkins...nothing...my buddy Hawes j.
THey're going right at Spence with KG..and rightly so ...heh
DC wired: "i love you guys..." heh
Dorell is struggling so hard just to find his niche.
Jrue airball. D3 just doesn't look right, not in a rhythm way.
KG. shit
Dorell w/ a lazy perimter pass. Rims out a 3.
Jrue with a hard earned lefty drive!
JRich overplaying, causes a steal. Nice.
man, Thad always misses bunnies.
come on Evan, move the ball man
Love a few things so far:
- Moultrie was first big off the bench
- early minutes for Dorell
- Turner posting up Terry
Looks like this is another one of those games where Turner plays with an edge.
thad jumper
Thad out of the timeout behind-the-back dribble and float-back J.
sissy jumper
Ol Spence with the J. You go boy!
Bynum looks like a clown,.... has me frowning like one too.
Tighten up the D blessdarnit. come on...shit
on that Wilcox being wide open
Thad follow!
Box out Evan...Bass foul? need to see replay
looked like thad got him but they called a clearout on bass
DC: "if PP gets that ball to Rondo, don't let him get it back, he can's score if he doesn't get it back"
sissy putback
As I was saying, Boston will likely have a better record than the Sixers when it's all said and done, but we're the better team when we play each other it seems
Hawes, there you are.
6.5 per
Keep your head about you Evan...stop mugging at the refs so much.
Jeff Green takes Spencer to the hoop.
Spencer offensive foul. Pushed the man down.
6.5 per you son of
Did I forget to say
6.5 per?
just sayin'.
too many blown bunnies damn where are our points gonna come from
we've missed 9 of our last 11 shots.
Jrue and-one!! bout time
looked to be a questionable foul, i didn't see anybody that got him out of the three of em
Down 4. Wish Thad cold make some of those close-in ones.
We don't have any semblance of a fast break anymore either, our fast break pts are always slacking.
They just can't win while relying so much on halfcourt O. And their D leaving alot to be desired doesn't help any either. Their help and on-the-ball D is often not present.
They don't board well,... they don't play D well enough to where the opponent often misses,... so they never get runout opportunities anymore. That's what I really miss from Andre. He would either cause a runout or get the board and create one himself.
jrue jumper
guard the rim
Jrue forcing an early shot. come on
RondoJrue steal..ET finish nope ugh
evan corner 3
ET corner 3!
Turner Feeling it.
ET possessing, takes his own J. good.
nice pass evan
Great look Evan, Lavoy! come on dammit@!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I despise the Celtics.
And did I say I despise the Celtics?
D up here now...
Move the ball Thad come on!
Shit JT 3. off an o-board.
evan jumper
ET looks him in his eye. Bloop. heh
Jrue loose with it.. foul on Rajon.
Doc: "..right now we're trying to trick em" ..referring to the Sixers.
Jrue w/ the body. I don't particularly like that call, Jrue didn't impede him that much nor bump him.
Now that was more of a foul there on Jrue...
ROndo putback shit
jrue in the lane
Jrue probing deep, depositing.
Evan w/ the pressure D. Wall off the rim please...!!! GEEZ
j-rich 2 or 3?
JRich popout for 3!!!!!!
They're playing hard. deflection
Jrue to JRich. foul to the line
Thad hustle...!
There's 6.5 per again...Hey!
active hands ET
Wow wilkens has been surprisingly not terrible so far
Damien Wilkins with the aggressive D. Turnover and foul.
4 on jrue
There's Hawes again.
Foul on Jrue? come on his 4th
Close out harder than that on Green. Damn.
I really hope they can finish and win this one.
4 on rondo
How is that a foul? On Damien. come on call that the other way then...
fucking more PP free throws
2 min to go. Close this one out properly and don't give anything up. up 5 now
Def 3 sec? wow
Wow everyone in here just said "hey bynum touched the ball omgz
Foul on Thad, they get freebies. ugh
They can get 3 more possession here if they play this last 1 min+ correctly.
sissy jumper
Pierce makes Evan look like the old man! damn
6.5 per.
turnover on them
Evan nolding again.
