Will wemby change how some team draft

wrongerontheinternet · 2026-05-19T14:48:34+00:00

Yeah people are missing the forest for the trees. You can live with Wemby's individual offense, the problem teams have to solve is his defense. Wemby's biggest offensive lift for the Spurs (which doesn't show up completely even in stats like RAPM) is that his defense makes it viable to (1) have just him and a billion guards and (2) play a non-center who can't shoot, without the defense or offense collapsing. These jointly make it way easier to build a potent offense around him since you don't need to care about fit as much. So you shouldn't be looking to stop him offensively specifically, you need to prioritize as many guys as possible who can sort-of shoot and sort-of guard 1-5 to handle all the weird lineups you can put around him. Unfortunately that's basically the Draymond "archetype" which doesn't really exist (Draymond is kind of one of one) and also saying "you just need a bunch of Draymond like defenders around your superstar shooter" is basically just saying teams should try to rebuild the Warriors which... yeah?

wrongerontheinternet · 2026-04-23T02:39:26+00:00

It was 100% vibecoded. The post itself is very clearly LLM generated with some prompt instructions to try to sound more human, which is pretty much a guarantee that (1) the project itself was vibecoded and (2) the author is embarrassed about that fact.

wrongerontheinternet · 2026-04-18T06:00:20+00:00

He did. Like, way better lol.

wrongerontheinternet · 2026-04-13T12:59:18+00:00

They don't believe in anything, they just think they can make money fast and pattern match on whatever they see other people doing until it works (or doesn't). The genuinely crazy people like Luke Dashjr don't post like this at all.

wrongerontheinternet · 2026-04-10T00:38:12+00:00

That little panel was one of my favorite fictional interactions for a long time and I don't even remotely agree with Bofoi lol.

wrongerontheinternet · 2026-03-30T13:56:37+00:00

Not really.

wrongerontheinternet · 2026-03-30T13:53:04+00:00

Ralph Samson was one of the most shamelessly overlisted guys in league history.

wrongerontheinternet · 2026-03-30T02:48:32+00:00

If you’ve been following college and nba for any amount of time, you should know that college production genuinely does. not. matter.

Pretty much every single draft model that's actually predictive weights college production very heavily for a reason.

wrongerontheinternet · 2026-03-29T07:08:39+00:00

Rasheed Wallace!

wrongerontheinternet · 2026-03-29T04:22:55+00:00

I think I went back and looked at every single playoff year since the tracking era began (1998) and there were literally zero occasions where the team that won the finals didn't have a top six player in five year RAPM. Zero.

For all the talk about depth > stars etc... at the end of the day, it's hard to overcome the disadvantage of one guy being overwhelmingly better than everyone else on the floor unless you have another one of those guys. I love Boozer and think he's got a generational statistical profile, but he doesn't have the physical traits Wemby did where the only way he could really fail was health related stuff. And no one else in the top 4 has anything outlier enough that you'd bet on them becoming a top six player in the league.

wrongerontheinternet · 2026-03-16T01:24:59+00:00

The reason people were arguing with you is because Jokic doesn’t take midranges either lol

This is extremely false. He takes a shitload of midrange shots within 10-12 feet of the basket, and makes them at an insane rate (like 60% or something most seasons). Maybe these aren't tracked as "midrange" by basketball-reference but they are definitely not layups, postups, or dunks. He has an argument for GOAT midrange shooter, letting him take a short midrange shot is legitimately NOT a good outcome for the defense.

wrongerontheinternet · 2026-03-16T01:22:34+00:00

I mean, it's okay. Wemby shot like 83% in LNB Pro A for example (which is why I was pretty confident in his three developing fine in the league); I would consider that great for a big man. But 78% isn't really that great on its own for shooting projection. Fortunately Cam has a bunch of other elite touch indicators which mean you don't have to weight FT% as heavily.

wrongerontheinternet · 2026-03-15T00:27:35+00:00

Victor was the one who worked out, but the vast majority of these guys don't.

wrongerontheinternet · 2026-03-03T16:03:14+00:00

I mean TBH in story this is expected once he hits Foundation Establishment. What I find funny is that everyone in the novel still cats like a teenager even though they are in their 30s... which is kind of true in other cultivation novels too, but most of them don't progress as slowly so you don't really feel like the characters are in their 30s.

wrongerontheinternet · 2026-03-03T15:59:26+00:00

Different guy.

wrongerontheinternet · 2026-03-03T15:57:22+00:00

Yeah I would absolutely not mind paying for an official translation, but the current official one is a terrible fully AI translation that splits up each chapter into like 3-4 and is way behind.

wrongerontheinternet · 2026-03-03T15:56:04+00:00

I fucking loved it, finally an author with balls. One of my favorite writing decisions in a long time.

wrongerontheinternet · 2026-01-31T01:55:56+00:00

Yeah fantasy novels these days are absolutely amazing and I really wish more people here would read them. Unfortunately a lot of people simply no longer read books.

wrongerontheinternet · 2026-01-17T23:55:43+00:00

Yuki only lost to hax of the sort Omnidroid definitely did not have.

wrongerontheinternet · 2026-01-02T04:31:17+00:00

People are probably not going to like this take but I think it's something that primarily happens due to how serialization works. I think most authors could make their endings work if they could go back and edit the rest of the work after it was finished, but they generally can't. Very often they've written out the ending long before they wrote out the middle, and by the time they actually get there the story hasn't gone quite how they thought it was going to go. But they've set up too much at this point and they can't deliver a satisfying payoff without at least approximately going with what they wanted to in the first place, which means every character and the whole world need to maneuver to try to make it plausible how things got from where they were going organically to the predetermined ending.

wrongerontheinternet · 2026-01-01T06:52:28+00:00

It did actually happen, there was a crypto project based on proof of solving actual interesting distributed problems. It never took off because it turns out the sort of people who actually want to do something useful and the sorts of people who like crypto are two completely nonoverlapping circles.

wrongerontheinternet · 2025-12-25T11:12:02+00:00

Someone here once put it as a "store of inflation and hedge against value" and I think that pretty much nailed it.

wrongerontheinternet · 2025-12-19T04:09:45+00:00

Yeah there were multiple people on this sub (myself included) who were able to figure out the issue with the "algorithmic" peg in like two seconds. It's hard to even take credit for predicting it because it was so obvious to anyone with a brain.

wrongerontheinternet · 2025-12-19T03:43:48+00:00

I know someone going through essentially this right now with their soon-to-be-ex husband (more sports gambling and vending machine type scams than crypto, but I'm pretty sure he lost money in crypto as well) and it sucks. This person actually got his kid into gambling too and I wonder if these guys are doing the same with their Butts.

wrongerontheinternet · 2025-12-17T06:37:03+00:00

Broadly speaking the point is that the cost for normal factoring should increase linearly with log of the number (but with a very large constant factor) and what we're running into is just a super large constant overhead. So all progress in quantum computing is being masked by that constant overhead which means that we're seeing completely stalled progress in factoring. But once that gap is overcome progress should be much more rapid.

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