Michael Mattar @KingJamesMike - Twitter Profile

Not a physical sports fan but Ill take the opportunity to highlight an adjacent parallel to showcase that even sports with hundreds of millions and so many years to learn still fail basic strategic deployment in a way we get to see in games. The NY Knick's won in the final seconds after coming back from the largest deficit in finals history. How? Surely the opponents outplayed them in some manner. No — They just turned their brains off and tried to win faster rather than see through the deterministic win. The Spurs had a historically unloseable lead and decided, instead of playing defensive and running down the clock by just holding the ball - that they would try to get a bigger lead, in league we call this flipping teamfights. They shot risky long range 3 point shots, and opted to try to play fast and aggressive up until the very end. They addee and introduced needless extra variance into the game instead of letting the clock choke out the opponent. An assured and promised ending that would've removed away much human factor from the equation and removed possible "outs". Instead they played for what they wanted, rather than against what the opponent needed least to happen. And in doing so created one of the timelines where recovery was actually possible. Its teams not playing for scaling and against win cons just in a different sport, again. Pushing meaningless waves. Trying to get that extra 100gold from the turret that doesnt alter the win at all. Or trying to get vision in a part of the map that vision holds no relevance to logic, rather just ones emotions. How lucky chess and other things adjacent is to have stockfish be able to laugh at such things and help point towards correctness. While other things still able to hide behind arguments of "human error", despite no one being able to justify the level of errors and that oh so clearly they need not ever exist lol. Basketball is no stranger to loving human emotion and denying strategic advancement, hell they did the same treatment towards 3 pointers at one point too. Maybe in 50 years someone will finally start Granny-shotting instead of calling it the gay thing to do, or be worried about being "not socially accepted by their peers and fans" when presented the option to lean on superiority. B1 me Vi and also pick me Jhin.

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