Hey! We made Studs and Duds, and not the bad part!
Last night was an interesting night in the NBA. The Bobcats beat the Pistons on a Raymond Felton jumper with less than a second left. The Bobcats. The Cavs beat the Grizz as Stud LeBron blasted the Grizz to pieces with a triple double. Stud Dwyane Wade led his Heat past the T’Wolves to end their surprising five game win streak. The Lakers were able to pull one past the Rockets. It took at Kobe three at the end to push it out of reach. Kobe took a season high 32 shots last night as his teammates weren’t on target. The Nuggets beat the Mavs despite Stud of the Day Dirk Nowitzki’s incredible performance. The Suns were able to beat the Hawks who were disappointed with Dud of the Day Joe Johnson’s worst game since, like, ever. For those who haven’t been checking those box scores, Shaq is back in a big way. He is a surefire all-star at this point. The Magic demolished the Kings as they broke the NBA record for most threes in a single game by a single team. They were 23/37 from behind the arc. There’s awesomeness and then there’s luck. That’s the latter. Check out everything after the jump…
Studs
1. Dirk Nowitzki – 15/26 FG, 2/6 3PT, 12/12 FT, 14 REB, 44 PTS
2. LeBron James – 9/15 FG, 11 REB, 10 AST, 3 STL, 30 PTS
3. Dwight Howard – 8/10 FG, 9/11 FT, 15 REB, 4 STL, 25 PTS
4. Jameer Nelson – 8/12 FG, 5/5 3PT, 2/2 FT, 2 REB, 11 AST, 5 STL, 23 PTS
5. Dwyane Wade – 9/15 FG, 13/16 FT, 3 REB, 8 AST, 3 STL, 3 BLK, 31 PTS
Duds
1. Joe Johnson – 4/21 FG, 1/6 3PT, 3 REB, 3 AST, 0 STL, 0 BLK, 2 TO, 1 PF, 11 PTS, 42 MIN
2. J.R. Smith – 1/14 FG, 0/3 3PT, 0/0 FT, 5 REB, 7 AST, 0 STL, 0 BLK, 3 TO, 2 PF, 2 PTS, 33 MIN
3. Rudy Gay – 5/18 FG, 0/4 3PT, 0/1 FT, 4 REB, 1 AST, 2 STL, 0 BLK, 3 TO, 5 PF, 10 PTS, 37 MIN
4. Aaron Brooks – 2/10 FG, 0/2 3PT, 0/0 FT, 0 REB, 2 AST, 0 STL, 0 BLK, 4 PTS, 17 MIN
5. Mario Chalmers – 1/9 FG, 0/3 3PT, 2/4 FT, 3 REB, 4 AST, 0 STL, 0 BLK, 1 TO, 1 PF, 4 PTS, 30 MIN
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beating the Pistons isn’t what it once was. The Bobcats just recently beat the Celtics. That is a big deal.
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#1 stud and the weekly caption. That’s about as good as it gets around here.
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Bron should be number 1. this is crap. Like when MJ wasn’t winning MVP.
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Too many Magicians amongst the Studs.
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42 minutes AND a Dud? That has to be a record.
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44 > 30
gitc’s formula is approaching mythical status. Cold Fusion has a simpler equation.
/rock on gitc
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but LeBron had 10 assists. How many did Dirk have? ZERO! and his team lost.
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gitc’s formula cracked
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Back in my first year at Penn State I didn’t want to study for my chem final purely because I HATE chem. I ended up reading a 16 page paper about cold fusion
Seemed simple yet unatainable
That said there should be some sort of bonus points in gitic’s formula for triple doubles
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depends on the triple double. Jason KIdd going 10/10/10 is not as great as what LeBron did with dropping 30. Or when D-Ho grabs 20 boards and gets 10 blocks.
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For the record, LeBron was quite close to Nowitzki. I don’t mess around with the formula though. I would love to give it to LeBron because he’s the man. I’m not a big Dirk fan.
Most Duds don’t play 42 minutes because they are sucking. The Hawks can’t just take out their best player though. So if he accumulates 4/21 shooting and only a few boards and dimes they really just have to bite the bullet.
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There was a stat on sportscenter last night….
Most Triple Doubles Since LeBron James’ NBA Debut:
Jason Kidd – 51
LeBron James – 19
Rest of NBA – <7
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The so called “JK32″ is cheap though.
For those non-basketball insiders, that is slang for Jason Kidd Triple Double. The definition is when three categories all exceed 10 but none exceed 15.
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Grant Hill and Kidd were going head to head in triple doubles until Hill had all his injuries.
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I find the uncertainty principle to be amazingly simple. Far easier than GITC’s formula.
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mikey, +1 for the new banner!
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we have a special treat for tomorrow’s studs and duds…
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We do?
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Oh, right. We do.
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On an 11 game night as well.
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Hardest mathematical formulas to understand:
1 Quarterback rating
2 GITC’s formula
3 Riemann hypothesis
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i have a feeling that the results will be much more controversial.
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We should create a clever moniker for this.
“GITC Postulate”
“GITC Theorum”
“The Curious Case of GITC’s button”
etc
I nominate Knightro for this task.
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Wow, you get a million bucks if you solve the Riemann hypothesis? I might have to break out a piece of paper and my trusty calculator and solve that tonight.
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“The GITC Expectorant”
“The Stud Dud Conundrum”
“The Paul Pierce Occlusion”
“The Head In Ass Paradigm”
“The GITC Logic Paradox”
“The Magic In 4 Conjecture”
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These sound like things NPH would make up on HIMYM.
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Or just
“The Names From A Hat Determinant”
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Luck?
Get the hell outta here.
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expectorant. lol
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I vote for the Paul Pierce Occlusion.
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“D-Ho, Eddy Curry, Paul Pierce”
Name a stud, a dud, and someone who doesn’t exist in GITC’s world
/Carnak’d
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I vote for the “Head In Ass Paradigm With A Paul Pierce Asymptote”
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@ miz – that would work, but only for sufficiently large values of Paul Pierce.
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oh oh i got one. Paul Pierce Sucks.
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Paul Pierce > all you nerds and your big confusing words
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Paul Pierce was Stud of the Day on Wednesday November 14th, 2007. Check the comment at 9:47AM.
http://www.danshanoff.com/2007/11/wednesday-1114-am-quickie-lloyd-carr.html
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//not really as I just looked this up
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////not moron’d
/////don’t even try it
//////gitc’d
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threadjack!
Best. Wikipedia. Ever.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_self-contradicting_words_in_English
/threadjack
//shanoff’d
///retro comment again
////gitc’d
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but he shot under .500
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Pierce is a self-contradicting word or contronym
” Pierce – means to stud, and likewise to dud, but usually neither”
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Good effort, but stud o’ the day on Shanoff’s turf doesn’t count.
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