Yes, this is where I'm at too. A 12-point lead is 4 possessions which in a game of runs such as the NBA can be wiped out in 90 seconds. 20-point leads are not blowouts as they are in college......they never have been in this league.
Lou isn't a guy who is going to have DNP-CD's he'd be in your guard rotation and he'd change the culture of the second unit pressurefest of Smart/Rozier. Our second unit backcourt doesn't need a change of culture. I'm a Lou guy but he's not a good fit here.
Lolz. Good thing they award the O’Brien trophy at halftimes of November games. I mean, it’s not like any teams (including the champs) have dug out of big holes this season...
Being top 10 in RPM helps too.
Yeah of all the people I had an opinion on he was, for sure, the guy I did not see doing this. Very surprised. Good pick. I didn't scout as far as Kuzma.
If you're looking at RPM, both Collins and Kuzma look pretty bad. Defense not their strong suit so far.
Yes, and they're about to. The Bulls are in another league, in terms of bad. Phoenix seems like a team fairly comparable to the Lakers.
Are they really this terrible? It sucks for the Celtics chances at the Lakers pick panning out this year but Lou Williams would be a nice consolation price, especially if they keep his Bird rights as someone is arguing in the DPE thread.
Sure but they have shown a lot more than expected, and most rookies are bad defensively. Most rookies are just bad, when they shine immediately, esp for later picks, it's pretty cool.
Kuzma, Ingram, Randle, Clarkson and Ball. Clarkson isn't a world beater but he's perfectly fine as your 1st guard off the bench. Randle is probably gone but he's also good in the bench role. You'd have Player 1/Player 2/Kuzma/Ingram/Ball with Clarkson and Randle off the bench. You'd have to fill out the back end of the roster but 1-7 is nice.
Gifting 32 minutes to Austin (of the ~.480 true shooting % and non-existent rebounding and passing skill) and watching him go 1-9 with 1 rebound and a -21 (in a 22-point loss) seems highly fireable to me.
Watching Austin Rivers play basketball is a punishment. Without looking it up, my guess is iverson was his favorite player only AI had, you know, talent.
Pelicans pull this out even though Cousins gets ejected on a play where only he would get ejected.
At first I thought you said Darius Miles and then I realized he hasn't been in the league for nearly a decade (Jamal Crawford is the only guy left from his draft class!).
Well, I'd say that the league is as awful as I can remember right now, but within that, the Sixers are pretty good.
With good health they're no worse than the 5 seed in the East and could be better if Fultz gives them anything, they're destroying teams.
Well, the top three teams obviously, although the jury is still out on HOU trading so much depth for Chris Paul. But last year the Clippers, Utah and Memphis all were tough, solid second tier playoff teams and this year they are not. It's still really really early and the season is way too long, just saying what we've seen so far.
Heh, admittedly I haven't seen too much of him since he went to the Heat, but at least Smith and Crawford tried (usually in vain) to get better shots before hoisting up whatever, Hardaway does not.
Recency bias alert after their wire-to-wire spanking of GS, but I think OKC is very good and should get better throughout the season. Their middling W-L belies a +5.4 PD. They've been solid, and excellent defensively.
