Comments on: Knicks Morning News (2025.01.21)

By: DRed

DRed — Wed, 22 Jan 2025 03:03:53 +0000

Never in doubt

By: rama

rama — Wed, 22 Jan 2025 01:10:04 +0000

Station 11 is good, Geo. And despite being dystopian, full of hope and a reminder of why we’re here in the first place. Haven’t read the others, though as you say, Dick is a more engaging thinker than writer, often, and The 3-Body Problem has been subject of lots of talk in the last year or two and supposedly somewhat abstruse. Personally I’m curious, but lots to get to first.

By: Downtown Doogie Brown

Downtown Doogie Brown — Wed, 22 Jan 2025 00:39:57 +0000

“trying to decide now whether to go next with:
– children of time (3 book series)
– the 3 body problem (3 book series)
– ubik (philip k dick story, the last one I tried was disappointing, the electric sheep one)
– Station 11 (on a lot of best sci-fi lists)

any suggestions?”

Ummmmmmm……. None of these? Go for something realistic, with characters that you can relate to who live in the present time and probably in the United States and face problems just like yours. Nothing in different times, different places, or that include things that cannot happen or do not exist. 🙂

By: The Great Clown Pagliacci

The Great Clown Pagliacci — Wed, 22 Jan 2025 00:22:37 +0000

You’re so well spoken and make tons of sense for your perspective. I think the rub for me is in your using of the phrase “real contender”. The qualification dilutes the frank and efficient way everything else comes out. What’s a real contender.

Thank you, Mr. Beeks. Glad to see I’m slowly moving from complete pariah to cranky semi-pariah on this board!

Your question is very fair. Going purely by SRS, here are my rough goalposts:

10+: GOAT candidate tier consisting of MJ Bulls, Dynasty Warriors, OKC, and the ’24 Celtics.
8-10: Superteams that are generally the presumptive favorite to win the championship. Only the ’70 Knicks are in this category for us.
6-8: True contenders with a solid chance (15-25%+) to win the championship in most years unless there is a reigning GOAT or Superteam. The ’73 and ’94 Knicks are in this range for us.
5-6: Fringe contenders with an outside shot if everything breaks right. ~ 10% championship equity in most seasons. Our ’93, ’69, and ’71 teams are in here, all of which lost in the ECF.
4-5: Pretenders. Only 9 of the last 45 champions were in this range and 5 of those are past champions mailing in the regular season. This year and last year’s teams are here. 2nd round is a reasonable expectation.

By: Knick fan not in NJ

Knick fan not in NJ — Wed, 22 Jan 2025 00:09:20 +0000

Geo, a good no -trilogy science fiction book is “A memory called Empire” by Arkady Martin. It’s not dystopian either.

By: hubert

hubert — Wed, 22 Jan 2025 00:07:08 +0000

This is the best situation we’ve been in decades…

We were in a better situation than this 12 months ago.

By: Knick fan not in NJ

Knick fan not in NJ — Wed, 22 Jan 2025 00:01:24 +0000

I hope I’m not jinxing us by saying this, but I don’t think our injury luck has been great so far. It’s not as bad as Orlando’s, but we have still been affected because we lost a lot of time from bench players who are usually in the rotation. Even if you don’t count Robinson, Deuce, Precious, and Shamet all missed a lot of time. This was probably one reason Thibs played the starters a lot and they had tired legs in many fourth quarters. Now that they are back, Thibs played these three guys most of the bench minutes (47 total) in the most recent game. And I count Mitch as an injury too because he was projected to come back in the fall and still isn’t back.

By: geo

geo — Tue, 21 Jan 2025 23:59:03 +0000

trying to decide now whether to go next with:
– children of time (3 book series)
– the 3 body problem (3 book series)
– ubik (philip k dick story, the last one I tried was disappointing, the electric sheep one)
– Station 11 (on a lot of best sci-fi lists)

any suggestions?

By: cybersoze

cybersoze — Tue, 21 Jan 2025 23:58:35 +0000

but goodness gracious do they love to focus on what’s missing…

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By: geo

geo — Tue, 21 Jan 2025 23:54:13 +0000

I’ve found that humans in general have a baseline bias towards optimism that I don’t,

been saving this thought…as this thread is soon to disappear I’ll share it now…

after I finish this last silo book: Dust, been thinking I may just jump in to another sci-fi trilogy…

the sci-fi genre when done well always sparks my imagination more than just about anything else…

so, looking though list of top sci-fi stuff it’s not hard to notice how few of the stories are of an utopian setting…

they are almost exclusively dystopia stories…

Google AI says it’s because conflict is more interesting to us than not-conflict…

so, maybe people are engineered to have hope, but goodness gracious do they love to focus on what’s missing…