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Below are the rules of Pacers Digest. After you have read them, you will have a very good sense of where we are coming from, what we expect, what we don't want to see, and how we react to things.

Rule #1

Pacers Digest is intended to be a place to discuss basketball without having to deal with the kinds of behaviors or attitudes that distract people from sticking with the discussion of the topics at hand. These unwanted distractions can come in many forms, and admittedly it can sometimes be tricky to pin down each and every kind that can rear its ugly head, but we feel that the following examples and explanations cover at least a good portion of that ground and should at least give people a pretty good idea of the kinds of things we actively discourage:

"Anyone who __________ is a liar / a fool / an idiot / a blind homer / has their head buried in the sand / a blind hater / doesn't know basketball / doesn't watch the games"

"People with intelligence will agree with me when I say that __________"

"Only stupid people think / believe / do ___________"

"I can't wait to hear something from PosterX when he/she sees that **insert a given incident or current event that will have probably upset or disappointed PosterX here**"

"He/she is just delusional"

"This thread is stupid / worthless / embarrassing"

"I'm going to take a moment to point and / laugh at PosterX / GroupOfPeopleY who thought / believed *insert though/belief here*"

"Remember when PosterX said OldCommentY that no longer looks good? "

In general, if a comment goes from purely on topic to something 'ad hominem' (personal jabs, personal shots, attacks, flames, however you want to call it, towards a person, or a group of people, or a given city/state/country of people), those are most likely going to be found intolerable.

We also dissuade passive aggressive behavior. This can be various things, but common examples include statements that are basically meant to imply someone is either stupid or otherwise incapable of holding a rational conversation. This can include (but is not limited to) laughing at someone's conclusions rather than offering an honest rebuttal, asking people what game they were watching, or another common problem is Poster X will say "that player isn't that bad" and then Poster Y will say something akin to "LOL you think that player is good". We're not going to tolerate those kinds of comments out of respect for the community at large and for the sake of trying to just have an honest conversation.

Now, does the above cover absolutely every single kind of distraction that is unwanted? Probably not, but you should by now have a good idea of the general types of things we will be discouraging. The above examples are meant to give you a good feel for / idea of what we're looking for. If something new or different than the above happens to come along and results in the same problem (that being, any other attitude or behavior that ultimately distracts from actually just discussing the topic at hand, or that is otherwise disrespectful to other posters), we can and we will take action to curb this as well, so please don't take this to mean that if you managed to technically avoid saying something exactly like one of the above examples that you are then somehow off the hook.

That all having been said, our goal is to do so in a generally kind and respectful way, and that doesn't mean the moment we see something we don't like that somebody is going to be suspended or banned, either. It just means that at the very least we will probably say something about it, quite possibly snipping out the distracting parts of the post in question while leaving alone the parts that are actually just discussing the topics, and in the event of a repeating or excessive problem, then we will start issuing infractions to try to further discourage further repeat problems, and if it just never seems to improve, then finally suspensions or bans will come into play. We would prefer it never went that far, and most of the time for most of our posters, it won't ever have to.

A slip up every once and a while is pretty normal, but, again, when it becomes repetitive or excessive, something will be done. Something occasional is probably going to be let go (within reason), but when it starts to become habitual or otherwise a pattern, odds are very good that we will step in.

There's always a small minority that like to push people's buttons and/or test their own boundaries with regards to the administrators, and in the case of someone acting like that, please be aware that this is not a court of law, but a private website run by people who are simply trying to do the right thing as they see it. If we feel that you are a special case that needs to be dealt with in an exceptional way because your behavior isn't explicitly mirroring one of our above examples of what we generally discourage, we can and we will take atypical action to prevent this from continuing if you are not cooperative with us.

Also please be aware that you will not be given a pass simply by claiming that you were 'only joking,' because quite honestly, when someone really is just joking, for one thing most people tend to pick up on the joke, including the person or group that is the target of the joke, and for another thing, in the event where an honest joke gets taken seriously and it upsets or angers someone, the person who is truly 'only joking' will quite commonly go out of his / her way to apologize and will try to mend fences. People who are dishonest about their statements being 'jokes' do not do so, and in turn that becomes a clear sign of what is really going on. It's nothing new.

In any case, quite frankly, the overall quality and health of the entire forum's community is more important than any one troublesome user will ever be, regardless of exactly how a problem is exhibiting itself, and if it comes down to us having to make a choice between you versus the greater health and happiness of the entire community, the community of this forum will win every time.

