Title basically sums it up. Nate Silver has an algo that has pretty interesting methodology, identifies Wagler and Flemings as top 5 prospects ahead of Peterson and Wilson. I personally like Ament more but could be a chance to get a steal at 7.
Now that we're here with the 7th pick, one of the top 10 highest payrolls in the league, and DeRozan, Sabonis, and Lavine all on our books, can anyone explain to me what the hell was the thinking around the Hunter trade? We ADDED salary, got a guy who is not young, doesn't have much upside, is overpaid, and doesn't change our outlook basically at all? Hunter is not a good defender, a passable offensive player, and is almost certainly at the end of his prime.
Like I understand the argument is that we wanted to move off Schroeder (which we wouldn't have to do if we didn't overpay him...) or that we wanted to move Ellis for an asset instead of letting him walk (which we wouldn't have to do if we just paid him and/or used him as trade sweetener on one of our bigger contracts). Maybe we wanted to rehab Hunter's value? But that just seems like such a dumb long-shot move for a team in our situation where we should not be sending out any picks, even second rounders, and just shedding as much salary as we can and then taking on toxic contracts for assets.
Look I know everyone's upset about the lottery result today (and I am too), but can we use this as an excuse to make these sac media clowns like Matt George and Dlo and KC irrelevant? These guys were cheering for every single meaningless win throughout the year and talking about how fans were overreacting for being upset about wins, and now have the audacity to be sad about the lottery lol. I know they have no effect on the outcome but it's just genuinely so depressing that even the media here sucks.
Hey all,
Just wondering how much people typically improved in Step 2 dedicated. I'm shooting for 265-270+ and got 242 on NBME 10 ~1 month ago and 253 on NBME 12 a couple days ago (have just been doing anki cards and amboss passively since my first exam). I have 6 weeks of full dedicated starting tomorrow, but can extend to 8 weeks if needed.
Is 265+ a real possibility? If extending my dedicated to 8 weeks instead of 6 is the move please let me know. Have poor clerkship grades and a 1 year gap in training for step 1 so really want to kill step 2. For context shelf scores were all in mid-high 80s except for FM (70) and surgery (80).
Also if people have any advice on specifically how to study would really appreciate. Planning on finishing Amboss and doing Uworld incorrects from 3rd year, all recent CMS forms and all practice tests (11-16).
I'm finding that the NBME logic is really tripping me up, so gonna focus on that.
Thanks!