I feel the need to share this, i’m having a tequila and ginger ale in church right now

Last year a friend showcased a piece he’d written for pipe organ in a church with a big fat pipe organ. There were some other artists, and I really enjoyed chillin in the pews with a can of beer (or several) while the kindly brother looked on. Probs the best religious experience I’ve had as an atheist.

Add this one to the pile.

I forgot about Kadeem, but he should be our backup PG (if we’re trying to win, which is debatable).

Frank’s ws/48 are at .034. It’s not like he’s a stellar option by the metrics, but that at least makes him a viable rotation player on an NBA team. I don’t particularly like his long term prospects, but Frank has been decent for us by the metrics. I do think not having a pg and forcing Frank to play there is detrimental to the team. As far as PGs go Frank is being overrated by the metrics. However, it’s not his fault he’s forced to play pg.

To reiterate, I don’t particularly like Frank. But he should get credit for being less shitty than most this dumpster fire.

Also, Dotson sucks and I don’t know why we give him minutes. He took about half his threes from 5ft beyond the arc. Maybe try being decent from three before taking heat checks. He was at 31% heading into tonight’s game.

I might be oversimplifying this here but Frank’s “unselfishness” often seems like “get this ball the fuck outta my hands.” It’s just really eye-squinty to suggest that the supposed unselfishness in and of itself has intrinsic value. He just doesn’t have the chops to create or score so he tends to make a lot of vanilla passes to whoever happens to be standing around. There’s a difference between “unselfish player” and “bad player.”

But on this team, he’s been a consistent plus relative to players with better metrics

yea no… don’t make stuff up and call me clueless….

put up or shutup… show your work or stfu….

at least we’re admitting that frank is bad now.. and not rationalizing how an 0 for 6 game was impactful….

Personally, I think that’s a clueless view. You are more consistent than Frank. That’s for sure. 🙂

He’s a plus defender and very bad scorer that on a net basis is still a negative. But on this team, he’s been a consistent plus relative to players with better metrics because of his defense and unselfish play. Since he’s so good on defense at this age when healthy, you give him a chance to develop into a 3&D/secondary play maker like a Marcus Smart, Patrick Beverley etc… that can be an impact role player on a team with solid #1 and #2 scoring options (which we don’t have yet) or you don’t know what you are doing. That kind of development takes several years. The kid is shooting around 35% from 3 after shooting 33% for France and has clearly improved his handle. Patience is a virtue. Bad basketball decisions are not.

I still feel kinda cool doing it…

Yeah I don’t think I’m buying “Frank has a chronic groin injury” as an explanation for him playing like he’s always played

It’s not chronic as in ALWAYS. It chronic in that it reoccurs more often than just a random injury. It’s a weak area that plagued him at the start of one season, again late last year, and now popped up for the first time again last week. The rest of his sucktitude is his own doing. 🙂