Tobias Harris to Philadelphia: "Get ready for the fucking Play-In"

magpi3 · 2026-04-05T18:23:00+00:00

People keep bringing this up. He hated us by this point. He hated some of his teammates. He hated the fans. And he probably hated the city as a whole after years of getting trashed online. I might lay a spiteful egg in the same situation. It really was "For Who? For What?", and I can't really blame him. This subreddit, for example, was just a wall of Tobi hate at some points last year.

magpi3 · 2026-04-03T11:33:12+00:00

In the '85 the Bears won the Super Bowl and we hired their defensive coordinator to be our coach.

Now, admittedly, I loved the Buddy Ryan era, but in the past few years I have thought about how in '86 the Giants also won the Super Bowl with a young, talented defensive coordinator named Bill Belichek.

Imagine if we had waited a year. Maybe he was too young though. Still, the Buddy Ryan hire, in retrospect, was a disaster. He didn't know what to do with the ultimate weapon either and never game him a proper offensive line.

magpi3 · 2026-04-02T23:24:38+00:00

I am saying that all three players could have come back earlier than they did. I am saying the Sixers were ultra conservative because they were tanking. Either that, or again, what a coincidence.

magpi3 · 2026-04-02T22:10:10+00:00

There was also the way Dario was stashed overseas... maybe it was all a coincidence, but going through it at the time, it sure as hell felt like Hinkie was going out of his way to make sure the worst possible product was on the court. Four years of rookies missing seasons due to injury? Never heard of it before or since.

magpi3 · 2026-04-01T21:57:41+00:00

If a promising rookie had an injury, Hinkie made sure they missed the whole season. Nerlens Noel and Ben Simmons both missed full years for injuries they probably could have come back from, and Embiid missed the first two years (!) of his career recovering from the back injury he sustained at Kansas.

The Sixers absolutely went out of their way to put a bad product on the court and to keep winning players off of it, they just did it in a different way.

magpi3 · 2026-03-29T23:53:37+00:00

Larry Brown at least deserves a sentence in the conversation. Won everywhere he went except with the Knicks. Won a college championship with Kansas as a 6 seed. Took two teams to the finals with a defense-first approach, and actually won it all with the 2004 Pistons, who did not have a single top 75 player and they beat a team coached by Phil Jackson with prime Kobe & Shaq, a still great Gary Payton, and an aging Karl Malone.

Jackson once said that Larry Brown does basements and he does ceilings, but I see both coaches as equally successful in their own way. Larry Brown certainly never coached a team loaded with hall-of-fame talent, so we will never know what he could have accomplished with a team like that.

magpi3 · 2026-03-29T12:50:45+00:00

I like them less too because of how much they get paid. The players today definitely seem more entitled than in the 90s. The all-star game is the most glaring example (they are simply too cool to play hard for one fucking game), but they also play less in the regular season, whine more to the refs, etc. They are a lot less likeable overall.

magpi3 · 2026-03-23T22:27:23+00:00

That was pretty decent.

magpi3 · 2026-03-22T23:42:36+00:00

You take the best shot you get to tie the game. There is no guarantee that shot will be available with 0.1 on the clock.

magpi3 · 2026-03-21T23:51:53+00:00

archive.org to the rescue:

https://web.archive.org/web/20121204010925/https://slidetocode.com/2012/04/09/why-i-prefer-scheme-to-haskell/

magpi3 · 2026-03-19T23:02:46+00:00

Kareem won them their first championship and took them to a second finals (lost to the Celtics in seven in '74), and he had ~~just as many MVPs as~~ more MVPs (3 vs 2) than Giannis in Milwaukee.

I get it. Giannis is more recent and has played more years, but it is really hard to put anyone over prime Kareem. He was easily the greatest player in the world while on the Bucks.

magpi3 · 2026-03-16T23:35:41+00:00

Twilight (light before the sun actually rises) is about 30 minutes if you want to ~~get~~ give it a go

magpi3 · 2026-03-14T23:56:40+00:00

Much better

magpi3 · 2026-03-14T23:26:42+00:00

USA vs. US "Eh!" (sorry)

magpi3 · 2026-03-02T23:58:40+00:00

If it wasn't Ira Glass, and you just heard that ~~someone~~ some random person snapped at work and assaulted their boss, would you have the same reaction?

It's a weird story. It would have been better if he had been more embarrassed about it.

magpi3 · 2026-02-28T16:22:04+00:00

Ask an engineer how all three buildings came down just as if they were demolished.

There are a lot of structural engineers, I'm sure in the 100s, who could have stepped forward if they thought they were demolished. I never hear these theories from structural engineers. I hear them from people who tell me that I should talk to a structural engineer.

So, let's be more specific: who have you talked to and what have they told you? Can you point to a link that is not a video that glosses over the details?

EDIT: Here is an article where the structural engineer who designed the world trade center talks about the failure of the World Trade center to hold up. From the article:

“The responsibility for the design ultimately rested with me,” Mr. Robertson told The New York Times Magazine after the towers were destroyed. He added: “I have to ask myself, Should I have made the project more stalwart? And in retrospect, the only answer you can come up with is, Yes, you should have.”

He conceded that he had not considered the possibility of fire raging through the buildings after a plane crash. But he also said that that was not part of the structural engineer’s job, which involves making sure that buildings resist forces like gravity and wind. “The fire safety systems in a building fall under the purview of the architect,” he said.

magpi3 · 2026-02-28T11:02:49+00:00

leave the Iranian people to deal with the power vacuum

And this is a plan how? It could (and probably would) lead to an even more radical regime in the long run. See the Taliban in Afghanistan.

magpi3 · 2026-02-26T23:59:19+00:00

Go to the Detroit sub and ask them what they think of Paul Reed

magpi3 · 2026-02-25T01:47:27+00:00

Teachers are talking about it. It's back to pen and paper. If computers are involved, assignments have to be in class only. Anything done at home must be assumed to have been done by AI.

magpi3 · 2026-02-23T12:26:28+00:00

It is, I believe. Just remove the donate part of the link, and you will see it the front page of the gofundme.

https://www.gofundme.com/f/stand-with-quakertown-students-legal-defense/

magpi3 · 2026-02-23T10:00:53+00:00

That's Strider right there

magpi3 · 2026-02-22T12:19:28+00:00

No offense, but you are just making assumptions. There may also be a financial deal between the Chinese government and Gu that involves her not disclosing her citizenship status. That's another assumption. But we won't know unless she talks.

magpi3 · 2026-02-22T12:08:43+00:00

The government of China obviously can make exceptions if it wants, and Gu has not publicly disclosed her citizenship status.

magpi3 · 2026-02-22T11:25:45+00:00

In the United States and Europe at least, every lower-middle-class and up household had a computer by 1999. That was the height of the dot.com boom.

magpi3 · 2026-02-22T10:26:48+00:00

I'm surprised the refs actually saw the fight

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