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this criterion closet ain’t big enough for the both of us
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if u would please consult the graphs
Nigga Giannis won 60 games with fucking Eric Bledsoe, Brook Lopez played 11 games in 2022 and they won 51 games Khris played 30 games in 2023 and they won 58 games Giannis has flaws like EVERY other player in the history of the NBA but u bitch ass niggas can’t revise his career
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Wemby’s enormous value to the sport and to player fanbases is that he’s so self evidently the best player alive he gives all the other top-5 convo guys an underdog quality and secretly that’s the dream fan dynamic.
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self-dickriding but was re-reading my debut article and pleased at its cogency for my first foray into organized published articling. kinda some lobos points in there too patelsahil2002.substack.com/…
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my quibble with mainoo types as cornerstones pretty evident just poring through how vitinha, ruiz play. ur shtick can’t be connective play w/o the motor to consistently avail yourself in buildup. And on top of that you never take shots either
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actually it’s not a quibble this is a FatalFlaw, how can niggas lambast fernandes in possession decisions when there’s no one else who can complete a median range pass btwn a fullback and CB
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implied touch vs applied touch players where there only indicator of touch is FT% (no jumper and/or floater volume) projecting these players to shoot itl , can get murky cuz the desire to actually shoot jumpshots generally isnt there (1/3)
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life cycle of a denver/boston style generation-spanning playoff/title contender in the online consciousness is amazing man genuinely years on end where there’s literally nothing to actually talk about with them besides vague platitudes
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like how many different ways can we come up with saying boston needs additional creation / rim pressure / clutchtime counters over 5 years? how many new ways are there to say denver bench sucks? fans somehow respond to this cacophony with the same vigor year after year too
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The portions of these teams cycles when there’s genuine innovation to be talked about( only manifest in our minds when they rattle off a 17-3 stretch or something) become subsumed by the preoccupation with their playoff destinies. An incredibly vicious, unrewarding cycle
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crine man team scoring like 3 goals a game god forbid u don’t get 25 shots vs a prem team. sports discourse might have been better when broadband internet meant u could only publish an opinion once a month and every result didn’t need an apotheosis
We seem to have hit a wall man ts is so hard to watch. Focus is always on our defense, but we’ve regressed massively OFFENSIVELY. The cohesion we once had seems to be completely lost. It almost feels like everything is improvised rather than built around choreographed movements.
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this what I mean by defensive variance this is a career bad pick dodger phasing through one of the best screeners on the planet in a low-clock situation because he’s comfy being aggressive and early with that top foot knowing his matchup doesn’t have time to drive
Absolutely absurd screen navigation for a 6'9" human being.
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The difference is I would not see this possession or even 3 successive possessions like these to make any assertion about tatum’s screen-nav in the macro, the way people will quote some washed legend’s 15 PS possessions when they weren’t actively bleeding every trip down
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clickbait title but wanted to explore how expecting certain players to scale up to more important / starter roles on the basis of their volume p90 data can lead to misguided conclusions link in replies⤵️
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DREAMS (1990). Absolutely stunning in the Criterion 4K restoration, probably the greatest director who ever lived somehow becomes even more vibrant, elemental, & resonant in old age. Dreamy, seemingly simplistic little folk sketches that somehow encompass all of life & death.
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shit not funny anymore when them bullshit offscreen 3s not going in anymore and you actually have to create offense huh. hold this OG Anunoby midpost touch rq
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Why reputation matters
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how’d they let that boy get 20 free throws hahahaha
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I am so happy to announce this new analytically driven NBA Podcast with my dear friend @muckledd We had the chance to talk about our breakout candidates for the upcoming Season with another dear friend of the programm @NileHoops , make sure to check us out and give Feedback 🙏
In the first episode of the new 'Ice and Blitz,' Lukas and Linus discuss their breakout candidates for the 2026–27 NBA season with special guest Nile from the Mexico City Capitanes and the Double Bonus podcast. Feedback and questions are welcome! 🙏🙏🙏 open.spotify.com/episode/2yN…
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This team is silently the pinnacle of off-screen usage, up there with Golden State IMO. Some counters they're pulling out I haven't seen before Like this counter flare vs switch in Stack is nasty
Was very upset when this play ended in a turnover because of how beautiful it was Celtics go to Veer Wide but based on how OG plays it Queta flips the screen to a Flare and PG recognizes it quick Celtics get easy 2on1 on this play because of the Veer screen (fake on ball into off ball) Queta acting like he was going to set on ball for White gets KAT involved in that - not sure why PP wasn’t in corner but wanna see them use this again
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