I’m sorry, you don’t think any team in the league is capable of pushing the Nuggets to 6 or 7? How does that make sense?

He’s also 4th in the NBA in EPM and 3rd in O-EPM.

Booker is 4th in the league in EPM and 3rd in O-EPM

https://dunksandthrees.com/epm

People were very dug in on Ayton. You were allowed to meekly suggest that maybe it would be cool to draft Luka, but any criticism of Ayton was met with downvotes. Pointing out that he was one of the worst defenders for a center I’ve ever seen, or that he had no handle, or that he “just wanted to make it to that second contract” were all seen as hating, and I was ridiculed for thinking I was smarter than ESPN’s big board.

5+? He’s been doing 5+ for years lol, try 10

Suns 🤝 Magic

I think longtime Suns fans need to be less defensive of Booker too, it goes both ways. There’s an undertone of insecurity when you see everybody pile on that “KD is clearly our second option”, “this is Book’s team” yada yada.

Personally, I think Booker is more important to our offense, but KD is probably our most impactful and important defender. It’s very clearly a partnership.

Nurk has been solid. His finishing is pretty god awful as advertised, but I think his defense and rebounding have been good for the most part. He’s gonna look a lot better on offense when Booker is back and Beal is back to full speed, where he can do more passing and screening and less shooting.

KBD has looked invisible at times, but he really might be the best combination of defense, rebounding, and 3pt shooting we have for the 5th starter.

Welcome, everybody who hasn’t watched basketball since 2005! In 2023, 20 point leads evaporate all the time, every fan thinks their team blows leads more than every other team, and every fan thinks random roleplayers torch them.

Some of you guys are just miserable. It’s a good thing I’m not a mod or I might go on a banning spree

You guys have to calm down a little with the injury dooming, my lord

“Beal isn’t even a good shooter, look at his 3pt percentage” 🤡

Our bench brought it back to a one point game after KD checked out at the half against Bron and AD. Definitely a bit of artistic license being taken with the title, but certainly not an encouraging performance by the Lakers.

Obviously it’s preseason and only means so much, but there’s a reason the Lakers game thread was super butthurt lol.

With all due respect to “everyone”, they also say that Booker Beal and Durant all need the ball in their hands to do anything and there’s only one ball, so maybe “everyone” isn’t too bright

Who says we won’t have a top 10 defense?

And the Nuggets didn’t have a top 10 defense last season, so you don’t have to go back very far for precedent.