Shai builds a house in Portland going 17-42 (0-11 from 3, 23⁄25 FTs) for 57pts, 12rebs, 5 assists, 65min (-24) in 2 games
Shai continues to shoot inefficiently but puts up good pt numbers with the depleted starting lineup.
Toumani Camara better get first team all defense this season
Limiting him to 5 assists in two games is probably more impressive than the shooting numbers tbh. Just couldn’t get anything rolling for the offense in consistent stretches
SGA isn’t a good passer regardless
He’s a better passer than 2.5 assists per game lol
Brain dead take. Last season he averaged 6.6 assists (good) on 2.2 TOs (very good). In the playoffs he averaged 8 assists on 3.1 TOs. You could say he’s not a top 10 passer in the league but saying he’s not good is crazy work
Edit: I can’t believe that comment gets upvotes. I know this sub hates him but Jesus
He probably get ‘fouled’ when he misplace a pass thus the TO rate is so low
he barely got to touch the ball in the second half
Toonami Camaro with the clamps
GGs, hope we’re healthier next time we meet in January.
GG it’s crazy how competitive y’all are despite the injuries. Hope Jdub can get back soon, I feel so bad for that dude.
i swear i watched him defense well on Luka too, just dont know how tf Luka still drop 40⁄50 on him
this isn’t a “luka is better than Shai!!” thing but Luka’s passing threat and his step back three, plus his hesi is just such an impossible combo of things for one person to cover. SGA can get buckets on anyone but he struggles (slightly) with super athletic guards that can stay in front of him despite his shiftiness
Dude’s an absolute beast. I’m really high on this blazers team. If only Dame was in his prime
This is the team prime Dame deserved
Best 3nD in the league
People called it the Ayton trade, but it was actually the Toumani trade. Thanks Phoenix!
Who got fleeced the most?
-Suns trading Camara for washed Nurkic, Keon Johnson, and Nassir Little.
-Wizards trading Advija for Malcom Brogdon, Bub Carrington, and two second round picks.
-Bucks borrowing Lillard from the Blazers for 2 seasons for the rights to their first round pick from 2028-2030 (2 Swaps and one unprotected 2029)
Yeah Cronin’s trades have been aces, but his drafting less so. Whiffing on Scoot and Yang is very much the difference between the feisty fun team we currently have and a genuine contender. Full credit for Clingan though, especially in such a weak draft.
Bucks got champ from it, fair trade maybe lmao
Didn’t even mention the Ja trade too lol. Everyone thought we were going to have to attach picks to get off Grant’s contract. Cronin deserves Exec. of the year.
I went to the blazers and spurs game last week and left thoroughly unenthused about the blazers. Watching this game, the guy was a complete monster. I don’t even recall him in the game.
My point being is how much matchups matter. Dame looks good as ever. Fun team! Fun arena, great atmosphere
Yeah that Spurs game was unfortunately our worst game of the season by far. It was the second night of a back to back after a hard fought battle with the Lakers and we came out super flat against (probably) the best team in the league right now. Any other game this season and you’d probably think pretty differently of this squad.
Hope you enjoyed Portland and watching the game though!
He’s awesome
did he not get one already?
he got 2nd team two years ago, nothing last year.
Two years ago he 100% deserved 1st team but he was an unknown name so I wasn’t surprised. Last year i feel he wasn’t as good defensively as the year prior (at least the early part of the season). Thought he had a chance at 2nd team but I wasn’t too upset over him missing it. He’s looking back to normal this year though, so im hopeful
i was positive he was going to make it last year off the offensive fouls drawn stats alone. dude set an nba record and more than doubled second place. He stole over 1 possession a game just with that.
oh damn - yeah, he’s been elite for a couple seasons now. would have figured he had one already.
Its almost as if his otherworldy efficiency was due in large part to him being on perhaps the deepest team assembled in the past 30 years or so. When he’s not playing with multiple other all star/all nba/all defensive guys, turns out he’s a huge chucker with mid efficiency.
I mean this was also true in multiple playoff series because defenses tightened up and having a bunch of rotational players means a little less since teams are just running larger minutes for good starting units but didn’t matter because they were good enough to win games because of their insane defensive depth
Now that the rotational pieces have real serious minutes with the lack of starting players we’re seeing it manifest in the regular season as well
I feel so fucking vindicated right now.
