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2024-25 NBA Season

I’m headed out to catch a buddy’s reggae band, but thought I’d drop in and see if anybody’s paying attention to 110-year-old LeBron James’ game & stats this season.

Later, hoops heads & mavens.
 

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This chart is striking and extremely relevant to any discussion on load management

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The Raptors Coach is... not smart

Scenario and Background
- Raptors down 3 with 8 seconds to go and hold the ball. Clippers have a foul to give. And then have the foul up 3 strategy in their pocket.
- Jacob Poeltl the Raptors center is a 54% career FT% shooter who has never hit a 3 point shot. The coach puts him on the floor. Questionable but maybe he can used to set a screen for a quick hit.
- To avoid the foul up 3 strategy, common sense is Raptors would need to run some sort of quick hit play for a 3 point shot before the Clips can foul.

The Play
Play #1 - Raptors quickly inbound the ball directly to Poeltl 25 feet away from the basket. No Raptor around him. Instantly fouled as the Clippers have a foul to give. A few second runs off the clock.

Play #2 - Raptors quickly inbound the ball again directly to Poeltl 25 feet away from the basket -- just like play #1 no Raptor around him. Don't run any play for Poeltl as a screener, just give him the ball immediately above the 3 point line. As a reminder this guy is a 54% FT Shooter who has never hit a 3 point shot in his life. Clips defender fouls him instantly just like Play #1.. Poeltl, the 54% shooter, to the line down 3, 5 seconds to go.

Why are you running a play that will get your worst FT Shooter to the line when the other team is looking to foul up 3?

Convince me this is not stupid coaching.
 
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Knicks411 said:

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This chart is striking and extremely relevant to any discussion on load management

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I think that makes a strong case that coaches should distribute minutes better across their rosters.

Load management is one way to balance that out, not the only way.
 
OttoinGrotto said:
I think that makes a strong case that coaches should distribute minutes better across their rosters.

Load management is one way to balance that out, not the only way.
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The Clippers have a disproportionate number of back-to-backs the first two months of the season, as well as the last two months of the season. They barely have any the rest of the time.

I have to wonder if Kawhi Leonard is purposefully skipping October and November to avoid the most congested portion of the schedule. Stay tuned.
 
Day2 said:
The Clippers have a disproportionate number of back-to-backs the first two months of the season, as well as the last two months of the season. They barely have any the rest of the time.

I have to wonder if Kawhi Leonard is purposefully skipping October and November to avoid the most congested portion of the schedule. Stay tuned.
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You're a Clippers fan, which is cool and all, and you can totally give Kawhi the benefit of the doubt, but... when it comes to load management he doesn't really get the benefit of the doubt.
 
OttoinGrotto said:
You're a Clippers fan, which is cool and all, and you can totally give Kawhi the benefit of the doubt, but... when it comes to load management he doesn't really get the benefit of the doubt.
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Personally, I think he’s soft. I’m not defending him at all. I’m just speculating on what might be happening.
 
I was a bit skeptical, I guess the Warriors are for real. Curry with 2 great performances against Boston and OKC. Holmgren is now out at least 2-3 months.
 
OttoinGrotto said:
I think that makes a strong case that coaches should distribute minutes better across their rosters.

Load management is one way to balance that out, not the only way.
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I'm just making the point that you can't compare a minutes load from 2024 to 1985 and act like it's the same strain on the body.
I'm using "load management" as a catchall term here.

on Kawhi, is he "skipping" anything? The guys body (knees more specifically) is/are clearly shot.
 
M2MPrinciples said:
Jokic is incredible. Put up 37/18/15 against Luka, Kyrie and the Mavs and they needed every drop of it.
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He currently leads the league in rebounding and assists (and is 4th and scoring). He's simply the best player on Earth, easily.
 
The Knicks look bad so far. The defense has clearly taken a step back and Bridges cannot shoot.
 
Cusefan0307 said:
The Knicks look bad so far. The defense has clearly taken a step back and Bridges cannot shoot.
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I just didn't quite understand that big Knicks/Wolves trade for either team. Both teams had their best season in years last year, and they both disrupt their core nucleus.
 
Eric15 said:
I just didn't quite understand that big Knicks/Wolves trade for either team. Both teams had their best season in years last year, and they both disrupt their core nucleus.
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I kinda both do and dont get it for both teams.
Knicks were in a bit of a tougher spot than the Wolves; the Knicks lost one of their key pieces (Harty). If they don't make the deal they arent really in a good spot to run things back, because they're empty at center. You can't really play many lineups with Randle at C, so you're in a position where you can't really play your 5 best players together much (and even more so, you cant play many combos with 5 of your 7 best players on the court together) and you're coming to a point with Randle having the ability to opt out of his deal in the summer where you needed to make a decision on him.

Minny was in a better spot to run things back, but clearly they got the word from whoever will end up owning the team that they needed to cut some payroll at some point
 
Knicks411 said:
on Kawhi, is he "skipping" anything? The guys body (knees more specifically) is/are clearly shot.
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I’m not so sure it’s clear. He was playing at an MVP-level last season. Then he got an extension. Then he stopped playing because of knee inflammation.

What’s clear to me is that - whenever he gets paid - he’s not willing to play if he’s not close to 100%.
 
Day2 said:
I’m not so sure it’s clear. He was playing at an MVP-level last season. Then he got an extension. Then he stopped playing because of knee inflammation.

What’s clear to me is that - whenever he gets paid - he’s not willing to play if he’s not close to 100%.
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The Olympic team sent him home, no?
He got the extension in January, played the rest of the season before he got hurt again and had surgery.
As a clippers fan I see where you’re coming from though.
 
Knicks411 said:
The Olympic team sent him home, no?
He got the extension in January, played the rest of the season before he got hurt again and had surgery.
As a clippers fan I see where you’re coming from though.
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He didn’t play the rest of the season, though. And his Olympic experience seemed more like a photo op.
 
Fireball Jr. said:
Meanwhile, elsewhere in LA …..

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The Raptors are 2-9.
Playing on a back to back against a rested Lakers team.
And they were missing their best player in Scottie Barnes and two other projected rotation players.

If that's not worth celebrating, I'm not sure what is.
Congrats to the Lakers on their huge win.
 
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He didn’t play the rest of the season, though. And his Olympic experience seemed more like a photo op.
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He signed the extension and missed two games in the next 10 weeks before he was done for the year is all I meant.

I do take your point and there could be a little of both going on here but the guy has missed a ton of time with knee injuries the last 7 years of whatever. Maybe I’m giving him too much of the benefit of the doubt but I dunno if he’s going under the knife for fun
 
A couple of pick trades for struggling teams that can bite teams in the ass.

Philly (2-7), pick is only top 6 protected. Who owns it? OKC of course.
Milwaukee (2-8), pick 1-4 to NOP, pick 5-30 to Brooklyn
 
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