“AD can’t self create” idiots absolutely seething

Suns play the Lakers on the road but the next game (if they win) is in Vegas so it’s a neutral court. Based on geography and KD being a bigger star than anyone on Sac/NOLA I’d guess the crowd would be pro-Suns too.

Fuck off

He was better than Giannis literally last season. And better than Embiid in the playoffs too.

Yes. He’s still plenty impactful. Top-10 player for sure, but PTS-REB-AST-TS% would make you think he’s in the conversation for the best player in the world but I think he’s quite clearly not at that level.

How do you know we’d play the wildcard tho? Phoenix will likely have an equal record and better point differential than the winners of the other two groups. So how do you know for sure Phoenix gets the 4th seed and not the 2nd ?

Damn. That’s a nice moral victory bro.

Massively improved their odds. One less bucket and they’d be below NOLA in the wildcard hunt.

This should be a travel. I know that it isn’t, NBA rulebook wise, but it should be. It just looks wrong.

The 15 teams in each conference get split into 3 groups, more or less balanced based on the previous year’s conference standings.

Every team plays every other team in their group during the group stage. These count as normal regular season games too.

At the end of the group stage, the winner of each group qualifies for the knock out round, and one more team from each conference too (a wildcard). All based on results in the group stage games only.

From there, the knock out QFs are played on the homecourt of the higher seeds. Single elimination, winners move onto to the SFs and eventually final, all held in Vegas.

The quarter finals and semi finals games count as regular season games too. Only the final doesn’t count as a regular season game.

Before the season every team only has 80 games scheduled. The 22 teams that don’t qualify for the knockouts have 2 games added to their schedule. The 4 teams that reach the quarter finals and lose have 1 game added.

Kinda disagree with this idea. The real problem is that coaching is hard to evaluate from people who don’t have a coaching background themselves (and even then takes an absurd amount of time). Which makes it hard for GMs to really know how good a coach is, leading to coaching ability often being conflated with just results, or at least results relative to expectations of the roster. It also makes it easier to pin the failings of the team on the coach since the fanbase doesn’t know wtf they’re talking about and usually gravitate towards blaming the coaches for all their issues.

Yes, as he mentions, 3/4 coaches to win a title between 2019 and 2022 were fired by the end of the 2023 season, but he doesn’t address the fact that the fanbases and media were super critical of those coaches before their firing. He even implies that them winning a title somehow proves that they are/were top tier coaches, but that’s judging based on results too.

I don’t think there’s an issue of coaches not being allowed to coach and that’s why there’s less ball movement heavy offenses in the NBA. I think coaches are given all the leeway they need to implement the system of their choosing, and there’s less ball movement simply because there’s a bigger difference between the skill level of the guys at the top of the NBA and the average NBA player than there is in Europe. The stars in the NBA are just more efficient at isolating, posting up or spamming PnR than the top European guys, in part due to better spacing with the longer 3pt line, more favorable rules etc…

Should there be better ways to evaluate coaching? Yes.

Would a trend of longer commitment to an head coach lead to better systems and more efficient offenses ? Don’t think so.

I do not trust the average fan of any team to know even close to enough about Xs and Os to be able to judge their own coach. I sure as shit don’t trust any other team’s fans.

Here’s what’s even more insane :

AD has 43 blocks this season. The Rockets have 38 and the Knicks have 33.

This isn’t how it works. I’m shocked nobody called you out on AD specifically. His % so far isn’t far off from 2020 but in 2020 he shot that on 3.5 attempts per game. This year it’s 0.8 attempts. He’s not spacing the floor. Teams aren’t guarding him out there at all.

That’s mostly down to him gritting through this hip injury. Before that he was averaging 26.3 ppg which was his highest since NOLA.

Dumbass post.

1. Yeah, of course. Prince is a valuable player and you don’t bench a guy just because he’s missing shots. That’s how you kill their confidence. All of you morons were saying the same shit with Cam. We’d be worse right now if Ham hadn’t shown trust in Cam and let him shoot out of his cold streak. We’re better off with Prince finding his groove than giving up on him.

2. Same argument. Running your rotations entirely on the basis of who happens to have been cold/hot so far that night is stupid and reactionary. Guys can start 1/7 and then go 3/4, it happens all the time…

3. AD being in foul trouble is concern no1, trying to get a foul overturned on him early was fine. Again, judging decisions with the benefit of hindsights is the mark of a moron. It’s like saying “oh man, Darvin Ham is stupid, he didn’t bet all his money on 18 at the roulette wheel last night and it rolled 18”.

4. Neither Hayes nor Wood are good post defenders.

5. Rotations have been completely fine. Let’s see you fill out a full rotation map before talking shit. Reddish was fine tonight btw.

Ham was a good coach last year. He’s been better this year. You just don’t know wtf you’re talking about.

They had the best 3p% in the league over the previous 5 games. They’re regressing to the mean slowly.

Reddish averages 1 “steal in the backcourt off an inbound that the broadcast doesn’t even catch cos it was zooming in on the scorer getting back on defense” per game

Bad shots but that’s some hilariously bad transitiok defense too

I don’t want CP3 or Vucevic anywhere near this team