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It's an asset management question: KO + (a now useful) Agbaji for Isaiah Collier doesn't look great - although Collier is 4.5 years younger than Ochai. This is year 3 since tearing down the previous team, and there aren't many positives to date - whether you actually enjoy watching basketball...

Canada desperately needs someone who can grab an occasional rebound.

I don't think they're Spanish, but with what passes for a legal screen on one side of the court and what passes for a charge on the other, they might as well be.

These Spanish refs are a ****ing joke.

Canada's bench (Murray, Nembhard, NAW, Lyles, Olynyk, Birch) is going to have to be more productive if Canada wants to medal: Through the first 2 games, the starters have scored 146 points on .736 TS (unsustainable, obviously). The bench has scored 33 points on .328 TS. Edey and...

Collier's strengths and weaknesses on display last night. Makes quick, mostly good decisions; moves the ball in the half court; pushes the ball off defensive rebounds; communicates and directs the team on O; competes on D. Not a ton of explosiveness at the rim; pull-up 18-footers not a great...

???????? NBA teams scored 280,960 points on 218,702 field goal attempts, or 1.285 points per field goal attempt, and you expect a player to score at least 2.143 points per field goal attempt?

GG's been awful.

TS% split into 3 equal-ish periods: First 19 games: .486 Next 19 games: .552 Last 20 games: .594

Exactly this. I'm surprised by the FG%-focused posts in this thread. Year 1 TS% comparison: Keyonte: .541 (and trending up) Damian Lillard: .546 Donovan Mitchell: .541 Devin Booker: .535 Tyrese Maxey: .531 Dwyane Wade: .530 Jamal Murray: .518 Dante Exum: .457 There's plenty to work on, but the...

Yeah, in the 26 games since he came back from injury, he has a TS% of .580 (.500 in his first 24 games).

And the Jazz continue getting crushed when he's on the floor: -57 over those 6 games (+14 when he's on the bench).

That's an odd take, given that Kessler created 4 of those free throws on offensive rebounds, and the other two going up for a dunk where he was fouled hard by Sengun grabbing and pulling down on his shooting shoulder.

That's including transition and putbacks. So far this season, teams are averaging a hair less than 1 point per halfcourt possession. As mentioned by others, the impact of the fouls themselves also has to be considered. Sure, situationally, Kessler's free throw shooting is a problem, but the...

Meanwhile, the Jazz were +15 with Kessler on the court. I know John Collins seems more integrated lately, but the results are still awful whenever he's playing. Over the last 17 games (since Collins returned to the lineup after missing 4 games), the Jazz are -21 (-2.5 per 48 minutes) when he's...

Focus should be on neither seeking assists nor scoring, but on playing faster, consistently putting pressure on the D, and making good reads and decisions. That could translate to points and assists in all sorts of different ways.

CJ McCollum?

I don't believe for a second that a ref said anything like that. It's worth noting that this is a story from Luka about what an unnamed ref said to one of his unnamed teammates. It's nonsense. With that said, the refs were letting a lot of contact go for most of the game, which favoured Canada...

We'll see. Assuming they beat Brazil on Friday, they might be in a weird position against Spain on Sunday, where a loss helps them avoid Spain, USA and Australia until the finals.

Olynyk's shot wasn't falling, but he was otherwise great - took a while for Shai to work himself into the game, and Kelly's steady play allowed Canada to keep it close-ish until Latvia ran out of steam (and boy did they ever...). Latvia was still up 10 with 3:05 left in the 2nd quarter, and...