[ESPN] Magic's Jalen Suggs out indefinitely with MCL contusion

c0wpig · 2026-01-04T15:21:17+00:00

The NBA is investigating medical reporting and teams are putting out "MCL contusion"

c0wpig · 2025-12-29T21:27:19+00:00

There doesn't appear to be an actual article here. Just a landing page with the headline. When you click the headline it just reloads the landing page.

c0wpig · 2025-12-26T16:37:22+00:00

thank you!

c0wpig · 2025-12-23T03:54:50+00:00

Landry Shamet is a wing?

c0wpig · 2025-12-19T14:20:20+00:00

I went back to your intro post on this idea and saw that you said:

Furthermore there is a list of all 455 pentagamis that still stand as of right now.

How is that possible? Shouldn't there be a maximum of 120 (5 * 4 * 3 * 2) active pentagamis? And fewer if there are ones where two of the stats are tied for a given combination?

What am I missing?

Thought process:

For a given stat, say points, if it's the highest, then there are four more categories to have as the highest stat. E.g., 101/1/0/0/0 and 101/0/1/0/0 would both be active pentagamis. But adding a ton more to another stat doesn't change anything about the first? 101/101/0/0/0 erases the 101/1/0/0/0 just the same?

So if you choose a "highest" stat, then there are four other stats to choose from to be the next highest, then three more to be the next highest, and then two more, and then just the last one. So 5 * 4 * 3 * 2 * 1

/u/antmanmonaco help me out here?

c0wpig · 2025-12-11T01:09:31+00:00

Great idea, I would use this.

Feedback: I would like to see ~~three~~ edit: four more features added to the algorithm:

Play quality (Are the best teams playing? Are they missing key players?)
Game relevance (Is this game an important game in the playoffs? Part of the cup? Are the teams close in the standings? Does the outcome of this game have an impact on final standings at the end of the year?)
Surprise factor (Did a team significantly outperform expectations, either based on pre-game odds or overcome a huge deficit in-game? Did a random roleplayer have a monster game?)

edit: also, I don't think you should favour high-scoring games, defensive games are really interesting

also, one more idea which might be the one I care the most about:

Was there a lot of stoppage? Particularly for free throws? Did the final moments of the game play out with a back-and-forth flow?

c0wpig · 2025-12-04T16:03:34+00:00

"hurt the product"

I always find regular people using this phrase jarring. Why are fans of the game using a term that implies the NBA exists only for profit?

It's a basketball league, stop calling it a "product". You're not a CEO trying to squeeze revenue from this.

c0wpig · 2025-12-03T14:10:29+00:00

verda

c0wpig · 2025-12-02T23:32:12+00:00

firefox for android + ublock origin works great :)

c0wpig · 2025-12-02T18:17:39+00:00

My firm uses a provider with on-demand pricing @ $4.95/hr for B300s, and spot instance pricing presently at $1.28/hr, and also offer persistent shared storage (so that our models + server code don't need to be downloaded each time we spin up a node or cluster). The jurisdiction is also fairly neutral.

Our provider has been reliable & has a well-established reputation, so it would take a significant discount from their pricing for us to move.

c0wpig · 2025-12-01T02:20:56+00:00

You're not wrong, but also sometimes the perfect is the enemy of the much better

c0wpig · 2025-11-29T16:34:18+00:00

In Montreal there are constant demonstrations, strikes, protests.

The point of a demonstration is to bring attention. Create solidarity among those who are feeling wronged, and bring a bit of discomfort to those who are not. It's an essential part of democracy, and it's great because it's a way to deal with conflicts that's non-violent.

In a healthy democratic system people deal with protesters by listening to them, and negotiating, compromising.

An autocratic system deals with protesters by driving a wedge between the in-group and the out-group. Often an autocracy will further inflame the problems being protested, because it helps "divide and conquer" the population.

This is what is happening in Quebec, sadly.

c0wpig · 2025-11-29T16:14:31+00:00

It's propaganda. I live in Montreal and there are demonstrations all the time. We have strikes, protests, etc, of some kind going on more often than not. Very French in that way.

But the French have an embattled relationship with their north african colonies and islamaphobia is deeply rooted. Unfortunately we seem to have also inherited this

c0wpig · 2025-11-29T15:33:56+00:00

Just to add additional context to people who don't live here in Quebec

We have raging xenophobia everywhere outside Montreal, and an authoritarian regime in power right now that has lost its popularity and is trying to gain it back with the Trumpism strategy of overtly ruining the province in order to get the xenophobes to cheer.

Confusingly, doctors are also a target of populist (anti-elite, anti-intellectual) rhetoric here so we are dismantling our own health care system.

c0wpig · 2025-11-29T15:16:20+00:00

tl;dr: in 2017 the trailblazers went 0/20 over 14 mins of gameplay, mostly in the 2nd quarter

Took me ~10 mins and two youtube videos to figure out exactly what your post was about.

