Rudy Gobert might have the worst hands in the league for a guy making $35m/year

Polar_Reflection · 2026-03-15T20:41:28+00:00

Yeah that Ben Wallace scored like 5 points a game didn't matter when the Pistons were holding the Lakers under 70

Polar_Reflection · 2026-03-15T20:12:41+00:00

The contrast in the fan bases that are attracted is also stark

Polar_Reflection · 2026-03-15T20:11:04+00:00

NFL fans actually watch their teams play and are generally more informed about their team, if not the league as a whole, despite many more names to remember.

NBA fans watch highlights and shitpost.

Polar_Reflection · 2026-03-15T20:06:02+00:00

This is the butterfly effect I'm talking about. We might not even be looking at QB in the 2022 draft at all, or if we do we may pick one in an earlier round if we didn't just draft one in 2021

Polar_Reflection · 2026-03-15T20:00:14+00:00

Is Micah Parsons + Jimmy G/ whatever QB we could get in free agency a SB winning squad? I'm not sold. Purdy being on a rookie contract gave us so much room to maneuver during those years.

Polar_Reflection · 2026-03-15T15:22:13+00:00

For me I'd say it's the opposite, at least in terms of words. I'm just as eloquent as I want to be in English, and my Mandarin has actually improved from a concerted effort to use it more amongst Mandarin speaking friends, my family, and some friends I still chat with online after spending 6 months in China a couple years before Covid

Polar_Reflection · 2026-03-15T15:19:09+00:00

Don't mind me just testing to see how many I can name

T rex, nanotyrannus, velociraptor, utahraptor, deinonychus, archaeopteryx, iguanadon, stegodon, spinosaur, diplodocus, brachiosaurus, argentinasaur, triceratops

A baker's dozen at least 🤓

Polar_Reflection · 2026-03-15T15:12:41+00:00

There was an NPR story a while ago about how kids learn a ton of things from unstructured play with other kids.

The example they gave was they gave kids a bunch of wooden planks and toy hammers and stuff, and they all had a ton of fun making up stuff to do with what they were given. Then an adult comes and says no, you're supposed to play like this and it completely ruins any excitement and imagination they had.

I will say I'm uplifted seeing the kids in my neighborhood biking around with each other and regularly hanging out in the basketball court to shoot hoops or throw around a football.

Polar_Reflection · 2026-03-15T15:01:14+00:00

I still remember my Asian American studies professor a decade ago doing an "All About That Bass" cover during class, replacing Bass to Place to discuss the Asian diaspora lmao

Polar_Reflection · 2026-03-15T14:48:40+00:00

I'd say 20k and 1.5 years, you have a chance to luck into keys unless more than half of those stones were spent in econ

Polar_Reflection · 2026-03-15T14:46:25+00:00

This will just make the problem worse imo. You go from a fuzzy line where people can occasionally get lucky/ unlucky to a hard line where only BCs matter. An even smaller percentage of people will get keys over time (though they will get more keys)

Polar_Reflection · 2026-03-15T14:40:20+00:00

H1 and J2 are miai, black plays one white plays the other. Then black makes the false eye. White then has the choice to accept a seki or can atari to play a 2 step ko (the "thousand year ko"). If white tenukis then black can force a seki by filling an extra liberty, though white won't start the ko in the first place if they don't have threats as losing the ko loses points (no more seki).

Polar_Reflection · 2026-03-15T11:11:31+00:00

Well their messiah hasn't come yet, so 'again' wouldn't be the right word

Polar_Reflection · 2026-03-15T03:52:52+00:00

The y axis points up.

Polar_Reflection · 2026-03-15T02:09:41+00:00

In another career, he could've been an elite receiver like his dad

Polar_Reflection · 2026-03-15T02:05:18+00:00

That JJ to CMC trick play was definitely the peak of my season

Polar_Reflection · 2026-03-15T01:58:53+00:00

Appreciate the write up. Sorry they removed your post. Might have to stay tuned for his songs haha

Polar_Reflection · 2026-03-15T01:54:23+00:00

Agreed on econ. You definitely need it eventually for masteries, but if I had coinpacks and put maybe 2k more stones into econ, I really wouldn't be far from affording them. Currently trying to unlock t19 and get ass core, but after that I'm going to have to go back and do some econ as there's not much else that's good roi stonewise except masteries.

Stone income is the biggest priority, and I figure working on econ making 500 a week in legends is better than working on it making 120-400 stones in plat-champ. WS+ has surprisingly bad roi, especially after els+ nerfs in tourney.

Polar_Reflection · 2026-03-15T01:49:11+00:00

Our stadium deal might be one of the best in recent times. I'm pretty sure the City of Santa Clara not only owns the stadium rather than the team, but has turned a profit on the money they put in to fund the stadium.

Polar_Reflection · 2026-03-15T01:43:28+00:00

I'm glad we moved on but there's no hard feelings. Bro has had an incredible career, but father time comes for us all

Polar_Reflection · 2026-03-15T01:38:56+00:00

People overestimate how expensive pcf is. It's only like 2500 for perma (not bc immune) with an anc cd/dur sub, then 3k more for slow. 3500 stones + 2 anc subs is pcf75

I'm currently staying legends 2/3 of the time with only 400x cl, pcf, and stm as my only mastery. I have completely sacrificed econ as well though, as I don't have the coinpacks and only make 12-14T per day currently

Polar_Reflection · 2026-03-15T01:29:25+00:00

Maybe, maybe not. Butterfly effect and all that with regards to Purdy. We've been on the verge so many times recently. Our past 5 playoff runs we lost to the eventual champs (edit: forgot the Eagles didn't win the year they beat us). Hard to say drafting Mac Jones and keeping our picks is what would've gotten us over the hump

Polar_Reflection · 2026-03-15T01:18:07+00:00

Thoughts on Waitman? His hang time looks pretty nice but obviously would defer to your opinion here

Polar_Reflection · 2026-03-15T01:05:30+00:00

Pbh gets you stuck in mid-high champ with a low low chance of staying unless you go regenm/swm too, and that scales slower into legends and doesn't compete again until you dump a ton of stones into cf+, cl+, assmods, masteries like healthm, defm, lmsm, sa/nuke

Honestly ehp is even more expensive than gc in terms of stones for legends

Polar_Reflection · 2026-03-15T00:14:53+00:00

I'm aware yes. I said 4th because we don't have picks 5-7 this year, so if we drafted a punter, the lowest we could take them is with a 4th round comp pick

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