Let’s not count the game against him where he rolled his ankle twice, was limping all game long and could barely play and was still sent out there by the coaching staff.

He has shown this season that he’s a decent enough playmaker, obviously not a top 5-10 playmaker, but comfortably top 20.

Man the Nuggets floor is already very high with just Jokic on the floor, but the moment you add Murray and the two man game, it reaches a whole another level.

They just look like a machine that runs by itself without any work and input required from the user. Perfection on the court.

When fully healthy, Nuggets are KD warriors tier imo. Not because they are that unfair as a team, but because they play upto that level.

Patrick - 27/34 for 298 yards and 2 TDs, 5 carries for 9 yards.

Allen - 29/51 for 339 Yards and 2 TDs, 1 Int, 9 Carries for 81 Yards and 2 Rushing TDs.

Stroud - 26/36 for 304 Yards and 2 TDs, 6 Carries for 47 Yards and 1 Rushing TD.

Trevor 23/38 for 368 Yards and 1 TD, 1 Int, 2 Carries for 1 Rushing TD.

Me personally, I would have given it to Allen or Stroud, but for sure Patrick Completion percentage was incredible on not as many passing attempts as others. He deserved it this week.

So here’s what really happened.

Warriors and Kings are both top 11 in Free throws attempted per game for the season, and Warriors also give up 3rd most free throws per game this season, while the Kings give up 9th most free throws.

What this was, was essentially two teams playing each other who can’t stop fouling others, and can’t stop getting fouled. If the Bucks and Sixers played each other and people complained about too many free throws then that’d be stupid lol. Those teams live at the line.

Still today had too many free throws, but when you put teams in bonus minutes into a quarter then obviously you’re gonna give up more free throws too.

That’s very disenguos to the contribution for those 9 rushing TDs.

Yes the Tush Push is an unstoppable play essentially, but it’s also unstoppable because Hurts is An incredible athlete as a QB and can Bench press 275 pounds and squatt/deadlift 500 pounds. His strength is incredible and that’s what allows him to hold up to pressure of multiple 300 pound human putting all their body weight behind you trying to push you across the line.

It’s why it never really works for other teams as often as it does for Eagles.

That being said I agree with the other points, the difference in talent around him and coaching between Baker and Hurts is palpable.

31/6/8 with almost 2 stocks, on 49/41/88 and 61% TS is absolutely All nba calibre numbers. Except he’s on a bad team that doesn’t win anything so he gets killed for it and all his weaknesses are used as reasons why Hornets keep losing.

Yes the Turnovers are bad, but it’s also because he’s having to do everything from scoring, rebounding, playing the passing lanes, assisting, etc. Eventually I am certain he will get the turnovers under control, but I wonder when he’ll get a functional offense.

For all the faults with JB, he could coach on offense for sure. We looked so good on that end. Clifford Idek what he does anymore.

He can’t really choose though can he? Like Hubi can’t really “choose” to beat Novak here. It’s not a given, Rune leads the H2H 2-0 against Sinner.

Yes in terms of form Sinner is probably the best in the world right now since Beijing, but it’s not a given he manages to beat Rune, a Runs who’ll be motivated to win and knows he has a margin of error too and can go to 3 sets.

A 39 year old LeBron James will be carrying this team in B2Bs for the rest of this year while AD will decide to take every other game off when he’s supposed to be taking over the team and being the definitive best player.

Not that I care about any arguments regarding either case, people differentiate between the two things by saying that “Rafa missed RG 2023 due to injury, he wasn’t denied his chance to play by the government like Novak was”.

Really though it doesn’t matter. Both beat who they were supposed to, and the competition that they faced. It’s also simply a fact that Rafa at his current level hasn’t been a challenge to Novak on hard courts at all in a decade, definitely not at AO, while Novak has still shown the ability to hang with beat Rafa sometimes on Clay and even RG, recently being RG 2021 (although Rafa got hurt during that match and wasn’t the same after).

Strictly speaking, If Novak plays AO 2022 there’s a pretty good chance Rafa doesn’t get through him considering how close Daniil and even Shapo came, while if Rafa plays RG 2023 there’s still a chance Novak beats Rafa. I’d consider Rafa the favourite but there’s a far greater chance Novak can beat Rafa at RG than there’s that Rafa can beat Novak at AO.

Said this back in Beijing after the Sinner loss, that Alcaraz hasn’t the levels he hit during Wimbledon since then, except once in the final set against Novak in Cincinnati. I said “Just because he can still beat 70% of the players playing at this reduced level doesn’t mean he’s still playing at his best”.

People downvoted me to hell. Now watch these last few tournaments. Between the hamstring injury, mental and physical burnout, imo, Carlos needs a break now more than ever. Frankly, I don’t even think he’s expected to do very well in ATP finals rn with his recent form, just playing well and maybe reaching Semi-finals will be good enough to me.

Sinner, Medvedev, Novak are clearly at a much higher level rn. Even Hubi is ramping it up rn, sucks that his chances of making ATP finals are so reduced rn. Rune’s level is also nowhere near his early season rn.

The correct answer is that there are no superteams in the NBA at this moment.

How do you see the Clippers deal with a frontcourt of LeBron, AD, Wood, Vanderbilt, Rui, etc. Or Jokic, Gordon, MPJ, etc. Or even reliably guard Booker, Durant, Beal or Steph & the warriors.

Their PF depth is non existent rn, they might have to start old ass PJ tucker against big West Forwards. And the guard rotation of Westbrook, Harden, Mann, Hyland doesn’t give you much confidence about their POA defence either.

If healthy, they will score a lot of points, be top 3 offensively, and top 10-12 defensively in the regular season. But once playoff starts, I expect Denver or Lakers to beat them comfortably. (Really I expect Denver to beat everyone comfortably this year, but I will give a shot to Milwaukee if they can figure their shit out).

There are no superteams, just a bunch of really good teams fighting for 1 championship ring that already feels like Denver has one hand on.

Still a few more season debuts to go, but Duren, Lively, Tillman impressed me amongst the big men a lot, imposed themselves on the game, hustled and ran the floor hard.

As for my Nets obviously Cam Thomas looked great as an individual scorer, but then that’s something I have known since last season when he had 4 40 point games, just annoyed that my coach still refuses to start him or let him play on ball for majority of the time on court. Instead we keep running out Dinshittie who keeps bricking everything. Liked what I saw from Ben as a solid start 4/10/9/1 on just two turnovers isn’t half bad, I don’t care if he doesn’t score, just keep rebounding, assisting and defending.

Loved Okogie and Nurkic on the Suns, Porzingis shocked me because I didn’t expect that defensive impact (Dallas fans did him no justice, nor did Wizards fans). Underwhelmed by Ant and KAT season debuts, but OKC look ready for the leap, especially Shai.

It’s a shame we didn’t highlights of his other shots in this 18 point comeback win, Chase Center was absolutely lit.

Even that Banked 3 was ridiculous to make it a 1 point game, he had absolutely no space to shoot.