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blommen said:
View: https://twitter.com/ChrisFedor/status/584818668304891905

View: https://twitter.com/ronjkoehler/status/584824834179346433


View: https://twitter.com/CRS_1ne/status/584825496204083200


View: https://twitter.com/CRS_1ne/status/584827381241745408



Fedor is a fucking cunt.

yeah, i said it. what a petty and lame-ass bullshit thing to say to one of your colleagues. fuck, I don't know why this pisses me off so much, but that is just such a fucking ridiculous thing to call a member of the press out on and Fedor is LAST god damn person to call anyone out on anything. Fy for satan! (sorry for going over to danish, I couldn't adequately voice my disgust otherwise)
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Fedor and his tag-team partner Varden are pissed that Blatt is actually answering Parker's basketball questions rather than their gossip ones. Good Lord, Fedor should be embarrassed for those tweets.
 
Fedor does have a point. If he has anything to be embarrassed about it should be for the dozens of tweets he sends out about The Bachelor and other garbage TV programs he enjoys
 
Oh shit so this is the guy from those post game pressers. Okay, makes sense. This dude is awesome.
 
Man Called X said:
I'm pretty sure Chris Parkers background picture is a sealed asshole or something.
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Yeah WTF is that? I thought a vagina at first then an asshole second. This guy is by far the best thing Cleveland media now has. He rocks a old school mustache with vagina ass back ground pictures and told Fedor to fuck off basically.
 
Here is another brilliant article by mr. Parker on last nights game, with some pretty on point call-outs to Fedor.

I urge everyone to read the article through the link, so we can get the man some of that sweet, sweet freelance skrilla through page views.

http://www.clevescene.com/scene-and...owcase-more-threats-than-the-bulls-can-handle

Cavs Showcase More Threats Than the Bulls Can Handle
Posted By Chris Parker chris.parker@clevescene.com> on Mon, Apr 6, 2015 at 2:58 pm

In a heist they’ll be studying a decade from now, Cavaliers GM David Griffin exchanged Dion Waiters and a first round Memphis draft pick (no one’s likely to see for two years) for the three missing pieces of the puzzle.

It’s as though Dorothy secured heart, brain and nerve for the stick of spearmint gum and Cracker Jack iron-on she had on her pocket.

Watching J.R. Smith flame-on during the second quarter like the Human Torch, it’s hard to suppress exclamations of joy. (Keep them out of the press row, we were told by my passionless peers.) When a player hits a shot like this, there’s a strong desire to praise your personal deity, which generally includes rising to your feet.


Since arriving, Smith has bumped Love from option 3 to option 3a. Smith’s averaging one shot less than Love since LeBron’s return, most of that occurring on the road where Kevin Love shoots worse (42/34 vs. 43/42) and takes 1½ more shots. Last night we saw how easily Smith can change a game. When he’s on there’s no shot he can’t make, as the above play demonstrates.

Smith hit four-out-of-five threes in the second period. He and Irving went a combined 13-20, including 9-11 from distance for 35 of the team’s 54 first half points. Their play was able to carry Kevin Love and Iman Shumpert who joined the bricklayer's local with a combined 1-11 performance.

these two ridiculous shots by Irving that makes you wonder what a post-practice H-O-R-S-E game between Smith and him might look like.

The problem defending the Cavaliers has been you can’t stop them at the point of attack – LeBron and Kyrie can get wherever they want on the floor. The Bulls bigs are good at rotating, but like with football, that quickness can be neutralized by going straight at them. The Cavs were able to penetrate and that gave them the keys to the kingdom.

LeBron was able to drive into the lane and find whoever’s queued up weakside whether that’s Kevin Love drilling the open one on a poor night.

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Afraid to let Kyrie drive, Brooks danced on either side of Mozgov until Kyrie had a 3 perfectly lined up.
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While this is a tall lineup for the Bulls, with Nikola Mirotic playing the 3 alongside Joakim Noah and Taj Gibson, you’ll notice four Bulls in the lane against the penetration. They’ll give up the short jumper but not the penetration or the lob.

As a result Kyrie had his pick of midrange jumpers and by penetrating pulled defenders too far off JR Smith to recover effectively. Of course, when Smith gets hot you can be in his jersey and he still can’t be stopped, as that half-ending buzz-beater demonstrates.

