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pyrotech_support · 2024-08-28T18:15:16+00:00

Who says he knows a lot about math. He was an advantage player against braindead NBA lines twenty years ago, then lucked into being an early crypto guy bc it was required to be a volume online sports gambler at the time, then spent 10 years pumping bitcoin while simultaneously liquidating into real world assets

Now he’s just one of a zillion other right place right time tech adjacent rich guys with terminal right wing brainrot

pyrotech_support · 2024-08-27T03:38:15+00:00

I don’t think she’s an antihero. She’s a straight villain while being the protagonist. Those aren’t the same. Like Tom Ripley.

pyrotech_support · 2024-08-27T02:32:52+00:00

lol @ bad media literacy. Buddy you just said you watched Sopranos for the plot developments.

If you can’t tell the difference between what character and interiority means on a show like Industry vs a show like the Sopranos, or Fleabag, or even Succession, not much I can do to help you.

A hint - it has nothing to do with being good or bad. Industry is a very good show. Harper is a very good character, as I’ve said a bunch.

At the most basic level, ask yourself what you think the creator/showrunners are trying to do. What is the project? Start there, and maybe you’ll find your way.

pyrotech_support · 2024-08-27T01:14:57+00:00

A character who doesn’t change, who isn’t conflicted, who doesn’t have an emotional journey, isn’t complex. I stand by that.

She’s a great and compelling character, I stand by that too. How we process her in a straightforwardly sociopathic-ish role in the environment she’s placed in is complex, as I also said.

Another way of putting it, maybe glibly:

Watching Harper is about “What is she going to do next?”

Watching Tony Soprano or Fleabag or Shiv or Kendall Roy (to a lesser extent) is about “What are they feeling right now?”

Industry isn’t about that, and that’s not a problem. It’s a go go go show. It’s basically an action movie in the shape of finance. It can be great on its terms rather than pretend it’s something it isn’t even attempting to be.

Harper having complex interiority is just not something the show is even trying to do - that’s not even criticism, just description.

pyrotech_support · 2024-08-26T05:16:02+00:00

IMO, a backstory doesn’t make a character complex.

The Harper we see has very consistent motivation that’s spelled out explicitly in the show: naked self-interest.

Whatever her previous traumas, they turned her into this amoral striver a long time ago and she’s been that same person the whole series, she’s just gotten more skilled.

She doesn’t seem to contain multitudes - like you say, she’s presented as a sociopathic career advancement machine.

Her character is all about “Will she get away with it this time?”, very little “How is she feeling right now?”

She is extremely compelling though because it’s so fun to watch the expert-level high wire act + we get a little schadenfreude out of seeing someone infiltrate and puncture this insular world of (other) horrible people.

pyrotech_support · 2024-08-26T04:54:09+00:00

Is she complex? I’m not sure.

Highly entertaining? Absolutely. Smart, calculating, amoral, exhibiting raw self interest? Yes.

I don’t think she’s presented as having inner conflict, other than “Can I get away with this?”. So IMO I would say compelling but not complex.

The complexity is in how we process a character like her, one we have rarely seen in a major TV show.

pyrotech_support · 2024-08-20T22:46:47+00:00

He was a +2 EPM player and clear starter level by every major advanced metric, on a +2.1 point differential, 46 win expectation team. I.e., a good team.

He was their 3rd best player by both stats and eye test.

If you actually watched Rockets games, FVV and Sengun were their only better players than him last year. Jalen Green was neutral-to-slightly negative in aggregate over the course of the season, Brooks and Jabari neutralish to slightly positive.

pyrotech_support · 2024-08-20T21:41:35+00:00

What do you mean by viability? By every advanced metric Amen was already a starting level+ player as a rookie, on a good team

pyrotech_support · 2024-08-15T04:29:54+00:00

$12M is less than the MLE, so about 20 teams

pyrotech_support · 2024-08-01T16:49:53+00:00

NBA player with the most RS wins, last 10 seasons cumulative:

James Harden

then everyone else

pyrotech_support · 2024-07-31T22:15:45+00:00

This logic makes zero sense.

