Josh Hart, much to the dismay of Karl-Anthony Towns, on analytics: “at a certain point they’re a lamp post to a drunk person, you can lean on them but they won’t get you home.”
Never change, Josh
Every team needs a Josh Hart to keep the spirits up
I firmly believe that Josh is arguably the best glue guy in the whole league lol. Dude is funny as hell, plays whatever role he needs to do on the court, and is always in check of the vibes to makes sure the team is in the right mindset. He’s probably good enough to be a #3⁄4 on almost any team but is happy to put his ego aside and come off the bench if needed.
He’s also the bridge in the locker room between the stars and the bench mob. He’s as close with Sochan and Alvarado as he is with the Nova guys and KAT. Really feels like everyone on the team is super close and Hart seems to always be the common denominator.
He is the only Laker after the Kobe era who I like unconditionally
Is that you Michael Beasley?
A guy like him elevates your team, sets the example on the court, busts his ass, and his teammates will absolutely see that and want to play hard for him
(Note to Tim Connelly - this shit (we won’t get Hart but a guy like him) is what we need in Minnesota to minimize the braindead games we often have in the regular season.)
And JC
That’s why every time somebody says they’d include Hart for let’s say Giannis I believe it to be a moronic statement. Hart is the soul of the team and chemistry would go underground if he’s gone.
Bringing Giannis to your team would also tank team chemistry, at this point. Double whammy
honestly I agree, there’s not team out there that wouldn’t probably benefit from having hart on their roster
Get your grubby paws away from josh
He does this all while not punching people. Sure, he violates the sanctums of his teammate’s anal cavalries vis-a-vi sfingers, but what harm is a good poke between Conrads?
Seems like every game he plays us he’s 2⁄9 with 5 pts with 2 mins left then fucks us in the ass with back to back dagger 3s. Respect.
Seriously, he was on the blazers for such a short stint, but I wanted to die for him and all he did for the team. I’m so happy he’s finding success
While watching the game yesterday, I was literally asking myself, I don’t know who’s better, Alex Caruso or Josh Hart.
I think Caruso could probably start for a handful of good teams in the league. I think Hart is a little bit more of a get a bucket in the hustle situation but they’re both one of those guys you just love to have on your team.
Lakers are amazing at drafting elite role players for other teams
Lmao now that you say it like that, yeah. That’s 2 gems they found that they let walk lmao
I feel like GP2 is this for dubs
Hey, someone needs be giving oil checks at the trophy ceremony on national TV for camaraderie’s sake.
Josh Hart gives you a thumbs up
Never stop thumbing people Josh
Great quote but you didn’t even go to college killed me
“You ain’t even go to college”had me dead 🤣
That quote about not going to college got me deceased
The thing he said put me on my grave
Dang they didn’t even bury you?
He ain’t even go to cemetery
I am 6 feet under and I just spit out my coffee all over the inside of the coffin.
That quote killed my dog
Shoot when hart said he aint even go to college😂😂😂
Today I Learned Jay Wright’s first name is Jerold.
In a similar vein, former Bucs & Falcons HC Raheem Morris’s real first name is Dejohnold
Sean Payton’s first name is Patrick 💀
Ready for this one?
Bill Belichick’s real first name: William
Papa Doc’s real name is Clarence
And Clarence lives at home with both parents
Clarence from Cranbrook?
That’s a private school!
And Clarence parents had a real good marriage
Papa Doc
Pretty sure it’s Francois?
Gonna need a fact check on that
We’re not talking about this
And his girlfriend? Jordonald.
John Stafford is the reigning NFL MVP and Rayne Prescott is the highest paid quarterback.
FTS
FPSP
FTS brother
This guy gees it
Kim Mulkey’s middle name is Duane.
That’s not a typo, I didn’t mean Diane. It’s Duane.
That’s the most outrageous name I’ve heard.
My high school stats book had a similar quote: “they use stats like a drunk uses a lamppost: for support, rather than illumination.”
I say that I use stats like a drunk uses a knife: crudely but dangerously.
I use stats lasciviously and wantonly.
