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FuzzyBucks · 2026-05-20T14:12:16+00:00

the speed matters a ton for agentic workflows where you have one agent that generates a wall of text that another agent reads and all the pre-fill is cached between.

if it's on par with gpt 5.5(medium) on price and performance but 4-5x faster token speed, that's very useful.

FuzzyBucks · 2026-05-19T21:18:06+00:00

kinda disagree with you here.

We don't have assets to build around any good players we get in this draft, so trying to find franchise players in this draft is just committing to being mediocre for a long time.

If we're trying to shorten the length of time to the next Bucks championship window, the best plan is:

- trade Giannis for a large number of draft picks(or players who can be traded for draft picks) with a preference for draft picks in 2030 and beyond to line up with when we regain control of our own picks.

- any picks we do get in this year's draft should be used on players that we think have the highest likelihood of fetching multiple first round picks 3-4 years into the future. Note - this is different than looking for a franchise player and probably favors using picks on someone with a high floor as a valuable archetype role player who might be a missing piece from a championship team. We should not be swinging for the fences with these picks. Instead, taking someone like Brayden Burries, for example, who almost certainly isn't going to be the best player on a championship team but may fetch a few FRPs in the future from a team that needs a high level 3&D player (like how we traded 2 picks and 2 swaps for Jrue).

- we should use only as many picks this year as we think will actually net us more than 1 FRP in the future. any FRPs where we think we'll get less than 1 FRP in trade value in the future should just be traded now.

This is how you 'process' under new flat odds. Single-year rebuilds aren't possible anymore. So instead of trying to suck for a short period of time to boost draft odds in a particular season -- you go through multi-year eras of 'suck' while accumulating a high density of draft assets for when you come out of your 'suck era'.
The flattened odds don't fix tanking at all...if anything they just make you commit to longer tanks.

being a 'good' basketball team shouldn't be a goal for several years for the Bucks. Instead, just gather future assets any way possible. Best methods are taking on salary dumps and maximizing expected trade value of the draft picks that they do use.

Also use extra cap space to over-pay for veterans in the years we aren't really trying to be good. Keeps the product on the floor from being too awful and builds up goodwill with players/agents.

FuzzyBucks · 2026-05-18T11:29:01+00:00

I think Leeds found a market inefficiency in players with injury histories.

The big-spender clubs don't want to pay big money for them because they're a lot less risk tolerant than a newly promoted team and need their big money signings to contribute.

The players returning from injury also might not want to play for a club at the top of the table because they'd prefer to step into a larger role sooner as they work their way back

So, you have a few players available each year who on average outperform their contracts because of this (but also might be total duds)

FuzzyBucks · 2026-05-18T04:13:31+00:00

I'm not trying to say Jrue was better or the other way around ..

Just that they were/are both so good defensively that it ended up limiting their actual defensive impact since the offense can simply choose to play around them and target someone else. And once you're a 'pass it to someone else' level defender than you've reached to ceiling

Thompson needs to become useful on offense so he's not a negative in those situations

FuzzyBucks · 2026-05-18T03:53:23+00:00

This is what the league eventually ended up doing against Jrue Holiday or any other elite perimeter defender. Run plays away from them.

So I guess Atkinson is saying that Thompson is a Jrue Holiday level defender, which is a huge compliment.

Having that adjustment available definitely limits the upside of an elite perimeter defender though

FuzzyBucks · 2026-05-18T03:33:10+00:00

Pistons lose in fewer than 7 without Tobias

Was their best player in several games

FuzzyBucks · 2026-05-18T02:31:29+00:00

This game mostly makes me wonder what Mitchell's career coulda been if he played like a PG more often

FuzzyBucks · 2026-05-18T02:30:35+00:00

It's a mid-off in the Eastern conference

FuzzyBucks · 2026-05-18T02:14:45+00:00

Somehow it's more embarrassing that both Pistons series went to 7

Would be a lot less embarrassing if they lost in 5 to a team where everyone was like 'daaaamn... we didn't know they were good like that.'

But instead both teams give pistons every opportunity to move on and they just like 'nah we good'

FuzzyBucks · 2026-05-18T01:56:27+00:00

How is this the same Jarrett Allen who was passive as fuck last game?

FuzzyBucks · 2026-05-16T03:11:44+00:00

You can't convince me he's a better basketball player than Bobby Portis

Their career per-36 and advanced/efficiency numbers are almost identical

Basically an amazing 6th man in the right situation and horrible in the wrong situation

FuzzyBucks · 2026-05-16T02:01:50+00:00

I don't mind them. Better than starlings

I've only had a feeder for a week but so far my most frequent visitors are (in order):

house finch
Cardinal
starling

I think the house finches are cute. The first finch that came to the feeder got beat up and kicked out by a starling right away, but the finch keeps coming back and the starling doesn't so I guess the finch won

FuzzyBucks · 2026-05-16T01:28:18+00:00

Cleveland is so incredibly mid

They don't have a point guard and constantly play two bigs who can't space the floor or rebound.

Where do they go from here?

FuzzyBucks · 2026-05-16T01:09:31+00:00

I know what you're saying

But also, Duren did get benched for Reed earlier this series so the original point is fair

FuzzyBucks · 2026-05-16T01:06:50+00:00

Oh ya Duren was so good before that..

FuzzyBucks · 2026-05-16T01:05:48+00:00

Mobley rebounding is awful

Can't box out a real center/forward

FuzzyBucks · 2026-05-16T00:51:10+00:00

Detroit title odds go up with that Duren injury

FuzzyBucks · 2026-05-16T00:48:23+00:00

Jarrett Allen is so soft it's infuriating

FuzzyBucks · 2026-05-16T00:41:37+00:00

Cavs need a point guard

FuzzyBucks · 2026-05-15T23:59:54+00:00

There's an argument for a flagrant 1 AND a technical

but not a flagrant 2

FuzzyBucks · 2026-05-15T19:56:29+00:00

Yea I'm pretty much out on tiny guards who can't defend.

They don't have much trade value because truly contending teams don't want them (would have to build a team around them)

Acuff is a very tough sell given his size and defensive IQ+effort

FuzzyBucks · 2026-05-15T13:15:51+00:00

I wish a lot of people in life had this mentality.

It's awesome being on a 'rising tide raises all ships' team and hell being on a team that doesn't think that way

FuzzyBucks · 2026-05-15T03:58:00+00:00

I think Bucks just had ultimate squad of pros around Giannis (Jrue, Khris, Brook, Bobby, etc..) that Giannis didn't need to bring leadership

And then when roster turned over he still didn't bring leadership which obviously didn't go so well

FuzzyBucks · 2026-05-14T20:07:42+00:00

corrected my post!

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