Get help to make life better
Life Scholar • World Philosopher
Soul Uplifter • Tech Strategist
Art Curator • Sport Analyst
Here are my contrarian Top Raptors lists. I put more emphasis on a player's full career and statistics, their likely contribution to winning if they had been on a good team, but still partly considering winning and having an impact while with Toronto.
Ranking The 10 Best Raptors Of All Time - YouTube
- Ulrich Chomche
- Gradey Dick
- Ja'Kobe Walter
- Collin Murray
- Alijah Martin
- Jamison Battle
- Jamal Shead
- Jonathan Mogbo
Notes
- I like great 3PT/FT shooters
- Defense great IF can shoot
- Think Chomche will shoot
NBA Scouts Rank The Raptors Prospects - Raptors Republic
When people say things like "This NBA team could finish 7th but not 5th", it doesn't make sense to me logically. In 24-25 West 3-8 was 2 games apart, in 23-24 East 2-8 was 4 games apart, in 22-23 West 4-10 was 3 games apart, in 21-22 East 6-10 was 3 games apart, etc.
I wonder if the rumor about a MacBook with a new 12.9" screen size might actually be a new M-Series or M5 MacBook Air size and design, with the rumored budget A-Series MacBook being a separate device coming another time in either the current 13.6" design or former 13.3" design.
Budget A-Series MacBook Design
J-Dogs - Jamal (Jam), Ja'Kobe (Ja), Jamison (Jame), Jonathan (Jon), and Jul'Rich (Jul) are all dogs on the court who play defense, work hard, have fun, play together, and put up a fight no matter who they face.
Catching Up With The Raptors Sophomores - YouTube
Here's the lineup and depth chart that I think the Raptors should go with for the start of the 2025-26 season, given the current roster.
Lineup
- PG - Quickley - Walter - Shead
- SG - Dick - Agbaji - Battle - Temple
- SF - Ingram - Barrett - Roddy/Lawson
- PF - Barnes - Murray - Mogbo
- C - Poeltl - Chomche - Mamukelashvili
- 2W - Chomche, Martin, Hepburn
Notes
- Dick in starting lineup for catch-and-shoot 3PTs
- Barrett on the bench for ball handling and scoring
- Walter on the bench for more shooting over Shead
- Chomche on the bench for defense and development
- Barnes plays some small ball 5 for shooting, often to finish
- Murray/Barnes do ball handling for bench that guards lack
New Crew Value - 2025 Rebuild vs. 2013 Rebuild
- PG - Quickley 26 > Lowry 27 / Walter 20 > Vazquez 28
- SG - Dick 21 > Ross 22 / Agbaji 25 > Salmons 34
- SF - Ingram 27 = DeRozan 24 / Barrett 25 >> Patterson 24
- PF - Barnes 24 >> Johnson 26 / Murray 20 >> Hansbrough 28
- C - Poeltl 29 < Valanciunas 21 / Chomche 19 >> Hayes 30
- Much more youth and potential to grow better into future
- Top young draft picks already in place over decent veterans
- Team is young so will need/play veterans more if playoffs
I think it's best to name products using the actual release date in which a product is released, so with Apple's upcoming operating systems I would name them using the current year, such as iOS 25 instead of iOS 26 if it's released in 2025.
I wonder if it might be better if we encouraged women and eventually made it a common practice for women to keep their last name when married and throughout their whole life, and also possibly have girls take the last name of the woman and boys take the last name of the man.
What
- Women simply keep their last name if they get married, and all life
- Men also still keep their last name if they get married, and all life
- Girls take the last name of the woman or one chosen parent?
- Boys take the last name of the man or the other chosen parent?
Why
- Women wouldn't need to feel they are changing their identity
- Women would have a consistent name and identity throughout life
- Women could also potentially carry on their name with girl children
- Men who do not want children may be less pressured to do so
- No more extra work, paperwork, or changes to have to deal with
- No long hyphenated names that we would have to deal with
July 29, 2025
I would guess that the most likely scenario is the M-Series MacBook gets a redesign first, possibly as a 12.X" device with M5, and then the budget A-Series MacBook gets the "old" 13.6" design. Second most likely is just a budget 13.3", but that design is quite old and colorless.
- M5 will be built on 2nm GAAFET
- M5 uses hybrid bonding chiplets so CPU is 2nm
- M5 MacBooks come out in late 2025
- M5 MacBook Air is Mini-LED, maybe new size/design
- iMac and Mac Mini skip M5, wait for M6?
- Next iPad Pro uses 2nm A-Series Pro?
Here are the potential draft picks and players that I like for the 2025 NBA draft.
June 19, 2025 - Version 2.0
Primary - Great, draft for my team
- Cooper Flagg
- Carter Bryant
- Cedric Coward
- Rasheer Fleming
- Danny Wolf
- Max Shulga
- Sion James
- John Tonje
Secondary - Great, draft for some team
- Ace Bailey
- Kasparas Jakucionis
- Hugo Gonzalez
- Noa Essengue
- Nique Clifford
- Chaz Lanier
- Bogoljub Markovic
- Hansen Yang
May 15, 2025 - Version 1.0
Primary - Great, draft for my team
- Cooper Flagg
- Ace Bailey
- Carter Bryant
- Danny Wolf
- Rasheer Fleming
- Cedric Coward
- Max Shulga
- Sion James
Secondary - Great, draft for some team
- Kasparas Jakucionis
- Noa Essengue
- Hugo Gonzalez
- Nique Clifford
- Bogoljub Markovic
- Chris Lanier
- Hansen Yang
Here's one potential trade and draft idea for the Raptors this offseason, which might be one way to help accomplish a possible big picture overall strategy and lineup configuration that is also suggested and outlined.
