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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

Michael "Curious Mike" Porter Jr. doing the real journalism

https://www.instagram.com/reel/C5Tue1aOlLn/?utm_source=ig_web_button_share_sheet

doing the lords work

i wonder how much advance research he did

Is MPJ a weird energy guy

his off the court stuff…not really sure what to make of it tbh. comes from an extremely fucked up family, the kind that are jesus freaks but also into pyramid schemes…might be the most normal one in the family tho tbh. I try not to pay attention to it too much

I’ve seen some questionable quotes from him but didn’t know about his fam. I need to do a deep dive

crying @ someone at ESPN pressing a big red button and making windhorst do a full hour long lakers and warriors playoff preview

also crying for myself, the listener

Was this like a Clockwork Orange type deal?

windy’s eclipse rant the other day was excellent lol

"now, why would the sun do that?"

that was great rant but he still he should show the eclipse more respect

yes the eclipse rant was great and also otm. know multiple people who are “driving up to maine” today lol cmon be serious you can see it on a livestream

it’s going to be like 92% coverage here, even if you’re super motivated to see it do you really need to drive 3 hours on a monday to get to the 100% part?

yes you do the zone of totality is 1000% cooler than the rest of the eclipse i drove up to wymoning from colorado for the last one and it was totally worth it, tho i did have a nice place to stay so it was nice anyway, today im already in the zone

reporting back is was so sick one of the most unusual and impressive natural phenomenon ive ever seen, recommend checking it out next time

love to be “in the zone”

thats what its all about baby