I’m not sure why Kevin Love would want to continue playing there. He’s a very good player, took a back seat to James and Irving without whining much, and is constantly a scapegoat even though he’s clearly not the problem. What was really laughable is that Isiah Thomas had the nerve to bring up defense and compare the Cavs to the Celtics when he is one of the worst defensive PGs in the entire league.

Love wanted to play in important games and win a title. He’s done that. Time to ask for a trade.

I don’t want to have a Kobe Assist debate, but without question the offense is more likely to get an offensive rebound off some shot locations than others. So if one player often misses from an area that provides a lot of offensive rebounds and another from an area that provides few, there will be a difference to the offense.

In fact, Phil Jackson use to use that very argument to defend some mid range shots.

(paraphase) He said that when people were looking at the TS% on 3s vs. 2s, they were taking into account the greater probability that you would get fouled on a 2, but not that some mid range locations were more likely to produce an offensive rebound than 3s. He said if you added in all the extra times you got the offensive rebound and scored, the debate was a lot more interesting.

What he didn’t fully elaborate on was which locations he was talking about.

He also said that 3s from certain locations are more likely to produce rebounds that lead to easier fast breaks against you. So even though they were very efficient, you couldn’t stop the analysis there.

I don’t know if he’s right about any of that, but he easily could be.

It’s weird how ‘decent’ Woodson was in retrospect, lol.

Heck, like I said the other day, Zeke is sadly relatively high on the list of Knick coaches post-Van Gundy! They’ve had so many bad coaches it is insane.

Edit: by ‘weird’ I mean ‘sad’.

Yeah, I’ve always been a Spoelstra fan. Man, it is kind of crazy that the Knicks have really only had one good coach in the past 16 years. And even D’Antoni was a real dick at times, but at least he was legitimately a very talented coach.

To be fair, I also liked Hornacek a lot in Phoenix at the start.

They should just give Spoelstra coach of the year right now.

On a scale of total bullshit to Donald Trump, how much bullshit is that article?

I would not be shocked if the Spurs briefly explored trades for Leonard and then quickly decided not to do it. So I don’t think it’s probably all that bullshit.