This Piston team just amazes me. No Cade, Duren or Tobias. Beef Stew with 31 and the bench was just great tonight. Daniss Jenkins with 15 assists. Javonte Green, Ron Holland brought the energy. Even Chaz Lanier with 8 in the 4th
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After a scare for 30ish minutes, we turned it on and won by 15. Stew gets a career-high 31 points and Jenkins gets a career-high 15 dimes.
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AHEM
*(bulls without Giddey and White)
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The Trae Young era is over.
Boston loses to Denver, Pistons back up to a 4 game cushion for 1st place
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shoulda just taken Luka like I was screaming at the time
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Wizards defense about to get even worse.
I really wonder what the plan here is for Washington. They have a few young ok offensive players (Alex Sarr and Kyshawn George), and a few younger guys who may become something who knows (Tre Johnson, Will Riley). I think Sarr is on track to be a good player generally.
I assume Treâs desire to go to Washington was driven by some sort of contract promise (no idea specifically what), and that recreating the Hawksâ Bulls-ian run may seem appealing when youâre in their shoes, butâŚidk
If only the Wizards kept Poole. Those 2 would put up 50 shots a night. It would be like playing horse but just with your teammate in a real game.
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The Lakers are 23-11 with a .3 pt differential on the season.
Thats wild.
Itâs like they either win a close game or get blown out. The roster isnât well constructed tbh especially on defense.
Easily one of the deepest team in the league. Pre-season, I was expecting a top 3-4 seed, but now the expectation is a top 2 seed or itâs a disappointment.
Yeah the Lakers are, per net rating, the largest aberration in the league (they are on pace to win 12 more games than their net rating would suggest) - only team within 50% of that big a swing is that the Kings are on pace to win 11 more games than their net rating would suggest (to tell you how awful the Kings are)
Was listening to a pod today that was discussing Coach of the Year race, seems like a pretty compelling field:
Mark Daigneault, just because theyâre really good (he wonât win, just because its how this award works)
JB Bickerstaff, surpassing expectations again
Joe Mazulla, winning a ton of games with a roster that was sort of torn apart
Mitch Johnson, suddenly coaching the 2nd best team in the west whose best player has missed like 40% of their games
Jordan Ott, a more traditional case for the award (we thought this team sucked)
JA Morant available
I think the Wizards are low key much worse off than is recognized. Theyâre basically replacement level again and itâs definitely not bc they were trying to be. They werenât trying to be good but theyâre gonna end up like 8-10 games under their Vegas O/U.
Reminds me of the Sox a decade ago. Their process wasnât that bad bc they were messing up their evaluation and development, they kept eating adverse selection in free agency and in the draft and eventually the bottom fell out.
The Wiz are starting at the bottom and itâs still a bit early to say thatâs definitely whatâs happening. But it was something I thought was possible if their young guys really didnât start popping and so far thatâs basically the case. Development not linear etc etc.
The trade works out well in the Wizards favor since they barely gave up anything to get him. Because Trae is such a good passer, it might give the executives a better picture of the young players. They really donât have a PG on the roster. I think itâs more get a competent PG for a baseline evaluation.
Pistons up 14 at half but still a lot of work to do (Red Wings are also up 2-0 @ Montreal after 2 periods)
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