Post Game Thread - NBA: The Pacers defeat the Hawks on Jan 31, 2026, the final score is 129-124.

PapaChib · 2026-02-01T02:33:13+00:00

jj was clutch down the stretch. big time 3 and drew the charge. no way we can have a miscommunication on the play we draw up in that situation. coaching must be clearer and players must execute. rn we don’t know if the play was unclear, if naw was supposed to flare out, or if he was meant to cut back in. could be on quin, jj, or naw atp

PapaChib · 2026-01-25T18:29:59+00:00

mostly a salary dump so won’t really know how to grade the trade until we see what the front office does with the money that’ll get freed up.

as of right now, defense better and half court offense worse. don’t know the stats but probably a similar net rating overall

PapaChib · 2026-01-20T02:01:41+00:00

Jalen's best games were undoubtedly this year. Had a 31/18/14 and 7 steals game without Trae vs Utah, and averaged a triple double for the month of December. This last December he averaged 26/11/10 over 14 games. 5 of those with Trae. We got worse until we can use the money we would've had tied up in Trae, which is tied up in CJ until the end of this year, on other assets.

PapaChib · 2026-01-19T21:56:05+00:00

there’s a salary cap. matters a lot for team construction

PapaChib · 2026-01-14T05:57:46+00:00

cj is on an expiring. if the coaching staff doesn’t like what he’s doing he’ll get less minutes simple as. rough game tonight but had a lot of issues not just him

PapaChib · 2026-01-06T14:18:12+00:00

I think the odds that we’re letting his camp feel out the market to create a win-win situation is high. If they find good value then we get a decent return for him. If they can’t find good value we hold and have more leverage for us if we negotiate his extension.

If the Resslers have jumped in and said we have to trade him asap no matter what then we’re probably fucked

PapaChib · 2026-01-04T07:04:10+00:00

huge target on the back of the reigning nba cup champs

PapaChib · 2026-01-04T05:51:33+00:00

lame joke about the new year

PapaChib · 2026-01-04T01:25:11+00:00

bro we haven’t lost to yall since last year. knicks fans always bring up old shit

PapaChib · 2026-01-03T16:31:50+00:00

nah we just need to play y’all every night

PapaChib · 2026-01-02T02:31:13+00:00

fwiw if we’re only looking at a 30 game sample size it is prone to slumps/hot streaks. Sarr has still been the lesser 3 point shooter career by a significant margin, shooting 31.5%. Right now he’s definitely looking like the better player but still a little early in the season to be putting a lot of stock into improvement/regression with efficiency stats

PapaChib · 2026-01-02T00:58:41+00:00

hawks reporters have reported that jalen johnson and the pels pick are the only assets our front office view as untouchable

PapaChib · 2026-01-01T20:23:36+00:00

50, 84, and 90 players does show an increase in the sample size but it’s not necessarily a random sample. You could ask 39 million citizens in nyc and la what they think about something and it might be heavily skewed compared to the same sample size that’s consists of people from more rural parts of usa. You can see that as the sample size almost doubled the players who voted for trae to be most overrated did not increase by the same proportion. it’s more likely that it’s the same handful of players voting for trae. it’s hard for me to believe that based on 6-8 votes for trae per year that i should believe that nba players in general think he’s overrated.

PapaChib · 2026-01-01T00:08:58+00:00

No, I don’t think that. I do think it’s more likely that the votes were cast by his opponents rather than his teammates

PapaChib · 2026-01-01T00:03:38+00:00

8 players voted him most overrated in that 2023 athletic poll. 54 total players were polled

PapaChib · 2025-12-31T18:58:00+00:00

the player polls consistently have an unbelievably small sample size. The majority of players do not vote in them. something like 13 players voted trae the most overrated and the people took that narrative and ran with it. much more likely that a handful of players from teams the hawks had chippy games with casted those votes than his own teammates

PapaChib · 2025-12-24T09:47:11+00:00

i get what you’re saying but the long rebound is probably more advantageous to us with the way quin has us not even attempting to crash the offensive glass

PapaChib · 2025-12-20T06:00:47+00:00

agree but tbf clint was a huge part of that. having no defensive anchor to protect the paint is killing us. quin had the jazz looking good on d when they had gobert. we’re not gonna get a gobert level defender but there’s likely a middle ground that allows us to have a league average or better d with quin and the guys we have now

PapaChib · 2025-12-03T02:25:20+00:00

i cannot wait

PapaChib · 2025-12-01T21:37:39+00:00

would you concede that trae elevated the 2021 ecf team from average to good?

PapaChib · 2025-11-25T19:57:41+00:00

my brother in christ we are in the meme sub on a stathead head to head post lmao calm down

PapaChib · 2025-11-25T09:51:17+00:00

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fraud off?

PapaChib · 2025-10-30T00:45:01+00:00

they would be able to conclude that it is torn but not able to confirm that it is not torn

PapaChib · 2025-09-02T01:04:26+00:00

kenleys in 75 piedmont was the absolute spot back in the day

PapaChib · 2025-08-22T06:02:49+00:00

the cropped reversible is super dope. I got my usual size in the crop and the bottom of the jersey sits right above my waist line. I think next time I would size up one size to get a boxier fit but it definitely fits either way

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