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ANNAPOLIS – Under Maryland's current anti-bullying law, it is illegal to send threatening, intimidating emails to minors.
However, "there's no limitation on Facebook or Twitter because of its public nature," Delegate Jon S. Cardin, D-Baltimore County, said at a press conference Wednesday.
Cardin is putting forth a bill that would make publicly posted cyberbullying a crime in Maryland, thus closing the loophole that exempts harmful material transmitted via social media websites.
"We want to make sure that our minors are protected," Cardin said, adding that he believes cyberbullying is the next frontier in terms of protecting minors.
The bill would prohibit a person from using electronic communication to publicize certain facts concerning the private life of a minor, disseminate harmful information about a minor, and direct a threat to or make a comment about a minor that would reasonably place the minor in fear of bodily harm or death.
House Bill 396 has received bipartisan support from co-sponsor Delegate Kathy Afzali, R-Frederick, who said hate speech is not covered by the First Amendment, and thus should be addressed by legislators.
"If someone says, 'you should die,' or 'I'm going to kill you,' I think we need to take those words seriously," Afzali said.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention define electronic aggression as any type of harassment or bullying that occurs through email, a chat room, instant messaging, a website, or text messaging. The intentions of the comments are generally to tease, be rude, spread rumors, or instill fear in someone.
In a high-profile case of cyberbullying in Maryland last year, 15-year-old Grace McComas of Woodbine, committed suicide after suffering months of online harassment. She was the victim of harmful tweets, some of which threatened her life.
Her mother, Christine McComas, read aloud some of the tweets that were directed at her daughter.
"I hope you somehow see this and cry yourself to sleep then kill yourself..might as well your just a worthless piece of (expletive)," read one of the tweets.
"I hatehatehatehatehatehatehate you. Next time my name rolls off your tongue, choke on it.. and DIE," another tweet read.
McComas said the family made several public agencies aware of the abuse, but there was either a misunderstanding or they could not intervene.
"There is no litigation. The person is 18 and in college," McComas said, about her daughter's tormenter.
Cyberbullying is not a new phenomenon, however, the growth of social media sites has given perpetrators more public platforms to inflict harm on their victims.
Today's most popular social media site, Facebook, hosted a record 1.06 billion monthly active users last month. Twitter has roughly 500 million total users registered.
A Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project report from 2011 found that 15 percent of social media-using teens have experienced someone being mean or cruel to them personally on a social network site, while 88 percent have witnessed someone being mean or cruel on a social network site.
The dissemination of content online is what researchers at Johns Hopkins University's School of Public Health believe makes cyberbullying more harmful than in-person bullying.
"It often takes a tangible form in terms of photos or postings, and it can be forwarded to more people," said Catherine Bradshaw, deputy director for education at the Johns Hopkins Center for the Prevention of Youth Violence.
"A rumor at school does not spread as quickly," Bradshaw said.
The state's passage of the Safe Schools Reporting Act of 2005 requires all school districts to provide complaint forms for victims in order to report bullying incidents. But only 7.7 percent of reported incidents in 2011 involved electronic communication — the lowest number for any type of bullying.
McComas said at an anti-bullying forum at Howard High School last year that while the family was told to fill out a report, her daughter was intimidated and feared retaliation.
The state's last anti-bullying law, signed by Gov. Martin O'Malley in 2008, made Maryland the 11th state to pass legislation that would protect students from bullying and harassment based on sexual orientation, and the seventh to protect students on the basis of gender identity.
Cardin, a candidate for Attorney General, believes this new legislation would create a safer environment for Maryland youth and prevent similar cases, like the McComas', from happening again.
"This bill is the first step in making sure no child ever again chooses suicide as an escape from bullying," Cardin said.
A hearing for the bill is scheduled for March 7.


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Interesting article...
Why so SERIOUS
It's good to see people finally seeing what Luck can do. I've been saying for months now how special of a guy we have, and I know some of my comments months ago seemed outlandish, but I know they were the truth then and I still believe it. He's the best QB I've ever seen come out of college, ever, and that's including Peyton Manning. He has the talent, skillset, mindset and ability to be the greatest ever. His game is so absolutely perfectly balanced and complete, it's awesome. I don't gush about guys like this often, if ever -- most of you know that. I've been posting here for 8 years and for 5-6 years before that on RATS, I've never posted thoughts like this about a player ever. For any team.
