The marshmallow experiment is a famous test of this concept conducted by Walter Mischel at Stanford University and discussed by Daniel Goleman in his popular work. In the 1960s, a group of four-year olds were given a marshmallow and promised another, only if they could wait 20 minutes before eating the first one. Some children could wait and others could not. The researchers then followed the progress of each child into adolescence, and demonstrated that those with the ability to wait were better adjusted and more dependable (determined via surveys of their parents and teachers), and scored an average of 210 points higher on the Scholastic Aptitude Test.

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Dwight is the marshmallow on the plate. You can have the marshmallow right now if you want, but If you wait until July to eat the marshmallow, you can have Dwight AND Lopez! Don't eat the marshmallow people!

To those who are watching the games on YES HD on Time Warner Cable:

Are you experiencing glitchy performance with your broadcast? For the last two games I've gotten really annoying glitches where every so often the broadcast will suddenly jump ahead several seconds. A play will be developing, and then suddenly the play is over and you don't know what happened. It has happened all throughout the game for the past two games. There's also spots where it jumps into fast-forward or rewinds briefly. In fact for the Clippers game the set-top box actually crashed before the game was over.

Has anyone else experience this stuff, or is it just me?

This occurred to me while watching the Miami/Boston game on TNT. TNT has a nice score display. When someone scores, there is a nice animation of the team's logo in the scoreboard, and then the number flips, updating the score. It happens a moment or two after the ball goes in the basket, and the timing is consistent. This is the right way to display the score.

On the Nets broadcast, there is no animation on the scoreboard, and no consistency with the timing of the score update. Sometimes it happens right after the basket. Sometimes the score doesn't update until the next possession is well underway. Sometimes it doesn't update at all, and then the scoreboard disappears, and won't reappear until after the next commercial break. When a 3-pointer is scored, sometimes the score increases by 3. Other times, the score increases by two, and then by 1. Just not very inconsistent at all.

I would love to see a more advanced scoreboard design with animations. I guess they would also need to hire motivated people to update the score. It seems right now that whoever is doing it is disinterested, or it isn't their main job.

I've been thinking a lot about what the Nets might look like when they move to Brooklyn, so I decided to mock up some ideas for uniform designs. I'm creating the fan post as a place to post the designs as I come up with them and get feedback.

The first design is just going for simple and clean, like the Yankees, with a pinstripe.

A sportier version of the same concept, in red white & blue:

Then I got to thinking about Brooklyn imagery and history. This design uses the shape of the Brooklyn Bridge arches along the sides, and also uses the same color palette as the American Army uniforms from the Battle of Brooklyn.

And the same concept in a powder blue/white palette.

Looks kinda like the Magic so maybe a darker blue would work better for this version. I'm digging the look of the arches though.

If/when more ideas come up I will post them in here!

Hopefully this isn't considered redundant because it is linked in the "Meet The New Nets" story, but I thought it deserved more notice in case anyone missed it. Lots of good info in here from Avery.

http://www.nba.com/nets/media/avery_sth_conference_call_100714.mp3

He talks about: Favors' potential; evaluation of T-Will; being reunited with Devin; Outlaw's contract; Avery's planned offensive scheme; managing play time for players at deep positions; the goal for the 2010-11 season; Avery's planned defensive scheme; winning close games; comparing Nets to OKC Thunder; playing Outlaw at the 4; experimenting with the starting lineup; making the playoffs this season; Plan B; assessment of Damion James; Favors' Summer League performance.