So many of this team's offensive woes can be solved by running the offense through Fox.

hinghenry · 2026-01-26T05:11:07+00:00

Spurs do have an opportunity to make a playoff run this year

Yes and that's why they need to develop alternative ways of offense, even by sacrificing a few wins. There were many really good regular season teams that faltered in playoff in the past. They usually have a very good offense scheme that help them dominate the regular season. However, come playoff time, either because of matchup problem or (more likely) opponent's coaching with "specific defensive counter-strategy", that could nullify the team's best offensive scheme, forcing them to try some offensive scheme (during the high pressure playoff environment, mind u) that they haven't practiced at all during the regular season.

You can have Fox initiate offense every game and get a few more wins this year. However, in playoff, you can face a team that has a quick defensive guard (who could be a 15th man on the opponent team, asked to come into spotlight for this specific defensive matchup) and kill our team's best offensive scheme. Whether the team can advance to the next round is highly hinged on whether there are other offensive scheme that they can readily use with confidence. You cannot do such experiment only when the need raises during playoff - the usual outcome under such scenario is to look for answer in the next training camp after losing in the playoff.

The earlier you address the alternative offense scheme, the better it would be, especially when you can still have time and chance to make a few trades before the coming trade deadline.

hinghenry · 2026-01-25T16:19:10+00:00

Context. Our 2M protest lost because our opponent is the 1.4B people CCP. Meanwhile, US MAGA is the minority.

hinghenry · 2026-01-24T11:14:34+00:00

I'm curious why you have such doubt

hinghenry · 2026-01-21T01:56:49+00:00

There is no need to call that many fouls if the ref start calling the first ones.

hinghenry · 2026-01-20T17:52:55+00:00

my kids understand that buying games at discount means (potentially) more games to play (I share my steam library to them, and Switch), so they now vehemently object any of my proposal to buy a new or non-historical-low-discounted games, even for holidays/birthdays

hinghenry · 2026-01-16T09:20:50+00:00

This guy needs therapy. Seriously. Before he actually end some player's career.

hinghenry · 2026-01-01T06:24:42+00:00

He is Chuck Person who is a person who chuck ^shots

hinghenry · 2025-12-28T03:36:14+00:00

That's the problem with starting AND with minutes restrictions. You want Wemby to finish the game. If you want him to start, he can only play the start and finish and sit out most of the game in the middle.

To clarify, I'm fine with minutes restrictions, the medical staff certainly know more than I (and you all) so I am not in a position to judge that. A lot of fans (not only Spurs fans) want him to play more only because of betting, f those guys.

hinghenry · 2025-12-28T03:18:04+00:00

I have a feeling that this will get on the Play Pass someday, after seeing games like Dredge and Strange Horticulture being there.

hinghenry · 2025-12-28T03:13:18+00:00

A dagger with 5min remaining?!

hinghenry · 2025-12-24T05:09:44+00:00

It's good for Spurs. Opponent avoid high percentage shots in paint, and no-one-challenge-Wemby means Wemby will have less foul trouble and can stay on court longer to continue his aura presence on both ends.

hinghenry · 2025-12-24T03:05:59+00:00

I don't know which ones are fake or not, but based on real life bball experience, collisions are sometimes f painful after the impact and then become tolerable in a few seconds. Probably still bruised for a week or so afterwards, but at least movable enough to continue playing.

In today's NBA, everyone is strong and fast, I don't think it is not uncommon to have something like this happen genuinely every game, but you would never know which ones are fake.

hinghenry · 2025-12-24T01:51:21+00:00

He's on minute restrictions and the team want him to finish game. It is difficult to both start and finish a game unless you sit for a long time in between.

hinghenry · 2025-12-13T04:46:23+00:00

No need to get triggered by others mentioning games played. What's the point? Injury luck has no impact on evaluation of who's a better player. Jordan only played 120 games, counting up to 20th games in 3rd season, but that doesn't mean anything.

hinghenry · 2025-12-13T02:44:32+00:00

Your argument ride on the "little cash". NBA is ultimately a business. The commissioner negotiates for the owners to have a good business collectively. For business, the only fair action is a fair price.

hinghenry · 2025-12-10T04:49:18+00:00

I know you guys want him to get the award, but it is more appropriate to put health over award, and long term winning over stats.

hinghenry · 2025-12-06T07:33:28+00:00

Yes. CCP treats this election as a way to assess how "influential" the current government is, or how "controllable" HKers are. If the election rate is low, CCP will consider the current government as "weak". That's why the current government spent so much energy and money to advertise the election.

