and kawhi is the best

I think this is true and I’m legit unsure if that was something Stevens could fix or if it’s just a part of having Kyrie dominating the ball. They looked like a completely different team every time Irving missed a game. Way more ball movement, way less standing around. But it should be on the coach to be like “hey,…

Here’s the thing with Stevens: I think he’s an excellent, excellent X’s and O’s coach who can get a TON out of limited lineups. The issue this year, I think, is that he has zero practical experience massaging the egos of guys who are all stars, or think they should be. When you combine that with that fact that Ainge…

Speaking as a loathsome Boston fan, I’ll be fine if they end up with Rozier/Smart/Hayward/Tatum/Horford next year, plus the seventeen thousand picks they have in this year’s draft. That’s fine. That’d be a fun team of young guys (and Al Horford) to root for. Just please for God’s sake do not sign Irving to a five year…

There’s a reason why the Cavs with Kyrie before LeBron were a bottom dweller.

“Sure, I missed a lot of shots, I missed many, many shots. But I also gave us opportunities for an offensive rebound! They never talk about offensive rebounds, and yet the stats show that we lead the league in Offensive Rebound Attempts the past four games. So if you have a problem, go talk to my teammates who failed…

Horford’s not technically wrong.

My girlfriend who is visually impaired, and never watches the Raptors with me, came downstairs when the dunk at the half happened. I made her watch the replay (because she cares) and her remark on the play was “Why is he going so slow and why can’t the other guys stop him?”

Please update with a gif of Kawhi exsanguinating Embiid in the 3rd. Powerful strong. 

Christ, he did it again:

BINGO!!!!!!

I hereby direct you to Alex Caruso, a 2-way player on the Lakers who’s simultaneously in his 2nd year and looks like he’s about to take over for Chris Mullin at St. John’s.

Paddack felt like he deserved the award and had been snubbed. We know this because he came right out and said so.

I remain strident that I would have preferred to remain unaware that there are major plot points in the final two episodes of Game of Thrones. 

You know, you’ve been very sick and you’re taking this story very seriously. I think we better stop now.

Kawhi has kobe-brain. He is just much much more efficient.

Kanter looked like he was going to die or start weeping or start weeping while he died. It’s sort of amazing he’s gone from a defense-free punchline to a fucking unkillable gritlord in the span of two months. 

I debated going to bed with about 7 min left in regulation, but decided it had been such a fun game that I should see it out. By the end of the first OT, I was really glad I had stayed up.

noticed for much of game 2-3 that Toronto was doing supposedly good team basketballs things like constantly making the extra pass. the only thing was the players on the floor were making the extra pass because no one wanted to shoot.

It’s a bit hard to tell how much of it is Kawhi going outside the normal system, and how much of it is that there doesn’t seem to be much of a system for him to go outside of. There were a lot of possessions last night where someone flipped the ball to him, and then all four guys stood around and watched him work.…