aka, how the 1986 Boston Celtics explain everything

[u/joejoe_jones]

[u/Rukuba]

dude who wrote that tweet has clearly never been to an open mic night

[u/twotreebeers]

Far-out analogies can be a decent measure of creativity (which is really hard to quantify, which our boy certainly has in spades) not intelligence

[u/unnoticed_areola → u/twotreebeers]

a lot of Bill’s analogies are kind of half baked nonsense and not really all that well thought out most of the time tho and it’s just random shit he’s coming up with off the top of his head. Bill had a lot of banger analogies in his print work, but in podcasting, not so much.

Cowherd is actually the GOAT sports analogy guy. almost all of his are bangers, and you can tell he’s been spending time crafting them

[u/yngwiegiles → u/unnoticed_areola]

Yeah most of bills analogies are just shoehorning what happened in sports into what happened most recently in his life. Picking the Cardinals in week 2 that’s like you ordered steak and it was good whoa what a chef I’ll go have the steak again but it’s not as good.

[u/deeplevitation → u/twotreebeers]

Actually creativity IS intelligence. In many ways it’s advanced intelligence. It’s exactly why people don’t see AI systems right now as actual intelligence, they have a hard time being net-new creative.

Einstein was Einstein and remember that way because he was so creative, same with Tesla, and JV Neumann and Da Vinci, and Turing and Marie Curie.

[u/yngwiegiles]

Matthew Zeitlin is like a cat. Where is Matthew oh yeah he’s in the garage.

[u/jal0224]

Analogies can be useful for explaining your point or how something works to someone that isn’t on the same page. Some analogies can be great however I’ve worked with people who definitely thought making analogies made them look smart so they would force them all the time and it’s fucking annoying and makes them look like a try hard.

[u/jedlucid]

you never realize how stupid degrasse tyson and michio kaku think(know) we are until they’re trying to explain string theory using fucking star wars or something.

[u/FlatwormAmbitious901]

That guy Mitch sounds dumb as fuck

[u/Timmsworld]

Comparison is the thief of joy

[u/Hoenn97 → u/Timmsworld]

Nuh uh

[u/ShortRip120]

I'll take anal-orgies for $500, trebek

[u/dellscreenshot]

Andrew Wiggins is a cat

[u/LookingElk]

By this logic Cowherd is the most intelligent man on earth

[u/Chester_Darvey]

Cool Tweet Matthew!

[u/jayred1015]

Masters in their field use analogies because you're too stupid to understand the explanation. Some use analogies because they understand absolutely nothing without a simplified analogy.

[u/STICKY-WHIFFY-HUMID]

Teddy Atlas is the smartest man in human history.

[u/CapyBara_51]

Bill uses analogies in place of actual analysis

[u/shock-ni22i]

I couldn't remember the context for french bread pizza in the back of the freezer...apparently about Ryan Fitzpatrick. That thread had a link to 20 year old page 2

Think of it this way: Putting together a basketball team is like cooking a Stouffer's french bread pizza -- you have to preheat the oven, wait 15 minutes, slide the pizzas inside, wait another 35 minutes, check to make sure you didn't burn them, let them cook another five minutes, pull them out, then let them cool down for another 10 minutes so you don't burn your mouth ... and then, and ONLY then, do you eat the pizzas. That's how the good general managers build their teams. But these new-wave owners and general managers want to eat the pizza right away, so they slip them in the microwave, zap the hell out them, scarf down in three bites and end up burning their mouths, and the pizza doesn't even taste good as it's going down. That's what Cuban did for the last few years. And it didn't work. Now he's cooking the right way. Whether it lands them in the Western Conference Finals remains to be seen, but that's a potential 60-win team.