NBA 2024-2025 Season: The Late Edition

[archibaldcrane]

Bucks shot 68.9% from the floor tonight, the best FG% in a game this century

Every player that saw the floor shot 50% or better

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[Gredival]

Oh yeah he also brought in some dude from D3 that changed their offense (to some success early on) and basically erased Ja Morant's game because they abandoned the pick and roll. Something zero teams in the NBA in recent memory have attempted.

You don't have one of the best PnR PGs and also draft Zach Edey who was a PnR monster in college to never run plays for either of them. That's completely asinine.

That guy got fired too today btw.

New piece at ESPN claims that the front office went over TJ's head in implementing the new offense and forced him to get rid of his longtime assistants to install the new offense.

And FWIW, the stats backed up that decision because Ja is apparently terrible at PnR

Morant averages just 0.99 points per direct pick as the ball handler in his career when using an on-ball screen. That ranks 39th among 56 players to run at least 5,000 on-ball screens as the ball handler since 2019-20.

He also has just a 44.7% effective field goal percentage on jumpers when coming off an on-ball screen in his career. Only Russell Westbrook has been worse among 111 players to take at least 750 jumpers when coming off an on-ball screen since 2019-20.

The appeal of an offense that doesn't rely on pick-and-rolls is obvious for a franchise built around Morant's offensive talents.

Of course, the problem was that the cure was also poison.

Perhaps most concerning was how Morant was functioning in the offense. Instead of freeing him up in transition and for moments of individual brilliance, the system was effectively taking the ball out of his hands. This season, Morant is averaging career lows in touches, average touch length and dribbles per touch this season. Morant's 22.4 points per game is his lowest scoring average since 2020-21, his second season, and his field goal percentage (.448) is the worst of his career.

https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/...taylor-jenkins

[Buffy]

Lakers/Warriors round one based on seedings right now.

[6souls]

wild, wild game

westbrook utterly fucked it up at the end for denver, my god

[Gredival]

Is Westbrook positive on the Draymond scale?

Add up all the value contribution he adds on the margins to winning games vs. the 3-4 games where he outright loses the entire thing for the team by doing something unfathomably dumb.

[6souls]

Dude is known as Westbrick for a reason

[Kaslo]

Although OKC would welcome him back in a heartbeat

[Krandor]

I feel like the fact that Westbrook is on a vet min salary kinda answers the question for you and most of the NBA teams

[6souls]

https://x.com/espn/status/1907471645763133945

[Andalusian girls]

good on Melo one of the great scorers in league history

[Andalusian girls]

man jab stepped his way to 30,000 points

[6souls]

https://x.com/UnderdogNBA/status/1907572529826328832

[Gredival]

I feel like the fact that Westbrook is on a vet min salary kinda answers the question for you and most of the NBA teams

Well it's relative to the salary too obviously.

[Andalusian girls]

Westbrook is fairly flat (all the advanced stats have him +/-1 in overall impact) but he costs nothing and a flat player is a massive upgrade over the absolute trash Denver has had coming off the bench in recent years. the team has always been thin, Murray is often injured, and Russ giving them 28 minutes a game at replacement level has been a big boon for Denver even if he is deeply, wildly inconsistent.

[Gredival]

Westbrook is fairly flat (all the advanced stats have him +/-1 in overall impact) but he costs nothing and a flat player is a massive upgrade over the absolute trash Denver has had coming off the bench in recent years. the team has always been thin, Murray is often injured, and Russ giving them 28 minutes a game at replacement level has been a big boon for Denver even if he is deeply, wildly inconsistent.

Yeah but do the stats really capture the enormity of a fuck up like last night?

Did get Ja doing some finger guns at the bench tho, man truly has learned nothing.

And now the NBA is investigating him for it lmao

[Kaslo]

https://twitter.com/royceyoung/statu...BnTCN_WQqk_v_Q

[archibaldcrane]

Every Giannis stat line you post is vulnerable to the "This stat line becomes meaningless historically with a small tinkering revealing that it isn't significant to begin with" criticism

GIANNIS just had the first 35 point, 20 assist, 15 rebound game in NBA history (he actually had 35/20/17)

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[Krandor]

Ja got a warning from the NBA for the finger guns earlier this week so what does he do?

Throws them up again today in a nationally televised game.

[Andalusian girls]

to thine own self be true Ja

also gg Giannis finna be the most agreed upon 3rd place MVP in league history

[archibaldcrane]

to thine own self be true Ja

also gg Giannis finna be the most agreed upon 3rd place MVP in league history

Far too many people sucking off Tatum for that

Giannis had an ~identical season last year and still had 11 people put him in 2nd team all-NBA, breaking his 5 straight unanimous 1st team streak.

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