Good move for Capela to lock up $90m. Had he played for the QO he'd have had to find a deal north of $21m AAV next summer just to break even while risking injury. Risk/Reward simply wasn't there for him to take that risk.
There is nothing about that that isn't completely awesome. Harden's doubletake at the end is gold.
Yeah I can’t find that tee anywhere. It’s possible it’s not a Celtics tee a just a generic Irish one.
I posted about it at the time but there was a lower ranked team in the NCAA tournament and all the players had really short shorts.
It isn't only that......the short shorts are making a comeback. This past season I know of at least two colleges who rolled them out as a team, Rhode Island and Michigan.
No doubt, and those Tweets are in the article so I'm confused by your post. Also confused by Green's strategy. Trying to be the peacemaker after publicly telling everyone with a camera that the guy should come find you in the off season to fight was a bold strategy.
Ah, I didn't read the articles — just posted the tweets for brevity and clarity, not to contradict anything that might have been written in the articles.
No worries, I wouldn't read Bossip either
Haha, no, that was a footnote, not the actual case.
Lol. I'll recuse myself on the incident now, but your (seeming?) ignorance of how games are won and lost in the NBA is also noted.
You're citing RPM but I'm ignorant? Yea, you probably should step back here, super fan.
I’m perplexed by this and have no idea how I would explain it to my children which leads me to believe that the correct course of action was not to throw a sucker punch.
Wait, what’s wrong with a stat that once had Amir Johnson and Jae Crowder in the top 21 in the same year?
If your kid is playing pickup basketball at recess and gets into a scuffle where the other kid says to meet him after school, then the other kid wins the game and refuses to shake your kid's hand, then the other kid goes on the intercom for morning announcements and calls your kid soft in front of the whole school, then the other kid tries to apologize to your kid at a school dance to impress his crush and improve his social reputation, it's ok for your kid to punch the other kid in the face.
Obviously RPM is not the be-all, but I didn't think you wanted a dissertation, and in this case it's also shorthand for common knowledge among objective, sentient fans who have watched the NBA since the Warriors benched David Lee for Draymond in 2014-15 and wrecked the league. Any number of other stats tell the same story; if anything RPM's boxscore adjustment undervalues Draymond's actual contributions to wins. Since "fourth banana who would be a nobody on any other team" claim flies in the face of the critical consensus (SI #10 ranked player in the NBA, WaPo #11, ESPN #10 e.g.) as well as pretty much every piece of statistical evidence we have over the last four seasons, it seems like the burden's on you to support it, not on me to give you something you like better than RPM.
TS% matters — a lot— when your primary role is scoring. It's the most basic measure of how efficiently a scorer uses his possessions (double it to get pts per 100 possessions).
No provocation my ass--not even the Supreme Court accepts that defense in a situation like this.
I still love you. Definitely just some playful ribbing since there aren't many opportunities to poke fun at the Warriors.
All fair points (and I love you too). I think how effective Draymond would be on another team is an interesting question — off the top of my head, I think the Clippers, Thunder, Rockets, Spurs and Blazers teams that the Warriors have coldly dispatched over the last four years would have been massively improved by his presence. But like all counterfactuals it's essentially unknowable (try as we might we adjusted plus-minus); and as you note, most athletes in team sports are similarly context-dependent.
Given the reports he didn't go down, probably pretty mild? I'm actually coming around to "Draymond was pretty much asking for it" but alas, it sounds like Tristan's sucker-punching skills are about as effective as his dribbling, shooting, and passing skills.
As reflected in a low True Punching Percentage: he can't land a decent blow even with the advantage of surprise.Given the reports he didn't go down, probably pretty mild? I'm actually coming around to "Draymond was pretty much asking for it" but alas, it sounds like Tristan's sucker-punching skills are about as effective as his dribbling, shooting, and passing skills.
