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Kevin O'Conner published this three days ago in the Ringer power rankings

4. Los Angeles Lakers
10-7 record, plus-0.5 net rating
Preseason ranking: no. 5

Austin Reaves has been put in more of a pass-first role coming off the bench in recent weeks, averaging more than six minutes of possession time and more than six assists per game. Reaves is effectively a 15-6-6 guy right now, but I wonder whether the Lakers could be getting more out of him by ramping up his usage even more. Reaves allows the Lakers to use LeBron James as a screener in different ways—on top of his unfathomable on-ball dominance at 38 years old—which has led to some cutting opportunities in what’s becoming a juicy chemistry. And Reaves is also finding Anthony Davis in his spots, using his own gravity as an offensive threat to deliver the ball to AD. Following a slow start to the year, Reaves is becoming the third star the Lakers need. And soon, injured players will return to the lineup. Things are trending up.

i have a lot of love for hollinger & duncan, but i'm listening to the new org rankings podcast and they always do this incredibly maddening thing (hollinger in particular) when they talk about the sixers where they repeatedly praise morey for "getting out of" the ben simmmons & james harden situations and building "good" rosters but never mention that the whole point of trading for harden was to get embiid past round 2 of the playoffs and not only did they fail to do that, they failed in spectacular ways that brought shame upon the entire city of philadelphia. like, i just think the reality of what took place on the court should perhaps be mentioned maybe even just in passing

their ranking of the sixers org (have not appeared in the conference finals since the year 2000) ahead of the warriors org (4 titles in 7 years) was like, oh you guys really do have trouble seeing the forest for the trees when you get into transaction evaluation mode

the mind control moreys got over the basketball commentariat should be studied in a laboratory

I thought the rankings were only in the rough timeframe since their last org rankings, not last x number of years. Not that I agree with them, but if you're just looking at current state and the outlook, it is a more sound argument.

well they obviously do them yearly but listening to the convos they certainly seem to be taking the entire scope of the front office/organization's work into account, w/ some obvious weighting towards more recent history. but sixers-celtics game 7 was just this summer!

nate did astutely note that ppl were going crazy over the sixers offseason last year esp the PJ tucker acquisition and actually he was harmful to them in the playoffs bcuz he is not guarded, yet this didn't seem to effect his opinion of the franchise much. he should've pushed much harder on this point after hollinger was like "tucker provided good value on his deal"

i was glad nate pushed back even a little bit on the idea that the sixers are a good organization

just what we asked for

Looks like Dwight Howard is starting a podcast…

Y’all listening? 👀 pic.twitter.com/6N1ez3Cowm

— Legion Hoops (@LegionHoops) December 8, 2023

congrats to Jermaine O’Neal’s daughter, Asjia, on being drafted No. 1 overall in the Pro Volleyball Federation Draft 👏 pic.twitter.com/BeeYSuTLaG

— Indiana Pacers (@Pacers) December 12, 2023

enjoying the new hoop collective pod w windy, spears & bobby marks all telling stories of being on or covering extremely horrible NBA teams. at one point marks says with a straight face that he believes courtney lee was permanently scarred for the rest of his career by being traded from a magic team that made the finals to a nets team that started the next season 0-18. which, yeah…

It was a good ep, especially considering it had Spears on it. I feel like my IQ drops 10 points every time I hear him speak.

i have been living under a rock, so maybe everyone else already knows, but jason concepcion and shea serrano have been doing a hoops podcast this season. it's called six trophies b/c they give out six "trophies" every week to stuff that happened, which as far podcast concepts go is eh, whatever, but if jason and shea talking about the week in hoops sounds good to you it is exactly what you'd expect.

bobby’s stories on this pod are killing me. he went to the kardashian/humphries wedding!!

every time he does war stories from his nets days i think to myself if anyone deserves to live in florida and pull down a couple hundred grand a year to talk about the salary cap on tv it’s this guy.

i dont understand how isaiah thomas a guy who everyone has hated all along and has been part of multiple scandals and fuckups is still on tv when will he go away

Barbosa had the pleasure of seeing the Timberwolves play the Orlando Magic when he went on a trip to Disney World in 2018, but he’s yet to make the pilgrimage to Minneapolis. “Unfortunately, I’ve never been in Minnesota, it’s my big dream,” he says. “My connection with the region is precisely because of the Timberwolves, even though it is miles away.”

https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/timberwolves-brazil-nba-twitter-1234931827/

Wolves Brasil are the greatest

Shaq becomes more of a moron every day, also someone mentioned this in the comments but he's totally rewriting who he was, he acts like his persona was some kind of grim enforcer tough guy not a super talented goofy kid

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wIN_zts-utU

being on tv and forced to have a comment on everything probably makes you lose some perspective and end up staking some bad takes, but that man there appears to have cte

can they just permanently replace him with candace parker already, would raise the level of discourse sooo much

Chuck: "You can't choke people and punch them in the face"

Shaq: "Yes you can."

shaq was a gentle giant guys would foul the hell out of him and he wouldnt react, except for the one time he swung at brad miller lol

I have CTE now after listening to Shaq.