Presti has always been the MVP there
I think that’s just basketball. When you’re the only guy the other team can focus on you alone and make it really hard on you. It’s a wonder how Dame was so efficient playing with CJ McCollum as the second best player on his team for most of his career.
Psst…check out Luka Doncic’s 2024 run when the Mavericks were the most injured team in the West and he played without Kyrie for three months. I’m gonna give you a hint: monster numbers, monster efficiency. That’s what true MVPs do.
You’d think “true MVPs” would actually have an MVP lol
Just such a stupid comment lol
This is just wrong on multiple levels. Look at Shai’s stats in 2020-2021, 2021-2022, and 2022-2023 when the roster was worse then it is now. Averaged 50% FG. Definitely not “mid efficiency” and definitely not a shot chucker.
then a player like Luka must’ve been worse than mid last season?? L bait
50% is not mid lmao, theres a reason 50/40/90 has 50% as the field goal %
Coin flip shooting is not mid WTF
It is a long season so we will see what happens.
But.
If SGA has a bad season, I’ll look forward to never reading another dumb fucking redditor claiming SGA is a top 5 all time guard.
i cant believe this has upvotes
because it’s true?
Negative shai talk is just free up votes. You must be new.
Braindead take jesus
He has quite literally always been efficient regardless of how deep his team has been what are we talking about
SGA is one of the few guys where I unironically think it’s better for him to force bad midranges than bad 3s
He basically never makes 3 pointers when he starts chucking them out of rhythm the chances of him hitting a tough midrange are higher by a larger ratio than 3:2
It aint 2k he cant just do that every possession, shit is tiring in the midrange. Settling for 3s occasionally is an easier way to put up shots. Obviously going 0/11 isnt ideal
he looked exhausted by the second quarter lol, turns out having to run from camara constantly trying to seal you off the ball while carrying an entire offense is extremely tiring two nights in a row
I hate to say it but Austin and Luka faced worse coverages in our recent back to back. Austin had to shake from asaur and run around tons of screens, and Luka had dort/NAW/Daniels trapping and blitzing him every time he touched the ball. it’s exhausting yes but it would help Shai if he was more a threat to playmake out of these coverages..I often feel he’s just forcing bad shots in this coverage imo.
I don’t feel like you hated saying that at all
This was game 4 of back to back back to backs
Yeah Shai not that great of IQ as a playmaker. Even Deni is better there. Heck he got to the line tonight and SGA still struggled. Their offense is pretty damn basic in the 4th
Shai “anti paparazzi” GA
Wtf is wrong with shai his defense been bad, he a cone.
Funnily enough this is the same for Jokic. Will hit crazy turnaround trebuchet bullshit 2pt jumpers and hook shots at an insane clip, and then go like 1-10 from 3 on nights where he’s just chucking from deep.
Portland was playing great physical defense and double teaming on drives. Long defenders too. And not having Ajay, our other dribble penetrator, hurt bad. Basically the same thing that happened against the spurs in the playoffs last year
0-11 from three over the two games really highlights it. His stepback midrange feels automatic even when heavily contested, but his pull-up three almost always looks completely rushed and out of rhythm.
bro i read ts so fast i thought dude dropped 57 points wtf
Same - I was wondering why nobody brought up 25 FTs
Well if anyone didn’t know that there were OKC PDX games back to back, leaving the ‘in 2 games’ til the conclusion of the sentence is at least slightly burying the lead
Same which made me really confused as to why the OP was being a hater lol
tbf 57 points on 42 shots is not remotely impressive even in 1 game lol
57 pts on 42 shots is incredibly impressive. It’s when you see the FT attempts that makes it really bad lol
no need to attack Kobe dude
Well he did say he models his game after Kobe/MJ
In 65 minutes too.It’s like those old boxing matches before the round limit got established where and they fought for what felt like days.
Sick of these stupid fucking narrative posts
Turns out having to carry subpar rosters is a lot harder than doing the hyper efficiency routine on a stacked superteam.
Welcome to dame life
His team isn’t even that subpar right now compare to what joker and Luka has. Both of those guys have to rely on vet min players to play key roles and their teams are relatively healthy.
