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i posted bookers shot chart for that series he was living at the rim

he did great at the rim when he got there but he was just visiting not really living there

every version of the suns playoff chances discussion is the same, yeah of course they can beat anyone if their guys get and stay hot, but they have no plan b and their plan a is exceptionally hard to pull off in 4 out of 7 games

even just beyond the typical normal unsustainability of some of the shooting in that series, i don't think from a stamina POV you can ask two guys to carry that kinda load against a team like denver that is a true 5 man unit

the good news for OKC is that they are much more a real line up than last year's phoenix team, but they also don't have a second scorer anywhere near as good as that phoenix team

he did great at the rim when he got there but he was just visiting not really living there

― brony james (k3vin k.), Wednesday, March 20, 2024 1:37 PM (five seconds ago) bookmarkflaglink

his rim attempts were way up he doesnt get there much but he was vs denvers d, also this wasnt a booker and kd situation kd had a bad series he shot 45/22/88 his two good games were more or less standard regular season games for him he did not have any games where he went nuts, this was the devin booker show, and denver couldnt do anything with him even tho the suns werent a good team, now what if you had a player like booker except for better particularly in the ways that booker gave the nugs problems and he was on a very good team might that be a little bit of a worry something to consider matchup wise

the other thing w/ giving the thunder a match up "advantage" in that series w/ shai is that murray in the playoffs becomes a guy at that level too

the ball handling and shooting and stuff that OKC has is nice the problem w/ denver is that they have the best ballhandler in the league dictating every possession and better shooting too

im a murray fan, i dont think its just some random thing that hes been great in the playoffs his combo of shooting off the dribble and attacking ability is really the mix you want from a guard, however i dont think hes guaranteed to outperform his regular season production by as much as weve seen in the past, its not really a normal thing, even if it maybe makes more sense with him because of his particular game and fit with jokic

denver doesnt have better shooting than okc fwiw okc is clearly better

neither of them take many threes which is kind of interesting, with denver it makes sense because they have joker flipping in five footers all day and they have some non shooters in the mix, but okc has the best 3pt% in the league while only taking the 18th most, thats leaving money on the table

celtics are 2 in 3pt% while taking the most btw 😎

you gotta boil a lot this stuff down at the end of the day and i'll take murray, KCP and MPJ over OKC's three best off ball shooters, whoever they are

you gotta trim so much of the fat off denver's rotation and statistical ledger when projecting them for the playoffs, it's all guys who are not very good, drag their stats down etc

meanwhile in OKC's case guys bench guys like isiah joe and cason wallace who help prop their statistical profile up from a shooting perspective are gonna have their mins decreased in the playoffs. i'd imagine you'd see little of those guys in a denver series especially as it went on

bet you see wallace and joe more actually just cause giddy wont be playable lol tho those minutes could go to hayward if hes up to speed, he can shoot too

you gotta boil a lot this stuff down at the end of the day and i'll take murray, KCP and MPJ over OKC's three best off ball shooters, whoever they are

― slob wizard (J0rdan S.), Wednesday, March 20, 2024 2:08 PM (nine minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

mjp and murray are legit shooters kcp isnt anything special in that regard, but doesnt really matter since the game isnt played three on three, you could make an argument that having more shooters is better than having a couple high end ones, tho i think that changes when you talk about guys who can hit threes off the dribble like murray which is just insanely valuable, and movement shooters like mpj are also very good way better than yr stand still catch and shoot guys, btw know who has the highest off the dribble 3pt% in the league this year, its jdub

jdub is checking all the boxes for a superstar projection but no one wants to think about it because its too sick

