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

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

nets really shouldve tried to make a trade for guys who can play defense, dont see blake or lma helping them too much as theyre both cooked and bad defenders

the lakers could realistically end up like the 6th seed if bron's injury lingers...

drummond not a great fit with the lakers as their best lineups will always be with brow at center, wonder if hell end up mostly playing backup center in the offs, having a guy who can do some stuff while brow sits could be pretty huge for them tho

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

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

― Clay, Sunday, March 28, 2021 6:08 PM (six minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

that team was actually really god until... the old guys got injured lol

Malone’s injury was a crazy fluke

not sure exactly what the mix is with drummond being so bad and hated around the nba but seems to be something like: doesnt fit into the modern nba style eg cannot defend the perimeter, is an unsound selfish player, is a weird guy maybe, overpaid too or at least was

eye test he seems to be one of those big first half guys who disappears when the defense adjusts

he put up ridiculous counting numbers his whole career including getting a bunch of blocks and steals

i think basically no one wants to have their style of play dictated by an old fashion low post center, and hes kind of a black hole which just makes its even more the drummond show, and even his defense around the basket isnt what it might seem teams get a lot of close in high percentage looks when he plays

if he turned into more of a mid/low usage defense/rebounding/roll man teams wld prob be more interested, but again 25m is not what those guys are getting paid these days, and thats even assuming he can fill the defensive role teams are looking for

he is a seriously great rebounder but i guess is just not made for these times

I just don’t know how a guy that rebounds, steals and blocks that much can be a bad defender. Like yah he may get cooked by guards on the pnr but all bigs do outside of a select few. Seems like his thing has always been motor and he’s playing for a future payday so I think he’ll be locked in.

The best teammate he’s ever had is like... Tobias Harris so being behind Bron and ad will be interesting to see.

I’m enjoying the aaron gordon experience

RoCo seems to have turned it around after a rough start to his pdx tenure