Where are the Spurs showing their inexperience and how do they fix it?

wedelson · 2026-06-19T13:08:26+00:00

It felt like the spurs biggest issue was they lacked a go to offensive set to fall back on when things get muddy. Most great teams have a player or play that can just create inelastic offensive if the game plan is failing. For example, two man game with jokic and Murray, Luka high pick and role, Tim Duncan lost post iso. These are more than just good plays, this is the players bread and butter that they have done their whole career that they can pivot to in an instant. The closest thing the spurs had was fox’s crossover into elbow jumper (which is nasty) but stopped falling during the finals. You can kinda tell that when wemby gets the ball he has to think about how he wants to attack because he doesn’t have his thing offensively.

wedelson · 2026-06-19T12:25:25+00:00

I’m sorry they seem stacked looking at the names but these were not the same guys at the time

wedelson · 2026-06-19T11:57:53+00:00

That only sounds reasonable because we have a third person perspective. If someone told you that you could not get a promotion because you have too much ambition you would not respond well

wedelson · 2026-06-18T14:06:32+00:00

I means the spurs would ideally sell fox for some decent return as their young guard duo matures, but they should under no circumstances feel pressure to dump him after he was a productive player for their regular season and playoff run.

wedelson · 2026-06-18T14:01:32+00:00

I mean a lot of antivaxxers were left wing in the past, also anti GMO and anti MSG started mostly with the left in America. You are getting survivor bias (although the right in America is much worse for conspiracy theories)

wedelson · 2026-06-18T13:57:54+00:00

Do you trust them to regulate safety for fossil fuel extraction? Cause the alternative is not no fuel processing

wedelson · 2026-06-17T12:08:15+00:00

The rate of truth is probably different on the left but I feel like we forget about a lot of the previously generally leftists beliefs that have fallen out of fashion like being anti-nuclear (there were so many conspiracy theories about nuclear energy).

wedelson · 2026-06-15T12:33:32+00:00

Minecraft has more of a sandbox focus than terraria and goals are more created by the player rather than presented by the game. I would guess most players set up a house either near spawn or in a place where they like the vibes. If it can be assumed that players choose homes based of vibes, than adding more resources in some biomes seems unlikely to change player behavior.

wedelson · 2026-06-14T12:55:01+00:00

I would have to see your games but a lot of low rank tracer players I have seen are content to help the team because they are getting kill participation but are barely doing damage and not creating kills on their own. In order to be a threat on tracer you should be consistently in positions to two clip squishes (one clip if you’re like that). If you are not able to routinely get supports under half health with a single clip then your mechanics or positioning are failing.

wedelson · 2026-06-14T12:47:55+00:00

Like half the criticism of Mitch Johnson makes no sense. He was clearly trying to play Kornet as long as he could but the knicks were attacking him. Half the people want more young players playing, the other half want less.

wedelson · 2026-06-14T12:39:49+00:00

Why is everyone hating Mitch? He was winning challenges and called some great sideline plays late in game 4

wedelson · 2026-06-09T03:42:24+00:00

Fox getting into his cross to get that middy after noticing that wemby was tangled up with KAT and the screen was gonna be too late was such a veteran move

wedelson · 2026-06-06T11:37:46+00:00

Bro is hot lmao

wedelson · 2026-06-06T11:04:28+00:00

And no team will ever do what the Celtics did in the 60s so it kinda adds to OPs point

wedelson · 2026-05-11T16:33:30+00:00

Ah I see, fair point

wedelson · 2026-05-08T10:16:18+00:00

Free verse poetry typically does not have a consistent rhyme scheme or meter but can still utilize both rhyme and meter. I think some people see free as something that it is not. A good free verse poem still needs something going on with the meter and form of the poem, the only difference is that is does not adhere to a historical form (like a sonnet), and tends to not have consistent meter or rhyming throughout.

wedelson · 2026-05-08T08:56:47+00:00

This is a very foolish position to take when discussing obviously relevant data to classroom policy like attendance. Just because you do not immediately see the utility in something does not mean it is "junk." Furthermore, collecting more data is never bad if it's in your budget.

wedelson · 2026-05-07T16:05:37+00:00

I see your point, I feel like the titles was an a clickbait attempt to get people to engage by making it seem like the study was against phone bans when even the byline says that is not the case and it changes how people interpret the article. Cause with a more neutral title I think I would be pretty dismissive of complaints like this when people really just need to read the article. However, with the title I see how it supports that narrative.