I use stats morosely and lugubriously
I use stats insubordinately and churlishly
I use stats like I use coconut oil. On myself.
I use stats like a drunk uses stats: poorly.
you just know he forgot the word illumination halfway through and had to freestyle the rest of the sentence
Seems like that quote really stuck with you
Also seems like jay wright read this book?
Why is your stats textbook talking about /r/NBA?
KAT: I was with Kal, so I didn’t hear that Josh: You didn’t even go to college KAT: ….
KAT: I was with Kal, so I didn’t hear that
Josh: You didn’t even go to college
KAT: ….
This entire video is amazing
*Cal
Nah he meant Kal-El
NO.
Champ-ANE
Keenan & Kal.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Calipari
Ugh stop making it hard to hate this team
Come on man get on the bandwagon
Knick’s fans would be there for the Kings
Light the Beam was the SHIT. I’m legit bummed yall didn’t make it farther especially with that team and vibe.
We can make the house Knicks-Kings.
Beam Bong
LIGHT THE BONG!
Fuck. I need some sleep, I laughed way harder than I should’ve. LOL.
You guys bring the players, we’ll bring…almonds? Do you like almonds?
The beam my friend, the beam will do.
i’m in the market for some high quality modesto blue
(citiesbydiana reference)
Y’all bringing that Sacramento sloppy-toppy.
Bring Death Grips
HEY BACK OFF
Ah there you are, GoZ had made it known
You can come too, orange alliance.
Da Kings in da Norf
already swapped my 30+ year fandom from the Kings to the Knicks! looking forward to slightly less heart ache
I got nothing against the Kings!
Theres not to many of us K teams, we gotta stick together.
u need one more
together we become the celtics
fucking lmao
The Chicago Kulls
Why do you want to hate them? Lol
Oh nothing specific. I’m just a hater.
Honestly I respect the self-awareness
Once your team is out of it hating is the next best thing
Feel like it’s just a sports fandom thing, sometimes you just get that vibe for a team or player even if it’s wholly irrational.
Aww got it. Lol I was lowkey hoping for a great story.
I lied, my ancestors got killed by knickerbockers.
NOW THATS A STORY!!
Damn with the hard R and everything?
I mean, our fanbase most likely
It’s like, it’s not that I want you guys to lose. It’s just funny to watch the celebrities sitting courtside look so sad as you lose.
Y’all have a good Fanbase for a big market team imo. Like honestly I’m always expecting Knicks fans to be more like Lakers fans but y’all alright. Lots of Knicks fans actually know ball.
We stan the Big Sneeze forever
Knicks Legend Precious Achiuwa
I hate how much I like them
Anyone but OKC at this point
Me too, bro. Me too.
If it’s Knicks/Thunder in the Finals, no one will hate the Knicks for a while
Our teams are 100% related. We’re like brothers who moved to opposite coasts. We have to root for each other’s success
Dolan, dolan dolan! There, that should have you covered for the moment!
I’m still enraged by how the refs robbed y’all against the Lakers.
hop on the bandwagon bro
Honestly, that’s an awesome response.
Josh hart is what tnt wants draymond to be
unfortunately his verbal UHHHHHM tic makes him thus far unusable for commentating
Nothing a year of media school wouldnt fix.
The greatest orator of our time is an uhhhm person, in Barack Obama.
It sometimes makes what you’re saying feel even more authentic.
Not to get political, but the fact that Zohran Mamdani can speak the way he does without uhhhms and still feels real and authentic is wild.
I’m not good at noticing the umms or ticks like that. I guess I just go with vibes you either sound real or you don’t. I got to see Abdul speak and he killed that shit, kind of had some preacher vibes, but one that you know believes what he’s saying not a fake megachurch pastor.
Public speaking is really hard, especially after you’ve told all your stories, and have to invent new material. I think Draymond is a decent public speaker, Hart is too, but he cannot talk like Draymond, not even close. Hart has his moments, but I’d prefer him as a spot appearance, rather than a regular one. Problem with Draymond is that he hasn’t “hung them up for a couple of years”, and gained a bit of perspective, become humble. He’s still a cunt, and if he doesn’t detach for a couple of years before coming back to broadcasting, he won’t “get it”.