Lastly, there are also some posters, who are generally great contributors and do not otherwise cause any problems, who sometimes feel it's their place to provoke or to otherwise 'mess with' that small minority of people described in the last paragraph, and while we possibly might understand why you might feel you WANT to do something like that, the truth is we can't actually tolerate that kind of behavior from you any more than we can tolerate the behavior from them. So if we feel that you are trying to provoke those other posters into doing or saying something that will get themselves into trouble, then we will start to view you as a problem as well, because of the same reason as before: The overall health of the forum comes first, and trying to stir the pot with someone like that doesn't help, it just makes it worse. Some will simply disagree with this philosophy, but if so, then so be it because ultimately we have to do what we think is best so long as it's up to us.

If you see a problem that we haven't addressed, the best and most appropriate course for a forum member to take here is to look over to the left of the post in question. See underneath that poster's name, avatar, and other info, down where there's a little triangle with an exclamation point (!) in it? Click that. That allows you to report the post to the admins so we can definitely notice it and give it a look to see what we feel we should do about it. Beyond that, obviously it's human nature sometimes to want to speak up to the poster in question who has bothered you, but we would ask that you try to refrain from doing so because quite often what happens is two or more posters all start going back and forth about the original offending post, and suddenly the entire thread is off topic or otherwise derailed. So while the urge to police it yourself is understandable, it's best to just report it to us and let us handle it. Thank you!

All of the above is going to be subject to a case by case basis, but generally and broadly speaking, this should give everyone a pretty good idea of how things will typically / most often be handled.

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If the actions of an administrator inspire you to make a comment, criticism, or express a concern about it, there is a wrong place and a couple of right places to do so.

The wrong place is to do so in the original thread in which the administrator took action. For example, if a post gets an infraction, or a post gets deleted, or a comment within a larger post gets clipped out, in a thread discussing Paul George, the wrong thing to do is to distract from the discussion of Paul George by adding your off topic thoughts on what the administrator did.

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B) Send a private message to the administrators, and they can respond to you that way.

If this is done the wrong way, those comments will be deleted, and if it's a repeating problem then it may also receive an infraction as well.

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If a poster is bothering you, and an administrator has not or will not deal with that poster to the extent that you would prefer, you have a powerful tool at your disposal, one that has recently been upgraded and is now better than ever: The ability to ignore a user.

When you ignore a user, you will unfortunately still see some hints of their existence (nothing we can do about that), however, it does the following key things:

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B) The new addition to this feature: If someone QUOTES a user you are ignoring, you do not have to read who it was, or what that poster said, unless you go out of your way to click on a link to find out who it is and what they said.

To utilize this feature, from any page on Pacers Digest, scroll to the top of the page, look to the top right where it says 'Settings' and click that. From the settings page, look to the left side of the page where it says 'My Settings', and look down from there until you see 'Edit Ignore List' and click that. From here, it will say 'Add a Member to Your List...' Beneath that, click in the text box to the right of 'User Name', type in or copy & paste the username of the poster you are ignoring, and once their name is in the box, look over to the far right and click the 'Okay' button. All done!

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Regarding infractions, currently they carry a value of one point each, and that point will expire in 31 days. If at any point a poster is carrying three points at the same time, that poster will be suspended until the oldest of the three points expires.

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When you share or paste content or articles from another website, you must include the URL/link back to where you found it, who wrote it, and what website it's from. Said content will be removed if this doesn't happen.

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We prefer self-restraint and/or modesty when making jokes or off topic comments in a sports discussion thread. They can be fun, but sometimes they derail or distract from a topic, and we don't want to see that happen. If we feel it is a problem, we will either delete or move those posts from the thread.

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    Al Jefferson to Mentor Myles Turner

    http://www.basketballinsiders.com/nb...-myles-turner/

    For the first time in a very long time, Al Jefferson is going to start this NBA season as a reserve. He’s entering his 13th season in the NBA, and as one of the last players to have been drafted directly out of high school, he serves as a sort of a throwback to the prep-to-pro era.

    Just because there are no longer droves of 18-year-olds looking to find riches in the NBA at the expense of the college experience doesn’t mean there aren’t plenty of young players in the league dealing with crazy expectations at a very young age. Indiana’s Myles Turner, for example, is only 20 years old but already carries a ton of responsibility for a Pacers team that needs him to stretch the floor on offense and protect the rim without fouling quite so much on defense.

    While Turner seems fairly ready to accept that responsibility, having someone like Jefferson on the team certainly won’t hurt him as he continues to get accustomed to the league, which is one reason why the Pacers gave Big Al a three-year deal worth $30 million this summer. Jefferson has already faced the pressure of high expectations at a young age and can offer guidance to Turner. Among other things, Jefferson believes he can be a mentor to Turner as well as provide solid production behind him in the lineup.

    “Being around him every day, he’s showed me he’s a really special player with a bright future,” Jefferson said of Turner. “He’s a hard-working kid with the right attitude for a second-year player.

