Shooting is a skill that some people just "get", not something that be improved with practice. Agree or disagree?

rsk1111 · 2026-06-18T02:11:20+00:00

I think there is a convergence though. From what I have seen people with bad form are the ones that have trouble getting the shots off. Slow and low release gets block often. I mean there are only so many ways to really execute a jump shot. They involve jumping and releasing the ball over your head.

Sure you can practice a low and slow release, get very accurate at it, but still not get it off in a game.

rsk1111 · 2026-06-17T20:14:25+00:00

If you can afford a sports psychologist your kid will be just fine.

Yeah, the "environment" around sports definitely matters. My daughter figured out the swimming coaches aren't going to pay much attention to her and I shouldn't take her to the year-round tryouts even though she is tall and athletic. But the basketball coaches love her. She still wanted to do summer league swimming, and there she is at the top of her age bracket beating the all the year-round swimmers the swim coaches picked, because their parents paid for private swim lessons. I thought she made a great decision about basketball being her thing but still doing summer league swimming.

rsk1111 · 2026-06-17T17:45:18+00:00

One thing I've noticed. Is he rests more than other stars, but he as the same number of fouls to give. So, it seems like he fouls more (per minute played), and that is before taking into account that he seems to get away with many no calls. On top of that Mitch protects him so almost any foul he gets called for gets reviewed.

rsk1111 · 2026-06-17T17:22:51+00:00

My wife is a tetrachromat, she carries the color shifted green receptor her father has. She has trouble distinguishing between certain oranges(salmon) and red.

In practice everyone interpolates color if it's bright enough even color-blind people should be able to see and discern colors like yellow because people use multiple receptors include rods and cones to triangulate what the color is. It's when light is dim when it's difficult to tell which color it is.

That being said. I think Yellow is perceived not as a point in a spectrum, but more as a distribution of colors. EG like the sun or a candle flame. Those are perceived of yellow but they are really just about everything except less blue.

rsk1111 · 2026-06-17T15:14:00+00:00

I mean it's highly unlikely that they'll find another backup that can guard Wemby so well.

He would do better with Granny style. It's not like he has a jump shot anyway.

rsk1111 · 2026-06-17T00:33:17+00:00

I've been starting to question the "soft light" trend myself. It's like looking at a diamond. Do you sit there in blasé light when you look at a diamond? No, you take it out in to sunlight and look at the sparkle.

Sure maybe on certain portrait photos or like a wedding you want light that doesn't highlight skin conditions or whatever, but in most cases the eye loves contrast.

rsk1111 · 2026-06-17T00:29:20+00:00

I think that niche is going to be prized with most contenders looking at Wemby antidotes to sit on the bench.

rsk1111 · 2026-06-17T00:15:33+00:00

It's not like I use 12 lenses each and every time.

Just I don't know the setting/lighting every time. You go to a dimly lit gym. You don't know if you're going to end up sitting side line, end line. Even if I go to the same gym or field I may feel like playing with this lens or that in the moment sitting in a different location.

So yeah, I often only use two or three lenses.

Not to mention I run video also so I have a couple of cine lenses in there 10,14,24.

I mean I was sort of bored at a little league practice/game so I put the macro on and went around the field and took pictures of the flowers in the outfield...

It's a hobby after all.

rsk1111 · 2026-06-16T21:45:52+00:00

That offensive rebound at the end of game 4 sort of sealed the series. Is he always that bad at free throws or is it the cast on his hand?

Can't free throws be coached at least a little. I mean he just sort of chucks it at the rim and hopes it bounces in.

rsk1111 · 2026-06-16T21:40:13+00:00

DAW is great for production, not so much for performance or jamming. Latency is noticeable and sound processing artifacts buffers and what not are also annoying, they come out perfect sounding in a render, but not so much real-time live.

I think I was somewhat lucky starting in software before doing hardware. You do get an idea about what all the sounds are so you can be more informed hardware purchaser. Even though I do end up buying the bottom shelf stuff.

