Wait till you see our 19yo NBA Rookie of the Year tomorrow night

Those 3 and Hugo Gonzalez have been so fun to watch this year. None of them are uber gifted offensively (they can hit open shots, just aren’t creating any), but all 4 of them are high effort defensive menaces.

When any 4 of those guys are on the court they are going to out work and out hustle you. They are all so active on the defense it’s like a pack of hungry Wolves getting ready to feast.

Honestly makes for fun basketball. Especially for a team that wasn’t supposed to be good heading into the year.

I think it shows that he’s a good coach. You know people assumed that he wasn’t good and was just gifted a talented roster which maybe the second part was true but he had to have some trust from Brad and others to be in that position.

Now in a year where no one really expected much he’s really doing an amazing job. Even as a fan of the team i didn’t expect much but he’s doing wonders for our team so far. Underrated forsure

(this is evidence of net rating being a cheap stat, because we just raised this by 2 pts, but:) We now have a +6.4 net rating, which is of course 2nd in the East and 5th in the league

He’s got the power of aerodynamics and anime on his side.

Iirc his first big garunteed contract purchase was a fucking demon slayer replica sword.

Yup! Not me though!!! I’ve believed in him since the beginning

I was one of them. I’m very happy to be proven very wrong though

I can admit I was wrong. I was high on him the first year and a half but by the end of the season I was ready to call him another JD Davison (high potential, G-League God, but couldn’t put it together to make a difference on an NBA contender).

I’m glad I was wrong on him though, and I’ve found that he’s actually really fun to root for and you can actually see his confidence growing by game. Last year he was scared to even touch the ball, this year he’s looking more and more confident, and I wouldn’t be shocked if he’s a ~²⁰²²⁄₂₃ Sam Hauser level player for us going forward.

Funnily enough last year I thought Walsh might be the bust and Sheierman was going to be the next big role player for us. Learned my lesson so far this season with Walsh, so I’m not gonna give up on Scheierman, still think he’s shown flashes of potential (mostly last season).

That’s a good comparison.

Bro’s built like high-speed rail 😭

Took Mazz and co about 10 games to adjust to losing 4 of their 8 or so best players from last year.

We lucked out in a way, because our front office wanted to bring back Horford and Kornet but we could only offer them minimum salaries… and not knocking them but Luke is 30s and Al is 40s and so the team had to pivot to youth and aggression rather than last yr’s surgical precision type of math-ball that made them kind of boring during the title defense

Victor Zsasz is coming for you