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Published: May 8, 2025 02:10

I’m half curious if players who like to pull-up going strong hand have better success in those late game scramble situations than guys who try to get weak hand for a step back.

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Published: May 8, 2025 02:07

All of the losses have occurred within the last 17 minutes. [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: May 8, 2025 02:06

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Published: May 8, 2025 02:04

Ok if Denver comes back in this one, we REALLY have to start asking questions

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Published: May 8, 2025 02:04

At .75 speed. [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: May 8, 2025 02:00

I mean what team wouldn’t? [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: May 8, 2025 01:59

Right where they want them. Surely no one else is making the same joke.

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Published: May 8, 2025 01:55

This a good point. Everyone always asked why those Thunder teams didn’t do anything more creative with KD than run him off wide pin downs. Everyone blamed Scotty Brooks, but I think subsequent history suggests that it’s another example of stars gonna do…

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Published: May 8, 2025 01:53

More or less. There are also refereeing and shot selection aspects [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: May 8, 2025 01:52

By contrast, the Celtics have go away heat [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: May 8, 2025 01:39

The wild thing about all these comebacks is that the rubber band effect which helps encourage comebacks in regular season games basically vanishes in the playoffs.

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Published: May 8, 2025 01:33

You’ve already seen it [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: May 8, 2025 01:32

Chuck Schumer thinks the Celtics so go on offense more quickly

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Published: May 8, 2025 01:29

In fairness they never ran any action. [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: May 8, 2025 01:28

Even Gem took a timeout to get that last drink of Pepsi. [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: May 8, 2025 01:25

Is mazzula awake? Maybe use that TO when you get nothing in the first 6 seconds?

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Published: May 8, 2025 01:24

That might have been on the floor, but it doesn’t matter because Boston burned their fouls to give because reasons.

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Published: May 8, 2025 01:23

Yeah it was bad D but the point of running stuff early is making the defense defend longer and maybe they’ll f up [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: May 8, 2025 01:22

Oh word going with some pace and early action might lead to something good?

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Published: May 8, 2025 01:18

When was the last time Boston ran ANYTHING?

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Published: May 8, 2025 01:16

Yeah but the Tatum brown teams did this under Stevens and Udoka also [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: May 8, 2025 01:15

Why would you hack-a just to put yourself in the penalty?

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Published: May 8, 2025 01:12

“I could tell by his calloused hands and firm grip that bacteria knew better than to approach this farm” [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: May 8, 2025 01:10

At least New York does it because that’s the way they play. Boston builds a big lead by playing with tempo and then just…stops. [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: May 8, 2025 01:02

The Knicks are defending well, but it gets easier if all you have to guard is one half assed screening action and then an iso starting at 27 feet. [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: May 8, 2025 01:01

ONCE AGAIN I AM ASKING THE CELTICS TO STOP WAITING TIL 8 ON THE SHOT CLOCK TO INITIATE THEIR OFFENSE

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Published: May 8, 2025 00:57

Still time for Boston to build and blow another 20 point lead

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Published: May 8, 2025 00:52

Irresistible force of Home Team Lost Game 1 meets immovable object of Boston Plays with Food with Big Lead [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: May 8, 2025 00:26

Hey man the Sengun truthers are still going at me, dunno what to tell you [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: May 8, 2025 00:10

As demonstrated by Steph Curry’s multiple DPOY’s. [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: May 7, 2025 22:38

JFC. Normatively bad policy combined with the political instincts of an opossum. [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: May 7, 2025 20:46

Saka gets Anthony Edwards’ whistle

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Published: May 7, 2025 20:39

Bukay oh no

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Published: May 7, 2025 20:28

That’s how my cats would approach taking a penalty

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Published: May 7, 2025 20:26

That’s such a soft penalty

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Published: May 7, 2025 18:28

“And take down that blue flag with the yellow on it while you’re at it” [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: May 7, 2025 17:29

There is evidence that he’s not terrible. Not sure there’s much to say he’s actively good. [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: May 7, 2025 15:26

Wolves a definite candidate for Play Better being the big game 2 adjustment

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Published: May 7, 2025 14:40

So @highkin.bsky.social brought up NBA Top Shot in a group chat and now I’m sad because in 10 years we won’t be playing Remember Some Guys, it will be Remember Some Grifts.

