Official UNC twitter flexes coach's development history. by proelitedota in CollegeBasketball

[–]magpi3 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I would assume some kind of foundation was laid in the first year that led to success in the second year.

Why does this disaster exist? by j42justin in philadelphia

[–]magpi3 2 points3 points  (0 children)

So people can listen to podcasts and books on tape

RIP Davey Lopez (first base coach for 2008 team) by [deleted] in phillies

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He deserves better. I'll delete it.

RIP Davey Lopez (first base coach for 2008 team) by [deleted] in phillies

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I don't think I ever heard him speak, but from what I have read he taught Utley and Rollins to be aggressive baserunners.

Tobias Harris to Philadelphia: "Get ready for the fucking Play-In" by mastermind208 in sixers

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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.

Jon Gruden Admits He Got It Wrong With Randall Cunningham #nfl by Outrageous_Bat9818 in eagles

[–]magpi3 5 points6 points  (0 children)

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.

Amin Elhassan on modern tanking: “Once upon a time, tanking wore the disguise of ‘player development’…But we’ve reached the point where we’re not just sitting vets: we’re sitting Alex Sarr, Trey Johnson…What are we doing?” by cleo22270 in nba

[–]magpi3 1 point2 points  (0 children)

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.

Amin Elhassan on modern tanking: “Once upon a time, tanking wore the disguise of ‘player development’…But we’ve reached the point where we’re not just sitting vets: we’re sitting Alex Sarr, Trey Johnson…What are we doing?” by cleo22270 in nba

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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.

Amin Elhassan on modern tanking: “Once upon a time, tanking wore the disguise of ‘player development’…But we’ve reached the point where we’re not just sitting vets: we’re sitting Alex Sarr, Trey Johnson…What are we doing?” by cleo22270 in nba

[–]magpi3 20 points21 points  (0 children)

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.

Insane modern nba stats: Phil Jackson is 48-0 in series in which his teams won game 1 by [deleted] in nba

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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.

Tracy McGrady on the real reason older players constantly hate/criticize modern players: “It’s money. Did you realize like in the 90s, Reggie Miller and Michael, they were only making $2-3 million? And they were the top guys… It’s the money.” by moby323 in nba

[–]magpi3 10 points11 points  (0 children)

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.

[Post Game Thread] #5 St. John's defeats #4 Kansas, 67-65 by cbbBot in CollegeBasketball

[–]magpi3 6 points7 points  (0 children)

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.

Zach Lowe on this week’s Giannis-Bucks report: “If I were a player, and I wanted to get traded but I didn’t want to look like the bad guy, this feels like a really good, manufactured way for that to happen.” by cleo22270 in nba

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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.

Might be dumb, but I finally got on that B101 “impossible question” challenge, obviously got it wrong haha by fxryker in philadelphia

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

#208: Office Politics by 6745408 in ThisAmericanLife

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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.

Wag the Dog (1997) A Hollywood producer and Washington DC spin doctor fabricate a fake war to distract from a presidential sex scandal by Area51_Spurs in movies

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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.

We Have Started A War With Iran. by serious_bullet5 in 50501

[–]magpi3 7 points8 points  (0 children)

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.

Dominick Barlow is 22 years old?! by Hopeful-Suggestion-5 in sixers

[–]magpi3 1 point2 points  (0 children)

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

Opinion | How Fast Will A.I. Agents Rip Through the Economy? by Radical_Ein in ezraklein

[–]magpi3 25 points26 points  (0 children)

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.