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Had to watch the Oscars (both for work and because my family cares much more about movies than sports), so missed the game, and stopped even checking on the score by early in the second half. So shocked to see that they came back and won it. I’d like us to go back to dominating teams again at some point, but being able to repeatedly pull things out in clutch situations isn’t nothing.
There seems to be a casual confidence when playing against lesser teams that indicates a we can win this whenever we want mindset. Understandable for a Thibs coached time with the grind of a long season. Not optimal, but as Alan points out it is in a sense preparation for high pressure endings during the playoffs.
Hmm…
Good OG clip from last night
https://x.com/benritholtznba/status/1896368020966293654?s=46&t=0wqff4cNt-sCGcDs-uMExw
Won’t be like this every night but this was the kind of performance very few players in the NBA are capable of
Interesting to note we were underperforming our Pythagorean wins most of the year but are now outpacing expected wins by 2 games.
A quick comp against last year is pretty telling:
’24 vs ’25
SRS: 4.36 (6th) vs 3.96 (8th)
Expected wins: 53 (5th) vs 52 (6th)
Net Rating: 4.8 (5th) vs 4.8 (6th)
We fare much better in raw wins (54 projected vs 50) but that seems entirely down to two factors: we are doing much better in close games this year and injury luck/player availability has been overwhelmingly favorable. There’s only 800 minutes of OG in last year’s data, for instance vs almost 2,000 already this year.
Agreed. After years and years of having games snatched away at the last second by the will of Paul Pierce or Brandon Roy or an open 3-point shooter, it’s nice to be on the other side.
The second unit should not be this bad. Bridges carried an offense (albeit a pretty bad one) KAT and JB can stagger their minutes. We’re going 9 deep with Precious ready to play.
Has Precious been hurt, or has he just been dungeoned because Thibs doesn’t want two non-spacing big men in the rotation if he can avoid it?
Thibs didn’t allow Hartenstein to shoot outside shots (if anything Precious has more of the green light) and seemed happy to have him and Mitch in the same lineup last year. So neither?
I don’t know the reason why Precious has suddenly stopped playing, but I do know one reason why it *shouldn’t* be the case: he’s *not* hurt. I’ve gotta say, I don’t love it. We don’t gain anything if we go from Mitch being hurt and out of the rotation immediately to putting Precious almost completely out of the rotation instead—gain one big man; lose another (plus losing Huk). Precious usually gives us good minutes and doesn’t deserve this, and he should be getting minutes over one of either Payne or Shamet, whichever one is shooting worse on a particular night.
It feels like it is getting late early for Mikal Bridges. The team looks better with Deuce. Over his last 5,000 minutes he’s performed like an average NBA player. A reasonable comp, Derrick Jones Jr, just signed for 3 years, $30M this summer. Do we really want to compound this mistake?
Of course, that would necessitate Thibs making an adjustment at halftime based on what he’d seen in the first half, and we all know that he’s not really one to do that.
And the second unit lacks scoring punch. So maybe you sub Deuce in early and let Brides come back in when JB and KAT need rest. (Like they tried to do with RJ).
Was only able to watch the 10 minute highlights form last night. Mitch’s box score looked empty compared to his first game. Can someone give insight into how he looked?
My hope is if Mitch eventually starts with KAT, then you have Precious back to his regular minutes and Hart is replacing Shamet completely.
Have Thibs used KAT & Mitch together for even a minute since Mitch came back?
If not, why?
Maybe Mitch *shouldn’t* start, because then Thibs will inevitably overplay him. We need Mitch to be available for the playoffs, so in truth he’s probably better in his current role (although his minutes can slowly increase from the 12 range to the 20 range).
My stab at the Pythagorean differential: having more shot creation threats than we did last year lets Brunson operate with more space in crunch time, and the results are speaking for themselves.
It also could be totally random. Always a possibility. But it does feel like Brunson has gotten to go one-on-one more late in games than he could last year, when selling out on him was a perfectly viable strategy.
OG…man. If we get that version in the playoffs it’s a different story.
I think he’s just the 10th man in a 9 man rotation.
Great minds, Doogie. I had plans on saying how much I don’t like Thibs forgetting Achiuwa now that Mitch is back. Should we be giving him the benefit of doubt here? Is it possible he’s waiting for Mitch to be ready to start? I dunno..seems to me that he can(and probably should) start Achiuwa for now, and let Hart be the 2nd unit hub while playing starter’s minutes. Get that out of the way now so that Hart is used to it by the time the playoffs start.