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Published: May 7, 2025 02:52

Golden State has a 93 ORTG, but sure Rudy can’t play in this series.

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Published: May 7, 2025 02:51

Chuck making me want to throw things at the TV.

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Published: May 7, 2025 02:43

I think the Inter-Barca game might have been higher scoring than this one.

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Published: May 7, 2025 02:34

At this point I think either Kerr or Kuminga or both are doing a bit

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Published: May 7, 2025 02:33

Goddamnit

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Published: May 7, 2025 01:59

Spicy already. Do these squads have any history?

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Published: May 7, 2025 01:58

The Heat were a consequence free opponent for them, and we all knew it. [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: May 7, 2025 01:57

Rudy giving Draymond the “too smol” would send me.

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Published: May 7, 2025 01:53

Hali rides the line between heel heat and go away heat, but so far this postseason it’s all heel. It’s glorious, the NBA needs a villain, at least it needs one that’s a villain for reasons other than kicking and choking opponents.

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Published: May 7, 2025 01:48

Sam Cassell approves

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Published: May 7, 2025 00:37

If the Cavs win this one going away down 3 of their top 6, it’s the greatest proof for the dominance of home teams down 1-0 in game twos probably ever.

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Published: May 7, 2025 00:35

Greg Anthony opines that he’s not a fan of fastbreak points as a stat and instead looks at points scored in the same situations where they get recorded as fastbreak points.

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Published: May 6, 2025 22:47

Suboptimal. [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: May 6, 2025 22:14

I was a teen in the 90s and literally all of those things were discussed EXTENSIVELY in the context of consent. I do remember Newsweek doing a cover story on Antioch College requiring frequent verbal consent& the associated freakout. Article itself mostly…

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Published: May 6, 2025 22:08

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Published: May 6, 2025 21:58

Sure, explore Sengun more as the guy. Just understand that he’s likely not, which is ok, most aren’t. But where fans and especially teams get in trouble is substituting the hope that he can be for the rational expectation that he won’t turn out that way. …

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Published: May 6, 2025 21:56

Having worked in economically in demand jobs for psychotic bosses, let me re-up on “wat?” [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: May 6, 2025 19:27

You mean the several decades of history and dozens of recent players that form the basis of my analysis are all individually cherry picked? [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: May 6, 2025 19:25

To me “wut” implies much more personal invective than does “wat” [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: May 6, 2025 19:22

I’ll try to learn to live with my shame of being thought of in that way. [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: May 6, 2025 19:21

I mean you’re the one touting an 82 possession sample size as proving something about Sengun’s playoff viability. [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: May 6, 2025 19:20

It’s a great question and one which I have not studied in any detail, though there was a period where a lot of bigs without much pre NBA track record of outside shooting showed development as shooters early in their careers, which is a similar sort of…

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Published: May 6, 2025 18:24

Lopez had started shooting before we got him, and was a big part of the reason why we wanted to get him. [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: May 6, 2025 18:18

Wat [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: May 6, 2025 18:16

We have a ROBUST sample size of past players and him becoming a good 3pt shooter would be essentially unprecedented in the modern era. [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: May 6, 2025 18:11

I don’t even think it’s a question of practice because if all it took was practice, every player in the NBA (barring a few defensive monster C’s) would be able to shoot. FT% is a key indicator here because that’s probably our best measure of pure shooting…

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Published: May 6, 2025 18:07

I’m sure opponents will shoot 27.7% from 3 against this lineup in future playoff runs. [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: May 6, 2025 18:01

The good news is that unless he becomes Gobert (Champagne problem!) he’s likely going to get paid more appropriately as a bad O good D center than do good O bad D centers. [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: May 6, 2025 17:59

How would you feel if I told you that while he was slightly above average as a rim finisher against bottom 10 defenses (71%, 63rd percentile), he was woeful (60%, 18th percentile) against top 10’defenses this year? (League average was 67.6% against…

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Published: May 6, 2025 17:57

We’re talking more about [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: May 6, 2025 17:52