Pass to Dorell back to ET, he walks.
think that was goaltend
Ahahaha you got hawesed Pierce!
Gave up 3. Only up 2. In that last 2 minutes.
Not a good close of the quarter. Long way to go.
Somebody just stay the fuck with Rondo no matter what he does, he's absolutely killed us and had a superb game. Let's see a change in this 4th quarter.
The thing that pisses me off the most about our 7 footer, he handles the ball on the perimeter just as much as our guards/wings do.
6.5 per
Come on,..... don't let them get the lead. Tied now.
D3 fake and rimout again... shit
Win this first game please.
Jrue steal...AND-ONE!
thanks to the good hands from JRich
they're free
Rondo back in w/ 9+ left.
What was that?...Our ball, ET in Dorell out.
Come on yall...
PP w/ an ahhhh andone
Come on Evan work the ball around.
ET to the line.
Play some D.
Ugh. Not kg.
Jrue working hard for one, swiped away.
Jrue to Lavoy to THad. Yea!!
This game is so far from over. Please don't lose this mofo.
Ugh they have a lead back finally and NOw they play 10-9-8-76ers #blowstheleadeverytime
We only have 6 friggin turnovers, they have 16, we only up 2 though.
Thad.... foul? yes thanks
Thad made both. Stops dammit!
evan getting shot happy
Bass walks.
Doug calls something I couldn't understand.
ET to JRue back to ET penetrating, miss.
Keep playing aggressive here now...
Thad with a terrible shot.
Layup for them fuck.
and PP w/ the layup of all people.
Dammit Lavoy
Tied w/ 5:46 to go. How will it end? I wish I knew. I really do.
W.i.n. this.
5 on jrue
Jrue. blocked.
Cheap foul on Jrue. On Pierce of course.
Penalty w/ 5 left for the C's. That's not good.
ET pushoff, good call. shit he extended.
they keep traping the pick and roll, and you keep doing the same thing
Too quick of a shot by JRich, not enough legs under it.
JRich! up by one
What a brick Evan from the stripe.
shit a JG 3.
from RR he's deadly w/ the ball
Can we get Spencer out of the game please? He holds what value?
........(prove me wrong big guy, please do.)
BOS missing some big shots that could've put them up a couple possessions
jrue long 2
Up 1 w/
Jrue! up 3 w/ 2 to go.
ET rims out, we're only up one.
No, Jrue. Our ball.
Fuck Lavoy, make him work for something at least. Shit.
Tied w/ 1 to go.
ET ... pullup blocked ET recovers and converts!!!!!!!!
Up 2 dammit
Get. this. stop.
Come on.... we get 2 possessions to end it here. Just get one stop
another stop?
You lucky sons of bitc...
they missed twice. heh love it
bunnies they missed too.....
40 mins for PP.....
We up 2 w/ 14 to go...
PPto KG.
F me he made it dammit
But, we have 7+ seconds to win this one. How can we not?
evan contested jumper calling it now
Draw up a shot for JRich coming off multiple screens. No iso shit.
Jon Barry. calling it a Jure
F me... wow
wow b/c they sent the play toward the damn sideline. heh
terrible terrible, ET should have been the guy inbounding the ball
over time, jrue and lavoy have 5 fouls
Overtime. Man they made this one way harder than it should have been.
5 more to decide it. Go and get it dammit.
6 on jrue
Play D now...
O foul on KG yes a moving screen.
DC: "Let's get every board, and push the ball, attack OK."
Silly as shit. Yes shit 6. Bye Jrue.
THey up 2.
Evan to Thad Hard earned one. Tied.
nice thad!
bad shot j-rich
Just can't get a look worth a fuck w/o Jrue out there...
ET initiating again...TO Doug.
The despised up 1 w/ 1 to go. come on guys a lot left here.
Dorell to ET thankfully, ET had to force one
Gets fouled...Reset...ET w/ a drive. no...shit
he hit one!!!
