Style is the big difference. Lavine gets his offense off screens, handoffs, and transition. Those are generally efficient plays (and plays that are aesthetically pleasing to me personally). Every Wiggins play breaks down into an isolation. When you run him off screens, he catches it, turns his hip towards the basket and waits for his defender to get to him so he can run an iso. It's infuriating.

Wiggins has added P&R ball handling to his repertoire this year, which is an improvement.

Lavine allows his teammates to steal so many rebounds from him. He's nice. Towns is the worst rebound stealer ever to wear a TWolves uniform and Dieng and Bazz are really bad too. Wiggins is too easy to knock off balance, that's why he doesn't rebound or try. He also has bad hands. Never gonna get better imo.

Transition D is just awful. Wiggins never runs back. Towns never runs back. Rubio stabs for steals in the back court.

I don't hate Dood's trade but I'd want like 6 pick swaps too.

The real story is how awful Rubio has been this year after a career of pretty consistently good play. Not having to watch him anymore would be a bonus.

I think Dunn can be buried. He's an enormous dog to ever be good enough on offense. He's a total zero. Zero creation and zero shooting.

I think they will. They've made strides recently and I can def see them improving further as the season goes on.

Thanks Colin

congrats to mr keith boyarsky on winning the tz bowl tonight

In the last two games LeBron has had 24 assists, 21 of which led to a dunk, layup, or 3 pointer. Pretty amazing.

It's truly incredible how good KD is at basketball. His shooting numbers are so so good, the many haters basically have nothing to go at him.

Some of those numbers :

-30.8 PER
-68.1 TS% (leads the league)
-80% at the rim
-42% from 3
-60% from >16ft 2pointer

But yeah let's keep barnes for CHEMISTRY

Yeah nothing to go at him except him being a shook loser

In other news rox with record 50 3pa. Shot 42% surprisingly. Lol Kangz

Will Cavs Warriors be even better than last year?

Don't think that is possible

Remember when certain people were saying rapm eliminated all sample size issues?

KD and George Hill both having absurdly efficient scoring numbers so far. Excited to see if Hill can sustain it.

James Harden

Good post Cina.

It's definitely fair to criticize kd joining the Warriors, even if it's his right. However, there seems to be some truth behind his comments on rwb. Also, although he's good enough to ISO, he certainly benefits from the heavy ball moment on offense.

Both Towns and Dieng are top 10 in deferred REB chances, so the numbers actually say the opposite.

Most overrated player itt

Dallas is so, so bad. Putrid. That's all I've got for now.

More overrated than George Hill?

Nah

Well he's a below average point guard so he probably can't

Just when I thought the jazz and their players couldn't get more overrated in here, we're talking about Gordon Hayward making Boston a contender. LOL

good counter argument

Wiggins dunk was unreal but that's not a posterization- JaVale took a bad angle

lol whatever numbers those are. I wonder if those numbers are skewed by Towns repeatedly knocking rebounds OOB that his teammates were gonna grab uncontested.

He's still a bitch tho

Ya sure he is, both are not exclusive

With how good the Warriors are this year I just can't imagine the butthurt I'd feel right now if the Cavs didn't come back to ship last year. It'll still suck if the Warriors win the title this year but holy **** if this was for the 3-peat I'd be so depressed.