Chuck: "You can't choke people and punch them in the face"

Shaq: "Yes you can."

― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, December 20, 2023 9:27 AM (five hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

Ernie: "Let's go to commercial!"

charles barkley: Now listen these IDF videos they, theyre blowing up empty buildings! they’re putting the blue triangle on there, these buildings empty man, ain’t no Hamas. Meanwhy, these Palanchunians —

Shaq (in tears) These what Chuck

Ernie, tersely: Palestinians. Continue

— brian (@brianonhere) December 20, 2023

For the record… pic.twitter.com/8JTSeEswg4

— Becky Hammon (@BeckyHammon) December 22, 2023

she’s right!

the amount of people coming for her over an absolutely correct statement and tripping over their dicks to say "WHAT ABOUT ISIAH THIOMAS HUH CHECKMATE" makes me want to restrict the first amendment for cishet men to only those who have received written testimonials from at least 3 non-related non cishet men that they are not in fact pieces of shit (otherwise str8 to jail)

shouldn’t be controversial that the knicks are prob as good now as they can ever be (more or less) with brunson as their best player. second round ceiling with maybe an ecf if things break their way.

as a knicks fan i am very ok with having that kind of team, for now, after years of crapitude

Seriously. I would love for the bulls to have perpetual 4 to 6 seed potential. Eventually you could luck into a conference finals. That’s goddamn hope.

she’s right!

ofc she is. what was wrong here wasn't her expert opinion that a team with Brunson as the best player isn't constructed to win a title, but the disrespect of letting it go public. she understands that.

yeah if youre some grubby internet writer its ok to say stuff like that but generally the talking heads stay away from being quite that pointed

not totally sure if shes right with the concept that you cant win a title if your best player is the smallest player on the court, i mean how much smaller is brunson than curry, if brunson had currys skills how much worse would he be idk, i do think it makes it harder maybe even much harder but prob not impossible, obvs bruson isnt in the 1a player discussion with embiid et al lol tho

now im getting mad again about not having accurate info on how big nba players are

why cant we have da data

i think she mentioned curry as an outlier originally idk

Yes she said curry in the original quote and Isiah on the followup I believe. Lol at this whol thing tho.

Curry is without peer or parallel as a guard, a first ballot unanimous hall of famer, and unquestionably one of the top ten all time NBA players of all time. Yup, you can build a title team around him.

all time, even

Paul Pierce says Jaquez is “making a name for himself” after calling him by the wrong name https://t.co/l6QTTSYWme

— Five Reasons Sports 🏀🏈⚾️🏒⚽️ (@5ReasonsSports) December 23, 2023

The explosive OKC duo of SGA and Jalen Williams combined for 72 PTS in the Thunder's win over the Knicks 🌩️

SGA: 36 PTS, 8 AST, 7 REB
Jalen: 36 PTS, 5 3PM, 76% FG pic.twitter.com/nFcOEapW3c

— NBA (@NBA) December 28, 2023

The explosive OKC duo of SGA and Jalen Williams combined for 72 PTS in the Thunder's win over the Knicks 🌩️

SGA: 36 PTS, 8 AST, 7 REB
Jalen: 36 PTS, 5 3PM, 76% FG pic.twitter.com/nFcOEapW3c

— NBA (@NBA) December 28, 2023

The explosive OKC duo of SGA and Jalen Williams combined for 72 PTS in the Thunder's win over the Knicks 🌩️

SGA: 36 PTS, 8 AST, 7 REB
Jalen: 36 PTS, 5 3PM, 76% FG pic.twitter.com/nFcOEapW3c

— NBA (@NBA) December 28, 2023

this is now triggering memories of heat announcer eric reid going out of his way to not call “dean wade” by his full name because it sounds too similar to “d wade” lol

shai’s full last name has to be murder for play by play guys trying to keep some rhythm to their calls

for sure but i feel like most announcers go out of their way to i.e. say giannis’ last name instead of calling him giannis, but that might be a respect thing for national or road team announcers. i think the bucks guy calls him giannis a lot. i think it’s the nickname aspect that is funny to me

i have noticed that w/giannis, i assumed there was some effort put in to combat any perception that people were avoiding learning how to pronounce african surname.

shai’s full last name has to be murder for play by play guys trying to keep some rhythm to their calls

― call all destroyer, Thursday, December 28, 2023 8:32 AM (forty-two minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

+ they have two jalen williamses so they go with the nicknames for those guys almost exclusively

yeah that makes sense tho i was also like, im not sure any thunder fans are confusing those two anymore… but calling a guy j dub a whole game must feel like you’re getting away with a crime as a play by play guy

just jalen williams stuff