Kobe is a good example of someone that was a cunt, retired, and left the spotlight for a bit. When he came back into the spotlight, before he died, he had gained an entirely new perspective. He was chill, and fun. Draymond could be that, he can talk, but if he doesn’t detach for a bit and lets his testosterone levels drop, he’ll become another Shaq with a chip on his shoulder, and will always be hated.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vnf6hbRfIv0
Josh Hart is what Creed is in the office. Use sparingly for best effect.
Giving credit to the OP? You know Josh Hart isn’t a Redditor
Kat actin befuddled after an extensive exposure to ant is adorable.
Gotta be one of the most fun basketball teams ever assembled
I just realized that I really want to be able to say “Josh Hart, NBA Champion.”
Same. Same.
Fun facts, Joshua Aaron Hart is an Eagle Scout that married his high school sweetheart.
“Blazers Legend Josh Hart is now an NBA Champion” has a great ring to it I agree
These boys showered and got high as hell. Even got the munchies lol
Josh got high on Mike and Ike much to the dismay of Erika (Knicks Nutritionist and Dietitian) lol
to be fair he’s chief candy officer for them it’s a legit side hustle at this point
This is a paraphrased vin Scully quote that Josh (mostly) got right.
Statistics are used much like a drunk uses a lamppost: for support, not illumination.
He says in the video that he’s quoting Jay Wright
honestly the hart/wright version is better.
I agree it’s better in this context, yeah. The original is more about using statistics badly, this is more about statistics not capturing the whole picture. It also leaves more room for the interpretation that this kind of “support” still matters.
Josh’s version is honestly a better analogy.
Jay Wright getting his flowers tonight from all over
Except from Chuck
That was fun.
Also, saw Devil Wears Prada 2 and was surprised to see KAT there. He tall AF.
too many ppl don’t realize just how tall these dudes are IRL cuz you always see them relative to other freakishly tall dudes. makes Wembys size even crazier when you see how he towers over them lol
I hate how one little adjustment just unlocked this team.
Point KAT is a marvel.
Shutting down point KAT also still worked to our advantage. Brunson is always a threat, Bridged is just chillin in the cut proving haters wrong, then you have Hart willing to crash the boards, let those 3s fly, or pump fake a 3 and pirouette into a layup.
Yeah we outta here in like 5 games, silver lining is there’s a zero percent chance Lu Dort is going to be able to injure any of our players this season 🥲.
give dort a bit more credit. he has the resources and motivation to fly anywhere in the world to injure anybody he wants at a moment’s notice. i would say .05% chance to injure one of your players, but definitely not zero.
If Dort flies out to Cleveland to assault my precious baby boy Jarrett Allen I’m going to send 27 Fiverr witches after him
we have Etsy coupons, fam.
if they’re being used against lu dort, wegotchu.
or five 27err witches. should cost about the same.
My lord, the vibes
That’s awesome, I really wish this subreddit upvoted more postgame stuff to the top
How many NBA teams you think are still hoping Jay Wright changes his mind about retirement and takes their money?
A dozen? More?
Villanova guy here. Jay would be a terrible nba head coach. He positioned himself as patriarchal figure in a way no NBA coach could get away with. Plus he doesn’t want it.
Plus he doesn’t want it.
The Coach That Was Promised
I bet he learned that saying in the Boy Scouts
Bars
Had that up his sleeve for a min 💯
Haha so true… it gives people who were always picked last something to feel athletic about
This is a great analogy actually
He’s been waiting to floss on Spreadsheet FC
I would pay to watch Josh Hart do standup.
this comment needs the Jordan Peele sweating gif
God I fucking love this team
After his time with the pelicans I will forever be a Josh Hart fan.
Calling out the entire draft subreddit I see
🗣️🗣️BARS
(the Knicks are, analytically, the better team)
The actual quote is, “a dullard uses statistics as a drunk uses a lamppost; for support rather than illumination”. But I like the j hart version
The J. Hart version is arguably better, TBH.
