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Portland Closes Out Season at Home Against the Warriors
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Wonder what it would take to get Jimmer from the Kings. 22 tonight, he's been better this year but the Kings have a glut of guards so the opportunities are spotty
@blazeraddict Jimmer and Luke off the bench would be epic
@ian21 @blazeraddict Mormon v Christian. I'd watch that.
@blazeraddict Rather not. Isaiah Thomas OTOH....
Most Jets ending ever.
@skywaker9 (David) Sanchez is awful, have mercy...
@blazeraddict Tebow worse.
Chris Copeland?
I have always thought JJ was sort of a homeless mans Zbo but he seems to have gotten a job and an apartment
@southern oregon never really thought of zbo as an energy guy...
@christopher_m I was thinking more about the rebound magnet,crappy defender similarity
I didn't know @jerod was a moderator...
@We Want Wiggins @jerod yeah prob a bad idea
Just saw The Hobbitt. I made a risky decision to see it in 48 frames per second and 3D and boy did that turn out to be a bad one. Good movie. Fun to revisit middle earth. A little long and bloated, yes, but fans should enjoy it....but oh man that 48 fps is just awful. Totally takes you out of the movie. Your eyes are drawn to tiny little details, and it feels like documentary behind the scenes footage on the set while they were shooting the movie with a different camera. The movement reminded me of Benny Hill, as 48fps appears sped up. It made Middle Earth feel like a movie set. As soon as I got used to it, some fast movement would rip me right back to reality to remind me that I was watching video and forgot about the story. I truly feel this is one of the biggest reasons its getting such mediocre reviews, is the stupid 48fps format.
@dario argento As posted, I enjoyed it in 2D and didn't feel like I missed much - if any. Enjoyable movie like very much like the Fellowship. Not amazing, some lengths due to stretching it to 3 films (like the originals) and a bit cheesy dialogue, but good.
Slate had a good review of the 48 frames. The reviewer also noted the reality tv look, and that she felt drawn to tiny flaws, like Gandalf's stick looking like a prop made of resin that she'd never had noticed in the old ones. A weird mix of hyper-realism and flaws, kinda like when TV shows first went to HD but still had makeup and studio sets made for sD.
@dario argento Warning, spoilers in the review. But the paragraph on the high resolution 3D is good:
"In a fitting convergence of form and content, Jackson’s Hobbit also vastly overestimates the amount of visual information the viewer needs crammed into her optic cavities. Many screenings of The Hobbit around the country will be shown not only in 3-D, but in a new super-high-definition format called 48fps, which unrolls at a frame rate double that of the average movie: Rather than seeing 24 frames of film each second, you’re seeing 48. It’s fully possible that this technology will one day develop into a tool that enriches our experience of movies. If so, I suspect The Hobbit will be remembered as an early, failed experiment in the medium. The best way I can think to describe the quality of the 48fps image in The Hobbit is this: It looks like an ’80s-era home video shot by someone who happened to be standing around on set while The Hobbit was being filmed. (Other visual analogues scribbled down in my screening notes include Teletubbies and daytime soap operas.) The effect is curiously washed out and flat, yet unforgiving in its hyper-realism: Any imperfection or note of artifice in the costumes or sets stands out as if illuminated with a bank of fluorescent bulbs. This wildly expensive visual technology paradoxically conspires to make everything else in the film look cheap. I found myself fixating, for example, on Gandalf’s staff, an elegant Art Nouveau-esque creation that, in the earlier Lord of the Rings films, would have blended in as another part of the richly detailed ambient whimsy. Seen at 48fps, the staff looked like a cast-resin prop you might order online from a Wiccan supply house."
http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/movies/2012/12/the_hobbit_reviewed_peter_jackson_s_new_tolkien_movie_is_too_long_and_looks.html
@Norsktroll Couldn't agree more with this reviewer. I am a huge Tolkien fan, Peter Jackson fan, and fan of everything in this universe, but I had trouble connecting with this film on a basic level, and I think the 48fps format was the reason. Yes, there are parts in 48fps 3D that are breathtakingly and beautifully amazing, particularly wide shots that are digital, but the smaller moments felt cheap. It's clear that this is a new technology that is not fully understood yet in terms of how to augment telling a story. To anyone out there that hasn't seen it and wants to I highly recommend seeing it in 24fps first, and then deciding if they want to see it in the new format.
@dario argento I dont get why people would ever bother watching a movie at 30fps+. Anything above 24fps appears to have a home video feel.
I always edit everything at 24fps for this exact reason. The worst is when people mix 24fps with 30fps footage, I notice it right away and it takes me completely out of the movie.
