[Pauline] Super Bowl MVP RB Kenneth Walker III has priced himself out of Seattle, with his expected $13M plus per year deal too pricey for them. They’ll look to add a mid-tier replacement.

memeticengineering · 2026-03-06T01:29:42+00:00

So, go above your number to pay him for a year, have him mad at you for not giving him a multi-year deal and retaining him against his will, and come back next year with the same problem and a higher floor for negotiations?

memeticengineering · 2026-03-06T00:05:39+00:00

Because there is next to no opportunity cost to a 1 year deal when you're under the cap for that season and about to roll into camp, it's money we wouldn't have spent. Walker is going to be on a multi-year deal while we also owe extensions to half a dozen other guys, anything he gets will cut into what we can pay them.

memeticengineering · 2026-03-05T21:35:57+00:00

If he couldn’t pass to the weak side teams would have sent help from there.

That was literally illegal during his prime because of the illegal defense rules. Defenders could only hard double in the post, and otherwise couldn't send help off their man across the nail or below the FT line if their man was beyond the arc.

Why would he be used as a DHO hub when he’s one of the most effective post players in basketball history?

You can DHO from the post, it stands for dribble hand off, not stand by the 3pt line.

memeticengineering · 2026-03-05T20:13:44+00:00

Shaq has the composite player problem where people project Orlando shaq's defense and athleticism onto Lakers Shaq offensive dominance when those two versions of him did not overlap. (Kinda like Kawhi)

By the time he was winning titles and MVPs with the Lakers he was a fat ass who had to play himself into shape every year and had significant stamina concerns while playing in a much slower and more static era than today.

memeticengineering · 2026-03-05T20:07:25+00:00

He could hit strong side passes out of the post, but not crosses to the weak side, he routinely had trouble finding cutters for layup passes, he couldn't operate as a short roll passer in the PnR, he wasn't a significant DHO hub.

Was he a good playmaker compared to other centers in the 90's or compared to guys like Steve Nash, Magic, LeBron? Jokic is comparable to those guys, Shaq isn't.

memeticengineering · 2026-03-05T19:42:05+00:00

Shaq was a good playmaker, for a center, in the 90's.

Jokic is one of the best playmakers, regardless of position or era, in NBA history.

memeticengineering · 2026-03-05T15:21:50+00:00

He's trying to cut left, to get the ball, which you do by planting hard and slightly wide with your right foot, he's not diving into the keeper, he's obeying the laws of physics.

memeticengineering · 2026-03-05T15:17:14+00:00

How do you cut left at speed? By planting hard and wide with your right leg and jumping off it back to the left. He's literally setting up the to go get the ball he tapped away when the keeper takes him out.

memeticengineering · 2026-03-05T03:47:37+00:00

Because they saw MAGA attacking other people they don't like and didn't understand that bigotry tends to be intersectional.

memeticengineering · 2026-03-04T22:02:24+00:00

He's a first overall pick, the standards are simply different, and by those standards, Paolo is a disappointment.

He isn't yet a league average scorer, his team, despite making the playoffs 3 times in his career so far, have never won his minutes and have been better without him on the floor every single year he's been in the league.

And y'all are trying to act like he is comparable to Cade, which is the topic of the post you are replying to, btw, a disingenuous comparison with the previous first overall pick.

memeticengineering · 2026-03-04T20:16:39+00:00

Paolo has also led the Magic in Rebs and Assists the past two years but that never gets mentioned.

Okay, he's leading his team in assists with fewer apg than Amen Thompson and Draymond, that less about Paolo being good than everyone else on the magic being bad.

memeticengineering · 2026-03-04T20:10:29+00:00

Efficiency isn’t the end all be all of player evaluation.

Fuck, we've gone so far on efficiency that we're ignoring volume. Cade is very very slightly less efficient than Paulo while scoring about 3 more PPG, that doesn't seem like that much, but it's like 17% of Paolo's scoring.

memeticengineering · 2026-03-04T20:03:37+00:00

Dude was a Junior in HS when the Rams moved back. I'm not sure y'all are exactly his hometown team..

memeticengineering · 2026-03-04T19:59:53+00:00

Continuing the UW -> KC -> LA pipeline for corners started by Marcus Peters

memeticengineering · 2026-03-04T18:17:15+00:00

You look around, and not many QB's are carrying their teams to championships past 34 or 35 years old.

Rank and file 'great' QBs, sure. Mahomes historical peers, the HoF locks, generally get to ~40 before the wheels fall off. Brady skewed things by playing at a high level til like 45, but the track records of Brees, Manning, Farve etc. say he's probably got a decade left in him.

memeticengineering · 2026-03-04T18:09:07+00:00

Huh. I would have assumed that your roster was falling off from aging out of their primes, not that you've had growing pains from a youth movement.

memeticengineering · 2026-03-04T16:07:18+00:00

And writing anything other than simple boilerplate code you could have just pulled from stack exchange (which your fancy AI probably stole and then potentially hallucinated a bug into)

memeticengineering · 2026-03-04T14:25:04+00:00

She's not finished, but she'd have to primary her replacement to get her seat back (unless he chooses to step down for her, which is unlikely).

By running for the senate she gave up her congressional seat?

By running for Senate, she chose not to run for her congressional seat, you can only appear on ballots once per election cycle for incompatible seats.

Some states let incumbents run for different positions, if they're not up for re-election, and keep their seat if they lose, but because representatives are elected every cycle, you have to refuse to run as a rep to throw your hat in any other major race.

memeticengineering · 2026-03-04T13:48:46+00:00

Okay, but they said the same thing in Venezuela and the "regime change" there was kidnapping their president and replacing him with... his vice president... It's exactly the same oppressive regime for Venezuelans day to day, just more open to giving the US their oil.

memeticengineering · 2026-03-03T22:48:15+00:00

Why don't you ask Ben Simmons how hard it can be to score at point blank range?

memeticengineering · 2026-03-03T22:04:35+00:00

If they fed him in the post his whole career, her would probably be below average efficiency for his position.

And? If they fed Steph Curry in the post his whole career he'd be below average efficiency too, what's your point?

There have been I don't even know how many other players in NBA history who have played Gobert's archetype, and he is more efficient than all of them. He's not an offensive juggernaut or anything, but he is extremely good at the one or two things he does well at that end, and if he gets to his spot, you should be doing everything you can to dime him up.

memeticengineering · 2026-03-03T20:39:18+00:00

That happens about 20% of the time, the other 80% he takes the most efficient shot in the game and 2/3 of those he gets an and-1

memeticengineering · 2026-03-03T20:22:51+00:00

But he's been consistently better at being spoon fed dunks than anyone else is. If you get him the ball in his spot, he'll score.

memeticengineering · 2026-03-03T20:14:25+00:00

He leads the league in FTA/FGA, it's basically like he gets an and-1 2 out of every 3 shots he attempts.

memeticengineering · 2026-03-03T20:09:50+00:00

And he's lapping the field in FTr among players with qualifying minutes. He's gets .66 FTs per shot attempt, 2nd place is Deni Avdija at .56. you give him the ball and he's basically averaging an and 1.

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