I really like the concept but I’m not sure it’s scalable and translates to the NBA. Let me know what you guys think…

Here is a decent read. https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6665943/2025/09/29/sports-training-cla-coaching-wembanyana-ohtani/

Glad I have other things to do on Sundays…

(I was actually thinking they should walk him…)

Did you happen to look at Denver’s stats page in the playoffs last year?

Let’s look at their rotation players who posted positive BPMs in the playoffs: Jokic (10.7, shocker!), Gordon (2.2) Murray (2.1) and Braun (1.0). They all happened to be starters.

Their 5th starter, Michael Porter Jr., posted a -2.2 BPM.

Their 6th man, Russell Westbrook, had a -2.0 BPM.

Everyone else that played was fucking terrible. Their 7th man, Peyton Watson, played 14mpg and while he had a reasonable -0.1 BPM, put up a TS% of .477. on a 16.1% usage. No one else averaged 10+ mpg.

So, if your team has no depth at all plus a total zero in the starting lineup, and no one else on the bench who can be trusted to play at all in a critical playoff series, then yeah, 36yo Russ isn’t going to bail you out. Nor should he have ever been in that position.

Similarly, if one of our starters falls off a cliff like MPJ did, and the bench’s only viable player is Clarkson, we are going to lose in the first or second round, and guess what? It will hardly be because of Clarkson.

I mean, wtf are you even talking about? You think that Leon should have someone else on a minimum salary that could play the 6th most minutes who could possibly make up for being only 4 deep above him?

Whatever, I will go as far as to agree that if Jordan Clarkson is our 5th best rotation player averaging over 20mpg in the playoffs while posting a -2.0 BPM, we are definitely in big trouble.

My dad wasn’t a basketball fan at all so for most of my childhood in NY it was all about the Yankees and even watching plenty of Mets games too.

Can’t believe the shirt has held up this long, although I haven’t worn it for quite a few years.

my formative moments I think were the Bomb Squad, the Pitino Knicks, and listening to Clyde on the radio

Not sure if I mentioned it here or not, but the Bomb Squad t-shirt that was a free giveaway at a Knicks game I went to in 1989 was destroyed in the Pali fire. Whenever a fellow ex-NYer would come over, and we’d get on the inevitable subject of disappointing knicks moments, I’d dust it off and wear it for a laugh. Despite my dislike for the Dolan Knicks, that shirt was one of the truly few “irreplaceable” possessions I lost. I still reach for it just to find it not there.