JACK is such a great mentor for the French Prince though! 🤣🤣🤣

Was that Wade game in the Finals?

Reggie Bullock 2 strong for the lolspurs

Knicks really rolling with Noah down the stretch???

Noah is their best defensive center

KP strong in the money time

KNICKS WINNNNNNNNNNNN

SUCK ON THAT ONE NEW ORLEANS.

Rondo end game showed its ugly head there. Defender 9 feet off and he burns 4 seconds then makes an ordinary swing pass to a covered teammate.

Warriors are just an unsolvable riddle on offense when Curry is on the floor.

Team D.Mitchell showing team LBJ whats up currently

Grizz 67% from 3, down by 18.

awarding a TO there is so bad.

Ideally, live ball timeouts just wouldn't exist. FIBA style. But at the very least, only the guy with the ball should be able to call TO.

pelicans should be embarrassed that they couldn't run noah off the floor.

edit: looks like nuggets might have sniffed the based god curse

So Donovan Mitchell split in December, a month jazz played 8 top 5 teams and 4 b2b

23.1/3.4/3.8 + 1.8 steals on 51/36/88 shooting splits

In october he couldn't make a lay-up he was driving to the basket without any control, in December he now drives without effort and finish at a high % while averaging 3 more FT per game

His progression is spectacular, Court vision has also improved a lot in 2 months.

Rookie of the year coming

Phew

What a crap game though, the MoML rungood they had at Portland and GSW bit them in the ass.

Who you guys got for your all star starters!?

Thanks, I'll hang up and listen now.

Meant to comment on this yesterday. I'm not sure it's the best way to sort by the stat, but it's much better than average ages of the team. Denver and Boston are the only winning teams in the top 5, but that number is a bit misleading because you're getting a good portion of minutes of your "top player" minutes from guys like Horford and Kyrie on the Celtics who are 31 and 25 respectively. On Portland, who ranks 9th on that list, you're getting most of your production from Dame and CJ who are 27 and 26 respectively.

Denver's two best players rn are Jokic and Harris, who are 22 and 23, which is a big difference than having two really good players that are 25+ and then a bunch of 19 year old role-players around them.

The Nuggs have surpassed every promising "young" team out there with the exception of maybe Philly, and I think those two are very close. If it weren't about chips only then I'd even take Denver, but you can't argue against Embiid's potential GOAT equity and what will happen if Fultz/Simmons play to the level where they were drafted.

With that said, Denver being on pace to win 47 games with their "best" players being the youngest bodes well for their future imo.

Jamal and Trey having seasons that blow expectations out of the water really changes their projections.

Mitchell and Murray vs the elite combo-ish guards of the last decade. Notice how Jamal is the youngest of the bunch but is numbers are right there with them.

And another thing about Jamal (sorry guys!), he's not just putting up numbers on a bad team or in bad lineups. Denver's bench suuuuuuuuucked last year evidenced by their -7 net-rating when Jokic sat, yet Jamal who played 72 games as a reserve last year posted a +2.1 net and a +3.7on/off. This year as a starter with Jokic he's posting a +5.8 net and +11.1 on/off.

In the seven games Jokic missed this year he was a +56, and they went 3-4 in that stretch.

that's a solid point wrt age of the most productive players, but i think mp will correlate pretty well there most of the time. maybe you could weight by win shares or by mp*[some rate stat]

Yeah I like the "ratings" stat. WS could be one but that would probably overrate role-players to an extent. Maybe something like rankings of ((WS48+BPM+RPM+PER)/4) * MP. Then again I think that would be a good way to come up with any sort of player rankings.

There needs to be a way of separating a team like Portland who has two studs >25 playing with a bunch of scrubby 19 year olds from Denver who's youngs are their best players.

I was an enthusiast for this (based on video-clips last year) and thought he was likely a lock for HoF. Not so much any more.

Otoh, I think the Knacks have bona fide chip equity in 2021.

The CANTZ lost b2b home games to the Mavs and Knacks? ICK.

Minny is in good shape to get the #4/#5 seed. The first round matchup between OKC or Denver is going to be lit.

Yeah, agreed. I hope it’s you guys, that would be super fun.

OKC is really unlucky not to be like 24-12 right now, very unlikely they finish below 4 seed.