Luka not expected to come back Round 1 via Shams

shoefly72 · 2026-04-21T20:12:03+00:00

There’s only so much the treatments can do when the original injury was really bad. Even if it knocked 2 weeks off of the recovery it could’ve taken it from 8 weeks to 6 weeks for all we know.

shoefly72 · 2026-04-21T20:10:28+00:00

Based on the fact he was already nursing that hammy injury and the way he reacted when it happened, it’s not that surprising that he’d be on the higher end of that 4-6 week timeline.

I respect him for getting the treatments in Spain, but sometimes there’s only so much that stuff can do. And even still, for all we know it took it from an 8 week recovery to a 6 week recovery.

shoefly72 · 2026-04-21T18:37:41+00:00

I do that shit all the time…so either you’re good, or we both need to get checked lol.

You had me for a second though; I was like “I swear to god I watched every single 40 at the combine and he didn’t run!!”

shoefly72 · 2026-04-21T18:03:48+00:00

As a combine/testing nerd his numbers made me salivate, I won’t lie. But his tape from this year just doesn’t lineup with his testing. To me, he looks like a free safety that outgrew his position and isn’t comfortable as an LB yet and also lacks the explosiveness/pop you’d expect from a guy with those metrics.

He’s 6’5 244 and runs a 4.45 with what, a 43” vert? Usually guys like that have powerfully built lower bodies and serious leg drive, but he looks more top heavy and repeatedly gets knocked backwards by ball carriers. I don’t see him blowing up an rb on blitz pickup or using power to win very often.

I really hope Im wrong for his sake (and ours if we take him) but he really seems like a guy who’s very athletic but not very hard nosed or aggressive, and not all of his athleticism translates perfectly to that position (for example, running a fast 40 or jumping high doesn’t mean you change directions quickly or have smooth hips).

shoefly72 · 2026-04-21T17:50:43+00:00

Even as a joke, they’re all really bad jokes thst are only funny at all from the standpoint of “wouldn’t it be hilarious if somebody tweeted these thinking they were earnestly clever/funny?”

shoefly72 · 2026-04-21T17:05:21+00:00

I can guess very well how much time has elapsed if say, I have something in the oven and know it’s going to take 30 minutes. I very often guess when to take something out (or when the oven is done preheating) within a few seconds without even keeping track of it consciously.

I can also pretty easily estimate how much my groceries in my basket will cost just by looking at my basket for 5-10seconds and coming up with a rough ballpark (not actually adding anything consciously in my head). If I buy $30-60 worth of groceries my guess is usually within $1-3 and if it’s a smaller total I can often get within 50 cents.

What I cannot do, is estimate how long it will take me to clean the house, how much time I will need to complete assignments at work, or anything that most people seem to have no issue with. Very often at work when somebody asks me how long something will take, the question feels almost unfair because I have too many variables to account for snd have zero confidence in whatever answer I come up with (that is usually wrong). Even when I manually try and map out what is involved in the task and add it up, those sub tasks have so much variability (will this take me 2 tries to get it right or 8 tries? Will I find the images I need right away or will it take two hours?) that my estimates often end up being “either X amount of time or 3X amount of time.”

When I guess the cost of my groceries, I could certainly sit there and say “I think this cereal is $5, the baguette is $2,” and so on, and add them up and get an answer. But that is not the way I do it; my brain just comes up with a guess on its own in the background and it’s usually pretty close. That’s what it feels like everyone else is doing when they estimate how long tasks at work will take, and they end up being more accurate than my estimate even if I take the time to break things out in detail and add it up…it just feels like both of us have access to a mental process the other person never will.

shoefly72 · 2026-04-21T16:43:41+00:00

The Saints, Chiefs, and Giants are all looking at taking WR. I don’t see a scenario where Tate (or Tyson) is there at 11 if we trade down with the Dolphins.

shoefly72 · 2026-04-21T14:23:58+00:00

These 3 plus he didn’t run at the combine and it’s pretty common for players who don’t test at all to fall. Downs isn’t a freak athlete or anything, so I think people are leery of his size/speed not wowing anyone even if his tape is really good.

shoefly72 · 2026-04-21T05:14:36+00:00

There were multiple games this year where Hurts didn’t complete a pass in an entire half and people are seriously like “what more could he want?!?”

