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Owen caught me in a verbose mood.

This week on The F5:

A Q&A with @sethpartnow.bsky.social. Of course we talked about opponent three-point shooting!

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thank you for reading

at first i tired downloading the AI rendered transcripts to parse the player's names but it kept referring to Luka Doncic as Tall Raymond Felton so i didnt think it was reliable

I was blown away when Owen explained his project to me.

Glad I could help pull the curtain back just a bit in support of his project on the NBA Top 10.

This week on The F5:

Every night, the NBA releases a video of the Top 10 Plays of the day. I wrote about the players & teams that are featured in the countdown most often

Shout out to the GOATmentator @nbabeau.bsky.social

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in some ways i admire your lack of shame

The Best Three-Point Shot Blockers And how to plot them

yeah see

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blocking threes is hard. these are the guys that are best at it

made with #rstats

Good stuff. Of course it doesn’t. These are NBA players, who know exceedingly accurately how much time and space they need to got their shot off. For them most part I’d be willing to wager they never even noticed the Kornet Kontest happening.

Does the Kornet Kontest Work? Luke Kornet's Eclipse is a fan favorite, but is it effective?

Luke Kornet would contest three-point shots without getting near a shooter, just trying to obscure the rim, callijg the move an eclipse.
@owenlhjphillips spent a good amount of time studying it and found useful results.

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This week on The F5:

Does the Kornet Kontest work?

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Boston takes the best remaining free agent (by DARKO DPM) off the board

Tweets by Bo Austin in my experience the problem with younger tech guys is really not what they don't know. they are very smart. they are however constitutionally incapable of knowing what they don't know. depending on the project, this makes them extremely risky hires the absolute smartest people I know know a lot, but more notable is that they are constantly moving things from the don't know they don't know category into the realm of things they know they don't know. the problem is that that's an attitude to develop and not a skill to learn. there might after all be a connection between — to use the idiotic terms — EQ and IQ. I've discovered there certainly is at an elite level at least

Caught this in @maxread.info’s latest and this is such a good articulation of the difference between early 20s ambitious young people and folks who have a bit of experience (including failure).

“It’s an attitude, not a skill” is it in a nutshell.

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How To Automate Tedious Tasks With GitHub Actions auto F5

New on The F5:

How to automate tedious tasks with GitHub Actions

🔒 for paid subs

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i like Garrison Mathews as a bargain buy free agent

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the only thing preventing me from making the full time switch to #Positron is the lack of a Re-Run Previous Section shortcut. Might be my most used shortcut in RStudio

ICYMI: I wrote about the bleak recent history of restricted free agency

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was fun looking back at the recent history of RFAs and the offer sheets they received. how different their careers could have been if their home team had/hadn't matched

this week on The F5:

- A bleak recent history of restricted free agency
- I say something nice about each RFA
- A Q&A with the person running the SportsBall account

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I would take Moussa Diabaté and Ryan Kalkbrenner over Mark Williams and Khaman Maluach

new post on The F5 for premium subscribers:

How to make small multiple charts in R and Python

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real gm

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ICYMI: i looked at which summer league stats are the stickiest -- which ones can tell us something about how a player will perform in their rookie season

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players that most often saw more than one defender last season

This week on The F5:

What does summer league tell us about a rookie's regular season? More than you think...

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Spencer Jones, a two-way player with the Denver Nuggets, would like to to connect with you at Summer League

#TheConnection

5.9 ... great shooting numbers, just gotta get those turnovers under control