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holy balls, how many pages are we going to dedicate to a discussion of how hayward's defense made a difference in one game. here is a big, juicy truth nugget for all involved: you don't beat a team like the lakers on the road without several guys playing extremely well. hayward did. burks...

for the record, i wouldn't trade him for any of these guys. i don't consider him untradable... but i do think the only guys you'd want to consider trading him for are guys whose teams wouldn't consider trading THEM.

meh. i don't find those things all that interesting. when the highlight of a basketball event is the rookie dance-off, you're doing something wrong.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=io5JBS__4v4

yeah i guess that's my thing. lawson is interesting, but i guess i want my max PG to do a little more than 17 points and 7 assists per 36 minutes, with not a lot on the defensive end.

floor time stats are tricky though... i mean, i use them to at time, and i especially think looking at team offense when a PG is on the floor is fair game... but i'm not sure i'm ready to penalize hayward's D when he plays virtually all his minutes with al jefferson.

i'm kind of undecided about lawson... BUT... i can't believe how easily people here were throwing 10-12 million at him and balking at the same figure for paul millsap.

favors can and will play a lot of 5 over the course of his career. besides, not sure if you've heard, but teams can have more than one player at each position. i know it's not ideal to have derrick average anything under 48 minutes per game, but... [/smartass] in all seriousness, if they...

anybody is tradeable though. if he is going to be top 15, that means there are 14 other guys we'd have to at least consider. now, would those guys every be made available? probably not, which is why you rarely see superstars traded unless there is contract drama or chemistry problems. but if...

yeah it'd have to be a bona fide all-star with a lot of career left.

yeah agreed. i'm just saying, here's a guy with 27 years worth of insight on the transactions that have shaped this franchise... and the only quotes are about how KOC knows the cap well, how the last 5K of negotiating with karl were hard, and how the blood pumps faster when analyzing multi-year...

except that in the same post he mentioned two league MVPs even though it was two awards by one player... sorry, i can't even help myself sometimes.

i don't think it was much a look behind the curtain, though. i thought it was kind of sloppily written and there were a lot of very obvious questions that weren't asked. they start talking about the analysis behind the DW trade, but they don't share what the analysis was or why they opted to...

technically they have ASG MVPs -- malone got it twice, stockton once.

nazr mohammed wore #2 for the san antonio spurs when he won his only NBA championship. the 14-year vet made his 2nd NBA finals appearance last year with the thunder. of course, the jazz technically drafted nazr, but traded him on draft night because they were coming off their 2nd finals...

this dennis lindsey quote tells me that maybe the jazz haven't been as stuck in early 20th century analytical models as much as we all assume: also, i want this book:

yeah, that's what i've been saying all summer. well, almost: i don't care if it's a "young pg" as long as its someone whose natural tendency is to make plays, so we have something a little different from what mo supplies. my dream trade has always been a 3-way trade that put al in houston and...

i don't think you know what permeable means. anyway... i think we're saying the same thing. PER measures some stuff, doesn't measure other stuff. in the pistons' case, it failed to account for how good they were on D (although really, history says they weren't as elite a defensive team as...

i think "might not be playing ball in 3 years" is an exaggeration, but other than that, gameface's post is solid. burks is the least sure thing out of the four guys left, and that's why he's going to be voted out. it's not a bad thing -- he's the 4th most intriguing young talent on a team full...

huh? i think you have the wrong nerd this time, that wasn't me.