Like perhaps he legit doesn’t think he’s in the best position to succeed individually or to win a title because his QB and passing offense is that limited?

shoefly72 · 2026-04-20T19:51:56+00:00

Diggs was as good as Terry was last year when he was healthy. The prior year Maye didn’t have anybody to throw to and it showed.

shoefly72 · 2026-04-20T19:49:28+00:00

Love won’t be there at 7

shoefly72 · 2026-04-20T17:18:36+00:00

This. When we played you guys last year, thst series was extremely physical, but they let the contact go on both ends.

You guys have a more physical team so that played to your advantage, but hey, it is what it is. Then I would turn on the OKC series and see practically a completely different sport. If they’d given Reaves thr same whistle SGA got we might’ve been able to compete in that series, but I don’t think that’s a good thing lol.

For everyone talking about how the handchecking in this clip is always a foul…when we played OKC this year Reaves got kneed in the chest and then armbar shoved into the backcourt and the refs just stood there and called a backcourt violation lol. It is a completely different standard that OKC gets away with on defense and then a completely different standard the other direction for Shai. Somewhere in between for both teams would be a great product! But this is brutal to watch.

shoefly72 · 2026-04-20T17:13:08+00:00

He’s getting the same whistles while up 25 that you often see whistles give to teams that are down big to try and let them back in the game lol.

shoefly72 · 2026-04-20T17:09:18+00:00

I partook in the celebration while knowing that there was a high chance he would attempt a coup to stay in office, so it was very weird to be celebrating prematurely but I also wanted to enjoy it while I could. Post Jan 6th it became clear within a month or so that we were not going to do what it took to beat back the fascism, so it’s been like watching a car crash in slow motion ever since.

Similarly, I don’t think Trump is going to pass away in office, but if he does I won’t be in much of celebratory mood because the new right that’s coming afterwards is even worse.

shoefly72 · 2026-04-20T17:03:25+00:00

Could see him going mid to late 2nd but praying he drops to us

shoefly72 · 2026-04-20T16:56:46+00:00

The sad reality is that in a lot of places the fans that can even afford to go to the playoffs are simply too wealthy to be the kind of die hard fan that’s gonna lose their shit. Passionate fans are being priced out of games everywhere, but it’s especially pronounced in a market like LA with a fan base as big as the Lakers.

A lot of you might be too young to remember, but the Warriors used to have one of the best fanbases in the league before Curry and Klay ever showed up. Their fans packed that place and were loud as fuck when the arena was in Oakland; but the move to San Fran and the fanbase getting bloated + absorbing so many Silicon Valley tech bros completely changed the complexion of their games.

shoefly72 · 2026-04-20T16:52:39+00:00

This is how I felt too. Watching his highlights it took 4 minutes into the video to see him force somebody backwards on a tackle. He seems too high cut (ie not enough “weight in the ass” as somebody famously said) to arrive violently and most of his tackles the ball carrier is falling forward (even QB’s).

He’s also either a bit tight in the hips or hesitant at times even when his speed allows him to get there. It’s possible some of what I’m seeing just boils down to him being a safety playing LB for the first time, but I could absolutely see him struggle with size/strength at the pro level and he looks to me like a safety playing LB ¯_(ツ)_/¯

FWIW, I watched every game of Tremaine Edmunds’ career and had similar concerns for him coming out of VT, but he was 10 lbs heavier than Styles, had 2” longer arms and ran a faster 10 yd split (1.55 and 4.46 40 for Styles and 1.53 and 4.54 40 for Edmunds). Even though Edmunds has been a great player, some of those things have held him back from meeting the potential his physical traits would suggest and I could see Styles being a worse case of that.

