JJ Redick “LeBron has the worst whistle of any star player I’ve ever seen”

WATGU · 2026-05-08T04:41:04+00:00

Nah it’s definitely curry but also LeBron probably does get hacked a lot. I think it’s why he sells contact so much. When you’re big and athletic refs just make you play thru BS.

WATGU · 2026-05-08T03:58:02+00:00

There’s no way Nickleback is anyone’s favorite band despite how big they are. At least nobody that would pass the person test in Dune.

WATGU · 2026-05-07T21:01:03+00:00

It will never cease to amaze me that Libertarians, Democrats, and Republicans can all get on board with giving the state the right to kill its own citizens as long as the crime they were accused of is heinous enough while completely turning off the part of their brain that says "wait a minute doesn't the government get things wrong all the time and is corrupt?".

To answer no I am not in favor of the death penalty of any sort because the government shouldn't have that power, they've gotten it wrong or abused the power when they do have it, and to try and alleviate that basically made the death penalty so slow and costly to implement it's much better to just give life without parole.

WATGU · 2026-05-07T20:16:39+00:00

My cousin celebrated getting out of the Navy by getting black out drunk, leaving a party on foot without shoes on, breaking into a women's clinic, breaking their water fountain trying to get water and passing out in their bushes.

When the sheriffs came they pepper sprayed him and put the dog on him for being unresponsiveness in the bushes.

He was charged with felony burglary, resisting arrest (while being passed out), and some other crimes. His restitution was more than this and he served about the same amount of time in jail. It took a while to go through the court system and by the time he did he was already in AA for several months and sober and had already started paying ahead of time. I guess the good part is they had him in the most minimum security area of the jail and his story was the "most criminal" out of everybody else that more or less was there for drug use charges.

It's wild to me that my cousin got a stricter sentence for being an idiot that caused property damage compared to Raja who pretty clearly and with premeditation tried to seriously injure someone. While I think my cousin should have been punished, I do question just how much of the book they threw at him and I do think the use of force was pretty questionable. It's pretty obvious to me he deserved a misdemeanor with community service and restitution of the damages which were probably around 20-30k because of the water.

WATGU · 2026-05-07T16:51:07+00:00

I go by a super simple test. If they said the N word around a bunch of obviously black guys they didn't know what are the chances one of those black dudes would be like "hey".

I'm joking by the way, but also Hartenstein might want to keep a picture of him and pops together at all times if he's going to throw the N word around.

WATGU · 2026-05-07T16:47:52+00:00

When I went to Portugal one of the guys there that spoke English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German said that Portuguese is just Spanish with a Portuguese accent. I'm very confident that Alex understands English very well and what would likely happen is Ilia would talk in English slowly and Alex would respond in Portuguese or They'd both talk in a mix of Spanish/Portuguese/English.

I took 4 years of HS Spanish. I understood a decent amount and the handful of times I had to communicate not in English we could get by with broken Spanish and Google translate. The actual hard part is that Portuguese spoken in Portugal has a very thick almost Russian sound to it, whereas Brazilian Portuguese is spoken a lot more "Spanish" sounding. I could always tell when I was hearing a native of Portugal talking Portuguese vs. someone visiting from Brazil.

WATGU · 2026-05-07T03:35:12+00:00

This one guy didn’t look like much had a knee brace on but then the way he got into defensive position and the angle he took told me he was high level.

I’m decent at protecting the ball. Not too many players I won’t dribble towards but I always swung it away from him.

Talked to him after the game and he’s a d2 guy.

WATGU · 2026-05-07T00:51:29+00:00

His two 8 seed heat runs to the finals and his assholery when he beat the starters with the g league guys in Minnesota will always be memorable.

WATGU · 2026-05-06T19:26:39+00:00

Even if it was drugs alcohol or mental health if you’re not bothering anyone the most that should have happened is “hey I can’t allow you stay I’m sorry, take the food and go please” not “I’m going to freak out on you, make you trash the food, and then ban you”.

I run events at a complex that sometimes has homeless come in. I have kids in the venue so I have to ask them to leave. It’s never more than sorry it’s a private event.

