Recent content by Insomniacal Fan

It's about media rights. The NBA wants ESPN to pay it whenever they use a clip of live action

I think Perry has been spending a little too much time on LinkedIn, should go outside and touch grass.

In general, it's not unreasonable at all to be skeptical of the NBA, or any institution, or any authority, or anyone else. The NBA clearly expects this scrutiny, and has been somewhat responsive to it, by altering the lottery procedure from the envelope system, and enlisting a global accounting...

Humans and nematodes "share commonalities", in the sense that both can sense light in the environment and take actions based on what they "see". You could make the argument that there's no essential difference between humans and the little worms; but most humans would find that to be nihilistic...

If there are any fans that want to propose to their significant other during halftime, he's in charge of that.

I am glad there are people out there who share my idea of fun :). If I'm eyeballing the stats, I can say it's clear that there is a playoff effect on Domas (see https://community.kingsfans.com/threads/what-does-this-team-need-most.101601/page-6#post-1881507) The criticism posted by Capt...

I am aware that peer reviewers sometimes require a minimum group size. I discussed this idea with someone who publishes papers for a living, (not ChatGPT I promise), and in their field (biology, not medicine) the minimum group size they needed to convince reviewers is 3. There might be...

The small sample sizes criticism is interesting to me. There are statistical tests that compensate for differing sample sizes between groups, so it should be possible to determine if the playoff effect is real or not I plugged Domas' game logs into a one way ANOVA analysis. Comparing 246...

I should have foreseen that there are some versions of "rebuild" that people would find objectionable, (and some versions of "reload" that people would similarly find objectionable) Both "The Process" style intentional losing, and a youth movement would fall under "rebuild" for me. If I could...

Apparently we don't all agree, hence this thread.

Yes, the point of the question is about what you as a fan want to see, and what risk you're willing to take on, assuming you're playing with funny money. It's hard to get lemonade stand level data on how an NBA franchise works financially, so I think it's a fair ignore those sorts of questions...

In recent discussion, it seems that some folks are thinking about the near term future of the Kings from the perspective of what they consider ideal, and some are thinking about it from the position of what they think is realistic based on the imputed desires of external stakeholders (Vivek...

I don't have any problem with Domas being on the team. I have a bit of trouble thinking up a plausible scenario where we get a better player than Domas, without tearing things down and going to the draft; but there are some interesting ideas in this thread.

If you want to ignore the playoffs (and my pretty chart) all I'm saying is that Domas' abilities aren't correlated enough with what the team needs. I think we could maybe do a little bit better, (and acheive our ambitious goal of being knocked out in round 1 of the playoffs again) if we reduced...

Being beat up by the time the playoffs come around is a common experience. Domas didn't suffer an official injury, so I don't know what to do with that. Game 1, (pre-stomp) he had a terrible TS% of .320 for what that's worth. Playoff - regular season advanced stats 2022-2025 Let me remove...