SGA still has Ajay Mitchell, which Thunder fans say is better than Reaves. Ihart, Caruso, kenrich is fine, McCain is good, and Mara is solid. He has an nba squad, not like a Bucks or Kings squad. He’s just not the best player in the world when he doesn’t have the most stacked team in the world
You do know Mitchell was injured in last nights game and didn’t play tonight right?
No he didn’t because 90% of the people don’t watch games
None of those other guys you mentioned can consistently get buckets…
I think SGA is doing fine, getting buckets on lower efficiency bc it’s just him
Ajay was out tonight but cmon Jokic has Jamal Murray, who’s better than anyone the Thunder have now and was just All NBA last year. Even Cameron Johnson is a better 3 and D floor spacer than anyone on the Thunder. Reaves is clearly better than Ajay, as that feels like a straw man argument since I haven’t heard that. The Nuggets and Lakers have better current rosters but when healthy, obviously OKC has a better supporting cast.
I think he might be referring to the older rosters ?
The 2021⁄2022 Nuggets ?
Everyone here was saying Ajay was clearly better then Reaves after we got swept last season by OKC. Don’t switch up now just to make SGA look better lol
No one’s switching up. Anyone who said Ajay was better than AR was a really vocal minority. And saying it doesn’t make it true.
Not everyone was every saying that. Your’re just extremely biased and focus on the 1% of comments you see that are negative about him
Defensively ajay is better. So you could argue a better all round player but offensively its reaves
yeah this sub is ig comment level discourse masquerading as something more intelligent because its written in a paragraph
Nuggets are Jokic & Murray show. I watched them in Rockets game, outside of Jokic and Murray their team is horrendous. It is just November but Gordon looks washed and 3&D guys are not doing well. Also DeRozan led bench is sub-par. I am not sure if current Nuggets are better than current OKC
Jamal Murray and Austin Reaves are vet min players?
Ajay Mitchell was injured and did not play tonight.
So he doesn’t have even him, that’s how bad it is for the Thunder.
Reaves averaged 25/5/5 on 65% TS last season. He’s galaxies better than Ajay Mitchell. Just having that one player next to your star that the opposing defense has to respect is massive, Shai doesn’t have that. Hell he didn’t even have that last year and still won 64 games. I’ve never seen anyone say Ajay is better than Reaves
can confirm I’ve seen a ton of comments saying Ajay is better than Reaves after last year’s sweep
Lmao, you weren’t here after the Lakers lost in the playoffs then? I remember distinctly people saying that Reaves made Ajay Mitchell look like an All Star. That Reaves is overrated and that they would prefer Ajay Mitchell over him, because he a 2-way player.
And no slight to Ajay Mitchell, I do think he is a great player that should rise to the level of JDub and Reaves. But that’s what I saw after that series and over the off-season.
Are you kidding me bro? He’s missing hella starters and other important pieces but yeah bro it’s still better than Luka and Jokic’s roster.
Let’s not forget SGA’s record when BOTH Jalen Williams and Chet missing the past 2 seasons.
It’s always great to hear the adversity Luka experiences his whole career
Hope he gets his MVP this year over Wemby
Imagine if sga got to play next to prime kyrie lol
SGA was like 18 and wasnt drafted yet when Kyrie was in his prime
We all know his fatass isn’t sustaining this, he’ll be back to his rightful place at 3rd in MVP before he’s injured for the playoffs
i know you’re trolling lakers fans which i approve but please, if you want to save your sanity, don’t look into the spurs roster outside of Victor, Fox, and occasionally Harper. it’s horrific in ways words can’t describe
Seeing spurs fans shit on their great roster to prop up Wemby is funny.
Every team would be ecstatic to have a Stephon Castle, but I guess he’s “horrific in ways words can’t describe” when you want to prop up Wemby
The spurs roster this season is stacked. In the 4th QTR, When Mitch needs to send in the bench players to play garbage minutes, in a blowout, you know who they have to send out?.
Keldon Johnson , last years 6man of the year. Yes, he’s taken a hit to his stats this year. But When last years 6man, gets delegated to the 3rd string closing line up for garbage time, that’s when you know you have a deep team. And All of this without Tobias Harris.
