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OT: Stock and Investment Talk

AAPL (own) with a P/E of 34 (way high compared to its historical valuation), TSLA price is based on very aggressive expectations, and PLTR valuation seems way high. Honorable mention (GLW, COST (own), META, CRM (own), AMZN (own), and NVDA (own).
AAPL valuation is reasonable, especially when you factor in past and future buybacks. AAPL's float has gone from 25B shares to only 15B over the past 10-12 years. And more importantly, its future plans are even more aggressive. With a cash flow that is practically endless, AAPL share prices will continue to go up and up.

TSLA is purely a sentiment stock based on FSD and robots. Current valuation is completely meaningless. NVDA is cheaper now than any time in its history. META is fine. PLTR is very high (which I sold at $71).

Anyone else have a problem with Grant and Dortchs minutes?

No, he does not.

He’s shooting 30.4% from 3 and Martini is shooting 34%. Neither is good enough.

I don’t think Derkack has a high IQ, but it’s smart to attack the rim and try to get to the line when you shoot 25% from 3 but 75% FTs.

If we had a decent post player they would occupy/seal the defense, clean up on easy dump offs and offensive rebound putbacks. But I’m not making an argument Derkack is a good offensive player.
Going in it was 35-34 Grant. I’d rather invest the time in the kid who might be here next year.

Could Derkack drive and kick once in a while.
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OT: Stock and Investment Talk

Jim Rickards called election perfect - down to the seats.

He's calling for recession and suffering like in Reagan's first 2 years and then good days like Reagan eventually had. A lot of people have happy recollections of the 80s but forget the 81-82 gut punch needed to get back to center.

First up - 1) market crash (he explains details) then 2) recession and 3) currency wars

Pertaining to stocks:

1. Stock Market

Markets are at or near all-time highs based on every available metric: P/E ratios, the CAPE ratio, market cap/GDP ratio, concentration risk, etc. This stock market bubble is amplified by indexing, investor complacency and analyst euphoria. When such conditions have existed in the past, they have always been followed by market crashes of 50% to 90% unfolding over several years. Examples include the Dow Jones Industrial Average (1929), the Nikkei (1989), NASDAQ (2000), and the S&P 500 Index (2008).

We are now positioned for an historic crash. The specific cause does not matter – it could be war, natural disaster, a bank or hedge fund collapse or other unexpected event. What matters is the super-fragility of the market when the trigger is pulled. This is why Warren Buffett has over $300 billion in cash and why central banks are buying gold.

Investors should prepare now; don’t be the last one to know. Strategies include reducing allocations to stocks, increasing allocations to cash and purchasing some gold (up to 10% of your investable assets) to participate in a flight to quality.


In the last few weeks 40,000 LA acres are rubble, AI turned into a pumpkin and China tried to slick a coup in S Korea (hardly any coverage). Foundation cracks everywhere

Rickards
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Rickards

Reagan's first 2 years came after 8-10 years of down markets, since at least the oil shock of '73-74 and the subsequent stagflation. I don't see oil tripling and interest rates hitting 15% so the situations are not analogous.
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OT: Stock and Investment Talk

"Unsupported" - not sure about that. Plenty of reasonable tech valuations. I'm hoping Walmart and some of the banks get hit. I would be happy to buy those dips.
AAPL (own) with a P/E of 34 (way high compared to its historical valuation), TSLA price is based on very aggressive expectations, and PLTR valuation seems way high. Honorable mention (GLW, COST (own), META, CRM (own), AMZN (own), and NVDA (own).

Anyone else have a problem with Grant and Dortchs minutes?

Did you know Grant has a higher three point percentage than Martini this year? Also the way Derkack drives to the hoop with no vision I wouldn’t say he has a high basketball iq

No, he does not.

He’s shooting 30.4% from 3 and Martini is shooting 34%. Neither is good enough.

I don’t think Derkack has a high IQ, but it’s smart to attack the rim and try to get to the line when you shoot 25% from 3 but 75% FTs.

If we had a decent post player they would occupy/seal the defense, clean up on easy dump offs and offensive rebound putbacks. But I’m not making an argument Derkack is a good offensive player.

Anyone else have a problem with Grant and Dortchs minutes?

