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Have y’all been following Freddy, the German fan traveling all over the South? And the Scottish fans having a constant party in Boston?

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people in Seattle aren't now convinced to go watch Sounders over the Seahawks.

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The problem with your thinking is that you, like many others, for some reason think you have to choose between football or soccer. Nobody does that with basketball. You don’t have to choose.

I watch soccer, and football, and college football, and basketball, and baseball, etc.

They don’t have to choose the Sounders over the Seahawks. They can watch both of them.

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So it is luck?

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The only luck is in the draft lottery. But the Pelicans also had luck go their way, and they completely squandered it. Twice.

When a competent franchise gets an opportunity with a little luck going their way, they nail it. It’s not an accident OKC and the Spurs have been good for so long.

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Wondering if they’re kicking themselves for not sacking Slot and honing in on Alonso themselves or if they wanted Iraola all along?

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Alonso is more similar in style to Slot. Iraola is more similar to Klopp.

I don’t think Liverpool was ever too hot on Alonso. The fans were because he’s a former player.

I think they had preferred Iraola over Xabi from the start.

Thanks for the post. Way more goes into it than he makes it seem.

That’s not fair. Nebraska had 10 players on the field.

His first name is Adolf and his last name is a German car brand.

They won the NBA Finals last season and again finished first in the West and went 7 games in the Western Conference Finals.

The sky isn’t falling. Major moves are not required. Sometimes you just get beat and the solution is just to improve and play better next time.

The thing that annoys me most about the e-bikes and scooters is that many of them go just fast enough that it makes it difficult to pass them up but slow enough that you want to go around them.

And often times it’s a kid on them and they have zero sense for traffic laws.

A couple weeks ago there was a kid on one of those scooters riding on the street near the curb at that weird speed where it’s too slow for the road but too fast to quickly pass them without gunning it for a second. When I decided I was going to pass him, he decided he wanted to turn left, so he just darts to the left right in front of my car. Didn’t look at all. Just darted right in front. I didn’t need to slam on my brakes because I was being extra careful because I was on alert that he might do something stupid. And unsurprisingly, he did the most retarded thing possible.

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The thing you have to remember about analytics is there is zero accounting for downside scenarios factored into them. I also have no problem with the more specific types of information they can provide but when it becomes a philosophical dogma you get these silly comments from an Atkins or a Cashman in baseball where they can’t seem to differentiate between wining and losing the game. Analytics are just a tool like any other set of statistics.

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The problem I have with how coaches use analytics is that analytics are about long-term trends.

The probability changes when you are dealing with a specific opponent in a small number of games. It’s like they look at a chart based on numbers accumulated over a season and use that to make decisions. That’s stupid and not how the data should be used.

Analytics should be used as a general tool to figure out the best way to play. But when it comes down to the small sample size of the playoffs, it comes down to players making plays and hitting shots and getting stops. It becomes less about playing the numbers and more about the human beings on the floor making the plays to put the numbers in their favor.

You know we kind of lucked out here in America. Look at what kind of immigrants European countries get.

A bunch of Middle Easterners with no chance in hell of assimilating.

Hispanics come over and generally work hard, they’re Christians, and they are family-oriented. Boots and cowboy hats are even part of their culture.

As far as immigrants go, I don’t think any group is better.