I’m legit rooting for either a Wemby or Luka MVP, the players themselves deserve or bound to get one anyway sooner or later
But it’s also true I want a more toxic convo between those two fanbases. I’m keeping my hatewatch this season from hell 👍
insane take. holy shit. this is a 2 game stat and go look at the okc roster from yesterday. they were missing 5 guys. sometimes you have to play like kobe. that’s it. don’t make too much out of it.
Luka mentioned
Laker fans and their inferiority complex when it comes to Shai, classic. There’s always one lurking in the comments
wtf are you talking about lmaooo stop wit the propaganda jokic and no help?😂😂😂😂🤡🤡🤡
Jokic arguably hasn’t even been the best player on the Nuggets and they’re pulling this shit 💀
don’t act like isaiah hartenstein jared mccain and alex caruso is a strong supporting lineup on its own
God it’s so good to see the SGA facade fall. Finally.
Id say both teams are on a similar level with the Lakers being better. Theoretically Nuggets roster should be better but theyre not. Austin has his faults but he’s a great scorer, and i think Thybulle and Kessler have been a positive defensively and Mamu and Ziaire have been great additions. Only Sexton has been really negative at times. Thunder are still a really good defense. It’s not just about the pieces themselves obviously it’s about how they work together
what if you do hyper efficiency on a subpar team (dames whole career until now)
Damian Lillard has never been hyper efficient
32 points on 65% true shooting for a season isn’t hyper efficient?
Fairs but he also played 58 games that season
That’s wild efficiency
Also…interesting username Ripcity amigo. Care to elaborate?
Ring culture rotted a lot of people’s brains.
I had to read people saying SGA was the best player in the world.
Ring culture was saying Brunson is better than Luka. Shai has always had the statistics to back him up, and I doubt this stretch will last.
We will see. It is much easier to be a good player on a good team.
Ah yes “ring culture” and not the back to back mvp’s
Both of which happens when you have a great team, and the MVP also happens because they go ahead and ask guys like Perkins, Stephen A and at least 50 idiots about what they think. Hardly matters especially seeing how the league views a guy like Jaylen Brown or Paul George vs how the media/fans see it
Easy to jump on a player when hes out of form aint it.
Nah I’ve been on “shai egregious armextender” ass long back.
This is just his return to form because he isn’t surrounded by insane talent now.
They really gave 2 MVPs to the a guy who was consistently sitting out 4th quarters and his team was cruising to a victory while actual MVPS like Jokic, Luka, Giannis can’t even rest for 2-3 mins before their teams would blow the lead.
They really gave 2 MVPs to the a guy who was consistently sitting out 4th quarters and his team was cruising to a victory
I’ve consistently said this for the entirety of last season.You can’t possibility argue that a guy who can easily sit out most 4th quarters is more valuable to his team’s success than the guys who play 40 minutes every night to keep their teams relevant.Either he didn’t deserve it or the award is named wrong. I will die on this hill.
If we take this statement as true then how are you going to explain SGA leading in clutch points?
So i guess 2016 steph was a fraud then? Dont go missing when sga turns it around and your boy goes through a bad stretch
He was for a good 2 seasons, now he’s not playing like the best player in the world. It is what it is 🤷♂️
The point the above comment was making that you maybe have missed is that its hard to say that someone is the best player in the world when they are playing on a insanely stacked roster with literally 0 holes.
I agree that this is probably just a really poor stretch from shai and is not indicative of him being washed or whatever but theres also an element of truth in saying that he was likely always more like a top 3/ top 5 in the league level talent who was allowed to shine and look like a top 1 off the best supporting cast in the league by a mile and an insanely well coached team.
His weaknesses were never really allowed to be exposed/punished because of the absolute powerhouse OKC team that would kill you if you tried to target shai, which may have also contributed to him not being as good at completely elevating a poorer roster as he never truly needed to. Players like Jokic, Luka, Giannis and looking further back Lebron have had more success in that regard, and their weaknesses are also more put into the limelight as a result (Lebron is the exception where in his prime he basically had no weaknesses), but is why many will argue that the above 3 players were always better than Shai just playing on far weaker teams. Wemby is another player that hasnt really been tested with being put on a weak roster since his rookie year, though the floor with him just seems much higher.
Again, not to say Shai is a bad player or that this is his actual baseline, just that he doesnt seem to yet have to ability to take a horrible roster way beyond what is expected like some of the other players that are also considered best in the world.
he was tho.
