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he's gotten much better at that stuff this year

a big thing is kat missed training camp, I think rudy was pretty gassed from euro ball at the beginning of the season, then kat hasn't played since november it's just been disjointed

i have a suspicion that while kat has the skillset of an effective off-ball/spacing guy, he might not be all that effective doing it irl.

yeah cld see it

with his talents it shouldnt be too hard for him to figure out tho, but it might be

their coach is bad and their point guard is bad at doing point guard things. which makes it hard to see what the real issue is

26-18-15 for jokic

also officially averaging a triple double now: 25.1-11.1-10.0

jesus christ

on 70% true shooting

nikola jokic in january: 24.0 points, 11.6 rebounds, 11.3 assists on .677/.538/.897 shooting, 76% true shooting, 143 offensive rating 110 defensive rating. video game numbers

kevin durant on a heater ass shooting numbers

he should shoot more

I used to think so but I basically just trust him to do what’s best now. hard to argue with +33 net rating in a month. he can turn it up in the offs when he needs to

no he should shoot more

ok I’ll tell him

thanks

amazing run and yet its still kinda hard to get that game vs embiid out of my head

windhorst made a good point on his podcast w/ kevin pelton that jokic seemed to be playing as if he was taking the high road in the manufactured "rivalry" with embiid, like he never pointedly took it at him or anything, he just really played his game looking for his teammates and what not. embiid on the other hand seemed to be on a mission to prove a point to the world. jokic didn't play like he had anything to prove, for better or worse. they play again later in the season and i bet jokic will come into that game w/ a different mindset

the more interesting thing from that game is that the sixers had a lot of success using PJ tucker on jokic in the fourth quarter which kinda dovetails w/ draymond's relative success against him. getting shorter thicker intense ass dudes all up in his shit is prob the best way to defend him but there aren't very many guys like that in the league

vid on that topic a good thing about the approach is that embiid got to hang out in the lane which hurt jokic passing when usually he can rely on dragging the opposing center out to the perimeter leaving the lane free of rim protection

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qfHP0b-voTA

occurs to me that one thing jokic could do to punish that approach is to shoot more

yeah i fully expect jokic to counter next time they play. doesnt usually take him long to figure stuff out.

I think it’s probably true that jokic didn’t come into the game with the same mindset as embiid, who obviously was taking the game personally, and good for him! embiid did take over the second half and had a better game for sure overall, but jokic did outplay him in the first half, when he had the offense humming and was just playing his game. embiid had 25 on 17 shots in the first half but lost his minutes pretty handily. sort of a microcosm of the two players and their particular styles in a sense

credit to doc for making the adjustment and taking embiid off jokic in the second half. I don’t know that it’s true at all that jokic struggles vs smaller players, but if you have a roster that can put a plus defender on jokic and allow another plus defender to roam and protect the rim at the same time, that’s prettt much the ideal scenario guarding the nuggets. there are adjustments the nuggets can make and frankly should have made, for one thing jokic just has to attack that matchup, which I’m sure he will be better at next time, but I’d also love to see them size down and put MPJ in for gordon, really force embiid to run around a little more and draw him out of the paint.

also as undeniably great as embiid was, he took 7 of his shots in that game from inside the paint and ran extremely hot on his jumper, and it took a flawless harden performance and some great shooting from tobias harris and georges niang, not to mention some boneheaded play from the nuggets bench to end the third quarter, for the sixers to claw back. it was a depressing loss as a nuggets fan for obvious reasons but it felt like one of those football games where you control possession for like 65% of the game but give it away on special teams. annoying, but not anything insurmountable imo. but they do need to trade bones

xp

The Hawks are 26-26.

The Hawks are 17-17 against the East.

The Hawks are 9-9 against the West.

The Hawks are 8th of 15 East teams.

The Hawks have scored 6,057 points.

The Hawks have allowed 6,057 points. https://t.co/Ar2k5bEaSv

— Brad Rowland (@BTRowland) February 2, 2023

ATLTA
HWKWH

giannis 54-18 bucks came back from 21 down to win by one

The Clippers went 0-8 from the field in the last 3:20 of the game and all of them were from Kawhi and Paul George

— sreekar (@sreekyshooter) February 3, 2023

some very bad misses too

this season really makes no sense

that was a fun game and I'm glad I stayed up for it but why was Milwaukee playing a game that started at 9 CST? its weird. Bucks they went on a similar stretch in the 1st, think they had 4 points through the first 6 minutes. that isn't even how they got down 21, lol

gametime strictly for tv tho idk why they didnt just air den gs instead feel like they didnt used to push east games back like that but they do now idk

The Efficiency Landscape. What Jumps Out? pic.twitter.com/jjlRHOgin7

— Kirk Goldsberry (@kirkgoldsberry) February 3, 2023

nobody really blowing the doors off lately

story of the season

well see what the bucks can do with middleton back

trade market might get hot

even with khris back they are pretty thin. ingles seems like a good fit tho.

they need Bobby Portis healthy

seems like theres gonna be some trades toronto and utah both ready to sell lot of teams in the mix for the chip

ben simmons update:
124 field goals, 127 personal fouls this season

box score filler

to be fair, pj tucker has 58 field goals and 127 personal fouls, but he gets paid a lot less

I dunno what the biggest runs in nba history are but 32-2 has to be up there

The 32-2 run was one of the best stints of basketball the Nuggets have played this season. Defense, fast break, ball movement, chemistry, shooting. pic.twitter.com/7Hdpg64L4J

— Adam Mares (@Adam_Mares) February 8, 2023

you never like to point the finger at one guy but the fact that luka garza was out there guarding jokic...i saw the box score and he had a good scoring game, but -16 in 21 minutes is pretty rough

just finished rewatching the game, gobert is dead in the water guarding jokic and always has been, and the wolves tried naz reid on him with gobert on gordon for much of the first half (similar to philly’s strategy of putting tucker on jokic and embiid on gordon). the nuggets also got at least half of their points in the first half on transition which of course obviates any sort of defensive scheme they might have wanted to try. the nuggets are just kind of a nightmare matchup for the wolves

jokic had 18-10-10 at the half by the way, the 6th triple double at halftime since 1996, jokic has 2 of them

hes at the point now where its more noteworthy when he doesnt have a good game, statistically

Yeah I actually love Naz, he's really been great at times this year but uh defensive stopper is not exactly how I'd describe him

Wiseman gonna take minutes from this guy huh

Jalen Duren tonight:

30 Points 🎯
17 Boards 🏀
3 Assists 🪙
4 Blocks ❌
65 FG% ✅

One of the youngest players in the league pic.twitter.com/wDm0eJ6ROS

— ENJ🏀Y (@EnjoyBBall) February 11, 2023

big guys doing big things

Last season, the most PPG by a player at the All-Star Break was Joel Embiid with 29.6 PPG.

This Season, there are EIGHT players averaging more than 29.6 PPG at the All-Star Break.

🤯 pic.twitter.com/4UoG8i2exl

— NBA Muse (@NBAMuse24) February 22, 2023

there are actually only seven tho