A40:
Them go hire Doc Rivers. Might as well have stuck with the former guy

Na fam, I won’t let you guys slide with that. The last time I checked Adrian was the problem.

You can’t give what you don’t have.

Roland17:
@A40, the Bucks just conceded 67 before halftime....

Doc Rivers on the beat.

Roland17:


Na fam, I won’t let you guys slide with that. The last time I checked Adrian was the problem.

You can’t give what you don’t have.

Wetin consign me whether you let it slide or not?

You hire Papa Ajasco Doc Rivers as him replacement wetin you expect?

I know AD and LeNomad are not quitting on this team already

We were told they were title favorites with their offseason moves and winning that calabash In season tournament.

Don't tap out now. You're only 10 games away from the #1 seed

We are struggling to defend the 3 point line against a historically poor 3 point shooting team.

Hahahahahahahahaha!!!

So the problem has been LeBron and AD all this while. Who would have thought? This is Reaves and DLo's team now.

Come on now, it's crickets in here . Don't go silent on me

Jaylen Brown absolutely scammed Boston.

Fox, Sabonis and Trae Young would feel aggrieved that they were snubbed from the all-stars. But competition was rife. AD and Steph had to be there. Brunson and Maxey had to be there.

I think I would have chosen Sabonis ahead of PG though. It's not as if PG is having one kind stellar year.

steady986:
Come on now, it's crickets in here . Don't go silent on me

Today proves the point that the lakers supporting cast is very good, probably the best in the league. Several contenders including the bucks, Sixers, Celtics, timberwolves, Mava and Suns will all happily choose to have this lakers supporting cast.

We saw how well these boys played last season after the all star brake and how well the lakers front office did during the offseason.

Apart from a coaching change I don't think there is anything the front office can do to drastically change things.

The other option maybe to trade Lebron and rebuild.

steady986:
Fox, Sabonis and Trae Young would feel aggrieved that they were snubbed from the all-stars. But competition was rife. AD and Steph had to be there. Brunson and Maxey had to be there.

I think I would have chosen Sabonis ahead of PG though. It's not as if PG is having one kind stellar year.

All of them go cluster themselves for western conference, Dame is an All start starter in the East in one of his worst years.. He took trae youngs spot.

Laker's supporting cast brought their A-Game and on the road too.

5 star performance!

What does LeDiva passive aggressive behind got to say now?

No emojis??

I thought they were surrounded by bum players and a bum coach. This is a big STFU and play result by Darvin Ham and the rest of the squad.

This was a team going into the season that Bronsexuals on TV and social media all unanimously agreed were big winners. Even when we told them the calabash LeMickey IST was deceptive they didn't listen.

If you cannot make the top 10 with this squad and no injury excuses this time then maybe you're not as great as alleged

etidy:


Today proves the point that the lakers supporting cast is very good, probably the best in the league. Several contenders including the bucks, Sixers, Celtics, timberwolves, Mava and Suns will all happily choose to have this lakers supporting cast.

We saw how well these boys played last season after the all star brake and how well the lakers front office did during the offseason.

Apart from a coaching change I don't think there is anything the front office can do to drastically change things.

The other option maybe to trade Lebron and rebuild.

Old LeBron is part of the issue. He doesn't put enough effort on defense. That's why we need Vanderbilt back in the starting 5 and Gabe Vincent healthy.

If I am the warriors front office , there is no way I am trusting Steve kerr's judgement again.

You have this stud (kuminga), perennial all star talent on your team but you will keep benching him for silly players like Anthony lamb and cory Joseph, the guy went a whole 3 quarters without missing a shot but you kept him on the bench while choking a 17 points lead. You didn't even give him a chance until he express his frustrations to the press.

Moody is practically out of the rotation and I can bet that he's a better player than Klay Thompson right now.

Kerr needs to go, same with klay and draymond, thanks for their service.

steady986:


Old LeBron is part of the issue. He doesn't put enough effort on defense. That's why we need Vanderbilt back in the starting 5 and Gabe Vincent healthy.