KCP is pretty certified to me at this point

if you line up both of these teams i feel like you have:

best players and no 1 ball handlers on both sides who are not frequent or great 3 pt shooters, tho have capability from there

one non shooter on both end, tho gordon did shoot 39% from 3 in last year's playoffs and we'll see how long giddey is in the starting line up

that leaves you w/ j dub, chet and dort vs murray, MPJ, and KCP as the guys most likely to be leveraging their shooting in off ball scenarios. obv j dub and murray have the ball a lot too but they're largely still orbiting the no 1 guy on the team. so those are the core 3 on each end for me and i'm taking denver's three guys

now you can switch out giddey for one of those other guys and then say that gordon sticks out like a sore thumb as a non shooter, but as i explained earlier i think making yourself smaller vs gordon presents an entirely new set of problems

kcp is a guy who takes the easiest threes and hits them at a good rate, its not nothing and when combined with his elite d and general ability to play basketball hes a very good player a star role player even but hes just not a special shooter is all, hes a prob a lil above average for the type of player he is

widening the lens if giddy doesnt play then all the okc minutes go to shooters, which is pretty nice, i think is a pretty clear advantage for them

and fwiw okc have been playing small all year, they know the downside of it, and have decided its still best for them, and theyre a very smart org, they didnt go out and get a big at the deadline even though they couldve had their pick, cant say i agree with it but the fact that a great org thinks this is the best way for them to play does give me pause, its not like they dont know joker is out there, tho on the other hand they might just be taking the long view here and will add some size later, but idk just get some dece backup to eat up some minutes the celtics got tillman for two seconds why not add a guy like that, they didnt seem to want to at all

instead they got hayward who is more a guy that fits in with how they play

feel like they might be galaxy braining this but who knows

okcs top 11 by minutes played, wild stuff

https://i.imgur.com/iiUcRka.png

*minutes per game

okc like to play with a blur of motion and shooters, this is not something jokic/mpj/gordon like to guard they are too big for that. and you know that okc will lean into that style even more if they face denver

last season gordon shot 34% on threes and 39% in the playoffs vs his career average of 32%. he is back down to 28% this season. i wouldnt count on him catching fire again

fuuuuuuck this

https://nypost.com/2024/03/20/sports/nba-league-pass-launching-in-app-live-betting-in-latest-sports-gambling-lean/

yeah it’s an impending disaster imo

no good

NBA League Pass viewers will be able to opt-in to the platform’s betting view, which will feature point spreads, over-unders and moneyline odds.

maaaaaybe this means if you don't opt in, you'll be less barraged by gambling shit? not likely tho

hate everything about this

they’re already doing this on the app i got asked last night if i wanted to watch the heat game on gambling mode

mares cant hang with legs

Crazy. pic.twitter.com/nmCUV70X5T

— Stefan Bondy (@SbondyNBA) March 21, 2024

jfc. props to jb for laying it out like that. was this in response to a question about the league pass announcement or about ohtani? too many gambling stories to keep track of

windy story about lebrons short teammate was good, some nice pre fame lebron details, lol his editor accusing him of wanting to cover lebron because he played for windys high school

yeah that was great, he told that story well

kind of made me want to check out one of windy’s lebron books. I didn’t even realize that his hs coach is the coach at Duquesne now

the story was great as was the continuous barrage from mcmahon and bontemps about him going to the duquesne game lol

Perk just diagnosed the Clippers with an acute shortage of swag which will be solved by Westbrook returning

I can’t keep up with such technical analysis. Dumb it down for me Perk.

youre always going to be at a swag deficit with kawhi as your best player which you have to offset by just hooping

SWAG

https://i.imgur.com/d4x2Mt1.png

grear moment on the hoop collective pod today when they’re talking about mark cuban being described on TNT as the “proprietor” of the mavs. macmahon does his joke about needing to look up the word in the dictionary but then in trying to genuinely understand what it means for mark cuban to be the “proprietor” they actually read the definition on air. turns out *i* didn’t exactly know what proprietor means!

great** …

haha i did not know the technical definition of proprietor either, but now i know that mark cuban definitely is not meeting it

jj lbj pod is good cos he seems to be the only person that can rib him into admitting the funny stuff

This is my favorite player podcast moment of all time pic.twitter.com/ZIG0qoAJbV

— Jason Gallagher (@jga41agher) April 4, 2024

lol, reminds me of when a reporter asked tatum if he thinks much about when he dunked on lebron in the ecf his rookie season and he was like well yeah because i have a framed picture of it in my house

just came to post exactly what spottie did — it’s nice to see lebron loosen up a little, he almost seems human

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