The whole Rockets team did not pass at all last night. The Celtics like to swarm the ball on defense. Every time you passed you got a good shot. But the ball just did not move. I think was the opening possesion of 2nd half Reed just sat of top key til the shot clock was under 10 before he did anything. They consistently have a player that does not need to guarded at the 3pt line so you just have person sit in the paint. The answer then is using that guy to screen but Amen and Sengun screens were not great last night. Just a pathetic performance.

Defense does not win championships

How has Jabari not figured his shit out yet? It’s year 4 and the guy is still seemingly allergic to 20 point games. He’s an athletic 7 footer with a decent shot - he should be destroying teams by now.

I was told your offense would be fine by taking the keys away from Green and giving them to Thompson

He doesn’t look like he signed up to be an entire offense at this stage of his career. Not can you win consistently with just a guy as good as he may be

Sengun is all in on defence?

KD was frustrated with not getting the ball enough.

Bro should have went 25 spots higher

Brad Stevens is a genius alongside all the scouting team and Mazulla, this sort of stuff flips your franchise from a good team to a great team. No one expects to hit on these draft picks, so usually GMs are not criticized for these picks. But then a guy like this comes in and nails those picks and turns the franchise around.

He’s the Caitlyn Clark of the NBA after all

It’s actually the opposite. The players representatives are why there’s a max that’s way less than some players are worth, a min that’s more than some players are worth, and why there’s a lot of exceptions like the MLE to allow teams to pay mid level players even when they normally wouldn’t be able to under cap rules. One player being paid more than several other players doesn’t at all disprove that. If it weren’t for the players representatives then you’d have the true max guys making \(100m and these min guys making \)200k instead of $2m like the NFL, a league that actually has bad players representatives.

Pritchard got his contract the year after he didn’t even play cause he was behind Smart, White and Brogdon and the rest of the guys are late first/second round draft picks or low level flyer signings. Your comment is still a funny observation but these guys still get paid millions either as a starting salary or to theoretically be bench guys

stars make a big difference in a 5 man game. and its not like the 2.5M per year these guys are getting isnt life changing money. That’s more than most people make in a 30 year career and they get it for 1 season.

There was study that the top NBA players are actually worth far more than their incomes. That’s how a salary cap works. Lebron was worth like a billion over his career (at the time) and obvs made less than that.

Look at baseball and intl football salaries. The best basketball players are underpaid.

The Celtics are a huge outlier this year. They just are. The Pacers lost their two best players and they’re been awful. Same with most teams.

Yes that’s the point of the entire post lol the Celtics are an impressive team despite having only 1 player drafted above 26th overall on their entire active roster and a (relatively) tiny payroll

And coaching matters. Whatever excitement I had from Ime’s hire dissappeared when the team that fired him won a chip as soon as he left. That is usually not a good sign.

Name one guy that’s ever become better because of playing next to KD.

There are 450 NBA players in the world with many of them being end of bench guys that barely play. The amount of impact players is much lower. There are over 60k critical care ICU nurses in the US alone. ICU nurses are replaceable, NBA talent isn’t. It’s not about importance of the job it’s about leverage.

It’s because their job, while being much less important to the people it affects, impacts so many more people. Derrick White is providing a product that is going to be watched by hundreds of thousands of people, up to millions for a big game. Whereas a nurse is going to be helping a dozen or so people a day. The salary difference is just the result of scale. 

I heard their combined age is more than Durants solo age tho.

“Blew up” by trading 1 very important piece and a trash can?

FYI this rockets team is 1 game worse off now than this time last season

So very little has changed other than having injury issues in regards to record

It doesn’t sound like you find it funny at all.

That’s an insanely long sentence

James outloud says many times that he is the GOAT and has an army of paid employees calling him the GOAT on pdocasts.

…. So you see the difference and why James gets all that smoke?

But have you seen KDs ISO BAG!? /s

For real, makes me wonder about whose minutes he’s going to start taking. Hugo most likely?

they’ll still contend for 2nd best in the west. i know wemby is jesus but you cant put the spurs or nuggets explicitly ahead of them.

all you need to know is Mazulla and Brad is an unstoppable combo for the next 3 decades.