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City of Nets @cityofnets.bsky.social · 7h

The Toronto announcers were talking about how proud Dick is of his new goatee. Apparently, this season we'll all get to see the new and improved hairy Dick!

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City of Nets @cityofnets.bsky.social · 12h

My NBA W-L predictions last year were--surprisingly--better than other people's predictions. #NetsWorld #NBA
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City of Nets @cityofnets.bsky.social · 12h

He's looked much more confident and professional than Traore. I have hope.

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City of Nets @cityofnets.bsky.social · Jul 19

The epiphany I had when studying Russian years ago is that they pronounce their consonants with different tongue positioning than we do. It's not d-yoh or djo. It's just "d", but with your tongue starting in a position pushed forward against the back of your teeth.

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Change Your Default Mouth Position

Dr. Kimberly DiMattia, known to her Russian students as Kira, has a range of offerings for anyone who wants to "move the needle" on his/her pronunciation.

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City of Nets @cityofnets.bsky.social · Jul 18

And if we trade Claxton, we could start Sharpe and Timme is the twin towers. With a lineup like that we might win 17 games.

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City of Nets @cityofnets.bsky.social · Jul 17

Summer League stats don't mean a whole lot, but they can offer us some basic insights (for example: Drew Timme rocks!). #NetsWorld
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City of Nets @cityofnets.bsky.social · Jul 17

Demin and Wolf, at least, seemed to be playing with confidence last night. One can hope.

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City of Nets @cityofnets.bsky.social · Jul 1

Fuck analytics. Or salary logic. I don't like this trade because I like Cam Johnson. And I want to root for him. On MY team.

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City of Nets @cityofnets.bsky.social · Jun 26

I was surprised by the Nets’ draft. I was surprised by Demin at #8 (instead of Maluach or Murray-Boyles?). I was surprised—like most people—that we used all of our picks. In have to admit that I feel a bit disappointed. But I have to remind myself that Marks has been good at the draft. #NetsWorld

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City of Nets @cityofnets.bsky.social · Jun 23

This is my final super-basic cheat sheet about advanced college stats and the NBA Draft. #NetsWorld
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NBA Draft: College Advanced Stats Super-Basic Prediction Version

I posted something a while ago about advanced college stats and this year’s NBA Draft, but I was disappointed in my super-super-basic methodology. It’ll probably take me years to come up with a dec…

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City of Nets @cityofnets.bsky.social · Jun 19

I think that Sean Marks has been pretty good at the draft. #NetsWorld
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Is Sean Marks Good at the Draft?

I went through Sean Marks’s draft history and made a little chart to see how he’s done. But before I show you the chart, I’d like to point out how difficult it is to do this analytically with any s…

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City of Nets @cityofnets.bsky.social · Jun 13

I offer up counter arguments to my arguments that the draft is overrated, then offer up counter arguments to those counterarguments. #NetsWorld #NBA
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City of Nets @cityofnets.bsky.social · Jun 10

And in the 1996 draft (the "2nd-greatest draft of all-time"), #2 Marcus Camby, #3 Shareef Abdur-Rahim, #7 Lorenzen Wright, #8 Kerry Kittles, #9 Samaki Walker, and #10 Erick Dampier were never selected for an all-star team (even though many of them had solid careers). So yeah...

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City of Nets @cityofnets.bsky.social · Jun 10

Yeah, I agree. The chattering classes have created a dominant narrative that this draft class is great. That's probably true. But even if it is... Bleacher Report has a fun ranking of all-time greatest draft classes:
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Ranking the Top 10 NBA Draft Classes of All Time

In the process of becoming the best inside-outside duo in NBA history, John Stockton and Karl Malone helped cement 1984 and 1985 as two of the top draft classes ever. Of course, they weren't the o...

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City of Nets @cityofnets.bsky.social · Jun 10

I created a statistical cheat sheet that gives numerical values to every draft pick in order to figure out if it's worthwhile to package some late draft picks for some earlier ones. #NBA #NetsWorld
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City of Nets @cityofnets.bsky.social · Jun 9

I continue to ponder the overvaluation of draft picks as it relates to future all-stars status.
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Draft Picks are (Kinda) Overrated, Part 2

In my last post, I looked at draft results using advanced metrics. But a lot of people don’t trust or understand those freaky numbers. So let’s look at draft picks from a more humanistic angle: tha…

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City of Nets @cityofnets.bsky.social · Jun 8

Getting the 6th probably would've made only a microscopic difference. But getting the third pick--VJ Edgecombe!--had a 50% chance of making a big difference. So yeah, our lottery did suck.

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City of Nets @cityofnets.bsky.social · Jun 8

It's fun to talk about the draft, but I think that the significance of the draft is overrated in terms of team building:
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Draft Picks are Overrated, Part 1

It’s fun to talk about the draft, but I think a lot of basketball nerds think it’s more important than it is. All the online chatter about trading Cam Johnson to move up ten spots seems ridiculous …

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City of Nets @cityofnets.bsky.social · Jun 6

At 6' 1/2", he'd be shorter than every player on this year's roster--including Reese Beekman! Even Trae Young is 6' 1"!

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City of Nets @cityofnets.bsky.social · Jun 6

I'm interested in and hopeful that the Nets draft Kon Knueppel, Khaman Maluach, Derik Queen, Jase Richardson, Asa Newell, or Collin Murray-Boyles.
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City of Nets @cityofnets.bsky.social · Apr 11

It was a surprisingly uplifting way to bring an end to the season. These young guys may not be the best players in the NBA, but they all play with a lot of heart. They're fun to watch. Jordi's turned this franchise around. Maybe next year we can be this year's Pistons.

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City of Nets @cityofnets.bsky.social · Feb 25

And another aggressive defensive effort, too.

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City of Nets @cityofnets.bsky.social · Feb 21

Yeah. Claxton looks like he's only giving half his effort all year long. He's been in cruise mode. But Sharpe still has something to prove.

City of Nets @cityofnets.bsky.social · Feb 21

Defensively, it'd make sense to play Sharpe at the rim and let Claxton roam the perimeter. He's much more agile than Sharpe. But offensively, they'd both clog the lane.

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City of Nets @cityofnets.bsky.social · Feb 21

All true. But my larger point is that Claxton needs to get his butt in gear. He hasn't gotten any better this year by any stats metrics or by the eyeball test. Maybe some friendly competition between these two might finally inspire Clax to work a bit harder, maybe finally become an all star.

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