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Brian, I have a suggestion for the newsboy. Maybe it could also link to video clips of the coaches talking about the recent game. Like today that would be Mike Brown and Tiago Splitter. I mention Splitter also because sometimes it’s interesting to know what our opponents think of us. I know that’s probably more complicated than just including Mike Brown postgame stuff, because any Mike Brown post game conference is relevant, but only two of Soliter’s post game conferences in a season are of interest to Knicks fans and it might be hard to sort just those two out.
Overall fun, if exhausting, game. Special props to Shaedon Sharpe, who seems to no longer be just a high-flying dunker (but clearly still has that game!). Lots of Knick heroes in this one, though. Josh, Mitch, Jalen, OG. Even Bridges had a quiet but efficient night. 18-6-6 with 4 stocks.
I was fine with Tyler sitting this one out. A lot of long, hyper-athletic opponents. Not a great set-up for success.
maybe the newsboy doesnt need to get up so early
Noble asked this a few days ago and I’ve been thinking about it since:
I’m pretty sure the answer came to me last night: Mike Brown’s offense requires KAT to make decisions.
It’s hard for me to blame Brown here. This is the correct way to incorporate all four guys on offense. If you inserted average KAT shooting numbers instead of the garbage he’s been shooting, we would have the best offense in the NBA.
And frankly KAT’s whole “I’m the one being asked to sacrifice” martyr bullshit really rubbed me the wrong way. And I can’t imagine his teammates loved hearing it, either. OG and Mikal and Deuce and Josh make an average of 3 sacrifices per possession to cover for him on defense.
We played a lot better without him last night. But we won’t always have Mitch on hand to do that. IMO this is increasingly becoming like the Nomar Garciapparra situation in 2004, with him sulking away in the dugout while the team rallies without him.
My default position all year has been to not break up the team because this is our all in year. But if KAT isn’t going to buy in, the all in year isn’t going to succeed. I’d give him to the trade deadline to get it together or send him packing if he doesn’t.
only concern is that his bad play or his benching would play a role in us getting less than value for him at the trade deadline
Also worth pointing out his Minnesota tenure ended very similarly, i.e. with him getting benched in 4Qs while the team played better with Naz Reid and Rudy Gobert.
He responded incredibly well to getting traded. He looked super motivated at the start of last season, and we all thought we won that trade in a landslide.
It was a great first impression. But KAT’s been the biggest underperformer on the team for over a year now.
Really? I get that he’s underperforming this year but I thought he played fine in the playoffs, overall, and last year this time people were losing their minds over the Bridges trade because of how underwhelming he was.
I don’t know what a KAT trade would look like? JJJ from Memphis?
The problem with trading KAT is there aren’t a lot of teams that would have any interest (or are dumb enough to do it) and have contracts that are actually large enough to make it work. For example, I bet Chicago is shortsighted enough to talk themselves into KAT but all of their contracts are in the 10-20 million range so it’s hard to make a deal work.
Or, in an alternative universe, we could say we won a hard-fought game with KAT going a hyper-efficient 9-13 for 20 points, shooting 67% from three, with 11 rebounds in less than 28 minutes, and had 3 assists and two blocks.
But what’s the fun in that.
Underwhelming and underperforming are different. KAT’s benchmark is higher than Mikal’s, and Mikal was never so far beneath his career norms as KAT currently is.
Plenty of space for that conversation, too, Raven. This is what’s on my mind but it doesn’t have to be the only thing we talk about.
Re. KAT, I would still like to see him deployed more frequently alongside four other shooters. I don’t think the Knicks have done it enough this year, due to injuries and other issues. I’m not sure he had many possessions last night without Hart or Mitch? He’s a weird player in that he needs to be deployed properly, and it doesn’t seem like Brown is doing that enough in terms of lineup construction.
Lineups I’d like to see, in addition to the Deuce lineup sans Hart:
Towns/Bridges/OG/Deuce/Shamet
Towns/Bridges/OG/Deuce/Kolek
Towns/OG/Shamet/Deuce/Brunson
Look, the Knicks offense is excellent when Towns is on the floor, even with his poor shooting (it’s a 123.14 ORtg. 6.11 NRtg). His effect on the offense goes beyond his individual shooting, and I think they should still continue to find ways to maximize it.
It is reciting facts, but not the truth. Our 60 million dollar player needed to be benched for the team to function in a winning manner.
BTW, Time Lord looked pretty spry last night. Any way to get a 15 minute a game guy?
