[-] speedrun@lemmy.one 2 points 1 year ago

Lol thanks, lemmy has been acting up with the server load and I've noticed that with the auto-refresh I'm often winding up moving pages/posts unintentionally.

Yeah, you're probably right that Silver isn't doing himself any favors. No comment would have been better than any comment at all

[-] speedrun@lemmy.one 1 points 1 year ago

Surprised to see how many people think this is a soft punishment. Considering he didn't actually commit any crimes and certainly wasn't found guilty of anything, I think this is about right. Ja is an idiot, but flashing a gun on IG isn't the same as accumulating DUIs or domestic violence charges

[-] speedrun@lemmy.one 1 points 1 year ago

Great article, but I'm not so sure that graphic is helping anyone understand or learn lol

[-] speedrun@lemmy.one 9 points 1 year ago

It's great to see these kind of success stories, where teams don't panic and continue to let their players grow. That said, I can't help but wonder if the Nuggets were actually benefiting from their previous bad luck. Would this level of patience have been extended if Murray didn't get hurt? That built-in excuse made it much easier to keep the core together and try again.

So many teams wind up breaking apart due to perceived failure in the postseason, and you have to wonder if any of them could have had success if they had stuck together for a bit longer.

[-] speedrun@lemmy.one 11 points 1 year ago

An interesting subplot is that since Kawhi's 2020 Raptors run, none of the finals teams have had a dominant, heliocentric wing. Maybe Boston, but even that team didn't quite rely on Tatum in the same way that other teams before had. Since the Heatles, the consensus has basically been that wings are the most important position in modern basketball, allowing teams to play 'positionless' and spread the floor.

But over the last three years the best teams have bucked that trend, instead being lead primarily by guards or bigs. Going into next season, most people would probably have a couple of centers at the top of their best players list. And in the last 6 NBA drafts, the only dominant wing player to be taken was Ant. Interesting to see the league pivot so quickly, considering it was only a few years ago that Ballmer went all out and built almost a whole team with 6'7" - 6'9" guys

[-] speedrun@lemmy.one 10 points 1 year ago

Absolutely deserved, clearly the best team in the league at the end of it all.

Can't wait to see how they follow it up, this team feels eerily reminiscent of the 2015 Warriors - lots of talk about how the competition wasn't that stiff and they might not have gotten the chip in other years. Would be fun to see the Nuggets come out on a heater next year too

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Considering LeBron went through a number of finals runs in his peak where he hit a few game 7s, I was surprised he had never achieved this

[-] speedrun@lemmy.one 2 points 1 year ago

As a note, for anyone who's waited this long to play Cyberpunk, it might be worth waiting just a bit longer. CDPR is releasing an 'expansion' which sounds like it's going to completely rework a lot of the core systems and fix many of the issues that were most commonly talked about. https://www.videogameschronicle.com/features/cyberpunks-expansion-totally-overhauls-the-original-game/

[-] speedrun@lemmy.one 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

the off-season and rumors are already starting to hit

That's just NBA busy season, the boring part where we had to play the game is finally over

[-] speedrun@lemmy.one 7 points 1 year ago

Yup, having a name is a pretty important aspect of growth. And while the fediverse could certainly work, it's not very intuitive for new users and also covers such a broad range of functionalities that it won't help people who are specifically looking for a Reddit alternative. Sure 'lemmy' is a misnomer, but it's better to have a name being used incorrectly than no name at all.

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