Interesting that the Knicks are still very interested in Kessler.
That means they aren’t completely sold on Mitch and you also have to wonder who they’d be willing to give up to get him.
Personally, I think you take a good look at Mitch/Towns before you do anything because if that doesn’t look good defensively, the player I’m most interested in trading is Towns.
I was thinking about this last night, wondering if Towns & Mitch is going to be the new Randle & Obi (i.e. the thing Thibs never tries because reasons).
It’s extremely early and we may just be keeping things as simple as possible until Mitch gets his legs back. Plus he’s only playing 12 minutes. Maybe 24 minute Mitch plays with Towns.
But it is at least possible that Towns is the starting C and Mitch is the backup C, and never the twain shall meet.
Precious isn’t that good. He’s fine on defense but not great, and his offense is atrocious. Moreover, you can only play him next to KAT and, if there’s a smaller 4, Hart is a better choice. There’s just not much need for Precious outside of emergency C/PF.
Mitch could be on a minutes restriction. Would be stupid to not at least try and get one of your better players on the floor more often. Who knows.
Understandably winded. But he was diving on the floor a lot, which made me nervous but is probably a good sign.
He was impactful as a defensive sub in the final seconds. It was really good to have that.
It seems like KAT and Mitch would be something Thibs would want to try, though.
My guess is that he’s just getting Mitch up to speed. Increasing his minutes as the back up Center and then will try him out as a starter? Maybe doesn’t want to throw him into the fire quite yet of going up against other starting C’s? Let him build up his timing and confidence a bit against bench units before starting him?
Anyways, I know it would be nice if we won these last 2 games more easily, but I’m not gonna complain about 2 road wins against one very good team and the other against Miami, who is not great but is always going to be a well coached team that plays super hard.
We take for granted that we should win these games on the road and that’s a pretty good sign of how far we’ve come.
40-20 is a pretty impressive record.
Check out KAT locking Bam and taking him out of the play on the OG tip at the end of regulation. There should be a name for it, it’s not box out, and not box in. Maybe box the hell away. Regardless, a great play.
More interesting to me than Precious not playing was Deuce playing more minutes than Mikal
Re: Precious, EB beat me to it: he’s been terrible, especially lately. Not surprised he’s out of the rotation for now, but he might get some minutes back if/when Mitch plays alongside KAT.
Very moving to have No Other Land win the Oscar for best documentary. It breaks a barrier in the U.S. for this message, and at an important time.
Almost 20 years ago I made a one hour docu about the same reality and it was clear to me the material can take the film as far as there is to go. My film did well, but not at the most prestigious festivals level, and I’m so happy No Other Land did. I feel like my team won.
Please watch it, it’s a strong call for people to remember what activism and heroism means.
Year one of a new top heavy team with a plethora of reserve players injured and we’re 40:20. This team clearly has multiple NBA finals potential over the next 3-4 yrs. Philly is cooked. Boston & Milwakee will fall apart this summer.
ha, nice darules…
watched some of the game, good to see mitch in there and OG looking good…
+1 darules
Is there any mystery with Precious? He objectively shouldn’t be playing when we’re reasonably healthy. I like the guy just fine, but he’s a huge liability on offense, and since he’s not a huge human being physically, he doesn’t always make up for it defensively and on the glass. He’s an innings eater for when we’re injured, maybe a situational defender in higher-stakes games.
Mitch was/is on a minutes restriction. I think I read 12-13 minutes for game 1 and then rising.
I wouldn’t base anything on what we saw last night, other than Thibs is going to tinker with minutes based on his preferences based on both performance (as he sees it) and matchups.
Honestly, it’s good to see him using Deuce more and Mikal less if for no other reason than to placate the Minutes Police. But I seem to recall that Mikal was benched in a couple of 4th quarters back in December or so and he owned it and proceeded to go on an awesome run.
Deuce has been killing it.
I kinda want Wright to take Shamet’s minutes now. Shamet plays hard and has hit a few big shots this season, but he’s not been great this season. I think Wright can hit open jumpers at the same rate as Shamet has this season. It would mean we have quality depth for the playoffs if Achiuwa and Shamet end up being our break glass in case of emergency players.
