Okay, first of all: Bradley Beal is a significantly better shooter than Ricky Rubio, despite playing at a higher usage and being younger than Rubio. Beal’s career EFG is 48.7%, with a career peak of 51.5%, on 23.6% usage. Ricky Rubio’s career efg is 40.7%, with a career peak of 42.7%, on 18.2% usage. Ricky’s best…

No one would trade for him.

There’s a limit to this, though. You have to shoot well enough that your man can’t completely cheat off you when you don’t have the ball, and so that they have to respect you on pick and rolls.

I think he’s more valuable to the Wolves than any other team in the league: they need someone to take minutes while Dunn develops, he’s an amazing locker-room guy by all accounts, he can keep your high-usage scorers happy and limit their defensive loads, and they’re probably not going to be a playoff team which means…

He’s really good at everything except shooting the ball. Unfortunately, he’s cataclysmicly bad at shooting the ball, which is kind of important. He can’t even get to the level of being able to hit enough open shots to keep teams honest. It’s such a massive limitation. I really don’t even think I’m emphasizing enough…

If he wants the Timberwolves to be good, maybe he should learn to SHOOT THE FUCKING BALL

also, that shit stains

they’re openly shitting on Deadspin, and it’s great

Reasons to give a fuck about cricket, part 1:

I feel that about 90% of cricket can be summed up as “baseball, except there’s no foul ground, you can’t strike out, and you can’t get forced out unless you decide to run”. There’s a lot of other details and formats and vocabulary and specifics. But on a basic level, I think that’s a good way to understand the basics…

They would only work as a couple if they both decided to actually embrace the villain role. But (a) they should both embrace the villain role - TSwift definitely should - and (b) if they did that, they would be an amazing villain-couple.

Surely there’s a point where you approach a limit on how many people you can actually call and talk to in a given time, just practically speaking?

There are plenty of reasons to want to try to make it work, to want to give second chances. And I imagine it takes a while for the realization to sink in that someone like Weiner really is just that much of a piece of shit, that all of the positive qualities that you found in him to love don’t outweigh that, and that…

I don’t think there’s any way to factor this into projected outcomes without polls, and polls that take this story into account probably won’t be out until Monday-ish, I think?

never has the “Christ, what an asshole” alternate caption been so appropriate

The thing with the defense is that the positional versatility is a huge part of what makes Green so valuable. It’s not just being a good defender, it’s being able to take on a huge range of roles depending who’s on the court.

I mean, comparing Allen and Green is kind of correct in the broadest possible sense, but only on such a high level that you lose all sense of perspective. Their profiles on offense and on defense are completely different. Green is much more versatile on defense and a much better playmaker on offense. He’s a goon and a…

So, when they talk about “crash in bond market/rising credit spreads” as a tail risk, they’re basically talking about the Fed raising the interest rate, right?

Well, you know, Obama has his own views on the proper interpretation of the Constitution. 65 million Americans voted for him, fully aware of those views. It seems a little much to expect him to nominate someone who doesn’t broadly share those views, just because Obama’s approach differs from yours.

There’s no time for that kind of long-term planning when you’re worried about getting primaried by some crazy-ass Trumpist lunatic. You have to figure that anyone voting for Garland to receive a floor vote would be putting themselves at huge risk in that regard. Any kind of moderation or compromise, especially on an…