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its so clearly kd/steph/jokic/giannis in any order and then a drop off to whoever else

putting KD and giannis 1-2 is totally defensible. there’s just the one that really sticks out….

Anthony Edwards tonight: 38 Points 5 Rebounds 67% FG 10 Threes

The Lad is having some fun

The NBA 3PT shooting landscape is multi-faceted

⬆️⬅️ Good Shot Making, Low Shot Quality
⬆️➡️ Good Shot Making, High Shot Quality
⬇️⬅️ Poor Shot Making, Low Shot Quality
⬇️➡️ Poor Shot Making, High Shot Quality

Headshots & Scatter Plots Tool:https://t.co/Xnn6TCH5qD pic.twitter.com/9tNVuUEx3f

— BBall Index (@The_BBall_Index) December 21, 2021

dovetails with the recent ringer & athletic articles about how you can’t simply shot quality your way into good offense anymore bcuz every team knows to hunt threes and dunks/lay ups so more value is being placed on players who can consistently make “low quality” shots

obvs a lot of value in being able to consistently create ok shots too

its crazy everyone who agrees steph is the greatest shooter but i still feel like its underrated how much better he is than everyone else

isaiah thomas and talen horton tucker shot 2-24 and 0-14 from three last night. combined six points, four assists and three rebounds in 57 minutes

THT has been completely awful this year & may singlehandedly rank the lakers season given the guys they let go or didn’t acquire in order to keep him

tank*

Wasn’t he the reason they didn’t get hield?

no i thought that lebron just advocated for the westbrook deal instead of the hield deal

yeah. but they did choose him over caruso and reportedly declined to acquire kyle lowry at the deadline last year bcuz they didn’t want to include THT

yeah, those decisions aren't looking amazing

yah i was thinking of the lowry one. they would be infinitely better with lowry instead of russ

yes

The chart graphically shows that Dame has been having a horrible start to his season, up until a couple of games ago, AS ANYONE PAYING ATTENTION ALREADY KNEW. Amazing to me how the tweeted responses suddenly decide that Dame's worst ever run of games means he has never been anything but a pile-of-crap player. Hmmmph. Casuals.

dame's inability to get to the finals has put him in a space where nonfans don't understand his talent level

not a lot of guys get to the finals tbf (mainly lebron and steph and, in the past, tim "b." duncan)

the b stands for bargain

Cam Reddish dropped 34 on 6/10 from 3 in a really awful game

Keita Bates-Diop is the first player in Spurs franchise history to drop 30+ points on 100% shooting.

30 PTS
7 REB
11-11 FG
3-3 3P

Only 4 other players have done it since 2000.

— StatMuse (@statmuse) December 24, 2021

just how they drew it up

I would simply make all the shots

That's box scorigami!
per Bball-Ref that's the first 0-10-10 game in NBA history. https://t.co/gPc3EGVqUg pic.twitter.com/KErQtEEX05

— Todd Whitehead (@CrumpledJumper) December 27, 2021

Undrafted Heat rookie Omer Yurtseven with 16 points, 15 rebounds in a win

That 0-10-10 seems like something Dray or Rondo or Kidd woulda done at some point but i guess not

Youngest players in the NBA with a +/- better than +4.2

1) Evan Mobley: 20 yrs old, +5.1
2) Darius Garland: 21 yrs old, + 7.4
3) Jordan Poole: 22 yrs old, +5.4
4) Jarrett Allen: 23 yrs old, +5.4
5) Lauri Markkanen: 24 years old, +5.6

— Brayden Todd (@BraydenBallin) December 26, 2021

p fucked up how the cavs just improv'd their way into a good team

nuggets net rating with jokic on the floor = +10.0
nuggets net rating without jokic on the floor = -15.0

its crazy how good he is and how bad the rest of that team is right now, not fair 2 judge with their #2 and #3 best players out, but damn. he shd be mvp again but unless they have a better record ppl will sleep on him bc he won it last year.

jokic having one of the best seasons ever, prob not one of the best thirds of seasons, but you know if he keeps it up

giannis is putting up 28-12-6 as no worse than the second best defensive player in the NBA on a team that also hasn’t been healthy all year and has a better record in the tougher conference…

i have no problem with any of jokic, curry, kd, or giannis winning tbh

jokic has been definitively better IMHO and if he puts together an entire season like hes played so far he should absolutely win the MVP award but will prob not since he got it last year and there are other guys having great seasons too

the problem w/ the argument of “he won last year and now he’s even better” is that it ignores that last year every single one of his competitors for the award got hurt and missed significant time and so he kind of won by default. also that giannis was shadowbanned from the race.

jokic has been definitively better IMHO and if he puts together an entire season like hes played so far he should absolutely win the MVP award but will prob not since he got it last year and there are other guys having great seasons too

to be clear i think jokic should win it this year because hes been the best player

giannis might be a better player but jokic has played better

yeah see i think giannis is better and also has played better

statistically at least jokic is lapping the league, and is doing it with his two best teammates out, which i suspect giannis couldnt were you to trade him for jokic, however if you put joker on the bucks theyd score 200 points a game and still have excellent D, interestingly the team that would prob be better with giannis is the healthy nuggets

kinda funny that the bucks finally got over the top by giannis playing bigger now hes back to being an exclusively face up player again why is center giannis a break glass in case of emergency situation idk, celtics had him pretty bottled up before pooping out cause half their guys are in safety and protocol, and they didnt even have any players active who match up with him, marcus smart was guarding him half the time, so i think giannis still has the same questions about his game as always, unless you get him rolling to the basket then hes unstoppable lol

you could argue that jokic is statistically lapping the league *offensively* which btw i wouldn’t agree with but there’s the other side of the floor where giannis is on a completely different level, which is no shade at jokic who is def better on defense this year but giannis is capable of things on the defensive end that nobody else in the NBA can match & he does it every night. he has an ability to physically overwhelm games that puts him above everyone for me

we’ll see if a team gets the bucks in the playoffs this year bcuz giannis still isn’t a great shooter, completely possible. in the regular season it doesn’t really matter tho. he also might be shaq in an olympic athlete’s body who at the end of the day can’t be stopped, excited to find out

giannis is a truly game changing defender in a way you can prob only say about dray at this point, jokic has just been so good offensively tho, in fact hes been so good theres prob no chance he keeps it up all year which makes the convo at least re the mvp moot, but were he to keep it up all year i think he should be awarded for having one of the alltime great offensive seasons, because individual offense is better than individual defense

bucks defense hasnt actually been great this year fwiw, and theyre stacked with good to great defenders, so if were talking reg seas production not sure the defense can put giannis over the top rn

tho i suspect they will round into form before too long

anyway the mvp dumb but i do think joker deserves kudos and big ups for absolutely destroying the league under adverse circumstances

well he’ll be all nba first team center w/o a second of debate anywhere