He has all the makings to be damn near the most perfect football player I've ever seen, and he's still green. That's what you have to do, look at what makes him tick and put it all together and try to project into the future what this guy will be like when he actually "blossoms" and becomes comfortable. As good as he's looked, he's still very much green, young, and inexperienced.
I didn't make those claims months ago on blind homerism. I watched him extensively and compared him to everything I've known about this game. To me, there is absolutely no comparison between him and RG3 or any other QBs in this league. It's in all the little things he does, the fundamentals, his footwork, his arm motion, his demeanor and humbleness, his mental traits and habits, his clutchness, his balance, strength, and intelligence. I've never seen a guy this young exhibit such a complete palette of traits like this. It's just a matter of time before he's the best damn quarterback in the entire league. His only mistakes right now are due to inexperience. Once he gets the experience.... it's just going to be friggin over for the entire league. I'm not saying that because I'm a Colts fan and he's a Colt. I'd say it if he was the Jags quarterback. I'd say it because I know it's the truth. I know it sounds outlandish still... it sounds outlandish to my ears to even say it, but I don't know any other way to express it, it is what it is, lol. I thought we as Colts fans had experienced the pinnacle of quarterbacking play during Manning's tenure.... but here we are.
It's ironic that this last name is Luck, because there is no luck involved. He's good. You make your own luck. It's embodied by the saying he goes by himself: "Competence over confidence." He's competent. When you're competent, you make plays and you increase your chances of success. The goofballs will call it luck.
And of course I'm speaking of the future, not right now, I know Luck is still a ways off from seeing his pinnacle. But it's not far off. 2-3 years. The team likely still won't have caught up to him, but he'll be carrying them. All we can do is sit back and watch and enjoy it.
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There are two types of quarterbacks in the league: Those whom over time, the league figures out ... and those who figure out the league.
Shaking off Clay Matthews to make a ridiculous completion to Reggie Wayne, down 5 points with a minute left in game #4 of his career.... I mean, come on. That **** shouldn't happen. You guys know this. But it did.
The Colts are better than anyone thought they'd be, and it all starts with #12. There's no logical reason why a team with $40mill in dead money, completely new management and coaching staff, and a plethora of rookies and low-experienced practice-squad players should be in the middle of the pack offensively/defensively and record-wise --- all historical precedence says we should be a train-wreck and competing for the 1st pick again this year, but we're not. The confidence they have in this kid is what lifts the entire team up.
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There are two types of quarterbacks in the league: Those whom over time, the league figures out ... and those who figure out the league.
Never half-a** two things. Whole-a** one thing.
IF Luck becomes as good as we all hope, I'll definitely say that I heard it here first lol . Thought I don't necessarily agree with everything you--specifically in regards to NOBODY in the league being able to be compared to him or his talent/mechanics-- I definitely think that Luck is slowly becoming the real deal.
Yeah, he played in the same division as Peyton Manning for the majority of his starting career.
I don't think he's so good as I think Kevin Kolb is just really bad. I'd put Schaub in that Rivers/Cutler/Romo zone--not quite elite, not sure you can rest the load of a team on their shoulders and win a Super Bowl, but definitely playoff caliber QBs.
Comebacks thrill us. Comebacks make our hearts race. Comebacks cause us to stand up and cheer. For all that, though, comebacks do not necessarily provide an accurate measure of NFL quarterback quality. Just ask Tim Tebow, who led five comebacks in 2011, only to find himself a backup on one of the league's worst offenses in 2012. After all, to come back at the end of a game, you must first play badly enough to fall behind. On the other side of the coin, you have a guy like Matt Schaub. The Houston Texans quarterback has put together an 11-3 record as a starter the past two seasons, but has no comebacks in that time because he has provided his team with so many early leads.....
Don't ask Marvin Harrison what he did during the bye week. "Batman never told where the Bat Cave is," he explained.
NOT COMPARING THEM! Schaub is still good. Peyton a 1000x better than Schayb, but Peyton still had help by having Marvin and Edge as does Schaub, but Peyton is way way way way better. Get my point now?
