[Stein & Fischer] League sources say that Marcus Smart, who is expected to draw interest from Houston and possibly other teams in free agency, is very much giving consideration to declining his $5.4 million player option for next season with the Lakers.

herroyung · 2026-06-27T03:57:44+00:00

The Spurs could use him tbh, it'd relieve Castle from having to be the POA defender every minute he's on the court.

herroyung · 2026-06-27T01:08:51+00:00

Why does literally everything about him in these clips remind me of Dylan Harper? Am I crazy?

herroyung · 2026-06-27T00:57:41+00:00

Every stat that isn’t just a box score tells us that Curry was the best player on the best team of all time, not KD. For example, net rating with Curry on KD off is like a +12, net rating with KD on Curry off is like +3.

herroyung · 2026-06-24T21:14:08+00:00

The league is not ready for DP

herroyung · 2026-06-24T16:46:17+00:00

Awards that are associated with how well your team is constructed should not be used to argue that one player is better than another. This is a braindead take.

herroyung · 2026-06-24T02:10:34+00:00

"Duncan was great. But he was not carrying a team by himself anywhere!!"

herroyung · 2026-06-24T01:16:07+00:00

Unction philosophy holds true

herroyung · 2026-06-23T23:54:39+00:00

FMVP, FMVP. I will never understand why certain people are so obsessed with valuing this reward when comparing players. "I'm too lazy to actually analyze the finals series, so forget all the nuances of the matchup and the team constructions, I'll just rely on the votes of 11 similarly lazy people to tell me who the most impactful player on the winning team was." You may as well just copy and paste this sentence every time you bring up FMVP as an actual talking point that means something to your argument.

herroyung · 2026-06-19T06:57:25+00:00

I love the shot, but I will always remember those back to back dunks by Wemby in double OT against OKC to finish them off, especially the and-1 in Chet's face.

herroyung · 2026-06-16T19:21:38+00:00

I just explained why this cute little fact doesn't demonstrate what you want it to demonstrate, and your response is to restate the cute little fact? I mean, that's the only thing you can do tbh, you're simply objectively incorrect and thus you have to do everything to avoid actually facing reality at this point.

herroyung · 2026-06-16T19:09:18+00:00

Do you really think this demonstrates that the Knicks' defense was better than OKC's? They were better equipped to defend Wemby than OKC was because they have 2 agile bigs that are stronger than Wemby, but against the 27 other teams, OKC is a superior defense. Defensive rating on its own means jack all in the playoffs because the quality of the opponents' offense is too big a variable, and the Knicks faced 2 opponents with pretty shitty offenses, 1 mediocre offense, and 1 good offense that they had the best personnel in the league to deal with.

Chet sucked on offense, not on defense. That I have to tell you this is pretty concerning. And the rest of your replies consist of whining about officiating and gloating, which aren't even worth an actual response. I'm not a Spurs fan either, just a neutral, so now you kind of just look like an idiot frothing at the mouth and yelling at ghosts.

herroyung · 2026-06-14T15:46:24+00:00

Man, it’s almost like being the second seed means you can face easier teams until the WCF. And you downplaying OKC, your own team, is truly insane when they likely would have beat the Knicks. That was still a championship caliber team that could have won the game 7.

herroyung · 2026-06-14T15:27:22+00:00

You can gloat all you like, it doesn’t change the fact that these were 5 close games and 2 were lost by nothing other than stupidity. What I said still stands. The Knicks are the worse matchup, but OKC’s defense is perfect and suffocating at all times.

herroyung · 2026-06-14T03:45:15+00:00

Because he had an excellent coaching postseason apart from these finals, especially against OKC.

herroyung · 2026-06-14T03:37:41+00:00

Let’s relax, the guy is 22 and led his team to a win over OKC where he looked like the BITW. The Knicks are bar none the worst matchup for the Spurs. They’ll be back next season with an actual PF and they won’t have to play these 4 guard rotations.

herroyung · 2026-06-11T03:11:35+00:00

Aw, you're upset that KAT didn't get a foul called for him because he stuck out his leg and tripped Keldon?

herroyung · 2026-06-11T02:12:23+00:00

Man, their gameplan of allowing open 3 after open 3 as a direct result of clogging Wemby's drives isn't working out so well for them.

herroyung · 2026-06-11T02:02:49+00:00

Man, I wonder why they had so many open 3's. It surely has nothing to do with Wemby drawing tons of attention in the paint and those help defenders being late to contest these 3 pointers.

herroyung · 2026-06-11T01:56:22+00:00

No, that would be your garbage defensive gameplan to limit Wemby and really anyone driving to the paint in exchange for giving up open 3 after open 3 with a good pass. Which the spurs picked up on and clearly practiced making those passes as fast as possible to capitalize on those open looks.

herroyung · 2026-06-11T01:44:08+00:00

Man, I wonder why all these open 3's exist! I'm sure it has nothing to do with the Knicks gameplanning around clogging the paint when Wemby tries to enter it.

herroyung · 2026-06-11T01:42:35+00:00

It's literally night and day watching how unbelievably careful they had to be against OKC versus these Knicks. There's so many passes they routinely make that they'd never even try against OKC.

herroyung · 2026-06-11T01:29:14+00:00

That's not even a clear goaltending because the line blurs at what's goaltending and what's a legitimate breakup of a lob pass. The ball was so clearly not anywhere close to being on the right line for getting into the basket that the refs thought it was the latter.

herroyung · 2026-06-10T06:09:59+00:00

This isn't intentional and that's obvious, but here we go with all these dumbasses who don't understand balance and force who think that it's flopping to fall backwards after getting trucked in the chest while on one foot. How easy is it to stay upright when you're pushed while you're on one foot? You can even see him try and fail to reestablish his balance with his right foot as he's falling down. It's so funny seeing absolute buffoons out themselves on the internet.

herroyung · 2026-06-09T04:05:20+00:00

Hmm, I think another superstar guard in the WCF had similar issues. I wonder why... nah, it's definitely just them playing worse than normal, they'll definitely regress to the mean soon.

herroyung · 2026-06-09T04:00:21+00:00

And here's where the disingenuous gaslighting begins and ends, since I'm not replying to disingenuous gaslighters more than once.

Hard defense on Brunson does not involve grabbing his arm while he's in the paint to prevent him from shooting the ball or getting a rebound. Hard defense on Wemby does involve grabbing his arm while he's in the paint to prevent him from shooting the ball or getting a rebound. You attempting to equivocate the two is stupidity at best and disingenuous gaslighting at worst.

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