Game Thread Nov 16, 2024 08:00PM MT: Utah Jazz @ Sacramento Kings

[Tanktastic]

Dude, those advanced metrics have as much to do with the team as the player

No they don't.

On a 14-0 Cavs team Mitchell is tops in EPM, by a huge margin and top10 in the league. Meanwhile guys like Okoro and Niang are a lot worse than league average.

And: good teams usually have a lot of good players, bad teams have bad players and a couple of awful ones.

and Sexton is almost always the one directing traffic on a bad team.

Which of course is a massive problem and a big reason for the Jazz having so many losses. He (and Keyonte) wouldn't be starting for like 27 teams in the league.

Still .2 blocks compared to zero for Markannen. C’mon, the guy is seven feet tall for Pete’s sake!

What has that got to do with anything?

Ok, Markkanen has been ****. So? Does that make Sexton somehow better? If so, how?

 

[Isaiah 1:13]

No they don't.

On a 14-0 Cavs team Mitchell is tops in EPM, by a huge margin and top10 in the league. Meanwhile guys like Okoro and Niang are a lot worse than league average.

And: good teams usually have a lot of good players, bad teams have bad players and a couple of awful ones.


Which of course is a massive problem and a big reason for the Jazz having so many losses. He (and Keyonte) wouldn't be starting for like 27 teams in the league.


What has that got to do with anything?

Ok, Markkanen has been ****. So? Does that make Sexton somehow better? If so, how?

I gave you the stats, better ppg, better fgp, better ftp, better assts, better stls, better blks, better durability, and a whole helluva lot cheaper! If you can’t see that I don’t know what to tell you!!!

 

[Tanktastic]

Sexton taking more shots than Markkanen is not a good thing. Sexton taking more shots and having more of the ball than pretty much anyone on even this bad Jazz team is perplexing, and making me think Hardy doesn't know what he's doing. He's one of the worst defenders in the whole of the NBA a) because he's tiny and b) he thinks that good D is behaving like someone who's manic.

"Pups can't teach pups." And the pups are looking at Sexton's game, seeing it gets massively rewarded by the coach - and now we've got ruined guards and wasted picks.