    “It seems like to me the guys who have been around him have done a great job working with him on how to receive attention and deal with what he’s got going on for himself. But the one thing that I wanted to teach was having that back-to-the-basket game, because the things he’s doing already make him a tough match-up for any team. He shoots the three well, he shoots the outside shot, he can put the ball on the floor. If I can teach him a few moves on the block, teams won’t know how to stop him.”

    That old-school post-up game is going the way of the dodo, with many teams playing their stretch fours at what used to be the five spot. Back-to-the-basket bruisers are a rarity these days, as more and more lineups want to open up the floor, move the ball around the three-point line and shoot a ton of deep balls. Players like Jefferson don’t do that, but that doesn’t mean posting up isn’t a skill that stretch fours and fives can’t still implement.

    “You don’t see it no more, now that Tim Duncan’s gone especially,” Jefferson said of the changing roles of NBA big men. “DeMarcus Cousins… Zach Randolph maybe? There’s not many of us anymore.”

    Earlier this summer, Turner raved about Jefferson and made it clear that he was excited about the addition.

    “With Big Al, his footwork is impeccable,” Turner told Basketball Insiders. “I’ve watched him play over the years and he’s an incredible player.”

    Other than the post moves, Jefferson just wants to help Turner handle expectations. Things have come a little easier for Turner so far in his career, but Jefferson’s experiences were such that any young player could learn from them.

    “I tell people all the time, I would never want to relive my rookie year again,” Jefferson said. “Not that it was terrible, just that everything was a learning experience. It was hard coming out of high school, playing 35 games and [then] going to playing four games in five nights in four different cities and being expected to play your best at a high level with no excuses. I had to learn so many plays and not having any good reasons as to why you don’t know a play yet. There was so much thrown at me, and I had to either get it or not get it.”

    It did get better though, obviously, thanks in large part to Jefferson’s veterans in Boston.

    “Around the middle of my second year, things started coming a lot easier to me,” Jefferson said. “I was working hard and had good vets around me: Paul Pierce, Tom Gugliotta, Michael Stewart, Antoine Walker, Ricky Davis, Gary Payton. It wasn’t always easy for me, but I got through it.”

    Turner will too, and it’s looking like Jefferson may be one of those “good vets” on the roster who will almost certainly help him tap into his potential. While it already seems like this will be the season that Jefferson moves from starter to veteran reserve, it also looks like this could be the year that Turner takes his massive leap forward. For now, it seems like both are perfectly willing to accept their role and make that transition – and the end product should be good for the Indiana Pacers.
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    Re: Al Jefferson to Mentor Myles Turner

    This team is going to be so much better if everyone buys into the roles they are supposed to play. I am skeptical on a couple players but from what I've heard from the offseason fluff it makes me a bit more optimistic.

    (This team will also be a lot better if Myles makes the leap many are expecting him to make)

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      Re: Al Jefferson to Mentor Myles Turner

      What I'm amazed at is that Myles took a good number of his shots as a jump shooting Big Man while hitting at an above average clip. Learning from a very efficient and effective low post player like AlJeff will do wonders for his offensive game.
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        Re: Al Jefferson to Mentor Myles Turner

        I'm wondering where Turner will fit within the offense this year. Last year he was not near as effective with the starters and got lost within the offense some. Now we've brought in two players who averaged over 15 PPG last year, to go with PG and Ellis. I'm wondering if he is going to focus more on being a defensive anchor and not produce as much offensively as we expect. While I'd love to see him as a defensive anchor, he just has so much potential, I don't want the starters to forget about him.

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          Re: Al Jefferson to Mentor Myles Turner

          Originally posted by Dr. Awesome View Post
          I'm wondering where Turner will fit within the offense this year. Last year he was not near as effective with the starters and got lost within the offense some. Now we've brought in two players who averaged over 15 PPG last year, to go with PG and Ellis. I'm wondering if he is going to focus more on being a defensive anchor and not produce as much offensively as we expect. While I'd love to see him as a defensive anchor, he just has so much potential, I don't want the starters to forget about him.
          To be expected a bit within the context of being a rookie. I think we will see him exert himself much more this year.

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            Re: Al Jefferson to Mentor Myles Turner

            Good.


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              Re: Al Jefferson to Mentor Myles Turner

              Hopefully he isn't showing him how to play defense. Just kidding!!
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                Re: Al Jefferson to Mentor Myles Turner

                Al Jefferson is indeed a very talented offensive player. His back to the basket game has always been great and his footwork is impeccable. Personally, I welcome any kind of improvement to Turner's back to the basket game and the possibility of Al Jefferson teaching Myles some secrets is one of the main reasons why I liked the move.
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                  Re: Al Jefferson to Mentor Myles Turner

                  Originally posted by 90'sNBARocked View Post
                  http://www.basketballinsiders.com/nb...-myles-turner/
                  I forgot Gary Payton was a Celtic at one point in his career.

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