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[ChrisL]

Woot! 14-0 Pats and it's still only the first quarter.

 

[ChrisL]

Well, it's 38-7 for the Pats with 11 minutes left in the 4th quarter. Still time, but that is a pretty big deficit there, and Pats are knocking on the door again.

 

[ChrisL]

Oops, another touch down. 45-7 now.

 

[ChrisL]

Woot! AFC Champions! Superbowl bound, just like that!

 

[TheGreatGatsby]

Woot! AFC Champions! Superbowl bound, just like that!

A Seahwawks-Patriots Super Bowl -- How deflating.

 

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[ChrisL]

Woot! AFC Champions! Superbowl bound, just like that!

A Seahwawks-Patriots Super Bowl -- How deflating.

Colts fans and Pats haters seem to have a serious case of deflated balls. Lol.

 

[TheGreatGatsby]

Woot! AFC Champions! Superbowl bound, just like that!

A Seahwawks-Patriots Super Bowl -- How deflating.

Colts fans and Pats haters seem to have a serious case of deflated balls. Lol.

It's not just sour grapes:

NFL says Patriots used 11 underinflated footballs - Sports - The Boston Globe

 

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[TheGreatGatsby]

Kawhi Leonard leading SF's in rebounding:

Rebounding improved with Leonard back - San Antonio Express-News

From Dec. 17 to Jan. 14, the Spurs were outrebounded in 11 of 15 games.
In the six games since, the Spurs have won the rebounding battle four times, twice by double digits.
The difference? Kawhi Leonard is back, for starters.

 

[TheGreatGatsby]

Breaking Down the Kawhi Leonard Effect on the San Antonio Spurs Bleacher Report

 

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[Treeshepherd]

It's Sports Purgatory right now, unless you follow hockey. Ugghhh.

Do sports fans on USMB ever do anything organized? March Madness bracket pool? Fantasy baseball? Fantasy football?

I posted a college bowl pool challenge in early December, complete with a list of games, a way to enter, and a prize for the winner. Zero response. Chirping crickets. The sound of a pin dropping.

I'm in the oldest fantasy (baseball) league in the history of the universe, joined as a kid in 1982 but it started with the adults in 1977. I started a fantasy football league in 1999 that's still going strong. I do a bracket for March Madness every year. I like being in one league per sport, but it would be fun to do something on USMB.

 

[TheGreatGatsby]

Kawhi Leonard The defending champion s champion defender - Pounding The Rock

when Kawhi is off the court, the Spurs allow 105 points per 100 possessions from their opponent. With him on the court, this number drops to 99.3. This +5.7 differential is the highest of all Spur starters.

With his gigantic 11.25 inch hands (Yes, the man’s hands are nearly a foot from thumb to pinky), his reach is long enough to get under the ball handler’s crossover, as he did here with a game-clinching steal against the Clippers in November of this season:

His well-timed help side and proper rotation is essential to the Spurs’ suffocating defense, which currently ranks 3rd in the NBA, per NBA.com.

 

[Treeshepherd]

Dragic traded to the Heat

 

[TheGreatGatsby]

Dragic traded to the Heat

Makes me want to see a Heat-Cavs match-up in the playoffs.

 

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[Treeshepherd]

I've never seen such a whirlwind of point guard dealing.

[URL='http://www.nba.com/playerfile/goran_dragic/?iref:nba:story_pagelayerfile']"Goran Dragic, Michael Carter-Williams, Reggie Jackson and Brandon Knight all were dealt Thursday in the final hours that trades were allowed, as a number of teams handed their keys to different drivers.[/URL]

Isaiah Thomas (Boston), Ramon Sessions (Washington), Andre Miller (Sacramento), DJ Augustin (Oklahoma City), Norris Cole (New Orleans) and Pablo Prigioni (Houston) getting new homes."

 

[TheGreatGatsby]

I've never seen such a whirlwind of point guard dealing.

"Goran Dragic, Michael Carter-Williams, Reggie Jackson and Brandon Knight all were dealt Thursday in the final hours that trades were allowed, as a number of teams handed their keys to different drivers.

Isaiah Thomas (Boston), Ramon Sessions (Washington), Andre Miller (Sacramento), DJ Augustin (Oklahoma City), Norris Cole (New Orleans) and Pablo Prigioni (Houston) getting new homes."

None of them are great franchise player level PGs though.