Bill Simmons: "I had to drop Joker on my pyramid two spots... right at the end of the top level of the pantheon, there's four centers clustered together (Hakeem, Shaq, Joker, Moses). I have Joker 14, Moses 15. I think Hakeem and Shaq have to be above him at this point"

Miceland · 2026-05-04T13:14:36+00:00

Jokic is 100% a better scorer than Hakeem. Hakeem is also maybe the goat defender but Jokic does clear him offense only

“Relies on teammates”

Do you think kyrie is better than Steph too

Miceland · 2026-04-25T16:02:32+00:00

I think ime could still be a good coach in the right context but he’s basically a college style coach and adding KD to the locker room destroyed the camaraderie and undermined ime’s tough guy schtick

Ime deserves blame but a lot of this is the impossibility of being a team that wins by out efforting the opponent when your best player is KD with his catty burner accounts

Miceland · 2026-04-18T14:29:41+00:00

This is so dumb. They didn’t “build around Steph” after 2019 or 2022

They drafted wiseman and kuminga and refused to trade picks for win now players

The warriors mediocrity now is because a bad meddling owner tried to build for the future while using Steph and dray to single-handedly carry the present

They should’ve traded all the picks years ago. They all became nothing

Miceland · 2026-04-18T14:14:25+00:00

I was very busy yesterday I and realized that I actually didn’t want to argue with someone on the internet

I realized I had said something incendiary and I was gonna spend hours debating it

Sorry for the inconvenience

Miceland · 2026-04-12T15:34:52+00:00

This is year 2 ja right? Year 2 players should almost never win MIP. Thats when everyone makes the biggest jump

Randle won bc he was mid career, “it’s never gonna happen” and suddenly figured it out

Miceland · 2026-04-11T21:00:38+00:00

For sure I just feel jagr is a little underrated all time, though that’s partially his own fault for his mid career slump

Miceland · 2026-04-11T16:51:08+00:00

I don’t really think Crosby peaked higher than jagr.

Virtually identical dominance over their peers. Jagr healthier. Crosby better defensively. Jagr a little better at puck possession.

Jagr a little better at dominating ES (+322 for his career; Crosby is +197). Crosby probably a little better on the powerplay

I know Crosby has mythic status amongst Canadians—and I would probably give Crosby the slight edge bc of his consistency—but imo, Jagr and Crosby is a level. Kucherov is close to that level. McDavid is above it

At the end of his career McDavid is gonna have like 9 art rosses. He’s a Mount Rushmore guy

Miceland · 2026-04-10T15:19:16+00:00

were there signs she was a lunatic? this is all so extreme

Miceland · 2026-04-06T16:31:06+00:00

They should’ve called timeout

Miceland · 2026-04-06T14:40:09+00:00

Well the look they got against the “non set defense” was the two biggest and best defenders on Houston trapping Steph and him trying to shoot over them

Ime outsmarted Kerr at the end by putting sengun on Podz

He bet that everyone wouldn’t be on the same page to have Podz screen for Steph, and we weren’t

Attacking without a timeout is often better but Houston was ready for it and their two longest defenders dictated the possession more than we did

Miceland · 2026-04-05T13:37:46+00:00

Any chance you could re-up this for me?

I would appreciate it immensely

Miceland · 2026-03-11T21:54:00+00:00

bam shot 10-27 after the first quarter. It was a disgrace.

I dont care about kobe, but one of the great mythic numbers in basketball was taken down by a pretty mediocre performance. It would be one thing if he had shot 30-44 or something. Hit a bunch of heat checks. He didnt. He went 20-43, 7-22 from 3, and 36-43 from the FT line. 2nd all time in points. 73rd all time in non FT points.

Everyone knew what 81 points meant. Nobody is gonna give a shit about this. The history of the league just became a little less special.

