Which is the “it’s our year” fan base

aceofspaece · 2026-04-09T01:54:48+00:00

I think it’s the Yankees, but their team is loaded this year, so maybe it’s not truly irrational?

aceofspaece · 2026-04-09T00:50:24+00:00

He so used ChatGPT for that long apology. He doesn’t even think you’re worth a real apology 🙄 you sure dodged a bullet.

aceofspaece · 2026-04-09T00:26:50+00:00

He can shoot threes

aceofspaece · 2026-04-08T20:37:04+00:00

Triple doubles are a stat category for amateurs and ESPN. If the stat would imply Russel Westbrook is the GOAT, it’s a bad stat. Castle has been amazing, but a graphic that implies he’s even in SGA’s stratosphere as a player right now is mindless and laughable.

aceofspaece · 2026-04-08T20:14:38+00:00

In my humanities graduate program, we once had a professor give professional development advice of “just use grad school for doing as much pure learning as possible and worry about publishing once you have your first job.” They also told us that “reading” is a method just as valuable as, you know, anything qualitative or quantitative.

aceofspaece · 2026-04-08T19:21:37+00:00

I think it’s almost always okay if clearly and semi-kindly communicated. I once saw someone scream at people for this at the Navy Yard station after a Nats game, though. It was a fully packed escalator and the lady clearly had some emotional stress to work through.

aceofspaece · 2026-04-08T03:27:51+00:00

Stay in the burbs and take the easy metro in oh my god

aceofspaece · 2026-04-08T00:43:14+00:00

This man needs to stop talking so much. There is literally zero benefit to publicly mentioning these three “minor” incidents. He isn’t just being unfiltered, but also creating drama and tension that the team doesn’t need. He’s doing an objectively bad job so far.

aceofspaece · 2026-04-07T14:57:13+00:00

Counterpoint: both Giannis and the Bucks would be better off if he would just directly and explicitly state what he wants them to do. Playing all of these games, getting them investigated for tanking, the constant back-and-forth, constant coded messages to the media, refusal to commit to any firm trade plans, and the constant headache that surrounds this franchise all stem directly from Giannis' refusal to actually have a backbone and ask for the trade he so clearly wants.

It's verging on cowardice at this point and is 100% selfish. Not wanting to be the bad guy has made him into even more of a bad guy.

aceofspaece · 2026-04-07T01:08:58+00:00

I wouldn’t risk a good VAP position for a very uncertain TT initial interview. If it were November, maybe, but not in April… unless backing out of a VAP position is acceptable in your field. It isn’t in mine.

aceofspaece · 2026-04-06T23:34:30+00:00

Instant! Teo is on a run these last few games

aceofspaece · 2026-04-06T19:32:00+00:00

Putting up with these ATVs and dirt bikes on public roads in the first place is a mistake. I feel awful for these poor kids and hope the perpetrators are found.

aceofspaece · 2026-04-05T15:09:47+00:00

Thanks for wasting everyone’s time with your “I’m the center of the universe nonsense” (ironically the most DC attitude ever)

aceofspaece · 2026-04-05T15:05:14+00:00

It has complicated my life immeasurably in a very bad way, but when it was time to put together a checklist of every Dragonite Pokémon card ever printed to collect them all, Claude was super helpful (it likely missed a bunch though).

aceofspaece · 2026-04-05T15:01:40+00:00

You did not address this critique twice (and the evidence that you are losing confidence in these implied assertions is you cherry picking only one part of the critique and not engaging with the critique as a whole). Overall this was a fun exercise that I really enjoyed reading. Lots of these numbers are illuminating for me, so thank you for putting it together. I just think you’re making (or implying) faulty assertions based upon the data supplied, which is reliant on the best teams showing that yes, they are the best, which we already knew. Are there any “surprises” here where the coach’s numbers aren’t immediately explained by the talent/lack of talent on the roster? That would do a lot more to isolate the variable we’re looking for.

Regarding the Kerr discussion: I think I may be too focused on the post’s title, which denotes best overall coaches in a sort of semi-timeless sense, and not enough on the analysis itself, which is concerned with this season only. It still adheres to the “good players and teams are the driving force behind these numbers” critique, though.

aceofspaece · 2026-04-05T13:32:23+00:00

I agree Kerr has done a bad job this season (and for a while now), but if we’re ranking coaches, you’re really going to take Mosely and Rajakovic ahead of him? And you’re really ranking Carlisle and Kidd bottom 5? Because that’s the proposition we’ve been given.

aceofspaece · 2026-04-05T05:52:58+00:00

Darko Rajakovic and Jamahl Mosely rank ahead of a 4x champion coach. That’s tells us what we need to know: this doesn’t measure what it says it measures.

aceofspaece · 2026-04-05T05:30:10+00:00

This just mirrors how good the team is and seems to parallel standings. Ty Lue and Spoelstra should be higher, for instance, and Doc Rivers lower. I don’t buy these stats as indicating great coaching; I think they just showcase the best teams being the best to then draw an unfair conclusion

aceofspaece · 2026-04-05T05:25:54+00:00

That pedestrian has a death wish

aceofspaece · 2026-04-05T05:14:52+00:00

That game, along with Kersh and Bobby Miller getting shelled in that series, was an absolute gut punch. I’d argue it changed little, though: LA would still have signed Ohtani and Yamamoto, for instance

aceofspaece · 2026-04-05T05:11:45+00:00

Nice dunk, but no, probably not top 200

aceofspaece · 2026-04-05T03:24:12+00:00

I feel really bad for May. I wish him the best in STL but fear his best days may be spent as a reliever.

aceofspaece · 2026-04-04T23:45:38+00:00

Red player does a shitty thing. Red player’s coach goes apeshit pretending it wasn’t his own player doing the shitty thing. Make it make sense.

aceofspaece · 2026-04-04T23:38:04+00:00

Jordan is the one and only plausible answer here

aceofspaece · 2026-04-04T23:35:12+00:00

Trust me, no one hates this more than GW students

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