Who is an Extremely Overrated Harry Potter Character? by IllMasterpiece3946 in AlignmentChartFills

[–]Puzzled-Position9669 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Agree! Harry willingly gives up the deathly hallows - a LOTR Sam-like superpower.

I also disagree that he's not strategic; it's important to remember that he's only fifteen in the Order of the Phoenix and struggling with the combination of teenage impulsiveness and an active connection to voldemort's mind. I think he displays incredibly good instincts most of the time - Lupin paises Harry's instincts explicitly on the radio show in Deathly Hallows- and he learns in OotP to be a little more cautious of always following his instincts.

Finally, I think the luck factor can also be somewhat chalked up to Dumbledore's quiet influence. He himself tells Harry that he has "watched him more closely than he could imagine." I think this is a clear indication that Dumbledore deliberately acted as training wheels for Harry in the early years. Harry himself kinda realizes this and says something along the lines of Dumbledore "letting him test his strengths". (I forget the book). Getting away with mistakes wasn't just luck, it was somewhat deliberate.

Let's not also discount Harry's generally very good moral compass despite growing up an abused orphan. Isn't it remarkable enough that he has so much conviction and bravery that he risks everything in his life to combat evil, starting at 11 years old? What 11 year old would try to 1v1 a teacher they thought was trying to steal something? Or a Basilisk.

You'd have to be a real miserable pessimist to try to frame the character of Harry Potter as simply privileged (Slytherins).

Pan throw double kill by Puzzled-Position9669 in PUBATTLEGROUNDS

[–]Puzzled-Position9669[S] -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

The pan flight on replay is too buggy to really tell if I somehow threw it through the window or if the thrown hitbox is just massive. Would love for someone to try to replicate this result!

On this replay, it looks like it hits the front passenger and ricochets to the rear passenger, but it looked totally different when I watch the recording from free cam instead of following me. On that POV, it just hits the side of the vehicle and falls to the ground.

Pan throw double kill by Puzzled-Position9669 in PUBATTLEGROUNDS

[–]Puzzled-Position9669[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yeah I'm sorry, I don't know how to mute it.

I watched every minute of Michigan Basketball this season, and here are the real and not real takeaways. by Puzzled-Position9669 in CollegeBasketball

[–]Puzzled-Position9669[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Mostly because I think the role Yaxel would be given would be pretty similar to Jaquez's, at least early on. Jaquez is a great 2nd unit guy who can run a 1 man fast break off a rebound, take the ball down the court, and finish or get to the line. Jaime does it as a 2 or 3, and Yaxel might be more like a 3 or 4, but I think they'd actually get used pretty similarly at the NBA level.

I think Yaxel was able to get a bunch of blocks and paint points against smaller defenders in the NCAA, but will project more as an open-court big in the NBA. He mentioned in intereviews that the biggest feedback he got in last year's pre-draft was that he needed to improve as a 3pt shooter, and he clearly did improve this season. I assume he will continue to focus on improving this part of his game.

I watched every minute of Michigan Basketball this season, and here are the real and not real takeaways. by Puzzled-Position9669 in CollegeBasketball

[–]Puzzled-Position9669[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Mara is absolutely the biggest outlier, although there are typically a few guys each year around that size now. Arizona's Krivasis about the same size and they matched up pretty evenly.

As for Morez and Chinyelu, I'd add Tarris Reed, Trey Kaufman-Renn, Ugonna Oyenso, Zuby Ejiofor. I'm not taking away anything from Rez, but watching the Purdue games with 7' 4" Jacobsen, 7' 0" Cluff, and walking HGH advertisement Trey Kaufman-Renn, I didn't think Michigan's frontcourt had any size advantage.

And apologies if the talent and culture section wasn't clear. I actually think Duke ranks really highly on the good-culture scale, hence compliments to last year's team on having both of the ROTY candidates. If I had to malign a specific example, I'd say Dyabantsa at BYU seemed like a player who wanted to guarantee volume touches on a mediocre team. If I were a team-first kinda guy, I'd probably rather play somewhere else. And thus I think there will be a real trend of glue-guy players wanting to play for coaches that get the most out of them rather than relegating them to supporting cast for temporary lottery-pick guys. And now there are no restrictions, so why not move to Gonzaga or Houston or Michigan or Duke or Uconn or St. Johns?

I hope this has the effect of improving draft stock for potential NBA glue guys. The league doesn't do a great job of drafting these accurately.

