i don’t think the point of the article is “actually do this”

Hi Kyle. Thanks for your response, I read your piece a few weeks ago on 538, and know you have some opinions on this, and presented a ton of data to support your argument.

This dude shot them out of a series when he had Kevin Freakin Durant. I am through with the apologists.

People criticized Scotty Brooks’ system too. I tend to believe that Russ IS the system, and thus the problem. He plays this way because he wants to. That’s why it kills me when people say, ‘If he had better teammates...” He had the second best player on the planet and barely wanted to give him the ball. He doesn’t…

I don’t see how this showed us something we don’t know about basketball. If anything, by playing this style to it’s Platonic ideal, and still only getting this far, he’s proven what most people already believed: that there is a limit to the marginal benefit you can get from continually going to one player.

It would be a total misread, though, to see Westbrook’s fourth-quarter bricklaying as the result of some egotistical spasming. Westbrook was only doing what he’d been doing all throughout the regular season, in which he became the best clutch player in the league and singlehandedly won almost too many games to…

I think deadspin should make more excuses for Russell Westbrook shooting 1-11 in the fourth quarter. “But he was tired”, “but his team isn’t good”, “but Kanter can’t defend”. Russell Westbrook has played hero ball in the fourth quarter all year which is the primary reason why their record is right at the bottom of the…

At least he died doing what he loved, delaying a motorist at a crossroad.

Are you an O’s fan? Because you are a pretty delusional or stupid one if you don’t know Machado is a known hothead.

Well clearly, the guy with O’s starting his username has a completely objective opinion.

We’ve come to expect very little from Billy. And even then he still disappoints.

Oh, and in 2011, Matt Kemp won the GG for CF. Matt Kemp was never anything but a minus defender in CF. But he was a hell of a hitter!

Well it certainly isn’t for defense, because Cutch is at best an average CF. Derek Jeter has what, 5 GGs? Nate McLouth has one!

Unbelievable, right? “Fresh blood” is nearly as preposterous as the headline, which was the exact opposite of my reaction. On one hand you have a Madrid derby that we have all seen played out on various stages over the years. On the other hand you have perhaps the best attacking side in the world (or one of them at…

“fresh blood”

One pass, Europa league, Belgian team.

Get a load of this guy. He think a single pass makes up for a season of sucking. Next thing your going to tell me he’s cool not winning a league as long as they finish above a team that they should have beaten most of the time.

And I have to Craigslist to find a woman to hit me and spit on me. Some guys get all the luck.

Uhhh, it is used 100% correctly here. What’s your issue with it?