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You are right about the historical record which is part of why my view of them has been so bleak. You forgot to mention that besides making that pass, Reggie made a great catch to reel it in. It is still a long season and there will be many ups and downs. We have played three of our first four games at home and that helped too. Luck is taking a beating that will be just about impossible for him to stand up to for the whole season. So, I am cautiously optimistic but this kind of team could regress or it could continue to get better. I, like all of you, hope for the latter, but I am watching everything closely. I doubt Reggie will ever have another game close to that one, very few players ever have. It wasn't a team record day (I saw that game with Raymond Berry) but Marvin never had a 200 yard receiving day... ...
Luck so far...
I like what I'm seeing. He is more then advertised at this point. For a rookie, he is truely amazing. I hope he stays healthy.
Garbage players get 1st round picks, (WTF)! All of the NBA must hate the Pacers! LOL
For a rookie he's amazing? He's amazing period!
Is Luck nursing injuries that we don't know about? how is it impossible for him to last the whole season at the current rate?
Nothing like misguided posts
Every QB takes hits but from what I've seen (and granted i haven't been able to watch every game) Luck does a good job not taking the big hit when he decides to run. Similar to Marvin Harrison who was a master and not letting opponents get a big hit on him.
Garbage players get 1st round picks, (WTF)! All of the NBA must hate the Pacers! LOL
I agree with this... he's so far adapted to the pro game much faster than Peyton did. Remember, 18 had that one great San Francisco game that was stolen by the refs, then late in the season you literally saw him adjust to the game (especially during the BAL game that year) and you could start to see the brilliance. If Luck has that same effect happen to him.... the sky is the limit on how good he can be.
"Nobody wants to play against Tyler Hansbrough NO BODY!" ~ Frank Vogel
"And David put his hand in the bag and took out a stone and slung it. And it struck the Philistine on the head and he fell to the ground. Amen. "
Comebacks thrill us. Comebacks make our hearts race. Comebacks cause us to stand up and cheer. For all that, though, comebacks do not necessarily provide an accurate measure of NFL quarterback quality. Just ask Tim Tebow, who led five comebacks in 2011, only to find himself a backup on one of the league's worst offenses in 2012. After all, to come back at the end of a game, you must first play badly enough to fall behind. On the other side of the coin, you have a guy like Matt Schaub. The Houston Texans quarterback has put together an 11-3 record as a starter the past two seasons, but has no comebacks in that time because he has provided his team with so many early leads.
With that in mind, what can we make of Andrew Luck and his big comeback that led the Indianapolis Colts to a 30-27 win over the Green Bay Packers on Sunday? On one hand, we must credit him for 31 completions, 362 yards, 16 first downs and three touchdowns (two passing, one rushing). On the other hand, we can't ignore his 24 incompletions, his four sacks taken, his interception or his fumble.
The fact is, Luck made a lot of good plays Sunday, but also many bad plays. He dropped back 30 times in the first half and produced only 157 net yards and five first downs. He was one of the biggest reasons the Colts fell behind in the first place. And though Luck had 11 first downs after halftime, including all three touchdowns, we can't forget that even during the comeback he had his struggles. He threw his interception while driving for a potential go-ahead score in the fourth quarter, and he also threw two incompletions as part of a three-and-out drive deep in Indianapolis territory that provided the Packers with excellent field position to set up a go-ahead score of their own.
Honestly, the Indianapolis defense deserves as much credit for the comeback as Luck does. The Colts D let the Packers take the lead on a touchdown drive that started in Indianapolis territory, but Green Bay's seven other second-half drives resulted in four punts, two missed field goals and an interception.
Despite his big comeback, Luck barely makes Football Outsiders' top 10 quarterbacks this week, and actually falls slightly short of his Green Bay counterpart, Aaron Rodgers. Remember too that these numbers account for the quality of defense faced. If we ignore that, Rodgers comes out way ahead of Luck.
