Post #2016 in 2016

Fred Hoiberg's prejudiced, favors White Bigs


Bulls starting Butler, Wade/Valentine, Lopez, Portis & Canaan.

Can't because it would mean the whole lineup with an Afro.

Fred Hoiberg & his "expert" staff chooses to not see this.

Fred always, just ALWAYS must have a slow White big
on the floor (especially at turning-points or crunch time),
Fred may be a Racist, but he sure is a PREJUDICED HC !!
Fred ALWAYS needs one of his White Bigs on the floor
at all times.  Fred's White bigs that play NO DEFENSE &
shoot very poorly, the likes of Nico Mirotwitch, Zapser
and/or Lauvergne types that Hoiberg is just too damn
enamored with time & time again, show his white prejudice.
It must be the huge Afro of hair on Robin Lopez that caused
Fred to only play him 22 minutes the whole game.
Fred says that when Celts go small, Lopez must come out.
Fred is a fool.  He makes very poor basketball decisions.

Kendall Gill, and a slew of other wise ex-Bulls would make
a better Bulls' Head Coach - but no, Fred gets the job, and
Bulls players and fans get jobbed and robbed in the process.

Coach Tibbs knew the importance of 4th Quarter defense,
and found matchups to get Stops, often Kills, & got the win.
But Coach Tibbs was never opposed to putting five players
on the court each of whom were Black - no Whites, no prob.
Not Fred.

Fred was annoited head coach of the Bulls because he's says
he knows how to recreate his high-flying Iowa State offense
— his no-defense master plans without in-game adjustment
was on full display in his 19 March 2015 HUGE LOSS
as a #2 seed to a # 14 seed in the ncaab tournament. This was
one of the many games that showed just how unaware he is
as to the importance of Defense.
 
He says over & over again that he and his staff of "experts"
must watch the film(s), and then game plan — but he does
not start the best of possible lineups, never did, and his
in-game adjustments (if they can even be called that) are
the worst possible selections.

Fred's Game Plan is a joke — he's not created a steady rotation.
Rondo could not even get on the floor in reg. seas. b/c of Fred.

Portis played magnificently, helping tons for the Bulls victory -
then the next game he was inserted to play only 9 minutes.


Hoiberg does not understand who to play and when to play them.

I've never seen such an inability by a NBA HC to get the right lineup on the floor. Portis only playing 9 minutes after the previous games he played. Starting to think the coach placed a large series bet on the Celtics.

Chicago getting retirees for fun...

Isaiah Thomas out of retirement to confront Celt's Isaiah Thomas.

Freddy Garcia to rejoin Sox = lineup with four players named Garcia.

Week 15: Dallas Cowboys at Oakland Raiders
Sunday, 17 December 2017 at 5:30 p.m. PST
Oakland Raiders +3

By 2020 at the latest, the Raiders will become the Las Vegas Raiders.

Every primetime game at the Oakland Coliseum from now until the move
will get the most hostile atmosphere in all the National Football League.
And that fan base has witnessed only 3 home primetime matchups over
the past 4 seasons, and follow thusly: 


11/20/2014: Losers of 10 straight games to open the season,
the Raiders upset Kansas City on a Thursday night 24-20.

12/24/2015: Hall of Famer Charles Woodson’s final home game,
the Raiders beat the Chargers 23-20 on Christmas Eve.

11/6/2016: The defending Super Bowl champion Denver Broncos
couldn’t stop Oakland’s rushing attack & Oakland won 30-20.


3 games, 3 wins.  Silver & Black State will win straightup as a dog.

interesting find on the raiders

For as geo close as the Blues & Preds are,
they've never met in the playoffs before !?
Finally that match lack changes this year...

Rinne has never beaten Allen in St. Louis.

But this year's seen big changes to trends:
Cavs, Cubs, Clemson...

Road team wins each game of 7-game series...


I've only once come across this 5-game series:
(1984 ECR1, NJN vs. PHI, NJN win 3-2),
where the road team won every game.

This Bulls/Celts series has happened in a
7-game series but once in recent memory:
1 series in which the first 4 games were won
by the road team was HOU vs. DAL, 2005, WCR1.
(But the next 3 games were won by the home team.)

NBA Playoffs:
When teams are tied at 2-2,
the winner of Game 5 wins
the series 82% of the time.

