Adithya Ravi

心臓 を 捧げよ.
戦わなければ勝てない. 戦え. 戦え.
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[Adithya Ravi @Zuko1107]

DaRon got very little rope from Adelman this season, which is why I fully expect him to be traded somewhere else and become the next iHart🤣 /s

[Maurya Kumpatla @TheFlarescreen]

DaRon Holmes II is the NBA's next breakout big:
- Blend of 3PR + TOV-averse passing volume is surpassed by only Horford; enables full-time PF
- OREB volume relative to 3PR raises his off. floor even higher
- 2-of-2 FTR + 3PR combo = nuclear off. TS upside; was 83% FT last season

[Adithya Ravi @Zuko1107]

Never let such inconvenient facts get in the way of fan delusions.

Shaq literally never got to the finals a single time in his career without an elite superstar guard playing next to him. All these 90s nostalgia merchants and boomers never contextualize their GOATs' playoff runs

[#MOVETHETEAM Mafia 🇵🇸 @Okonkwo_Sports]

“Most unstoppable player ever”
>get taken to 7 by a Rasheed Wallace led team
>get taken to 7 by the 02 Kings

[Adithya Ravi @Zuko1107]

I think Tharoor has an intern who spends 10 minutes every day looking for viral idli posts

[Shashi Tharoor @ShashiTharoor]

Oh, I see what you're doing here! Aside from provoking me, that is.

I have to be honest: that idli looks a bit too solid and dense for my liking. And the discolouration in the pic is not very appetising. There’s something about a perfectly soft, snowy-white, fluffy idli that just can’t be beaten. This one looks likely to be chewy and rubbery. Not an A-grade idli.

I’m a massive chai fan myself, but I’ve always been a firm believer in the 'separate but equal' policy: I prefer my chai alongside or after eating, rather than dunking anything in it. Anyway, a truly good, soft idli would probably just dissolve in the hot chai and ruin it, whereas a 'dunkable' idli would be too rubbery for my taste and not worth eating.

I say keep the chai in the cup and the idli on the plate—they’re both better off that way! @333maheshwariii

[Adithya Ravi @Zuko1107]

Wemby can join this list too for sure but for now he's kinda raw in comparison.

[Adithya Ravi @Zuko1107]

KAT, Dirk, reg szn Embiid and Kristaps, pre-24 Jokic and KG are the only ones I count as dynamic, versatile offensive bigs with elite outside shooting. Stretch bigs outside of this list are just low-volume catch-and-shoot merchants.

Maybe add Brook Lopez to this list too, kinda.

[Adithya Ravi @Zuko1107]

@DOC323123 Chuck Jones is a GOAT-level animator

[Adithya Ravi @Zuko1107]

Like if you're watching it for character arcs, and commentary on America's medical system I'm sorry to tell you you've been deeply misinformed.

It's like watching Breaking Bad trying to learn chemistry or something.

[Adithya Ravi @Zuko1107]

Watch House for the dialogues, clinic duty, House's Head/Wilson's Heart, Tritter and the fellowship competition. There is absolutely nothing more to the show.

[Janet Murray @jan_murray]

Late to the party, but I've started watching Season 1 of House. Same narrative every episode:

Patient has mysterious illness.
Hugh Laurie (House) gets diagnosis wrong.
Patient nearly dies.

Hugh Laurie gets diagnosis wrong again.
Gets threatened with being fired.
Patient nearly dies again.

Hugh Laurie has last minute leftfield idea.
Gets diagnosis right.
Doesn't get fired.

Eight seasons of this?

[Adithya Ravi @Zuko1107]

*actual

[Adithya Ravi @Zuko1107]

When you're too lazy to do ana ctual search yourself or just ask an LLM:

[Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias]

I sort of can’t believe there aren’t more articles trying to break down exactly what adjustments have made Playoff Knicks so much better than the team we saw in the regular season.

[Adithya Ravi @Zuko1107]

@halfklass AG provides versatility and is a good low-man but OG is the kind of guy who can win the possession battle for you consistently, and the Nuggets have never had a player like that except KCP.

[Adithya Ravi @Zuko1107]

There was a time where AG was a non-shooter on the Nuggets mostly playing the dunker spot. At the time I rated OG superior since he was >= as a defender and could knock down open 3s. Some Nuggets fans rated AG as a better shot creator, but here is OG dunking on Wemby in an iso🤷

[Omer Osman @OmerOsman200]

Raptor legend/2019 Champion OG Anunoby?!?!?!??

With the dunk over Victor Wembanyama?!?!?!?!??

IN THE FINALS ?!?!?!?!?!

[Adithya Ravi @Zuko1107]

@halfklass OG is statistically the best Wemby defender in the league (check Caitlin Clark's tweet) and I've seen him defend even Jokic well - Nuggets have lost the last 5 games they've played vs NY w/OG incl 1 where Jok had 7 TOs. He's much better than AG at forcing turnovers in general.

[Sam Quinn @SamQuinnCBS]

Eh I think this is rock-paper-scissors. San Antonio was their nightmare matchup. They beat both of them in Game 1 with no Fox, and the Fox/Harper injuries really mattered in that series too. The Knicks are just better equipped to solve the Wemby problem specifically than OKC is.

[Adithya Ravi @Zuko1107]

Ofc I rate '25 and '26 AG as a slightly better player than OG when healthy, but as a thought experiment, OG and Mikal as our wing players on the Nuggets in place of AG and MPJ gets us back-to-back titles in '23 and '24, maybe even '25 given their skillsets and health. Ah well.

[Adithya Ravi @Zuko1107]

As a tangential point, the hot hand fallacy was actually disproven like a decade back https://t.co/Qaez68yjUg

[Puyangan Adiyan @Puyangan5]

There is what is called the "hot hand" fallacy in basketball. A lot of people make this same mistake while analyzing politics.

Vijay needs to get a lot of things right for his party to stay a strong force, leave alone being the only pole of TN politics. Not that it's not possible but given how inexperienced his team is and how shady his main backers are, there is a lot that can slip between the cup and the lips.

[Adithya Ravi @Zuko1107]

One of the best Buffy scenes ever, in one of the most wildly underrated TV seasons of all time.

Featuring Anthony Head. RIP.

[Adithya Ravi @Zuko1107]

@idesofavril Damn Anthony Head is dead? Giles...

[Adithya Ravi @Zuko1107]

Yeah, think this is Knicks in 6 affair now. But my original 50-50 pick was not too far off - both of these were massively winnable games for the Spurs if they just didn't have a professional brain farter like Castle.

[Adithya Ravi @Zuko1107]

KAT bailing out Becky Hammon rn

[Rohan Nadkarni @RohanNadkarni]

Jalen Brunson is shooting 33.9% from the field and 23.5% from three in the Finals and the Knicks are *still* up 2-0

[Adithya Ravi @Zuko1107]

Wemby can't pressure the basket at all with the ball in his hands. Have been pointing this out in the last 2 seasons and he's made only very marginal improvements there.

He's not a great enough shooter to not have this skill imo