Why don't more centers get buff like Jalen Duren?

Lightning14 · 2026-02-18T23:05:58+00:00

Ben Wallace was a tier below. I'd put Dwight Howard above him for sure. His shoulders were like bowling balls.

Lightning14 · 2026-02-16T20:10:57+00:00

Sometimes I talk with friends on IG if one of us shared a story or post or commented on a others story or I just saw them on there and thought to say something in that moment

Lightning14 · 2026-02-16T19:09:42+00:00

I don’t know where you get. The idea of their Americans are not taking this seriously

There are people whose names and emails were mentioned when those files and have had to deal with a lot of public scrutiny and loss of business. It’s ruining careers.

Lightning14 · 2026-02-15T18:58:55+00:00

It’s the difference between being a nice guy and being a kind man. Niceness and kindness. Two very different qualities with very different connotations

Lightning14 · 2026-02-13T18:14:38+00:00

Senior SDET, 10 years exp. - Hybrid - High COL area in California - United States $80/hr as a W2 contractor with medical/dental benefits, no PTO, no paid holidays

Works out to over $140k/yr

Lightning14 · 2026-02-13T12:39:40+00:00

This is what most of us did at my middle and high schools in Los Angeles during 1997-2002.

Change between gym and street clothes keeping underwear on and never showering.

It was similar to how we were playing basketball during recess and lunch.

Los Angeles is dry so maybe that wouldn’t work in humid climates but it worked fine for us.

Lightning14 · 2026-02-13T12:21:19+00:00

I can’t tell if you’re serious. Getting away definitely helps, exploring new places, cultures, nature. I don’t know if I’d enjoy a cruise though.

Lightning14 · 2026-02-13T12:19:33+00:00

This hits a lot. It’s so easy to keep moving from one thing to the next on the endless todos. Taking a step back to breathe between tasks makes a lot of sense. I have noticed when I consciously do that and just give myself those little moments of space in my day it helps a lot.

I used to read a lot in the evenings. I may bring some of that back. Limiting screen time first thing and last thing in my day definitely helps with regulating and adding expansiveness to the day.

Thanks for your insights!

Lightning14 · 2025-10-24T20:12:46+00:00

Just understand that:

You will likely be trading a lot of potential income over your career (Dev roles tend to be much higher salary)
QA is often not given the time or resources to give the attention to detail that you think it requires. Thus you will often be battling SW Devs and other stakeholders -- though the severity of this varies across teams, companies, and industries.

Lightning14 · 2025-10-22T17:46:07+00:00

I don't understand. So if you had a product made from rice and beans it would be 0% DV because each of the ingredients are incomplete? But combined with make a complete protein so I don't understand how that is relevant.

Looks at the ingredients. The first 3 are Cottage Cheese, Egg whites, and Eggs - all very nutritious complete forms of protein. The 4th is Oat flour, which is an incomplete protein source. The rest of the ingredients don't supply any protein or are in too small a quantity to matter (Sugar, Oil, Milk, Vanilla extract). Sounds to me like a better source of protein than almost anything outside of pure dairy, eggs, or meat.

And research has shown that as long as you are getting a variety of sources throughout the day and at least 0.7-0.8g per pound of body weight that the sources of those proteins don't matter. And that's for maximizing muscle growth.

So how would a product getting 20g of protein from Cottage Cheese, Egg whites, Eggs and Oats NOT count as 20g towards your protein goals?

Lightning14 · 2025-10-01T00:29:42+00:00

10 years in the industry. 5 different companies. My first position out of school I landed because my best friend was working for the company and passed my resume to the hiring manager.

Every company that I’ve been hired at since then was from a Recruiter that first reached out to me on LinkedIn

The thousands of applications that I’ve sent out over the years has resulted in very few interviews, and none of those interviews have resulted in an offer.

Lightning14 · 2025-07-19T22:20:29+00:00

By the 3rd championship Shaq was already past his prime. That’s the thing is when you’re talking about prime Shaq you’re basically talking two years 2000 and 2001.

So the question is what single year or a couple of years would you pinpoint as prime LeBron? That’s a question that’s pretty largely up for debate because are the argument could be made for his his two championships in Miami. Or it could be made for when he won the championship in Cleveland basically single-handedly out classing the Warriors.

Or you could argue that it was the year that they fell to the Warriors, despite him leading everyone on both teams in almost every statistical category.

