Minnesota assasination thread

superrific said:
No idea. I do know that the use of timeouts to stop runs by the opposing team has been studied over and over and over. There is no benefit. Most of the time, momentum itself is an illusion, a statistical artefact.
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Timeouts don’t impact the game any more or less than not calling timeouts.

Of course sometimes runs come after a timeout that’s a probability /randomness thing.
 
Calheel said:
If I hit 3 three pointers in a row, all net, I think my odds of hitting the 4th is better than my usual average.
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All statistical evidence I've ever seen suggests otherwise. I guess we don't know about the all net part, but there is little if any serial correlations between successive shots. There was one study a few years ago suggesting that there might have been a small "hot hand" effect in rare cases, but IIRC a larger study didn't reproduce the effect.

I don't follow this statistical stuff super closely, so I definitely could be wrong in the particulars. I'm almost positive that whatever hot hand effect might exist is very small.
 
stankeylegjones said:
I know of one study using NBA games that alludes to them not stopping runs, but I've not seen studies from the collegiate level (or any other leagues). Have they also studied this for college teams/players?
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I don't know. I don't see why college would be much different. It might be hard to study because there's so much variation among college teams -- considerably more than NBA teams. It might be the case, for instance, that a teams playing much worse teams regularly come out flat and start playing hard after a tongue lashing from the coach. That wouldn't necessarily translate to, say, ACC games. Well, the old ACC at least.
 
Ramrouser said:
No one ever wants to be patient and wait for the facts to come out. Waltz et al already labeling it political violence isn’t helpful

This guy went to a lot of trouble in planning this. Seems a lot for some random right winger to go after 2 Dems that I’ve never heard of. There’s more to this story.
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Really?

Like trump blaming Biden for the guy that used a flame thrower on people? Saying the guy was illegal before he knew anything?

You mean, like that, right?
 
superrific said:
I don't know. I don't see why college would be much different. It might be hard to study because there's so much variation among college teams -- considerably more than NBA teams. It might be the case, for instance, that a teams playing much worse teams regularly come out flat and start playing hard after a tongue lashing from the coach. That wouldn't necessarily translate to, say, ACC games. Well, the old ACC at least.
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You're probably right. I was thinking that at the college level there could be more missed assignments leading to another team going on a run, as opposed to a player(s) just be on a heater(s). A timeout might be beneficial to correcting those missed assignments.
 
Calheel said:
If I hit 3 three pointers in a row, all net, I think my odds of hitting the 4th is better than my usual average. Just like in NBA Jam. I don’t think it is comparable to red coming up on the roulette wheel three times in a row because muscle memory is a real thing, as is confidence.
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That seems logical but it doesn’t hold up under scrutiny.

Over time you’re 4th attempt has the same chance to go in following 3 misses or 3 makes.
 
akillesheel said:
completely different ballgames. most trustworthy analyses set the rate of preventable adverse patient outcomes between 1 and 5%. that's basically American police's solve rate for serious crimes.

after uvalde, i can only laugh at anybody who seriously says that police are risking their lives to protect anybody.
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You would be wrong.

Yes, there is a lot of room for improvement in our police force, but to pretend that their job is not risky and that they do not protect people is asinine.
 
superrific said:
www.pewresearch.org

What the data says about crime in the U.S.

Federal statistics show dramatic declines in U.S. violent and property crime rates since the early 1990s.
www.pewresearch.org www.pewresearch.org

In 2022, police nationwide cleared 36.7% of violent crimes that were reported to them and 12.1% of the property crimes that came to their attention.\

Property crimes include small misdemeanors. A while ago, the CD player in my auto got stolen twice in one year. They smashed the glass. Each time I had to report it to the cops in order to get insurance coverage. I did not expect the police to spend a huge amount of energy trying to find the guy who ripped off $100 of merch. That's not bad policing. That's called priorities.
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I fail to see how a person impersonating a police officer to commit a crime reflects negatively on the police, as suggested by the poster. This individual is a criminal, and does not constitute an indictment of the police.
 
Callatoroy said:
lol. You are the worst pos ever. Just dying to ban anyone who disagrees with you or dares to comment on comments that are nothing more than attacks on opposing views. How dare they interrupt our insult threads.
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Can we start a why we hate each other thread and keep this one on track?

I know I get caught up in this sometimes too, so if any of my post are taking us off track, I'll delete them.
 
Rock said:
I had deleted the Twitter app, for obvious reasons, months ago. But, I reinstalled it recently just because of the college basketball portal and the fact that so much breaking news/player posts would take me to X in my web browser and then I couldn’t interact with the post without jumping through a bunch of hoops.

Anyway, I’ve been exposed to Twitter again in viewing news about this topic and holy hell, that app is god awful. I’m sure most of the people arguing are bots/AI but that app is very clearly good for no one’s mental health.
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No way I can reinstall that.

I am looking for a good news source.
 
This is so fucking sad. People are dead and it all leads back to the us vs them mentality that trump spews each day.

I know I often fail at staying on track and not letting it get personal. I'll keep working to do better. But it seems that many out there don't see a need to do better, they feel empowered in their hate because of trump. Trump demonstrates daily how not to treat people, how not to run a country, how not to lead.

Now this.
 
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