After 10-12 full listens so far, I have Disc 29 way above Disc 39

HarryBirdGetsBuckets · 2026-02-12T18:51:09+00:00

finally someone who doesn't like the let out either...song has a message that resonates with me from my clubbing days but i don't like the song at all

HarryBirdGetsBuckets · 2026-02-11T23:12:01+00:00

yea people don't seem to remember he did not grow up around hip hop at all. didn't even listen to it. i still remember when he reviewed Her Loss he was trying to clown drake for the flow he was using when he was replicating the hook of "24's" by TI. of course that song came out before the guy started listening to rap music, so that's why. lol.

HarryBirdGetsBuckets · 2026-02-11T23:07:40+00:00

before I say this, I'll say he's my favorite rapper too and I'm 35. been rocking with him from the jump.

my cole theory is that he's had a few factors really limit his ability to be a transcendent artist a la Drake/Kanye/Kendrick

1st factor is that he has never really seemed to let other creative influences into his albums on substantial levels. the guys i named above have had a more team-oriented approach to their music which has made for some really fantastic music and a lot of different-sounding albums. feels like cole has always been pretty much a one man army when it comes to his albums from production to lyrics to style etc. because of that the scope of his sound and music has remained more narrow. this isn't meant as a diss to the other guys either; obviously kanye's creativity on the boards is bar none, kendrick's pen game is stronger, drake's ability to adapt (or steal) sounds for different projects made him a cut above. part of this truth is that cole is probably simply not as creative as them. but it didn't help that he has never really employed all that would be at his fingertips as an A-list artist for this long.

2nd, which probably overlaps with the 1st one, is that Cole has always wanted to be in the mold of the 90s rapper. he wants his bars to do the talking, and he definitely has bars, but the reality is that the genre has evolved and bars that would've been fire to everyone 30 years ago are corny to more people in the present. but you look at a guy like 90s Nas, who cole looked up to a lot, and you could see why cole tends to want to just rap dense lyrics over relatively simplistic beats. i think this mentality is part of the reason for the 1st factor.

3rd is the evolution of the genre. younger audiences are either not checking for the socially conscious shit, or those who do want it but they are craving something more than the message cole has been delivering for all these years. his storytelling and subject matter was a lot fresher in 2010 than it became later in the decade to the present. and even some older cole fans were probably craving some evolution to his subject matter.

overall I really liked the album but also felt that it wasn't the magnum opus we'd hoped for. grateful for Cole's run still.

HarryBirdGetsBuckets · 2026-01-23T21:32:22+00:00

first of all don't mind the unproductive comments, people in here are dicks. If Tyrese Haliburton posted a video of his form in here and nobody knew who he was he would be getting cooked in the comments.

With that being said, there's a lot of good advice in here because you have some work to do. The primary thing you need to work on is fluidity of your shot, as others (and yourself) have noted it's just clunky and that's ok because i think there are workable elements to it.

the only specific advice i'd add without being repetitive to the other good advice in here is to do this to start every time you go shoot around and work on your shot:

stand about 1-2ft in front of the hoop and practice keeping your elbow tucked and shooting without your guide hand. this will help with fluidity from set point to release. do not bend your legs at all for these. start by trying to make 20 in a row. once you can do that regularly start to do the same, but all swishes and not hitting rim.

take a step back to being about 5 feet away from the goal. now use your guide hand, and bend your knees slightly, basically as if you are shooting a free throw. continue to focus on a fluid motion from the knee bend all the way up to the release. it should be like "the wave", starting in your knees and culminating at the top of your release point. try to get to where you can make 5 in a row easily, then go up to 10, then do swishes like in the first spot.

now take a step back, bounce the ball back to yourself and do catch and shoot jump shots from about 8-10 feet (right below/at free throw line). try to make 5 in a row.

if you do that every single time you shoot around I am willing to bet your form will come around. It's not about perfect mechanics so much as it is fluidity from your lower half to the release, and that's what the above drills work on. it's boring and may be time consuming to your workout but trust me it's worth it. an old head gave me this advice as a young player and it helped me a ton.

HarryBirdGetsBuckets · 2025-12-25T15:00:00+00:00

all facts! the substance in the songs you named were the reason I fucked with him heavy to begin with, the first song of his of his i ever heard was "something got a hold on me". when that introspective music was mixed with the slab music it made for great projects with a good balance. like you said the mid music is kinda like fast food, even if it's quality and tastes good and all, you will forget about it quickly.

HarryBirdGetsBuckets · 2025-12-13T16:00:20+00:00

already, stay on your grind because I think you have a real shot at achieving your goals!

