NBA 2020-21 reg season 1st half thread

anyone who understands basketball could put together a team that absolutely smokes the team put together by any catch all stat

Facu is averaging 2.2 deflections per game in 15mpg which is a crazy number. Simmons leads the league at 3.9 per game.

― Matt Armstrong, Wednesday, February 24, 2021 12:59 PM (one hour ago)

the other thing I'd say is that while I don't mind facu in a vacuum it's painful to think about the net changes to the nuggs roster this offseason, like while he's a nice 9th piece or so watching grant and plumlee playing well sucks when guys like that are obviously exactly what we need

anyone who understands basketball could put together a team that absolutely smokes the team put together by any catch all stat

― lag∞n, Wednesday, February 24, 2021 2:15 PM (six seconds ago)

revolution is a process my friend

theyve only been working on this stuff for what 20 years

the adjusted on-off stuff is still pretty new and working out the kinks and so forth, anyway it's just a bit of fun let's be cool

theyre dumb im sorry they obfuscate where they should clarify

people who work on this stuff should work on more useful and interesting stats instead which is to say more granular stats

Facu is averaging 2.2 deflections per game in 15mpg which is a crazy number. Simmons leads the league at 3.9 per game.

― Matt Armstrong, Wednesday, February 24, 2021 12:59 PM (one hour ago)

the other thing I'd say is that while I don't mind facu in a vacuum it's painful to think about the net changes to the nuggs roster this offseason, like while he's a nice 9th piece or so watching grant and plumlee playing well sucks when guys like that are obviously exactly what we need

Grant is shooting 44/37 and yeah it’s great that he’s doing that on high volume but he’s not really a great defender and he can’t rebound. Like he’s the same guy

Going from grant to green to me is a wash, but Plumlee to Hartenstein has been really bad. Hartenstein is barely playable.

Jokic is top 8 in deflections btw. It’s him and 7 all-world defenders

the game is moving slow for big honey

from grant to green, from wes to montgomery

nice

salute

big honey big angry

“Why are you laughing at me? Why are you laughing at me? Why the f*** are you laughing at me?” pic.twitter.com/fNZYyBmO1g

— Adam Mares (@Adam_Mares) February 24, 2021

they literally match {conley's} minutes with gobert, it's so silly

i dunno. they seem to be winning enough games that way.

i meant re: making grand statements about mike conley's value

hard to assess when they might be codependent

interestingly sabonis is the first player ever to average 25/10/5 and not be an all star

Gallo cooking the Celtics pic.twitter.com/4NeyQxP78t

— jason c. (@netw3rk) February 25, 2021

Zion is so good at driving into the paint and getting a layup off a spin move, it’s insane

interestingly sabonis is the first player ever to average 25/10/5 and not be an all star

bc randle i think

some sentiment out there that the coaches would reward a guy doing well under thibs

coaches like it when a guy gets coached up perhaps

sabonis is closer to 21/11/5 ftr. probably deserves it over vooch but everybody scores a lot now

like all of this season's "snubs" have better stats than all the other snubs this century

The game has sped up and more players deliver a higher level of skill because of better training and more competition. The stats follow this trend, too.

also it's a pandemic with no homecourt and no one is playing defense

sabonis is closer to 21/11/5 ftr. probably deserves it over vooch but everybody scores a lot now

― Wayne Grotski (symsymsym),

oops, meant to say that hes the first 20-10-5 to miss the asg.

trae young is at 27/4/9.5 and missed it...bad fg pct, but any other year a player who put that up would be in

i think the problem w trae is what if hes a lil weiner and also hes maybe the worst defender in the league

He’s actually improved a lot on D this year! Still not amazing bc yes he’s also a lil wiener

hes a genuinely awful defender obviously dealing with some major physical limitations but also the effort is very poor

which i mean he carries a big offensive load so maybe its just not worth it

he will prob get up to passable/nobody quite cares anymore like dame, steph, harden etc

his bigger issue is that his teammates don’t seem to love him based on things that have leaked out which you’d never say about steph and dame

he will prob get up to passable/nobody quite cares anymore like dame, steph, harden etc

― J0rdan S., Thursday, February 25, 2021 10:25 AM (one minute ago) bookmarkflaglink

idk hes so small its gonna be tough

steph is a good/solid defender now btw.

i guess the league just hates him now huh?

Last year, Trae Young was an All-Star starter with 2,829,969 fan votes (most among East guards) and 65 player votes (3rd among East guards).

This year, he got just 991,857 fan votes (6th among East guards) and 20 player votes (11th among East guards). 👀 https://t.co/LorbANwW2H

— Alex Kennedy (@AlexKennedyNBA) February 24, 2021

lol maybe its possible to shame players into not foul grubbing

seems like there is a widespread perception now that trae is the heir of harden's choppy/ugly/selfish/foul-drawing offensive game

the player backlash is understandable but i’m surprised by the fan stuff it seemed like kids especially fucked w him super hard (but maybe kids don’t vote for the ASG)

nash really screwed him with that quote

still an assassin lol

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— Dionysis Aravantinos (@AravantinosDA) February 25, 2021

lol he's never coming back

I totally get the trae hate from the players. There was a stretch during the Boston game last night where he scored off throwing an inbounds pass off a defenders back, bated jaylen into fouling him on a three while clocking him in the face and then drew a tech from smart who was barking at him from the bench. Not a lot of love there

he was trying to nutmeg everyone last season. cant remember which og finally checked him on that