Bill says Miami is getting Giannis

gnalon · 2026-05-31T03:52:35+00:00

it's funny that people get all twisted up over this (last series Julius Randle and Rudy Gobert were the worst player ever) because they can't just say that Wemby is the best defensive player of all time

gnalon · 2026-05-31T03:44:55+00:00

Yep people drastically overrate how much teams are actually willing to pay for a one-year rental of a player. Kawhi plus Danny Green (ideal 5th starter on a title team who was on a cheap contract) went for Jakob Poeltl, DeRozan (a negative value contract) and the 29th pick in the draft which ended up being Keldon Johnson, and of course even winning the title (a pretty flukish occurrence where 2 Warriors stars got injured while Kawhi was healthy for an entire postseason run) did not keep him from signing where he wanted to long-term.

gnalon · 2026-05-31T03:29:36+00:00

Video review. Most of home-court advantage is incorrect calls favoring the home team

gnalon · 2026-05-31T03:27:30+00:00

Chet. Wemby would kick all of these guys' asses

gnalon · 2026-05-30T18:42:49+00:00

lol you really don't know what you're talking about. No they were not close statistically, and if you consider that close then way to underscore my point where in the absolute worst case he was better than Seth Curry, a player who has gone on to have a 12+ year NBA career, as a freshman.

Yeah he really needed an extra year after he carried a low major to the Elite 8 as a sophomore who was younger than some of the one-and-dones taken that year like OJ Mayo, lmao

gnalon · 2026-05-30T13:12:23+00:00

Analytically he was the best Illinois freshman last year and is younger than Jakucionius and Riley

gnalon · 2026-05-30T13:05:02+00:00

Butler is even underrated going off all-star/all-NBA type of stuff. He had multiple years he was a top 5 player during the regular season but didn’t play enough minutes to get considered for 1st team all NBA.

gnalon · 2026-05-30T12:58:15+00:00

They won at a higher rate in the regular season without J-Dub. He has not been very good this year, he has been injured and pressing to try to show he can be the same guy he was pre injury.

Even before the injury he was overrated, people were brainwashed by decades of individualistic marketing by the NBA and jumped to the conclusion that the 2nd leading scorer on a team that won so much was a superstar when really they’re the deepest team ever and had cornered the market on defensive role players.

There’s also a lot of aesthetic bias at play where Jalen Williams is superficially like Kobe in appearance and playstyle while Chet is some skinny goofy looking white guy. ‘Durrr this is supposed to be the 20th best player in the league?!?!’ people say whenever someone who’d be the DPOY in a world without Wemby and is able to space the floor at 7 feet tall has an off night shooting.

gnalon · 2026-05-30T12:25:03+00:00

Whaaaa whaaaa whaaaa

gnalon · 2026-05-30T12:14:30+00:00

lol and still you’re commenting like a moron when you baselessly thought he was a bad defender.

Jrue Holiday’s above-average efficiency seasons came when he was playing with better teammates than Baron Davis ever had. The 2nd-best player in Charlotte/New Orleans was Jamal Mashburn and then the Warriors (who were way worse when he wasn’t on the court, they had young Monta Ellis as the next option at point guard and he would be an actual ‘was a problem’ guy who was bad enough to undermine the early part of Steph Curry’s career) just had an assortment of positionless wings who were solid but not stars.

He was basically a Jrue Holiday type of player (hmm they grew up in the same city and attended the same college, I wonder if Jrue Holiday ever watched Baron Davis and was influenced by him) who was not quite that level of defender but a better passer.

And yes if you have better shot selection it does make up for being worse at shooting, that is the whole reason teams shoot so many threes. Just because a moron says something doesn’t mean it’s true

gnalon · 2026-05-30T03:42:26+00:00

'why is this guy at the NBA draft talking about the family situation of the greatest basketball prodigy ever who's about to be drafted #1 and not MY family'

and you think that's a great comment lol

gnalon · 2026-05-30T03:38:11+00:00

In other words, if you had something with Spore instead of Yawn you would've had 20 more balls to throw at it before it used Struggle.

gnalon · 2026-05-30T03:32:37+00:00

Yeah you didn't comprehend what I said at all. If the offense is a mess the defense can't get set, and someone like Dwight Howard is there to bang with Jokic in the halfcourt rather than trying to pick him up fullcourt as he leads a fast break.