Ohhhh I wish ET would have kept attacking.
He still MADE IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! YES YES YES
P.L.E.A.S.E get this stop.
no slip to the hoop!
Good one to give there.
evan fell asleep and got away with it cause rondo slipped
He would have had a layup if he kept going.
Evan Turner
for tonight
= Villian
Everybodyyyyyy Philadelphia.... 76ers!!! Everybody...
So sweet. Will have to watch it on the replay. Had to work, but my nerves wouldn't have been able to take it anwyay.
Great game by Turner?
"Great game by Turner?"
first half was good, second half not so much
No not great. Shot like crap in the second half (and poor shot selection) and too many turnovers but he did hit the most important shot.
10 for 26. If he can fight through that and hit the last shot in a win, that's something.
JRich had 5 steals and no TOs.
Sixers only hit 2 3s, both by ET.
I don't know how but Sixers won this one. Great night. No better feeling than beating Boston.
Evan Turner
for tonight
= Villian
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Without Turner tonight, the sixers would have lost by 20. He has really given this team a boost this year, and certainly tonight. It's all about confidence with him. I know a bad game is probably right around the corner with ET, but he is shown major improvement this year. Small sample size or not.
Weird quote from Collins in the AP recap:
"I feel a real connection with Evan and it feels great," Collins said. "I don't know that Evan has trusted a lot of people in his life, but I hope he trusts me."
One example of how Collins has changed over the past twelve months is that final play of regulation. He would've lost his shit over that turnover, but he remained calm. Still can't believe they won. They would've lost that game 20 out of 20 times prior to the playoffs last year.
Remember the conspiracy theorists that said Collins had it out for him the past couple years?
Rajon Rondo. wow he's good
Is Evan Turner attempting to stake his mark to the modern day version of the "Boston Strangler"?
What a good exhilarating game to watch. Hope tonight turns out the same. Still can't believe they pulled it out like they did. When Evan lost Rondo I just knew he was gonna hit that baseline shot but luckily for me and Evan, he slipped. heh
I still can't believe how much and how bad Evan was ball watching after Rondo passed that last one in to KG.
The fine line and difference in verbal bombardment of Turner vs total relief and elation. He should feel rather lucky this morning when rolling out of bed. Thank goodness for that 50 year logo on the court.
Not to excuse Evan, but he was probably as surprised as I was that KG didn't take that shot.
So wait a minute, only 4 games against each team in your own division in a season (the lowest percentage of any of the major sports leagues by the way - one of the scheduling issues I think the NBA needs to fix) and the genuises at the NBA scheduling office put the sixers on a Friday Saturday back to back with Boston less than before 1/4 of the season is over.
Man that's stupid.
Division games should not be on back to backs let alone the same two teams
Actually, I would scrap the divisions altogether. They have very little history or meaning to anybody. Granted there are certain rivalries that happen to be intra-division, but most good rivalries are inter-division (Spurs and any of their rivals over the past decade, Lakers and any of theirs, Knicks/Heat, Celtics/Heat, and so on). Aside from our one epic series against Toronto, I don't think anyone who follows the Sixers feels any more of a connection to the Raptors than to the Wizards, or would like to see more games against them. I'm sure Heat fans aren't really dying to play more Bobcats and Wizards games either (though it would artificially inflate their record - which is another problem with more divisional play, teams being helped or hurt by the random luck that they happen to be in a strong or weak division). I like the current schedule; I'm glad that we get to see teams like the Warriors, Grizzlies, Rockets, Thunder, and so on twice. It gives us more exposure to all the interesting talent and styles of play that are out there in the league.
They have lots of meaning to a lot of people - the sixers boston rivalry may mean nothing to you but it means a lot to a lot of people - your grand generalizations, as all grand generalizations tend to be, is way off base and lacks nuance...baseball is the sport where divisions mean the least as they are a 'relatively' new invention.
