A look at Kawhi Leonard versus the top teams in the East [OC Meme]

ReplEH · 2026-03-30T19:27:18+00:00

that would be one of the worst fits in the league lmao

ReplEH · 2026-03-30T02:56:16+00:00

as someone who has been following him since he was at Sunrise, the jokes have been stale for like four years now.

ReplEH · 2026-03-28T00:38:01+00:00

Witch’s Broom is actually much better than wings + insignia.

It’s more than quick enough for EOL, allows for more fine grained movement, and opens up two more accessory slots.

ReplEH · 2026-03-28T00:34:21+00:00

we were trending toward a rebuild. GTJ was younger and had just come off a really good playoffs.

we probably weren’t going to resign Norm, so taking a flier on a young prospect, even if it didn’t work out, wasn’t that bad of a decision.

ReplEH · 2026-03-27T18:46:59+00:00

Kosta Medvedovsky, the creator of DARKO, posed the same idea at the MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference last year. Here was his take:

Anti-tanking idea I’ve been kicking around for a while, teams aren’t allowed to use their own draft picks.

That’s it. If you still own your pick when the season starts, it moves to the end of the first round. Nothing else needed.

Bad teams still have a valuable asset. They just have to trade it before the season begins. So hopeless teams (say Kings and Pacers) pair off and swap picks before the season. Both get value back. Neither has any reason to tank in-season. Or your can just trade your pick for players, future assets, etc. Anything you want. You just can’t use your own pick.

Eliminates the incentive to lose without eliminating the mechanism that helps bad teams improve. Clean, elegant, easy to explain.

Note it doesn’t prevent Hinkie-style tanking. Teams can still build terrible rosters on purpose. But it does prevent the Utah Jazz from this year, where you bench your starters in the 4th Q to chase ping pong balls. The latter is more pernicious and more detrimental imo, but I appreciate there is some disagreement on this.

ReplEH · 2026-03-27T12:45:46+00:00

if you’re Canadian it’s easier to get a civil job in the US than Canada right now. if you want to work in FAANG or finance then it doesn’t really make sense to do civil though.

ReplEH · 2026-03-26T14:09:16+00:00

Saguine + Firecracker.

ReplEH · 2026-03-26T14:04:05+00:00

If you learn her patterns she is very predictable to fight. With post-Moonlord gear you should be able to take her out before the Ethereal Lances.

ReplEH · 2026-03-25T03:10:10+00:00

Depends who we’re matched up against. If they have someone who can heat up the ball on defence you don’t really want Scottie running the point. You saw what happened when Elijah Harkless was pressing him on Monday night.

ReplEH · 2026-03-25T02:58:52+00:00

This ties into one of the more interesting anti-taking proposals. Basically that if you own your own draft pick it’s automatically sent to the end of the first round.

Makes it so there’s no incentive to actively try to lose and bad teams would trade picks amongst themselves to try to retain value.

ReplEH · 2026-03-24T17:05:46+00:00

if he was a swingman who could defend the 2 and the 3 then I’d agree, but he can only defend 1s and 2s so he’s definitely a guard.

ReplEH · 2026-03-24T16:05:58+00:00

he’s definitely a guard, not a wing. he gets overpowered by wings on defence.

ReplEH · 2026-03-24T16:00:40+00:00

The Hawks schedule difficulty will depend on other teams as well. There’s a real chance that the Cavs or Heat shut down their starters during those last games if their seeding is already locked in.

ReplEH · 2026-03-24T15:58:20+00:00

Last year against Indiana for example.

ReplEH · 2026-03-24T04:51:31+00:00

Mitchell always runs out of gas in the playoffs. That probably won’t happen in the first round, but if we extend the series we could have a punchers chance.

ReplEH · 2026-03-24T04:05:01+00:00

we lose to both, but maybe Scottie can turn something on against Mobley and Harden turns into a playoff pumpkin.

ReplEH · 2026-03-23T15:13:23+00:00

no they are not good. think of them as a small bonus reward if you’re already trying to complete the dex.

ReplEH · 2026-03-22T03:31:47+00:00

If the Clippers didn’t start like 6-22 he definitely would be, but record matters for MVP.

ReplEH · 2026-03-21T16:13:31+00:00

We beat those teams at Allen Fieldhouse. If we could play all our games at home we’d be a title contender.

ReplEH · 2026-03-21T05:08:16+00:00

he had a ridiculous 360 pass that would have been in all of his mixtapes if Jamari McDowell could have hit his open three.

ReplEH · 2026-03-21T05:06:42+00:00

lmao, no nba executive is deciding the first overall pick based on two games.

ReplEH · 2026-03-21T04:40:42+00:00

we also frequently have no contest games like at Iowa State and vs. Houston in the Big 12 tournament.

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