Nathan Fogg

Also who the hell are the "Democracy Volunteers" literally never heard of them and their website was created just last year. Why am I expecting to find out they are some Turning Point UK funded group or something shit tomorrow

Until he can reliably play games without cross court pass turnovers in the backcourt he's no starter

Making someone a starter at this stage of the season is making a statement and you're not looking at changing it again in a month. If his shot goes cold he's useless.

For me to advocate pushing Reed into the starting lineup I'd need to see him actually play well on nights the 3pt shot isn't falling. He just had a 19 game stretch from early Jan - early Feb where he shot 36% from the field and 31% from 3 averaging like 3 assists per 36.

Benching Tari might be too sensitive going into RFA, and Bari has been playing great recently, feels harsh to bench him now. I'd just wait for someone (probably Tari) to get injured. Or maybe Amen will need managing with this quad stuff. Give Reed 7 of Amen's minutes and make him a true 6th man

Yeah I agree. I would look it at how many series do you have the best player in? I would argue currently it is set up for 0.

yeah I didnt even touch on the playmaking gap. He gets a lot of attention and doubles but it's always at the elbow where it's just more dangerous for traps and turnovers especially at his dribble height

25-32 point games are great, huge part of why we may get 50-55 wins despite all the injuries. But what wins you games that are close or where you aren't maybe at your best as a team is where your star drags you to the win with 25 shots scoring 40 points. KD isn't doing that.

30 point games - 21 for KD, 30 for Luka, 27 for Ant
35 point games - 6 for KD, 20 for Luka, 16 for Ant
40 point games - 0 for KD, 8 for Luka, 8 for Ant

KD is a very consistent scorer, he's great. He's not the offensive force of these guys, not to mention Jokic. We haven't entered the arms race

This goes into people overrating KD or maybe more like underrating his competitors. The same as when they got upset we didnt make moves at the deadline 'you have KD, how can you not?'

Nuggets, Lakers and Wolves are below us. Jokic, Murray, Luka, LeBron, Ant Edwards. That's a lot of talent man

If the Rockets finish with 52 wins again, a repeat of last year, I really don't see it as the underperformance I suspect most of our fans would. It's a loss of Fred, Jalen, Dillon and half a season of Adams in exchange for KD, Capela and the ghost of Finney-Smith

Yeah he's got better at getting around screens too and switching his feet in iso defense. All fanbases have collective amnesia but wasn't it literally this time last year when he was injured our defense cratered and everyone agreed he was a real key to pulling it all together unnoticed?

Jabari gets a lot of shit but he's a good defender and if he can hit 37%+ from deep the 12.5-13.5% of the cap he's earning the next four years is a steal

No, because the %s in the posts match the %s from a different question.

This doesn't match the question posed in the graphic?

It's really bizarre that more politicians don't do this. Why not fight back and highlight the absurdity of the right wing press. You don't have to go Trump-like, just gentle mockery.

Of course in this instance it helps that Polanski knows exactly what he believes and stands for.

I don't like this game anymore

Bring me the Warriors, at least we will have something to play for. Beat them in round 1 and lose in 5 to Denver in round 2 is objectively a bad season but will feel like a championship

The Rockets imploded in the last 4 mins or so with turnovers but the lead fell from 15 to 5 or whatever in the first half of the 4th quarter with no KD where I thought they got a lot of great looks and just missed tbh

It's infuriating watching him walk into the same game losing turnovers at the elbow as the help comes from the strong side wing over and over and over again

KD demanded the last shot in our late game offense and in fairness to him he hits most of them but he has a fatal flaw regarding turnovers that he has never improved even slightly in this latter stage of his career

Yeah, 99% of the time it's just a self pity exercise. Or worse it's a vet who is upset he isn't in the league anymore so complains about how nobody gives vet wisdom anymore and when prompted for such sagely advise it's always just 'ice your knees'

I don't think the media ask good questions to athletes in general although the ecosystem isn't set up for them to...but athletes asking questions are no better. That KD interview with Hakeem for example. A snoozefest.

NBA stars said they were gonna takeover legacy media and it turns out they were all just boring and sycophantic

Tari bricked that shot and was behind on defense the entire possession so they ran out of defenders to rotate. Looked either injured or completely gassed

Yeah the effort on the glass has been unacceptable

Pathetic from Sengun

Yeah Hornets are gassed

We win this game if Ime dares to bench Sengun

Mah they don't have a franchise player