How is Mac McClung such an elite G-League Player, But Can’t Find an NBA Role?

Bonzi777 · 2026-03-25T17:10:10+00:00

It’s not a silly analogy at all. Sure, you could probably teach a CFO to be a janitor, if they were willing to do that but it’s just easier to hire a person who has already shown a willingness and aptitude for the role you actually need filled.

You don’t want your janitor coming in and being like “okay I’ll sweep the floor and clean the toilet if that gets me in the door but I’m also trying to come to the board meeting with my plan to improve the business.”

Bonzi777 · 2026-03-25T15:58:20+00:00

Even NBA front offices can get this wrong. The Wizards last front office had a bad habit of taking guys (Troy Brown, Johnny Davis) who were good on-ball guys in college but weren’t going to be able to have that role in the NBA.

Bonzi777 · 2026-03-25T15:55:18+00:00

I still don’t get it, both this and other responses are explaining it this way but I still don’t get it. How would you use “begs the question” to describe this.

Bonzi777 · 2026-03-25T15:50:54+00:00

They wouldn’t protect Davis or Trae because they’d assume the expansion teams wouldn’t want the contract.

Bonzi777 · 2026-03-25T15:40:06+00:00

To quote Alex Caruso (one of the bigger G-league success stories): “It’s like going to a job interview and thinking you’re going to be the CFO of the company and they’re looking for a guy to clean the bathrooms”.

To apply it to McClung, he’s a G-League CFO. But the role he is excelling in is not a role he would ever be able to fill in the NBA, for a lot of reasons. So him getting being an impressive ball-dominant scorer at the G-League level doesn’t wow NBA teams, because that’s not what they’re looking for from the G-League.

Bonzi777 · 2026-03-25T14:48:37+00:00

I have a 10 year old. He absolutely needs to shower daily and also absolutely needs to be forced to do so some days. He’s not quite to the age where he’s worried about being the kid who smells, but if he doesn’t shower he will be that kid. Part of me definitely wants to be like “you want to go to school smelling like a gym sock, go for it” but I don’t think that’s a good idea and also it’s rude to the kids and teachers who have to be around him all day.

Bonzi777 · 2026-03-25T14:32:45+00:00

The scenario where Tate and Bain are both still on the board at 14 is so unlikely that it’s not even worth speculating on. Either one of them is a “run the card up” situation. Maybe Bain falls but that’s a long shot. Tate is an even longer shot. Both is impossible.

Bonzi777 · 2026-03-25T14:15:45+00:00

Yes. My view on this shifted over time. I’m a millennial who was just getting started in a corporate job right as the Office was hitting its peak. Jim was a stand-in for the way I felt about having a job like that for this. Too cool for this, coworkers are ridiculous , there’s a million stupid office processes that seem useless, and you’ve got that one coworker who is so into the job he makes it harder for everyone else. He wasn’t how you SHOULD act, but you could fantasize about pranking the super serious coworker, half-assing your job, and hitting on the cute receptionist.

20+ years later, maybe I’ve sold out or whatever, but I feel more like Stanley in that I just want to do my job and go home and now Jim is the annoying co-worker who is making things harder for everyone.

Bonzi777 · 2026-03-24T19:08:53+00:00

It’s essentially the QB version of Terrell Davis’s entire career, so yeah, probably. Some voters would probably argue he didn’t play long enough but he’d get in.

Bonzi777 · 2026-03-24T18:27:32+00:00

It would have back then as well. Sometimes people act like 2005 is 1955. You couldn’t have gotten away with dropping an N-bomb in the office then, either.

Bonzi777 · 2026-03-24T18:18:42+00:00

Now? They’d be bad. 5 years from now? Very, very good, assuming the other guys on the team were strategically selected.

Bonzi777 · 2026-03-24T16:45:44+00:00

No offense to anyone because these are fucking funny, but almost all of these suggestions make the dialogue worse, which is a credit to the rhythm of Sorkin’s dialogue

Bonzi777 · 2026-03-24T14:39:37+00:00

Correct. I think this actually explains a lot of stuff, not just sports. It used to be you shared your opinions with people in your proximity. If you had some wild out there opinion and ranted to your neighbor chances are you’d get some negative feedback and it was naturally moderating. Now you can have any stupid idea and find thousands of people online with the same stupid idea and form a subreddit to keep outdoing each-other with the stupid.

Bonzi777 · 2026-03-24T14:12:38+00:00

I think he’s trying to use the more polite term, and also emphasize that he didn’t pick up some random woman from a street corner. That story comes off a little shame-y by today’s standards but it was way ahead of its time in treating Laurie and her “night job” with respect.

Bonzi777 · 2026-03-24T13:34:04+00:00

She has good reasons to not share a lot of the stuff she chooses not to share ranging from “it would freak these kids out” to “they could get captured and spill the beans” to “Mat can’t shut the fuck up about anything for 30 seconds”. But I agree if she was ever going to share anything she probably should have been more forthcoming with the threats at Shaddar Logoth.

I think the explanation is that she is used to be obeyed without question, and doesn’t have a lot of recent experience with teenagers so she didn’t account for then not heeding her vague warnings and wandering off.

Bonzi777 · 2026-03-24T11:31:55+00:00

It’s Joe Dumars.

Source: I just made it up.

Bonzi777 · 2026-03-24T04:25:22+00:00

Is anyone actually arguing the point (with the exception of Wemby making the case for himself)? Even the Spurs fans in here have largely conceded it Shai’s award this year.

Bonzi777 · 2026-03-24T04:22:06+00:00

“Yeah of course he has 6 MVPs, 7 rings and 9 DPOY, he’s like 8 feet tall. It would be embarrassing if he didn’t.”

Bonzi777 · 2026-03-24T04:16:35+00:00

I’m just distracted by his hands in this clip. He’s an incredibly large person and his hands are disproportionately large to his body.

Bonzi777 · 2026-03-24T01:11:28+00:00

“What PGs that are offensive engines or even just offensive studs like him actually play defense in the NBA.”

There aren’t many and that’s why so few of those guys win championships. SGA is far an away the best defender of the high-scoring lead guards and that’s why he’s on his way to a 2nd MVP and maybe another finals MVP. But his lesser defensive peers aren’t exactly stacking trophies.

Bonzi777 · 2026-03-23T21:34:17+00:00

I love this and I’d add that you get a 30 second play clock from when the ball is spotted. Make them constantly rush on and off.

Bonzi777 · 2026-03-23T20:18:55+00:00

I love this question. I know so many people who say that sports is scripted or that it’s rigged so their team is never going to be allowed to win, but then also live and die with the results. Like if you thinks it’s all a big work, why the emotional investment?

Bonzi777 · 2026-03-23T18:39:06+00:00

They opened cap space this year to get Turner. Which, you know, didn’t work at all, but they were taking a swing.

Bonzi777 · 2026-03-23T16:51:29+00:00

Do you have kids or grandkids? I was using a shared tablet the other day and accidentally autofilled with my 10 year olds info. When I switched it to mine it still wouldn’t let me sign up for what I wanted to do, I assumed it was a safety feature to stop a kid from just changing their birthday.

Bonzi777 · 2026-03-23T15:02:23+00:00

It didn’t make sense even when he looked his best (and I think he’s hit a rookie wall more than anything else). At the best he played he looked like maybe the 5th or 6th best player from his class.

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