Robert Desimone
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Robert Desimone
@CoachRob_AZ
MBA from GCU; UH Elite, 2022 UA National Champions; San Tan Charter Basketball, 2024 State Champions
Gilbert, AZ Katılım Nisan 2019
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@CoachRob_AZ @freshdonut20 @fgrhoops I've never seen a single HS basketball game in person that would've benefited in any way whatsoever from a shot clock.
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Be a better athletic director and generate revenue then. It's 2026, nobody wants to hear the 1998 excuses. This coming from someone that went to a small D5 high school with 300 students and a shot clock in California in the early 2000s (somehow we all figured it out 25 years ago), and now coach at a small school in AZ with a shot clock after the AIA finally implemented it. I could do the scoreboard, game clock, & shot clock by myself as a high school student 20+ years ago. Again, people need to stop the excuses.
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@fgrhoops No. They are just realists. AD s especially at small schools can’t even find concession volunteers these days. Where are they going to get competent shot clock operators for 50 home dates? And where are they going to get the extra $4000 to install the equipment?
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@thatPOSERSguy @Ford_Nick "Properly cooked medium" is never a phrase used to refer to a good steak 😂
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@Ford_Nick A properly cooked medium filet mignon marinated in Worcestershire Sauce and Montreal Steak Seasoning. Better than any fatty ribeye every time.
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@thatPOSERSguy @Ford_Nick Filet mignon sucks so bad you have to wrap it in meat candy (bacon). Sure someone without teeth can still "chew" it, but I still have teeth and a sense of taste.
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I agree. I would say I'm mocking them a little from a branding perspective that they are trying to portray themselves as a "nice" place through a dress code but to me the steak at chipotle is better than what I've had at Ruth's Chris, and it's not really close (and no I don't consider chipotle great steak). Fixing the food experience would go a lot further towards accomplishing their goal, but that would require them to actually put money into improving their product, where enforcing a dress code is asking underpaid staff to be the bad guy to guests to establish some artificial standard they are hoping for. This is not just about Ruth's Chris, a lot of businesses have this issue & are unwilling to invest into the real solution, a better product.
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@CoachRob_AZ @tracegallagher I dont disagree with any of this but the point is that if I’m in a decent place I should dress decently. Not complicated.
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Both events should be a great showcase of talent for the senior class. A lot of focus goes to the elite tier of talent - for obvious reasons, we're lucky to have several nationally ranked players in AZ - but there's a lot of really good basketball in AZ right now beyond that, love seeing all these kids continue to get opportunities to show their abilities & earn a chance to play at the next level.
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@CoachRob_AZ @jacob_seliga @PrepHoopsAZ @Nextup_AZ @CoachLRamirez @coach_hillsmcc Him Pippen Reynolds Fauske will all crush it there 😂
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INTRODUCING the rosters of the Senior All-Star Game taking place this Saturday night!
All these stellar boys players are uncommitted and can shut the gym down!
@PrepHoopsAZ @Nextup_AZ @GreggRosenberg1 @CoachLRamirez @coach_hillsmcc


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@GreggRosenberg1 @jacob_seliga @PrepHoopsAZ @Nextup_AZ @CoachLRamirez @coach_hillsmcc Appreciate you Gregg, just wanted to make sure he wasn't overlooked.
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@CoachRob_AZ @jacob_seliga @PrepHoopsAZ @Nextup_AZ @CoachLRamirez @coach_hillsmcc We would have invited more small ball players but didn’t want to disrespect them who already had kids committed to their. Jessup never committed to anything yet.
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@DTRAINED @Anthony_Pugh2 You're correct it's harder to find those places, but it's the current generation of 20-35 year olds that are at fault & as a result entire generations are going to miss out on the great experience the original post is referring to.
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@Anthony_Pugh2 While this all maybe true, let’s do an honest deep dive…how many places truly exist where kids can go do that? Have you seen the 💩 show that’s LA Fitness, Lifetime, 24hr etc? Can HS kids go to the local college and play with college kids without it being a violation?
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The real elephant in the room is the number of people complaining about how broken the AAU system is & the reason is the politics surrounding these "top" circuits, but the fix requires cleaning house in a major way & those who are able to fix it won't because adult greed, relationships, & politics win over what's truly best for the kids. But the real coaches who develop & support the kids for the right reasons rise above it regardless of the politics.
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Hate the politics. Too many programs that don't develop flash a "top" circuit tag they don't deserve, then act like they were there from the beginning. The sad part is the families that jump then show no appreciation for the program that actually developed them. The even sadder part is the kids that jump, don't develop anymore, & never get what they were promised when that "top circuit" tag was sold by the used car salesman fronting as an AAU coach. But none of that changes the mission for the coaches who actually develop & truly care about the kids.
Andrew K@CoachKurzawski
AAU teams recruiting top players from other programs, funding those rosters with fees from C-level teams, and then taking credit for those players’ high school success - that’s not development, it’s false advertising.
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There are a lot of flaws living in small towns, but the one thing I loved is the identity & being secure as a small town, not feeling the need to seek continuous expansion. What Gilbert has become in the last 10 years is incredibly disappointing. As the town has over-extended its growth, citizens are now getting hammered with things like multiple ridiculous water increases passed by the council against the wishes of voters, increased traffic, road construction that never ends, increase in violent crime. Yes, it's still considered safer than other cities the same size, but Gilbert is quickly losing its differentiation & is on the path to ruining what made it a great place to live. Very sad.
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@bullwhip1954 @AngelMD1103 @nancy_hamm1 Sadly it's not. A man followed my wife and child in Wal Mart taking photos or videos of them...police officer told me it is not illegal to record kids. Wal Mart & police could do nothing. Still pisses me off to this day.
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At Corcoran High School California, a troubling situation unfolds when a male teacher is reportedly seen recording and taking photos of female students during class and around campus. The concerning part is that he appears to be doing it discreetly, believing the students won’t notice.
Situations like this raise serious concerns about privacy, trust, and student safety. Schools are supposed to be safe environments, and any behavior that makes students feel uncomfortable or violated needs to be taken seriously and investigated right away.
If students believe a teacher is secretly recording or photographing them without consent, what do you think the best step is, report it immediately to the principal, tell parents first, or go straight to the school district?
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Robert Desimone retweetledi

