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One of my favorite Kings squads of all time as well. It is always good to be able to see a team impose their will on their opponents. This was also the squad Dwayne Wade cited as pushiing him to retirement.

It was a game with 60 fouls and 90 free throws; it probably wouldn't be very much fun to watch anyway

That's a different thing to argue than that DDR is a significantly better player nowadays. For all those 7.5 years, Zach played more than 65 games a season twice, one of those times they made the playoffs, the other they lost in the play-in vs the Heat; (who made it all the way to the finals.)...

"Bad faith" is a bit acerbic, but you could do more to address the criticism. It seems a reasonable thing to say that the 1170 minutes that Lavine played were in a different environment than the ~1600 minutes DDR played before the Allstar break with Fox, Coach Brown, Alex Len et al. It's a...

If you have a volume scorer with above 60% True Shooting, then it's up to the coaching staff to make the defensive scheme work around whatever that player's limitations are. There aren't too many guys who can do it at the NBA level, and if your team doesn't have somebody, then they aren't really...

Whan I think of a player as "skilled" it's in relatively absolute terms. It's defined in terms of the "fundamental" basketball skills ( dribbling, passing, shooting, defending and rebounding) A player that is more skilled, is able to affect the game in more varied ways. By that definition, big...

Well, let's use your definition of unskilled. Didn't most teams, (even good ones) play a version of Beef Stew or Nic Claxton in the 90s? If teams were lucky they had an elite big, but my feeling is that almost every team started guys like that (sometimes 2 guys like that), even in the golden...

Tweaking the observation a bit; in the old days, when it was common to play two bigs at once, was it not almost universal for teams to have at least one big man in the starting lineup that wasn't really very skilled?

It depends on what people get from watching games. While the team is healthy, I don't expect that the Kings will get blown out regularly, as there is a reasonable amount of talent on the team. The Kings expected starting 5 is a respectable NBA starting 5. And there's depth (perhaps excessive...

He's not vague-booking; he's engagement farming

I don't think that's quite right. I believe that The Athletic distributes PTFO, but does not exert editorial oversight. I think The Athletic is operating more as a social media platform or as a news aggregator here; distributing content without owning or taking responsibility for its contents...

Hmm. I didn't interpret what Torre was doing here as maximizing engagement. I assumed he was provoking a response with his initial report jab, and then coming in with a cross after the weak PR defense of blanket denials was set up. Standard 1-2 punch. As a result we got to see Cuban express...

The standard of proof depends on the court. Torre's making a (successful) argument to the court of public opinion. He has been slow playing his hand a little bit, but I doubt he has enough content to keep up interest in this topic for most of a year. But the NBA board of governors is...

Mongolia. eh? At least Demarcus is seeing the world!

Well, in this day and age, we all have personalized search results, so maybe your Google is different than my Google. As far as I can tell, the NBA has never reclaimed a fine from a player with no active contract. So feel free to spell it out if you have anything. If the NBA asks Kawhi to...