* Second-year starterHTML Code:First- or second-year starting rookie QBs by DVOA Quarterback Year Team DVOA Ben Roethlisberger 2004 PIT 34.5% Tom Brady* 2001 NE 29.3% Cam Newton 2011 CAR 16.7% Daunte Culpepper* 2000 MIN 13.0% Kerry Collins 1995 CAR -1.1% Matt Leinart 2006 ARI -1.7% Brett Favre** 1992 GB -2.0% Drew Brees* 2002 SD -8.7% Matt Ryan 2008 ATL -9.8% Carson Palmer* 2004 CIN -12.1% -- -- -- -- Robert Griffin 2012 WAS 4.2% Andrew Luck 2012 IND 0.9% Ryan Tannehill 2012 MIA -11.5% Russell Wilson 2012 SEA -18.5% Brandon Weeden 2012 CLE -26.9%
** Second-year starter. Includes one game in which Favre threw 39 passes off the bench.
Still, while it wasn't a great game for Luck, it was a good one, and that's getting to be routine for the rookie. His first game against Chicago was slightly below replacement level, but he has been well above that line every week since. He passed fellow rookie Robert Griffin III in passing DYAR (Defense-adjusted Yards Above Replacement, explained here) this week and ranks 14th out of 33 qualifying quarterbacks. One month into his career, he is playing like an average starting passer, and has been much better than experienced veterans like Philip Rivers, Jay Cutler and Tony Romo.
Is this performance unusual? Yes, but it's not unprecedented. The table on the right shows a semi-complete list of the top quarterbacks as measured by DVOA (Defense-adjusted Value Over Average) in the first four starts of their career before this season. This includes passing only, not rushing. It only includes players who were starting in their first or second season, so there's no Rodgers, Kurt Warner or Rivers. It also omits passers whose first four starts were not consecutive, which eliminates Michael Vick, Cade McNown and Steve McNair. Below them is a list of the five rookie quarterbacks who are starting this season, along with their DVOA figures:
(Note: Griffin ranks ahead of Luck in DVOA but not DYAR because DVOA is a rate stat, like completion percentage, while DYAR is a counting stat, like yards, and Luck has dropped back 31 more times than Griffin this season.)
Four games is an awfully small sample size for projecting a player's career, but those quarterbacks who have made the strongest first impressions have usually held up over the long haul. Matt Leinart flamed out quickly, and Cam Newton is regressing in his second season, but the other names on this list proved to be quality starters for the better part of a decade or more. That's good news for Griffin, Luck and even Ryan Tannehill. It's bad news for Russell Wilson and Brandon Weeden. Then again, Peyton Manning's DVOA after four starts was minus-20.0 percent, and he turned out OK in the long run.
DYAR is Football Outsiders' proprietary metric that measures performance on every play against expected performance for that situation. For a deeper explanation and a full breakdown of the numbers, visit Football Outsiders.
Obviously, it's far too early to project what Luck is going to do over the next 10 years. What we can say now is that he's definitely ahead of the curve for quarterbacks at this stage of his career, and that the Luck-versus-Griffin race for rookie of the year is going to rage for 16 games.HTML Code:QB | RB | WR/TE THE GOOD Player Team DYAR Eli Manning NYG 188 Alex Smith SF 168 Peyton Manning DEN 126 Drew Brees NO 89 Tom Brady NE 89 Ben Roethlisberger PIT 84 Jay Cutler CHI 63 Ryan Tannehill MIA 53 Aaron Rodgers GB 52 Andrew Luck IND 51 THE BAD Player Team DYAR Blaine Gabbert JAC -146 Cam Newton CAR -85 Joe Flacco BAL -75 Matt Cassel KC -63 Kirk Cousins WAS -57
Three surprising players
QB: Alex Smith, San Francisco 49ers
Smith completed 18 of 24 passes for 303 yards and three touchdowns against Buffalo, with no sacks or interceptions. It was the third 300-yard game of his career and the third time he has thrown for three scores without a turnover. Plus, he set career highs with 12.6 yards per pass and a near-perfect QBR of 99.2. At various times against Buffalo, Smith completed four passes in a row for 85 yards, four passes in a row for 95 yards, three passes in a row for 29 yards, and five passes in a row for 80 yards.
RB: Stevan Ridley, New England Patriots
Ridley's day against Denver was mildly surprising (28 carries for 151 yards), but not as surprising as the polar shift in football philosophy that has overcome the New England offense. The Patriots lead the league with 185 rushes. They were 17th in that category in 2011, though that was something of a fluke. Before that, they had ranked in the top 10 for five years in a row. Ridley was a model of consistency Sunday, with only one run going for fewer than 2 yards, and 12 runs of 5 yards or more.
