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Wasn’t sure if you had perused the national TV schedule. The only other game farther west tonight is NYK at POR, which doesn’t quite have the appeal or the names as DAL / OKC. The league certainly could have scheduled other premium games at that time (but didn’t). Just came off of a week watching late games on the West coast, so I feel your pain.
Yeah, exactly. Obviously making the schedule overall is really hard, but I have to imagine TNT doesn't want a super small market plus another central time team coming off a back to back and starting ~2 hours later than the typical in zone start time as the matchup that sets them up for success.
I did see that but I don’t think he deserves it and I also think his shine going to come off the next few weeks without Embiid there. He’s hurt and rundown and I’m just not sure he can be effective enough. Not that that should automatically disqualify him, but seems like late season acts impact these kinds of awards more than they should. I also think that he has improved but his true improvement was a little inflated based on the way that nurse unlocked the two man game with him and Joel.
Plus the coastal bias...
It’s funny watching teams slack way off of him and then as soon as he launches to shoot they all crash the boards lol.
Everything but the three is so good too. His per/36 numbers are sick. 17 pts, 9 rebounds, 6.5 assists, 1 block, 1 steal, 83% from the line. Still just 21. I bet he gets traded this offseason for a subpar return and a few years from now everyone is like what, he got traded for who?
Yea he’s a good player. All he has to do is get leave average at shooting deep.
Yeah it really does seem inevitable, but you never know with Presti. He needs to be the focal point and be surrounded by shooting.
It is a good point. Wonder what other teams would have such a drastic fall if they lost their star player.
I think Denver without Jokic is worse than you imply here.
I think OKC would be pretty bad without SGA. He drives everything they do. And while they have a very deep team, I think they would be like bottom 5 offense without him
We've already established that my math skills are suspect. Here are the best and worse lineup combos for BOS.
Based on WS/48, the Top 5 players in the league that qualify are Jokic, SGA, Giannis, Porzingas, and Luka. Embiid would rank 2nd if he qualified. Tatum is 15th. Not really sure what the secret sauce is to calculate WS/48, but Jaylen Brown is the 7th best Boston player (with Sam Hauser ranked directly behind him).
I think the measure of Luka’s value is that the Mavs would basically be the Wizards without him. They didn’t make the playoffs last year even with him and are in the bubble group this year.
They chose not to make the playoffs (play-in)
and stop sleeping with underage girls.
It’s interesting because Giddey becomes a much better player as the primary ball handler, which I think he’d be in this scenario. The key would be to replace Shai with someone that can shoot. Jdub is the second best player on the Thunder and it’d be really interesting to see how they do with him as the focal point of the offense. They’re gonna win 50+ and I am not sure they’d get to .500 without Shai, so I agree they should be a little lower on the list. Shai is a big part of why the defense is good too. Kevin Pelton mentioned him as and all-defense candidate on the Lowe Post this week
I agree that it’s all centered around SGA right now, but I think their depth plus daigneaults coaching would probably get them a little higher than that.
This makes no sense
Jokic is like -300 or worse everywhere. Tatum is like +5000. Jaylen isn't even on most boards
I totally agree and have been trying to find it directly on bovada, but nbadunkcentrla tweeted it and bovada twitter pinned it…
yea you suck!!
we're going to miss you
Liar
You sober?
They owe their first round pick to OKC so they may as well push as hard as possible.
They would keep it if top 4, so there was a small incentive to tank, but they also have Brooklyn’s pick, so the worse they play, the less that possibility matters.
