jay ratkowski

Has a lot of guitars. Does marketing, focused on search. Not a bot. Go Bucks!

[jay ratkowski @ratocaster]

Hall of fame tweet.

[Henry Abbott @TrueHoop]

I covered Jason Kidd when he played for the Nets. I know one of his childhood friends. I've been to his house, met his kids, then-wife, and Pilates Instructor. And I have insight from many people who worked with him in his coaching years. This is a great firing.

[jay ratkowski @ratocaster]

Whatever they do, it will probably be dumb. Because nearly everything the bucks are doing since the shitty gas station tycoon took over has been dumb.

[Karley Marotta @Karley_Marotta]

Jimmy Haslam says they are going to make a decision on Giannis' future before the NBA Draft and stresses that communication has been good between them despite what some "ESPN" writers say.

[jay ratkowski @ratocaster]

@NoTechBen They traded James Harden the player for James Harden the team.

[jay ratkowski @ratocaster]

@NateDuncanNBA Since Haslam took over (April 2023), the Bucks are on an incredible run.

[jay ratkowski @ratocaster]

Totally inaccurate. It was mostly diarrhea.

[Justin Wills @itsjwills]

Looking back on Doc Rivers tenure as head coach of the Milwaukee Bucks

[jay ratkowski @ratocaster]

@lilyraynyc I know many SEOs are fine with burning sites down. But too many others just have not experienced manual action recovery and it shows.

[jay ratkowski @ratocaster]

@brewcitypaul @bigunitroessler Actions vs PR.

[jay ratkowski @ratocaster]

@rossstevens_uk That's a great insight-AI is an incredible tool for processing text and creating summaries. (joking!)

[jay ratkowski @ratocaster]

@RyanJones @Xfinity Not possible to lower your bill because you have to keep subsidizing all the subscribers that are dying.

[jay ratkowski @ratocaster]

The darkness comes for all of us.

[Keith Smith @KeithSmithNBA]

This is the first time Giannis Antetokounmpo's team has missed the playoffs since the 2015-16 season. Milwaukee's run of consecutive playoff appearances is snapped at nine.

[jay ratkowski @ratocaster]

The length of games isn’t the problem. The problem is the Wizards, Nets, Pacers, Mavs, Jazz, Kings each play 82 game seasons and most of those games are unwatchable. If you have season tickets, you can’t give those games away.

We just want fewer awful games.

[Mark Cuban @mcuban]

Make the games 40 minutes.

8 x 82 / 48 =13.667 That’s the equivalent number of games you would reduce the schedule by. Without breaking arena leases.

Works for college. Works for international. Works for the WNBA.

AND.

If you looking at tv and streaming ratings, the less the actual playing time for a televised game, the bigger the ratings.

Ie, the less time fans have to focus on a game, the more they enjoy watching it on tv

[jay ratkowski @ratocaster]

@RyanJones @lilyraynyc Also don't zoom the map out to cover a 50 mile radius.

[jay ratkowski @ratocaster]

@shycollie @UrbanCourtyard Don’t tell me how to feel.

[jay ratkowski @ratocaster]

@andrewsharp I’m always happy to find someone else who hates the play-in. Too many teams already made the playoffs. The playoffs are too long (at the very least, no play-in and go back to 5 game 1st round) bad teams shouldn’t make it.

[jay ratkowski @ratocaster]

@RyanJones Dang.

[jay ratkowski @ratocaster]

@UrbanCourtyard @CavalierJohnson ☝️

[jay ratkowski @ratocaster]

@thevoiceofevan The NBA "solved" tanking by turning bad teams into that dude buying lotto tickets from the gas station at 4AM.

[jay ratkowski @ratocaster]

@mattyglesias Trickle down: Iffy for economic prosperity, pretty good for persuasion.

[jay ratkowski @ratocaster]

@fmaddenNBA Ajax is the new Beauchamp. Irrational hype from fans despite not showing he’s an NBA rotation player. Dude has fun moments and last year his athleticism helped on a team that could/would not run…

But he’s just not that good. It’s okay.