WR/TE: Reggie Wayne, Colts
When Wayne re-signed with Indianapolis this offseason, it seemed an odd match for both player and team. The Colts figured to get more benefit by finding a younger receiver to be the Marvin Harrison or, well, Wayne to Luck's Manning, while Wayne's best shot at landing another Super Bowl ring in the twilight of his career seemed to be elsewhere. Wayne decided to stick around, though, and it's hard to imagine where Indianapolis would be without him. He leads the club with 36 catches and 506 yards; no other player on the team has even half that total in either category. Wayne caught 13 passes in 20 targets for 212 yards against Green Bay, a personal best for yardage. Like his quarterback, Wayne got off to something of a slow start, but finished strong. Each of the last five passes thrown to him was caught for a first down -- one for a touchdown -- for a total of 64 yards.
Why so SERIOUS
I think Rogers dropped several notches on my list of top ten QBs after Sunday. I saw something in his face and eyes at the start of the second half. I think it was over confidence and taking a win for granted. Farve for all of his failings would never have done that and Rogers played that way when he came out too. I think our guys played great. I think they were also very lucky. It took:
Two missed FG from a very good kicker
A missed attempt at a two point play
A bad call of a helmet to helmet hit against our QB that was only a very good hit
It took the best day of Reggie Wayne's career
A break down and loss of a play before the final kick
I am willing to give credit to the Colts for all of these things but I also think Green Bay deserves a lot of blame for this loss.... ...
Colts also...
Missed FG from a very good kicker
A missed attempt at a two point play
A bad no-call of Woodson tackling Wayne in the endzone
A breakdown of the defense losing Cobb for the big reception on their final drive.
Similar to just about any other game, each team has breakdowns, missed opportunities, bad calls, and bad plays. Green Bay had injuries? Well the Colts had injuries.
Also, in 2010, Reggie had games of 15 rec for 196 yds and 14 rec for 200 yds and 1 TD and the Colts lost both of those games.
But thanks for being willing to give credit to the Colts...lol
Best comment I heard from a Packer fan walking out of the stadium on Sunday, someone goes, REGGIE REGGIE REGGIE. Packer fan turns around and says, "If you didn't have Reggie Wayne today you wouldn't have won the game." No **** sherlock.
So the troll provides the whopping and unheard of conclusion that beating a team involves that team making some mistakes. No **** Sherlock.
FACT: OlButt predicted the Colts to start 0-8 and not be remotely competitive this year. The Colts already have as many wins as last season and have beaten two good teams.
FACT: OlButt coronated RGIII as by far the better QB. After five weeks, the Redskins are 2-3 and WINLESS at home with two wins over crappy 1-4 teams. RGIII already got the first of what will be many concussions with his reckless style of play. Meanwhile, Luck has been at his best in the clutch and is #4 in the league in QBR, ahead of Tom Brady.
Complete crap. Luck is getting hit more often and harder than RGIII. RGIII still has a QB rating over 100. Luck is in the 70s. RGIII is well on the way to being rookie of the Year. Luck, not so much. What QBR are you looking at? The regular rating has RGIII way ahead of Luck. The Colts have played three of their four games at home. Lets see how they do on the road against a struggling NY Jets team...... RGIII will play well in the toughest division in football. Luck may be in the softest division and he will have enough problems trying to win there...... ...
Olblu you know they record hits on a qb that don't result in sacks right? Rg3 has been hit more often than luck so let's not dramatize a flat out lie.
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Can Diener be Beno Udrih?
I think O'Brien says it very well here, on what Diener brings to the Pacers.
"We like his tempo and spacing, and he gets guys moving and he distributes the basketball," O'Brien said about Diener
I disagree on this, I just haven't seen it from him. He lacks one arm strength to make a lot of passes where 2 hand passes are too slow or awkward (crossing your body for example). He also doesn't have the handles to position the ball for trickier passes. You aren't going to see the behind the back type of moves, or even a killer cross-over to pull your defender out of your passing lane.he is really a good passer - I mean really good,
He is the epitome of simplistic fundamentals paired with hustle that finds it's way into a modest bench role and the hearts of millions of fans.
I think what JOB likes is the pace Diener plays at. He tries to move with the ball at a high rate and is pretty good about staying aware of his off-the-ball movement.
I think Ike is about as flawed as Harrison. Yes he has some things that when you see them you think "stud post guy", but like Hulk he also has massive gaps in his game that are easily (and often) exploited by other teams.