The issue is one of 'division games', as I said, the NBA has the least percentage of division games of any league, the divisions mean nothing to those who don't understand history because the impact of divisional games is least significant in the NBA as a grand part of the season
This is what frustrates me about purely analytical evaluation of a basketball game. Evan won them the game last night, yes, he shot inefficiently, but I don't think he took many bad shots. They just didn't drop. On a contender do I want him taking 20+ shots a night? Of course not, but last night, these were shots that had to be taken.
You add the 10 boards and 5 assists to go along with the GW, hard to see how you can call it a "bad game" or that he didn't play well.
I think my point is, there needs to be a balance here. Of course 26 pts on 26 shots isn't cutting it on a nightly basis, but last night, they had to grind it out in the 4th Q and OT. Sometimes it's about having guys that are willing to keep attacking to try and keep the game alive.
I think you'd have a much harder time convincing people Turner had a good game if the turnover he committed at the end of regulation had resulted in a game-winner for Boston.
Ultimately, he entire team was shit in terms of efficiency last night, so I don't have a problem with Turner taking 26 shots (and no, they weren't all good shots). The problem is when the rest of the team is performing to their normal levels and he's still taking 20 shots with no efficiency.
Not for nothing, but Thad was more important in OT than Turner was. Turner was 1/5 in OT, Thad was 2/2 with 2 offensive boards.
something tells me you'd excuse inefficiency is Iggy hit an OT game winner against boston
something tells me you'd be calling it a lucky shot if Iguodala hit it.
haha, you know that's not true. I like Dre, and commend him for his time in Philly. I was always somewhere in the middle between the advanced stat idolatry of Dre and the people that thought he sucked. I was more on the stat guy side of the things, but now that he's gone I don't think they miss him that much. I'm kinda surprised by how marginally I think that they miss him actually. Expected the bottom to fall out with his departure and not having Bynum. They miss Lou more IMO.
also worth pointing out that the Sixers hung with a fully manned Boston team the entire game, even if they did get lucky at the end, with a short rotation and no Swaggy, Kwame or 33
Is anyone as concerned as I am with Jrue's on-ball defense lately? When they played the T-wolves, Ridnour was able to blow by him at will. Even Paul Pierce was able to get by him with relative ease last night. I'm not too worried about what Westbrook was doing to him because he blows by everyone save Evan Turner (ET/Westbrook that night reminded me of Chris Therien on Jagr back in the day). I don't know if he's being lazy, or if he is just trying to conserve energy because the team relies on him as the main offensive option. But he should be stronger either way IMO. The season is young and he's what, 22?
Only so much you can do when you have to play the minutes he's playing and carry the team offensively. He might just get more and more tired as the season progresses unless other folk start stepping up more often and consistently
Don't really remember Pierce blowing by Jrue last night. When Jrue was on Pierce, he was mostly posting up around the foul line. Remember him blowing by Turner a couple times, though.
And there's a difference between a guy getting past you in isolation and a guy getting to the rim on a pick-and-roll, which is what Ridnour was doing.


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Please be merciful, I have never posted a mock draft, and I do not really follow college closely to ascertain talent/potential. Here goes.....letn the flaming begin!!
1) Andre Branch DE - Honestly it would not surprise me......we don't know Osi's future, and I think it's time for Tolly to move on
2) George IIoka FS - second best safety in the draft.....nuff said. Grant will most likely retire, we don't know how or if Jones will pan out
3) Brandon Mosley OT - don't know a thing about him, but it looked like he would be around for this pick, and I know we need O line
4) Michael Egnew TE - Ballard and Beckum on PUP, plus I don't think we keep Beckum, he hasn't done much
5) Jeff Fuller WR - I really feel we will lose Mario. Also Devin will be FA, and I think we will part ways with Hixon due to his injuries......
6) Brandon Bolden RB - We need RB....seriously. Jacobs could be gone.....and AB is always banged up
7) Marcel Jones OT - Some people on here have clamored for 2 O line picks, so I am catering to them!
I have no idea where the comp picks would fall so.......