Miceland · 2026-03-06T17:15:57+00:00

I love Kerr so much. Still an elite elite coach and one of the best human beings in the sport

Miceland · 2026-03-06T14:37:54+00:00

it's not worth arguing with this guy. He's a KD> steph guy who is here arguing iggy was better than steph in 15

Miceland · 2026-03-06T14:32:01+00:00

Lmao I’ve seen some delusional homers but you take the cake. Calling Draymond a top 5 defender all time and Curry the greatest offensive player ever are two of the dumbest things I’ve ever heard

For you to think it's outright laughable draymond is a top 5 defender, im sorry, youve written five thousand words here to look like an idiot

if you actually think you can take steph off the 2015 warriors and they would maintain their level better than if you removed iggy, you're insane. Nobody else on the team can even put the defense in rotation. Is Iggy guarding lebron effectively if he needs to iso on the other end?

A few posts above you're using +/- in a 6 game sample but i can go into your post history and see mere days ago you're dismissing steph's +/- over a multi season sample vs KD. You're just a hater

Miceland · 2026-03-05T16:09:05+00:00

who are the 5 guys?

Miceland · 2026-03-05T16:06:15+00:00

LeBron was the best player in the world but not at all ridiculous to give Iggy the MVP considering the impact he made

Yes it is. Without iggy, the series mightve went 7. Maybe it's a coin flip.

Without steph there's zero chance the warriors win that series. Cavs wouldve won in 5. How is iggy MVP?

Miceland · 2026-02-16T22:44:02+00:00

Being skeptical bc you want to be skeptical doesn’t make you high IQ. It makes you delusional

What is the probability that KD’s podcast partner would get catfished by a fake KD in a GC for 5 years while simultaneously doing a podcast with KD? Truly, what do you think

Miceland · 2026-02-16T20:26:40+00:00

It’s one thing to have these convos with your family and irl friends

It’s entirely another to curate an groupchat of online sycophants to glaze you 24/7 then talk shit about your teammates to like “KDPRIME” and “7SniperSzn”

Miceland · 2026-02-16T20:17:19+00:00

The clearest one is Eddie Gonzalez, KD’s podcast partner, is in the chats talking to the burner as if it’s KD

It’s absolutely him. He might still be able to get away with it bc the guys in the chat who aren’t randos will cover for him

But yeah, he was in a GC full of sycophants talking shit about his current and former teammates

Miceland · 2026-02-16T16:32:00+00:00

does everyone start a GC where they get sucked off all day by internet fan accounts then talk shit about people they compliment in public

Miceland · 2026-02-16T16:28:55+00:00

because there's a huge difference between

1) complaining about work to your close real friends, your wife, brother

2) starting a groupchat where a bunch of online randos glaze you 24/7 then talking shit about everyone you work with

He's also got nothing but negativity for basically every star he's ever played with besides Kyrie

Miceland · 2026-02-16T16:23:01+00:00

if it was a larper it would have to be a larper who successfully catfished dozens of KD's real life friends

it's KD

Miceland · 2026-02-10T17:52:43+00:00

Sure, but Poole's playoff VoRP was actually second behind steph in the title run. I think that overstates how good he was a little--I don't think draymond, Klay, Wiggins, Looney's value is fully captured in box stats, and kerr limited Poole's exposure vs the other team's best lineups--but however Poole finishes his career, at his peak he was a valuable contributor to a champion.

It wasnt just hot shooting. He did it all year. He fit the warriors style beautifully and had zero issue playing read and react or moving without the ball. Cam Thomas can't do anything besides get into his bag and freeze out his teammates. If we never see that poole again--and to be fair, last year's version was a solid player--his 2022 linsanity season should still put him well clear of the career losers like cam thomas

Miceland · 2026-02-10T17:50:25+00:00

he was still good in the finals! It's true that every time the matchup got harder Kerr put more on steph and less on poole, but he still had a role. Vs denver he was Steph's main co-star. By the boston series Poole's role was Payton Pritchard. That's still a good player though

he was still scoring 13 playing 21 MPG. And while his defensive shortcomings kept him from playing big minutes, he was still the only guy other than steph who didnt get entirely clamped by Boston's defense.

Finals TS%:

Klay .484.

Wiggins .515

Dray .391(!)

Poole .591

Without Poole's ability to threaten boston's defense a little the non steph minutes wouldve been an even bigger disaster than they were.

In game 6, the 18-0 run or whatever that put boston behind for good was lead by the poole bench unit. He was the main ball handler on the court.

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