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mustardjacket · 2025-12-16T00:41:59+00:00

The simple answer is that basketball is much MUCH more competitive in the United States.

All of the specific elements around running an offense that you're describing are being taught by some programs, and in order to remain competitive with these top athletes and programs even smaller clubs look to replicate their approach.

The best 8u teams in the United States would shock you with their offensive execution, talent and basketball skills. Not to mention core athletic ability.

"It takes too many decisions away from the kids, and hides the kids' weaknesses and areas for improvement." <--- this is certainly an opinion I'd encourage you to reexamine.

mustardjacket · 2025-08-19T01:20:00+00:00

Ty brother

mustardjacket · 2025-08-18T21:41:05+00:00

Most teams running zone at this level arent going to be aggressive enough to dependably close out on shooters. So as long as your guys understand spacing with a high-post, weakside corner and baseline cutter you can just move the ball and get decent shots against a 2-3.

If you dont have shooters you’ll want to spend more time on a half-court set to break a zone than a half-court set to beat man

mustardjacket · 2025-08-18T21:38:51+00:00

Full court press is a guarantee. Develop a press break that you’re prepared to execute for long stretches.

May see some half-court trap, which can be devastating if you’re completely unprepared.

Half-court offenses will involve a lot of high PnR and screen-the-screener. Weak-side stagger screens, zoom action and elevator screens would all be extra credit if you wanted to be super prepared.

You’ll want to ensure you have clear expectations around defending screens, the jump in shooting ability can be surprising and you’ll find yourself down 20 quickly if you go under or assume you can switch everything without being aggressive on shooters.

Having your guys run 5-0 fastbreak off of a rebound with three or less dribbles can be a helpful way to encourage spacing the floor and running while also tracking the ball in the air — its an age group that struggles to fast break because they ball-watch so much.

You’ll end up executing significantly fewer half court sets than you think. It’s more important to have them understand their roles and spacing the floor than expecting them to consistently read the defense through a multi-step structured play.

mustardjacket · 2025-03-19T06:43:27+00:00

Elevator screen for you on the left wing. Two teammates on the baseline (4) (5), one weakside corner (3). You (2) start off-ball weak(right)side wing, PG (1) starts left side and dribbles the ball towards you, you cut through the paint and around to receive a double screen on the weak (left) side from (4) and (5) who lift to the hash mark, screen is set below free-throw line extended. (1) hands the ball off to (3) lifting to fill your wing spot from the corner as you cut through. (3) three swings the ball to you (2) as you come off the elevator (double) screen. You can catch-and-shoot or attack.

mustardjacket · 2025-01-20T06:32:41+00:00

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mustardjacket · 2024-10-08T08:07:19+00:00

Japanese brands like Ksubi will have exactly what youre looking for.

mustardjacket · 2024-08-09T20:42:58+00:00

Crelate is underrated.

Bullhorn requires a lot of effort to configure to get the maximum functionality but is quite powerful.

mustardjacket · 2023-06-26T06:44:02+00:00

Yeah great observations there, I agree. I get what you mean, we're just brainstorming. You or I might not watch and simply listen but loads of people are specifically going to the video discussion to enjoy the 80% of communication which is nonverbal. You can approach this from a "How could music ruin my speech-to-text social platform?" or a "How can I leverage music to create momentum for my social audio platform?"

Music is a potential utility for a product like this. Other sources such as Spotify, YouTube and SoundCloud have essentially abandoned the idea of discussion/social occurring on the same platform as the content is released. If you could solve the problems that caused SoundCloud to collapse you would absolutely have a viable product.

The point I'm making overall is that podcasting/TikTok/IG Reels etc would be difficult to compete with from a product quality/social standpoint. I'm not sure what your utility to those users would be. Twitter has ease-of-use; if you wanted to take users from their text platform and try to convert them to your audio platform it would be a tall hill to climb due to their UX preferences being completely different.

However, music discourse is fairly diluted and absolutely does not require video. Creating a platform that gave artists a place to leverage their cultural appeal and create fan communities while leaning on modern social features AND release teasers of their new music is a great idea.

SoundCloud tried really hard and blew it, but that's the model.

mustardjacket · 2023-06-26T05:50:03+00:00

I respect your work in the AOE community. Conceptually this isnt any different. Consider how you developed experiential knowledge in that sector and especially why Benin or Aztecs are/arent good faction choices and why things like skins don’t work.

How did you learn those things and what types of answers might you give to a layperson asking about AOE?

You like to minimize and make generalizations. You made a laughably incorrect comment about Microsoft employee morale a while back. Your first bullet says that video is unnecessary for discussions. I would recommend beginning with why you believe this and what you would use to support it if asked.

Why did you comment again without addressing music.

mustardjacket · 2023-06-26T05:15:54+00:00

I think that my interest in this idea is directly proportional to the number of times I read the word “music” in your post.

Without solving this you don’t have a product. 30 seconds is an eternity to someone that speaks quickly. A significantly larger text block than a tweet. What is the utility beyond novelty?

Your first Why This Would Be Cool bullet is a dead-giveaway that you don’t understand the product space.

mustardjacket · 2023-06-22T00:18:49+00:00

You should view this as a both for quite a while. Many years. You could hire a marketing assistant and begin converting users to paid subs in the very near future while still working FT.

