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OT: The Official Toronto Raptors Thread

MindzEye said:
I don't think Darko has ever really had time for him tbh. Boucher is a good bench body and an analytics darling that impacts winning, but he's a weird player to work into your system. He's a bit of a ball movement black hole (if the ball touches his hand, it's either a shot attempt or an easy pass back to a ball handler), who is an okay but only okay rebounder and defender. Most of his positive impact comes on the offensive end and we've kind of decided that as an organization we're defence first. Also, what he does offensively in the half court (space and chuck) doesn't work super well with this high, high off ball movement system that Darko utilizes. So he impacts the game when he's out there, but he's doing it outside of the system largely, cleaning up broken plays, hitting late clock 3's on busted possessions, etc.
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what he said
 
axlsalinger said:
does seem they wanted to move on, but damn ... 1/3.3 is pretty easy to match. But perhaps also kind of telling no other team made a better offer.
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League economics have changed. No one is willing to go into the aprons just because, and the repeater tax cheater penalty makes it less worth bringing on extra bench bodies just because.

Boston was willing to do this because they traded Niang & his 8.2 million to Utah earlier today, and were already stuck over the 1st apron but had room under the 2nd apron and wanted a big.
 
I think darko would have had more time for the younger / faster version of Boucher, whose quickness allowed him to play help
D all over the court, be useful defending both fast breaks and in the half court, and made him one of the best in the league at close outs.

Advance no’s tell a pretty clear story of a guy who went from very good defensively to subpar as he got older.
 
so I'm all for arresting the dildo throwers for assault and what not, but I just read that the most recent dildo-thrower was charged with "publicly displaying explicit sexual material". uhhhh, what the fuck?
 
Volcanologist said:
imagine trying to explain this to someone from the past
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I think they’d get it

The first dildos were made of stone, tar, wood, bone, ivory, limestone, teeth,[18] and other materials that could be shaped as penises and that were firm enough to be used as penetrative sex toys. Scientists believe that a 20-centimeter siltstone phallusfrom the Upper Palaeolithic period 30,000 years ago, found in Hohle Fels Cave near Ulm, Germany, may have been used as a dildo.[19] Prehistoric double-headed dildos have been found which date anywhere from 13 to 19,000 years ago. Various paintings from ancient Egypt around 3000 BCE feature dildos being used in a variety of ways. In the Middle Ages, a plant called the "cantonese groin" was soaked in hot water to enlarge and harden for women to use as dildos.[18] Dildo-like breadsticks, known as olisbokollikes (sing. olisbokollix),[20] were known in Ancient Greece prior to the 5th century BC.[21] In Italy during the 15th century, dildos were made of leather, wood, or stone.[22] Chinese women in the 15th century used dildos made of lacquered wood with textured surfaces, and were sometimes buried with them.[18] Nashe's early-1590s work The Choise of Valentines mentions a dildo made from glass.[23] Dildos also appeared in 17th and 18th century Japan, in shunga. In these erotic novels, women are shown enthusiastically buying dildos, some made out of water buffalo horns.[18]

Dildos were not just used for sexual pleasure. Examples from the Eurasia Ice Age (40,000-10,000 BCE) and Roman era are speculated to have been used for defloration rituals. This is not the only example of dildos being used for ritual ceremonies, as people in 4000 BCE Pakistan used them to worship the god Shiva.
 
From chatgpt

Recently someone has been throwing dildos onto WNBA courts to promote a meme coin. Explain this to someone from the 1800s in 100 words.

Imagine a public sporting contest in which women compete at throwing a leather ball into an elevated hoop. During these matches, a mischievous person hurls artificial implements shaped to resemble male generative organs onto the playing floor. These objects are fashioned from pliable materials and serve no practical purpose save for amusement or private dalliance. The act is performed not out of courtship, but to draw attention to a curious modern financial scheme: a fictitious “currency” existing only in electrical telegraphs and calculating machines, whose value depends entirely upon public fancy—rather like a gambling token whose worth lives only in rumor.
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That's fucking amazing. But you'd have the same reaction from someone from the 1800s hearing this as you would from someone in the 1900s, and cryptocurrency still makes no fucking sense in 2025 so that's universally confounding for all time periods.
 
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