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Not at all, lots of recent winners no longer with their teams. Add to that when you have the best player in the league, most of the credit goes to that player over the coach- i.e. there are probably 50 coaches that could have won at least one championship in Malone's tenure with the same roster...

I guess we're also all forgetting about Walton too- dude was MVP material and could do it all before his injuries.

Main problem is the Tpups win almost all the tiebreakers, so they get a free extra loss vs the field...

He is, but he is extremely stubborn and abrasive, so he tends to wear on his players and organization, so I'm not particularly shocked by this other than the timing.

Yeah, if he works hard on his handle he could end up being a bargain, which is exactly why he won't fall too far- I'd be surprised if he's still there when the Jazz pick. His floor is pretty good and his ceiling is very high.

Also Tom Chambers came to mind, he wasn't especially 'dominant' but he was an elite athlete- chatgpt summary of him: Tom Chambers, a 6'10", 220 lb power forward, was known for his exceptional athleticism, agility, and shooting range, making him a unique and effective player in the NBA...

≈ Probably plenty of 'mostly white' (i.e. more white than Obama) like Blake Griffin, that are equally comfortable in either cultural paradigm and can 'context switch' easily, but get identified as 'black' in American culture. No particular reason logically (genetically speaking rather than...

Agreed on Svi- Juzang it depends on other options- he earns what he makes but his ceiling is pretty much where he is already at, so if we’re still in developmental mode, it may be time to say goodbye.

Sounds like LeBron…

Of course I started at around 260 chasing my runt companion up hills, in a high resistance gear (ended up busting a couple cranks with the pressure I was putting on them) so I could keep up. I have a disproportionately large upper body (30 inseam w/a 6’2” body) so my quads completely blew up in...

Well it just takes high resistance biking if you really want to bulk up in your quads (as informed by me going up lots of hills on bikes on my mission and busting out of my pant-legs eventually and buying new pants.)

So are fourth and above all ‘lottery’ slots and we got a 15% shot at each as they come up (minus the virtual balls of teams already off the board, so technically better than 15% and increasing each round we slide) and then at 5 it reverts to record order of the teams remaining?

Agree w/this generally, but still most concerned about his motor. That is usually the cutoff for people w/physical gifts in the NBA between really being pretty good or not.

Yeah, they really, really tried to devalue the worst record for the draft- everyone is ‘against the field’ so the only really valuable part is raising the floor order your pick.

It’s also probably his only path to All-NBA and the highest money tier, so understandable from that aspect that he wants to develop it.

His actual shooting form is pretty pure, his main issue is how he sets his feet (or doesn't.) You could generally see that in he often made shots where he was slightly rushed and not thinking too much- it was pure/pretty and swishes. He's just going to get better. If we could possibly get him...

If his D can get anywhere close to league average, he’ll have been an outright steal.

two will enter one will leave victorious

Looking at the boxscore confirms what I was seeing before turning off the game- Secton/Clarkson/KMart had horrific games to overcome good play by most everyone else.

Kinda sorta- just remember how little Kessler helps the Jazz defensive numbers. A player’s offensive capabilities seriously affect defensive numbers- if you’re clanging a bunch of three pointers, leading to fast breaks, or turn the ball over a lot, leading to a bunch of live ball turnovers...