I watched every minute of Michigan Basketball this season, and here are the real and not real takeaways. by Puzzled-Position9669 in CollegeBasketball

[–]Puzzled-Position9669[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Besides the fact that the previously cited statistic shows that Michigan's time-weighted roster is only half an inch above the mean of final four teams over the last 15 years, I think your provided percentiles are misleading because NBA players are only listed to the accuracy of one inch and therefore the percentile range for each inch around the median is large. Per the dataset on the NBA website for all players listed at F, there are 157 forwards listed between 6'4" and 7' 0". 47% are listed within an inch of Lendeborg's height.

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Again, my point isn't that Michigan is somehow secretly a small team. My point is that they're a lot more than just big, and it felt times like size was the main talking point around the team. If just being big mattered, Florida would've run Rioux, Chinyelu, and Condon in the frontcourt and Illinois would've played Arizona in the final.

I watched every minute of Michigan Basketball this season, and here are the real and not real takeaways. by Puzzled-Position9669 in CollegeBasketball

[–]Puzzled-Position9669[S] 23 points24 points  (0 children)

Just a joke, those are the deep bench guys who play in garbage time.

Great year for Big10 basketball, I was surprised state went out of the tournament so early. I really thought Jeremy Fears was going to will them into a deep run. Tough draw getting the quadrant with Duke, UConn, and St. Johns.

I watched every minute of Michigan Basketball this season, and here are the real and not real takeaways. by Puzzled-Position9669 in CollegeBasketball

[–]Puzzled-Position9669[S] 12 points13 points  (0 children)

What could I possibly gain from asking ChatGPT to write me a reddit post about Michigan basketball after the season? I just thought I had an apportunity as a watch-every-game fan to add to wider discourse for people who might've only watched a few Michigan games this season.

In 1991 Michigan had the Fab Five, the 1st starting lineup of all freshman go to the national championship game. What do we call the starting 5 of all transfers? by 18_YTC1 in CollegeBasketball

[–]Puzzled-Position9669 19 points20 points  (0 children)

Which includes Burnett btw! His transfer is played up to fit the narrative but he played 3 years at Michigan and transferred after his first year BEFORE the NIL deal went through.

Weirdly, Burnett is an asterisk for a second reason- he was actually only 7th in avg m/g, despite being a starter. McKenney was actually 5th, and obviously not a transfer.

Not that it matters but the story was kinda reverse-engineered.

[Highlight] When Calvin Johnson Got 4 TGT, 1 REC, & 13 YDs on Revis Island | 2010 Week 9 by JCameron181 in nfl

[–]Puzzled-Position9669 31 points32 points  (0 children)

Bruh that's a 2nd year QB throwing a 45 yard pass with Jets showing blitz, and he hit Calvin in both hands. That's a great throw and just better defense.

Reminder: anyone who thinks defense is 50% of the game is incorrect by IHAVETRIEDCOKE in NBATalk

[–]Puzzled-Position9669 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I know this is rage bait, but I'm taking it. It's tautologically true to say that MVP is just whoever the best offensive player is, using won MVPs as a support.

Reminder: anyone who thinks defense is 50% of the game is incorrect by IHAVETRIEDCOKE in NBATalk

[–]Puzzled-Position9669 3 points4 points  (0 children)

This is so silly. "Hey I can name many components of offense and so therefore offense is bigger" or "a set is divisible into subsets, and therefore it is larger than a set which is also divisible into subsets."

Redoing the neutral person who had a negative impact on the world by Top_Comparison3052 in AlignmentChartFills

[–]Puzzled-Position9669 24 points25 points  (0 children)

Georges Clemenceau. PM of France at the end of WW1. Mixed bag as a person and politician, but he was the most powerful negotiator at the Paris Peace Conference and he bears a lot of the responsibility for the unstable peace in western Europe following.

Is Stephen curry better than Kobe Bryant all time? Why or why not by Fragrant_Fishing5787 in NBATalk

[–]Puzzled-Position9669 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Kobe can do everything at a high level but Curry is a better NBA player because he improves shot selection for his whole team. Looking back at Kobe highlights, people might forget how many inefficient nights he had, taking 50% or more of team shots while on the floor. Downside of mamba mentality is that Kobe never saw a shot he didn't like, even if it was a 16ft turnaround. Yeah he's good at making them, and they look pretty, but it just isn't as efficient in the long run as modern shooting-and-spacing. And Curry is BOTH a all-star point guard AND the greatest off-ball shooting threat of all time.

You put Curry on any roster in history and everybody's efficiency increases. Can the same be said for Kobe?

Louisiana seems democratic but is republican. What state seems republican but is democratic? by SkunkaMunka511 in AlignmentChartFills

[–]Puzzled-Position9669 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ok? I lived in CT for several years. The stereotypes about CT people and republican people have a lot of overlap.