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So, your suggestion is to pick life partners based on such ephemeral and superficial thing as an attractive face? I think that considerably improving the chances to have happy and financially successful kids (since many children of professional basketball players try to replicate their career...

This is easy to address. We can easily do what the Wizards are doing: shove all of the vets to the bench and play our young players huge minutes as starters. The starting lineup of Kessler-Flip-Lauri-Brice-Keyonte with Cody and Collier playing major minutes off the bench will get you very, very...

And I agree. But because there is so much uncertainty in the draft it is both good to maximize the chances of getting the 1-2 pick and/or any other high pick. The mindset should not be Flagg/Harper or nothing.

But what makes you think that Flagg and Harper will be game-changing players? Historically, GMs were able to correctly identify and grab game-changing players only when those teenage prospects had the outrageous athleticism combined with already developed skills. Zion, Morant, and Edwards in the...

Why people are so sure that the only franchise players in this draft will be found in the top2? Historically, it is simply wrong and most of the franchise players in each draft are found OUTSIDE of top 2. That is, the conventional wisdom about who will be the best is typically wrong (with the...

Then this entire season is besides the point if we MUST land Flagg/Harper, because statistically we are not getting them regardless of our record (27% chances in the best case scenario). The goal of tanking is not getting for sure 1st or 2nd pick but significantly improving your chances to end...

The questions is what good teams 1. Does not have good guards AND is good enough defensively to cover for Sexton's defensive struggles AND has draft capital AND Can absorb Sexton's contract? How many teams do you have in this group?

Of course we perform better with him. Because when he is off his place is taken by Keyonte, Clarkson, Cody or Juzang - and they are even worse than Sexton. But other teams (especially good ones) tend to have somewhat competent guards.

Consistency has never chained my spirit.

The average straight guy probably chooses his breeding partner from about 10 possible realistic candidates. And, statistically, he is pretty happy with his choice afterwards. A guy like Kessler can have a selection pool of several hundreds, and he will be equally happy with many dozens of them...

Sexton has a -1.3 BPM. He is tied for the 7th/8th on the team with Clarkson, behind pretty much all other vets aside from Svi and Mills. And that's because only two other NBA players with > 200 minutes are worse than Sexton on defense based on DBPM (one of them is our own Keyonte). Collin is a...

https://www.foxnews.com/sports/steph-currys-dad-blames-his-mom-stars-shorter-height Unfortunately, there are very few short young basketball players who have Curry's talent and dedication to overcome their physical limitations. Almost all of them fall short.

No, it's a real issue: Shaq, Wade, LeBron and many, many more of the ex-NBA players were really hoping that their kids would make it in the NBA. And their sons grew up playing basketball from the early years and trying to be just like dad. Most of them fall because they are simply too short and...

They seem to have been together for a long time and if they stick together going forward Kessler may be setting himself for a heartbreak later in life. His dad and uncle were successful basketball bigs. But this Miss America is only 5'7". LeBron's wife was also 5'7" and his kids are tall but not...

No, people act like it matters for a reason. With the worst record you are guaranteed at least the 5th pick. But with the 6th worst record you are statistically more likely to end up with the pick in the 6-10th range. That would be pretty disappointing if after such an ugly tanking season the...

The Jazz are 6-4 against the East WITHOUT aggressively trying to win games. Does it answer your question?

I guess so... but his playmaking and shooting ability from college did not translate at all so far and that is exactly what he was drafted for, (as were many other not-freakishly-athletic college PGs). I think there is little doubt that he was a bit overrated and if the redraft were held now he...

DBPM is the statistic that is heavily influenced by the teammates: it will be much higher for the players on the teams with best records, such as Houston. Case in point is Walker Kessler. He is currently having the highest DBPM on the Jazz at 0.7 but it is much lower that his DBPM last season...

We should stop counting the 3-point shooting as a strength and the reason for the player to be on the floor. It was true several years ago but by now almost every veteran is shooting 37-40% on their 3s. It became a basic requirement to be in the rotation. You need something else besides simply...

Then Cody and Flip would be much better options as starters.