Golf’s Missing Piece

Starting from scratch to become scratch golfer… Long term baby steps to lowering your handicap and very generalized keys for each step. (A Thread: ) Some of these may be controversial vs tradition advice but as someone who has actually gone from >90s to scratch in my adult life, they were transformational moments that I noticed:

@lilfloo They won’t even need a ladder for the second floor 😂

if i see him in a fire i’m gonna think he the grim reaper

01 Duke being 29 is asinine. They had 5 guys who were long time proven NBA players, well the one guy who wasn’t was their best player who just was severely injuries in a motorcycle accident. Jason Williams- one of the best college PG ever. Dynamic all around player Chris Duhon- an athletic guard Mike dunleavy- and lengthy athletic wing who could shoot and defend Shane battier- an all time defender and stretch forward Carlos boozer- who ended up being a great toward in the league Along with Nate James who was a really solid big guard. This team was insanely talented. Is there a team who had more long term NBA talent that panned out like this?

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I’m not even disagreeing with any of that but it simply does not make that the greatest finals single game performance ever. There’s also plenty of other context like warriors injuries, Draymond getting suspended for a game, kyrie hitting what would be the winning shot. Again, I’m not saying it wasn’t a great performance or even one of the greatest moments but if you remove the context (which I understand is your point but hear me out) it’s not even a top 20 LeBron playoff performance and probably not a top 10 finals performance for him. With context it it shoots it up the list, it’s just hard to put it as the best finals “performance” ever

@TheMissingPie_e @FastbreakHoops5 It’s all in context. Completing the only 3-1 comeback in finals history with a triple double against the greatest team in NBA history after putting up 41/16/7 and 41/8/11 in back to back games…the block was the bookend to likely the greatest finals performance ever

Top 10 NBA Finals player performances.

In other words, is a star putting up relatively similar numbers to his averages on much worse efficiency an all time great game simply because of one moment. Larry Bird has a famous steal that won them. This is a famous legendary moment. He happened to have a great game, but if he didn’t have a great game, that one steal doesn’t turn it into a legendary game

@TheMissingPie_e @FastbreakHoops5 “Would his performance be legendary without doing something legendary?” What a great hypothetical

@TrillJacks0n @bgee0815 @FastbreakHoops5 It’s a stupid ass take to say that game isn’t the best finals performance of all time? 😂 without kyrie saving the day his whole performance would be forgotten

@TheMissingPie_e @bgee0815 @FastbreakHoops5 Stupid ass take man

@TrillJacks0n @bgee0815 @FastbreakHoops5 Yea, I still hold the game in high regard. To me it feels more like a great moment than a great game. If he had 40 10 and 10 on 50% but it was a boring blowout because of it, i would consider that a better game vs the better moment of having the late game heroics

@TheMissingPie_e @bgee0815 @FastbreakHoops5 But as a Jordan fan shouldn’t winning when it matters most (against the greatest team of all time at that) be held above all else 🤔

@TrillJacks0n @bgee0815 @FastbreakHoops5 Don’t hit me with that 🤣 LeBron fans are king of the calculator comments with every other player. Every other player in the world gets slandered by LeBron fans if their FG% is anything below 50

@bgee0815 @TheMissingPie_e @FastbreakHoops5 Bro pulled out the calculator to talk about the greatest finals game of all time smh

I don’t think I am, playing bad enough to need late game heroics doesn’t necessarily make it one of the greatest games vs greatest moments. If he scored 40, 10, 10 shooting 50% but it was a blowout because of it, would that be a better game even though there wasn’t the drama at the end?

@TheMissingPie_e @FastbreakHoops5 You aren’t factoring in the circumstances at all, the drama, the storyline. Again, if you say magic 42 is number 1 we can talk little but IMO, ima say bron #1

@bgee0815 @FastbreakHoops5 Also shot 37%. Overall great game, not denying that but number 1 is a stretch imo

@TheMissingPie_e @FastbreakHoops5 Yea they came back from 3-1 and won on the road, game 7, against the best regular season team in league history with the unanimous MVP. Had a trip dub, and the biggest block in finals history. Magic is the only debatable one to this.

@golfingwxman Caledonia is just a great experience

Is this the best entrance to a public golf course in the United States?

@Jezuslane He also shot 37% from the field that game lol not sure any of what you said makes it better than any other game listed. Not denying it was overall a game, just simply saying without the lore of that one block it’s probably not even in the top 10 let alone 1

Not only did Bron have 11 points in the 4th Quarter of a game 7, he also ended with a triple double. “The block” is the greatest defensive play of all time by the way…..

@bgee0815 @FastbreakHoops5 finals*

@bgee0815 @FastbreakHoops5 Does that make it the best playoff performance ever? lol

Both ball speed and carry per MPH of swing speed have increased since 2007. This doesn’t tell us what the cause is but it factors out the whole athleticism argument. Maybe launch is being optimized more? Not sure that explains ball speed. The simple fact is 120mph clubhead speed produces a tangibly different drive distance now vs any time period you want to compare to. The most logical answer IMO is that technology continues to improve fractionally each year and over a few years it adds up to a noticeable difference. Posts like this where he picks up 5mph ball speed supports that

@AndyTFE You guys know the clubs are regulated, right? You’re not going to gain 5mph with the same swing speed by going to a new driver, then it would be illegal. There’s a reason you don’t see smash factors going up and up and up

Must have increased athleticism between drivers.

Few players in NBA history would benefit more from playing in the modern era vs their era. Hakeem’s versatility was obviously appreciated but having the space and pace of the modern game and the green light to use his skills on the perimeter and transition would open his game up even more. Hakeem, Bird, David Robinson are some of the first guys that come to mind for me that were held back by the coaching philosophy of their eras

How many PPG does Hakeem Olajuwon average in today’s NBA

@FTFonFS1 @getnickwright @Chris_Broussard Unlike offense, players can be a negative on defense. @grok what is the defensive impact separation between wemby and Luka?

.@getnickwright: “I just don't think Wemby can be, right now, the best player in the world." @Chris_Broussard: “What can’t Wemby do offensively?” Nick: “Consistently score 30 points.” Brou: “His team doesn’t ask him to do that. That doesn’t mean he couldn’t.”

@JoshEberley @grok how is defensive bpm calculated and what weaknesses in the calculation of this analytic could explain Jokic being near the top

This is a bad takeaway from the data. Don’t judge it off the outlier, judge it off the bulk result. There’s like 15 Defensive Player of the Year trophies on there lol

@Nothing23904546 @DanOnGolfShow Agreed 100%

@TheMissingPie_e @DanOnGolfShow Fair enough. Regardless of what they do or change it should not apply to amateurs imo.

Petition for Bryson to bring back one of these 2009 models.

I don’t really care about the distance I just think the forgiveness for pros need to corrected. I don’t think the forgiveness difference between 07 and 26 drivers is debatable. For me, I want off center strikes to be penalized appropriately for the best players in the world and all the distance stuff gets taken care of as a byproduct

@TheMissingPie_e @DanOnGolfShow It’s definitely debatable but I’m more on Brysons side. I wish they would get more creative with courses other than thinking everything just has to be long to challenge them. Look at Merion, 6,900 yards and the winning US Open score was +1.