From my understanding right now… they are pretty significantly down a road where they are negotiating to the point where, if Rodgers ends up a Giant before the start of the league year, it would not be a shock to people in this area and at the Meadowlands,” Art Stapleton of NorthJersey.com said on The Pat McAfee Show Thursday.

Besides having a better overall record than all of them the Knicks are also 6-2 against the West teams ranked 4th thru 7th in SRS. 4 of those wins have been by double digits including wins by 37, 27 and 26 pts. But yeah sure they’re clearly better than the Knicks…

The Atlanta Hawks are 4-2 against BOS and CLE. Guess those teams aren’t “clearly better” than the Hawks, eh?

And it’s two guys becoming consistently good, rather than seemingly trading turns being wildly up and down; and well, EB may have punctured my Hart balloon, but maybe he learns to play through the pain?

That is a leap. OG and Bridges aren’t consistently good, they’re average to slightly above average starters in the NBA. That’s who they’ve been for their entire careers. Sometimes they’re great, sometimes they’re shitty, and the average is in the middle.

Going from that to consistently good IS a leap. That’s no more likely than Derrick White and Jrue Holiday going from consistently good to All-NBA level. What matters is expected value, not the variance of individual trials.

And SRS is nice and all, but although it’s from an article from a little while ago, at the time only 54% of league leaders in SRS won a chip. Which sounds like about half don’t, or half the time someone with a lower SRS wins a chip.

Is this supposed to be an argument against having the best SRS? Because 54% championship equity is fucking massive. The top SRS team is literally more likely than not to win a championship. A historically dominant SRS leader like OKC is probably significantly higher.

What percentage of the time does the 8th SRS team win a championship? It must be VERY low, because the only team below 6th to win a championship in the 3-point era is 1995 HOU, who added Drexler at the deadline and had won the previous year.