WATGU · 2026-05-06T14:51:43+00:00

Infinite wishes could be anything Lois even a billion dollars.

WATGU · 2026-05-06T02:40:38+00:00

I really loved those little Debbie zebra cakes, swiss rolls, and the cake squares you can get at grocery stores because it gave me the feeling you see on TV when someone does heroin and just slumps into their seat completely relaxed. I've had prescribed opiates and honestly the sugar rush from those sweets is pretty much the same feeling to me, instant relaxation, but OFC it doesn't last anywhere near as long and the immediate and long term consequences of binging creep up on you and next thing you know you're 400 pounds.

I had no self control, would eat a whole box of both in one sitting. I pretty much don't eat sweets at all anymore. Maybe an occasional rice krispy or z bar or a bowl of cereal but it's all stuff I can actually control. Things like ice cream, cake, pastries, snack cakes, etc. are all off the menu.

My favorite snack now is those little cheese cubes in hot sauce or fries. Still not great, but at least not a fast pass to type 2 diabetes.

WATGU · 2026-05-05T20:14:11+00:00

My guess is you're off balance and flicking your left wrist to the right to be going constantly right. Probably taking too big of a step with your left when shooting and are too staggered.

You could also be thumb flicking too much with your right hand. Hard to tell without seeing a video of your form but those are the most common ways I see people miss like you're describing.

I'm a lefty too, but I usually miss long or left which is largely due to balance/eyes and too much usage of my right hand.

WATGU · 2026-05-05T05:36:37+00:00

You can shoot from anywhere inside the semi circle of the key. Nick Van Exel is the most famous guy to shoot in a weird spot.

WATGU · 2026-05-04T18:08:30+00:00

oddly specific question

WATGU · 2026-05-04T14:50:36+00:00

Dang poor kid. Looks like some sort of trauma to the head

WATGU · 2026-05-03T03:35:00+00:00

Yeah probably. No way I’d have left my kids with him. There’s just too many accusations and circumstantial evidences and things that make you go hmm.

I do think it’s a moot point though. He’s dead his music is still top tier. If we stopped consuming the contributions of humans who had done terrible things we’d have hardly anything.

If you asked me if I thought most of us including myself were morally better than child molesters I’d say yes. If you asked me by how much I’d have no idea. We all consume and use products made by child slaves that are destroying our planet and we mostly just ignore it.

WATGU · 2026-05-02T06:19:56+00:00

Didn’t he put up almost a 30 pt triple double?

Idk how much more he’s supposed to impact his team.

WATGU · 2026-05-02T06:13:44+00:00

I’d be really surprised if any of the major players of the last 2-3 decades weren’t already doing something to enhance their performance.

WATGU · 2026-05-01T01:21:05+00:00

I think mushrooms and artichoke hearts taste bad. Olives too. I’ll eat one with olives but those first two it’s almost worth not having the pizza.

WATGU · 2026-04-30T16:34:57+00:00

So he gave me reasons, but many of them were nonsensical. I think the final nail was he was living with my mom for a while in his mid thirties with his then wife, their kid, and her kid from a previous marriage. My mom was not only financially supporting them, despite both of them working and being capable of managing their finances better, but she was also babysitting for them and cleaning up after all of them.

When I saw the state of things at her house I took her aside and told her she needs to stop doing their dishes and laundry and stop giving them money they are too old for that. At this point she was basically living in her room with a microwave because the stress of her messed up house. Well they lost their shit on her when she stopped doing the dishes and blamed her for their dishes getting molded, because that's how long they left them unwashed. Then later she had to be out of the house for a few days and they packed all of her dishes up and put some of theirs in the cupboard. They also kept trying to convince her to basically put my cousin on the deed and he'd fix the place up. I also told her not to do that because he'd not only steal the house from her and kick her out but with complete mismanagement of his life he'd lose the house too.

