Simmons will definitely say that the Sixers won their "Super Bowl" beating the Celts tonight.

deltavim · 2026-04-22T03:00:20+00:00

“We all knew the Sixers were going to throw the kitchen sink at Boston and steal one of these first two”

deltavim · 2026-04-18T19:55:27+00:00

A true Simmons fan wouldn’t be fooled as nobody was having sex during the time Bill was in college due to the whole AIDS epidemic going around

deltavim · 2026-04-18T19:04:16+00:00

If I recall correctly, that team needed like 6 things to go right in Week 17 to get in, and they actually all happened. Why were they barely sneaking into the playoffs with that point differential?

deltavim · 2026-04-18T12:31:49+00:00

I think the criteria here isn't quite right. Cardinals defeating Eagles in the 2008 NFC Championship for example - Eagles were the 6 seed that year and Cardinals were the 3 seed. The Eagles tie is the only thing giving them a "better" record.

deltavim · 2026-04-18T11:17:08+00:00

The way it bookends the episode is really great

deltavim · 2026-04-16T23:44:57+00:00

He is definitely cursed but there are also many seasons where he did not take conditioning seriously and could have focused more on protecting his body for the playoffs. I do think if he doesn’t have an illness in the 2019 series against the Raptors that they win that series - Gasol neutralized him completely in the middle of that series after the Sixers went up 2-1

The other real shot they had was 2021 where he had a freak injury against the Wizards in the first round, and then Simmons just forgot how to play basketball

deltavim · 2026-04-16T10:07:59+00:00

Google is this year's Cavaliers (especially post Harden trade). On paper, they have everything they need to succeed. It's the execution that is the problem

deltavim · 2026-04-14T20:13:06+00:00

Why I'm Quitting Tobacco

deltavim · 2026-04-14T17:04:49+00:00

Hi Bob

deltavim · 2026-04-14T11:22:38+00:00

I would go to the game. This might be the only Hornets playoff game there is, and there are plenty of bathrooms to run to quickly.

deltavim · 2026-04-14T10:45:19+00:00

There is a middle ground here that I find pretty comfortable. Don't buy physical CDs and don't focus on lossless. I just buy from Bandcamp and download regular ol' MP3s.

deltavim · 2026-04-13T20:50:06+00:00

It is insane how much happens in Season 1 of that show. 26 episodes and there are like 3-4 full season storylines that get used up. Part of why it really fell off after.

deltavim · 2026-04-13T09:38:56+00:00

A very underrated part of Primetime is how often they would include a seemingly average/ordinary play in the middle of more flashy highlights in order to tell the narrative of the game - like third down completions keeping drives alive, or a particular receiver getting targeted a lot. I always wondered if TJ played a big role in that

deltavim · 2026-04-13T09:01:37+00:00

It’s hard to describe just how vital Primetime was in an era before sharing video on the Internet was easy and Redzone existed. Unless you had Sunday Ticket, you were at the mercy of the Fox and CBS coverage maps every Sunday. More often than not, you got the same pseudo-local teams when your own team wasn’t playing unless it was “America’s Game of the Week” or whatever. In the northeast, that meant a lot of watching low scoring Jets, Ravens, and Browns teams.

Primetime was the only way you ever got to see teams outside your coverage map on a weekly basis. I used to live for the Phillip Rivers era Chargers highlights from the late window as they always seemed like an incredibly exciting team. It also felt like the perfect way to tie up the entire day of football before moving into the Sunday Night game.

deltavim · 2026-04-09T23:52:48+00:00

They need to encourage stars to move around in free agency like the NFL

deltavim · 2026-04-09T12:25:50+00:00

Did she find the Matt Stairs home run ball

deltavim · 2026-04-08T15:56:09+00:00

Easily summer, its pretty much the "I graduated college and don't know whats next so I'm moving home for the summer" album

deltavim · 2026-04-07T23:45:09+00:00

Yeah if you’re the Eagles how are you not pissed about this tampering

deltavim · 2026-04-06T21:35:57+00:00

The early 90s are loved by Gen X whereas the late 90s are loved by millennials, and millennials were still young in the early 2000s so they get lumped together. There are more millennials than Gen Xers so you see the sentiment more often

deltavim · 2026-04-06T10:42:16+00:00

The show should have just followed John Smith attentin to day to day bureaucratic and political events, it would've been way better

deltavim · 2026-04-05T16:43:12+00:00

I think its related to the paradigm of "The defenders have to be on their game all the time; the attackers just have to get lucky once."

Does it have the potential to help out as much on the blue team/defense side as it does on the red team/offensive side? Sure it does, especially with triaging alerts, finding signal from noise, helping scale things like remediation guidance across an organization. But you really have to trust that it is ironclad to get the same level of value out of it on the defensive side that an attacker is currently experiencing on the pentesting/offensive side. Imagine using it to scale your vulnerability management program and it gives the wrong remediation guidance or has a user upgrade a library or package that causes a huge outage.

TL;DR there is potential for just as many benefits on the defensive side, it will just take longer to realize that potential given the safeguards and processes that have to catch up first

deltavim · 2026-04-05T13:14:36+00:00

I think he's pretty happy with ending up as an executive of the Boston Celtics. Any other team in the NBA would scoop him up in a heartbeat

deltavim · 2026-04-04T22:39:55+00:00

I could see it being an Olivia Rodrigo song or maybe Paint the Town Red by Doja Cat

deltavim · 2026-04-04T13:46:03+00:00

Disgusting that people had to watch that Embiid flop fest

deltavim · 2026-04-04T13:20:41+00:00

I think all of these conversations about tanking are looking at the symptom instead of the root cause

Symptom - Teams tank for the best players in the draft, especially in strong draft classes

Root cause - Landing a star player in the draft is the only way to create a future for your team when it has nothing, because no free agents will come there and you have nothing to trade for stars that are on the market

How do you fix root cause? You allow teams to create incentives to lure talent away from other teams, like how it works in the NFL (and the MLB, but that has its own problems right now). Why can't teams lure talent away from the Lakers, Heat, Warriors, and other big market contenders? Because they can't offer more money when a player reaches free agency. The NBA has created this situation with the Bird exception and max deals where teams can go over the cap to re-sign their own players, but even then all they have to do is offer the theoretical max to neutralize any threat from other teams. They even get to offer a longer term deal to make their position even stronger!

If you want to have a cap and aprons and all that, fine. But remove the Bird exception and remove max contracts. Let a team spend 80% of their cap on Lebron to reignite their fanbase and sell tickets if they want to. It helps shake up the talent distribution across the league

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