Delon’s taller than Shamet by a bit, and looks really good defensively, but he’s a 35% shooter from three for his career and 24% this year for some reason, and it sure looks like he had no real handle. I like him how Thibs has used him — stick him in for a key play on D — but it’s trading one shortcoming (being short, or actually being slight) for another (not good on offense).
I also like how Thibs is using Mitch in the same fashion at the end of games. I know that’s like what a coach is supposed to do, but it both shows a bit of flexibility in the guy and that we now have some versatile defensive weapons to throw out there.
As long as it’s not Ntilikina to guard Trae Young…….
Missed the game last night (damn Kyiv Ballet, and coincidentally working as I type to bring three Kyiv colleagues to San Diego for a study tour in a month — all Ukraine all the time here). I appreciate the win (and fun game thread), but goddamn it can we stop with the constant hole-digging at the start of games. It’s so constant that it is becoming absurd.
Not at all worried that we have had two games with only a few minutes of Mitch and no twin towers yet. It’ll happen eventually, but let Mitch remember how to play basketball first.
And watching the replay, Damn, OG. I just wish that he and Mikal would stop tag-teaming being good. Getting them both firing on all cylinders would be really nice to watch.
Deuce >>> Mikal seems to be a rare point of unanimity
Deuce honestly plays more and more like Brunson lately on offense to my eye. He has incorporated a bit more guile and evasion to go with his obvious athleticism. He also has shown great balance and touch on a bunch of midrange jumper’s. Really surprised me.
He doesn’t have Brunson’s ability to worm his way to the hoop or the foul drawing but he is really playing well.
Speaking of 3 point shooting, one of the scariest things about the Celtics is their bench guys Hauser and Pritchard. They’re shooting 44.6 and 41.6% from 3 respectively, and we’ve all watched them scorch the Knicks in past games.
People tend to focus on the Celtics’ stars, but those guys are a big reason why Boston is a favorite to win it all, it’s like having 2 prime career Kyle Korvers coming off your bench.
Could be on a minutes restriction? If he isn’t on a minutes restriction the entire medical staff and FO should be drawn and quartered!
It’s going to take about 10 games to get him up to mid to high 20’s in minutes comfortably. Then Thibs should experiment with KAT at the 4 which I think is going to be our most successful alignment.
MR’s timing and conditioning are way off, but it was the only thing to be expected since he was away from the floor for 10 months and was only green lighted for full activity 2-3 weeks ago.
Great tweet from Tommy B about Captain Clutch
https://x.com/tommybeer/status/1896569969548153167?s=46&t=0wqff4cNt-sCGcDs-uMExw
I have no concerns about Mitch. Keep his minutes low and ramp him up before the playoffs. Get at least 100 minutes with him and KAT on the floor at the same time to see what it looks like. Otherwise, preserve those ankles!
End of game on D: Mitch/Precious/OG/Delon/Deuce. Not likely to happen, but that feels like our optimum lineup if we need a stop. If it’s vs a bigger point, then maybe Bridges for Deuce. If we didn’t need point of attack, then Hart for Delon. And Precious because he and OG really do play well together on D and it gives us more size and switchability.
But clearly we have the personnel to be more situational going forward.
Apparently Davion Mitchell called Brunson soft last night.
This turned out to be a huge mistake.
https://x.com/knicksmuse/status/1896388988841472075?s=46&t=0wqff4cNt-sCGcDs-uMExw
And the obligatory Pretty Woman gif
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LOL, Davion learned real quick.
When I watched the 10 minute highlight replay I did see a bunch of plays where we scored but our guys complained about wanting an “and 1” but it also did look like they were justified in being upset about no foul being called.
Did it feel like we had the refs working against us last night?
i can’t tell what is a foul anymore…and yes…they did look (and seems like not just our team) at the refs and ask them why no “and 1” is called ..I guess the NBA just told the refs to call like half the amount of fouls then they used to or some edict like that…and after some time…like playoffs or next year…the players will just give up asking anymore…plus some of these refs are just awful..its a bad combination…
i didn’t get the sense it was lopsided last night…as miami was complaining too
Yeah the plays I saw specifically there were like several where hart or brunson scored but there was a lot of contact that could have been called for a foul but wasn’t.
I do not like foul baiting at all but yeah if you get whacked on the shoulder while shooting a lay up, I think a foul should be called, lol. Glad it went both ways though.