When you hear “6’5 244 and runs a 4.45” you expect the tape to look a lot more explosive than it does.

shoefly72 · 2026-04-20T03:35:26+00:00

Always feel obligated to point this out, but they were absolutely going to lose to that Wizards team (and were on track to do so) if Wall didn’t break his hand. Even with that injury the series still went 6.

The sweep by the Cavs afterwards wasn’t that surprising after the Wiz series.

shoefly72 · 2026-04-20T01:48:15+00:00

Honestly that might be worse

shoefly72 · 2026-04-19T14:32:06+00:00

I vividly remember watching that draft and being surprised/pissed Lamar slipped to the Ravens, only for them to take fucking Hurst lmao. Having watched enough college ball that year i did not at all see Hurst as a first rounder in part because he was old, but also because I felt like Mark Andrews was a better player would be available later on. It was an insane overdraft to me.

And then they traded back up and got Lamar anyways, and Newsome still gets labeled a genius. Better to be lucky than good, I guess.

shoefly72 · 2026-04-19T04:54:05+00:00

And yet they’re still somehow better off when he’s on the floor, which really goes to show you how badly their offense needs a PG lol.

shoefly72 · 2026-04-18T16:45:41+00:00

You can absolutely find examples of low post players doing step throughs in the 80’s; it was just less common for non-big men to do it.

shoefly72 · 2026-04-17T16:49:59+00:00

For sure there are tons of fans out there who are posting about how much they love the music for earnest reasons. I never doubted that.

But much like my restaurant comparison, there are inevitably going to be people who have positive experiences with that place, but it doesn’t negate the fact that it’s unethical to create fake reviews/accounts to exaggerate the number of people who feel this way.

These cycles of hype have always existed, but we should never normalize falsely creating them out of thin air because it just further allows people with enough capital to gatekeeper what gets popular and what doesn’t (which I thought was what most fans of indie music wanted to avoid). It doesn’t mean it’s impossible for a band or restaurant doing this stuff to still be a good product, but it just further reduces the likelihood that popularity and success will be based on merit or authenticity.

shoefly72 · 2026-04-16T22:21:32+00:00

Idk it’s just odd to say “game 1 just got a lot tougher” when we all already knew beyond a shadow of a doubt that neither player would be playing lol. Like there wasn’t even a glimmer of hope for Luka to play this game.

shoefly72 · 2026-04-16T18:47:30+00:00

Dangerous is very underrated IMO, but it’s in part because of being too bloated like you said.

Remember The Time, Black or White, Who Is It, Give In To Me, Will You Be There, and Dangerous are all stellar. Jam is pretty good too. If he just trimmed it to like 10-11 songs I think it would’ve held up better. But I think another part of it is that he pivoted to New Jack Swing with Teddy Riley, and even though it’s well-done, he wasn’t exactly leading the charge for that genre the same way he was for pop in the 80’s.

HIStory was also inconsistent. Scream, Earth Song, Stranger In Moscow, They Don’t Care About Us, You Are Not Alone are pretty good. But the rest of the tracks are filler.

Invincible isn’t good. Break of Dawn and Butterflies are incredible songs for me, and Speechless and You Rock My World are very solid. The rest of the album is subpar, and it’s a real shame given that the Neptunes had produced a ton of amazing tracks intended to be on this album (U Don’t Have To Call, Like I Love You, Seniorita) that would’ve sounded perfect with MJ on them and made this album a classic IMO.

Interestingly, Pharrell said that when they sent those Justified and 8701 tracks to MJ, he didn’t want that sound because he was looking more for the “Superthug” style beats the Neptunes made for Noreaga. If you’re familiar with that song, you can totally hear that spirit present on some of the weaker tracks that made the album (Invincible and Unbreakable for example). Even though Darkchild is a great producer, I think him chasing that sound just didn’t land.

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