He can't pass, doesn't have the height to see over traps/doubles, doesn't have height to deny a lot of post scoring, and isn't fast like some smaller post men.
He gets great position, he has a decent mid-game and he has a fair set of post scoring moves. It's not enough to be a 25 mpg guy IMO, not for most teams at least.
I love Danny and Shawne but it really feels like they will have to give them up in order to fix other problems.
Last edited by Naptown_Seth; 01-11-2008 at 03:09 PM.
I agree, and before people slam the stat keep in mind what it means and how that matches what you saw him doing.
While he was on the floor the Pacers were losing leads or falling behind. No matter what he was doing in that time, how was that resulting in "carrying the team" if they were losing with him out there?
I don't care if he went 12-12 with 15 rebounds in 2 freaking minutes, if you somehow lost that 2 minute stretch by 10 then he wasn't saving the day.
Just do me this one favor with the +/- stat, ask yourself how it is possible for the team to fall behind/lose a period of game by so much when that player is kicking butt? That's what the +/- shows, it shows that while SOME stats on a guy look good there might be other aspects that are hidden from normal stats but are affecting the game just as much.
Guy goes 1-2 but the other team goes 2-2 the other way and lead by 2. Why did that happen? It wasn't his 50% shooting. By that stat he's great.
Hey, maybe it's the other 4 guys, or some guy he's not guarding on the other team that's going off, or even a guy he is guarding that's just having one of those nights. Regardless none of that sums up to "carrying the team". At best you get something more like "it would have been even worse without him". That does happen, just like some guys get a +/- bump thanks to guys they are playing with.
Last edited by Naptown_Seth; 01-11-2008 at 03:20 PM.
Here's a plan: Hire a shooting coach, or get JJ Redick, because he's apparently the best shooter in NBA history, and have him focus on Jamaal Tinsley, Troy Murphy and Marquis Daniels - you know, the guys who can't make jump shots.
And, while we're at it, a better trainer.
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That would be my solution once Ike is 100%. Ike will be a contributor on this team.
I also think the Pacers should look at having Dunleavy initiate the offense when Tinsley isn't on the floor. Everything seems to run smoothly when he's in control.
As UB suggested in another thread....it seems that we need to have playmakers that get the open shots for the other players. Whose the best players that can do that?
Ash from Army of Darkness: Good...Bad...I'm the guy with the gun.
As you said Mike is better playing off the ball. I think that Marquis can create for himself but not others.
UB's suggestions may be good ones, but they're all short-term. The problem with short term solutions is that they tend to neglect the long term aspects.
The long term aspects of this team are not that bad actually. The bloated contracts that will expire 2-3 years from now actually force mid-high draft choices for the next 2-3 years. Trading JO for picks, and maybe a decent piece can be a positive as well.
IMO there's only 1 real NBA starter on the Pacers and that's Danny Granger. He's the only guy I'd give a contract extension. All the others have ample replacement.
Long term, this team needs an all-star caliber guard (point, combo, shooting, whatever). Then it will need a dominant big man. Sorry JO, that's maybe what you were, but surely not any more.
An all-star guard, with a dominant big, surrounded by good shooters and some physical bangers, with veteran leadership off the bench. That's the recipe, and the only semi-piece in place is Danny Granger as the complement shooter role.
I would like to say that Diener showed better passing and better moves in the last 2 games than I credited him for here. He is still a backup caliber player that can be good for 10-20 minutes depending on the flow, but then I wasn't really denying that anyway.
Then after yet another year of probable losing with a team trying to find it's way and clear space you finally lose the Dun, Troy and Tins deals. Now you can actually do something with that money and maybe get into the FA market. Of course don't forget that Shawne might need resigned and then the year after this a guy perhaps like Eric Gordon, if the Pacers get lucky/unlucky (however you view all that losing). And you might still want Dun at that point.
5 years of losing just to get good picks, some of which might be Bender, and none of which are promised to gel. I give you Kidd, Mashburn and Jim Jackson as example "A".
I mean this seriously, what team in the NBA doesn't have an outlook just as positive as that? Even the Knicks will lose their contracts by then.
I don't know if I've ever agreed with you more than what you are saying right here and right now.
