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That guy is real nice, would not be surprised if he turned into an eventual all star. What a good draft

Asterisks on the first two picks so far excepted obv

mitchell is gonna be an animal attacking off the dribble. he's real impressive.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nnxjX1E-d_o

hes a slightly old rookie, only the second non freshman taken, but a guy who can come in a do this a couple months into the season falling to the bottom of the lottery is pretty wild, guess thats the draft 4 u

the zach collins and luke kennard picks are looking really really bad aren't they

yuuup everyone was mystified by collins going there at the time tbf, it was understood that we had grown beyond awarding guys fora couple good tourney games

weirder still blazers packaged two lower picks they could have used on Collins to trade up to take him, truly boggling still

pelton was a big collins guy predraft:

5. Zach Collins

Gonzaga
Center
Big Board: No. 9
Stats: No. 5

Consensus: 2.1 WARP

Despite coming off the bench on a deep, experienced Gonzaga team that lost in the national championship game, Collins rated as the best Zag on a per-minute basis.

He's a high-percentage finisher with good touch at the free throw line. The limited need for traditional bigs hurts Collins, but he's skilled enough that he might be able to play both frontcourt spots in the pros.

kennard over mitchell was plainly stupid at the time

he will probably never be as good as mitchell is rn

no

at best he'll be like.... jodie meeks? idk. his scoring was so effortful at duke that i couldn't believe people (like on TV) were trotting out the "he's not just another white 3 point shooter!" line about him

just an insanely shortsighted pick, like "we've got our team so we'll take a guy who may at his best be as useful as malcolm brogdon in the lottery"

and thats why u dont let coaches gm

lebron stat lines this year are so good. tonight:

27-7-17-2 on 11/13 shooting.

In win over Pacers, Thunder's Russell Westbrook posted lowest FG% in a triple-double (3-17, 17.6%) since Clippers' Lamar Odom (2-13, 15.4%) in 1999. pic.twitter.com/L4nyA1Zfoh

— Ben Golliver (@BenGolliver) December 14, 2017

russ is bad

lotta bad lines from that game

melo 4/14
russ 3/17
pg 3/14

oladipo 9/26
turner 3/11
thad 5/13

10/45 from the thunder big 3, yeesh

In isolation this season...

James Harden:
10.5 PPG

Carmelo Anthony, Paul George, and Russell Westbrook combined:
10.2 PPG

..Wow..

— Josh Eberley 🇨🇦 (@JoshEberley) December 14, 2017

russ with the 27-17-15 in 3ot but 10-33 fg is ... bad http://bkref.com/tiny/lCymg

oops that url should be http://bkref.com/tiny/uzPIC

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heh

russ needs an intervention, but i fear him winning mvp means all his worst tendencies have been reinforced forever more

i dont know if "allen iverson of this generation" is right, but it feels right

iversons chucking was more excusable imo

plus AI did it w/ joy

otm x2

he's not a.i., he's kobe without any championships

kobe played d and had some finesse to his game

i saw a thing comparing russ vs ai stats in their mvp seasons and the one right after and they were pretty similar. similar drop off in shooting the season after for both

kobes D was def much better

CP

28-4-8-7-1 in 32 mins 5/9 from 3

he's kobe

― call all destroyer, Friday, December 15, 2017 9:07 PM (forty-one minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

ok maybe your on to something

This is a great sport! pic.twitter.com/dth01qNPRE

— Kyle Weidie (@Truth_About_It) December 16, 2017

hah I was gonna post that he’s 24/7 Kobe Jutting His Jaw but wasn’t sure it would make sense

chris paul's PER last 7 seasons, including this one

27.0
26.4
25.9
26.0
26.2
26.2
26.2

post-knee surgery paul kind of quietly put together one of the most dominant 6+ year runs ever, certainly by a guard. fun to imagine the player he might have become had he never needed surgery

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DRNt8IDUMAAHmfh.jpg

very nice

quite an achievement

the brick 3

a winning combination

cant decide if this is a buy low situation or if they are actually just gonna stay this bad.

incredible

they kinda have to improve like this is the worst they can be i think

according to the stats

melo's fg% has been in decline for a couple years. his 16-17 average was 43.3 (through 74 games)

40.8 is only just under pg's 15-16 average of 41.8 (81 games) though he shot 46.1% in 16-17

russ is russ

i expect paul will go on a hot streak and improve, but barring a complete change in play style by russ & melo all else will remain equal

How absurdly efficient has LeBron James been so far this season?

He shot 52% from the field in 4 games last week. It was his WORST shooting week of the season. pic.twitter.com/l8ANs26nnh

— Micah Adams (@MicahAdams13) December 18, 2017