Imagine watching basketball and thinking Embiid is better than Jokic. What a fucking joke the MVP award was this year.
I'll push back on this. Embiid was a perfectly acceptable MVP this year. This isn't Malone vs. Jordan.Imagine watching basketball and thinking Embiid is better than Jokic. What a fucking joke the MVP award was this year.
I had the same thought. Embiid is really good, but Jokic is REALLY good.Imagine watching basketball and thinking Embiid is better than Jokic. What a fucking joke the MVP award was this year.
Simmons and Russillo were talking til he other day about Bill Russell having a 20/40 game or something like that.Jokic is on pace for 40 rebounds.
I think they joked about never seeing anything like that ever again.Simmons and Russillo were talking til he other day about Bill Russell having a 20/40 game or something like that.
He did.And why didn't Ale also include #1 best player?
Dude needs to hire you as a hype manHe did.
"Nuggets seem to have the best, 4th best. 5th, 6th, 7th, 8th, 9th and 10th best players in this series"
oh yeah, I agree, Reaves bank and some Denver whiffs. This could be worse for them. They need to make this way uglier. Straight up they have no shot.As amazing as this sounds, I think if I’m the Lakers I’m happy to be down “only” 12 at this point.
Good question, one that a younger friend posed to me: "how deep is my LAL hatred, given that Denver may be a tougher matchup"Denver is a fun team, easy to root for, and I despise the Lakers. On the other hand, I think the Celts would destroy the Lakers and not so sure about the Nuggets. This is confusing.
I have confidence in my Celtics tomorrow to break that mold to keep the stress levels as high as possible.Road team taking a first half punch in Game 1 is usually how it goes.
This. Getting rid of that risk will be better for my long term health.I just can’t lose to a LeBron Lakers team in the finals. The sooner they’re out the better.
I'd much rather lose to the GOAT than go down as the team that lost to Charles Berkley.I just can’t lose to a LeBron Lakers team in the finals. The sooner they’re out the better.
Embiid is significantly better defensively. Jokic, like Curry, is so good offensively he makes up for being kind of trash defensively.Imagine watching basketball and thinking Embiid is better than Jokic. What a fucking joke the MVP award was this year.
I'm the same, Lakers finals would have me totally stressed about losing. Nuggets I'd be psyched about winning.I just can’t lose to a LeBron Lakers team in the finals. The sooner they’re out the better.
Yup, Eye test (mainly in the passing skillset) tells the truthImagine watching basketball and thinking Embiid is better than Jokic. What a fucking joke the MVP award was this year.
He'd probably get 50 if he faced the Celtics.Jokic is on pace for 40 rebounds.
This is the kind of sicko content you can't get most places on the internet.Good question, one that a younger friend posed to me: "how deep is my LAL hatred, given that Denver may be a tougher matchup"
I made a simple "additive linear utility", where I assigned 2 utilities to each of the four teams: one for losing and one for winning a series.
So 100 utils if Celts win, 1 i they lose.
LAL 4 if they win, 40 if they loose.
Etc
Then for all 8 possible scenarios, assign a probability of who wins the championship (given who gets to the championship).
Then compute weighted sum of these utilities for all Lakers Win scenarios, compared to utilities for LAL lose scenarios.
Bottom line: with reasonable measures of Laker hatred, Denver sortOfLike, and Miami disdain --- it is almost always better for LAL to loose.
That is: it takes ridiculous probabilities (say, 90% chance Denver beats Celts, and 90% celts beat laker) for the weighting to favor LAL winning.
Obviously its a simple model, but it isn't totally silly
(I could post the XLS, which is easy to tweak. Should I?\
BTW: apologies Ale ... somehow misread the "best"
Now that takes nerve!This is the kind of sicko content you can't get most places on the internet.
As a guy who once made my then-girlfriend a spreadsheet about the marriage penalty, to try and convince her to not get really-married legally, just have a sham wedding... I salute this kind of thinking and effort.
I think he is pretty good but the Nuggets guys are kind of big for him.I have to be honest, I don't get the Reaves love. He's a slightly better Armani Exchange. Or whatever version of Armani they have in Oklahoma.