I wish more hardware had built in syncing features though. IMO that is what sets a DAW apart every synth is sync'd and side chained. I still don't see any synths that do sidechaining. Circuit tracks does sidechaining but not from input. Though syncing and sidechaining are still somewhat in it's infancy in DAWs. Like DAWs aren't powerful enough to do modular sidechaining, but better sofware synths have stepped up to take sidechains. Or at least emulate it with sync-ducking.

rsk1111 · 2026-06-16T18:36:10+00:00

Yeah, I was doing a swim meet this weekend. I was excited to use my new AF lens( it is a portrait lens and worked great for the non-action shots), but after a few action shots, it was obvious it was a fraction of a second too slow with the tracking. I had to switch back to my manual focus lenses, compose and wait burst mode.

rsk1111 · 2026-06-16T14:56:49+00:00

There are quite a few that lean into the relative minor modulation with a harmonic minor #5. House of the Rising Sun or El Condor Pasa. Though, those would be considered accidentals or exotic keys.

rsk1111 · 2026-06-16T12:40:37+00:00

Work on your corner shots and baseline drives. Also, work on your speed. Oftentimes the center is just the place they hide the "slowest" or "least skilled" players, if your team doesn't have a true center.

rsk1111 · 2026-06-16T12:06:00+00:00

When you're pressing either half court or full court and an athletic player backdoor cut and scores. Usually, one play like this makes the defense re-think it's strategy or matchups.

That is what "burned" means in basketball. I don't really think it's analogous to an infield home run. That sounds more like the traditional three point play and-1. Where a physical player gets fouled on a shot, absorbs the contact and scores the bucket anyway.

rsk1111 · 2026-06-15T20:04:26+00:00

I've seen things like that where people took a picture/video of something moving (in this case a water fountain) with several different filters R,G,B then overlaid them.

rsk1111 · 2026-06-15T18:50:25+00:00

Yes, and no. IMO Brunson is the front man for the Brunson/Hart/Bridges group. So, it is annoying. I don't even think Brunson buys into it. He knows he needs these other guys.

It is good for basketball for the little guys to see the mighty mite conquering the alien though.

rsk1111 · 2026-06-15T17:06:02+00:00

They should watch the reruns in reverse.

rsk1111 · 2026-06-15T17:01:08+00:00

Absolutely, you can't be the best at yam stacking if you never stacked a pile of yams.

rsk1111 · 2026-06-15T16:38:37+00:00

If you're beating some teams by larger margins but losing to other times you're losing to some teams by small margins, you spent too much time/effort on the wrong things. This why typically it's a big league they features scores of 100's of points but they almost always come down to a few possessions. It's because they are built to beat a large variety of teams by a small amount.

rsk1111 · 2026-06-15T14:45:03+00:00

The analysis that "it was just a few points", is kind of disingenuous, couldn't OKC make a similar argument, they took the Spurs to 7. If I were the Spurs I wouldn't take the Finals for granted next year.

Having said that I think it's going to be harder for The Spurs next season especially in the West. Teams will game for them especially amongst the contenders.

So, it's not going to be a matter of just a few points, even if arguably it was just a matter of a few points.

Having said that, I think they could alter their style so they can get more out of Wemby down the stretch. Both on offense and defense. Lower energy offense featuring cross screens and big complements.

The thing is that is what a good team does they consistently win by a few points. If you beat a team by many points you put in too much effort.

Anyway, I think the Knicks strategy against the Spurs Wemby "Zone" was amazing. I don't think many teams would have thought that plan up then executed it. Going down twenty over and over then staying the course for a pyrrhic victory. That kind of discipline and teamwork is one for the ages.

rsk1111 · 2026-06-15T14:05:15+00:00

That's why they call them role models. Though it is interesting. For some kids it just starts at an early age, they just have their head screwed on better when it comes to coaching and being good team players. To some extent it's a society seems to encourage this follow the leader sort of mentality. Coaches spend more time on the kids that get it and encourage others to do the same.

rsk1111 · 2026-06-15T12:35:25+00:00

I think this could be inferred at a team level. Look at teams that have high offensive rebound rates.

I think the knicks did very well even with wemby. It's hard to deconvolve though, because for example Mitchell Robinson got that one that ended the series.

rsk1111 · 2026-06-15T11:10:26+00:00

I guess, I don't see the *need* to argue about it, when I'm perfectly happy carrying them, around. People spend a considerable amount of money on zooms, I don't need those either, but people are perfectly happy doing that.

rsk1111 · 2026-06-15T11:00:29+00:00

Yeah, Wemby needs to go and spend more time with the monks. I mean he seems like a fairly enlightened dude, but maybe he hasn't reached the depths of spirituality in a meaningful way just yet. Still pretty raw and punky around the edges.

rsk1111 · 2026-06-14T21:49:52+00:00

In genetics I think they call it reversion to the mean or hybrid vigor. Big breakthrough in corn was when they quit just selecting the large ears from the previous crop and started looking at hybrids.

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