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Gooden has been by far the most impactful Dline guy this season, as far as anyone else on the interior Dline, very average players

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6’2” 295

Dat’s a big boy!

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He honestly looked like he lost a decent bit of weight from that mark. I'd be surprised if he was pushing close to 300lbs now. I would guess 275-280 from his standing at the mic on video.

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I think we’re gonna look back and ask why wasn’t Miller given more minutes early to help with the front line play. Tamba is a nice energy guy but is small and won’t hold up for big minutes in league play. Reed is what he is, a jumbo sized Derek Fountain. The front court reaching max potential is Nwoko and Miller, what’s going to happen in league play is Nwoko will start to be squeezed and he won’t get those easy looks and lobs he’s getting now so that production will be cut in half or worse. This easy part of the schedule should be Miller developing into a productive role alongside Nwoko. We’re going to look back and ask why we weren’t taking this time to address this.

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Tamba to me is just a whatever add we did. I highly doubt he will ever hold up in conference play. No idea why he plays as much as he does. Thought he would be an end of bench 5-10 minute game type of guy. Did not envision him getting as many or more minutes than Nwoko, Reed and Miller...although Reed has been on a slight minutes restriction coming back from his injury.

I would think once we get into conference play the front court is mostly going to rotate between Nwoko, Reed, Miller and Sutton with less Tamba mixed in. Just a guess. He doesnt do anything particularly good, just isnt bad necessarily with anything either. He is this year Dji Bailey basically.

Nwoko has been biggest surprise to me, he has more points than minutes right now which is a helluva start. the question is will he be able to be a dude in SEC play or be more secondary like he was at MSU last year is the question ultimately there.

My biggest concern is our defense especially at the guard spots seem really lacking. Thats how bad teams like FIU and Alcorn St can dump over 80 on you is not having good defense from your guards. Dedan seems like quite a defensive liability so far despite his prowess offensively. The dropoff in skill and ability from Thomas to every other guard we have is pretty nuts too. I dont know we have enough skilled guards on this team in the end. We NEED Mackinnion to start hit 3's because we will absolutely need that later on.

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The average gasoline vehicle (over all classes) has a tank size of 13-15 gallons, gets ~25-30 mpg and has a range of ~400 miles.

The average EV has a range of ~300 miles (under mostly ideal conditions).

The average hybrid has a tank size of ~13 gallons, gets ~40-50 mpg and a range of 550-600 miles.

This puts hybrids at having a ~40%-50% increase in range over ICE vehicles and 80+% over EVs.

Toyota is showing the way, other companies need to be following that path if they want to survive.

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It's not even the range thing being the issue. It's the fact with a traditional hybrid i can stop at agas station still and fill up in 2-3 minutes and be on my way with a full tank and range again. With an EV you stop at a charger on the road and theres a good chance it doesnt even work, but if it does, waiting 25-30 minutes minimum to go from even ust a 20% state of charge up to 80%. If you want to go to 100% or close to it, going to take probably closer to an hour. It's just a massive inconvenience for most. Until they get the charging issue solved, EVs just wont be adopted in masses here, especially without a huge tax credit to incentivize you to lease/buy one.

Plug in hybrids to me make the most sense if you have a daily commute of some kind. Can go fully electric for your commute or most of it (most ranges are around 25-40 miles) but still have the gas engine for when you need the range. They plug in and charge for cheap electricity overnight so during commutes it makes it cheap but when you need the range you got it still. These have always been interesting to me compared to traditional hybrids where the gas engine is on probably 80-95% of the time.

He doesnt

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How do you justify current prices given other inflation adjusted variables such as wages, consumer debt, COL and pretty much whatever else you want to look at?

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Prices have fallen this year, prices will not fall "30-40%" which is a gigantic crash like 2008 all over agian.

Again, what caused 2008 to happen was over 5 million foreclosed homes to hit the market over a couple years in a depressed overall economy. On top of that, we built way more homes back before that happened than we've been building over the last 15+ years. Despite supply being greater than demand right now, it is nowhere close to where we were at back in 2008-9 when you're talking like 400k foreclosures a year in comparison to 2-3 million back then.

It's a very simple equation of supply and demand. Right now the supply exceeds the demand but absolutely nowhere close or in danger to what happened in 2008-9. Mortgage foreclosures are nowhere remotely close to where they were back then. As a result of supply exceeding demand we have seen a pull back on prices if you werent aware, but there's no crash and no crash imminent like you were fear mongering. You simply dont understand the RE market if you believe there's some type of imminent crash. The only way it crashes is if foreclosures go to about 5x what they are right now dumping huge amounts of supply on the market.

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LSU MBB has two top tier players and a really good supporting cast

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Who is the second beyond Dedan?

I hope you're not suggesting Reed, he to me kind of have the same consistency issues he's always had. He's not a dominant player consistently, but occasionally has these huge games vs. nobodies. When the lights came on vs. bigger/athletic/physical opponents he was very hit and miss.

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It’s a 40 year mortgage or we’re going to see a 30-40% real estate crash back to pre-COVID levels because affordability is completely unsustainable

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This is panic talk and this definitely wont happen at all

Housing prices are being kept up mostly because of lack of supply, we havent built enough housing for 15+ years now since the 2008 crash. Housing has pulled back some this year with the economy not chugging along as well and interest rates still too high for most but housing is not suddenly crashing 30-40% or anywhere close to 2008ish. Over 2 million homes got foreclosed on in 2008 and 3 million in 2009. We are at like 300k foreclosures this year through Q3. Thats why housing crashed back then, we are nowhere close to that kind of supply suddenly hitting the market right now.

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If we're ok with 84 month truck notes most people won't care about a 50 year mortgage if it allows them to afford their house note and the market loves it (realtors/wall street/blackrock) because it is going to explode real estate prices as we've seen in europe to otherwise unsustainable levels.

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These are really not close to the same if you're trying to conflate the 2 together. Vehicles can and do easily last 7 years with lots of people keeping vehicles for close to or exceeding loan terms in many cases. Practically nobody stays in a house for 50 years. The median length (which is pretty high right now since interest rates went way up) for homeowners staying in 1 place is around 11-12 years. If its a first house (again only talking ownership, not renting) it's more like 5 years.

If you put down like 5% on your first house which a ton of people do and get a 50 year mortgage you better prey that house went up a large amount in value in 5 years if you plan to move again otherwise you basically wont have anything to show for it moving out of there after paying all costs to move/realtors. You might actually lose money.

Example:
50 year mortgage at 7% on $400k with 5% down
Mortgaging $380k
After 5 years your principal is down to only $375k on a $400k house
After 10 years your principal is down to only $368k on that $400k house

You are destroying yourself in interest payments up front on a 50 year and banking on home values going way way up. Which we've lived in a real estate bubble basically after 2020 and is not normal at all with values skyrocketing like that. There's plenty of times in the past few decades prior to that housing appreciating at a pretty slow pace.

50 year mortgages are beyond stupid and make no sense and would only further drive up some housing prices artificially making them more "affordable"

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The life expectancy for an American today is 78.4 years. So he wants Americans to enjoy only 8 years of peace (if you’re lucky) before you die.

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Life expectancy is actually 82 for men and 85 for women if they make it to 62; which means 20-23 years on average of people on the benefit in retirement age if you take at 62.

SS age has needed to be raised for a very long time even if people arent going to like it. It's part of what will help keep it afloat and not in the red ultimately. It was designed with much lower draw times when it was implemented a century ago nearly. The average life expectancy WAS 62 years old when it was implemented in comparison to 79 now.