That was an accepted consensus around these parts until this season. It was always a conflation of team success.
It really messed me up, felt like I was in a different reality from these people.
Dude and out of nowhere brunson easily top 5 LOL after the ring
Sga was always efficient even when okc sucked. He just sucks this season lol
Lol I’m a certified SGA hater but sucks is a bit strong.
it’s the shot selection everything is overly forced
The new off arm rules are messing with him a lot
here yall go bruh lol
Not even hes flat out bricking his usual makes. Not sure what’s up with him tbh. Hope he figures it out soon
They’re not though he doesnt fully extend. His process is just shit now and he sucks
Keep telling yourself that. Teams probably didn’t care that much back then when playing OKC and that made his numbers look better
What the hell kind of argument is this lmao
A logical one
I don’t think he sucks but he’s definitely worse than last season. I guess he’s mentally checked out after half the roster’s out with injuries
I could get behind this, but the biggest difference is not his shotmaking, but a significant change in shot diet. He gets to the rim half as often as the last few years, and his staple midrange shots are much more tightly contested.
Because the paint is clogged and hes getting tripled? But i agree sga needs to get back to that rim game if hes still capable
But that is exactly the opposite is what you said in the prevoius comment. The main difference is the resources the defense can spend specifically to slow him down, not him ‘just sucking’ this season.
the reason he was efficient when okc sucked is because he didn’t have the reputation of a star player so he got guarded like a role player now that he gets guarded like luka he sucks
2X
Nah this ain’t it chief
Stacked superteam lmao.
Yeah I think we can call Dort, Caruso, JDub, Jwill, Chet, Hartenstein, Cason, Wiggins, Joe, Ajay, Mccain and all these demons Sam Presti finds out of nowhere a superteam compared to baby Brunson, Bullock, DFS, Powell, Dinshittie, Kleber, Bertans, Ntikilina, Josh Green that Luka had in his WCF run.
Or last years Lakers sorted by games played, Jake, Ayton, Rui, Hayes, Hachimura, Vanderbilt, Smart, Lebron, Knecht, Reaves, Kleber, Bronny, etc. Or would you swap rosters given the chance
Why do people forget sga dragged a rookie chet (missed first year) a 2nd year jdub (giddey era) to the first seed lol and the second round where he outplayed luka. In fact pull up their head to head stats in like their last 15 games lol.
“Dragging” the 2nd overall and the 12th overall picks when they’re on rookie contracts and barely affect the cap
Sure
That team never played a whole season together healthy. Wtf are you on?
Brunson also carried in that team. Also why are you so pressed about this? Lol.
I named some players and asked would you swap any of the Luka rosters with Shai rosters after you cried about a guy calling a superteam, a superteam, who actually is pressed about this? Brunson was awesome that year, not the guy we know now but he was great.
subpar would be a compliment to this team. aside from shai, the 8 other players on this team would be one of the worst collection of 8 players in the nba. 2 two-way guys (peavy/nique), 2 rookies (stirtz, mara), 2 good role players (caruso, ihart), unc (kenrich) and jared mccain.
there’s not any starter level creator or scoring threat besides shai.
This is the average Luka team for most of his career.
SGA has been elite for many many years even before the thunder were a superteam (heck even in his rookie season at the clippers I’d say). People turn on him so fast, but he is definitely one of the 5 best players in the world
Drafting players = super team!! Holy moly why doesn’t everyone just do that
Bro Shai has never gotten to play with the offensive talent that Luka has, if you wanna talk about rosters making life easy why don’t you ever mention that?
Luka took Dwight Powell, Maxi Kleber, Frank Ntilikina, Marquese Chriss, Trey Burke, and Davis Bertans to the WCF. All of those guys played in that playoffs run.
Outside of Brunson the next best players were Dinwiddie, Bullock, and DFS lol.
What?
SGA is more of a ceiling raiser than a floor raiser. He’s elite when surrounded by a good supporting cast, but I don’t think he’s the type of player who single-handedly makes a mediocre team competitive. His game thrives in a well-built system, where he can elevate an already good team into a championship contender.
Totally agree - he’s a good system player and has effectively been Presti’s marionette. Seeing people claim he’s one of the best players of all time has been infuriating.