They are athletic, long and low bball IQ. Opposite of Martini and Derkack. If Grant stopped shooting 3s I’d be all in on him getting 20+ minutes a game.
Why? He has hit 2 in a game more times than Martini. Take out Nebraska and Martini is criminally bad from 3. The difference between wins and losses this year was 1 or maybe 2 made threes that Zach failed at. Or just make a play late like Texas A& M or at the end of the first half against Alabama. Anything he could have given us during crucial possessions that ended up with zero might have cost us 3 games. 3 resume worthy wins not some cupcake.
Dylan Grant is athletic and is also a freshman that has not played as much as he should have earlier in the year. But he can get you an offensive rebound and putback and block a shot something I do not think Martini has done all year.

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+/- is statistically proven to be a meaningless stat on a per player basis. Why are you continuing to reference it as a way of proving value of a single player?

3) Season-long adjusted plus-minus might have limited use. I haven’t talked about adjusted plus-minus, but in the simplest terms possible, it accounts for who a player is playing with and against. It’s useful in the NBA, but the NBA has many more games, more minutes per game, and its star players see a fair amount of time on the bench during non-garbage time. Even so, there are always some curious results with adjusted plus-minus and the most accurate version uses two years worth of data.

Zach Martini - most impactful defensive player? Most important metric says so

That’s a ridiculously low bar.

Would you rather have 7’0 260 lb Amari Williams’ 10 pts, 9 rebs, 1.4 blocks for Kentucky via Drexel this year?

Or 6’9 240 Bashir Jihad 12 pts, 6.2 reb, 1 blk at Arizona State via Ball State this year?

Or Antwone Woolfolk 6’9 250 8 pts, 6 rebs, 1 blk for Miami OH via RU?

We completely whiffed on replacing our three best post players all of whom had eligibility remaining.

We bet the house on Ogbole- a raw JUCO coming off a major knee injury, a true frosh and a 6’8 guy who got 3 rpg in the Ivy League.

Dylan Grant is listed at 6’7” 205
Dortch is 6’9” 205

So Ace has been forced to carry a rebounding load that takes a toll on him physically AND prevents him from getting out on the break into open floor where he’s lethal or having fresh legs for shooting.

If we were forced to settle for an undersized guy because of $$, why not go for guys like

Matt Cross 6’7 220 from UMass who averaged 15 & 8 (went to SMU)

NJ’s Rasheer Fleming 6’9 220 @ St Joes (10 pts, 7.4 rebs)

Rashawn Agee 6’7 210 Bowling Green (13.3, 10 Rebs (went to USC)

Jonnivious Smith 6’9 210 (8 pts, 8 Rebs, 1 blk (Buffalo went to USTA)

it was obvious to anyone that our frontcourt was too thin and he’d brought in too many guys with similar skillset (shooting) at the same time he had two ball-dominant nba players coming in.

Numerous people here were questioning this approach and now here we are.
Did Pike bet the house on Ogbole ? Or did he utterly deprioritize the position in favor of small ball sharpshooters. Shelby believes the latter. Or, better yet…Sommerville opposed bringing in a transfer 5.

Either way, Pike absolutely did not bet on Ogbole.

Zach Martini - most impactful defensive player? Most important metric says so

I mean ultimately I think Grant is a bad defender because he's played like 8 games of college basketball and didn't have a chance to learn the ropes against St. Monmerrimack.

Martini is almost certainly a better defender than Grant/Sommerville/Dortch right now, but the latter trio should also play more and develop under pike on defense. The season is already over.
one year at a time. less reason to develop players when it’s so easy to leave.

Zach Martini - most impactful defensive player? Most important metric says so

In Pike's defense the ability to correctly switch is pretty important, we switch so much. All you need to do was watch how Ace and Lathan repeatedly screwed it up recently.

That’s a ridiculously low bar.

Would you rather have 7’0 260 lb Amari Williams’ 10 pts, 9 rebs, 1.4 blocks for Kentucky via Drexel this year?

Or 6’9 240 Bashir Jihad 12 pts, 6.2 reb, 1 blk at Arizona State via Ball State this year?

Or Antwone Woolfolk 6’9 250 8 pts, 6 rebs, 1 blk for Miami OH via RU?

We completely whiffed on replacing our three best post players all of whom had eligibility remaining.