Who is the overall best center in Eastern Coneference since the trade?
If you answer KAT and somehow think we lost the trade, you’re either disengenuois or confused but you’re definitively not right.
i dunno jalen duren maybe? i say that in a totally nondisengenuois manner
Not helpful at all in advancing logical evidence based conversation…& its getting a little long in the tooth for entertainment purposes too.
I agree completely.
The only reason you trade KAT this year is if he refuses to buy in and forces another player vs coach situation. Not for shooting slumps, not for bad defense, not for his three dumb fouls a game.
Normally I’d say just fire the coach but it’s like whac-a-mole with these guys. No one can keep all three of OG, Mikal, and KAT happy. And none of them are the guy we need to keep happy anyway.
Jalen Duren is the NBA player I most don’t want to have angry at me, but he’s not the best center.
That’s sort of being damned by faint praise, isn’t it. It isn’t whether in a vacuum KAT has more value than Randle and DIVO, but rather, are KAT’s flaws too limiting for the team’s ultimate goal. Is there a better path?
I think the much more interesting story line is the Josh Hart Effect. I know it’s N=1 game-wise, but for all of his four turnovers, each of which were more jarring and horrible than the last, the difference throughout the team when he’s playing is kind of astonishing. Almost night and day.
Well, Joel Embiid when healthy is easily the best center but those days are past him, I think.
After that…it’s probably either KAT or BAM? If you prefer decent offense with great defense, then it’s BAM.
I’m less concerned about KAT being sat to close out a game as long as he’s ok with that. honestly, if Brown is serious about riding the hot hand/unit that is winning us the game then everyone should be cool with being sat under the right circumstance.
But I will say this. I looked at the tweet photo from after the game of the team when they hand out the DPOG award and the team takes a team photo. I think Mitch got it last night. Anyways, if you look at that photo, everyone is smiling but KAT is way back in the back and he has a pretty neutral look on his face.
So if he has to be sat once in awhile and is cool with it, no problem. If he has to be sat once in awhile and it’s adding to him being upset, then no bueno.
He did have a pretty efficient game last night before then. So I could also see why he might be upset. He was on his way to having one of his better games this season.
Good thing we face sacto next.
It’s not even that! I accept KAT’s flaws.
We can win a championship with this year despite everyone’s flaws.
But if one person doesn’t like the system and won’t buy in, we won’t win a damn thing.
My apologies, I meant the 2025 NBA Cup Champions won’t win another damn thing.
It’s weird because there isn’t even a Knicks “system”. This is not the Heat or the Celtics. They do stuff, but I don’t think it’s very clear cut that they lean one particular way.
Sometimes I think KAT doesn’t like that the team doesn’t find him enough shots from deep, but then I change my mind when I see him refusing to take open shots and instead drive to his left and falling on the floor.
I’d go for smaller pieces that fit , not another star. Something like KAT and Yabusele to the Clippers for Zubac, John Collins, and Derrick Jones. Let Ballmer have another big name all star. We get championship caliber defense and rebounding (and the team IQ goes up a lot).
I wonder whether KAT wanted Thibs gone too?
Interesting, Hubs. I think JJJ would be a great get for us.
He is a plus defender. We all know we need to surround Jalen with defense. Upgrading on that end of the floor with JJJ not only rids us of a negative defender but also rids us of the KAT and JB condrum.
He’s listed as a PF but is 6′ 10″ – I think he could easily play center. And he averages 18 points a game and shoots 36% from 3. Definitely a bit of a downgrade on that end from the best version of KAT but still, no slouch. And I wouldn’t put him in the star category. It’s not like he’s averaging 25 a game. He’s more like Mikal and OG…capable of getting 30 some games but usually good for 15 to 20, which maybe might be better for our team. It’s like we’d be trading a number 2 option for another number 3 option but a plus defender.
I mean – JB, Deuce, Mikal, OG and JJJ with Hart as the 6th man? Sounds pretty good to me! Plus JJJ might benefit from a post-trade bump getting traded from bad team to one that is possibly going to the finals this year.
Where do we sign?
JJJ is a horrible rebounder. To surround him with OG and Bridges is asking for losing your greatest asset. He is pretty weak as far as offensive efficency is concerned.