BTW, great great great examples of Kidd, Mashburn and Jackson. Perfect.
I'm with you on this, there is no one sure fire way to be a contender. If there was then everybody would do it.
The closest thing to a sure fire method is make moves based on making the chemistry (on two fronts: Basketball and Personnel) good or keeping it there while molding the team around talented building blocks.
I think we're starting to get 1/3 of it right, but 2/3 are still ahead. We're getting the Personnel chemistry back, but now we need talented building blocks and we need a team that works better as a team. Actually fixing the talent might fix both at the same time if it's the right guy or guys.
Now, how do you do it? Well when you're low in talent you have to add some through the draft first, then you start to trade second IMO.
At this point we have two options.
1. We can continue on as we are and go into rebuilding mode.
2. We can go after a true impact go-to player and do what it takes to get that player.
I'm hoping Bird is looking at option 2. Because having a bunch of role players hasn't won us any championships in our entire history. There's no reason to think it's going to happen now. Has this franchise lost sight of it's goal?
The goal isn't to cruise along and pick up garbage contracts, deal with off court incidents, and miss the post season. The goal isn't to come up with team slogans [because this aint High School].
Championships is what it's about. Not getting to the playoffs. Not just being competitive. Not just doing what the fans want. Championship is the goal. I think over the last couple of years this team has really been selling itself short. Being too conservative with the moves it makes. Larry Bird has Jermaine O'Neal declining but still tradable, has an experienced front office veteran in Donnie Walsh to go to for advice, yet in the off-season all he could come up with is Travis Diener and Kareem Rush?
I want to see some bold moves, but bold moves that make sense. Let's go ahead and do what we have to do with Tinsley, and maybe even Jermaine, and lets get players here that are going to get us to our goal.
If I'm Larry Bird, nobody is untouchable. Everybody has a price, and I'd be willing to pay a price to get a player that's going to fit better than what we've got now. If I'm Larry, I'm looking at what needs to be done right this second. We need a true aggressive leader type of player in here that can get his own shot, can make his own shot, can defend some, can get to the line, and can stay out of trouble. We have enough guys that somebody would want in exchange for this type of player, so Larry needs get on it.
So in other words, you want an all-star or superstar. That's the type of thing every team in the league is looking to add, often times even ones that already have a player like that.
That's like saying you want to trade all your bad contracts for cap relief and draft picks. Again, what team ISN'T looking for that?
Hmm where would we find such a player....(see my crudely strung together avatar)
Anyway, yes I'm aware that most teams are looking for what we're looking for. But unlike most teams, we continuously fail at landing those players. We're always mentioned in rumors, but most of the time a rumor is all that is. I'm tired of seeing us be conservative and picky. We don't want this guy because he stole a computer when he was 18. We don't want that guy because he was injured once. We don't want that guy because he threw a chair once. We don't want that guy because he yelled at his coach once...
A lot of us talk about what the hell we don't want as if we have a team full of saints. As if we have a team full of guys that sleep with the bible and knit during the nights instead of hitting the clubs. Reality is that every one of our players go out. Every one of our player put themselves in positions that could be considered questionable. Hell, my buddy 2 nights ago called me from the Triangle Lounge in San Francisco telling me he saw Troy Murphy leaving there at 2:15am dressed like some punk guy.
I just want us to take a damn chance. I want some players with some edge to them. I want the toughness back. I want players here with some testicular fortitude. I'm tired of having a bunch of guys that are looking for somebody else to make the next move. It would be different if we were like the Warriors (my 2nd favorite team and I'm a former season ticket holder of theirs during their worst years), where everybody was agressive. We have a coach that wants everybody to be aggressive, but that isn't the strength of most of our guys. Then we have the aggressive ones that shouldn't be so aggressive [cough cough Tinsley].
So if what I'm asking for is basically saying that we need an All-Star or Superstar, then hell yes that's what we need because what we have aint workin. We have enough pieces to get one, we need to make it happen.
I hope so, but when's the last time we've been lucky like that?
Again, I hated the GS trade because it moved Jackson for the wrong reason, and in the case of both Al and Jack it didn't address the on-court chemistry issues one bit, let alone the financial situation. And even the off-court stuff, despite all the talk, isn't a sure-fire thing as I just mentioned. They addressed the FAN-player chemistry, the one thing that really doesn't matter.