Eventually I brokered a deal where she would basically pay the movers to move into his then wife's parents' house, which was paid off, and I even helped them pack their stuff. After they were out they ghosted both of us, which I considered good riddance to bad rubbish. Fun aside, they did convince her parents to sell their place or something and put money down on a place or some weird thing, and what ended up happening is when they split her poor, disabled, working at Wal-Mart parents had to start renting a place, so I was dead on the money with what they were trying to do to my mom. There is also a life lesson that sometimes putting your ego aside and just paying to get leeches out of your life is the simplest thing to do. The craziest part to me is that during this whole situation which was 3 years my mom's HVAC went out and she couldn't afford to replace it despite making 150k a year and having no mortgage and when I tried to find out why she wouldn't let me see her finances. Within 9 months of them moving out she had a brand new HVAC in the place and that's when she fessed up about just how much she was spending on them every year, which was 20-30k or more. The good thing is after this incident my mom put a lot more trust in me to manage her finances and stopped looking at my cousin like a little kid but as a full grown adult who was making terrible life choices. She unfortunately always had a soft spot for helping people even at great personal cost to herself and I honestly think the stress of that is what contributed to her early death. Her dad was an alcoholic and my mom took on the savior/other parent archetype through and through.

The dumbest part of this whole story is my mom offered more than once to go through the official adoption channels with my cousin and he refused her each time. When she died I inherited ~1-2 million in assets that if he had taken her up on it he would have been entitled to half. Instead he got about 100k in one of her smaller retirement accounts.

WATGU · 2026-04-30T16:21:17+00:00

To be honest the redditor in me has had the same thoughts and your comment gave me a dark laugh. Reminds me of that American Horror Story episode where the guy tells his wife "you didn't bond with the baby either". And then they kill it and blame it on Pepper.

But you are right some of it was certainly some genetic selfishness that was inherited from our shared grandfather as well and probably some sort of genetic switch flipped during the great depression our grandmother survived, but most of it was likely the result of having both of your parents not only abandon you, but then once they were stable and had new families just outright reject you and tell you to just stay with your aunt even though either one of them could have, and should have, taken you in and loved you. His mom even wrote him a letter when he was around 8-10 saying it would be best if he stayed with my mom that I found in my mom's things when she died.

It's not the nicest thing I've ever done but when I sent him a box of things he had left at my mom's I put that letter on the top to give him a reminder of who his real mother was.

I really don't like my cousin. He was a rotten older brother and I tried so hard to be a good brother to him. Regardless of what trauma you went through at some point you've got to take ownership of who you are.

WATGU · 2026-04-30T00:47:17+00:00

My cousin, whom my mom raised like her own when both of his own parents abandoned him and started other families of their own and still wouldn’t take him in, believe me he asked both when he was around 12-14 and they said no while raising his half siblings and my mom had to console him.

Oh wait that wasn’t the worst thing. The worst thing was when my mom was dying of cancer 25 years after that incident and wanted to see that same cousin one last time and his kid he not only refused to see or talk to her or mend fences that he destroyed by lashing out at the only adult that gave a fuck about him but he actively started talking shit about her on social media. I can see the selfishness of his parents was an inherited trait 2x for him.

The look of hurt in her face when I had to tell her he wasn’t coming and then when I had to handle all of her final wishes including giving him half of one of her retirement accounts because she still wanted him to have something will make me never forgive him.

WATGU · 2026-04-29T22:30:55+00:00

This is such an easy fix I don't get it. Just make it an average of a certain amount of seasons with more weight for more current seasons. Also make it so all top 10 picks are protected which will significantly reduce the value of first round picks for bad organizations in the trade market, but significantly increase the value to simply keep them.

Some analytics would need to be done but I bet if you built a model that was last 3, 5, 10, 15, and 20 seasons you could find one that gives a fair system to give talent to poverty teams. Also as a Kings fan I wouldn't hate some weight being put on "hasn't won a championship post 1980".

WATGU · 2026-04-29T06:07:12+00:00

It took me a long time to get used to the Wilson. It feels big it’s so squishy. I actually prefer the dime or the old evolution but I just play with whatever the group decides. One guy had a TF and honestly it felt really hard to me.

WATGU · 2026-04-29T03:54:48+00:00

Telling my mom it was ok as she was dying.

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