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Catdaddyhorn

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  1. I disagree. As the leader of the team Doncic has to recognize that KP is a bit of a headcase so he has to go out of his way earlier in the game to get him easier looks. KP is a total waste if all he's doing is launching deep ass 3s to start of the game. Rule number one of a PG early in the game is to get your guys involved and give them confidence. Doncic is young and despite his great playmaking ability he isn't a true PG in terms of his temperament and awareness of the psychology of his teammates. KP is the guy who can lift the potential of this team. It's an absolute must to get him playing well if we have any chance at a surprise run this year.
  2. I'll never understand why the Budenholzer refuses to use Giannis as a screener in the pick n' roll. Looks like Middleton bailed his ass out.
  3. Hell yeah!! The Mavs are getting in that ass.
  4. He was too worried about doubling off on the 3. They were trying to run some type hand off action and Giannis was overly anticipating it.
  5. Doncic already eatin like a muthafucka.
  6. The Bucks thwarted their 3pt plan and Butler still made something out of it/
  7. They better be all over Robinson, Ariza, and Dragic. A 3 is guaranteed to get fired up.
  8. Milwaukee gets into these lulls when the allow Giannis to begin the attack too much. They're much better when he's screening to begin the attack.
  9. I'm guessing the staff and athletic administration knew about it before we knew about it.
  10. According to the interwebs AJ1, Royce, Matt, Kamaka, Jericho, and Jase all graduated today. Not sure of the last time we had this many bball players graduate on time (or ahead of schedule in Kamaka's case).
  11. And the dichotomy of these two environments coexisting in the same world creates an obvious power imbalance of which we judged, made laws, and schooled and treated people differently because of this power imbalance. And even when the laws aren't explicitly racist everything created out of this world carries that imbalance along with it. That's why even in the police discussion when people attempt to debate whether individual policemen like Chauvin are racist its pure folly and misses the point entirely. They live a world where they're routinely dealing with the fallout out of our past where they absorb our value system telling them the impoverished are less than human. We reinforce this value system in everything we do. Shit look at California. Many of the current homeless are people who within the last few years lost their homes due to wild fires. As they struggle to find places to recover we punish that effort with reckless abandon.
  12. A big part of what people miss in these discussions is how much the post WWII housing production created the structure of the world we currently live in. It wasn't just that people were able to get houses, the profit of which were passed down to their loved ones. It's the communities that were built out of it. The destinations of commerce that it allowed people to take advantage of. Even if I didn't have a house I could now go work in some service of this new entity created. I could now create products and services to take and advantage of these entities spread throughout the nation. I could create schools that served this entity and built upon itself. And the absence of these opportunities created a literal vacuum elsewhere where these entities of commerce and community building weren't allowed to exist.
  13. That's simply not true. At least not to the same degree. The GI Bill and post WWII housing policies did a good job of rectifying things to a large degree for ethnic whites. And white looking hispanics have been able to blend in as well over the generations. There's a reason this problem is much more entrenched in some communities than others. Because they were much more exhaustive, punitive, and all consuming for some groups than others.
  14. Man the instagram story on his profile is heartwarming. He's walking with his Mom and Dad and his mom is beaming wiht pride while his Dad is absolutely balling. He mentioned he's the first in his family to graduate from college. I really wish he'd stay. He really is an impressive young man (as are a bunch players on this team).
  15. "I'm sorry I cut off your legs, but from here on out we're gonna make this race as fair as possible." In a situation like this the fix isn't going to be viewed as fair by society at large and that's the crux of the problem. Additionally, something as simple as the change from an industrial economy to an information based economy creates large hurdles in accomplishing this task.
  16. In my initial response to you the link of the study I posted explained how the legacy of our racism is already a built-in component of the machine learning you're referencing.
  17. Why would I give a fuck about the motivation when the resulting effect puts me in the exact same place? People need get out of this mentality where they think the worst thing about racism is individuals hating each other. Fuck feelings!!! The worst thing about racism is the power imbalance. The issue with redlining wasn't the inability of black people to move next to someone who hates them. It was the resulting affect meant the grandchildren of steeleworkers in Pittsburgh eventually attained the ability to raise capital, build communities, businesses, and most importantly self esteem while the grandchildren of teachers in Atlanta had no ability to do the same. And in this systematic pedagogy of oppression those children now attach value and human self-worth to that power disparity. You're now less than human when you're poor. Then laws are created punishing that lack of humanity. Before you know it you have an entire hierarchal society based on this discrepancy in power and voila people like @Johnny Sack get to justify the treatment of these lower level human beings because the closed loop system keeps sustaining itself.
  18. Those sorts of pricing controls only began in what, the last decade or so? We're talking 80+ years worth of damage here. That being said, even with algorithms they're still finding issues. Minority homebuyers face widespread statistical lending discrimination, study finds https://newsroom.haas.berkeley.edu/minority-homebuyers-face-widespread-statistical-lending-discrimination-study-finds/ When people talk about systemic racism this is what they mean. Turns out that 100+ years of discriminatory policies and practices by legal fiat has long term consequences which don't resolve themselves simply by people no longer being mean to each other.
  19. There have been too many settlements, incidents, and articles reported detailing discriminatory behavior for you to bluntly claim this shit doesn't happen in the face of all evidence to the contrary. So spare me your everything is fair and nobody is racist bullshit.
  20. As a Dallasiite living in Houston I can tell you Houston is different from other cities I've lived in when it comes to baseball. They love their Astros and baseball in general. Trying to get my 8 year old into the local little league is white knuckle ride every January. If I don't logon within the first 2 minutes of the portal opening he's not playing that spring. It's fucking ridiculous.
  21. It's Luka's game not his personality that will ultimately make him a popular player. He's cold as fuck, has handles, and an entertaining style of play that is fun to watch.
  22. So you're telling me the sport with bigger stadiums and more games has more total people come to their games. [West African accent]I can't believe it[/West African accent] ................ And basketball dwarfs baseball when you expand the universe outside the borders of the United States. That being said are you certain that 1st round playoff baseball games on basic cable routinely surpass that 7 million number. I'd like to see proof of that.
  23. Where are you getting this? Luka's interviews are about as dry as possible with variations of one word answers or playing harder alternating back and forth. Giannis displays 10x the personality of Luka which is understandable given the fact that he's now been here 7 or 8 years
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