I also don’t like complaining. Mainly because it potentially causes that player to not get back as fast on defense. This used to drive me crazy about Melo a lot. He would stop to complain meanwhile the other team is already down on the other side of the court setting up their offense.
There is a piece in The Athletic about Ant getting suspended for technical fouls, and how it’s considered a problem that he’s always arguing and not getting back on defense. Which makes me think when Julius is back and complaining, that might be a really easy team to score on…
It seems clear that the officials have been told to be more lenient about what is ‘incidental contact.’ The problem with that is that it becomes a huge judgement call as it is now not “did it happen” but “how bad was it.”
Which means many plays all game long are arguable foul-wise, and it also makes refs look like schmucks all the time. I appreciate that the games aren’t usually an endless whistle, and a lot more action, but I’m not sure the current iteration works.
For my taste, and-1s should be as rare as offensive fouls. Slows down the game. Call it if the foul was on the arm as he was going up for the shot, or elsewhere that clearly made him alter his shot. But otherwise, the ball went in so the contact could not have been that bad. Plus, at least for the Knicks, my eye test says we have 3 players (KAT, Hart, and to a lesser degree Brunson) whose follow through on a drive seems to frequently have them landing on their ass, whether or not there was contact. Years ago, the last thing you wanted to do in a game was fall down, especially after contact. And yes, I know, I am old.
I’m not mad at seeing Precious relegated at this point. We know what we have there… I really like him but not as a contributor on a contender. Mitch looks healthy. And most importantly he looks like he trusts his feet. Maybe not enough to jump out of the gym, but to move with enough fluidity as to be very easily tracked by guys he’s defending. The idea of him is still viable and it’s affecting the way opponents are attacking space. Space is where we die.
OG looks healthy, and with a healthy Mitch (pasta willing) I think we are just enormously better. Those two together are more important to me than KAt and Mitch together.
As per the Oscars, my favorite trend and happening last night was an affirmation of filmmaking that isn’t funded by media overlords. Sean and Samantha are nice people who love what they do that didn’t sell up. I spent some time with them at a festival a few years back. 6 million for a movie (at this stage in their careers is nothing). Albeit taking a team to Cannes is like another few hundred k to a million (not to mention the Oscars campaign and all the other marketing yada yada). Someone with money believing in the arts is a good thing.
Long live indie film and indie arts and indie thinking.
A no-longer foul I feel ambivalent about is the ‘ram the guy in the chest before going up for a layup.’ KAT applies it regularly, as do most big men, and Bam had one that was really egregious yesterday, can’t remember who it was on but basically blasted the Knick with his shoulder while pivoting and literally knocked him to the ground out of bounds before going up.
I get it, but it feels a little unfair — sort of like the tush-push.
Also gotta admit Raven, you being at the Kyiv Ballet gave me the “I wish I was doing that right now” feels. To the casual observer you’re pretty fucking dope.
The ‘Prince’ gave the little two-handed heart thing during the rousing standing ovation at the end, which almost broke my heart.
On some playgrounds where I played if you called a foul and it went in, the basket didn’t count and you had to take it in from out of bounds. This was clearly a disincentive to call a foul if the shot might go in.
Breen has discussed this issue on several broadcasts, using the word ” marginal contact” to be interpreted as not taking the struck player out of a normal play. The problem seems to be how highly subjective that is and there is absolutely no standardization among the refs ( ef KAT treatment vs JoJo Embid when he was able to drive earlier in the season)
Stabilizing the officiating in the NBA is an impossible task. The game is so fast and so physical that the foul vs. non-foul almost defies practicable definition, and the inconsistency, from game to game, from ref to ref, is something you have to resign yourself to accepting. Thibs does a good job of respecting the difficulty of the task and asks only for consistency in a given game. And most of the time, I think the refs do a commendable job of this, but again, it’s pretty much impossible.
In terms of recent changes in interpretation, I like that more physicality on defense is being allowed while dirty play is being more strictly addressed. I don’t like it when a defender literally has no chance to defend a certain offensive move, and believe that fouls should be only be called when contact indisputably impacts a player’s chances of making a given shot or making a play or controlling the dribble. The “verticality” rule that allows for incidental contact from a jumping defender is an example of a positive change. The swipe move foul should be eliminated. Stopping short after going around a screen to bait a foul on the defender going over is an ugly practice. Same with stopping short when running up court. More contact on rebounds should be allowed. And flopping should be more severely punished than it is. Refs should call more T’s on whiners.
