I am virulently against Trump but this is just a really stupid take.

I’ve heard of drive through dinner, but this is ridiculous!

He takes time off every game. It’s called “When he should be playing defense.”

1st accusation: 1997
2nd accusation: 2007
3rd accusation: 2017

Said that all along. Hinkie’s execution was far from perfect - his approach overlooks team chemistry, and his total lack of people skills alienated the agents he should have been buttering up to get the free agents he would one day need - but the concept makes sense. I spent my childhood watching a Sixers team that…

You’re listing Covington here but leaving out Saric, who is playing out of his mind? Or Justin Anderson? Christ, Richaun Holmes has been a more pleasant surprise supplanting Nerlens recently than RoCo, who will be nice to pair with McConnell off the bench when they get a starting backcourt (*coughMonkandFoxcough*). A…

It was a (weak) example on my part, and wasn’t meant as a direct apples-to-apples comparison. I have read Moneyball, and you’re right, in essence. The whole point is to maximize your team’s value by finding ways in which the system overvalues or undervalues certain skills or players.

The advanced stats like RPM think Covington is a top 5 small forward and top 30 player, primarily bc of his defensive contributions. That’s pretty fucking good.

By that logic, you wouldn’t want the Timberwolves roster? Looking at a rebuilding team’s current record and using it as an example for why they won’t succeed in the future is really missing the entire point.

Brogdon? You know that he is pimple on Embiid’s ass? Nor is he as good as Saric and he couldn’t start for the Sixers.

I’m a Knicks fan and I 100% agree. I wish the Knicks had done what the Sixers did 15 years ago. Or 10 years ago. Or last off season. And they better do it this off season. Being a mediocre team that doesn’t attract free agents is the worst place you can be. The best way to improve is to collect assets, and the best…

Yeah, Simmons is hypothetical. He can’t play. Do you watch basketball bro? Eveything two years from now is hypothetical. Will Simmons be healthy? Will Giannis? Will Kawhi? Who the hell knows, but you load a team with 13 guys that can play and you take your chances.

Did Hinkie go to the deadspin office and sacrifice one family member of every writer there? I don’t understand it.

Embiid, Saric, Covington, and (probably) Simmons all have brighter futures than anyone on the Bulls besides Jimmy Butler. And they have good draft picks coming up. Give me that any day.

Yeah but it’s balanced out by their weird girl-crush on Westbrook’s stat-whoring and inefficient triple-doubles

And they got relatively unlucky with both draft spots and draft picks (talent identification/projection is pretty random, and both traditional and statistical analysis whiffs a large percentage of the time). Imagine if they’d guessed on Porzingis over Okafor, for example, or gotten the 1 then and taken KAT.

But they don’t suck ass. They are close enough to decent and entertaining.

This is just stupid at this point. Nothing Sam Hinkie has ever said or done has given the impression that he thinks that tanking is the answer to every problem, or that he values draft picks above all else. And the Kings’ roster and situation is radically different from the situation that Hinkie faced when he took…

He’d be by far the best gm they’ve had in years, not sure why this post is some snarky about it....

Love how you guys act like The Process didn’t pay off. Saric is really damn good. With the exception of some injuries Embiid has the potential to rock the league. Next year they add Ben Simmons and they have that great draft swap with Sacramento. Yeah it hurt, but trust the process.