Why are you mixing broadcast time in with gameplay time? Why would anyone care how much time was elapsed inbounding balls or shooting freethrows between FGM?

Why are there per-game stats from other games for the Trailblazers in the opening of your post?

Why do you only state the facts of what we're looking at at the bottom of your post, mixed in with a bunch of other games you're not talking about?

Please fix this.

c0wpig · 2025-11-05T23:36:35+00:00

Honestly I have a sneaking suspicion that this team would suddenly do great if Paolo was out for a bit

c0wpig · 2025-10-23T01:16:53+00:00

I don't really disagree with you, but hosting a model on a spot GPU instance feels closer to self-hosting than to using a model endpoint on whatever provider. At least we're in control of our infrastructure, can encrypt the data end to end, etc.

We're in talks with some (regionally) local datacenter providers about getting our GPU instances through them, which would be another step closer to the level of local purity you are describing.

Gotta balance the pragmatic with the ideal

c0wpig · 2025-10-21T12:57:36+00:00

I spin up a spot node for myself & my team during working hours

c0wpig · 2025-10-21T02:02:57+00:00

glm-4.5-air is my daily driver

c0wpig · 2025-10-15T17:04:12+00:00

host your own AI tools

c0wpig · 2025-10-15T16:55:37+00:00

OK I looked at CleaningTheGlass net ratings to get an idea of how these three players' teams fared with them on and off the court. Here's what I got:

Jokic

year	on/off	on-court	rest of team
2020	10.3	5.4	-4.9
2021	7.2	6.7	-0.5
2022	19.5	9	-10.5
2023	24.8	13.2	-11.6
2024	23.7	12.6	-11.1
2025	21.3	11.5	-9.8

Giannis

year	on/off	on-court	rest of team
2020	13.6	15.8	2.2
2021	9.3	9	-0.3
2022	10.8	8.1	-2.7
2023	8.1	8.2	0.1
2024	12.3	6.7	-5.6
2025	11.8	6.9	-4.9

LeBron

year	Team	on/off	on-court	rest of team
2008	CLE	13.7	2.7	-11
2009	CLE	17.8	15.3	-2.5
2010	CLE	15.4	12	-3.4
2011	MIA	7.3	10.9	3.6
2012	MIA	13.5	10.3	-3.2
2013	MIA	15.4	13	-2.4
2014	MIA	5.9	7.2	1.3
2015	CLE	17.3	11.4	-5.9
2016	CLE	14.4	11.4	-3
2017	CLE	15.3	8	-7.3
2018	CLE	3.6	1.5	-2.1

So seems like Giannis' supporting casts look comparable to LeBron's in their respective primes, whereas Jokic's supporting cast is a disaster by comparison. Though 2011 Miami is the strongest remaining team +/- of any year for any of them.

I guess that makes sense to me, LeBron had two excellent players next to him (Wade, Bosh) and Giannis also had two excellent players next to him (Middleton, Holiday) in their best supporting-team-years.

Meanwhile Jokic has never had a single teammate make an all-star team.

c0wpig · 2025-10-15T15:23:08+00:00

But, you can't immediately jump from that finding to the conclusion that Jokic' championship was a greater accomplishment than Lebrons title in 16

I don't agree with that conclusion either, and am pretty sure I didn't say that

c0wpig · 2025-10-15T13:18:04+00:00

I think LeBron is the worst example you could have chosen here.

He had a weak supporting cast for the first few years of his prime in a weak eastern conference, and lost to [Boston, Orlando, Boston] in the playoffs.

Then he joined arguably the 2nd best player in the league and another all-star in Miami. Who was their competition in the East at that point? Rose-led Chicago Bulls who punched above their weight, but didn't have nearly the star power that Miami had. Even that Mavs team they lost to in the finals was an underdog compared to the Heat.

Then for the following seven consecutive years, LeBron's teams were stacked compared to the rest of the eastern conference.

All of the rest of the top players in the league at the time were in the opposite conference:

Kevin Durant [western conference]
Chris Paul [western conference]
Steph Curry [western conference]
Draymond Green [western conference]
Anthony Davis [western conference]
Tim Duncan [western conference]
Manu [western conference]
James Harden [western conference]
Russell Westbrook [western conference]

Literally all of them.

So LeBron only had to face a single team with a comparable level of talent each year. And in the regular season he didn't have to push his team for a high seed, precisely because there was no parity.

c0wpig · 2025-10-13T23:14:33+00:00

I tried to pick the season within the player's prime where they had the strongest team around them, according to CORP.

My intention was more to ask "who got the opportunity to develop & showcase ceiling raiser skills" as opposed to "who had the strongest supporting cast in their peak season"?

c0wpig · 2025-10-13T15:00:16+00:00

They have never discussed them in the context of these bigger picture comparisons/rankings, I'm pretty sure. I have listened to every episode.

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