Every GM we’ve had in my life time has been a different kind of horrible poker player. I’m having fun thinking about this so maybe I’ll do a little series to crown the worst poker player in our murderer’s row of executive talent:

-Scott Layden is a beginner who only has a basic grasp of the rules and plays for fun, perhaps while drunk.

-Following no coherent strategy, he likes to play his favorite hands of 69 off suit (undersized power forwards) and 72o (shitty guards from Utah), for sentimental reasons. He’ll even call substantial bets (traded a 1RP for Othella Harrington) to see a flop with these hands. He never bluffs and there is no deception value to playing these bad hands because he plays them again and again (Signed Clarence Weatherspoon after getting Harrington, then drafted Mike Sweetney).

-Since he doesn’t know the rules well, he greatly overvalues hands that were once good but are now very weak, like 78 of spades on a board of 9TJQ all hearts (2004 McDyess trade, 2000 Glen Rice trade, 1RP for 2001 Mark Jackson & Muggsy Bogues). Scott just sees that he has a straight, and he’s heard that a straight is a good hand.

-Usually casual/weird players have the advantage of unpredictability, but Layden plays predictably bad. If he’s putting money in he is doing so passively, when he mostly has a bad hand. He is usually among the first 10% of players eliminated from a tournament, and never wins any money even by luck.

It’s so weird that the Bucks fans are giving Griffin credit for moving Lopez back under the basket, but, like, why did he ever decide to move him in the first place?!

How much in career winnings? What ROI?

i’m not going to get into a dick measuring contest unless strat really wants to go there… i started out with literally $5… i played mid stakes limit online in the same games nate silver(15-30 to 30-60) were playing on partypoker and then full tilt/pokerstars from 2003 to 2014ish.. then black friday happened and went to playing live for a couple years on the weekends playing the highest stakes at the borgata…. retired because that’s just a tough life at any sort of regularity and my career was a much better longer term play considering where technology was heading and much better for my mental and physical health… both getting in and getting out poker when i did was one of the best decisions of my life…

anyway you can infer how much i made if you had any experience in these games…

If schools want to educate kids better,

who were these kids that needed to be ‘educated better’? was it possibly all the folks who very clearly got everything wrong about the incinerated pick in your mind?

if that was tongue in cheek… then ok.. what i said was also tongue in cheek… don’t get all offended… cant you take a joke?

Not sure I’m happy about a Yankees lifer getting the job, unless of course he ends up being very good.

Ehhh..Joe Torre was a Met so it probably makes it even..unless you’re counting Willie Randolph as a lifetime Yankee lol

If I can’t enjoy watching good basketball, well I will do the opposite.,

I’ve said this before, but in poker terms we play weak tight. We try to protect ourselves from volatility by avoiding risks, counterintuitively guaranteeing we’ll bleed off chips and lose in the long run. There are occasional Giannises and Kawhis even in the mediocre range where we end up picking, but we can’t luck out because we don’t pick. Because we fold a nut flush (19th pick) draw but go all in on top pair (Josh Hart), we never even give ourselves a chance to get lucky.

I understand what you are saying.

There is nothing stopping us from making our own pick and the Dallas pick this year, trying to move up, using the other excess picks to move up etc… going forward.

I have always argued that when you choose to build via draft, trade, and free agents you should do whatever makes the most sense at the time and not limit yourself.

If the trade market looks dead for stars, we should be drafting.

I think we know what happened do far.

They were ready to trade for Mitchell, but Ainge is the Grinch.

I’m not sure who or what they are thinking about now, but I’m pretty sure they were as shocked as anyone that Dallas was that bad and then tanked. I think they were expecting draft someone with that pick. So maybe they’ll make 2 picks this year if there are no stars available.