Rooting for Tristen to catch on somewhere! He’s a tough dude

Obviously.

Makes sense lmfao.

He’s always been more of a development coach than X’s and O’s yeah? I could see that looking annoying if you’re watching

Also curious of this

I think he’s….fine, coming from a Blazers fan. But Nori vs him is night and day

He somehow got even worse at dribbling

Classic example of roleplayer suddenly looking terrible when they’re asked to do too much, Naz Reid is going through that on the injured Hornets right now

He needs to be low on the totem pole. He was behind Luka, Reaves, Lebron and even Ayton last season.

Or one like Westbrook or LeBron

Or Lebron

Also Murray was a complete demon during that time and was getting the Steph curry treatment while Jokic was out. Half court blitzes, full court denials, everything.

Basically Watson got to play January basketball (notorious for bad, unfocused ball) while playing 4v3 defenses.

He deserves credit for hitting corner 3s, which doesn’t seem to be translating this year either.

I think part of it is also that the Cavs actually have solid depth at the wing. Hezonja, Tyson, Meleek. Also, Proctor has looked solid as an off ball guard/small wing with playmaking abilities

maybe he was right to sit out of the playoffs to let a team talk themselves into giving him his money

As you said, Watson’s best month was when Jokic was out injured. This season he’s still dealing with his lingering hamstring injury, but he’s had some memorable blocks in Cavs games recently.

During his really awesome stretch he had last year when Jokic was injured, he had the ball in his hands a lot. Can’t do that as much playing with Mitchell and Harden, seems like he’s just very out of rhythm and standing in the corner.

If a player sucks in an empty gym, does it make a plus-minus?

Oh shit. Good point

this stat measures how much better or worse a player is compared to the average one over the course of 100 possessions (About how long an NBA game is). It adjusts for team strength as well

So basically what you just said is irrelevant.

it’s a great metric meant to quantify a player’s worth for their own team. It’s not meant to be taken as here are the worst players in the league.

it basically takes the result on the court in terms of how much a team outscores or is outscored by and then assigns it to the players on the court. There are too many bad players on the bucks, so it is likely spreading the negatives out between them.

*China

Don’t disrespect Euroball like that

There’s an alternate universe where Haliburton plays with Wemby and the entire game of basketball is essentially solved.

Turner was solid before Haliburton though

Myles Turner was a good/great player before Haliburton got there though

He’ll be a FA at the end of the year. I dont think the blazers will cut him before then, but seems very likely they just let him walk.

He’s 22.

And he shoot’s 3.9 threes a game. Great percentage but that’s not doing much

I mean he’s a fairly elite 3pt shooter and can reliably get off mid range jumpers against playoff defenses. His defense on bigs is also okay. He’s a fine NBA role player, and certainly not one of the 10 worst players in the league - it’s just the Clippers that’s making him look bad on paper.

Now if he’s your 2nd or 3rd best player tho, like last playoffs - yeah that’s not good.

The guy who had 11 rebounds vs your team last night?

I was sad we let him walk but Mamu is an upgrade in every way

He was really good at making my butthole pucker every time he spotted up last season in the Westerns semis.

This is one way to say that you’ve never actually watched Rui play.

It was certainly unpopular for us because he’s always had a good attitude, had no ego, and always hit 3s and shots for us reliably in the playoffs. But yeah there are also well known deficiencies. I can’t say I liked seeing him go, but I was open to seeing what we could replace him with because there is a ceiling with signing him back for a chunk of cap space. Luckily, Sandro has been an upgrade for us in just about every way so far. Let’s hope he keeps it up when it’s playoffs time

But he’s the best three point shooter of all time?!?🤣

Great spot up shooter. Great teammate. That’s it. Love Rui, but there was definitely a “lol lakers” vibe when he signed w the clippers that people only judged off his playoff shooting percentages and nothing more.

Who was saying that? He’s a great shooter that’s literally his only skillset and people have been complaining about his defense his entire career outside of a single game in the playoffs against Jokic. We can’t just go around creating a narrative.

Bro they must’ve forgot how many alley-oops he fumbled from Bron and Luka

Pretty sure the only people saying that would of been Lakers fans who constantly overrated him

A lot of Lakers fans did. We were called delusional.

Most outlets are east coast journalist based (Boston) and always say the lakers are going to be worse than they actually are

Nah there was a lot of hype. I remember their first regular season meeting and summer league game against each other garnered a lot of news. I’m not sure if Cade was even considered better than him for the first three years of their careers.

Right, he in particular stands out, but unless I’m mistaken, the rest are on mid to bad teams, so I’m wondering just how much the stat adjusts for team quality