Deleterious

For the sake of comparison. Miami had 4 guys who scored 4+ points in the 4th last night.

Pistons individual 4th quarter stats last night: Holland: 2m43s 0-1 with 2 fouls no other stats Fontecchio: 7m28s 0-3 1pt 1 reb Stewart: 4m6s 0 shots 2 rebs Ivey: 5m47s 3-4 from the field 1 reb 1 TO 9 points Cade: 12m 2-8 4 reb 1 ast 3 TO 4 points Harris: 9m16s 0-3 1 reb 1 ast 0 points THJ: 10m43s 0-2 3 points no other stats Duren: 7m54s 1-1 4 rebs 1 block 2 points 6 total points from guys not named Cade or Ivey. 20 minutes combined from Harris and THJ. They provided a total of 3 points 1 reb and 1 assist. Nothing else. Aren't these the situations the vets were brought in for?

I think its a mix. Cade and Ivey need to be better in the 4th quarter. But to be fair, they are out there playing 2 vs. 5 most nights on offense. A lot of people thought SGA wasn't very good either. OKC upgraded the talent around him and now he is an MVP candidate.

One more

They were not lying about this poor rookie class. So far the highest per game scorer is Jamal Shead from Sacramento at 8.7 points per game. He was picked 45th.

Same results as last year which isn't shocking since its pretty much the exact same team.

The Heat unveiled a statue for D. Wade that looked nothing like him. Now everyone is photo shoping the statue head into his old pictures.

Some kids at the University of Chicago wrote a paper about the original idea of index investing. Then some brokerage offered one but to institutional investors only. Vanguard (Boggle) was the first to offer it to the general public.

Bad move from Red Bull and Max there. Give the spot back and you can probably pass them on the next lap. But you don't give it back and now you got a 10-second penalty that effectively has ruined your race.

We better get some funny memes about "stupid mode" this week.

Yuki didn't do anything wrong that would draw a penalty. But it was fun to go three wide going into turn one on lap one. You can't win a race in the first turn but you sure can lose it.

Some good things to take away from that game.

Pistons take the lead after being down 20.

Boston has made 15 of their 27 three point attempts. There is six minutes left in the second quarter.

Celtics raining threes down on Detroit. They had 61 3PTA on opening night. They might go over that tonight.

I don't even know what to say about this.

Cade averaged 3.7 TO's in his first year and 3.4 last year. Those are acceptable numbers. 9 in a game is obviously not acceptable, but judging off of a few games here and there seems silly. Melo has made the ASG as a PG and he had 10 TO's last night. He averages 3.3 for his career, which is right there with Cade at 3.5. We have transitioned to much bigger ball handlers in the past decade and with that will bring more TO's. Better coaching could help Cade a bit with the TO's. For the love of god why are they putting Stewart in PnR situations? He isn't a leaper, he isn't explosive, he doesn't have good hands. All things you need to be the roll man. To his credit, Stewart knows that and is one of the reasons he worked on his shooting. Apparently our coaching staff hasn't learned about the Pick and Pop, which Stewart would be much better at.

I can't believe there is a push to let the Menendez brothers out.

Thompson is light years ahead of Holland on defense. Holland is OK on ball but extremely poor off ball. Thompson is great on ball and possibly even better off. Insanely disruptive with his long reach, constantly in passing lanes, and has a pretty good BBIQ. You can play Thompson even with the poor shooting. You can't do that with Holland.

Talk about balance. Houston starters tonight scored 18, 16, 16, 22, and 14.

The Raptors and 76ers combined to shoot 99 free throws tonight.

Well. I guess we will find out if the Israeli attack on Iran was priced in or not.