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OMFG Hunter has never once come up with a loose rebound if someone else gets their hands on it.  Leads to a Brunson 3.  You have to be kidding me.

We are playing great defense.  Just struggling keeping Robinson off the glass.

Trae close this MF out and I'll stop talking trash.  We need your NYK swag back

1 minute ago, BrazilianHawk said:

Trae with a terrible FG% but otherwise a great game with plenty of assists and steals. 

He can't shoot anymore.  He's my favorite player in the world but his shot has been broken for over a full season.  His size never seemed to be an issue, but now it's just like he seems so small out there.  Anytime he shoots I cringe.

Hunter just never secures loose rebounds.  Re-watch that 2nd Capela missed FT, Hunter had that rebound and they just took it from him.  He has to be stronger with it.

I like this version of Trae.  Get everyone involved, use your passing skills.  He just had a few assists in a row where I was totally expecting him to jack up a brick and he made the extra pass, leading to an open shot.

Trae just isnt the same player he used to be.

Trae needs to start making shots or stop shooting.  His shot has been broken for over a full season now.  Until that corrects he needs to dial it back and focus on getting others involved.

Down 20 and Poole throwing cute lobs, on the road?  I'd be pissed if I was a teammate/coach/fan. 

Can Bally just go ahead and go bankrupt. Lol I thought that was announced a few months back. 

He's so much better than Collins (post injured finger) it's crazy.  His overall impact is huge.  Better defensively, better passer, better ballhandler.    Addition by subtraction.

8 minutes ago, AHF said:

The comparison to KG is his best case where it shows that the failure was not a problem with KG but was Minnesota not putting together a good enough team.  I think KAT is just a bit past his career apex but still a very talented player who can be a rich man's (in every sense of the word) Kevin Love ala the Cleveland championship.  

100%.  He's not good enough to lead a team deep in the playoffs, nor is he a great leader in general.  But if he's 2nd/3rd option he would be great.  Can you imagine swapping KAT for Capela at the 5?  The lane would be wide open for Trae/DJ/JJ slashes.  If they collapse then kick to him for open 3's.  

People crap on the guys that haven't won anything.  But the reality is noone has won anything UNTIL they win something.  No superstar in their prime who has championship pedigree is going to be available in trade, and if they are we'd have to sell the farm to get them.  

45 minutes ago, macdaddy said:

Capela is driving me nuts.  He's become a straight liability on offense.   I'd guess half of his offensive rebounds effectively are turnovers when he throws them wildly at the rim. 

I don't want to hate on the guy.  He's done a lot of good stuff too especially on D but his hands can't continue to be this bad. 

Just watch Capela the first 2 minutes of the below video.  I think Capela is way out of shape.  Misses one of the easiest bunny dunks ever, and almost misses a 2nd.   Just watch him the whole first 2 minutes, he is just laboring around the court.  This is in the first quarter too.  This version of Capela is a liability.

I like how Murray was like screw this pretty hair Im shaving it back and about go off

6 minutes ago, thecampster said:

There's a couple of ideas.  Shooting 3's stretches the defense increasing the efficiency of 2's, leading to more fouls (farther a defender travels to defend, the more apt he is to foul). Things like that. Easier to sneak offensive rebounds, makes passing lanes wider, etc.

 

 

Ehh, not sure taking more threes leads to more fouls.  But you are correct it stretches the D and can open up the lanes a bit more.  There is one big downside though.  Missing threes often leads to fast breaks/quick buckets on the other end before you can get fully back on D.  

I would love to see defensive stats after a made bucket, vs after a missed bucket.  The more threes you take, the more shots you will miss overall.  When the opposing team has to take the ball out of the net, everyone is back on D and fully setup ready to defend.  Not the case when you brick a long 3

I hope trae isnt the next deron williams.  

We are a play in team, i hope im wrong.

Trae needs to get it together, period.  Cant be shooting 20% from the field.  Love Trae, but right now the criticism is warranted.

3 minutes ago, Final_quest said:

All of the analytics have changed the game to where a lesser team can win if they get hot from three or if the other team goes cold.  

The Play In tournament also entices lesser teams to hang on to their best players or even make a trade to improve.  The league feels really volatile right now.

 

I like it honestly.  5 straight years, 5 different NBA champions.  Hopefully will be our turn soon.  I hope our best shot wasn't in 21, we really could have won it all if Trae didn't get hurt in game 3.  We were up 5 in the 4th quarter and he already had like 30+.  Would have went up 2-1, and we won game 4 on top of that.  We would've had 3 chances to eliminate them and we could've absolutely beat the Suns.

13 minutes ago, BrazilianHawk said:

So it will be last season all over again, right?

I hope not.  We still barely lost and we shot 17% from three on the road.  If we shoot just 30% from three (still bad) i think we win pretty easily.  I can't see us shooting as bad as we did last night very often.  

The volatility of our shooting gives us a very high ceiling, and a very low floor.  Because of this, there are no guaranteed W's on our schedule even if a team is load managing it's top 4 players.  

The Hornets were very clearly the inferior team but we just couldn't make a damn shot.  I thought we got good looks for the most part, we only had 12 turnovers.  Should've been a fairly boring 10-15 point win if we just shot average.  

We will have plenty of these games this season.  Beat a top team, then lose to a bad team when we can't shoot.  Hopefully we minimize the amount of games where we shoot 10% from three.  

Hornets suck and we can't beat them.  They are so clearly an inferior team. 

Once again, we give a team confidence because we can't make anything.