The hell we all are. I haven’t “gamed” in…….well, let me think for a second…….ever.

@IanBegley:
Mitchell Robinson hasn’t started running full speed yet, Tom Thibodeau says. Thibodeau adds that he expects Robinson to be cleared for full practice some time this month. If he responds well to practice, Robinson will then be cleared for games.
https://x.com/IanBegley/status/1874591244690825443

trying to battle someone in a vertibird with a low teens toon is pretty challenging…

my biggest gripe at the moment as how awful my honing missile is at actually honing on on targets…

that and the fact some folks vehicles are armored up so well the one semi-strong weapon can’t really help me…

well now, since we’re all sharing gaming stories 🙂

been playing GTA online now for a couple of weeks, and oh do I have that noobie “free meat” feeling about me…

I’ve purposely stayed away from GTA Online. I’m a console guy and there’s wayyyyy too many modders and GTA Online vets for me to have the patience to try my hand

well now, since we’re all sharing gaming stories 🙂

been playing GTA online now for a couple of weeks, and oh do I have that noobie “free meat” feeling about me…

my current, very ineffective strategy at the moment is to hope the same folks will grow tired of killing me over and over again…

IIRC you can switch to a solo server, I got tired very quickly of getting stomped by the people on jetbikes. GTA online was surprisingly fun but my first character got banned for some reason – I got an alert saying I’d cheated somehow and that the character was irrecoverable, which soured me on it all.

The biggest surprise was seeing megabust Jahlil Okafor on the Mad Ants. He looked to be in terrific shape, but I didn’t see anything beyond his physical profile that suggested that he could help an NBA team do anything but tank. He likes to bang and sets rock-solid screens, but the motor hasn’t changed since whatever you remember of him. Still it was nice to see a legit NBA replacement-level C as a test for Huk.

Kolek was “superb” at that level, but lots of stuff he does will simply not work at the NBA-level. He goes right every single time he drives, and some of his floater moves are not going to get over NBA-level wings and shot blockers. But the guy is a gamer, he basically carried the team to victory on his back. Very nice outing.

Dadiet was a hot mess. None of his “good” shots went in and he took a few that were terrible. A very forgettable game, except for the really bad stuff.

Hukporti looked mostly raw, a couple of decent plays here and there but mostly not like an NBA player. Good motor, some versatility on O, just very poor feel for the game.

Okeke looked like the most NBA-ready player. The 3-ball looked pretty good, had excellent defensive fundamentals, definitely could be a useful end-of-bench wing.

Toppin scored a lot of points, but he looks like a dyed-inb-the-wool G-League player skill-wise. However, his athleticism and motor really stood out, and he did make some nice moves, including some great connections with Kolek. But he has a long way to go to turn himself into a rotation player.

Everyone else pretty much sucked. Moses Brown was a terrible combo of soft, slow, and dumb. What a waste of a good physical profile.

The Westchester County Center is a great place to bring little kids, there were many in attendance and you would have thought it was game 7 of a playoff series, so it was fun to see them get excited about the game. I paid $17 each for the seats and they were in the front row of the balcony…excellent view. Most of the players were pretty decent, they hustled their asses off and gave a great show.

Other notes:
-the OT was decided by a 7-point Elam ending, with Kolek winning the game on a FT. The Indiana coach called two coach’s challenges in OT. I didn’t like that format, the suddenness of the ending seems more anticlimactic than the FTs and TOs of a timed OT.
-The G-League awards only one FT on a shooting foul that counts for 2 points if made. Then in the last two minutes (I think) they make players make both. I liked that, it sped up the game considerably.