Data analysis is not objective because data itself is not objective. We have data as a result of choices made in terms of what data to collect and how to do it. Those choices are often well-founded and informed, but they’re still choices. [contains quote…

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Published: May 6, 2025 17:47

And Nurk was actually a pretty solid rim protector by being huge and in the way before some of the injuries. [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: May 6, 2025 17:45

Also playing 2 bigs a lot with Smith and Adams. [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: May 6, 2025 17:44

DBPM overvalues DREBS (because we don’t have a lot of great box score defensive stats) and Sengun’s DREBS were uncontested at higher than average rate for C’s. [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: May 6, 2025 17:38

Find me centers who consistently finish at 70+ percent at the rim with a league average or below dunk rate. The closest this year - had the finishing but slightly above AVG dunk rates - were Lopez, Myles Turner and Al Horford whose dunk rates are…

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Published: May 6, 2025 17:32

And Sheed’s formative years as a young player were in an era before shooting was close to as important so some of his improvement was likely “oh this is something I should work on?” Which is not something that would occur for players coming up in the late…

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Published: May 6, 2025 17:29

I think it’s borderline impossible for a team to rely on a non-shooting non-rim protecting, below the rim big as a first or second options, yes. [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: May 6, 2025 17:27

Lopez is much bigger, was a much better FT shooter (about 79% career before he started shooting 3s) and had generally solid-to-good rim protection numbers in his pre milwaukee seasons for which we have data (ask me how I know!) This was Sengun’s first…

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Published: May 6, 2025 17:19

Horford has never been a big FTA guy so him having a couple of lower percentage seasons was somewhat likely. In the 8 seasons before he started shooting 3s he was a combined 74% from the line, which is both 4 points higher than Sengun’s career mark and…

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Published: May 6, 2025 17:15

Which non shooting centers for the Celtics? Surely you’re not comparing him to Luke Kornet. And surely you’re not saying he can become a defensive player on the level of Draymond Green or Kevon Looney (himself an EXCELLENT defender though he has declined…

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Published: May 6, 2025 17:12

As I continue to say, the NBA.com labels aren’t quite right. Only those listed as “wide open” should be considered uncontested. 3s with 6+ feet (wide open on dot com) went in 38.6% this season. 4-6 feet of space (“open” on dot com) went in 34.6%. Those two…

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Published: May 6, 2025 17:06

The specific ways he would have to improve would be highly unusual. It would be borderline unprecedented for him to become even an average 3-point shooter for example. Most of the players, especially C’s, who did become decent shooters were already good FT…

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Published: May 6, 2025 16:19

What did we do this time @aaronblackshear.bsky.social ? [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: May 6, 2025 14:47

The issue was the math. Or rather the issue with the math was the timing remaining and the fact there was lots of it. [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: May 6, 2025 14:45

They’re pretty close, and most uncontested 3s are C&S anyway but still C&S Road: 62.1% Home: 31.0% OTD: Road: 30% (26% of attempts) Home: 16.7% (17% of attempts) [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: May 6, 2025 14:35

Not to make everything reductive, but in the East second round game 1s, the road teams shot a combined 53.4% on uncontested 3s while the home teams made only 28.6%

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Published: May 6, 2025 14:25

Absolutely [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: May 6, 2025 14:21

Just a guess, but I think the vibes in Denver would be just fine right now if they hadn’t made the coach/GM change. Couple buzzer beating playoff wins will do that.

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Published: May 6, 2025 14:20

Fouling up 3 is good if you can use it to effectively run out the clock without the opponent getting a chance to tie, which is why the timeout situation matters. But leaving them more than about 5 seconds on the clock adds a possession rather than running…

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Published: May 6, 2025 14:16

Confession that I fell asleep during the 4th Q with OKC up 10. Watching back this morning and VERY surprised by OKC’s late game choices to foul so quickly up 3. Twice! Denver being out of timeouts makes it less bad, but wayyyyy too much time left on the…

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Published: May 6, 2025 13:43

If by “we” you mean large institutions, look way in the distance behind you and you’ll see the peak. [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: May 6, 2025 13:29

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Published: May 6, 2025 11:57

Cool. Cool cool cool. [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: May 6, 2025 02:13

Energy of that quarter completely changed when Caruso came in.