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9 Sept 2020 Conversations with Tyler Matt Yglesias on Why the Population is Too Damn Low
“” Knowing that and being assertive, I think, has proven its value in the NBA over the past 10, 15 years.”
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- Matt Yglesias
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- 9 Sept 2020
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- Conversations with Tyler
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…People will hear this and be able to judge your prediction, just to be clear. [laughter] I know. I really hesitate to make sports predictions. I think it’s like having incredible amounts of self-confidence with your offense. We were talking about Gilbert Arenas and how he pioneered the really far long-range three. There were all kinds of problems with him, right? But it was that kind of spirit of, “I, in fact, can hit this shot, so I’m going to go take it. ” Knowing that and being assertive, I think, has proven its value in the NBA over the past 10, 15 years. And with what seems, to me, to be a slipping level of defensive focus inside the bubble, it’s even more just like, pull the trigger. Some urban and YIMBY questions. Will there still be a YIMBY movement, say, three years from now, when coronavirus, we hope, is more or less gone?…
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