In the second half they stopped sloughing at all off J.R. Smith (3-10 second half). They did a better job challenging Kyrie’s shot the second half, holding him to 1-7 from the field, but in doing so surrendered eight free throws.

Of course, shutting down 2 and 3b still leaves 1 and 3a. In a great bit of coaching gamesmanship, when the Bulls started doing a better job on Smith and Irving, James got going and found Love for three second half triples.

Love also looked to pass before always hoisting a three, even when it looked like he had enough room it’s nice to see him pass it, even if it would probably be even better to see him put it on the deck and challenge the close-out, but we’re quibbling in a game that the Cavs shot 43% from distance. The team can’t always settle for 3s – certainly everyone OTHER than JR Smith.

James also went down in the post again, providing further evidence that Blatt has been trying out a variety of packages as it fits the team’s he’s playing. Against the perimeter teams we’ve seen James Jones who didn’t even make it off the bench after starting for Kevin Love two games ago.

James had a triple-double and got eight of his assists in the second half. He took over the offense to close things out. He assisted on four of the team’s seven baskets and made two himself, including this one, off a double high pick where he ended up switched on to Nikola Mirotic.

It’s followed by a couple big feeds into Timofey Mozgov who got some serious fourth quarter burn against the burley Bulls. Mozgov contributed 7 points and five boards in the second half.

The Cavaliers are really firing on multiple cylinders with each other picking up where the last one left off, and sharing the opportunities pretty well. While even Blatt will tell you they took too many threes last night, they were open and a lot of it was created off penetration action. He would probably they try to finish a few more of those, but it’s hard to argue about the results.

Interesting to note that the bench didn’t go very deep, with Thompson and Shumpert each playing a half and Dellavedova a quarter. They produced all of 6 points total as Shumpert showed his stroke remains a work in progress. Thompson missed four second half free throws, another rather troubling trend. Yet it didn’t matter because they played very well offensively and well enough defensively.

The Cavaliers look varied enough offensively and (mostly) defensively to hardly anything they might face in the playoffs, from 3-point to fastbreak to post-up teams, and they’ll pose a major headache for anyone trying to stop them. Take away one Cavalier toy, you just expose another.

The Cavaliers have plenty to get excited about provided watching the Cavaliers isn’t your job (apparently). The next game up is in Milwaukee. The Bucks are pretty secure in the sixth position and don’t necessarily have a lot to play for, though it’s followed by a home-and-away with the Boston Celtics who are fighting for one of the last two playoff berths in the east and play a very scrappy upbeat game.

As always, we’ll be tweeting and posting live video from Bucks game. You can follow me on Twitter @CRS_1ne. You can find my columns more-or-less every weekday (and weekends after games). You can find all my writing at chrisparker.contently.com.
 
MFRONE said:
Fedor does have a point.
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You may be right. If Parker has any aspirations of rising up as a sports journalist (and he well may not) then yes, it may be inappropriate.

But for Fedor to call him out publicly is taking douchiness to an extreme level, and if you're going to do that, you better have a pretty solid rep of your own. Which Fedor doesn't.

So all things considered, I'm glad Parker's blasting him.
 
The Human Q-Tip said:
You may be right. If Parker has any aspirations of rising up as a sports journalist (and he well may not) then yes, it may be inappropriate.

But for Fedor to call him out publicly is taking douchiness to an extreme level, and if you're going to do that, you better have a pretty solid rep of your own. Which Fedor doesn't.

So all things considered, I'm glad Parker's blasting him.
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I guarantee everyone in the press booth has cheered at one time or another during a game they've covered when they've seen a great play on the court. Every one of them. Unless they are drunk, in a coma, or binge-watching The Bachelor.
 
To what are those tweets by Fedor referring to?
 
Damien O'Connel said:
Is he reading this thread, and am I seriously not gonna get any love for the Q&A suggestion he responded to?!!?

EDIT: and Chris, if you're reading this, no one likes Fedor. No one.
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Mike Miller is ready and waiting to give you daps. Has anybody affiliated with RCF reached out to Parker for a Q and A? I remember when The Bullshit Whisperer did one a couple years ago and it was great. Even for all the hate The Bullshit Whisperer gets around here.

I agree that Fedor has a point but screw it. Cavs have a chance to win a title for Cleveland this year, how do you not cheer for them?
 
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