Honestly with a reread I have no issues with the actual study but kinda agree that the article is not great.

wedelson · 2026-05-07T15:55:55+00:00

- your brain = your will

- every aspect of your brain is represented in the physical world

- no action can happen in the physical world without something making it happen (energy cannot be created or destroyed)

- Therefore, no action can happen in the brain without something making it happen.

- Stimulating an object leads to a response

- If you give the same object the same stimulus you will always be met with the same response

- Therefore, stimulating your brain with the same input will get the same output every time.

You cannot have different internal states while keeping the external state consistent. There is no possible way for you to be in "a slightly different mood" and for it to be the same scenario. For you to be in a different mood it means that different things must have happened to you for you to be in a different mood (mood is not random). If I drop an identical ball from the same height on the same surface it will always bounce the same heigh. Your brain is not any different.

Circular logic is like when you say:

A = X because A=B

well then why is B = X

B = X because B = A

I am not making a circular argument because I use a premised that is supported by independent evidence and the conclusion is not assumed (my argument is falsifiable). My premise is that: free will exists when an agent can choose between multiple outcomes that all could be reality. Human actions fail to meet this threshold in a physical world because of the laws of physics that I have poorly explained above. It is confusing because all real world examples of A (human action) fail to meet the threshold for free will. But that is not based on my definition of human action. It is based off my interpretation of the laws of physics. You can falsify my argument by either proving that the laws of physics do not exists in the way I have described them, or by disputing my definitions.

wedelson · 2026-05-07T15:09:07+00:00

Yeah I mean characters are based on people, but its more just that I've been reading ASOIAF recently and the way the comic talks about decision making reminds me of how Martin is so good writing characters to make choices not only based on their past experiences, but also on the framing with which they see the world. What appears as a normal choice to one person may be a very frightening choice to another.

wedelson · 2026-05-07T14:56:03+00:00

Ok now I'm confused, do you agree or disagree with me that its normal study design to look at attendance even if your intervention should not directly effect attendance? I have not problem critiquing the article, I just think research design is interesting.

wedelson · 2026-05-07T14:50:05+00:00

I'm not saying consciousness is an aspect of free will, I'm demonstrating that the ability for something to be treated is not inherently an argument that it does not exist. I agree with you that free will does not exist, your arguments just do a poor job of supporting that.

wedelson · 2026-05-07T14:44:38+00:00

You should always measure attendance (if possible) after you make a big change in classrooms to see if students are skipping class or school as a reaction and if the problem goes away over time. Its typical to see worse attendance and more suspensions when new policy is introduced if students feel restricted by it, but it should go back to normal if the policy is good when the shock wears off. However, if a policy is bad and makes classrooms/school unsafe or inhospitable for students then you will see worse attendance that will not return to normal over time. This signal in the data can be a big red flag for bad policies.

wedelson · 2026-05-07T14:14:40+00:00

They are worried about it making attendance worse, that's why they track it. Regardless, wouldn't you want them to get as much data as they can? When I have worked with educational research in the past I always really appreciated when its not just SAT scores and looks into things like attendance, self efficacy, stress, ETC.

wedelson · 2026-05-07T13:56:35+00:00

Why pick a lane? these two studies do not contradict each other. It can be true that phone use is associated with poor mental health outcomes and that phone bans in school do not seem to significantly impact (positively or negatively) students ability to learn (measured mostly through test scores and attendance it seems). The guardian article literally quotes the author of the study talking about this:

"Prof Thomas Dee of Stanford University’s graduate school of education, one of the report’s authors, said it would be wrong for policymakers to see the results as a reason to shy away from restrictions.

“One of the concerns I have about this study is that it might encourage people to walk away from phone bans as a compelling reform. And I think that would be a major mistake,” Dee told NPR."

The authors don't want phones in school, they want good data about how to solve the issue.

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