SalvorMallow
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If Bey isn't hitting 3s (like he hasn't been), he is very tough to play with his atrocious defense. hes 1-6 tonight.
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Haliburton has 13 assists in 18 mins...that's incredible.
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You have a burner for talking to your sources? Talk about good operational security
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Ya'll ready to get within 1 possession in the last 5 mins only to lose by 20?
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OK I was watching the game when I needed to be working...The Hawks made it easy for me to make the right decision to get back to work
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Trae having an awful start.
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So the assertion you both are making is that we can never have a stretch where we score 4 points in 2 minutes or we just lose the game? It's not like we had a 5 or 6 minute drought (which we have done many times this season), it was literally 2.5 minutes and we actually scored a couple times. We scored 141 points in the game for crying out loud! At some point you have to think it's easier to get back on defense and get a stop or at least make them use more than 5 seconds of the shot-clock than it is having to score on every single possession to maintain your lead. If you want to talk about adjustments we could have made to improve our chances: We should've ran OO instead of Capella because they were playing ultra small and running hard. Capella wasn't fast enough to get up the floor to defend that style. We should have pulled Bey for Forrest to get more defense on the floor. I also saw several times when JJ would play matador defense because he had 5 fouls and didn't want to foul out. Coach should've told him to keep playing defense or sat him for someone who would.
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In principle, sure, but JJ scored twice during that stretch, and both times the Thunder came back and scored within 7 seconds. I'm not buying that the offense was the real problem.
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Why are you typing on here instead of gettin me a fish sammich like I asked?
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How much do you need to score when ur up 16 with 3:05 mins to go? Obviously it'd be nice to keep getting buckets, but we gave up 17 points in 2:38 of game time. That's the equivalent of around 306 points if you extrapolate that across 48 mins. That, to me, is more of a problem than the offense (which admittedly was tragic as well, we only scored 4 points in that stretch) . Hold them to their season average pts/100 and we comfortably blow them out by double digits even with our anemic scoring. Relevant quote from AJC article:
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Quinn can clean up the game planning, but the players gotta clean up the execution. The coach shouldn't have to gameplan to stop a 3 minute long OKC layup line. I highly doubt the scheme was "let SGA get right to the rim 5 seconds into the shot clock after every miss". https://www.nba.com/stats/events?CFID=&CFPARAMS=&GameEventID=712&GameID=0022300467&Season=2023-24&flag=1&title=Gilgeous-Alexander 2' Running Finger Roll Layup (33 PTS) I would have personally preferred Forrest on the floor at this stage of the game instead of Bogi Watch the last play...Trent Forrest (who had an overall great game) fell asleep and and let Joe get a wide open 3 off. Maybe he thought the team was going to foul on the inbounds? https://www.nba.com/stats/events?CFID=&CFPARAMS=&GameEventID=722&GameID=0022300467&Season=2023-24&flag=1&title=MISS Joe 3PT Jump Shot Tons of breakdowns like this in the last 3 min.
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When's the last time Trae shot us out of a lead? I think it's been a long time.
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Yikes you whiffed it on the 3p% bro -
Giving milk squats a new meaning.
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Speaking of defense... Trae made so many defensive plays last night I was super impressed. I feel like he is still trending up on that side of the ball.
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No way you can put this on Trae's lack of off-ball movement when he is getting trapped at half court and full-court pressed. Murray seems to have a total brainfreeze in the 4Q because he starts making serial boneheaded plays the moment the game clock strikes 12. I'd love to see any Hawk try and get a passing angle so Trae doesn't have to make awkward bounce passes and lobs to hit his guys under the 3pt line from half court.
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If u think ur hype now, wait till your legs are sore from jumping out of your seat OVER AND OVER. This cat is straight up electric.
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They're all with Dre.. Good point.
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Aww but that would make you cry if your favorite team lost.
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Wowie my umm... Account got hacked and... I was on ambien that day... Plus it's my boy Spud I didn't want him to feel like he was on an island. This is definitely one of those times where I am happy to have my crow served up to me confit. JJ has been a breath of fresh air for this franchise when so many other things are going wrong.
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Dre would have a +20 point differential, but Trae isn't letting him get "quality touches". That's what @Peoriabird is saying. (lol remember that narrative?)
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This is a steep price, but you gotta pull the trigger if you get an inkling that Zion just needs a change of scenery. Trae+Zion PNR would literally be unstoppable.
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OK @NBASupes I made a custom stat just for you in Excel... I'm trying to quantify "Good" off the ball because no stat really captures that. Here is the definition I used: Guards that played more than 30MPG this year Sum of field goal attempts that are generated by: Catch and Shoot Cuts Coming off a screen Dribble handoff This to me means that they are running offball actions and then attempting to score from those actions. If I leave in all guards, heres the top 10 Steph, Tyler Herro (a PG in name only) and Kyrie playing next to ball-dominant Luka are the only PG that made the list. Look at the names at the top...Definitely passes the sniff test for great off-ball players. Curry is a complete and total outlier, so using him as a model is very difficult. Filtering to only point guards, I get this: Apparently SGA is the worst offball player in the league, at least by this metric Trae is only 1 offball action per game from being in the 50th percentile. Most of these guys aren't blowing Trae away. Notice how most of the guys near the bottom are ball-dominant high usage guards??? Of course there are offball actions that aren't captured by the stats, like getting an assist, hockey assist, generating gravity, etc, but this is the best I could come up with and it looks pretty accurate. @TheNorthCydeRises