It's a trick, you think "move the guy they don't like and they'll return", but then the fans don't make good on that. So why make a deal to appease them? The answer is you don't.
If they wanted to deal Jack, if they needed to deal Al, then they needed to consider the current or future coach, as well as the current and future chances of winning. There is no way TPTB could really think the GS deal would take them from 42 wins to 52 wins or something, so why take on the extra cash to stay about the same?
Back to the chemistry thing, it's not just nice guys get along. There are passive and aggressive types that feed each other, guys a player can complain to, guys that can get a teammate to man up, all sorts of stuff. It could be that Dun starts taking offense to "street ball" Tins getting on him for his choices since Dun "knows the game" as a coach's kid. It could be that JO intimidates Danny, or that Danny and Shawne resent each other for filling the same role.
Who the F knows. All I know is that so far I'm not sold that the current version of TPTB know any better than we do. That worries me.
My thing with Rick was this: he was a PROVEN winner. He'd done it with so many different flavors of rosters that you know it's legit. Stackhouse, sure. Rip and Billups, okay. Kenny Anderson, yes. Tins, yes. Ron and JO and Al, yes. Without Reggie, yes. Post brawl without Ron or Jack, yes.
So when things go south maybe you question other aspects, maybe you wonder why this coach has suddenly, shockingly lost touch rather than dumping him and taking this odd direction of non-change.
Look, I said they HAD to stand pat, not that I wanted them too. They have painted themselves in a corner. I wouldn't dump another coach to solve the problem, I'd start putting down paint remover instead and realize you aren't getting out of this quickly. You'll have to free up some salary to make the losing more tolerable and you'll have to pick a player or two to build around.
I like JO quite a bit, but he's not that. I'm not even saying he has to go, maybe there just isn't anything that improves the situation with him moving. But you don't acquire players to compliment him at this point. Same with Tins. You either buy into Dun, Danny and/or Shawne or you buy into this year's draft pick.
Then both TPTB and JOB develop a plan that gives this the best odds of working, rather than trying to force something to happen (ahem, running, being defense first, being a post-up team, going for rebounds, anything). Let the talent determine the team's identity because you just don't get unlimited choices. Not every team gets to have Nash.
And BTW, being so deep into the season it's time to perhaps own up to their weak playoff chances and start adjusting for what they think they can do in this draft now.
It's true that the best laid plans go afoul, but the worst laid plans go EVEN MORE afoul. Go ahead and plan on getting that SG, PG, heck Love for PF, I don't care. Then deal guys you have now to get bench pieces that will be primed to compliment that next year or open up cap or trade options for next year to do that.
It doesn't have to be picks or expiring even. Just don't trade for 2 SGs if you really think you might see one you like near your draft position. Right now it doesn't feel like any plan near this level of vision is in place. It feels like they are busy working on bailing out this boat instead.
1st part I agree with...second part I doubt.........Triangle Lounge
*They should stand pat.
*Quit trading for the sake of trading.
*Retain all draft picks for the near future.
*Draft upperclassmen with experience and an inkling of character.
*Do not hand out any more extensions until absolutely sure about the player.
*Allow the fans to get acclimated to the freakin' roster for a change.
*Return to a grassroots PR approach and get as many former Pacers as possible on board. Get Slick Leonard, Mel Daniels, Quinn Buckner & Darnell Hillman out and about. Have current players host things, do autograph sessions etc more often and actually let people know they're happening.
*Televise the games.
Well if Tinsley keeps acting up and JOs knee does its thing...and the uncanny ability of us to lose talent to injury kicks up again this year I would say to you "whats luck got to do, got to do with it?" Indeed, "whats luck, with tanking set in motion?"
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In April 2006, with the approval ratings of President George W Bush plummeting, his senior political advisor, Karl Rove, began discussing a plan to turn things around.
His strategy: Attack progressive organizations that were registering low-income people to vote and helping them fight corporate power—and claim it was about voter fraud.
The main White House target, newly released records show, was the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN). By the end of 2006, Rove would oversee the removal of eight US attorneys, including two who refused to press bogus charges against ACORN here in New Mexico, as well as Missouri and a third under similar suspicions in Washington state.
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While ACORN is not without its problems, the major media have mostly ignored how the attack on the group is part of a larger conservative strategy.
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