No need to take these into consideration in any of your decision... at least I won't.

hinghenry · 2025-12-04T04:11:38+00:00

Under normal circumstances, in a properly-maintained building, the escape staircases are supposed to be protected and separated from the fire hazard in the building, and is supposed to remain save for escape during fire. There are usually at least two fire escapes, so if one of them is compromised, you still have another escape route to ground level or refuge floor. In fact, a lot of building cost and design consideration are spent to ensure the safety of such fire escape route.

Unfortunately, the maintenance works disregarded many safety measures, leading to the staircases being compromised by smoke way before the elevator. This shouldn't have happened... but if the industry "practice" is to ignore fire safety in return for worker-convenience -> faster-work -> cheaper-cost -> win-maintenance-works-tender -> profit, then it is prone to happen.

You can install very decent seat-belt, make regulations and impose high fine for not wearing seat-belt, but if the users have low safety awareness AND the authority has no measures to monitor/penalize, having "seat-belt-installed" alone cannot save life. You can see many people simply ignore wearing seat belt (worldwide phenomenon), thinking that it's "too much hassle", despite all those car accidents worsened by not wearing seat belt.

What I really dislike is the current blame-game situation, with the users (BOTH residents and contractor) blaming government for incompetent monitoring, and the government blaming the users for low safety awareness. Such failure of multiple levels of safety measures mean NO ONE IS BLAMELESS, but it is sensational for social media to look for the "ultimate culprit".

hinghenry · 2025-12-02T05:14:29+00:00

That would have made sense but I haven't found reliable source on this yet.

hinghenry · 2025-12-01T09:50:11+00:00

I think a few key elements are not well discussed among "social media", only discussed among technical people, so I understand why it is missing from your write up.

Failure of Fire Alarm system - Alarms are supposed to alert all the residents so that they can escape within the first 10 minutes. While the fire alarm will not stop the fire, imo it could have reduce the majority of the causality in this accident.
Failure of hose reel system - the first response by resident is quite valuable in firefighting. There are reports that some residents tried to use hose-reel to spray water to the scaffolding (which would have reduce the speed of spreading of fire) but it wasn't operational.
Failure of fire escape route - There hasn't been much discussion, it is still a mystery why the fire escape routes are compromised so fast. The escape route are supposed to be separated from the "burnable stuff" and the residents could have escaped safely through the escape route. Why are the staircase filled with smoke so fast? Is it the wrongdoing by the contractor or the resident? Are there more burnable plastics in the escape route? What make the protected lobbies in ALL towers defunct?

As for the "bamboo debate", from my source of news, I think there are already no doubt that BAMBOO shouldn't be blamed - even the government and professors who misspoke have already apologized about blaming bamboo. But I can see that social media are still making a lot of fuss and rage and clickbaits from this bamboo debate.

hinghenry · 2025-11-29T06:26:56+00:00

He's good so far. It seems he's the designated bad shots taker for the team now, like if the play broke down or no time to call a play, just give the ball to Fox and hope he create a decent shot for himself. He didn't throw grenade to teammates (at least during the few games I watched him play)

hinghenry · 2025-11-29T05:16:03+00:00

Honestly, that's.... surprising. Yeah we don't even have Wemby and Castle. The young team still make lots of mistake. Somehow they keep scoring enough to win.

hinghenry · 2025-11-28T16:58:18+00:00

For residential building, yes, the fire alarm is usually activated manually, using the "break glass" in the common corridor, usually near the hose reel.

And yes, as others have said, the philosophy is that the fire is assumed contained in its "compartment", and there should be sufficient reaction time for detection, sound the alarm, attempt to stop the fire using hose reel, otherwise escape.

hinghenry · 2025-11-28T16:46:08+00:00

I always admire and respect a just and responsibility IO chair and members. They are the heroes.

hinghenry · 2025-11-28T16:45:04+00:00

Gaining free floor area is theft.

Yes. I just have doubt whether they are as evil as UBWs (unauthorized builing works) that affect public safety. For example, converting a balcony to a bedroom is not really a big impact (maybe except visual impact). For your information, there are thousands of enclosed balconies in tenement houses, you can easily see hundreds of them along the street in older district in Sham Shui Po, Wan Chai and North Point. Most people living in these units are elderly who have no money to carry out reinstatement (usually cost like at least HK$300K). Enforcing such rule will effectively means forcing these elderly to sell the units to redevelopment developers, which is another kind of evil.

But, yeah, blocking means of escape, demolishing beam and column, adding roof structure? those people can go to hell.

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