part two of the nba 2020-21 anything but regular season

i think griffin has done a pretty bad job there. it's not a coherent team.

their offense is good and their defense is bad, its a very young team tho

i think they psyched themselves out trying to figure out what would work around zion rather than just waiting a year and getting more info. trading jrue for 4 years of bucks draft control is a rebuilding move. trading for and extending steven adams is....not. i don't know what drafting jaxon hayes was. it's all been done thoughtlessly.

Watching wiseman is just painful right now.

Don’t think I’ve seen him smile once.

imo zion needs some kind of andre miller-esque lob-capable floor general, a bunch of shooters, and some kind of bruiser to take the dirty work off his shoulders, is that too obvious or

Lonzo is a good lobber. Seems like they all just need to be better defenders.

whats going with the pels, seems like they have real talent and a good coach, the heck

― class project pat (m bison), Friday, March 26, 2021 11:04 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

do they have a good coach? between playing as slow as they do and the truly indefensible late-game stuff where zion never touches the ball, I’m not sure!

he had been good b4!

stan might be cooked

it's shaping up to be an interesting race for 2nd for MVP btw

luka's heating up, dame and giannis both having great seasons, kawhi having maybe the best offensive season of his career. all guys who could plausibly claim second place in the MVP voting

jokic also in the mix

I don't understand the question and I won't respond to it

jokic in feb: 26.6/9.7/8.5 (vs 1.9 tunovers) on .550/.472/.965 (.648 ts%)
jokic in mar: 28.7/11.7/8.7 (vs 2.7 turnovers) on .585/.447/.841 (.644 ts%)

with all the usual caveats re single numbers blah blah blah

raptor WAR:
1) jokic 10.5
2) kawhi 7.1

hollinger estimaed wins added
1) jokic 18.0
2) giannis 12.9

RPM WAR
1) lebron 10.8
2) curry 9.7
3) giannis 9.2
4) jokic 8.0

bkref win shares
1) jokic 10.3
2) giannis 7.2

bkref VORP
1) jokic 5.7
2) giannis 3.8

I don't know how to find some of the other ones

harden is kind of a dark horse but no one will vote for him

kyrie should win, kyrie is the pandemic mvp

The cavs coaching staff went out of their way to say that Javale was super professional and a steady leader for the team. Is this what reality is like now

LMA to nets as they continue to stack up on cooked dudes

win this year or disappear in a puff of smoke

Are the Nets under a different salary cap or something I don't know how this works

well blake and lamarcus signed for the minimum

Does it really make sense to have Aldridge and Griffin

Nets are mad weird but who knows in the cursed ass season

Is lamarcus Aldridge a hall of famer?

not looking like it.

if Webber is an edge-case idk how Aldridge gets in

Webber is 98th all time in scoring and Aldridge is 51st

if he helps the nets win a chip this year, he's in. as it is, p good case to be made. 5-time all-nba is pretty good.

"NBA Champion Brooklyn Nets Blake Griffin" contains so many words that don't make any sense

who are some of these guys who started for the bucks tonight

Sam Merrill
Axel Toupane
Jordan Nwora
Thanasis Antetokounmpo
Brook Lopez

3Q, 9:00 — Wizards 74, Pistons 44

4Q, 12:00 — Wizards 79, Pistons 75

— Fred Katz (@FredKatz) March 28, 2021

pelicans seem to finally be figuring out the concept just give zion the ball

Pelicans scoring plays final four minutes, with score 95-94 Mavs:

Zion FT
Zion FT
Ingram 2
Zion 2
Zion AST Alexander-Walker 3
Zion 2
Zion 2
Zion AST Alexander-Walker 3
Zion FT
Zion FT

— Rob Perez (@WorldWideWob) March 28, 2021

crazy ending to CLE-SAC tonight with a harrison barnes buzzer beater off a full-court inbounds pass

These plays never work

HARRISON BARNES!!!!! How the hell did that work?? pic.twitter.com/ASKMftBZrq

— Tony Xypteras (@TonyXypteras) March 28, 2021

last one i can remember working

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kfNyjbkaYqI

drummond to lakers apparently?

shit is so corny

Cheering for anyone but lakers or nets to win this year

world’s dumbest arms race, hate it no thanks

probably time for them to take a look at buyout changes in the cba, i don’t think anyone likes this.

This happened because teams across the league wildly underrate Drummond

it happened bcuz his salary was $25 million (not wildly underrated) so no one wanted to or could trade for him and then after buy out he could choose to play for the defending champs based in LA

buyouts feel like fantasy basketball to me, tons of articles and podcasts and conversation are produced every year about them and then the guys involved play 9 mpg in the playoffs. the culture of it is just a lot of hot air

blake and LMA might play more bcuz the nets have a uniquely top loaded roster but if you’re relying on buyout guys it’s usually a bad sign. can guarantee there’s gonna be an important playoff game where those two get completely exposed by the bucks or sixers and the conversation shifts to, hmm might’ve been a bad idea to rely on buyout guys!

kinda funny that with bron and brow out the lakers are gonna be another bad team with drummond putting up 15 shots a game for a while

i prob have some weird bias here but i feel like ringhunting rarely works out (tho i guess only one team wins every year)

like the first time i was really aware of "old dudes changing teams to get an easy ring" was that lakers team with malone and payton getting dragged along and, well