Ban Yourself from Ners

[MerrittsMustache]

This is a good point.  I mean, what kind of idiot moderators does it take to let one guy get so many posts while adding so little quality.  Even worse his MUScoopAdd ranking is even worse than last season.  

Either the mods have packed it in and have one foot out the door or Ners reminds them of themselves back when they were posters. Those are the only logical explanations for why he gets so many posts.

[Lennys Tap]

This is a good point.  I mean, what kind of idiot moderators does it take to let one guy get so many posts while adding so little quality.  Even worse his MUScoopAdd ranking is even worse than last season.  

High usage + low efficiency = disaster

[reinko]

Anyone else notice Ners conveniently befriends former coaches, family members, or other insiders of players or recruits here on the Scoop? 

He winds them up, whispers sweet nothings in their ears, and is the mouthpiece for them.  You saw it PhillyCoach, Dawsons dad, Neveda223, and now Texas Western.  Rinse & repeat.

[NersEllenson]

High usage + low efficiency = disaster

High minutes + No Production = Nearly Invisible/Limited Role Player. Take it up with KenPom Lenny. Negative Value Add last year (and Buzz played him more minutes than any other player on team.)  

Sorry, but I like the cluster of players around JJJ I referenced earlier in this thread.

Also, just because you come in a game, and perhaps have a turnover, and miss your first two shots - it doesn't mean you are going to have a bad game, and should be benched.  Hell Mayo did just this a lot the last 10 games last season, yet FOR ONCE, Buzz let him play through those moment and stay on the floor.  Eventually his talent normalized things, and he produced.  But many here who have limited experience playing the game simply don't understand this.  Yet when you get 30+ minutes nearly EVERY game, you are getting optimum opportunity to post relevant and true metrics.

Lastly, getting caught up in O-Rating is a bit of slippery slope as it weights incredibly heavy on turnovers - guys who aren't aggressive, don't shoot frequently, and essentially do nothing other than not turn the ball over, and take fewer than 3-4 shots a game, can post a solid O-Rating.

Furthermore if O-Rating were the holy grail of defining a player's quality/worth, Pomeroy wouldn't still assign a rating of Nearly Invisible/Limited Role Player to a player with a high O-Rating that also plays high minutes.

I mean Jake Thomas was a 108.3 last season.  Duane Wilson is 103.6 so far.  Who would you rather have?  Jake or Duane?  Again, O-rating is greatly inflated by guys who don't turn the ball over - yet why do they not turn the ball over?  They rarely create/attack offense.

[Frenns Liquor Depot]

This is just too funny....what a thread - just missing some fishing commentary and SMU17 and it would be the next candidate for to be enshrined in the scoop hall of fame.

[NersEllenson]

Anyone else notice Ners conveniently befriends former coaches, family members, or other insiders of players or recruits here on the Scoop? 

He winds them up, whispers sweet nothings in their ears, and is the mouthpiece for them.  You saw it PhillyCoach, Dawsons dad, Neveda223, and now Texas Western.  Rinse & repeat.

Clarification:  I don't "befriend" them - I appreciate, value, and share the opinions of guys who are far more involved and experienced in the game than vast majority of armchair idiots (like you Reinko) posting in this thread.  And just as many of the guys here that share similar opinions (that I disagree with) tend to "befriend" each other, the same occurs for me as a result of sharing similar opinions.

Yet we have members of the band, guys who were Star Wars nerds, and every thing else under the sun other than playing basketball discrediting the above posters.  Talk about arrogant.

[reinko]

Clarification:  I don't "befriend" them - I appreciate, value, and share the opinions of guys who are far more involved and experienced in the game than vast majority of armchair idiots (like you Reinko) posting in this thread.  And just as many of the guys here that share similar opinions (that I disagree with) tend to "befriend" each other, the same occurs for me as a result of sharing similar opinions.

Yet we have members of the band, guys who were Star Wars nerds, and every thing else under the sun other than playing basketball discrediting the above posters.  Talk about arrogant.

Cool man.  Calling people nerds and idiots.  On the internet.  In a basketball forum.  This is your life. 

Really, it is.  Bummer for ya.

[Galway Eagle]

Cool man.  Calling people nerds and idiots.  On the internet.  In a basketball forum.  This is your life. 

Really, it is.  Bummer for ya.

He's probably wearing his letterman jacket and just got back from taping Larry Lester's buns together.  (anybody catch the 80s movie reference?)

[NersEllenson]

Cool man.  Calling people nerds and idiots.  On the internet.  In a basketball forum.  This is your life. 

Really, it is.  Bummer for ya.

LOL - No worries Reinko.  I've been called worse here.  On the internet.  In a basketball forum.  Thankfully my skin isn't as thin as many here, or yours for that matter.  Bummer for "ya."

[zrjones13]

LOL - No worries Reinko.  I've been called worse here.  On the internet.  In a basketball forum.  Thankfully my skin isn't as thin as many here, or yours for that matter.  Bummer for "ya."

Sometimes it's hard to respond to you since you don't accept facts when they're presented.  Your more about conspiracies and "inside" knowledge.

[NersEllenson]

He's probably wearing his letterman jacket and just got back from taping Larry Lester's buns together.  (anybody catch the 80s movie reference?)

Says the guy with a picture of him in the ring as his avatar.  

But no Bag - didn't ever get a letter jacket or class ring - thought both were cheesy.

[NersEllenson]

Sometimes it's hard to respond to you since you don't accept facts when they're presented.  Your more about conspiracies and "inside" knowledge.