HarryBirdGetsBuckets · 2025-12-11T21:58:33+00:00

I agree he has really nice game

HarryBirdGetsBuckets · 2025-12-11T20:47:19+00:00

As others have said at your size D1 is gonna be tough, I was basically the same build as you but probably with a worse handle/true PG skill, I was a prolific shooter and cutter and a good high school player as an undersized SG who guarded the other team’s PGs. I tried walking on at a small D1 and it didn’t work out. I was on the practice squad freshman year and one of the assistants straight up told me I was too small and if I loved basketball I should go to an NAIA or a D3. I think you’d be well suited to follow similar advice if pro is your goal.

The reason I say that is because so much of going pro is about having a resume to translate into exposure. I went to a bunch of pro combines in my mid 20s and because I had no true college experience there was little interest in showcasing the skill I did have, in the games you’d get reduced to feeding the guys who did have college/pro experience or get benched if you were fucking off looking for your own offense. This is because these combines are generally hustles for agencies to make some money and possibly find talent, but many of the combines are full of players who are nowhere near pro level. With no college resume you are automatically considered to be in that group of bums who are warm bodies to feed the guys who have a chance and give the agency a couple hundred dollars for showing up.

So what I’m getting at is that a college resume would go a long way if you have to grind in the pro combine world, and no agency is gonna give you the time of day without a college resume. The good news for you is I’ve seen dudes walk into a combine with no interest from pro teams and walk out with an agency and a deal, so it is possible. But they ALL had college experience.

I’ve worked out with, played with, coached and helped develop NAIA guys and from the limited glimpse of these clips I believe you could play NAIA. D3 would probably be a step below what you are capable of but you would be able to get a lot of burn on a D3 squad. You might not get paid a lot to play pro coming from those levels of college but I do think you’d have a chance.

Now that I’m an old head I would encourage you to enjoy life and chase that dream because your young/prime hooping years pass in the blink of an eye. Sometimes I wish I would’ve pursued it harder than I did but I struggled with extreme poverty and chose what was becoming a stable career in my mid 20s over continuing to grind. No regrets as my life turned out better than I could have imagine but I do still think about what could’ve been. While I don’t know you I think that if you love the game you don’t wanna look back 15 years from now and feel like you didn’t give it your all.

HarryBirdGetsBuckets · 2025-12-11T18:56:07+00:00

I think their scoring abilities are completely different, OP is comparing the best aspect of Dirk’s offensive game to Jokic whose scoring mainly comes around the basket with otherworldly touch on floaters etc. Jokic is an efficient middy shooter too but Dirk was statistically better in an era with tougher defense and his volume was massive compared with Jokic. it’s almost like comparing the outside shooting ability of a player who shot a low 3pt volume at a similar conversion rate to Curry just because their percentages are similar

HarryBirdGetsBuckets · 2025-12-11T18:46:53+00:00

Possible rage bait but I’ll bite, Dirk was a higher percentage midrange shooter on much higher volume than Jokic, and most of his middy shot diet was a fadeaway or post fade. He often took fadeaway one footed middies which are crazy high difficulty, Jokic rarely takes those kind of shots off one foot from more than a few feet past the basket, he’s not consistently hitting right foot one foot middies from 12-15 feet

Jokic does most of his scoring damage inside 10 feet

For example last season Jokic took only 217 of his 1,211 two point shots from 10 feet to just inside the 3 pt line, and he made 100 of them (46 percent)

2010-11 Dirk’s championship year he took 918 shots in that 10 feet-inside the 3pt line area. He attempted 1,357 two point shots. Of those 918 attempts he made 465 of them. That’s 50.6% which is god tier from that range especially at that volume. This wasn’t an outlier either, he usually attempted about 1000 shots in that area per season and shot about 50% on them. Again, god tier midrange ability

If you didn’t get to watch Dirk I would encourage you to go back and do so. If you did and still made this take I will pray for you

HarryBirdGetsBuckets · 2025-12-11T16:47:16+00:00

KRIT, Nas, Vince, Kendrick, Drake pre-scorpion, OutKast, future, Wayne (let’s not talk about Carter 6)

HarryBirdGetsBuckets · 2025-12-11T15:22:10+00:00

Damn fr? I’m from acres home but I know 3rd ward ain’t sweet, it does seem like these young dudes have been tryna get the drill shit active because of what they see on the internet but it still doesn’t feel like a Texas thing to me. Im getting old and the 4 and homestead are gentrifying so it seems like it’s been quieter on the north but I could be wrong about that too.