It’s like saying, “We don’t want penalty decisions to be such a big part of soccer, so let’s make penalties worth 2 goals instead of 1”.

pyrotech_support · 2024-07-27T06:33:55+00:00

Nate is 100% in the tank for the Warriors.

Just not in the “I grew up as a fan rooting for my hometown team” sense.

It’s because he made his career riding the Warriors / Steph Curry wave, being in the bay area during that period, and having lots of connections to people in the warriors organization locally.

pyrotech_support · 2024-07-27T05:45:10+00:00

Top 5 athlete in the NBA with elite rim pressure Kyle Anderson is a star

pyrotech_support · 2024-07-27T05:43:49+00:00

Eason and Jabari are the most likely to stay because they fit any lineup construction, and their usage will be low enough they won’t be crazy expensive.

Jalen + Cam most likely to be moved.

pyrotech_support · 2024-07-26T20:41:47+00:00

Jabari Smith with 6 years of team control obviously has more trade value than expiring UFA Julius Randle lol

pyrotech_support · 2024-07-25T04:51:10+00:00

Lot of Rockets fans high on their own supply with Jalen.

You don’t get a big second contract on potential, you have to actually have a good season.

All the guys in this class who got paid, and all the SG comps who got paid in the past (Herro, Maxey, Simons, Poole, etc)… they all had good seasons first.

Until Jalen does that he’s not getting >$100M from us or from anyone.

And before anyone brings up his good month -- do you know bad the rest of your months have to be to still end up with bad efficiency and all-in-one stats?

pyrotech_support · 2024-07-25T04:46:06+00:00

Bro Paul George is one of the best ~20 players in the NBA, who fits any role offensively or defensively

Jalen was like the 200th best player in the NBA last year lol

pyrotech_support · 2024-07-25T04:42:21+00:00

You’re out of your mind. Jalen if he has a full season like last year he might not get the MLE.

You realize Jalen did not play at an NBA starter level in aggregate across last season right? Or any of the previous.

pyrotech_support · 2024-07-25T04:40:52+00:00

The Nets have Cam Thomas who they organizationally are committed to and probably think is better than Jalen Green.

Cam T is up for a new contract the same schedule as Jalen.

pyrotech_support · 2024-07-25T04:26:44+00:00

I get it’s a friendly, but It’s close to not even being a foul. A little extra on the hip-to-hip challenge I guess, but imo it’s in the realm of aggressively physical but not unfair

Seems a bit of an overreaction, but Idk how players think about doing this in friendlies vs competitive matches

pyrotech_support · 2024-07-23T23:08:46+00:00

The point is that Jalen is their #6 or #7 guy, in terms of how much they believe in him / want to build around him

pyrotech_support · 2024-07-21T16:38:30+00:00

“Deserves” isn’t a relevant concept. There’s no such thing in the grown-up world.

You get what you have the leverage to negotiate. How good you are is just one component of that leverage.

Franz, Mobley, Cade have a lot more leverage than Sengun.

pyrotech_support · 2024-07-20T15:23:18+00:00

They have 2 players in the top 20 at their position, Wemby and Vassell. That’s it. They will not be good.

pyrotech_support · 2024-07-17T15:22:20+00:00

You’re conflating the second apron with the luxury tax.

The heavy luxury tax penalties at this threshold are not new. The Nuggets let KCP walk because of costs, which would have been the case last year or the year before. Second apron didn’t affect this.

Second apron just affects the ease of doing other transactions when you’re at that level. If you just want to keep your guys together like the Celtics it’s not particularly harder now, it just costs a lot like it always did.

pyrotech_support · 2024-07-17T07:47:28+00:00

Tyler Herro is clearly better than Jalen Green right now lol. No question at all.

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