And KAT is a horrible defender, right? I mean, you give to get. JJJ is 26 years old. Also, I feel like rebounding is one of those things that can be very dependent on who you share the floor with. KAT has always been a good rebounder but his numbers went up when he was traded here because he no longer started with Gobert and we needed him to rebound more.
i know that per is only one measure and probably a lot of folks here hate it but it can serve as one single data point for this season it has the best centers in the east as duren embiid paul reed (yes he qualifies) kat luka garza sarr queta porzingis bitadze bagley for last season it would tell you mark williams kat embiid jarrett allen porzingis moe wagner duren vucevic poeltl day’ron sharpe
some of you guys are acting out the ‘we’re all trying to find the guy who did this’ meme. the “problem” isn’t jalen and it’s not kat having to make more decisions. kat if anything is making fewer decisions, and his drop in passes per touch is one of the more notable tracking changes in the new system (next to jalen dropping 2.5 drives per game and going from the world leader in dribbles per touch to out of the top ten). brown is trying to implement more motion, quicker decisions and more optionality in favor of preset plays. these are not things that tend to favor kat. his post ups have dropped quite a bit, and when he does run delay they clearly want him to act quickly. he’s also playing a bit less, which i doubt he loves. it hasn’t really resulted in a sea change in production, but it surely doesn’t feel fun to have a new system that seems to err toward the mikals and deuces of the world when you are already so blatantly second banana.
here is kat his last two years in minny with and without ant:
with: 29.5 pts per 100
w/out: 39.5. per per 100
it made absolutely no difference if he was playing with extremely classic point guard mike conley or not. this follows one of the most reliable and intuitive lineups truths in nba history: high volume scorers generate diminishing marginal returns. here is the same kat/jalen result since the trade.
with jalen: 29.3 pts per 100
w/out jalen: 40.0 pts per 100.
this year that delta is actually trivially smaller. kat is at 28.2 with jalen on and 38.0 without him. the fact that he is scoring 34 per 100 with kolek in 272 minutes is probably a complete red herring overwhelmingly due to 90% of those minutes coming without another elite scorer on the floor (not to say kolek couldn’t help slightly). he actually scores a lot more in non jalen minutes when kolek is out (surely noise). again, it’s shockingly rare for a “good” point guard to make a big difference to the statistical output of a any player that isn’t primarily a dunking roll man or a bruce bowen type. playing with another elite scorer, on the hand, matters just about every time.
it’s just so tempting to notice jalen doing a bunch of hero ball shit and think you see some just so story about ego that nobody else sees. but pretty much every great scorer who isn’t say, top ten of all time, necessarily comes with large pockets of erring toward heroism within their still awesome distribution. and excessive solo-ing is always indistinguishable from egotism to the human eye. there is a great deal of ruin in a nation (admittedly, hits a bit different these days).
the kat jalen offense scored 122.2 last year and 125.7 this year. the ant/kat offense scored 118.1 the two years prior to the trade. i am all for any conversation about whether we are maximizing jalen/kat together. personally, i was hoping they’d have more pnr synergy, but i gave up on that early. but the question should be tempered by the possibility that kat’s output alone isn’t going to tell us a lot about how much upside is plausible, because some version of significant sharing is inevitable, and it’s not at all obvious that alternatives where jalen scored less would make a net positive difference given the trade offs it would require. just screaming into the wind that we need to be jalen but be even better is just that. for all we’ve seen of jalen’s tendency to sometimes overdo it, it’s worth remembering that among the 24 guys with usage over 30% (using ctg method of combining assists and scoring in usage) jalen is one of only two players (SGA) with a tov rate below 9%.
of course, i definitely agree that if kat gets disgruntled enough this could become a problem even if it hasn’t actually been much of a problem to date.
That makes perfect logical sense until you need shotmakers on the road in the playoffs to advance. See video for details.
https://www.reddit.com/r/nba/comments/1k9dl2f/highlight_karlanthony_towns_hits_two_clutch/
Ok, but…
^ these are exactly the things I was talking about. Options are decisions. And Brown’s offense forces KAT to do what he can’t do on defense, either: think quickly.