No worries Jones  - I present plenty of facts that support my viewpoints.  Plenty.  I can agree that my take on Buzz last season could be construed as a "conspiracy theory."  Absolutely.  Yet when he left MU for VaTech within a week of the season being over - think that pretty much confirmed what I'd been saying all of last season:  Buzz wasn't the same guy.  Wasn't right.  Wasn't committed to MU/winning last season.

[willie warrior]

This is just too funny....what a thread - just missing some fishing commentary and SMU17 and it would be the next candidate for to be enshrined in the scoop hall of fame.

Cannot go to the Hall of Fame without a diverted thread about Kate Upton's assets. Then it goes straight to the Apple Cloud.

[GGGG]

Cannot go to the Hall of Fame without a diverted thread about Kate Upton's assets. Then it goes straight to the Apple Cloud.

[Galway Eagle]

Says the guy with a picture of him in the ring as his avatar.  

But no Bag - didn't ever get a letter jacket or class ring - thought both were cheesy.

That'd be a better comeback if I had said anything about nerds or arm chair guys just based on your post I couldn't resist the breakfast club comparison lol

and it's my profile picture because it was the national semis for golden gloves and I'm wearing a marquette under armor shirt some of my friends went there and chanted "we are marquette" it was my proudest moment with the university since remotely being affiliated when I got my acceptance letter.  

[willie warrior]

Either the mods have packed it in and have one foot out the door or Ners reminds them of themselves back when they were posters. Those are the only logical explanations for why he gets so many posts.

Maybe he gets "so many posts" because he has lots of free time on his hands, and generates lots of responses to his posts--especially from people who "banned themselves" from Ners. Oh, if we were all that worthy.

[willie warrior]

Good try Sultan. But we do need comments on Kate's assets.

[MU82]

This is a good point.  I mean, what kind of idiot moderators does it take to let one guy get so many posts while adding so little quality.  Even worse his MUScoopAdd ranking is even worse than last season.  

Ha!

But what's his eWord%?

[TSmith34, Inc.]

High minutes + No Production = Nearly Invisible/Limited Role Player. Take it up with KenPom Lenny. Negative Value Add last year (and Buzz played him more minutes than any other player on team.)  

Whoosh

[jesmu84]

Clarification:  I don't "befriend" them - I appreciate, value, and share the opinions of guys who are far more involved and experienced in the game than vast majority of armchair idiots (like you Reinko) posting in this thread.  And just as many of the guys here that share similar opinions (that I disagree with) tend to "befriend" each other, the same occurs for me as a result of sharing similar opinions.

Yet we have members of the band, guys who were Star Wars nerds, and every thing else under the sun other than playing basketball discrediting the above posters.  Talk about arrogant.

Like the former NBA player who has praised derrick in our games this year?

[lab_warrior]

A post on an internet message board, by an internet message board poster, complaining that another
internet message board poster is WAY TOO internet message board poster-y.  An enjoyable 6-pg. read
so far.

"Jesus, is this f***in' necessary?!"

http://www.youtube.com/v/9_peSCECc4I&fs=1&source=uds

[MU82]

Like the former NBA player who has praised derrick in our games this year?

Dickey Simpkins is a horrible announcer, and I believe his Derrick love is way over the top.

But yes, let's look at the facts:

Dickey played four years in high school at a very high level. He then started for most of his four seasons at a Big East school and was good enough to be a first-round NBA draft pick. He then played six pro seasons, including three years for a championship team. And his knowledge impressed executives at both ESPN and Fox to employ him as an announcer for multiple seasons.

So ...

If I accept that Ners is right about a former high school player being a more qualified observer than a non-player ... it stands to reason that a six-year pro who excelled in college and high school absolutely must be a far more qualified observer than a former high school player. That's Logic 101.

Ipso fatso, Derrick Wilson is the heart and soul of this Marquette team, an outstanding point guard, a heady floor leader, and all of the other compliments Dickey throws at him.

I happen to disagree with those assessments, but Ners has absolutely no standing to disagree. After all, Dickey was a former high school AND college AND professional basketball player and therefore unquestionably is a superior observer.

Case closed!

[TAMU, Knower of Ball]

Clarification:  I don't "befriend" them - I appreciate, value, and share the opinions of guys who are far more involved and experienced in the game than vast majority of armchair idiots (like you Reinko) posting in this thread.  And just as many of the guys here that share similar opinions (that I disagree with) tend to "befriend" each other, the same occurs for me as a result of sharing similar opinions.

Yet we have members of the band, guys who were Star Wars nerds, and every thing else under the sun other than playing basketball discrediting the above posters.  Talk about arrogant.

Sorry, I usually don't stoop to this but I can't resist

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uCPKLcM_O2Q

And I wasn't a star wars nerd. I am a star wars nerd. 

[willie warrior]

Sorry, I usually don't stoop to this but I can't resist

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uCPKLcM_O2Q

And I wasn't a star wars nerd. I am a star wars nerd. 

Nothing wrong with being a Star Wars Nerd, especially the original trilogy. So many characters to nerd out on. Still joyously put up out Bobba Fett ornament on the tree every Christmas--usually near my Bogie and Ilsa ornaments from Casablanca. Wish I still had my son's Admiral Akbar figure.

[Schmidtyfactor]

Have any of you guys ever worked for a large firm and some idiot sent off an email to say 500, 5,000 or 50,000 people by accident. And then the you start getting the replies from geniouses all over saying 'I shouldn't be included and please take me off this list'. And then more people reply to those emails saying 'I agree, take me off too'. And then you start getting the real smart ones jumping in and reply all yelling for everyone to stop replying to all. And this goes on and on with hundreds of emails clogging your inbox until IT figures out how to shut er down.

And you sit back and say why could'nt we just fire every single person who replied to this email?

That's what this thread is like. (And now i've joined it   )