Was going to argue the stopping short bit (agree with all the rest whole-heartedly) but then I thought they could just call fewer of them, it’s just a bump unless they’re actively shooting. Hard one to officiate though.
Butler was out with back spasms but is supposed to play tonight. With a back-to-back happening for Golden State, wouldn’t mind him resting on Tuesday…
I greedily would like to see Butler at the garden tomorrow, but perhaps more greedily would like him to really covet his rest.
The variance on officiating in the paint is really a pain in the ass, but perhaps raises the premium on craft and shot making outside of six feet.
Precious is more of a 3rd big, and 3rd bigs don’t really play that much. Mitch is just way better than him, and there are only so many minutes to go around.
It warms my heart to see Mitch running around out there – and I’m glad that we didn’t trade him for pennies on the dollar while he was hurt. Hopefully he can stay healthy – the defense just looks more settled with him out there.
Towns is really bad at defense. It doesn’t seem like it’s an effort thing – just does not change directions quickly and maybe his flexibility is not good? His hips look out of position all the time. He’s a great defensive rebounder which probably helps in terms of metrics, but you can see why Minny gave up on him being any sort of defensive anchor.
Regarding Mikal – it looks a bit like we blew our asset chest on the wrong guy. It’s not disastrous because he is still a good player who helps winning – but he does not seem like the guy that is going to put us over the top – ie. what we spent all the draft picks for. The big issue is: he is not a knockdown shooter. Would we honestly have been better off trading for Deandre Hunter for 1/4 the cost?
the price we paid for a non-elite primary offensive option is the price you’d pay for prime pre-injury Klay Thompson — and even though he’s a good player, Mikal is not prime Klay Thompson
The future cost of Mikal concerns me more than the sunk cost.
given how much he’s struggled this year, i don’t imagine he is looking for max $. so it might not be that bad.
This is way off. Klay Thompson was an ordinary All-Star. We paid the kind of price you’d pay for a top 10 player in the NBA. That was an All-NBA level package for an average starter. We paid twice what Bridges was worth based on his rep, and 3-4x based on his actual play this season. There is no strong argument that he is better than Quentin Grimes.
On a positive note, I’m pleased with how Mitch has been moving so far. Even rusty and out of shape he is our best defensive player by a light year. We know his flaws well but it’s easy to forget how valuable elite skills are even when offset by massive weaknesses. The offensive rebounding is still dominant, and there aren’t many better defensive anchors in the league — with his length and the way he covers ground I think he’s better on defense than guys like Kessler or KP — comparable to iHart.
I’m still waiting on the playoffs before judging Mikal. I also would like to see what happens if Mitch starts and Hart is moved to the bench.
I feel like some of it is Mikal’s role being unclear. He’s supposed to be the third option but with OG and Hart it’s kind of like JB and KAT are option 1 and 2 and then those 3 guys are all the 3rd option but it’s not totally clear?
I also do buy into the theory that there have been games where he’s been mildly hurt but plays through it to keep his iron man streak going.
And I also believe his mid range game could come in super handy in the playoffs.
It’s too much we gave up for him but, again, not a lost cause.
Reputations tend to stick, so I doubt this year will impact how much money Bridges makes on his next deal. I can’t see him signing for anything less than $35M.
The good news is that applies to his trade value, too. I don’t believe it has plummeted and still think we can get a lot for him this summer.
I think the best thing we could do is trade Bridges for a young C and a pick. That lops $20M off the books & could open up the full MLE, which we could use to sign a replacement wing.
I really look forward to never listening to the next episode of Jalen and Josh’s podcast: https://bsky.app/profile/nbanewyork.bsky.social/post/3ljiyp6is2k2z
Little red-faced homunculus.
I really hope they ask embarrassing questions and get him so mad he fires them both, just for the jolly good uproar.
The Nuggets got a total of 11 points from their entire bench over 39 minutes against the Celts last night. Do they have a bench issue?
Yes!!! Holy shit, yes!!! Are you joking?
They’ve had a bench issue since before they won a championship, which was only temporarily alleviated when they had Bruce Brown. Even then, the rest of their bench was hot garbage.
Their bench is famously catastrophic.
That’s what I thought. I’m sure we’ve talked about this here before, but it points to the precedent that a top-heavy team with no bench can be successful in the NBA. (Of course, they didn’t have to go against this version of the Celts, Cavs, or Thunder, either…….which helped.) I’d love to see Nuggetblogger to see if there is handwringing over there over the start minutes. (I’m not trolling—I mean this sincerely.)