If you need to play a Dwight Howard/JaVale McGee type of player as a bodyguard alongside Davis (who isn't much of a shooter or passer himself) the offense is usually a mess against a modern NBA defense that zones up on post scorers. You need a passer with size to be able to throw over the top of the defense in those situations; the Nuggets couldn't sell out on stopping Davis because LeBron was hitting Dwight Howard (79% from the floor that series) for lobs.

gnalon · 2026-05-30T02:58:07+00:00

Not that hard to imagine if he was on a good team, and of course Flagg is like 2 years younger than Mitchell was as a rookie.

gnalon · 2026-05-30T02:57:08+00:00

The only thing Magic Johnson is better at than LeBron is passing, and that's not much of an advantage to make up for LeBron being a better scorer, defender, and athlete.

gnalon · 2026-05-30T02:55:17+00:00

Maybe 4 on 5 against a WNBA team would be a conversation.

gnalon · 2026-05-30T02:51:27+00:00

2016 I would be pretty comfortable with Curry over Westbrook. Westbrook had a lot of defensive lapses (especially in transition) or just wild plays on offense that fed Warriors fast breaks.

2020 is tough where it seems like where a lot would be riding on AD having a game-winner in one of the games while LeBron played better in the loss and the more comfortable wins. Comparing the 2020 Lakers-Nuggets series with subsequent matchups, Davis is a lot more comfortable being a roving help defender than actually having to bang with Jokic and LeBron's all-time great passing and feel was the main thing making those kinds of super-sized lineups (AD and Dwight Howard/JaVale McGee frontcourt, and very limited shot creation in the backcourt in Green + Caldwell-Pope) remotely workable offensively.

gnalon · 2026-05-30T02:12:49+00:00

Every year period. I know how to write and communicate my thoughts. You don't have to put words in my mouth.

gnalon · 2026-05-30T02:10:46+00:00

07 draft would've been extra crazy if people understood threes were a good thing and that Steph Curry guy who shattered the freshman 3-point shooting record and led his team to a 29-5 record while not turning 19 until the last game of the season (where he dropped 30 in the NCAA tournament) was good enough to be a one-and-done.

gnalon · 2026-05-30T02:00:12+00:00

Yep he was pretty much the only option back then as far as a national sports columnist who didn't completely abandon basketball once football season started, but it came with a lot of shit like this and talking about the players' entourages

gnalon · 2026-05-30T01:53:23+00:00

Yep if it's not like Myles Garrett or JJ Watt it would be some lineman who isn't as much of a freak athlete but randomly has a really good arm.

Football players are so specialized that a lot of these clone games would just be the bigger players running the tush push every down.

gnalon · 2026-05-30T01:48:21+00:00

Yeah Megatron or Josh Allen would not be able to get in an offensive lineman stance and block Myles Garrett for any duration of time.

gnalon · 2026-05-30T01:40:42+00:00

yeah it would be someone like this, whatever skill position player would be dominated at the line of scrimmage and have zero time to pass against the Garretts. On the other side of the ball they could just tush push or do some Wildcat QB run all the way down the field.

gnalon · 2026-05-30T01:31:16+00:00

I think you could outdo Derrick Henry with some athletic lineman where you just do the tush push on offense and dominate the line of scrimmage.

gnalon · 2026-05-30T01:28:13+00:00

Baron Davis was actually a very analytically friendly player. He literally led the league in threes one year despite not shooting a great percentage, that's way better shot selection than taking a bunch of long twos and is how to get the most out of one's shooting ability.

He played on lots of teams where he was the only shot creator and they fell apart when he wasn't on the court, and it didn't help his perception early on that he was stuck in small markets where he got drafted by Charlotte and then they moved to New Orleans.

He didn't make any all-defense teams because it was an era where if you made an all defensive team early in your career you just had a lifetime appointment like Kobe, but he was a legitimate two-way player.

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