The ironic thing is that this argument will never be resolved because KAT wouldn’t dare iso as much as Randle does.

To the contrary, the “argument” — it really isn’t one other than to Z-Man — is completely “resolved.”

Championship aspiration teams don’t want 4s with a 553 TS%, low BBall IQ, and high propensity for turnovers running iso for themselves. That’s a straightforward, mainstream basketball statement that’s easy and straightforward to understand and doesn’t warrant a bunch of pedantic caveats, asterisks, or wait-a-second-thoughs.

If you want to move up in the basketball world, you don’t defend and rationalize Julius Randle’s isos — you rid yourself of them.(*)

The offense didn’t become completely dysfunctional here as a result because of elite offensive rebounding and multiple possessions (i.e. Moneyball). That isn’t a championship formula. OTOH, being top three in ORat, TS%, and eFG% (where the Knicks stand after two games, as hoped for) is.

(*) This has been the case virtually from the moment he got rolling as a Knick. Hallelujah they finally did it.

There’s never been a movie in my long cinema experience where my opinion deviated so much from the critics’ as The Substance. Terrible movie — long, pedantic, inartful, distrustful of the audience. There was one Metacritic outlier, Dana Stevens, who had the stones to call it like it is. Kudos to her.

not overly squeamish, scary enough though that i’ll probably wait a while, i liked the premise a lot though…

ha, reminds me of my hesitancy to watch nomadland, took me years to finally watch that film, i knew it would hit hard…

well, if you haven’t seen it yet, i can totally recommend The Wild Robot…one of the kids fell asleep, the other liked it though, as did i…

looking forward to watching the new alien movie once it hits free streaming…

Just that statement alone is enough to make me not give a shit about what you think.

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It’s kind of cool the Nets have Cam Thomas

Can Thomas! I have no idea what he looks like, but I know have a guess as to who was in the League Pass cover photo. Thanks!

absolutely fucking done with friends wanting to know if I’ve seen the Substance.

You’d have to pay me to see that. Which isn’t too day I assume it’s bad; just so aggressively Not My Thing….