That’s the stuff!

I'm trying to think if there’s ever been a human-sized player who throttled a giant in the NBA. It probably happened in the mid-80s, but now everybody fights like they make a bunch of money and it's not worth getting punched.

Never change, Russ.*

He’s a highly unique player, and I have a ton of respect for what he can do. It’s what he can’t do that gets him in trouble. Namely, he’s a worse shooter over the course of his career than Rajon Rondo. Multiple organizations have more or less insisted that Rajon Rondo not shoot the ball.

They might win them both — they’ve got the talent to do that. This team’s problem isn’t talent, though; it’s execution. How you’ve been the worst three-point shooting team for two straight seasons and you put up as many three-pointers now as you did in 2017-18 while hitting quite a bit fewer is certainly a mystery,…

New Orleans has beaten them three of the last five times they’ve played going back to last season. If the Nets or Mavs had shown up in that run of games, I’d have mentioned them, too, since OKC is very inconsistent in those matchups.

Thunder are so, so bad right now. In the past five losses (four to losing teams, all in the past six games), they’ve given up 133 a night. Tonight, they jacked up 12 threes in overtime alone, and only one two-point shot. By the way, they’re still the worst three-point shooting team in the league...over the past two…

“Wot’s wrong wif bein’ sexy?”

Atkinson has done a great job, but this is Budenholzer’s award to lose, I think. Nick Nurse has been tremendous. Pop, as tired as people might be of him, has a four-man bench rotation of Mills, Belinelli, Jakob Poetl, and Davis Bertans that outscores opponents by 23 points per 100 possessions this season. The…

Ferguson hit seven threes. Prior to last night, he had made 68 across 95 games. He’s now made 15% of his career three point baskets in the past 72 hours.

You raise a good point. For all we know, he might priefer “Mr. Mike ‘Nuke the Gays’ Priefer.”

This is very well done, Giri. I almost feel guilty that I get to read it for free.

I’m glad this times out so Urban Meyer can coach him through the X and Ohhhhs.

In the first half, San Antonio went 10/10 from three. None of those were shot by starters. 

That other T. Ferguson? You guessed it — Frank Stallone.

Either/or, I guess. 

That’s very nice. It seemed like such a throwaway comment at the time. 

It’s hard to picture that man acting so brazenly, so...cavalierly. 

“Oh, so you actually understand what those words mean, huh?”

It made me wither. You can’t do better when connecting golf idioms and sex acts performed on children. It’s perfection.