#Ball Don't Lie

[hoopsmedia]

Wallace Wednesdays //

[randomedrstuff]

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[elliegoose]

yeah i've got this new strain called Everyone's Definitely Mad At You And It's All Your Fault For Sure. it'll have you needing reassurance but scared to ask for it in just two hits

[amphirrhvx]

TOMORROW ‼️‼️‼️

[tvntheatre]

How the fuck do I draw nutcrackers</3 (trying to find a consistent style depending on whomst I'm doodling

[notonlymice]

Emilie's characters + bracelets

[selfinflictedgunshotwound]

these two pictures are what got me into doll collecting as a hobby at the tender age of 12... i'm not that attached to the concept of "grails" bc i consider most everything i want of equal importance, to a degree, but these two are probably my biggest grails

[cementcornfield]

YES TEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!

[licorishh]

Literally who describes about their relationship with and the frustrating distance from another person "as though I were observing the starry sky from the bottom of a deep lake." Who compares the other person, infinitely complex yet also strangely comprehensible if you're willing to look past his seemingly cold exterior, to navigating through a rocky reef in the sea. Frickin' who does that. Who does that. Shaking you by the collar answer me. Answer me dangit

[buttercup-barf]

Under the cut are mostly self-insert doodles of decreasing quality. Again, not much directly tied to Team Fortress 2. Might as well toss these out while I have no access to my puter. Much yapping under the cut and in the tags incoming.

Another self-insert, this time less of a "here's me as a tenth class" and more of a "here's my game experiences translated into the class I would take the place of". The Cleaner. Although I guess they could still be wearing either suit. It doesn't matter that much.

That one Convict's Case taunt with Backup would be extremely funny, because the man would be on the verge of a breakdown (he does not want to go to jail so bad you have no idea). The second image- I owe no explanation. You know what I am. You see the pattern with my favourites.

The duality of the man. Resting face versus "just heard you express interest in religion/Russian folklore" face. He's not that hard to make friends with, when you pull him away from all the explosions.

Some doodles of trying to figure his face out. Unfortunately, the more I stare at him, the more I worry that he looks like A Certain Guy With The Last Name "Kazarin", and the fear of never being original in my life caught up to me.

Don't look at me, don't perceive me, I refuse to explain any of my actions to you.

[lizzerswillpoststuffmethinks]

Fun fact

Doppio's coffee thing on his head can start steaming like tea or sum other hot drink

[suncattle]

I don't trust no fuckin body that doesn't question or criticize their own government

[kroosluvr]

tennis au fic is literally driving me up the fucking wall IF I DOTN FINISH THIS IM GONNA KILL MYSELF. have some snippets from pro interviews that i was skimming thru bc i wanted to see wtf pros have to say about "do you even love tennis btw"

[breannastewart]

i.e. your tags on this: https://breannastewart.tumblr.com/post/757010893017169920 about someone breaking down stewies slump, did someone actually try to figure it out? do you have the link still?

basically, yeah, someone did a whole statistical analysis of her 3 point shot and carried that over into if it was hurting her overall efficiency from the midrange as well, and etc. the slump truly starts in early september of last season. what stood out from all of that, was the only way to quantify the shot selection was seeing how many of her shots have been assisted or unassisted, so basically, has she been getting enough opportunities or is she having to create them for herself. at the time the article was made, 85.7% were assisted and 14.3% were unassisted so far this season, which is identical to the first season in new york, which was 85.4%/14.6%. this sort of data to quantify this only goes back to 2018, but the writer compared that to the four seasons they had data for from her time in seattle, and the assisted shot percentage was 95.7% to just a 4.3% rate that were unassisted over those four seasons COMBINED. so, what you can gather from that is she is having to self create at a higher rate the last two seasons than she had to before. and as the article says: "This change does not seem drastic enough to explain a stark decrease in Stewart’s efficiency, but it is not meaningless." and goes on to say it was surprising considering she plays with SI and vandersloot now, and then sue bird before that.

but, the data will tell you one of those partnerships was better at setting her up for success than the current ones have been. and frankly, just having watched her for many years now this is BY FAR the longest 'cold strench' she's ever been in. at this point, it doesn't even feel like a slump or a stretch. so, that's why some people have been looking at the system. and some fans have noticed especially this season, she has been used as a ball handler in crunch time and screensetter A LOT, and that traces back to last years playoffs. so in those situations, yes, she is going to have to create for herself more because clearly, she's not getting the ball or is being set up as successfully as she was prior to 2023. even if '23 was an MVP season, the change in the shot opportunities, shot makes, shot selection, whatever it may be, that change started then. it was always going to on a new team, in a new system, but it definitely is surprising as the writer said given supposedly, SI and vandersloot are just as capable passing guards. at the end of the day, my personal stance on it is: new york has no clue what to do with breanna stewart most of the time, and there's data to back it up.

but anyway, statistics and data and numbers can be overwhelming (I personally love nerding out over them) but if you want to give it a read, do so. it's good, and can be helpful learning more about this sort of stuff since women's basketball is finally getting ways to analyze numbers and stats and etc even more.

[thevalleyisjolly]

I have zero involvement or investment in whatever hell the pirate fandom’s been apparently raising, but all I’ll say is that clearly the best pirates are the Pirates Who Don’t Do Anything.

[angorwhosebabyisthis]

as someone who's been doing deep dives lately into the characterization of both the gang and the oldgang from sdmi, the maxim from @thecottageinthedark that 'you don't join a mystery solving gang without being at least a little bit autistic' has not failed me yet