u/IdiotForLife1

If Thunder misses JDub and Ajay for the rest of this series, Spurs can blow Thunder out every game.

Thunder fans are saying their shooters won’t shoot that bad from 3. But that’s what happens when those 3s are heavily contested and shooters never get in rhythm.

Once good shooters get in rhythm, they can take highly contested shots and make them. Game 4 adjustment was perfect. Shai was only doubled and help defense came in when he got deeper towards the paint, not doubled at half court to play 4 on 3.

Spurs stayed home on the shooters and contested threes beautifully. Thunder shooters never got in rhythm.

If JDub plays and plays well, it becomes difficult for the Spurs to win convincingly. He can create his own shots alongside Shai. Same with Ajay, he takes a lot of pressure off of Shai while still scoring points (although he hasn’t been that good this series)

Conclusion: long twos over open threes anyday of the week, even if the long twos are made efficiently. Thunder get nothing in the paint bc of Wemby. Their only other options are long twos and open 3s. Open 3s will KILL the spurs. Game plan has to be play SGA 1 on 1.

Disclosure upfront: I'm the co-founder of Autometica, a Revit plugin that generates COMcheck .cxl files from the model. I'm not here to pitch. I'm sharing what I've learned about the workflow problem after a year of building for it, and I want to know how other firms actually handle this. Mods, remove if this isn't the right fit.

The pain (skip if obvious):

On any space-by-space project, especially K-12 or healthcare, the engineer has to pull square footage per room, map every room name to one of COMcheck's fixed activity categories (Office - Enclosed, Storage <50 sq ft, Corridor - Healthcare, etc.), and assign fixtures to each room. COMcheck doesn't accept Revit room names directly, so you map "OFFICE 201" to the right category by hand. On a 200-room K-12 project, that's hundreds of classification decisions. Then a fixture swaps or the architect renames a classroom and you redo it.Some firms use building-area method to skip the per-room work. Works for small commercial. Trap on K-12 specifically because the LPD math actually opens up under space-by-space, and building-area gives you the tightest allowance averaged across the whole building.

What I'm curious about:

1. At your firm, who actually does the work? Interns, junior EEs, BIM managers, the senior owning the project?
2. How do you handle design changes mid-project? Full redo or do you diff somehow?
3. Anyone using tooling beyond COMcheck Web, internal scripts, or just muscling through it manually?

I wrote a longer take on the workflow and what automation looks like in practice if anyone wants the rabbit hole: https://autometica.com/pages/blogs/how-to-run-comcheck-from-revit.html

Genuinely curious about the firm-to-firm variability. Some teams have this dialed in and some are still doing it the slowest possible way, and that gap surprised me when I started talking to people about it.

Do y’all do building area or space by space COMchecks now?

Full transparency: I built a product that does lighting COMchecks automatically straight from Revit (space-by-space and building area)

Wondering how many people actually do space-by-space COMchecks.