I listened to that pod and I didn't see him as out on Kyrie at all?

He said Kyrie needs to be more aggressive because he is 1 of the 5 most unstoppable scorers in the league. Don't remember him saying anything negative about him.

Nugs in 7 instead of Nugs in 6?

Is something wrong with Kuzma's shot this season? Not sure when shooting percentage stabilizes, but think 250 shots is enough to be concerned that he's under 30%. Was it just that last year he ran really hot and he's actually a below average shooter (which would be consistent with his college career).

Quote from Bembry on Schroder is amazing:

“He’s a competitor, and that’s one thing I did like about him.” Man, I know it's been talked about peripherally around the league with no real open stories on it, but Schroder must be an absolutely terrible teammate.

It's partially lol Lakers, but it's also because he's been hurt. I think it's the 2nd time in his career that he's missed 10 games in a season, and the 1st time ever that he's missed 10 games before the all-star break.

Simmons is right about kyme.

What did he say? I didn't hear the part on the pod where he talked negatively about him, don't think he did.

They had two pods. Just had one on Simmons feed instead of the Lowe post. Just said Kyrie talks a big game about leadership, but he's a lousy leader.

House Jr ran out of games on his 2 way contract and Morey won't budge on offering more than the minimum over 3 years. Sucks, can't really blame either party for their position. He'll get some contract this summer regardless and Morey can't really afford to give him money based on limited sample. Nunnaly in I guess. Seems like he can stand on a corner.

Yeah but the supporting cast has been unusually trash. This is what it would've look like if the Cavs didn't trade Wiggins for Love and Kyrie turned into Michael Carter-Williams. Not trading for Kawhi/Butler looks like a serious, serious misjudgement.

Not trading for PG13 was also a serious, serious misjudgment. And not trading for AD will be an even more serious, serious misjudgment. I hope they don't botch that up, but I'm not optimistic given their track record.

Seems like Rockets have all the leverage here and he'll sign for close to what they are offering. He's not good enough to get much more than min as FA, so he's taking a big risk not signing now as he's costing himself about 500k this year plus chance he gets injured. Seems like a guy that is pretty much only good in a situation like Houston where he doesn't have to do anything on offense other than stand in a corner. Hard to judge D on team like Houston, but his DBPM has been pretty bad.

It does show an interesting issue with two-way contracts as if a player plays well, team has huge leverage to force him to sign multi-year below market contract.

I think House has more leverage than that though. He's played much better than any of the pickups they've had from the G-league, in particular on defense. There's a very good chance they offer him the same deal or more as the season progresses. The only thing he has to fear is them finding a better option, but that seems low.

My guess is his agent knows exactly what his market is here and has talked to other teams.

Most people would use the information gathered and determine that the West is a lot harder than the East.

They were. In a ridiculously close WC. They were closer to the 9th seed than the 2nd seed at the time.

750 attempts is the # I have seen for when 3p% becomes 50/50 signal to noise, which is to say it is crazy volatile. Klay has never shot under 40% for a season and shot ~33% throughout his first first ~280 attempts this year (October-December). I think he was under 30% for a long time.

Kuzma will prob be fine. This is well within normal variation for a guy who shot 37% last year even accounting for Lebron. Idk that he is a 40%+ kind of shooter, but he can shoot. Also takes fairly difficult 3’s I think?

I don't get the Kyrie hate. He's second among all point guards in RPM, only behind Harden. Boston has a +6.0 point differential this year, second in the East and third best in the league behind only MIL and GS. Last year they had a +3.6 point differential, they were just running way above expectation last year and are running below expectation this year. Do people actually think Boston is better without him?

I think the issue is, and Bill Simmons says it pretty eloquently, that the team just does not seem happy with Kyrie compared to last year. Sure HE'S been awesome, but perhaps he's taking away from how the rest of the team plays, and perhaps it has less to do with the way he plays than just guys having less joy when on the court with him.

please enjoy my original meme

theory: daryl morey signed MCW over the offseason because he realized that every team thought he was the shark in the room and refused to do business with him. so, he had to light money on fire buying a very speculative asset, if MCW turns it around in the rockets system he's a genius, but if he (expectedly) sucks then morey can say "cool every other team in the league thinks i'm a dumb dumb for losing all these guys and then signing MCW, maybe i can get a good trade offer now"

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The issue isn't what's happening when he's on the court, it's when he's off.

Boston's offense has dead periods when he's sitting - punctuated by other teams going on massive runs that Boston can't stop either with quality defense or by getting momentum interrupting buckets. Tatum will almost certainly become that type of scorer, but he's not there yet.

It doesn't seem that the players have problems with Irving's execution role; however, his showing up of Hayward (regardless if Hayward opted out of the play call too early) and presser calling out younger teammates are bad looks and can't help unify an emotionally fragile group.

It would be nice if Boston makes a stand against Toronto at home tonight

this is amazing

Talk is cheap.

Real leaders lead by example.

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