Yeah easy plug and play superstar any roster works with hil because of the two way prowess
Jordan was also more of a ceiling raiser, is he suddenly not one of the best players of all time?
Jordan for the first part of his career was single-handedly dragging mediocre Bulls teams to playoff runs.
Making the playoffs with 30 wins
jordan was both though.
All stars are both
Can you be more delusional?
It’s delusional to call a 2 time MVP one of the best players of all time? Can YOU be any more delusional?
Hardest superstar to build a team around
His playmaking is rather disappointing for an MVP level guard
5 assists in two games is nuts for his usage rate no?
This is who he has always been. He has insane balance so he can make mid range shots while flailing in the air so a lot of his misses turn into FTs. Hence his insane efficiency numbers. He has been playing in insanely stacked rosters that absolutely beat the @##¥ out of opponents on defense and can make up for his lack of strength at the PoA hence his impact metrics looking insane. His team was good enough that covering on 2 and blitzing him wasn’t necessarily a good idea. He’s not really a passer but because of the overall talent the simple pass would more than not lead to good offense.
This year he looks much worse because:- He has not been getting as many of his misses turn into FTs which affects his efficiency.- he doesn’t have as much talent to cover up for him defensively which affects his defensive impact numbers.- The simple pass isn’t the best pass anymore because of the lack of talent and that shows his lack in the playmaking department.
There was so much discourse the last 2 years saying that the reason why SGA is better than everyone else is because he doesn’t have TOs. Well if you don’t need to take any risks to create offense at all yeah you won’t have turnovers but you also won’t create as many quality shots for your team. If you look at impact on offense for Luka and Jokic even games when they’re shooting under their standard and when they have “high” turnovers their teams are still seeing an insane increase in shot quality when they’re on the floor.
He’s still top 5 but I would argue he has been top 5 the last couple of years even when he was winning MVPs.
Just saw a comment of someone saying he’s more of a ceiling raiser than a floor raiser and yeah basically
flirting vs harassment ass comment
Toumani camara
he might be better than MJ or Lebron fr
many people are saying this
Toumani Camara changed my life
Thank you Ishbia
Toumani Camara touched me in places I’ve never been touched (emotionally)
Everyone thinks they can do the harden, until they have to do the harden
we need more housing in portland, thanks sga
I heard you guys need a ring too, idk if hed give you it though
we’ve got a ring and didn’t need to steal a team to do it
We got Deni and Dame it’s only a matter of time
I was told by OKC fans Portland was ass after tbe Lakers win
Huh, Weird. Maybe they’ve never heard of Damian Freaking Lillard in OKC ahahahahah
OKC fans complaining about Deni’s whistle when they have the guy nicknamed FTA on their team was wild
deni had zero free throws until like 4 minutes left in the 3rd quarter, he wasn’t getting any whistle for 85% of the game
And I shit you not, they were complaining about it their game thread. One person unironically asked why Deni has the best whistle in the league 😂
They are like NPCs with built in excuse lines that they write no matter what happens on the court.
I’ll concede that Deni gets a generous whistle sometimes, but he does also get fouled a lot because so much of his game is predicated on steamrolling into the paint.
I mean Blazers’ fans and announcers heavily complaining about Wemby’s whistle last week when they have Deni in their team is equally ironic.
Suddenly efficiency is not everything this season or the previous one according to OKC fans
Couldn’t do much against Toumani “The Box” Camara so he resorted to kicking his legs out again to get to the line
Still early in the season but his statistical decline from last season has quietly been massive.
He’s been way less efficient
his team’s 2nd, 3rd and arguably 4th best player not being there might have something to do with it
Not easy when he actually has to carry a team, huh?
idk i think he got away with a couple
Thunder fans crying about physical defense lol
They are renowned for dishing but not taking.
That sounds like a lot of Thunder defenders I know!
like?
caruso obviously
you tried to strip Vic naked a dozen times in the WCF don’t take about physical defense
no i didnt i’ve never played professional basketball
Shai wasn’t wearing pants
because toumani kept taking them off
Damn what game were you watching? Sounds like you clicked on the wrong website /s
It’s almost like the Thunder defense is being copied league wide. Ironic
You guys like it when Caruso fondles Joker’s moobs and love handles, don’t pretend like you don’t
he wouldn’t find anything, shai is well known for being meatless
its weird how much you guys think about shais dick
Thought that was one game at first.
