Comments on: ESPN.com: Mitchell, Love rally Cavaliers past Knicks, 121-108

By: Nicos

Nicos — Wed, 02 Nov 2022 00:59:28 +0000

In the early days of the pandemic I started learning Steely Dan guitar solos, started with Kid Charlemagne and Don’t Take Me Alive. Larry Carlton.

I remember learning the Kid Charlemagne solo back in the day- it’s a great one break down because it’s series of pretty short distinct phrases strung together. It really lends itself to being learned a few bars at a time. And it’s great! Did you cheat and use a youtube tutorial?

By: Knick fan not in NJ

Knick fan not in NJ — Tue, 01 Nov 2022 09:22:27 +0000

Z-man I sort of agree, but I have to say that the actual paraphrased headline “Cavs rally in the fourth quarter to beat the Knicks” is nowhere near as humiliating as “Raptors rout Hawks 139 to 109”. But both teams do clearly want to prove they are better than their latest results.

By: Z--man

Z--man — Tue, 01 Nov 2022 04:08:47 +0000

The fact that ATL and NYK are both coming off of humiliating defeats makes Wednesday’s game even more intriguing…

By: ess-dog

ess-dog — Tue, 01 Nov 2022 03:40:01 +0000

Stevie’s not even my favorite Stevie (I’ve been on a huge Stevie Nicks bender lately), but so much of all that depends on what you happened to hear during your formative years for music (age 10-25?)

All of these musicians are incredibly talented. Some of my least favorite *cough John Mayer cough* are still musical maestros.

And instead of using the “genius” label, I would even like to put forth that there are many levels of musical genius… even artists who are only struck with moments of genius… one album or even one song.

So rather than pit artists against each other, I find it more satisfying to simply identify why certain music feel ingenious to me and hear about how others feel their favorite music is genius.

By: Early Bird

Early Bird — Tue, 01 Nov 2022 03:26:33 +0000

Markannen > DMitch

Vanderbilt > Gobert

The picks were just throw-ins

By: outlier files: geo

outlier files: geo — Tue, 01 Nov 2022 03:13:11 +0000

wow, what is up with the jazz?

By: Owen

Owen — Tue, 01 Nov 2022 03:02:37 +0000

Excited for PTMilo to parachute in with a Mitch/Hart breakdown

I am a Mitch partisan but the idea Hart might be better is not something I can discount too easily.

By: Early Bird

Early Bird — Tue, 01 Nov 2022 02:12:35 +0000

The rebounding with Mitch is weird. Randle, & RJ are down too.

Mitch is stepping out to block more shots, he’s putting up his best blks season since his rookie year, but maybe that’s tied to his worst—1/2 of his next worst—defensive rebounding season.

One of the improvements I previously liked from Mitch was him staying down more to be in better position for a DReb. Not sure if this is scheme, porous perimeter defense, or Mitch being too eager to “earn” his contract

Fwiw, on-off stats have Fournier and Randle responsible for the DRebing issues. I’m hoping games against anyone other than MIL/CLE fixes it…

By: DRed

DRed — Tue, 01 Nov 2022 02:02:06 +0000

Also, Hart has been better than Mitch defensively in both protecting the rim (4th in the NBA this year) and with his rebounding.

The samples are pretty small and it depends on what you mean by defending the rim. They’ve played about the same number of minutes and by nba.com’s tracking stats Hart has defended 36 shots at the rim and Mitch has defended 19. I don’t know if this stat takes blocks into account (Mitch has 15 and Hart has 6). Does this mean Hart is much more active defending the rim or that teams don’t shoot at the rim when Mitch is there (or maybe Mitch fouls them before they get a shot off). Are guys shooting at the rim more when Hart’s in the game because of some other guys who are on the court?

By: d-mar

d-mar — Tue, 01 Nov 2022 01:58:46 +0000

“ Trae Young with the rare points/assists/TOs triple-double”

Hopefully he can repeat that Wednesday night