Wildcats
I’m with Josh on this!
If the Knicks make it to the finals ouuuuuu shit
I burst out laughing HAHAHAHAHAHAHA
He should’ve said Jalen Brunson told him to say that.
Brunson has probably had many calls in the middle of the night by Hart telling him to pick him up. “Where are you?”, “Under a lampost”
I’ve always hated analytics. Just nerds manipulating data and making up formulas to try and prove their guy is better than he is or if someone they hate is worse. Box score and eye test is usually enough to make a determination on someone’s skill.
Analytics has its role. It helps identify patterns that you won’t necessarily pick up watching the game. It can measure variables that you’re not paying attention to when watching the game. It’s a very valuable tool.
But where it creates a problem is when it essentially replaces every other input, and games are setup as if they’re running a computer simulation void of the human factor.
That’s where it fails, cause you can algorithm the hell out of anything, but you can’t predict if there’s gonna be a hot chick sitting courtside that’s either gonna inspire or distract a player. Or if a player got into a fight with their wife before they game and their head isn’t in it. Or if some random guy off the bench just got hot and the coach is playing the hot hand.
every time someone posts WAR stats in baseball subs I ask them to explain to me how WAR is calculated. it’s been a decade and crickets every time.
Basketball has way too many dependent variables and the variance game to game and even quarter to quarter is insane.
We probably have enough tracking data, or at least the tech to get there, these days to get somewhere close to the actual truth about these players and their performance, but god damn, I’m not sure I’m ready for the net rating analysis on days where Josh Hart is actually trying. We know he’s actually trying because his sustained frequency of dribbles and foot steps is somewhere around 20-25 dribbles per minute
I mean the numbers themselves don’t lie. People just manipulate data. There are a ton of advanced metrics that are extraordinarily reliable lol. I find that the (earnest and non-clickbaity) numbers guys are right more than they’re wrong.
Oh my gawdd bruh
KAT not denying the college dig is more hilarious than the lamb post quote.
I hate most Knicks fans, but I can’t hate the Knicks players. All of them are so good and funny and pretty chill
“you ain’t even go to college.”
Analytics won’t matter on judgment day
Josh Hart, so inspirational
High IQ take
Is that a man’s purse?
Who gets drunk and leans on a lamppost anymore
Does Josh Hart also go * hic * and wave a bottle marked XXX around and have a flattened top hat
Future Canucks front office member
Damn
Give his parents some damn flowers.
Josh Nietzsche
As a Blazers fan, I cannot believe we gave this man up.
You ain’t even go to college
You kind of see this with playoffs and why it’s hard to get through a playoff gauntlet and is completely different than the regular season. Analytics tell you to try to take all your shots in a few places because those are the best shots. If you optimize to only taking those shots in the regular season and not having ability to effectively use less optimal shots, then when you went into the best defenses that are planning specifically to take away the optimal shots you don’t have the ability to run an effective offense while using the less optimal shots.
That’s why players that are taking less ideal Shots and are good at them tend to not fall as much in the playoffs as those that take more ideal shots (with the exception of players that are freak athletes that are just able to still get to the rim at will even against good defenses specifically trying to stop them like prime MJ and prime LeBron, there you still not able to completely stop them to the rim although in the case of LeBron outside of his prime, he was not able to sustain this and did fall off the playoffs. Past his prime MJ became a mid range monster so was excellent at making the shots that defenses that are good would still give up so he just didn’t fall off because of that). There is a reason why Kobe didn’t really fall in the playoffs and Hakim didn’t either because he took a lot of fadeaway type shots that are not actually analytically the best shot, but he was good at them and those shots are still there even that gets good defenses because there were a shot the defense is happy to give up rather than a layup or dunk or a wide corner three.
Some people use analytics like a drunk uses a lamp post, for support instead of illumination.
KAT adjusting his Birkin in the beginning 👜
This game reminded me that only a couple months ago people were in the nba subreddits calling Josh hart one of the worst players on an nba roster.. smh the internet always switches up
HART AND SOUL OF THE TEAM, STAY GOLDEN PONY BOY