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Deadlock Clock: Jun 5th 2019 at 11:59:00 PM
notriddle Since: Jul, 2014
#1: May 22nd 2019 at 3:58:47 PM

I have no idea who these people are.

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#2: May 23rd 2019 at 4:26:27 AM

Previous thread. Voting Keep Until Better Image Suggested, although I admit that being old enough to have seen many of these players in their heyday is biasing me.

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#3: May 23rd 2019 at 6:19:42 AM

Keep Until Better Image Suggested

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#4: May 23rd 2019 at 7:31:33 AM

Keep Until Better Image Suggested.

(Annoyed grunt)
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#5: May 23rd 2019 at 7:33:10 AM

Keep Until Better Image Suggested. Page quote should probably go, though.

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#6: May 23rd 2019 at 8:19:21 AM

Pull. I was against it when it was suggested in the previous thread.

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#7: May 24th 2019 at 12:53:10 PM

Speaking as someone who has never seen a bit of basketball in their life... Pull.

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#8: May 24th 2019 at 12:55:01 PM

Keep

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#10: May 25th 2019 at 6:02:52 AM

Could someone explain where "dream" comes in if you don't know basketball or the players? I see "team" but not "dream".

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#12: Jun 2nd 2019 at 9:37:01 PM

Crowner?

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#13: Jun 3rd 2019 at 6:26:13 AM

Currently the consensus is Keep Until Better Image Suggested.

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Willbyr Hi (Y2K) Relationship Status: With my statistically significant other
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#14: Jun 3rd 2019 at 7:06:32 AM

Something that might help with context is to replace that line about "one of the greatest teams" with a brief summary of some of their accomplishments...the example notes that 11 of them are now NBA Hall-of-Famers, so that plus number of total championships, number of league MVP awards, something like that would help. The potholes in their names need to go.

AmourMitts Since: Jan, 2016
#15: Jun 3rd 2019 at 9:54:58 PM

No need for a crowner since the consensus is to keep the current.

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#16: Jun 4th 2019 at 7:45:53 AM

Currently 6 keeps to 3 Pull, assuming Brainulator 9 counts as a pull (based on his question in post 10).

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#17: Jun 4th 2019 at 1:45:44 PM

This is in the "weakest possible Keep Until Better Image Suggested" category for me. I wonder if this cover might be more illustrative, as it at least outright calls them a "dream team" for the Olympics and shows the players individually playing basketball (implying they're good).

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#18: Jun 4th 2019 at 3:52:06 PM

[up] Better than the current, at least.

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#20: Jun 4th 2019 at 10:19:58 PM

That's better.

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#21: Jun 5th 2019 at 4:36:36 AM

I'm a touch torn on the new suggestion, since it doesn't show a few players from the Dream Team. (Clyde Drexler, John Stockton, the coach Chuck Daly, and Christian Laettner.) There's a book by Chuck Daly that does have all of the players on the cover, but that cover is basically just the current suggestion with a bit more text.

On a side note, the caption probably should have most of its potholes removed.

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#22: Jun 5th 2019 at 7:07:34 AM

[up] Care to show us? If so, I'll wait before saying yes to the current suggestion.

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Synchronicity (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
#23: Jun 5th 2019 at 7:42:40 AM

[up]I think that's this book, but I can't find a hi-res version of the cover currently. Personally, I don't think people unfamiliar with the Dream Team or basketball in general (which would be many tropers, me included) would mind that a few of them are missing.

Edited by Synchronicity on Jun 5th 2019 at 9:42:55 AM

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#24: Jun 5th 2019 at 11:13:59 AM

[tup] 19

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