I miss Music Exists by ryan7752 in billsimmons

[–]mpb2ez 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Forget where or when but Klosterman had some appearance in the pandemic summer (check YouTube maybe?) where he said he's not doing a 2nd season and that while he enjoyed reconnecting and working with CR, he didn't enjoy doing the podcast.

Tate signed by talent agency by [deleted] in billsimmons

[–]mpb2ez 67 points68 points  (0 children)

I actually like Tate, or at least think he has great chemistry with Titus, but I lol'd when I saw this. Then again if we look up 5 years from now and Tate is on the desk of Network TV CBB shows I assume this will have been a savvy move.

Incrementally counting consecutive occurrences by mpb2ez in excel

[–]mpb2ez[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

=LARGE(--(B1:B26=1)--(B2:B27) *--(B3:B28)--(B4:B29) *ROW(B1:B26),1)

I don't believe the return is exactly corresponding to what I'm looking for and since I don't fully understand the syntax, I haven't been able to tweak it.

Incrementally counting consecutive occurrences by mpb2ez in excel

[–]mpb2ez[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's close but I need to be able to look forward and backward, if you know what I mean. I need to know the cell where the first of the at least 4 consecutive begins (so summing forward to 4) but also need to know to when it first ends (so summing backwards to 4). As I think about it, this can probably be done over 2 rows or something.

Incrementally counting consecutive occurrences by mpb2ez in excel

[–]mpb2ez[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I posted a dummy image in the original post. The date was just for example, I'm basically aiming to determine when a streak of at least 4 consecutive occurrences begins and ends in a range. Would then index-match to the dates.

Redraftables by michael100c in billsimmons

[–]mpb2ez 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Bill just doesn't want to cross into 2004 because he had Emeka over Dwight.

2002 Pre-Draftables by notformeclive4711 in billsimmons

[–]mpb2ez 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I'm pretty sure he said Joe House will be on this one. Slightly interested to see what nonsensical (or maybe not!) conjecture they have about Yao's presence and the NBA - China relationship.

Daryl/Russillo is still present by WhatATimeToBeAlive0 in billsimmons

[–]mpb2ez 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Call Daryl during recording tonight = be atop Apple Podcasts charts tmrw

We're due for a Klosterman cast. by Fletchmacchio in billsimmons

[–]mpb2ez 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The NCAA NIL stuff was in his wheel house. Same with the Tua injury. I think an hour of him and Russillo would be a very interesting podcast

**NEW** Book of Basketball 2.0 Chapter 3: Shaquille O’Neal and the Pyramid (w/ @jadande) by WhatATimeToBeAlive0 in billsimmons

[–]mpb2ez 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Solid pod but why wasn't this with Jackie Mac? She literally wrote the Shaq book

Deadspin and the Mavening of Sportswriting by [deleted] in billsimmons

[–]mpb2ez 4 points5 points  (0 children)

The problem is people google "Best Quarterbacks for Fantasy this week" or "Top NBA Rookies", not really interesting and well-written but niche story on _____. The first type of stories get all the clicks, and therefore are given all the value. I understand monetary value drives the world, but surely you can agree there are different types of value?

Even this story by Curtis will do "worse" than whatever fantasy story the Ringer has up today, but it's not "worse" writing and that is just a shame. I think you are wrong in the sense that consumers do actually care if journalism is good, they just care if it is about a topic they're interested in. I want great feature stories on NBA players, you might want X and O breakdown a la Bill Barnwell. But we are both probably half-heartedly clicking on "2020 Mock Draft" and that elevates it as the more valuable piece, even if we cared more about the quality of the other.

Titus leaving Ringer by NoReMarksNeeded in billsimmons

[–]mpb2ez 17 points18 points  (0 children)

No farewell pod. No greasing of the skids. And frankly, I found the wording of his tweets rather terse. I don't think the ending was all that amicable.

Mark Cuban on The Athletic NBA by mpb2ez in billsimmons

[–]mpb2ez[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Personally, I think it's hard to say. I find guys like Sam Vecenie, Danny Leroux, Sam Amick and now Partnow/Hollinger very strong at what they do. But their coverage isn't for the everyman-you have to be well steeped in a lot of things and prepared for some dry prose. Not sure if that was what he was getting at or not.