How about a coaching change

A40:
I will recommend Watch Pacers, Mavericks and Hawks and tell me if what these teams play is basketball. There's more teams but these 3 are especially egregious

2012-2013. That's not 90s oh or even 2000s. Just 10 years ago. You had just 9 players scoring 20pts or more. Let that sink in

Did your analysis take into account the increase in 3pts shooting, a bigger emphasis is today's NBA on efficient shot selection, and IMHO the biggest factor which is the greater spread of scoring talent across teams in today's NBA.
A look at the 2012-2013 scoring leaders list shows that 6 teams were represented 2x in the top 20 scoring leaders list, which leads to only 2 players averaging more that 20 FGA per game. while for last year only 2 teams had two representatives. With 9 players averaging over 20 FGA per game with a substantial amount of them being 3pt shots.
So to me it's not surprising that more players are averaging over 20pts, because in today's NBA there is more emphasis on efficient shot selection, players take more 3pts shots and are on average better shooters overall, then finally because of the talent spread the scoring options on teams nowadays average more FGA than in 2012-2013, so all factors point to more players averaging over 20pts per game.

birdman:


How about a coaching change

They need that too. That's their no. 1 priority

Khanben:


Did your analysis take into account the increase in 3pts shooting, a bigger emphasis is today's NBA on efficient shot selection, and IMHO the biggest factor which is the greater spread of scoring talent across teams in today's NBA.
A look at the 2012-2013 scoring leaders list shows that 6 teams were represented 2x in the top 20 scoring leaders list, which leads to only 2 players averaging more that 20 FGA per game. while for last year only 2 teams had two representatives. With 9 players averaging over 20 FGA per game with a substantial amount of them being 3pt shots.
So to me it's not surprising that more players are averaging over 20pts, because in today's NBA there is more emphasis on efficient shot selection, players take more 3pts shots and are on average better shooters overall, then finally because of the talent spread the scoring options on teams nowadays average more FGA than in 2012-2013, so all factors point to more players averaging over 20pts per game.

How come all this efficiency and what not always vanish come playoff time?

I don't see most of these scorers in the postseason.

I'm telling you most of it is an effort issue. Physicality and defense has being legislated out of the game. The 3pt spamming is another factor. I don't know that there are better shooters what I know is that they are spamming more shots so it's incredibly hard to tell. I always use the Marc Gasol and Brook Lopez example. We would never know if they could shoot 3s if they didn't go from 0.5 one year to 5 the next

The point is you're overstating the efficiency angle, I'm saying it's more of an effort and general lack of defense issue than anything else

Last year's close out game finished 94-89

The leading scorer in the regular season went from 34 pts to 23 come playoff time.

So much for better and efficient scoring

This Embiid injury don't know how I feel about it. If the reason was to meet up with the 65 game minimum thing then the Sixers only have themselves to blame.

The pro load management crowd seem to think the anti load management crowd are pushing for players that are genuinely hurt to play regardless.

No. The only thing that is penalized is your lack of availability. If a player misses 30-40% of the season how in the hell should he be eligible for awards at the end of the season? What job have you seen where employees who only show up 60% of the time are rewarded for it?

Khanben:



Thank you, I recently watched and analysed every shot Kobe took during that game. What i observed was that, just like any other high scoring output it was a combination of incredible shot making on Kobe's part, plus questionable defense by the Raptors. With how hot the dude was they never doubled him, he only saw an extra Raptors defender when he got into the lane after either blowing past his primary defender. Don't get me wrong he made some incredible shots, but I also saw occasions where he was so wide ass open it was just laughable.

Social media calls them "Nostalgia Merchants" and I tend to agree. For some reason they think we did not watch those game ourselves. Heck even if you did not, you can easily re watch the whole game in it's entirety.

Bucks staging a comeback against the Mavs?

Interesting watch

Middleton with a 3...boom!

Bucks take the lead.

