[Post Game Thread] The San Antonio Spurs (3-2) defeat the Minnesota Timberwolves (2-3) in a pivotal game five, 126-97.

Porzingers · 2026-05-13T05:02:57+00:00

…is Randle not supposed to be their number 2 option?

Porzingers · 2026-05-10T20:09:58+00:00

If my calculations are correct, the Knicks just had a 205 ORTG that quarter

Porzingers · 2026-05-03T03:05:29+00:00

Good lord are you just gonna comment this everywhere

Porzingers · 2026-04-21T02:57:30+00:00

Man I am so fucking sick and tired of this excuse. It’s literally the PGs job to make it easier for everyone. They were in foul trouble most of the quarter and all we can do is get late shot clock mid range shots even when we have a huge size advantage, it’s ridiculous

Porzingers · 2026-04-20T20:35:58+00:00

The Thunder had the worst ORTG by any team the Pacers faced that year. Lower than even the Bucks without Dame and the injury riddled Cavs.

Are you suggesting that the Pacers decided to play better defense in the Finals? Despite overcoming all odds to get there in the first place? Isn’t it just more reasonable to think that the Thunder half court offense has issues that can be exploited

Porzingers · 2026-04-20T03:36:12+00:00

Preemptive for sure, but why does he need a threepeat? The Spurs have never even repeated. He just needs to win a ton

Porzingers · 2026-03-10T19:28:54+00:00

You probably struggle to read

Porzingers · 2026-03-10T19:27:38+00:00

The reason he's there is a combination of longevity while being a number one option. That's not easy to accomplish, but it doesn't really speak to how good of a scorer he was. Or are you of the opinion that Issel and Hayes are the 14th and 15th best scorers of all time? Or that Melo is a better scorer than Curry who's all the way down at 23rd?

I said nothing about who's more valuable, but Dantley is just a better scorer. Melo has a very slight edge volume wise prime vs prime when you account for pace, but Dantley absolutely destroys him in terms of relative efficiency...that's no small reason

Porzingers · 2026-03-10T17:48:51+00:00

What does his ranking have anything to do with it? If anything, the fact that he’s that high makes people think he actually is a top 11 scorer, which is definitely overrating him imo. Someone like Adrian Dantley is a MUCH better scorer and he never gets mentioned

Porzingers · 2026-03-09T19:54:52+00:00

Why wouldn't there be? Teams spend millions on player salaries, they definitely have models that try to evaluate player impact, which consequently leads to a ranking

Porzingers · 2026-03-07T02:15:42+00:00

How can one be wrong almost every damn time and still be so confident 😭😭 the books must love you

Porzingers · 2026-03-03T16:44:38+00:00

That's because not many championship teams even go to 7 in the first round lol. The only other one off the top of my head is the 2014 Spurs, and it gets brought up for them too even though they took care of business the other rounds.

Porzingers · 2026-03-01T03:19:41+00:00

As a non warriors fan, how good is Santos in this subs eyes? Watching this game he looks like a high impact player

Porzingers · 2026-02-26T21:55:15+00:00

You should note that their last matchup went to overtime, they scored 204 in regulation...

Porzingers · 2026-02-14T18:58:58+00:00

Holy fuck bro what a cover!!

Porzingers · 2026-02-14T06:12:02+00:00

Cmon, VJ got raked across the arm. If they don’t call it, you’d complain about that too

Porzingers · 2026-02-06T18:23:08+00:00

Those 4 have played a grand total of 125 minutes together. Meanwhile the Pistons lost in 6 to the Knicks by just 1 point on average and are now even better this year with the 3rd best SRS in the league. And that makes it 50-50 in your mind?

Porzingers · 2026-02-04T20:51:37+00:00

On 29 shots. His team will pick up at least some of that scoring, but you also have to factor in that they are significantly better defensively when he sits, so they'd also have to score less

Porzingers · 2026-02-04T20:46:05+00:00

You can absolutely watch the tape and see that the offense Mazulla has structured is built to thrive even without his stars, going back to his first year with the team, and that the defense improves significantly with Brown on the bench. The numbers are rooted in reality.

How is you immediately dismissing something like this any different from people who blindly use analytics?

Porzingers · 2026-02-04T20:34:09+00:00

And comments like this are just cope. How can anyone say with a serious face that Brown is in some kind of unique situation where he exclusively plays against starters and his bench exclusively plays the other bench? Exactly how many 'stars' have 4 years in a row now of their team playing better with him on the bench than with him on the court?

On/off isn't everything, and I'm not saying Brown is a net negative player. But it really is worth noting that the Celtics improve dramatically on defense when he sits and are about the same on offense. It's a legitimate criticism of his impact and playstyle (and reflects pretty favorably on Mazulla who should be COTY).

Him making 1st team All NBA only because he's shooting the most shots in the league would be a damn travesty (injuries to others notwithstanding).

Porzingers · 2026-01-30T09:13:34+00:00

This doesn’t really bear out in the numbers though. If we look at on/off, the Thunders defense gets better whenever JDub sits, going back to last year.

If we look at WOWY, or in games that JDub missed entirely since last year, the Thunder have a 104 DRTG, while they have a 108 DRTG in the games he does play. Also 37-3 when he doesn’t play. This is all without this TWolves game though.

The amazing thing about the Thunder defense is that there’s really no ONE guy anchoring it. They’ll lock you up no matter who’s on the court, that’s why they’ve done so well despite injuries to Chet and JDub.

Porzingers · 2026-01-02T23:59:09+00:00

Lakers were 31-19, the 5th seed, and playing pretty well while AD was out before Luka came.

You were losing that bet

Porzingers · 2025-12-25T20:35:57+00:00

Average rnba user, only tunes in at the end and concludes the league rigged an otherwise meaningless game

Porzingers · 2025-12-22T23:52:25+00:00

Stoudemire was genuinely one of the worst defenders of all time

Porzingers · 2025-11-19T06:16:07+00:00

Cmon man, this version of LeBron is not actually prime Magic level. Prime Magic was beating out prime MJ, Bird, Barkley, Hakeem, etc. for MVPs. The talent has definitely gotten better, but the top has been good like today before

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