I can see why this makes him miserable. He’s used to his brain only killing him on one side of the floor. Now it’s impacting both.
so if josh hart is our best fit (everything pivoting around jalen) for shooting guard, and OG is our best small forward – what to do with mikal…
maybe KAT and mikal together can bring in some draft picks as well as fill the need for a starting center and power forward…
Kat and Mikal for Giannis and Turner?
rewatching the game now (cuz it feels uncivilized to get out of bed before noon these days, thank god the dog has better bladder control than me)…
jalen isn’t targeted on offense just because he’s relatively short, slow and has a desmond bane like wingspan – a lot of opposing players make contact with him when he’s defending, just trying to wear him down because he’s so key to our offense…
also, I guess cuz he’s slow, seems his defensive task is to help guard the interior?
finally noticed last night, no one posts up anymore…not even a little…
bit of a busy day yesterday so I wasn’t able to really notice when mo came in to play…
remember though reading a few comments from the game thread mentioning kool mo d’s slick grip on the ball…
holy cow, yeah mo can bring the ball up the court, even with some nominal pressure against him…
that was surprising…
if i had my wish, it would be jaren jackson junior as our starting 4, and zubac at the 5…OG, josh and jalen to finish out the starters…
hold deuce and mo on the bench, everyone else as trade assets…
so yeah, it would be KAT plus to get jjj, and mikal and mitch to get zubac plus…
JJJ isn’t much better at rebounding than Andrea Bargnani.
Despite his many gifts, KAT has a permanent “the game is too fast for his processing” glitch built into his circuitry. There is nothing that anyone can do to fix that.
The hope is that a coach minimizes the negative impact on winning games of both his very loud and more subtle “slow-processing” gaffes. Last night, Brown did just that. He wrung out all the juice he could get in KAT’s 28 minutes, but didn’t push the issue when it was clear that the lineups without him were thriving.
Problem is, that might work against young (and by extension, dumber) teams like Portland, but maybe not against the smarter/better coached teams in the playoffs who are better at exploiting our non-KAT lineups…in particular, a Boston team with Tatum back.
I will again defer to my stock line about nothing that happens in the regular season mattering, it’s all about reaching the finals in the playoffs. Dolan just blasted that out in no uncertain terms. There’s another half-season for Brown to mess around and gather data, but at some point, he needs to settle in on situational responses to opponent’s strategies. In that sense, I think the most important “data gathering” games are in front of us. Brown now has seen most of the teams’ vulnerabilities in the context of his coaching, although it could be argued that much of the data is flawed due to players being out with injuries, or scheduling considerations, or teams still in the process of gelling as we are, or even personnel changes prior to the deadline that we haven’t dealt with yet e.g. CJ in the Hawks’ rotation instead of Trae.
bargnani at 5.8 rebs/1.1 blks per 36 for his career jjj at 7.0 rebs/2.3 blks per 36 for his career 21 percent better at rebounding and 109 percent better at blocking shots
at 9:42 in the 4th quarter deni avdija (all-star deni avdija) drives thru josh hart for a floater in the paint for the basket and the foul…
heads to the line making that: in your face gesture with his left hand…crowd chanting mvp…sinks the foul shot, blazers go up by 3…
KAT goes to the bench…
Barring injury, the games prior to the all-star break that I think will be useful in making judgments about the team are:
1/17 vs. PHX
1/24 @ PHI
1/28 @ TOR
2/1 vs. LAL
2/4 vs. DEN
2/6 @ DET
2/8 @ BOS
2/11 @ PHI
To me, it will be less about winning and losing and more about how we play. Other than the Lakers and Nuggets, we’ve played all of these teams already, so adjustments will have been made and the data will be that much more authentic.
Hell no to JJJ. 8 rebounds per 36 from a big man is criminal.
“Hell no to JJJ. 8 rebounds per 36 from a big man is criminal.”
as i literally just stated its not even as good as 8 rebounds per 36 its 7.0 rebounds per 36 for his career and 6.6 rebounds per 36 for this season
“it will be less about winning and losing and more about how we play.”
While I agree with this, my experience on this board is that it’s more about winning than how we play (i.e., much is forgiven), unless we lose and then it’s very much also about how we play.
well, at least we known his dbpm isn’t being inflated by his rebounding numbers…
lol Raven, so true!
Sorry, Knicks 2025. I think I started drafting my comment before you posted your 7.0 career REB/36 comment. Good spot
After the all-star break, we have a very demanding stretch of games;
2/19 vs. DET
2/21 vs. HOU
2/22 @ CHI
2/24 @ CLE
2/27 @ MIL
3/1 vs. SAS
3/3 @ TOR
3/4 vs. OKC
3/6 @ DEN
3/8 @ LAL
3/9 @ LAC
The travel and B2Bs make this sort of a later-season gauntlet. Should be quite telling.
no problem whatsoever doug spotting is what i do lol that doesnt sound that great
https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/47586139/new-york-knicks-three-reasons-winning-east
i saw stephen a smith at the top of that article doing his stupid little finger towards his mouth thing and couldnt bring myself to read a word of it
naz reid would be just about perfect no way in hell tho
ptmilo
May I suggest you include more input on body language, facial expressions, a player’s response to what his direct competitor did, mano y mano play and how teammates react, ball domination and bad shot decisions etc… in your repertoire.