@brandonmitchell 30fps works for TV just fine. But yeah. Anything higher just feels wrong to me.
@dario argento the 35mm is at cinemagic. also it's cheap. as a fan of the books i'm not looking forward to it, but i might see it anyhow
@jerod The 48fps is only at a few select theatres. Most are normal 24. It was fun and worth seeing. Very different from the book.
@jerod @dario argento Yeah, I've gone from really keen to see it to being dubious. Guy at work really loved it but most who've gone haven't.
After watching Claver actually play a bit I am mildly suprised that he looks like he might turn out to be a decent or even above average defender
@southern oregon I think he was made to be a solid backup. Like him for that reason. Can easily see him providing decent D, 35-40% from three, passable ball-handling and passing and he should learn to be able to finish the simply attempts he's been missing.
@TiMB @southern oregon In Spain, he also showed a good ability to draw fouls to get some production from the line. He's not as high flying as he used to be, but still more athletic than e.g. Babs. That he looks pretty competent laterally against most forwards also enabling him to hawk balls is a pleasant surprise.
While providing different things and different styles, he reminds me a bit of an early Varejao. Young Andy used to do 2-3 awesome things per game that made you notice him, but overall didn't provide as much as you would think his active play should manifest in the box score. Only more recently that has changed.
NBADraft.net has McLemore going 3rd overall.
@TiMB well Shabazz has not been impressing anybody
@southern oregon I didn't realise they'd had a game a couple days back. Poor comp but Shabazz had himself a game.
@southern oregon If we had the first overall pick, I'd still wrestle with whether to take him or one of the centers. Not ready to ignore the type of prospect he was coming in yet and put guys like McLemore and Goodwin over him (mainly due to the injury/NCAA BS putting him behind).
seems like Pek puts up better numbers with K-Love than without him... I should look into this and see if my perception matches reality. Any quick way to do this on BBR?
@ian21 http://bit.ly/UN4CFo
@TiMB jimini small sample size... K-Love gets to the line 19 times per 36 with Pek on the bench.
@TiMB yeah looking back the only real conclusions are that K-Love shoots slightly less FT's with Pek on the court and the team does a lot better with both of them out there. Pretty impressive that they don't see much of a drop off in stats when they are together.
@ian21 There are tabs for the previous two seasons there as well.
@TiMB interesting... the only real difference is he is a bit better rebounder with K-Love on the floor. That isn't what I would have guessed.
"I was injured the first year (and needed season-ending right wrist surgery)," Williams said Monday, a day before the Nets host the Jazz at Barclays Center. "I've really had injuries while I've been with (the Nets) the whole time. And didn't have the talent around me that I did (with the Jazz).
"And that system (in Utah) was a great system for my style of play. I'm a system player, and I loved Coach (Jerry) Sloan's system. I loved the offense there. We could've been a really good team. We just weren't that good defensively as a group."
@ian21 Sounds like the interview Melo gave when talking about his elbow surgery and playing injured most of his career, plus some gratuitous revisionist history of his former play.
@Norsktroll he curiously forgot to apologize for his hair.
@ian21 tl;dr shouldn't have been a dick in your last days in SLC Deron.
@We Want Wiggins I just found it funny because I thought the system was a lot of the reason he wanted out of Utah.
@ian21 yea, same here. IIRC, he was mostly upset at the play-calling and lack of creative in the offense.
Aw shit, I'm playing @ian21 this week. I wonder if he'll hit the waiver wire late in the week to gain a couple games...
@We Want Wiggins maybe on the last day if it looks like it will swing a category or two. Z-Bo and Lee already have 4 games this week so it doesn't make much sense to shuffle them around. You have a ton more games than me this week. I am hoping if I can win the percentage categories I can get a split with you... if not it will be a rough week for me.
@We Want Wiggins plus I am not sure I will be around a computer at the in-laws over Christmas weekend.
@We Want Wiggins I'm a little sad by my teams performance against you
@jerod I kept setting the rosters but saw how bad I was shooting and never thought I was doing anything.
So I received an incomplete grade from one of my professors. They're normally reserved for people with medical emergencies that interrupted school work but he gave one to me so that I can have an A in the class, I just need to retake a quiz or two. Feeling lucky.
@Afrika Bambaataa That's weird....
@Afrika Bambaataa you should probably drop out.
It shows up as an "I" right now but will be adjusted to A after I finish the work next semester.
d @Afrika Bambaataa did you ever try to climb Hood?
@Afrika Bambaataa good work.