2019-2020 Official Regular Season Thread

Mecca said:

Basketball Related Income.

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dtgold88 said:

In general, yes...but I already established I was laughing (out loud).

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Shaqdaddy11 said:

What were the odds of the Cavs winning the title after being down 3-1 in the Finals?

And what are the odds of the Blazers making the playoffs this year?

You want to talk numbers? It's really that simple.

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Mecca said:

These 24 States Have Uncontrolled Coronavirus Outbreaks, Study Says

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dtgold88 said:

Is it 72 games? I did hear one proposal said they would get all teams to 72 games. Guess that would be why.

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Mecca said:

We can't know that until we know how many games are left before the playoffs.

But, if they are back 3.5 games with 5 games remaining, they are cooked unless all 5 games are against the team they are trying to catch.

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trojanfan12 said:

lol

Didn't see anything in there that indicates anything is actually "uncontrolled".

It's a lot of "could see this number in this county", "state is looking at loosening restrictions so this could happen" and if there was a protest of some kind they mention that. They also give the infection and death totals through May 25th.

For California, it just said cases are linked to church services and food plants. It doesn't say when (it couldn't be too recent since churches just re-opened and I'm not even sure all of them have) this is happening. Doesn't specify if we're talking about new cases.

It doesn't why California is even on the list. Similar with Pennsylvania, just says when they are expected to start opening up (June 5th) and gives infection and death totals.

Study hasn't even been peer reviewed.

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Mecca said:

We can't know that until we know how many games are left before the playoffs.

But, if they are back 3.5 games with 5 games remaining, they are cooked unless all 5 games are against the team they are trying to catch.

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Shaqdaddy11 said:

I agree.

In which case i'd love to see Portland play a best-of-5 series against Memphis for the final spot

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dtgold88 said:

I can even understand saying the cavs looked cooked, as well.

But in one of these situations we are talking about starting up the reg. season again after 3-4 months off in a global pandemic. The other is in the NBA Finals uninterrupted by anything.

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• Tallies continue to climb. Over the past week, the state has averaged 2,242 new cases and 59.6 new deaths per day.
• The focus is shifting to SoCal. Los Angeles County has recorded 50% of new cases in the last two weeks, while home to only a quarter of the state's population.
• Hospitals are holding up. The number of patients has remained steady, a goal of the stay-at-home policies.
• Testing is more widespread. With numbers on the increase, the state hit the governor's goal of 60,000 tests per day for the first time.
• The highest toll is among seniors. Roughly 79% of the dead were 65 or older. At least 1,998 were living at a nursing home.
• The state has started to gradually reopen. Many counties are opening nonessential businesses.
• California's totals sit far below New York, where more than 29,400 people have died.

Mecca said:

Post #20914.

It's based on the RO.

I didn't realize the link I posted was basically a pictures.

This one at least explains what they are basing this theory on.

Nearly half of US states haven't contained their coronavirus outbreaks, a new study finds

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trojanfan12 said:

That one was better, but it's still conjecture and speculation and some of what they are using is from before or at the start of the lockdown.

As I put in my previous post, for California, it said church services were linked to coronavirus, but churches just re-opened this past weekend and not all of them did. I'd bet attendance was down for most services in the ones that were.

For, Louisiana, they said that the hospitalizations have decreased and still has them listed as "uncontrolled".

It'll be interesting to see what is said when this study is peer reviewed.

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Mecca said:

@trojanfan12

Here's your answer of why California is on the list.

I think it's mostly because testing is more widespread.

But, it doesn't help that the clowns in LA County don't believe that fat meat is greasy.

As heavily populated that area is, your think they'd stay home, avoid crowds more.

Y'all should just officially make them a part of Mexico.

California coronavirus cases: Tracking the outbreak

• Tallies continue to climb. Over the past week, the state has averaged 2,242 new cases and 59.6 new deaths per day.
• The focus is shifting to SoCal. Los Angeles County has recorded 50% of new cases in the last two weeks, while home to only a quarter of the state's population.
• Hospitals are holding up. The number of patients has remained steady, a goal of the stay-at-home policies.
• Testing is more widespread. With numbers on the increase, the state hit the governor's goal of 60,000 tests per day for the first time.
• The highest toll is among seniors. Roughly 79% of the dead were 65 or older. At least 1,998 were living at a nursing home.
• The state has started to gradually reopen. Many counties are opening nonessential businesses.
• California's totals sit far below New York, where more than 29,400 people have died.

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Mecca said:

Post #20914.

It's based on the RO.

I didn't realize the link I posted was basically just pictures.

This one at least explains what they are basing this theory on.

Nearly half of US states haven't contained their coronavirus outbreaks, a new study finds

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trojanfan12 said:

Yeah, that looks more testing related. Everything has been flattened. I'm sure that there will be an increase in new cases once things really start to open..I just hope people don't panic over it.

If this thing is "seasonal", like the flu. Then people will still get it even when it's not the "season" just as people still get the flu when it's not flu season.

This is why it's important for folks to remember/understand that re-opening, etc. isn't going to happen at the same pace everywhere.

Where I live, especially in my city, we could probably completely re-open and be just fine. LA, needs to take it more slowly.

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Mecca said:

Cases not increasing as fast doesn't equal " contained".

This is not a fire.

We can't just surround the virus because people can pretty much come and go as they please.

As for the Church's and places being closed, that's a rickety bridge.

You have folks that have been out right defiant on the issue.

...and they paid the ultimate price.

Louisiana church defies COVID-19 order, holds Sunday services

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bksballer89 said:

We finally got it controlled in NY

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bksballer89 said:

We finally got it controlled in NY

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bksballer89 said:

We finally got it controlled in NY

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trojanfan12 said:

Oh, I get all that and I'm not advocating that we just open things up back up and take what comes as a result (just hyperbole, I don't think you think that's what I'm doing).

But I think we are at the point where it's time for people to start deciding for themselves what level of risk they are willing to accept.

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