Thanks for the link.

https://basketball.realgm.com/wiretap/269694/Stephen-Curry-Out-Multiple-Weeks-With-Shoulder-Injury

https://basketball.realgm.com/wiretap/269695/Tyrell-Terry-Retires-Due-To-The-Anxiety-This-Sport-Has-Caused-Me

https://nypost.com/2022/12/15/derrick-rose-mentoring-miles-mcbride-despite-knicks-benching/

i don’t know you pepper, and before you react it’s pertinent that i once nonchalantly sidestepped a right hook from a drunken grandmother biker chick in a kerry kittles jersey who likely required minor medical attention, but i do not believe you got that without looking it up. fight me.

I hope this board never dies

starting out on this “mindfulness” journey stuff – i’ve found music to have the greatest impact…

no question i’d prefer large doses of cannabis and a half milligram of xanax – but – i’m trying to do this stuff as sober as possible though, so, music it is…

i was doing talk therapy for a while, i found though the presence of a voice totally immersion breaking – and annoying, no matter how pleasant or reasonable the voice…hopefully i can get past whatever that thing is at some point – guided meditation is a very useful tool…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5V_rVaiveNg

the flute thing was a little high pitched for me, i like though the string instrument that goes on at the 15:00 mark…music made with “traditional”/really really old instruments is often mesmerizing…some of those sounds are very unique for today…

something i’ve been meaning to give a listen to are indian raagas:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yYJfDr4nEk0
not a lot of places in the world where there’s been that level of well documented continuous culture…few thousand years of pondering and writing stuff down…

http://www.apbr.org/metrics/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=8844

The key section relevant for replacing Randle with Nance:

“Teams with combined usage of 80-89% underperform expected Ortg by about 4 points.”

You can also just look at any of RAPTOR, EPM, or BPM that rate Randle’s offense much better than Nance’s offense.

Totally agree. But my feeling is that he’s hardly alone in that regard. He’s just the most controversial player on the Knicks, so every gaffe gets magnified.

The Knicks probably have more analytical scrutiny in the media, both mainstream and social, that any other team in any sport. Certainly no team has an analog to KB. We analyze the shit out of this shitty team, in ways that often boggle the mind, given the relative intellect of the posters here. Same with media coverage. Just look at the blog traffic on the SBNation sites…not even the high-riding Celts can compare. Look at Knicks Film School, or some of the other sites that traffic in the Knicks despite their abysmal record for this entire millenium. Throw in the managerial incompetence and the circus atmosphere around this calamity of a franchise…and it’s a wonder that Randle isn’t getting booed off the floor during every home loss.

But some here don’t see it as a feel-good story. He’s still an obstacle to their aspirations, realism be damned.

I truly feel bad for the guy. He’s leaving whatever he has on the floor every night. And putting up max-level stats to boot.

Rignt now, that’s good enough for me.

Randle is by far the biggest lightning rod on our team. And he’s owning it. That’s he-man shit.