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Post by hoyaboy1 on Aug 17, 2008 10:13:09 GMT -5
I'm always going to go Fedor until he shows a reason to think otherwise. Silva will dominate you on the feet, but isn't a great wrestler or submission guy. GSP is a great wrestler with good hands, but seems to lack a little confidence in his standup lately, and his submissions are nothing special.
Fedor, on the other hand . . .
Dominates on his feet (CroCop, Sylvia, Nog 1, etc.) Dominates with takedowns and GnP (Nog 3, Herring, etc.) Hits subs from the bottom (Coleman x2, Choi)
Fedor is the one guy in MMA who is basically always at an advantage no matter what position he is in. Penn would be the next closest, but he isn't consistent with his training so he should be behind GSP and Silva.
Edit - Griffin would probably still be a dog to a few other LHWs, including Machida (who I think would beat him rather easily). In a current achievement ranking Griffin need to be high, but I wouldn't put him up that far in p4p.
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Post by hoyaboy1 on Aug 16, 2008 11:26:54 GMT -5
Florian is waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay too high there. Who exactly has he beaten? He's a borderline top 10 LW, not a top p4p guy.
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Post by hoyaboy1 on Aug 12, 2008 19:50:02 GMT -5
I can buy that, although as Kenner went on he did show a better variety of post moves, including some spins and hooks with both hands.
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Post by hoyaboy1 on Aug 12, 2008 16:15:26 GMT -5
bin, some things to consider:
1 -Percentage-wise, weight differences are larger at the lower weights.
2 - There is much more talent at every weight class up to 175 than there is at heavyweight - if you divided up the heavies more it would be a disaster. The 2 worst weight classes in boxing are cruiserweight and heavyweight. It simply isn't true that there is more competition at the higher weights.
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Post by hoyaboy1 on Aug 12, 2008 15:40:41 GMT -5
DEFINITELY agree with him about Monroe. He is relying on his athleticism right now. He is not polished at all, and has no chance of being one and done in my opinion. I don't think Monroe will be 1 and done (although if he wanted to I'm sure he'd be a 1st rounder), but I totally disagree with your reasons why. Monroe actually isn't a great athlete in the Stoudamire/Howard sense. He's a very good athlete, but there are a decent number of high major big men that are on a similar level athletically to Greg (although most probably don't have his combination of height and build). What sets Greg apart are his court awareness, passing, ball-handling, and passable mid-range J. Does he have a lot to work on? Sure, he's an incoming freshman. But describing him as an athlete with no polish isn't accurate at all, IMO - he isn't Macklin.
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Post by hoyaboy1 on Aug 11, 2008 17:42:01 GMT -5
I thought that Wright played poorly for the first 2/3 of the Kenner season. He was having trouble scoring and made a lot of bad decisions. He picked it up over the last 3-4 games and looked a lot better scoring wise, although his passing was still questionable at times.
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Post by hoyaboy1 on Aug 10, 2008 19:01:11 GMT -5
I would say yes.
In 2005, I wasn't particularly impressed with the Sapp, Egerson, Thornton, Spann class.
In 2006 DaJuan looked good, but Rivers was meh and Macklin was a disappointment from the start.
Last year Austin looked real good, Chris good, Nikita OK, Omar . . . not so good.
I'd say Monroe was the most impressive guy I saw since Green, but I can't really remember well enough to say who was better. I'd say Clark definitely looked better than Sapp or Wallace, probably about as good as Wright. Sims looked better than Macklin, but his play was up and down.
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Post by hoyaboy1 on Aug 10, 2008 15:20:24 GMT -5
Brian Chase would probably have to be MVP, although he struggled today. I'd put Monroe as top rookie even though he missed the last few games, but Clark was very good as well.
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Post by hoyaboy1 on Aug 10, 2008 15:01:44 GMT -5
Sims - 26 Wright - 20 Clark - 14 Nikita - 10
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Post by hoyaboy1 on Aug 9, 2008 13:24:16 GMT -5
WTF, they apparently totally make things up over there. Heading over now, thanks for the heads up.
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Post by hoyaboy1 on Aug 9, 2008 13:02:40 GMT -5
If you could update us closer to 3 that would be awesome . . . I assume Tombs will either be at 4:15 or 8:15.
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Post by hoyaboy1 on Aug 9, 2008 7:49:15 GMT -5
MCI - yea, we might see some combo of Chase/Lawson against Wright/Clark, assuming we can actually figure out what time the games are. Although it seems like it would make more sense for Tombs to play M&A since they played on the same night . . .
Nikita isn't a good defender but he and Sims looked bad mainly because Beyond Belief had nobody over 6'3" and Tombs never played zone.
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Post by hoyaboy1 on Aug 8, 2008 8:27:40 GMT -5
I think the prior game is worth mentioning as well. Madness All-Stars had Brian Chase, Tywon Lawson, Roger Mason, and Dante Cunningham, and Hoop Magic had Scottie Reynolds and Michael Beasley. Beasley had a ton of nice plays but barely bothered to run across half court, while Madness was fast breaking like mad and Chase had an amazing game. It was 52-47 at the half but then Madness pulled away and won 111-88.
Also in the house at various points: JTIII, JTII, and Tony Bethel.
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Post by hoyaboy1 on Aug 6, 2008 10:39:12 GMT -5
1- DaJuan- 16 2- Austin-15 3- Greg-13 4- Jessie- 11 5- Chris- 10 BENCH COMBINES for 16-25ppg 80-89 ppg... The odds of this happening are approximately -100%.
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Post by hoyaboy1 on Aug 4, 2008 14:00:54 GMT -5
11 teams. 5 are good (Tombs, Clydes, Madness All-Stars, Electro-lite, Myers and Alterman).
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Post by hoyaboy1 on Aug 4, 2008 13:55:17 GMT -5
I don't really see this as being "DaJuan's team," or anyone's for that matter. We will be balanced. In fact, unless he has improved a lot I wouldn't be surprised if DaJuan was the 4th best player on the team.
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Post by hoyaboy1 on Aug 4, 2008 13:50:19 GMT -5
Last year I think they announced the pairings and times at the end of the last regular season game, but I didn't stay until the end yesterday.
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Post by hoyaboy1 on Aug 3, 2008 23:07:27 GMT -5
I would have loved to see an Allen-Monroe matchup, so it was doubly disappointing that Greg wasn't there. Tombs doesn't have much of a shot to win the league without him, I don't think - unless Roy comes back.
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Post by hoyaboy1 on Aug 3, 2008 17:46:06 GMT -5
Quick scoring counts:
Wright - 29 Sims - 8 Clark - 8 Nikita - 8
Without Monroe (who has consistently been their best player) Tombs was pretty mediocre and had nobody to match up with Allen. Wright was the only guy who played well, but he was forced to do a lot himself since nobody else could score. I was very happy to see him put up some points in the half court because he's struggled outside of transition for much of the summer.
Crawford played too - he rebounded well but got swatted almost every time he tried to shoot.
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Post by hoyaboy1 on Jul 27, 2008 18:58:00 GMT -5
Greg had 23 by my count, and only missed one shot - so 11/12 from the field. He hit 2 jumpers, finished on the break (one nasty dunk), stripped a player and took it in himself for a layup, made a righty hook, backed his man down and layed it in, spun to the baseline and nailed a leaning J, and so on. He also had a nice outlet, an alley-oop to Sims, and a few other nice pass. A bunch of boards and 3 or so blocks too.
He's been the best player on the floor the last 3-4 games he's played, and I'd say along with Austin has been one of the 2 best players in the entire league (at least among teams that have played against Clyde's and Tombs or in between their games).
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