May 22, 2025 - Original
Rockets
- Poeltl
- Agbaji
- Shead
- Mogbo
Raptors
- 10th Pick - 2025
- J. Smith
- Sheppard
- 2nd Round - 2026 & 2027
Continued... >
Here is a partial wish list of features for a redesigned MacBook Air or Mini in late 2025 or later. While not currently rumored, I feel it might even make sense to redesign it before the MacBook Pro redesign for various reasons.
- Smaller - Redesign with smaller ~12.7" "mini" screen
- Matte - Nano-texture display upgrade option available
- Storage - 16 GB memory and 512 GB storage standard
- Wireless - Wi-fi 7 and Bluetooth 6 custom wireless chip
- Screen - New oxide TFT screen with 120Hz refresh rate
- Notchless - iPad style rounded bezel design without notch
- Touch - Touchscreen as all mobile devices should have
- Apps - Force all iPad/iOS apps to allow being installed
MacBook Air Smaller Sizes Guess
Admire living things like people, friends, animals, and nature, while simply making use of material things like stuff, things, tools, and technology.
Hey Jacob.
Great Evaluation And Analysis
- I think you really do a great job of evaluating players and coming up with different analysis or ideas for teams or players, to understand the value of players or make possible changes and adjustments.
- It's really fun to hear your thoughts on players or trades, and in particular I think your draft prospect bullet point breakdowns are an excellent example of that.
- In terms of evaluating players, one thing I think that I look at extremely differently than you is ages of players, and in particular young players who might be truly valuable or even untouchable, and also when players are going to be entering or in their prime.
Potential Of Young Players
- Lowry was 26, about 3 years older than Barnes is now, when he was traded to the Raptors and he wasn't that great of a player yet, being traded for a future first round pick.
- Masai didn't want to include the young Siakam or Anunoby in the Kawhi trade, and they were basically nothings on offense at about age 23 and 21 after each averaged about 7 points the previous year.
- Josh Giddey is still just 22 and he already shot 38% 3PT on 4 3PA this year while Caruso shot 35% on 3 3PA.
- James Harden was about 23 and playing on the bench for OKC the previous year when he was traded to Houston.
- Shai was a bit younger at about 21 when he was traded away after his 10 PPG rookie year along with a 20 PPG Danilo Gallinari and about 5 first round picks for a 28 year old Paul George.
- Barnes is just 23, already won rookie of the year, and has already been an All-Star, so he'll just be entering his age 24 season next year!
Continued... >
Theory - Because the feelings of living things exist, these feelings of living things may matter and mean something.
- When we are harmed, injured, or attacked we can feel hurt
- When we are hugged, satisfied, or accepted we can feel good
- Living things have feelings and emotions which matter to them
- It matters to us if we feel suffering, misery, pleasure, or happiness
- Our life may matter and have meaning because we feel it has meaning
- Our life and feelings may matter and have meaning because they exist
May 6, 2025
The world is in a better place than ever because of many people with caring hearts and intelligent minds who genuinely want to make life better.
If the Raptors end up getting Cooper Flagg in the NBA draft and keep Poeltl, then I think they should move Poeltl to the bench and start Flagg or Barnes at center, with the goal of getting more shooting into both the starting lineup and the bench.
My Lineup
- Quickley, Agbaji, Ingram, Barnes, Flagg
- Walter, Barrett, Dick, Boucher, Poeltl
Notes
- More shooting starting, and Boucher to win
- RJ or Poeltl play more than Agbaji most games
- Barrett to bench for handling and scoring
- Battle is the 11th guy for more shooting
Raptors Path Forward 2024
I think that Apple or any company making operating systems should display an even amount of 16 apps in home screen tabs, app folders, and app menus on iOS, tvOS, and other operating systems, instead of the hard to organize and odd amount of 9 apps.
What
- Display 16 apps in folders, or alternatively 24
- Grid of 4x4 apps in folders, or alternatively 4x6
- Always show an even amount of app columns
- Always show an even amount of app rows
Why
- Grouping apps in groups of 2, 4, or 6 makes sense logically
- With groups of 4 people can easier create a mental model
- Rotating from portrait and landscape shows the same apps
- People may be buying or using less apps with folders of 9
I wonder if the names of executive positions should be simplified with chief as C-Level, general as G-Level, senior as S-Level, and vice as V-Level. Each department could have simpler titles, with marketing having "Marketing Officers" instead of long vice president titles.
What
- Level - Title - Abbreviation - Codename
- C-Level - Chief Marketing Officer - CMO - Chief/Leader
- G-Level - General Marketing Officer - GMO - General/Admiral
- S-Level - Senior Marketing Officer - SMO - Major/Colonel
- V-Level - Vice Marketing Officer - VMO - Captain/Commander
Past
- Level - Title - Abbreviation
- Chief - Chief Marketing Officer - CMO
- Executive - Executive Vice President of Marketing - EVP
- Senior - Senior Vice President of Marketing - SVP
- Vice - Vice President of Marketing - VP