To all the 4,5 and 6A big schools, what’s up can we get a game on your schedule I know two year blocks are open I’ve reached out to almost every big schools AD. Yes we are a 2A but yall know we can play at STCS and we won’t hurt power points win or lose we were 4th overall in PowerPoints in AZ this year so let’s get to it. We scheduled the small school big dawgs already so looking for some big schools to compete with. We will come to yall place to it doesn’t matter. @GreggRosenberg1 @jacob_seliga @SmallBallPodAZ
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The federal government, nor any stae, should be allowed to start or increase any taxes until they can prove they can balance a budget for at least 2 consecutive years. You can't tax your way to a balanced budget because the same corrupt politician passing & increasing taxes already have that money spent. This should not be a controversial take.
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I understand your point, however hasn't the pendulum swung too far for lawyers where they essentially have created their own language & legal rules we HAVE to live under with a minimum threshold of cost to do anything "official", from lawsuits to filing simple papers that we could do on our own, but have to pay lawyers their ridiculous fee to rubber stamp a lot of it. There needs to be a happy medium but completely banning AI from entire industries is not it. That's essentially the same as congress having sole authority to vote on their own rules & we see how well that goes...🙄 having some regulation, ok, completely banning AI from doing anything in multiple industries should not be allowed at all. Lawyers, doctors, etc. should all have to evolve and adapt just like everyone else.
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@WallStreetMav It’s smart and many other professions should do it too. There will be no way to make a living in a white collar field if we hand off everything to AI.
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BREAKING: Lawyers are trying to protect their jobs from Ai.
A proposed New York law would ban AI from answering questions related to medicine, law, dentistry, nursing, psychology, social work, engineering, & more.
It is being pushed by the lawyer lobbyists, they included other groups to get more support.

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It's a very interesting thought...it seems what these products do is tap into the part of humans that want to document their lives & experiences, this is just the modern form of that. We won't ever go back and watch 99% of the content we record, but there's comfort in knowing it's there just in case we ever wanted to & humans are addicted to that.
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@HedgieMarkets Such a strange obsession with recording every aspect of our lives. Both the people who buy these and the people who sell this tech. Like, is your life significantly improved with this? It's like we're scraping the bottom of the barrel for random ideas that might make life better.
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🦔 Meta contractors in Kenya told Swedish newspapers they're being asked to review intimate footage from Ray-Ban AI glasses, including people undressing, using the bathroom, watching porn, and filming sex. One contractor said users often don't realize they're still recording when they set the glasses down. Meta sold 7 million pairs in 2025, up from 2 million in 2023-2024 combined.
Users can't use the AI features without agreeing to share data with Meta's servers, and the terms of service bury the fact that humans may manually review your footage. One annotator said "if they knew about the extent of the data collection, no one would dare to use the glasses."
My Take
This is the Google Home story again but worse. At least with cameras in your house, you know where they are. These are glasses you wear on your face that keep recording when you take them off and set them on your nightstand. And the footage goes to contractors overseas who are paid to watch and label it for AI training. One worker described seeing a man leave the room, then his wife come in and change clothes. People forget the camera is still on.
Meta buries all of this in terms of service nobody reads. The product is marketed as a cool way to capture your life and interact with AI. The reality is strangers in Kenya watching you undress so they can annotate the footage to make Zuckerberg's AI better. Seven million people bought these last year. I'd bet almost none of them understood what they were actually agreeing to.
Hedgie🤗

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