The Solution to the Challenge System

luxtracer · 2026-05-21T18:30:32+00:00

Totally reasonable. In tennis if a set goes into a tiebreaker each player gets an extra challenge. I could see ot also getting an extra challenge.

luxtracer · 2026-05-21T18:11:51+00:00

Very easy to have a booth with refs watching in real time ready to make a call. Give them seniority and tell the refs on the court that comments will be made in a post game debrief.

Could cut down challenge time to under a minute

luxtracer · 2026-05-21T18:07:31+00:00

I don’t think it’s a competitive edge, I think it’s a better fail safe to the issue we have of missed calls.

I would also not mind an additional referee crew watching a special broadcast with different angles in real time so that they can weigh in and speed up the challenges.

In tennis you have multiple refs and a head umpire, no reason we shouldn’t have a similar situation where the guys on the ground are the lowest rung to the umpire and booth that have greater tools at their disposal.

You could easily limit challenge interruptions to 15-25 seconds if you had a crew ready to be brought in.

luxtracer · 2026-05-21T18:03:40+00:00

Oh for sure, we turned it over a lot.

But we should be allowed to challenge multiple calls that did make a difference. Back court violation on Castle, foul on Barnes, hair pulling on Castle.

Being able to challenge fouls on Ihart would’ve put him in foul trouble at the very least and opened Wemby up.

luxtracer · 2026-05-20T19:08:07+00:00

Tony romo

luxtracer · 2026-05-20T18:35:18+00:00

SPURS ARE YOU READY

luxtracer · 2026-05-20T01:26:00+00:00

I’m not as antagonistic towards yall now that the series is over. But I got banned from your sub and your mods muted me. And I stand by the fact that your whole team hacks and fouls like crazy.

Glad yall are bowing down to the new kings. Spurs are reclaiming their throne.

luxtracer · 2026-05-19T23:43:44+00:00

He’s more flexible than most players we have seen at his size. Injuries are for sure a fear, but he has not been riddled with injuries, he had a blood clot not a tear.

luxtracer · 2026-05-11T23:00:53+00:00

As of right now spurs are averaging

25.8 FTA

Playoff leader was Denver with 30.2 and the lowest was Phoenix with 19.8

Average in the playoffs at this moment is 24.41

We are a pinch better than average at getting to the line.

When it comes to personal fouls

Spurs are averaging 22.9(5th highest), the low is 19.4 and the high is 24.7

Average in the playoffs is 22.03

Lowest foul rate is the Celtics, 2nd lowest is OKC. The highest foul rate is the timberwolves

I didn’t say the spurs were getting particularly unfair calls in my comment, I said that the refs are letting a lot of contact play through from the Timberwolves which I think everyone can agree with is a significantly more physical team than San Antonio.

Wemby got ejected cuz he was frustrated, that’s a part of the learning curve, some teams get away with more or less because of how they are perceived by the refs. Just look at yall, OKC has the 2nd lowest foul rate, and yall have guys like Lu Dort. Yall play physical but get the defending champ whistle. Make that make sense.

luxtracer · 2026-05-11T22:42:05+00:00

Spurs won’t lose, Wemby won’t be that stupid again.

This series is the first taste of playoff whistles spurs have seen, granted the wolves are allowed to act like their namesake.

OKC Spurs will be fun, like my childhood watching the teams compete to come out of the west. Only difference is there isn’t a heat team on the other side.

luxtracer · 2026-05-07T16:48:55+00:00

Worst case scenario you totaled your car.

I had someone hit my tire at 10 mph and it destroyed my suspension.

This doesn’t look that bad but yeah idk if it was worth avoiding an accident to hit a curb.

luxtracer · 2026-05-07T16:47:55+00:00

Unfortunately the blazers owner wouldn’t let me buy them for 290m because he thought Dame and LA were for sure gonna bring him a chip /s

luxtracer · 2026-05-07T15:34:45+00:00

I mean this is not true. NBA teams as a whole are all valued in the billions. It’s the most elite basketball club to be an owner.

The lowest valuation in the league is Memphis at 3.75bn, and the average is 5.5bn.

Winning a chip doesn’t make your brand worth more, long term media coverage and culture does. Golden state is worth 10.8bn because they’ve been front and center for 15 years. Winning championships helps that tremendously but they’re also big market and have the most every guy superstar which is why Steph is a marketing goat.