We bet the house on Ogbole- a raw JUCO coming off a major knee injury, a true frosh and a 6’8 guy who got 3 rpg in the Ivy League.

Dylan Grant is listed at 6’7” 205
Dortch is 6’9” 205

So Ace has been forced to carry a rebounding load that takes a toll on him physically AND prevents him from getting out on the break into open floor where he’s lethal or having fresh legs for shooting.

If we were forced to settle for an undersized guy because of $$, why not go for guys like

Matt Cross 6’7 220 from UMass who averaged 15 & 8 (went to SMU)

NJ’s Rasheer Fleming 6’9 220 @ St Joes (10 pts, 7.4 rebs)

Rashawn Agee 6’7 210 Bowling Green (13.3, 10 Rebs (went to USC)

Jonnivious Smith 6’9 210 (8 pts, 8 Rebs, 1 blk (Buffalo went to USTA)

it was obvious to anyone that our frontcourt was too thin and he’d brought in too many guys with similar skillset (shooting) at the same time he had two ball-dominant nba players coming in.

Numerous people here were questioning this approach and now here we are people trying to say fighting over a screen or hedging properly is some kind of important defensive skill. That’s tablestakes.
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Zach Martini - most impactful defensive player? Most important metric says so

Have you read his posts all season? Yes absolutely.
This is part of the reason why I've not been commenting as much over the past few years. If you don't like somebody put them on ignore. This board (as well as the football board) is just turning into stupid insults and a lot of the posters I used to see here are gone.
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OT: Nebraska v Oregon

I can guarantee that early bracketologists who have biases from their early season brackets will not jump Nebraska back into the field even with their strong resume right now

those were substantial wins this week over Illinois and at Oregon to go with early wins over UCLA and at Creighton....Rutgers is their bad loss but is one spot out of being a Q2 loss.
And Rutgers is really not a bad loss.
They seem deserving. Will be curious how it plays out. Ohio State seems on an uptick too.

OT: Stock and Investment Talk

Tough to tell, but likely will be all the tech stocks that have unsupported high valuations, including several of the Mag 7. I have a handful of these, but have a well balanced portfolio, so not overly concerned.
"Unsupported" - not sure about that. Plenty of reasonable tech valuations. I'm hoping Walmart and some of the banks get hit. I would be happy to buy those dips.

OT: Stock and Investment Talk

Jim Rickards called election perfect - down to the seats.

He's calling for recession and suffering like in Reagan's first 2 years and then good days like Reagan eventually had. A lot of people have happy recollections of the 80s but forget the 81-82 gut punch needed to get back to center.

First up - 1) market crash (he explains details) then 2) recession and 3) currency wars

Pertaining to stocks:

1. Stock Market

Markets are at or near all-time highs based on every available metric: P/E ratios, the CAPE ratio, market cap/GDP ratio, concentration risk, etc. This stock market bubble is amplified by indexing, investor complacency and analyst euphoria. When such conditions have existed in the past, they have always been followed by market crashes of 50% to 90% unfolding over several years. Examples include the Dow Jones Industrial Average (1929), the Nikkei (1989), NASDAQ (2000), and the S&P 500 Index (2008).

We are now positioned for an historic crash. The specific cause does not matter – it could be war, natural disaster, a bank or hedge fund collapse or other unexpected event. What matters is the super-fragility of the market when the trigger is pulled. This is why Warren Buffett has over $300 billion in cash and why central banks are buying gold.

Investors should prepare now; don’t be the last one to know. Strategies include reducing allocations to stocks, increasing allocations to cash and purchasing some gold (up to 10% of your investable assets) to participate in a flight to quality.


In the last few weeks 40,000 LA acres are rubble, AI turned into a pumpkin and China tried to slick a coup in S Korea (hardly any coverage). Foundation cracks everywhere

Rickards
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Rickards
Well that's goddamn terrifying

Anyone else have a problem with Grant and Dortchs minutes?

They are athletic, long and low bball IQ. Opposite of Martini and Derkack. If Grant stopped shooting 3s I’d be all in on him getting 20+ minutes a game.
Did you know Grant has a higher three point percentage than Martini this year? Also the way Derkack drives to the hoop with no vision I wouldn’t say he has a high basketball iq
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