I kind of remember the Suns having no bench in the Finals when they went against the Bucks, either. But they weren’t ultimately successful that way.
“This is way off. Klay Thompson was an ordinary All-Star. We paid the kind of price you’d pay for a top 10 player in the NBA. That was an All-NBA level package for an average starter.”
I think that this is a pretty significant overstatement because that level of player requires not only picks but either all-star level talent or promising young players as part of the deal, while no one even worthy of rostering went out in the Mikal trade. Two of those picks are conveying this year, our own (currently #27) and the MIL’s top-4 protected pick (currently #22) and could be discounted as equivalent to top-20 protected picks. The swap in 2028 seems like it won’t matter much.
That doesn’t make it okay, the other 3 unprotected picks have more potential value, and no way you could get even that for Mikal right now. But it is not as extreme as you are suggesting.
Well, it’s nice to see Kodai Senga out there spinning ghost forks again.
As to what Mikal will get paid, the second-apron market conditions are forcing teams to more closely consider the implications of overpaying for non-superstars. I think Mikal will make something starting in the low $30M range.
https://forums.realgm.com/boards/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=2444473
MarJon Beauchamp – 6’7 Wing just signed a 2 way deal with the Knicks
That’s a fine use of a two-way slot. Probably as good a chance at amounting to anything as anyone else available. Unfortunately the 7 feet tall/2-way eligible portion of the Venn diagram is bleak.
Beauchamp is a live body with good size. His defense was supposed to be a lot better coming into the league, but I suppose he still has some untapped potential. He actually kind of feels like a poor man’s RJ to me lol.
So we have one two-way roster spot and one full roster spot open if we want to use them.
I think this is a fine use of a two-way spot. The kid is still young enough to have upside. He shot pretty well last season in 600 minutes of action: 40% from 3, 56% from 2, .592 TS% but small sample. He has good measurables and great explosion. Here’s a highlight reel from his rookie year, he looked very promising but seems like his development kind of stalled.
Here’s a post-draft profile featuring Vecenie.
Here’s the thing with TJ. If they are not planning on signing him, it would suggest that he’s free to sign with another team. If he’s legit, then someone would sweep him up, no?
Seems like they either are going to sign him, or they (and other teams) think that he’s shot. I don’t think they’d just string him along, would they?
This FO doesn’t like to screw over players, even if it occasionally costs us a little in terms of asset accumulation. (We maybe could have gotten slightly more for Obi, for instance, but we went him to the best possible situation for his skills.) So I doubt they are jerking around Warren. Either they’re asking him to wait a little because there’s some kind of Aller-uncovered advantage to pushing his signing back even past March 1, or they’ve made it clear they’re not signing him, and he and his agent know there’s not any other interest right now.
People used to talk about how fungible and common useful big men were but it doesn’t seem to be the case….
I kinda think we cut Ryan and Toppin to let them explore other options, maybe another team will randomly decide to give them a 15th roster slot. It just seems weird to cut them without immediately bringing someone new aboard.
If we signed him on March 1st, we couldn’t cut Wright and sign someone else until the literal last day of the season. I believe every additional day moves the latter date up by a day.
So for example if we wait two weeks, we can sign, say, Moses Brown with two weeks left to go in the season and at least let him get some practice reps with us before the playoffs.
We did immediately bring Beauchamp on board. I wouldn’t be surprised if another two-way signing was in the works. I think
these things aren’t instant since there are probably medical exams and agents involved. And if they are targeting a player who was just waived, there could be a three day waiver period.
Tyrese Maxey and Jaren Jackson Jr. both injured in tonight’s games.
Sixers about to tank hard
The Rockets have been trying to guard SGA with Reed Sheppard and it has really not gone well
Is 6-15 from the field and 0-5 from three good?
Asking for a friend.
One would assume that when they cut their own assets they have a plan. Cap management is a strength of this ort
Idk, how many assists did the player get?
Cam Whitmore and Jabari Smith have 31 FGAs and 3 assists. Houston should trade some gunners for a vet who knows what he’s doing this offseason.
Ummmmm https://basketball.realgm.com/wiretap/279519/Kyrie-Irving-Leaves-Game-With-Left-Knee-Sprain
It is excellent for a tank commander
EB ruins another take…