Since the Mavs fired Nico, Klay Thompson is averaging 14.7 PPG on 40.7% from 3.
Now that the bad man is gone, Klay has woken up. Shooting over 40% from 3 on nearly 10 attempts a game over the last 12. He has also led the team in plus/minus.
Nico’s plans are measured in centuries
Nico is never wrong just early
Was still right, just not right now
Whatever he does, he does precisely what he means to.
Lisan al-Gaib!
The Vatican, China, and then Nico
He was simply pretending to be washed so Nico would get fired
respect to klay for having to pretend for so many games
Klay got his joy back from the Nico firing and his Thanksgiving dinner with desert /s
He did that for steph, teach him to get his name wrong in a presentation.
No Nico. Megan in his life. Klay is on top of the world.
Love to see it.. The “Klank” Thompson shit be gettin on my nerves
Klay’s always been a slow starter, even pre-injury. People were being way too fast to call him washed.
no, it was the fact that he has shot below league average every single year since the 2018-19 season
reason why people here always put his 3pt% and not his efg% or ts%
His efg% is 8 percent lower than his peak. The big difference since the seasons where he sat due to injury is that in the seasons before 40% to 45% of his shots were 3s and since the injury that percentage has increased every year. 73% of his shot this year are 3s. He is definitely slower than he used to be, but part of it this year is probably that he is just the last person on the Mavs you want going to the rim and the main guy you want shooting 3s
Wow I thought there was no way this is correct but it is, it actually hurts my heart
Does that really matter though? His value comes from his three ball so if his 3% is good than he’s doing his job. Of course his 3 ball is also bad he’s rather useless.
does it really matter that a player is bad at shooting the shots that make 60% of his total shots when he is good at making the shots that make the other 40%?
well, yes it does. all you need to do is look at his shooting percentages which tell you that despite being good from 3 he tanks his numbers so hard because he can’t buy a basket from anywhere else so teams take away the 3.
trying to isolate on one type of shot and acting like the majority of his shots don’t count like this was the 3pt contest and not an NBA game is not helpful or realistic.
bruh what? His efg% is above league average in 22-23 and 23-24 and .003 below 21-22 and .008 below 24-25, while taking from 7.7 to 10.6 threes per game.
Y’all just making shit up now?
Klays better when ad is on
It’s a team built in the image of the 08 Celtics, for better or worse. Nico was on Kobe’s dick back then and got to see first hand what a scorer (pierce) + an aging three point shooter (ray) could do when paired with an elite 2-way DPOY-candidate big (KG). I’m convinced Nico’s basketball knowledge started and ended with Kobe and whoever Kobe played against in the Finals. He saw that team beat him in 08 and take him to game 7 in 2010 so he was like “wow that’s how you build a winner if you don’t have Kobe”
His scorer is Kyrie. Obviously, AD (if healthy… a big if), is roughly the same as 31 year old KG when they added him. The biggest reach is old Klay instead of old Ray, but on paper, the idea is a lot more sound than NBA fans want to admit right now.
It was still an insane trade because of age and durability, but on paper it still makes some sense for a short window.
It’s wild how everyone, in their understandable frustration about Luka, has just ignored the Kyrie aspect of it. Even before the Luka trade, the Mavs had a losing record in games Kyrie missed going 11-13 without him and 39-19 with him during their Finals run season. The guy is an insufferable quack, but he’s a legit all-nba phenom scoring talent who can average 27ppg efficiently. If he’s back in the mix and AD can stay on the court (again, a big if), that plus Cooper consistently improving all season and a strong supporting cast with guys like Klay making contributions, I have been saying over and over that team can still go on a run this season and dig themselves out of the hole. Kyrie and AD have played exactly 1 game together. I said just a couple weeks ago that it’s a team that could go on a 10+ win streak and it wouldn’t be at all surprising, but collectively everyone is acting like AD is absolute trash, Kyrie doesn’t exist and the team is already dead.
