In a hackathon last week, here’s what the winning teams built on Yutori’s scouting and research APIs:
1. Team LawSync built a local legislative activity tracker.
https://t.co/k4uEB5g41O
2. Team Signal built a bloomberg terminal for prediction market.
https://t.co/Ln0hFnlVvf
3. Team AccessAI built an accessibility auditing and ticket generation system.
https://t.co/DSVg6bwslB
I was mostly watching Warriors games with a lot of peace and having fun again since the Jimmy Butler trade. That fun has dissipated since the return of Jonathan Kuminga.
Even in the wins, they've not looked like the team they'd been. I don't think he understands what it takes to be a consistently winning player at this juncture of his career - in fact, he's never been that player to this point. He needs to show a LOT to prove me wrong at this point.
-18 in 21 minutes of play tonight. Who cares about the empty 16 points on 6/14 FG when he's a zero presence on defense? There's just no heart on that end. No utter desire to get stops. No sense of desperation.
Championship-caliber teams don't have critical pieces having games like this off their bench. Sixth men on championship-caliber teams are utterly reliable. Think about what GPII has done in the second half of this season, for example. Think of what Gui Santos had been doing before getting his role stripped and minutes diminished since Kuminga's return. They persistently and consistently make winning plays. Kuminga is all over the map in terms of consistency. The good plays are often negated by the bad ones. That's the definition of a non-contending player.
At this point, I'm resigned to the possibility of Kuminga's presence and the need to play him just because he can score as a key reason why the Warriors are back to being a middle-of-the-pack team rather than one of the best in the league, which they were approaching when Kuminga wasn't playing.
I'm also resigned to the possibility of Warriors coming up well short in the playoffs, provided they can get there at this point - my confidence has waned - because of Kuminga's presence. Butler has made everyone on the Warriors better, except for Kuminga. That should tell you something. Unless he somehow transforms into a completely different player, I'd rather see if Braxton Key is worth giving a playoff rotation to.
Like I said, I wanted to see a transformation, but there's nothing there. I know a player with winning tendencies when I see one. If Kuminga showed championship-caliber tendencies, don't you think I would be thrilled? I would rather he prove me wrong than me being right. I want to be thrilled, but he just hasn't been and isn't that guy and this is now four straight years I've had to speak on this matter. I shouldn't be more excited about Gui Santos than Kuminga, given the talent difference, but that's what it is as of now.