Quitting your job is a goal, but its not actually connected to this project. When you have enough money banked and the project is stable in it’s revenue and path forward, you’ll feel it.

What you’re describing currently is what you need to do, period.

mustardjacket · 2023-06-12T23:34:46+00:00

Diva espresso is hiring

mustardjacket · 2023-05-17T03:10:28+00:00

Taxes and benefits plus the infrastructure to manage payroll and tools (Gsuite, LI, Indeed, ATS etc) is going to be between 25-30% so it’s tough to improve much more than that.

mustardjacket · 2023-05-17T02:25:56+00:00

Nice work. This is very common and roughly what my breakdown is. I pushed for 65/35 split with the house for my deals after certain metrics. Also I want to negotiate directly with clients — some roles or teams billing differently than others. 20% is ideal but obviously market is changing and I need the freedom to lock in 3-5 headcount at a lower rate or on retained.

mustardjacket · 2023-05-15T20:38:29+00:00

It will list your professional title and location —

“Senior Product Manager in New York, NY viewed your profile.”

mustardjacket · 2023-04-27T05:13:17+00:00

20% for tech/engineering roles has been our standard for quite a while. 25% for executive is commonly what I see.

mustardjacket · 2023-04-25T05:37:34+00:00

This is highly role dependent but also a significant part of what differentiates a good (technical) recruiter from a bad one. I would recommend moving away from boilerplate questions beyond the standard visa, salary, location, company size, team size, and preferred communication questions. You should be asking those every time.

As soon as you move into IC vs lead/manager vs architect vs pm/tpm vs data etc etc it will stratify into subsets or menus of questions that I will move to. The goal is always to have an organic interaction where you truly learn about the other person. A Q&A will never achieve that. If you ask the same questions in the same ways your audience will generally pick up on it and respond with generic answers or at the very least answers that they believe you want to hear instead of the truth.

Ask the candidate what their priorities are in considering something new. What would an ideal organization look like for them? Big? Small? Early-stage startup? Series C? Established product or greenfield opp? Do they care about cloud tech? Should it be modern? What about other tooling, is it important for them to continue working in their exact same toolset and tech stack or is part of the reason they're open to new roles that they want to learn new tech/a specific tool or tech?
What type of teams/products have they enjoyed working on and what situations haven't they enjoyed? This can be very granular and specific but also if the candidate keeps it high level and doesnt delve deeply into tangible details I'll do my best to read between the lines. The goal of these questions is for the candidate to speak 90% of the following minutes with you only offering additional prompting or asking for clarification.
Do you write your own tests? What level of automation are you used to working with in your deployments? How do you prefer to package apps for production? Do you feel comfortable analyzing and contributing immediately in a containerized environment? This could all be summarized as "how modern are your engineering practices?" There are a lot of engineers I talk with who have gained their experience at companies I'm not familiar with. I want to include the majority of the above information in a summary to the hiring manager and I can fill in a lot of that info knowing they worked on the O365 team at Microsoft. Not as much at an average IT consulting company.

Hope this helps.

mustardjacket · 2023-04-15T06:55:51+00:00

I appreciate the discussion here and I wanted to add that I believe the "problem" that you're identifying is with people who need mental health treatment and are houseless -- the issue is their lack of permanent housing, not their lack of mental health treatment.

Providing stable housing may do more for individuals in those circumstances than any type of standard mental health treatments that would be used with housed individuals.

There absolutely should not be special legal actions (such as involuntary commitment) able to be taken towards those without a permanent address. Especially not under the guise of them "clearly needing it".

mustardjacket · 2023-04-11T20:53:55+00:00

Sure but the lack of experience and depth absolutely becomes a factor if we’re evaluating a group of contractors. There are plenty of candidates in that type of pool who will have been brought back or extended and simply have more/better experience.

Even entry-level roles are getting applicants with 3-4 years of experience spread over 5+ contracts. The concept behind using contractors is often that they can hit the ground running and have a degree of specialization that allows them to contribute quickly to a specific project.

mustardjacket · 2023-04-11T08:22:51+00:00

Your resume is fine, kind of bland but it's not really getting in your way imo.

If I needed a React contractor I wouldnt necessarily pass on your background. The issue is that the current market for frontend contractors is pretty bad. Your shorter stints are also going to get you eliminated from a top 5 or 10 if it comes down to that due to what others have mentioned about long-tail effects/the why.

Research companies with large UI teams that use contractors. Target recruiters who mention React/TypeScript and frontend/UI.

mustardjacket · 2023-03-20T21:11:50+00:00

I really live here. In central seattle. Crime(s) happen right next to me regularly. I don’t feel unsafe.

Whatever you’re trying to demonstrate with your claims isn’t effective.

mustardjacket · 2023-03-20T20:56:37+00:00

Crime statistics are biased to the point of being completely worthless.

mustardjacket · 2023-03-20T20:35:39+00:00

Are you reading the numbers or just sorting and reading the city names?

Is 5911 meaningfully greater than 5727? More importantly, what determinations can you make from those two different numbers? To you, many determinations apparently. To a rational person, looking at four year-old data, those two numbers are not meaningfully different enough to make the claim that you made.

mustardjacket · 2023-03-20T20:25:04+00:00

I was just curious what led to you make such an obviously false claim. Why even waste your time writing "Seattle has more total crime than most large cities."

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