Here, I'm not sure the stat they used for wins produced.. This is a few days old (Denver not leading the conference), so Denver's bubble has even grown from here because they've been out 3 starters:



So most games missed by far, most "wins" missed.

I'm not ready to label Knox a bust, but I have doubts about his ability to ever be an all-star and there is a good chance that the guys taken after him, Mikal Bridges and Shai Gilgeous-Alexander, will make Knox look like a bad pick even if he ends up being a useful player.

Yeah opponent 3pt percentage has been running hot, but it's been about has hot as their own 3 point percentages have been running cold. The weird part is neither are really regressing or progressing. Denver allows a ton of corner 3's, but they have been elite this year at getting the ball to end up in poor shooters' hands in that spot.

I think they are running equally hot defensively as they are cold on offense atm.

Knox is 3 years younger than Mikal Bridges

He's the 3rd youngest player in the NBA and his December numbers are 17 6 2 1 0.5 while shooting 40% from 3 on 6.5 3pa per game


BUST

Not that this really matters but:

Pacers hire first female assistant GM, Kelly Krauskopf

which would be an awesome story...if it hadn't already happened 40 years ago. The Pacers hired Nancy Leonard (Husband of then-coach and current radio guy Bobby "slick" Leonard) as the Assistant GM from 1967 and she worked until 1980. She helped run the front office during three ABA championship runs and during the ABA-NBA transition.

Again, not a huge thing, but goddamn Woj, do some research.

Not to mention Kevin McHale

Fox with only 6 minutes. WCS with only 7. I'm assuming they got benched for effort or something. Anyone watch?

Hope KC is watching the Jazz Rockets he would love the two foul calls that just went down.

Book3r just clowning the New York Dolans.

Wait, hold on, is that...TJ Warr3n’s music?

Mudiay is good, Knox is ok. Lol FIZ.

Murdered Kanter Level: Erdogan

Listen buddy you're not going to be laughing about tonight's game come DRAFT time.

Nice 3 game win streak you guys got going

I don’t think it’s a good look to be replying to a year-old post when you just beat a team that may or may not be giving two craps if they win the game or not.

Ehhhh, they were trying. They were up 7 at the half! 16 o rebounds!!

Mavs, Wolves, Knicks not trying.

Cs next!

It blows my mind that Avery Bradley is still in the rotation, much less playing starting minutes.

id tend to agree, but its a really good tweet

JJJ with three points and four bounds.

*waits for internet to tell me wellActually*

Does it tho

Re: Knox being a bust.

Really? I don't see how you can judge a 19 year old good or bad. I mean one player is a future MVP who healed the heart of a city and the other is a huge lottery bust.

My God, I was smart to sell Donovan Mitchell stock during 2017 SL when lol ReddBoiling was stupidly pimping his ass

And all last year when (almost) all you scrubs were too

So happy I never have to see rivers play a minute in a suns uniform!

Which brought up another question on Twitter. If you swapped Monte Morris for Donovan Mitchell would Utah be better? Someone else brought up Mudiay and that's when I looked at the comparison.

Trying to be completely unbiased, is Mudiay a worse prospect than Mitchell? Emmanuel has elite size for a PG and can get by anyone with his long first step and has made major strides in what he does once in motion. Donovan just isn't that good right now overall, so we're banking on him having a high ceiling. The question is, isn't Mudiay's ceiling higher given his pedigree and the leaps he has taken? Assuming he keeps this up of course, which could very well look foolish come seasons end. The fact is as of now he's done more with MUCH less, and I wonder how much different he'd look if he had Joe Ingles as a shooter and Gobes to catch lobs.

Yes Donovan takes a ton more shots, but would Mudiay be that much less efficient if he simply stepped on the gas a little more in Utah's role? How about Monte, who's ranked in the 90-99th percentile from floater, midrange, and 3 point land? Sure his accuracy would take a hit, but turning the ball over approximately 1.6 times less/36 accounts for a ****ton of effieicncy. Defensively I have no idea how Mudiay is, probably bad, but how bad does he look with Rudy playing behind? Monte has been awesome on that end, but he has per-minute DPOY candidate Ma$e as his back-line.

Yes Utah would be better with Monte Morris.

Their rim protection would also be better with jokic instead of gobert