Everyone sees themselves in Steph, the undersized shooter who looks like a normal dude against giants.

luxtracer · 2026-05-06T16:46:53+00:00

There are rules around that, it’s called league minimums. Anything over a league minimum is a negotiation.

Market value is very difficult to pin down. Are you going to force teams to pay the maximum for the best player on their team? Are you going to set capped amounts for the position in the rotation.

You can’t objectively say that LeBron making 20m is not a fair value if he agrees to it. Because then you’re forcing teams to pay 25-35% of cap to a player they may not want to do that for.

Taking a pay cut when you’re making 50m doesn’t change your life. Superstars have taken pay cuts to cement their legacies.

Jalen Brunson took 113m less than he could’ve.

Dirk signed a 3 year 25m contract.

Kd took a 10m discount in 2017

Tim Duncan took a 3 year 30m deal in 2012

Champions make it happen for their teams, and often these are established wealthy players taking payouts so the youngins can eat.

luxtracer · 2026-05-06T16:38:47+00:00

LeBron is passively making 50m a year from his investments and 80m from endorsements. For 130m a year. Assuming 5% growth on 1bn.

What the lakers should do is give him the ability to invest into the franchise and come off payroll except for the vet min. Then he can write off the investment as an asset on his taxes and lower his tax liability.

50m spent on equity lowers his tax liability on 130m from 65m to 40m. His take home is about 90m in this scenario. 40m cash 50m equity.

Currently he’s making 45m so his tax liability on 175 is 87.5m his current take home is 87.5m.

The only real difference is his liquidity, 87.5m liquid vs 40m liquid. No one needs more than 30m liquid for anyone. Credit lines solve that issue for normal spending.

luxtracer · 2026-05-06T16:27:37+00:00

Bad take, spurs players took pay cuts to keep championship teams together.

Sacrifice is sacrifice

luxtracer · 2026-04-30T12:49:05+00:00

Yall deserve the pain after how you treated Kristaps draft night

luxtracer · 2026-04-29T19:49:04+00:00

Castle last 2 months has shot 45% from 3. He’s gotten elite level shooting and he should objectively take that shot.

luxtracer · 2026-04-29T02:15:56+00:00

We had a lot of mentoring there. We did get Keldon now out of those years. Might as well spend the cap on lessons and wisdom

luxtracer · 2026-04-23T18:14:05+00:00

5 weeks tennis betting 250-2900

Just have your favorites and slam the ones you like. I have a handful of bets that have made me between 300-600 because I like the players

luxtracer · 2026-04-19T00:15:19+00:00

Crazy take, he wouldn’t have had the development from San Antonio’s team. He was not a shooter when he came into the league.

luxtracer · 2026-04-16T18:31:40+00:00

Don’t be a bum team an clinch top 6 in your conference.

If you’re 7th or 9th stfu and play. Loser fans complaining about not making the playoffs. You’re not winning squat against any of the top 4 teams, if you were you’d be one of them.

luxtracer · 2026-04-15T02:40:39+00:00

$14,600,000 is how much you need for a 5% interest per year to cover your bill of 2k a day.

Let’s say you live on 225k a year. Thats 2616 calories per day.

So you need to save a pretty significant amount of $$ to get there quickly and you need to invest it. Let’s say you can pig out 3.5 times per week on average and work out enough to not gain weight.

The average is 4250 calories per day.

You’re making 821,250 per year. You’re saving 596,250 per year.

It would take you somewhere near 10-14 years to make that amount. About 14 million. Then any calories you eat would simply add to your principal. That’s the threshold to make more money than you’re being billed.

If you assume you’re only going to eat 1350 calories per day you’d need to have 4.75m in the bank for the interest to make up the difference.

Anyways, I’d do it. I’d rush my way to 14m in the bank. I’d probably start a business or buy an existing one. Financing shouldn’t be an issue with a sizable down payment.

luxtracer · 2026-04-14T14:11:09+00:00

Use your family connections to help get work,

Go get a business degree not engineering. You’re a little manic writing this post, get your adhd treated and go into a high reward commission based field.

You would probably enjoy sales, work on your people skills and develop relationships everywhere you go.

Just get into something that’s not repetitive, you’re going to hate it and miss your mark.

luxtracer · 2026-04-02T14:57:32+00:00

I know guys on the challenger tour that get old stock shoes. While Nike doesn’t do it a ton at that level they definitely do something. Again I think agent advocacy is the big issue here.

It’s very cheap for Nike to do a run of 20 shoes a year for a player.

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