...ooof!

Over here you'd probably take a (very) crowded train home. But it does mean that the area round the stadium can be used for other stuff! This is what the nearest big stadium to me looks like from overhead.

I fully admit that this is not something that's true of the rest of the world! But the UK in general has very little basketball knowledge. For reference these are the sports the BBC thinks are worth having easy access tabs for on their website (which IMO is a reasonable indicator of popularity).

Random tangentially related to the NBA thing: I found out today that there's a Westbrook Nebula! (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westbro...)

It's not named after Russell Westbrook or anything, but it _does_ kind of look like a basketball player...

Here are some numbers to back that up. I've highlighted a few that I think are interesting.

You can see a big drop in percentage in the 10-16ft range, even as he's shooting more (3-10ft is also down a bit). It's possible that some of that is that he's doing more self creation and it's just harder?)

I mostly talk about Basketball on here, but actually the main sport I personally play is Ultimate Frisbee. My team Curve had our best result in years this weekend finishing 2nd out of 13! Lot of running around but well worth it :).

Finding it amusing to see lots of posts about #thesnooker on my #NBA feeds! Mark Williams making it to the final of the World Championships has led to two very different worlds colliding unexpectedly!

I guess this could be a foul, sure! I'm not disputing that sometimes the #Rockets don't get foul calls that they perhaps should have got. My point is more that this happens to every team! Here's one from the same game that I'm pretty sure is an uncalled foul on Jabari, for example.

Here's another one, where Tari Eason gets in the act! Great switching, and Amen's doing a good job of keeping Towns off the boards as well. #Rockets #NBA #NBAThreads

I was really impressed by how well Amen Thompson defended Jalen Brunson the other night. Great screen navigation, stays in front, uses his length to contest. It was like this all night! #Rockets #NBA

This is a good time to remind people of bsky.app/profile/spor....
- Step #1: Subscribe to the labeller
- Step #2: Find the post it made with the team(s) you follow and like them
- Step #3: You get a nice little badge on your profile with the team you follow. Now my posts look like this!

Here's what it says. Doesn't really give me that much to go on. Making it slightly creepier, the fake email they created had my first, middle and last names in it.

OK, bit of a weird mystery. I booked a flight with booking .com recently. When I came to check in, I got a screen telling me what my email address was - but it wasn't mine! For some reason, they've signed me up for the flight via a dummy address (I definitely have never used realtornext .com!)

Well certainly BlueSky is telling me that you're a Lakers fan!

This guy perfectly represents my emotions when I saw this for the first time.

ZOMG!!! GREATEST! #WBUCC #UltimateFrisbee

Just having a go at clipping some #NBA action to see if I can do it! Took some trial and error, but I got there eventually (shoutout @stephnoh.bsky.social for his Youtube explainer!). Here's the play I was talking about. Looks like it was Eason who finished it off, not Green! Still awesome :).