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

We’re talking about the best rebounder in the NBA, on an expiring contract, and there were no takers. I’m saying this was a mistake.

the pistons rebound rate this year dropped from 52.4% to......50% when drummond was off the court.

That’s a huge huge difference in rebound rate

52.4% would be 4th in the league

it moves it from 4th to like middle of the pack. that’s great but rebounding as a whole is a devalued skill relative to other things.

Are we arguing that there’s not a big difference between being 4th of 30 and 15th of 30

no it's about the value of rebounds.......?

Being top 4 in one of the 4 core elements of the game is good

ok... now what if the 4 core elements of the game had differing values? we're almost there...

what’s the value of being the worst shooter in the league at the rim have?

He’s the worst shooter at the rim? Pretty sure that isn’t true

The key thing I’m trying to stress here is that moving a basketball team from 50% rebounding rate to 52.4% is actually a lot. It means you’re an awesome rebounder.

he is indeed that with a baseline number of attempts

https://www.nba.com/stats/players/shooting/?Season=2020-21&SeasonType=Regular%20Season&DistanceRange=By%20Zone&sort=Restricted%20Area%20FG%20PCT&dir=-1&CF=Restricted%20Area%20FGA*GE*200&PerMode=Totals&DateTo=03%2F22%2F2021

The key thing I’m trying to stress here is that moving a basketball team from 50% rebounding rate to 52.4% is actually a lot. It means you’re an awesome rebounder.

― Matt Armstrong, Monday, March 29, 2021 3:47 PM (twenty-two minutes ago)

yeah but it's like stressing how you grew your collection of 1 dollar bills while everyone else is playing with 10s and 20s and hundreds

1$ bills rain too though and some teams are really into that

The key thing I’m trying to stress here is that moving a basketball team from 50% rebounding rate to 52.4% is actually a lot. It means you’re an awesome rebounder.

― Matt Armstrong, Monday, March 29, 2021 3:47 PM (twenty-two minutes ago)

yeah but it's like stressing how you grew your collection of 1 dollar bills while everyone else is playing with 10s and 20s and hundreds

I guess that sentence works with or without the comma

$1 bills are important too as they give you more money, just not as much money as the other kinds of bills

rebounds are good but theres not any one nba skill where being elite makes you generally elite

there is one, and its called...hoopin

oh damn

Somebody get Jayson Tatum a map he’s out here lost on Ingram Island pic.twitter.com/GrOYvkdzEx

— ZION MVP (@PelicansNBA2) March 30, 2021

Dook players showing out tonight

Windhorst: The Lakers offered Schröder $84 million over 4 years and he said no to that extension

— pickuphoop (@pickuphoop) March 30, 2021

are you shitting me

lol what a dummy

A legend in his own mind, as they say.

This won’t end that badly for him but what a crazy decision. How much does he hate playing for the lakers?

that number seems solid for both sides

that would slot him in the van vleet / rozier / brogdon / dragic range which seems about right

https://www.spotrac.com/nba/rankings/point-guard/

hes well worse than all those guys IMHO, not a fan, shouldve taken that money

he's prone to untimely turnovers and he's not that great of a facilitator imo

his roll off the bench was great because he does come with energy and and a nice change of pace.

yeah def microwave type

Michael Porter Jr is shooting 45% from 3 on 6 attempts per game. Must be fun to do that

apparently jj redick went on his podcast and called the pelicans front office a bunch of liars. i guess i’ll have to track that down.

uh oh lol

apparently they told him they were gonna trade him to a team in new york city to be near his family then they traded him to dallas

i mean they should not have told him that if they werent going to follow through but also

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Ex044H9WUAIusn8?format=jpg&name=medium

yeah he admitted to being naive in thinking that a team would do him a favor like that.

interestingly he also felt that with jrue getting traded and stan getting hired he was going to lose a bunch of playing time which was accurate.

thing I just learned about jj:

His father's background as a stoneware potter led to his middle name, "Clay."

love a literal dad

haha

dallas is a good spot for him tho

Yea don't know why he's whining; he cried about the Sixers FO "not valuing me" or some similar BS when he left Philly too. If being close to family was so ungodly important to him above all else then don't sign with a team on the other side of the country away from them or just retire lol. The "Woe is me, I have to play in DALLAS with LUKA DONCIC for ~3 months on my massive undeserved $12+ million contract" pity party not a good look.

he specifically said he was excited about the fit in dallas.

i think his point was just that it’s not good to promise something you have no intention of delivering.

I'm pretty sure this magical "promise" he talks about was never along the lines of "We PROMISE to send you to NY at ALL COSTS or David Griffin will COMMIT HARA KIRI FOR HIS CRIMES". It was probably more along the lines of "Hey, we'll TRY to send you to a Northeast team, but your washed up play and bloated contract isn't gonna make that the easy for us". But JJ Redick isn't gonna say something that makes JJ Redick look like a liar or embellisher on JJ Redick's sponsored podcast of course lol.

i do love his pods tho

he said he had a direct conversation with griffin and that griffin gave him his word he would get him to the northeast if it wasn’t working in new orleans this season.

i have no idea why someone would make that up.

I mean dude also claimed Kenrich Williams departure was one of the deciding factors in him wanting a trade in the first place; I think at that point you're kinda looking for reasons to feel slighted or wronged lol. If he didn't pull this same routine with the last FO that dumped him when he flamed out at the end of his last contract, and this wasn't all being aired out on his own personal podcast echo chamber I'd be more willing to fully believe his side of things.

he didn’t really say that. he said they traded two of their versatile defenders making it less likely stan would give him playing time.