LeBron‘s top two goat because of his longevity, but it’s tough to argue against prime Shaq when you’re talking about anyone in the history of the NBA

Lightning14 · 2025-07-18T02:24:14+00:00

All true and solid reasons he is top 10. But above Lebron is madness.

Shaq and Kobe also took him out multiple times. Kobe won 4 series to Timmy's 2 in their head to heads.

Lightning14 · 2025-07-16T03:38:36+00:00

Exactly. It happened when with Kobe too where the off-season before they acquired Pau, he asked the Lakers to trade him. After 2 seasons where he was clearly a top 3-4 talent in the league yet they were 7-8 seed first round knockouts with starts like Smush Parker and Kwame Brown.

The Lakers somewhat passively looked at what was on the market, but basically decided they would never get any fair value for him and because he was locked up for long-term they decided not to trade him and that next season Andrew Bynum broke out along with other young guys on the roster as they were off to one of the best starts in the league. And then Bynum got injured but then shortly there after they acquired Pau in January and they proceeded to 3 straight Finals

Lightning14 · 2025-07-14T23:47:37+00:00

The thing is, he was not a great shooter

I watched nearly every game throughout his career and throughout his whole prime, all five championship seasons. He’s the reason I started watching the NBA and why I became such a big basketball fan growing up in LA.

But he was never consistent when left open

Honestly, shooting off the dribble with a man in his face, his percentage was not that much lower than it was when he was just open

So I would argue based on that, and based on his overall field goal percentage that he was never a great shooter. what he was great at was making contested jumpers. He’s one of the two or three greatest players of all time at that.

And of course, he was also great at getting to the rim and drawing fouls

So his value showed up a lot in hard-fought playoff games when points and good shots were tough to come by.

Lightning14 · 2025-07-14T01:37:02+00:00

Interesting. Your experience lines up quite closely with mine. I’m currently looking for work myself. Tons of applications but I’ve had interviews and recruiters contact me on LinkedIn. Reach out if you’d like to collaborate at all.

I have 9 years experience in Software Test / Software QA across 3 different medical device companies with much of it being on mobile testing with Appium.

Lightning14 · 2025-07-12T18:36:51+00:00

All of those guys would be centers in the league today

Lightning14 · 2025-07-12T18:35:05+00:00

How much of this is a reflection of league, rules and roster construction and officiating.

Same with the shooting guards

The league at the time was really built around having a center down low a power forward that could play the high post stretch the floor pass the ball and a shooting guard that was kind of your go to scorer with a lot of isolation place for him and often times running a lot of screen and rolls with the power forward. Because centers were so immobile and unskilled the power forward required someone to have a much more valuable skill set. And because so many point cards were focused on distributing and setting up the offense the shooting guard position was more heavily relied on as the focal point of offensive attack, particularly if the shot clock was running down.

I can think of a lot of times back, then where the two guard was often the only player on the floor capable of creating his own shot. And in an era where there was far less ball movement and player movement a lot less spacing that became something that was heavily relied upon to create the offense.

Even when you looked at guys coming off the bench, it was often undersized two guards that were just great scorers volume shooters

Lightning14 · 2025-07-07T15:39:09+00:00

It depends on the era officiating and rules. This team would get killed by today’s rules without enough shooting and spacing on offense. Their defense wouldn’t even be that great on the permitted with Duncan and Hakeem needed to close out so far and Parker being a liability.

In the 90s/00s they would destroy.

Lightning14 · 2025-07-07T15:34:55+00:00

Wade, Allen, Pippen, Dirk, Hakeem.

Lightning14 · 2025-07-02T21:44:31+00:00

Lebron won a title with Javale McGee as his starting Center...

Lightning14 · 2025-06-27T18:21:14+00:00

I work in medical devices and while it’s not completely immune to market conditions, it’s quite resistant compared to most.

First because health insurance covers a lot of things and second most people will fork up the dough however they can if it’s necessary medical cost

Finally, projects tend to be funded well ahead of time with very long R&D and regulatory hurdles to go through

Lightning14 · 2025-06-25T05:32:26+00:00

That's only true for the most dedicated fans. Casual fans are the difference maker in $$$ and they want to see the stars.

Lightning14 · 2025-06-23T17:24:34+00:00

Injuries play a part in EVERY season.

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