NBA commissioner Adam Silver says 'hack-a-player' strategy not likely to go away

Lol thats what the stat is supposed to fucking do. It's not supposed to be affected by a few games. No one gives a shit if someone has a handful of bad games.

I know that's what it's supposed to do. I mentioned 'a handful of important bad games' as something the stat doesn't capture appropriately, and you said it absolutely does. Are you senile?

  1. I'm not a Clips fan

LOL.. My bad, I was replying from comment history and misremembered your flair after seeing the red/blue out of the corner of my eye. Replace CP3 with Gortat, DJ with Wall, and Griffin with Beal; and you're set.

  1. The Clips are better then the Mavs

Are you the guy from the hotels.com commercial?

  1. The rest of that paragraph is just a bunch of anecdotal nonsense

gain, I don't think you quite grasp what that word means... You really should rethink the way that you use it, son.

  1. There is still no evidence for the effect of "momentum" and "mindset".

Since you, obviously couldn't follow the little story I wrote, I'll break it down in simple terms a 5th grader like you can understand. My definition of "momentum" is that one team is happy and the other is sad. The happy team has "momentum." Happiness and sadness are descriptors for the collective "mindset" of those teams. So, are you saying there's no evidence for a person's sadness, anger, or happiness affecting their level of performance? Alright, I know you aren't senile or the guy from the hotels.com commercial, but....are you fucking stupid? Here's a peer reviewed study for you, dipshit:

http://journals.humankinetics.com/AcuCustom/Sitename/Documents/DocumentItem/8739.pdf

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