This is the Stanley Cup Final, in reality.

Pittsburgh has beaten Washington in six straight playoff series and  if Alex Ovechkin wants to ever beat Sidney Crosby in the playoffs, this is the year he has to do it.

The road team is 0-8 SU in the last 8 games in this matchup.

Marc-Andre Fleury had an .884 save percentage and 4.02 GAA against the Caps in the regular season.

The Capitals are 22-4 SU in their last 26 games as home favorites.

Pittsburgh is averaging an NHL-high 4.2 goals per game in the 2017 postseason.

Bookmakers opened the Capitals as significant home faves in Game 1 and considering the trends, that makes sense. The home team has dominated this matchup of late and Washington was the premier home club in the NHL in the regular season, going 32-9 SU at the Verizon Center.

Some may look at Marc-Andre Fleury’s .933 save percentage in the first round and think that he’s back to being a reliable goaltender but that’s simply not the case. The Flower gave up too many goals on low-danger scoring chances against the Jackets and when you go from facing the likes of Brandon Dubinsky and Brandon Saad to Alexander Ovechkin and T.J. Oshie, the chances of conceding goals quickly escalates.

The Pens have Matt Murray healing up, so they’ll have to score a ton of goals to keep up with Caps.

ESPN profits way way down, massive layoffs.

Look what their upper management is doing,
and the Buyers & Program Managers they
have in charge.  Quite pathetic execs who
are resting on their past laurels - poor Mgt.

Tonight, the only NBA team Canada has plays
in the Playoffs - ESPN does NOT have it.

The biggest game of the NHL's season tonight
- ESPN does NOT have it.

Now look at their radio - they're nearly 100% on
the NFL Draft - vast majority don't care about it.

Their radio is less & less talk of sports, and more
more and more corny jokes from radio hosts who
are preoccupied with their ego massage at the
expense of the listenership - that has turned away
because they offer so little useful information to
add to the upcoming college and pro games.

The Wall+Beal Wiz starting a series away
 have won every Game #1 = 4 straight !!!!

Rockets got the shooters to stay w/i striking distance in Game 1,
and throughout this series as the Spurs aren't getting any younger
especially as they go deeper into the postseason this May.

Rockets have a real shot at winning this game & the series outright,
as they look to advance in the playoffs this year.

Tor Raps now 1-12 in Playoff openers !

The Wall+Beal Wiz starting a series away
had won every Game #1 = 4 straight - but
the Celts pure hatred of the Wiz ended it:
now 4-1 in Away-Game1-Series-Openers.

Phillies lead the league in 1st inning runs scored
28

Go State War 1-6 when favored by more than 8 points.
YIKES !!!

Race 11 Woodford Reserve Turf Classic Stakes (Grade I)

#2 Divisidero: Won the past 2 derby days !!
Buff Bradley does a great job of getting him to peak on this very day
and it seems like he has done that again with the race pattern
he set up for him coming into the race.

#7 World Approval: Not much pace in here to run with this one early
so can draw away late. Big weekend for this Barn: 'Live Oak Plantation'
and Breeder: 'Live Oak Stud.'

#8 Beach Patrol: Will flank World Approval the whole way and both
should pull clear of the rest of the field by 4 lengths turning for home.

Race 10 Churchill Downs Stakes Pres'd by Twinspires (Grade II)

#1 Awesome Slew with California's Champ Joel Rosario aboard.

PICK THREE

Race 10 #1
+
Race 11 # 2
+
Race 12: #'s 17, 18, 13, 5

Confidence goes up a notch when the margin is 40 points or more
on muf/slop, and 30 points or more on turf. There are times when
3 or 4 1st time starters have ratings perhaps 20 points apart (let's
say 300, 310, 315, 320). Because of other considerations
(trainer, workouts, etc...) one might not favor the one with the
highest rating. Remember this is a capping tool... not gospel.

See these ratings like a baseball player's batting average...  
the higher the average, the greater the probability of getting a hit...
But he won't get a hit every time up. In fact, ball players with a low
batting avg. will often enough out hit the higher average player in a
given game (like say Balty Vs. At-Your-Head-Beantown) but NOT
over the course of the entire season.
Don't over look these less obvious uses for "Mudders & Turfers"
which means do your homework on The Daily Racing Form and
calculate tight Tomlinson Ratings for each nag.