Understanding what’s going is about more than math. These are emotional human beings whose willingness and ability to perform at 100% can vary depending on their mood, how they feel about their teammates etc..
IMO if you are paying attention and skilled at picking up on those kinds of things, you are going to see why despite all the heroics, Brunson is occasionally a problem.
And when I say a problem, I don’t mean a negative. I mean he’s doing things that are NOT maximizing the team. He doing things that maximizing his stats. There’s potential for more that will accrue to others if HE makes changes.
Does it show up clearly in the data?
Probably not.
There’s too much going on and too much noise to isolate every factor.
But it shows up on occasional possessions and sometimes for a full game. It’s so blatant It practically screams at you.
Towns and Brunson do not compliment each other well on offense (and we all agree there are defensive issues).
OG disappears sometimes because he’s passive, gets ignored at times and probably gets annoyed (though he’d never admit it publicly) .
Mikal disappears sometimes because he’s passive, gets ignored at times, but he seems fine with disappearing until the fans/press start yelling.
Hart is the only one that fits like a glove with Brunson. They play well together. Hart is aggressive. He gets the ball off rebounds and keeps it. So he’s always involved and always happy.
I brought up JJJ a number of times last year. But I was thinking of him as more of a PF next to Towns. That way we’d add a solid defender next to Towns, could worry less about his lack of rebounding, shift OG to SF and Mikal to SG. But a lot has happened since I advocated for JJJ. I don’t think Towns for JJJ makes a lot of obvious sense.
jazz up on cavs 21-4
C’mon, geo, that was clearly John Cena’s “you can’t see me”.
Once I realized that Stephen A Smith was going to say words I decided to click on something else
“IMO if you are paying attention and skilled at picking up on those kinds of things, you are going to see why despite all the heroics, Brunson is occasionally a problem.
And when I say a problem, I don’t mean a negative. I mean he’s doing things that are NOT maximizing the team. He doing things that maximizing his stats.”
While I agree with some of this, you lost me on the last sentence. I don’t think he cares at all about his stats. I think he truly believes that playing hero-ball is in the best interests of the team and of winning. He has outsized confidence, which is true about most alphas.
And it doesn’t help that the dropoff from Brunson to the next most capable “take over” kind of player, whether that is KAT or Mikal, is pretty significant. It’s one thing if you are LeBron deciding whether to hog the ball or pass it to Dwyane Wade. That’a not the case here.
ah, okay hubie, nice…
On another note, a friend of mine sent this Rick Beato youtube quiz to me. It ask whether you can identify a famous guitarist on the basis of listening to one note from one of their classic solo’s. I only got the first two, wondering if anyone else (particularly JK47) finds it interesting.
They’ll never do it, but I think there’s a case for Mikal, not Hart, being the one who doesn’t start.
Brunson/Deuce/Hart/OG/KAT
Mikal/Clarkson/Shamet/wing/Mitch second unit.
Respectfully, I don’t think there is a case for not starting Mikal. Not really worth debating since as you yourself said, they’ll never do it.
garland/dmitch/mobley took care of the problem this is probably the first time all year ive been hoping for a pacers win
OTOH, I think there is a very reasonable case for benching Clarkson. He is putting up a woeful -4.3 BPM. That is even worse than Yabu.
He’s not actively hurting us (we are still +2.2 when he is on the court) but he has to show at least some improvement to keep rolling him out there, especially at the expense of Kolek, or Shamet when he comes back.
so glad that this cavs jazz tilt has tightened up
embiid got hurt in his game tonite
Clarkson claims there was an adjustment period (see the quote below) and my eye test matches that. I suspect his stats are already better.
From the ESPN linked above.
I don’t know what can be taken away from single-game BPM, but according to the game log page in b-r, in his last 25 games, Clarkson has posted a negative BPM in 20 of them. Kolek has tailed off as well in that regard, so this isn’t an endorsement of him per se. But I would like it very much if Clarkson started playing at least a little bit better.