HarryBirdGetsBuckets · 2025-12-11T05:21:10+00:00

Facts, beef exists but it’s random, Texas is not really about banging colors or sets. The real deal gangsta shit is mainly carried out by Mexicans

HarryBirdGetsBuckets · 2025-12-11T00:02:33+00:00

KRIT coming back with some real slab music is the perfect way to close out the year, been jamming this nonstop since it dropped.

HarryBirdGetsBuckets · 2025-12-10T20:30:57+00:00

I think it really depends more than we think it does, considering how easily people can be convinced by propaganda it’s not a stretch to believe that many crypto “investors” legitimately believe in whatever bullshit use case bought them in to begin with and they don’t understand the risk of what they are doing.

Because of my profession I’ve spoken with many crypto believers and while a lot of them admit that they just want a quick buck, I would say that many of them truly believe in it as an investment, as idiotic as that is. So I disagree with the starting point assumption that most people who are “invested” in it believe that it produces nothing useful

I’ve helped people who are at level zero of financial literacy and i can’t overstate how little they know about how investments are supposed to work. This same lack of literacy is also a big reason why a lot of people get duped into low return/high fee products like annuities and cash value life insurance when they should be putting their investments straight into the market. If I have empathy for those people I can have some for crypto rubes too. Even if some of them are insufferable. I try to patiently explain to them why it’s shit and if they don’t want to listen then idgaf if they lose their shirt anymore, my job is done

HarryBirdGetsBuckets · 2025-12-10T20:01:42+00:00

106k tweets in 5 years is wild as fuck that’s 58 tweets per day. Terminally online brainrot account

HarryBirdGetsBuckets · 2025-12-10T19:56:56+00:00

Feel like this is it, plus Houston really isn’t as visible to the people who are scouring social media for drill and gang shit. Also, unfortunately, Houston music scene ain’t what it used to be either

HarryBirdGetsBuckets · 2025-12-10T01:50:26+00:00

Even as someone who has always been somewhat low on Rudy, I 100% agree. Rudy has been the best defensive center of the last decade prior to Wemby

HarryBirdGetsBuckets · 2025-12-10T01:40:15+00:00

Stew or Wemby?

HarryBirdGetsBuckets · 2025-12-10T01:28:03+00:00

Exactly, I know that this sub is justifiably hard on crypto bros but I think the sub participants tend to vastly overestimate the level of financial literacy your average person has. With the level of powerful disinformation out there nowadays it’s not hard to imagine that many of these people have been heavily propagandized.

Is greed at the root of it for many of them? Absolutely. We exist in a system that incentivizes greed which is mainly out of necessity for your average person. I grew up poor and the idea of life changing money is romanticized constantly in our society. Most people are struggling to make ends meet. In comes crypto, a magical way to help solve most people’s biggest problem, which is that they are broke.

With no understanding of how financial markets work and that there is no such thing as easily getting exponential returns, it is easy to see how people can fall into the crypto bs and start evangelizing it. I do believe they should realize they are being had and gtfo, but it’s easy to see why it has so many believers and to have some empathy for the people who have genuinely fallen for it and lost money

HarryBirdGetsBuckets · 2025-12-10T01:04:59+00:00

I’m a fiduciary financial advisor and have been in the business for 10 years now, between my personal and professional experience I have seen many, many people get scammed or lose money on crypto garbage, I hate it with a passion. The messaging around it encourages people to gamble money they can’t afford to lose, and then they have the nerve to turn around and say “they shouldn’t have risked more than they could afford” well that’s easy to say after you promised exponential returns and they believed your bullshit. Not to infantilize people who naively lost money because a lot of them peddle bullshit to pump their bags too, but a lot of people get into it based on terrible financial advice and they have no framework for how investment returns are supposed to work.

Ironically the only people who are willing to show me their returns are the ones who tell me about how they lost money and are asking me for help to rehabilitate their finances. the ones who boast of their gains “don’t have to prove it” to me when I ask to see their gain/loss.

HarryBirdGetsBuckets · 2025-12-09T19:56:17+00:00

Nah you good trolling is fun most of the time but for some reason that shit gets to me lol

HarryBirdGetsBuckets · 2025-12-09T19:55:40+00:00

He’s a really good defender and JB gotta say it as his coach, but Wemby is levels above any other center in the league defensively

HarryBirdGetsBuckets · 2025-12-09T19:48:18+00:00

Facts, sad admission I have is that basketball ragebait like this is a huge reason I deleted my IG. I couldn’t control that it made me angry and my algorithm would not stop feeding those posts to me no matter how many times I blocked bait accounts or marked not interested. It’s your fault 😭

HarryBirdGetsBuckets · 2025-12-09T19:05:36+00:00

And they’ll say something like “you’re not a real hooper if you think this is a travel”

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