NBA Info - February 2023

[Deleterious]

Remember when most of us said Al Horford was done about 3 years ago?

[Hongbit]

4 minutes ago, Deleterious said:

Remember when most of us said Al Horford was done about 3 years ago?

I thought he died 

[Deleterious]

Man, Embiid just nailed a 3/4 shot to win it and they are waiving it off.

[Deleterious]

Correctly waived it off btw.

[Deleterious]

Harden is so bad on defense.  Smart is not a threat to shoot.  Harden should have positioned himself between Smart and Tatum to stop that pass.

[Betrayer]

Really good show from the Lowe Post with Givony as a special guest. Talking about the 4 tanking teams (Spurs, Pistons, Rockets, Hornets) and which one you'd want if you could choose based upon current situation. Detroit was picked #1 by Lowe and #2 (after the Spurs) by Givony. It's a great listen.

 

[Deleterious]

Doris Burke is 100% right with that comment. 

Since Kyrie arrived Luka is now playing a lot more off the catch.  In the past he would get the ball and stand there while the defense set up or worse, sent a double.  Now he gets it while the defense is rotating and a lot of the time he is attacking a close out, which makes him even more dangerous.  

[Deleterious]

The Mavs suck.

[Deleterious]

 

[buddha]

good hire by atlanta.  lets see if he can get trae to play team basketball.

he got mitchell to do it....for a while.

[Deleterious]

Dame had 71 tonight.

[Deleterious]

Probably would have been better off keeping SGA and those draft picks.

 

[casimir]

5 hours ago, Deleterious said:

Dame had 71 tonight.

38 field goal attempts in 39 minutes played?  How did he have time for 6 assists and 2 turnovers?

[Deleterious]

 

[gehringer_2]

On 2/27/2023 at 6:37 AM, casimir said:

38 field goal attempts in 39 minutes played?  How did he have time for 6 assists and 2 turnovers?

This season Lillard is taking 1.6 more shots per game to average 8.3 more points per game. Efficient.

[Deleterious]

And he still might be a net negative player with his awful defense.

I don't think Portland has done a good job building around him.  I also don't think he is someone I would want to build around.

[casimir]

19 minutes ago, Deleterious said:

And he still might be a net negative player with his awful defense.

Who is playing defense?

[RandyMarsh]

On the subject of defense, how reliable are the advanced defensive stats and which one is best? As a baseball fan I know many folks still don't put complete stock in them, was wondering if basketball was the same. 

Edited February 28, 2023 by RandyMarsh

[buddha]

On 2/26/2023 at 10:56 AM, Betrayer said:

Really good show from the Lowe Post with Givony as a special guest. Talking about the 4 tanking teams (Spurs, Pistons, Rockets, Hornets) and which one you'd want if you could choose based upon current situation. Detroit was picked #1 by Lowe and #2 (after the Spurs) by Givony. It's a great listen.

 

it was interesting that lowe has the pistons 1.  the rockets are a mess.  interesting to hear givony on killian and jabari smith and how he's down on both of them.  lowe was at least a little positive on killian and they both love duren.

[Deleterious]

54 minutes ago, RandyMarsh said:

On the subject of defense, how reliable are the advanced defensive stats and which one is best? As a baseball fan I know many folks still don't put complete stock in them, was wondering if basketball was the same. 

Nothing is great or even good.  Most overvalue blocks and rebounding which leads to a bunch of big men at the top of the lists.