They really need one more good floor spacer. Would’ve liked to see JJJ there.

Nobody should be comparing Cade to luka anyway

Cade was still causing havoc on defense until he got in foul trouble

Brunson put up this stat line the other day and everyone and their mothers were ragging on him. Cade puts this shit up every other week.

Cade is a monster, this is disrespectful to both him and Castle. You’re downplaying both of them by pretending he isn’t a top 5 talent in the league that just got locked up by one of the best POA defenders.

r/nba was calling Kenny Smith a casual for voting Castle for All-Star

turns out r/nba are the casual ones

i don’t understand why people rate harper over castle. Can you explain to me as i don’t know too much about spurs other than wembayama and fox

And then was smiling and clapping as things turned into a baby scuffle lol, dude enjoys riling up opponents

7’6 with 8ft gogo gadget arms is insane

Castle and others have said that when they know Wemby is back there, they can play more aggressively, which means they might get beat, OR make a huge play, but Wemby can clean up their mistakes. So yeah, Cade definitely did beat Castle a few times, but Castle likely defends him differently without Wemby back there erasing mistakes.

Thats Area 51 for you. Keep out.

IMO Cade’s game works against almost anyone, but vs the Spurs, it’s a “careful what you wish for” scenario. He got tired of getting roofed by Wemby and decided to take his chances chucking step-back threes. The Spurs are great.

Yeah it’s easier to be a tenacious perimeter defender when you’ve got Wemby behind you. Still, he’s been incredible this season.

Shit’s unfair.

And 0/8 in the 4th is Doc Rivers levels of blowing it when it matters

This is who Cade is until they add more shooting. He doesn’t handle traps well and shoots terribly from the 3pt line in big games. Cade averaged under 18% from 3 in the playoffs last year.

This is exactly correct

lol we might have some bizarre All NBA teams this year.

The day we Cade wins and MVP will be a sad day for the league and sport. It will be cement the opinion that league standards are falling. People were comparing this guy to Luka fucking Doncic lol

exactly the same thing with JB. He only entered these talks as a “if Jokic and SGA miss this many games…” etc. and now people are talking about him if he doesn’t deserve to be in the conversation, when he never should have been.

Cade is like one tier above JB in these conversations. Shouldn’t be mentioned, but if some very strange and specific things happen then maybe he will be.

Cade is 30th percentile in rim finishing all season, he’s 6’6 he’s an awful finisher anyway

That’s also the best duo for guarding Luka and Ant and SGA and they didn’t struggle as much in this matchup. He’s just not the scorer these other guys are. And he turns it over at way too high of a rate to get mvp buzz for his playmaking too.

yet Shai and Luka average 30 and 36 respectively vs the Spurs this season 🤔

You can tell he thought be would just be able to bully his way through this game because he’s a big guard, brother all the guys before you that stopped trying that duo in the paint aren’t stupid

I’m here for the shitted

This is why I don’t get the “best player on the best team” case people are trying to make for Cade this season

Don’t put Cade in Tatum talks, Tatum is clearly better than him and it’s not close

If that tatum season happened this year he’d be in MVP talks because Jokic and SGA are at risk of missing eligibility. Use context!

The roster is nearly the same as last year’s

Just looked at his game log, and he had a stretch in January that was just fucking dreadful.

¹⁄₁₅ vs PHX: ³⁄₁₆, 0/7 3pt, ⁴⁄₉ FT, 10 points in 38 minutes (win)

¹⁄₁₇ vs IND: ⁶⁄₁₄, ²⁄₃, ²⁄₂, 16 points in 21 minutes (win)

¹⁄₁₉ vs BOS: ⁴⁄₁₇, 0/4, ⁸⁄₁₀, 16 points in 40 minutes (win)

¹⁄₂₃ vs HOU: ⁵⁄₁₃, 0/4, ²⁄₃, 12 points in 38 minutes (loss)

So in those four games he was ¹⁸⁄₆₀ (30%), ²⁄₁₈ (11.1%) from 3, ¹⁶⁄₂₄ (66.7%) FT for 54 points in 137 minutes. Meanwhile, SGA hasn’t been held under 20 in the regular season since 10/31/2024 against the Spurs.

He had four absolute stinkers in a row in January, though they did win 3 of them. Cade is still streaky, to say the least.

No shit, one of the most efficient guards ever having one of the least efficient games ever is a big deal, but atp it’s just fanfiction.

Along with a highlight reel of fouls drawn that were ⁵⁰⁄₅₀ calls.

I don’t like SGA’s game but its straight up disrespectful to even compare Cade to SGA.

Cade is a little bitch. Did you see him pushing Wemby. Crazy how he wasnt ejected. Also no tech on that castle push to the ground is crazy.

Always loved Cade and his game but it’s been funny seeing people caping for him recently cause he was complaining the same way people here do about guys drawing fouls, when in reality he’s kind of a baby lol he complains a lot

Their margin of the victory against the Knicks has been insane though. Ik it’s regular season and all but still.

Wemby, Chet, Gobert, Scottie and Castle 🤞

*Castle

He’s supposed to be in the honeymoon phase like all the other rising superstars before him but since his fans decided to rate him over players ahead of him, it didn’t last long.

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TS is a better stat for shooting percentage.

Helped us. Put himself in foul trouble.

He had a 4 game stretch last month where he averaged 13 on 36% and all it took was one 40 piece and a GQ article for the media to get on their knees for him and for Pistons fans to start talking out of their minds

Wemby is also pretty inconsistent tho man and has had some single digit and high TO stinkers this season. At the end of the day these younger stars just aren’t quite at that peak level of consistency yet. If SGA AND Jokic are ineligible, I think we’ll see how much team record vs individual performance matters in the MVP vote.

He was lucky not to foul out in the 3rd

should’ve fouled out but sure

I said this a few times before, I never thought Luka was overrated but he has become underrated as a player, and I never thought that would be possible for a guy that has accomplished as much as he has individually. The negativity around Luka is insane, you are right you would think he is arguably one of the worst players in the league and you would think he is carrying around 350 pounds the way people talk about him. And ESPN doesn’t even hide the fact that they push certain players, the clown Kendrick Perkins was once again talking nonsense about Luka and pushing certain players because it fits his agenda and the fan base he is trying to cater to.

Yes that game included lol. This feels worse because it was a prime game against one of their biggest contenders.