Clarkson was shooting 75% from 3-10ft early in the year, it resulted in a near .600 TS% in November because he takes a lot of shots there. Even during that stretch he had a -2.3 BPM. He then got hot from 3 throughout December.
But even including that, from December till now, he has a .531 TS% and a -5.3 BPM.
If Clarkson couldn’t put up a positive BPM when he has a .600 TS%, he’s going to be trouble all year.
How the fuck did the Cavs lose at home to Utah.
Cavsblogger.net must be on fire! LOL
mobley, garland and hunter all back playing too…
last season didn’t make sense, neither does this…
wow, they got out rebounded 50 to 30 – at home…that’s crazy…
Honestly, this makes me suspect BPM as a useful stat.
This could have been possible if we didn’t overpay to get Mikal.
Celtics lose to Pacers
cool
current nfl draft order:
1. Las Vegas Raiders (3-14)
2. New York Jets (3-14)
3. Arizona Cardinals (3-14)
4. Tennessee Titans (3-14)
5. New York Giants (4-13)
6. Cleveland Browns (5-12)
7. Washington Commanders (5-12)
8. New Orleans Saints (6-11)
9. Kansas City Chiefs (6-11)
10. Cincinnati Bengals (6-11)
11. Miami Dolphins (7-10)
12. Dallas Cowboys (7-9-1)
13. Los Angeles Rams (from Atlanta: 8-9)
14. Baltimore Ravens (8-9)
15. Tampa Bay Buccaneers (8-9)
16. New York Jets (from Indianapolis: 8-9)
17. Detroit Lions (9-8)
18. Minnesota Vikings (9-8)
19. Carolina Panthers (8-9)
20. Dallas Cowboys (from Green Bay: 9-7-1)
21. Pittsburgh Steelers (10-7)*
22. Los Angeles Chargers (11-6)
23. Philadelphia Eagles (11-6)
24. Cleveland Browns (from Jacksonville: 13-4)
25. Chicago Bears (11-6)*
26. Buffalo Bills (12-5)*
27. San Francisco 49ers (12-5)*
28. Houston Texans (12-5)*
29. Los Angeles Rams (12-5)*
30. New England Patriots (14-3)*
31. Denver Broncos (14-3)*
32. Seattle Seahawks (14-3)*
“Honestly, this makes me suspect BPM as a useful stat.”
That may well be, but even the inefficient volume scoring-friendly PER isn’t very kind to him.
I lovre that the Celts lost, but it was without Jaylen Brown, who sat with alleged back spasms.
Clarkson is bad by every advanced stat, not just BPM.
Maybe we need him as a creator, but he’s at 94 TS+ basically where he’s been for his whole career. So he’s the bottom of the barrel even before getting to his terrible defense.
Hope he gets hot and shows what he can do, but over the last 6 games (the whole of January), he has a .503 TS%. So far it’s 38% on fgs and 30.4% from 3
that doesnt make me feel any worse about it hes pretty unlikeable
And the Knicks were missing 3-4 guys and still beat them. Were you being as kind to the Knicks that night
I couldn’t find PER by month, but his shooting percentages have increased for each month until January and the rest of his stats look similar. There’s a dip from December to January, but this month has just started, so that could be noise. I think I don’t expect as much from bench players as most of you do. My thought is that if a player has a good PER in reasonable minutes, he’s in starter range.
“And the Knicks were missing 3-4 guys and still beat them. Were you being as kind to the Knicks that night”
WTF are you even talking about?
Clarkson’s 2p% drop from around .650 in November to .440 in December.
However, his 3p% jumped from .313 to .414.
So Clarkson has improved his shooting % each month, but it hasn’t been a steady building of progress as he integrates into the team. He got hot from midrange one month then hot from 3 the next.
Clarkson has put up basically the same shooting splits every year since he came into the league. He’ll end up around a .540 TS%, which would have been valuable when he came into the league but isn’t so valuable now.
I tried the Beato thing and I could only guess a few, and those only because I recognized the song, not the player.
One note just doesn’t give enough context, I don’t think.
That guitar quiz is nearly impossible. I got Gilmour immediately and guessed Knopler and Hotel California right. The rest was just too hard, even if you knew it was coming.
That Beato thing was tough. I’m not a guitarist, so despite spending a decade as a musician I wasn’t optimistic. Then I was going through it thinking I was doing well – maybe 11! Uh, no, try 6. Oh well.
It made me laugh when he kept saying “of course, that’s … ” Dude, it still wasn’t “of course.”
Fun, though. Thanks, Z-man.