Pacers are without 4-18, but everyone is like “well duh, Haliburton is hurt it’s a gap year”, but the Mavs are 8-15 without Kyrie and everyone is like “BURN THEM TO THE FUCKING GROUND”. LIke, dude… they are 1.5 games out of the play-in tourney. That team can still be a problem if Davis can stay on the court and Kyrie comes back within the next couple months. Meanwhile, a guy like Klay Thompson is only going to look better the more there are other scorers out there. Part of his rising efficiency is that Cooper is making a natural improvement and drawing more defensive attention. Klay’s shooting is going to continue making him a factor. Guys like Ray and Reggie stayed relevant until almost 40. Klay is 35. That Celtic window ended in 2012 when they made the ECF with 36 year old Ray and then Ray went on to help the Heat in the Finals for 2 more years. Klay will not be an all-star, but shooters age well when playing with other stars.
08 Celtics were the 2nd last 60 win, slow, grind it out post up/mid range based elite defense team.
Idk if a super agile team like the Mavs is a great comparison.
I’m convinced Nico’s basketball knowledge started and ended with Kobe and and whatever Kobe played against in the Finals. He saw that team beat him in 08 and take him to game 7 in 2010 so he was like “wow that’s how you build a winner if you don’t have Kobe”
This is hilarious. I love it hahaha
The comp doesn’t end with Kyrie/Pierce, AD/KG, Klay/Ray. That Mavs also have some promising youth like Lively instead of Perk, some decent vets like PJ Washington instead of James Posey, and while Rondo wasn’t yet “Rondo” (he was really only a role player in 2008), they have young guys like Max Christie who are contributing… and I mean… obviously Cooper Flagg is a massive factor.
That team can be really good.
It’s not that this team can’t be good, it’s that the 08 Celtics are a typical eastern 2000s Team. But with KG/Ray Allen.
I just meant more that I love your writeup, but the Mavs aren’t really anything like the 08 Celtics in basketball. 08 Celtics were a slow team, that pulled opponents in a meatgrinder with them and spat them out like rotten meat.
You literally just listed all their players in each position damn there and “compared” them, none of these players you said even play similar
Ryan Nembhard had back to back 10+ assist games. Rondo-esque.
This is by far the best take I’ve seen about this year’s Mavs on this sub.
but on paper, the idea is a lot more sound than NBA fans want to admit right now.
On paper the idea would be sound in the late 2000s. Not 15 years later, where the game is faster, many more people are good 3P shooter on average volume, offensive and defensive schemes are different, and the offense/defense whistle is different.
This team kinda feels like the pacers of last year but in a more loaded conference
The idea is ok if you ignore a lot about Kyrie. He’s a good player, but he’s very injury prone. So even if you don’t expect this specific ACL tear, you could expect something to slow him down. He’s also never really succeeded as the #1 option on his team. He worked well with Luka (or LeBron, or KD, or Harden) as the main scoring threat, but it isn’t clear if he can succeed as the offensive centerpiece.
I’ve always made that argument that if you were SET on trading Luka that AD was the best option he could’ve in the league that would’ve been actually tradable. Mavs fans kept telling me for sure that AD was just a bum, I’ve even seen people say that AR at his level this year and AD wouldn’t be enough lmfao.
I’ve maintained for several years that I’d trade Tatum for AD 1 for 1 and still would. I also do not think Luka is far ahead of Tatum in value if at all. Celtics fans don’t kill me
Klay is such a vibes guy, it does not surprise me in the slightest he started shooting better when he no longer has to hear his own teams fans angry & chanting about the GM
More like since he named his boat The Stallion and jumped into the ocean for a dip per Hoop Collective
That’s good for Klay and the Mavs and I like him to be 80% when he was at his prime.
Realistically I don’t see that happening. The injuries are just too much, and what made Klay so good was his defence on top of his shooting ability. The physical injuries just took too much away.
Just a testament to how good prime Klay was.
ACL + Achilles is a nasty ass combo, it’s a surprise he’s even playing tbh, just an absolute warrior for getting back.
Definitely a warrior…
I don’t know what it is, but Klay has been starting off shooting horribly for the first 2 months and then turns it around, for the past few years now.
Curry level offball gravity from Nico. His impact doesn’t appear on the statsheet
It’s going to be funny if this team turns it around and ends up having a good season, imagine if they got to WCF. Even IF this is a winning roster there was definitely too much negative energy in the fan base and he had to go.
What do these have to do with each other? Lol
Fire Nico away Klay
Averaging 16 ppg @ 45%, 51% from 3 since Megan cooked him Thanksgiving dinner.
Megan’s Thanksgiving Home cooking giving this man a second wind in life
Does this also line up closely with the Ja Morant incident?
Nico was gonna be a problem.