DLO has been playing some good basketball since his name got on the trade block.

AD with a spectacular defensive performance tonight. Excellent strategy by coach Hamm to blitz Brunson every time he touched the ball. The Knicks had no other facilitator or offense.

And they never looked back from there.
Bucks 129
Mavs 117.

Roland17:
DLO has been playing some good basketball since his name got on the trade block.

DLO is like his friend KAT. The inner drive is just not there. Every time someone has to fire him up like an old model car.

If the Lakers were a top 4 seed, AD would have been getting louder DPOY or even MVP shouts. But unfortunately the Lakers are trash That guy is a defensive beast. Look at that double block he had on Hart and then Brunson. Omo

And suddenly the Mavs are looking like they'd be in the play-in fight this year as well. After starting the season so well. Omo, the more teams above lose, the better for my Lakers o. Because this point, we can't just depend on our winning, cos it comes scarcely

afrodoc2:


DLO is like his friend KAT. The inner drive is just not there. Every time someone has to fire him up like an old model car.

And DLo is as skilled as they come in the league. Just that drive and consistency that's lacking.

steady986:


And DLo is as skilled as they come in the league. Just that drive and consistency that's lacking.

Exactly. You will see flashes of his talent but he does not and cannot sustain it cos the additives the great ones have like focus, discipline, drive, sacrifice etc, are not there.

etidy:
If I am the warriors front office , there is no way I am trusting Steve kerr's judgement again.

You have this stud (kuminga), perennial all star talent on your team but you will keep benching him for silly players like Anthony lamb and cory Joseph, the guy went a whole 3 quarters without missing a shot but you kept him on the bench while choking a 17 points lead. You didn't even give him a chance until he express his frustrations to the press.

Moody is practically out of the rotation and I can bet that he's a better player than Klay Thompson right now.

Kerr needs to go, same with klay and draymond, thanks for their service.

I was sounding like a mad man when I said this in the off-season. Steph unlike Bron, is gentle and content with his talents wasting.

A40:
How come all this efficiency and what not always vanish come playoff time?

I don't see most of these scorers in the postseason.

I'm telling you most of it is an effort issue. Physicality and defense has being legislated out of the game. The 3pt spamming is another factor. I don't know that there are better shooters what I know is that they are spamming more shots so it's incredibly hard to tell. I always use the Marc Gasol and Brook Lopez example. We would never know if they could shoot 3s if they didn't go from 0.5 one year to 5 the next

The point is you're overstating the efficiency angle, I'm saying it's more of an effort and general lack of defense issue than anything else

Last year's close out game finished 94-89

The leading scorer in the regular season went from 34 pts to 23 come playoff time.

So much for better and efficient scoring

Every metric and even the so called salty old heads all agree that if it just comes to shooting, the average nba player today is far better than it has ever been.
People like you always talk about 3pts spamming, I tend to watch either scoring cuts or highlights of 90s 2000s or 2010 basketball and as far as I can see all the emphasis on 3pts has done is remove those stupid 19ft-22ft long twos and replace them with 3s. You watch and see more 3s, I watch and see less long 2s. Shooting a 19ft-22th midrange at 38% when you can take shoot 3s at 35% has always been the most stupid shoot selection choice I have ever seen.
Also you act like Embiid is the first player who plays great in regular season games and then drop off in post season games, why didn't you name Luka, Jokic, J murray, Kawhi, Steph, Giannis,etc all players consistently raise their performance levels come playoff time.
Peyton manning was and still is the greatest regular season QB of all time, but come postseason his play took a dip, same with Thierry Henry, greatest striker in EPL history, but he more often than not came up small in the biggest of games.
So it is very possible Embiid has a big game block, hopefully he gets back healthy and puts that possibility to bed this season with a great playoffs run.

PS: As for cherry picking games, a 90s finals game had a final scoreline of 96-54, not a first round or regular season game but a FINALS game.
If any of today's star played on either side of a match-up of this they would be buried with abuse