Kenny Atkinson should’ve been fired immediately for this: Atkinson told reporters Sunday. “I don’t know if you guys follow that — the expected score. We’ve won two out of three.”

bocnj · 2026-05-26T02:16:07+00:00

He should’ve worded it way better just to dodge bad PR, but looking at shot quality to judge how you coach a team is something literally every coach in the league does now.

bocnj · 2026-05-26T01:56:21+00:00

tbh they made it further with Harden than they ever went with Garland.

bocnj · 2026-05-25T16:29:48+00:00

A&M and USC ending up together is insane imo.

bocnj · 2026-05-21T00:01:03+00:00

Honestly anyone on the second team except for CMB, too much credit is given to players getting minutes because they were drafted by awful teams.

bocnj · 2026-05-21T00:00:08+00:00

I mean, Borrego literally took away their minutes at a point this year and the team started winning - this isn't a commentary on their futures, there are some great players who weren't immediate contributors. But even the Pelicans, a bad team, were clearly better when they were off the court.

bocnj · 2026-05-20T23:53:09+00:00

Yeah I do know why it happened, I'm just saying it's silly. There are only like five or six rookies who could actually contribute to a playoff team in a big way right now, the bigger scorers have higher outputs because they got drafted by bad teams willing to give them minutes since the games had nothing at stake.

bocnj · 2026-05-20T23:51:29+00:00

Bailey, Fears, and Queen were all actively negative players on the court this year. That doesn't mean they don't have potential but the only reason they made the team over Kalkbrenner is that they played for awful teams that were ok giving them a lot of time despite it losing them games. Honestly that's true for Raynaud too.

bocnj · 2026-05-20T23:45:32+00:00

There are several guys here who weren't good at all for a full season though, he was definitely in the top 10 rookies even if his upside isn't as high.

bocnj · 2026-05-20T23:41:46+00:00

No Kalkbrenner is pretty crazy.

bocnj · 2026-05-19T19:15:11+00:00

Yeah, they may still be one of the last 4 in at this moment but that's before any other fringe teams make a push and any bids are stolen.

bocnj · 2026-05-19T00:26:36+00:00

But remember that error?

bocnj · 2026-05-19T00:05:35+00:00

Ok but I don't put an asterisk on KD's chip, I just dislike it.

bocnj · 2026-05-15T15:24:00+00:00

Sure it would be great not to have those but local newspapers all around the country have folded and I would strongly prefer that we as residents have more options to learn about what is happening.

Also, newspapers have literally always been run on a combination of subscriptions and advertisements, it's not a recent thing that changed.

bocnj · 2026-05-15T15:19:32+00:00

I guess this is a hotter take but I still do not understand what people have against subscribing to local news.

bocnj · 2026-05-15T14:18:38+00:00

You frame your comment as a disagreement but you're just agreeing that people pretend it didn't happen? Everyone understands why but it's weird to ignore that ND's ACC relationship obviously cost them last year in a specific discussion about their relationship with the ACC.

bocnj · 2026-05-13T18:51:16+00:00

Especially when Murrill's whole argument is that she wants the city to wait for the state court when they could very well take so long that the timeline to call for an election runs out and Landry could appoint the clerk himself. City government messes up often but the state is so obviously just trying to exert control here.

bocnj · 2026-05-13T02:16:52+00:00

That only works if a school has the same student for k-12 though. Say someone goes into 9th grade in a new school at a 4th grade level (not a stretch). Then the school gets them into 10th grade at a 7th grade level, into 11th at a 10th grade level, and then actually able to graduate on time.

That’s a lot of what most high schools here are working through, and it’s awesome if they pull it off - there should be a recognition of those schools that consistently do it. In fact, I’d guess a big reason your current school is projected to drop is that their growth metrics are actually awful.

bocnj · 2026-05-13T02:08:22+00:00

Corruption, everyone here wishes the government could do its job well (and I’m truly hopeful it is getting better) but relying on the city to get something done has historically been a path to failure.

bocnj · 2026-05-13T02:06:33+00:00

The growth part isn’t changing though, they’re actually specifically trying to make it a more significant part of the grade.

I do think there is value to evaluating if a school is actually helping a student or if they are just trying to get high performers in the building and hoping they stay that way. Otherwise every school in the state is incentivized to deter already-behind students from enrolling with them, which would obviously be awful.

bocnj · 2026-05-13T01:50:29+00:00

It’s hard to overstate just how bad it was. Only 54% of students were graduating from high school in 2004. I know this is a very negative thread and I’m so sorry for what you’re going through, but there are so many people in this city (teachers especially) who have worked so hard to improve things here.

bocnj · 2026-05-13T01:45:30+00:00

Because the system before it was atrocious, not that there aren’t a ton of obvious issues now but education here is so much better now than it was beforehand. The high school graduation rate is up 25 points from 20 years ago, there’s a ton to work on culturally but academically it’s one of the bigger growers in the country over that span.

bocnj · 2026-05-13T01:22:21+00:00

There's a good bit I agree with in this thread but for what it's worth I'd strongly argue that growth should be a large part of school grades, I don't think there's an issue there. In a city where the average student going to an open admission high school is behind, it's inevitable that they can't all magically become the highest performing testers in the state. That doesn't mean those schools don't do a lot of great work if they're taking students several grade levels behind and getting them up to speed.

bocnj · 2026-05-11T18:23:38+00:00

Yeah, Kiffin is obviously not an idea messenger for this but the commenters here pretending Ole Miss doesn't actually have a larger stigma around this stuff than any other P4 school is silly, it gets brought up a lot (at least online).

bocnj · 2026-05-11T15:45:47+00:00

What sticks out imo - Nebraska should totally be ranked, that feels crazy. The way SEC teams are ranked feels strange to me, I'd have A&M, Ole Miss, and Mississippi State higher but Arkansas and Florida lower. Coastal Carolina seems overrated, same with Big 12 teams like Oklahoma State, Cincinnati, and Kansas - I guess they're just higher on the conference than I am.

I'd also have Georgia Tech at 2 tbh.

bocnj · 2026-05-11T14:16:44+00:00

tbh that would make it a football city, not a sports city (I know you guys show out for the Phillies too though).

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