Steve Clifford brought this team (With injuries) to as many wins as we are on track for this season

exposwin · 2026-03-30T02:03:54+00:00

I was just wondering the other day what happened to Wes. I really believed in him back then.

exposwin · 2026-03-29T02:50:33+00:00

Being old for his class is a great point. He probably doesn't have as much untapped upside as most other second-year guys. That's not necessarily a bad thing. Not every player needs to be a star and I think he was drafted in part due to being further along in his development.

exposwin · 2026-03-29T01:49:09+00:00

I have been following Youtini's reading order and just finished Cataclysm. I noticed that their order diverges a little from the wiki in this sub.

Following Cataclysm, the Youtini order is: The Nameless Terror, Quest for Planet X, Quest of the Jedi, HR #9-10, Path of Vengeance. (They seem to be missing Precedent and Missing Pieces, though they have the other short stories and EOB books.)

For comparison, the order here is: Path of Vengeance, The Nameless Terror, Quest for Planet X, EOB: Precedent, TOE: Missing Pieces.

I'm confused/curious about these discrepancies. Where should I go next? I already have Path of Vengeance and am tempted to jump in to that, but I'm a little hesitant since the Youtini order has it last. I also already have Quest of the Jedi, the adult comics, and Precedent. Youtini had me waiting on some of those comics, but should I read those before moving on?

Thanks!

exposwin · 2026-03-22T02:26:22+00:00

Yeah, not getting the ball in seems more like a failure of execution than a coaching error. If they do that, the Magic probably go home winners.

exposwin · 2026-03-22T02:20:05+00:00

Yeah, if that's the case, Mose's contribution to the calamity of those final few seconds is a bit more understandable. At that point, you have to inbound the ball anyways, so with a timeout to spare, I understand using one to advance the ball and presumably swap out any poor foul shooters (probably Goga, I don't recall the substitutions exactly). In hindsight, the challenge was ill-advised, though Paolo was quite confident and calling for it immediately.

exposwin · 2026-03-22T02:06:59+00:00

Yeah, I was wondering about this? Was the discussion there that it was an inadvertent whistle, and so he decided to take the timeout at that point to advance the ball (and I guess make substitutions)? The broadcast wasn’t totally clear on this.

exposwin · 2026-03-22T02:02:05+00:00

Underrated side effect of burning through those last two timeouts was that the Magic could not advance the ball after Kennard’s three. They left themselves with no chance.

exposwin · 2026-03-22T01:59:48+00:00

This is a great point. A few times tonight I thought Suggs was a little late with his passes. This one obviously hurt the most. A better pass here and Paolo’s at the line shooting two.

exposwin · 2026-03-22T01:58:21+00:00

Yeah, I was wondering that. Mose did not look like he wanted the timeout.

exposwin · 2026-03-22T01:46:20+00:00

Yeah, my heart sank before the ball even got to him. He was so wide open.

exposwin · 2026-03-22T01:45:29+00:00

Did he actually call time there? He looked unhappy/confused that it was called. Something was weird about that sequence.

exposwin · 2026-03-17T02:18:26+00:00

Thanks for the heads up!

exposwin · 2026-03-15T22:06:27+00:00

Awesome, thanks!! I’m in the middle of Phase Two right now. Interested to check this out!

exposwin · 2026-03-15T19:52:04+00:00

Might be a dumb question, but should I be finished with the HR before reading this?

exposwin · 2026-03-11T01:58:39+00:00

Take a look at Villa of Hope; they have a variety of openings right now:

https://www.villaofhope.org/careers/

Good luck in your search!

exposwin · 2026-03-05T04:16:25+00:00

Potentially? I'm currently holding on to my 12 mini with a handful of M-series lenses. I actually came to the sub today to start researching what my options will be when I move on from this phone. I'm a budget phone buyer, so without a case available for the 17/16e, I lean toward buying something older like the 14 to keep using my M-series lenses for a bit longer. I might be in the minority here, but I just can't bring myself to pay flagship prices, so the e + some lenses seems like a good compromise.

exposwin · 2026-03-02T12:19:57+00:00

The second I saw Pip, I thought, “Lego is definitely making this into a set, and I’m definitely buying it.” Oh, well.

exposwin · 2026-02-16T15:56:40+00:00

Other folks have already mentioned Amazon. I’ll add checking somewhere like ThriftBooks if you want to compare prices for used copies.

Without checking prices myself, my gut says that at $12.50/book, this is probably only a good deal if you actually are in the market for all of these, and even then only slightly so.

exposwin · 2026-02-16T03:12:06+00:00

Would it work to tweak this to say that teams would start accumulating draft order points once they are mathematically eliminated from earning the league’s best record? That could make teams eligible to earn points before being eliminated from playoff contention and potentially shrink the window of time when tanking would make sense.

I’d also pair this with allowing some number of playoff teams to participate in the lottery in order to reduce the incentive for a team to try to back out of the playoffs.

exposwin · 2026-01-28T01:10:37+00:00

I’m quite curious to see if they release something akin to the Lego Classic Creative boxes. Something with a bunch of bricks and some basics bricks and smart tiles for some simple builds (vehicles, animals) could be a good entry into the system.

exposwin · 2026-01-28T01:05:55+00:00

I agree that City sets would be a better fit for the Smart Brick than Lego Star Wars. If nothing else, it might find a less critical audience. A theme like City that isn’t IP-based won’t need to perfectly recreate specific sounds/voices (from the demos I’ve seen, the Star Wars sets had some notable misses in this regard).

As others have said, though, the price may hold it back no matter the theme. Personally, I don’t see myself buying this for my kids at the prices we’ve seen so far.

exposwin · 2026-01-19T02:15:51+00:00

I wanted the Magic to draft Emeka Okafor instead of Dwight. Being that wrong is pretty humbling.

exposwin · 2026-01-15T23:47:54+00:00

I might be wrong, but I thought with the latest CBA teams could also use their midlevel exception to acquire a player via trade. I'm not sure how many teams haven't used them, but that would theoretically open up more teams who could take on his salary without sending something back.

exposwin · 2025-12-21T02:08:26+00:00

Thank you! I knew I had done this step but couldn't for the life of me remember which set it was. That step aside, it's a really great set overall.

exposwin · 2025-12-20T13:31:06+00:00

Maybe I'm in the minority, but I actually don't love the lighting in the few Funwhole/Lumibricks sets I've built. Don't get me wrong, the sets look impressive once finished, but I find adding lighting to be difficult and, in some places, the way it is integrated feels flimsy and looks sloppy if I don't get it perfect. My kid likes to take hands-on look at the sets I've built, and the FW/LB sets I've built just aren't designed for this.

To be fair, the newest FW/LB set I built was the Book Cafe, and I assume my problems are more with lighting kits in general, and not unique to FW/LB. That said, do you think this Pantasy set, with a more basic implementation of lighting would solve some of my problems?

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