This season is going to be an absolute grind for him. No doubt about it. None of the other players (the few actually healthy) seem to have a clue when they have the ball.
He’ll play better soon but the efficiency is going to be way down and he’s having to force everything because there’s really nowhere else to go RN.
It just sucks because I really wanted Spurs and Thunder with a healthy Thunder squad this time in the WCF but it’s not going to happen.
At least the Bulls have………a direction?
Great teams seem to be fickle these days with all yhe roster construction constraints and the impressive amount of talent in the league. After the warriors reign. It quickly went bucks nuggets thunder to maybe spurs….who fucking knows what the future of the league holds.
Also wth is up with buzelis? Is he just early season slumping? I was super hyped on him but haven’t heard much at all recently
I wish I had an answer for you. He has been ROUGH so far. The Bulls as a whole cannot shoot to save their lives right now. Not that anybody expected them to be a great shooting team but they’ve been horrible so far. No other way to say it.
I went into this season thinking they were a definitive step above teams like the Kings, Bucks, etc…but maybe they aren’t.
Bulls have a direction, but it’s definitely not up.
So he will have to play like Luka for majority of his career, but won’t even get half the criticism Luka was receiving for years now.
Its just a slow start. Idk why people are overreacting this much with braindead takes this early into the season like it completely nullifies a whole career of basketball. Jokic started last season 50% from 3, but clearly he wasn’t that good from 3.
Honoring westbrook
OKC Westbrook is super fun to watch tho
Especially for Blazer fans!
Westbrook’s legacy is also larger than Dame’s legacy and anyone else in your team’s history within the last 20 years.
weak ragebait
your goat was passed around like a blunt on vet minimum contracts until the league retired him due to lack of interest. He didn’t even go out on his own terms. Untouchable
I’d watch Westbrook in a heartbeat over this guy
thats because you’re stupid
Nah chill bro, don’t hate on someone for making that claim. I’m a lifelong OKC fan, I love Russ, and I think EVERYBODY who watched him growing up whether a fan or not could say he was incredibly entertaining on both ends. It’s not a diss to SGA.
Westbrook was infinitely more entertaining to watch. Definitely not a better player but not as boring as SGA.
Westbrook is not better than SGA. But he way way way more fun to watch
0/11 from 3 is really wild, but I cannot blame him.
He has to take the game on himself
Lots of players do and still manage to perform.He’s underperforming for sure and will likely improve as the season goes on but a lack of insane carry jobs does seem to be a genuine weakness of his.
Free throws so dramatically mask weaknesses in players these days. It’s crazy.
Not taking either side when I ask this, but how so?
A casual viewer will see something like “X player puts up 33 points, 5 REB, and 4 assists in loss to X team” but not really look into how those points are scored. Like take Embiid two nights ago. At one point he had 9 points and a couple rebounds going into the half. Not bad from an aging center, he was beating queta at the position by points scored. What it doesn’t say is that he was 9⁄11 from the stripe, and had missed every shot he took.
Depending on how many free throws they take and the position from the foul, it could be either “he’s driving a lot so makes sense he’s getting fouled, 60% of the fouls are within 5 feet of the basket” or “how is this guy getting fouled 8 times from 3 feet away from the point line?”
Most casual fans won’t look into that stuff, so free throws can mask a players effectiveness for the team
This is true. So true. Even for players I love, it’s pretty resl
Why is it true? They’re saying that the sole act of attempting a free throw dramatically masks weaknesses you may have as a player. Why do you agree? Just wondering.
It’s more statistical. Like Dame or SGA can miss a lot of shots due to poor shot selection etc.
But then they can also get to the FT line so they’ll get their points but also maintain a certain degree of TS% as well. Without the FT generated, a good night becomes a bad night.
That’s my take at least
SGA is just honoring prime Westbrick
Toumani Camara
Thunder team looks lost out there rn
They’re down like 5 of their best players
😂😂 (not laughing at the injuries, but the fact you had to mention that at all)
They actually said this guy was better than Luka lmao
Find it surprising he made zero 3s in 11 attempts in two games.
FTA