The Official Dwayne Wade <<<<<< you thread

Very happy for Trae Young, boy's confidence is booming at the moment.

Seeing Lakers fans complain about Rondo on twitter is so good lol.

The credit he got for last year was fucking insane.

Ingram is so fucking good. Only bright spot this year

Were getting a hell of a pick this year.

Gonna sit out LeBron

The Pelicans are 7-8 since AD's trade demand on 1/28.

They're 4-3 when he doesn't play at all and 1-0 when he leaves at halftime with his agent.

They're 2-5 when AD logs a single minute in the second half.

— The Bird Writes (@thebirdwrites) March 3, 2019

Beat Denver on a 2nd night of a back to back without him not playing btw.

The Lakers

Lakers have been 29th in defense since Lonzo got injured.

Can’t believe Luke got the credit for our defensive leap.

We need to tank now. Rest all players and play randos. We need Zion or Ja Morant.

Rondo is the best Laker right now easy

Vibe wrote:Rondo is the best Laker right now easy

lol

it's clearly Ingram

Vibe wrote:Rondo is the best Laker right now easy

Pretty good play

Excellent defense by Rajon Rondo to leave a damn good three-point shooter wide open. pic.twitter.com/0fiW1Qx9YS

— Justin Russo (@FlyByKnite) March 5, 2019

Great Leader Sprucenuce wrote:

The Pelicans are 7-8 since AD's trade demand on 1/28.

They're 4-3 when he doesn't play at all and 1-0 when he leaves at halftime with his agent.

They're 2-5 when AD logs a single minute in the second half.

— The Bird Writes (@thebirdwrites) March 3, 2019

Beat Denver on a 2nd night of a back to back without him not playing btw.

Beat Utah last night

None of this makes any sense.

LeBron's defense is at a point where he needs a friendly push from a teammate to guard his man now

https://twitter.com/i/status/1102806973995573248

So Davis is Pelicans biggest liability who would have thought

I wish Blazers could afford him
Lillard-McCollum-Harkless-Davis-Nurkic they would dominate on both ends. Sadly Portland is a too small market.

Raptors are painful to watch atm

Getting destroyed and looking lost

Unbelievable that Harden keeps developing still, after being a MVP candidate for 4 years, he now added the floater to his game to keep things unpredictable. Was awful for 3 quarters but stepped up when it mattered.

Yesterday was a terrible performance by the refs, more than usual. No consistency in calls, or maybe it's me who doesn't understand what blocking foul is.

The best example yesterday when a Raptors player tried to do a lay up but instead his elbow caught Chris Paul right in the jaw. Then Raptors got 2 free throws wtf.

Not that i believe it changed the result, it had little influence as Rockets won 3 quarters out of 4.

Tatum has been the worst iso scorer in the league this year. Pretty impressive.

Top 5 is:
Middleton: 1.15
Harden: 1.1
Kawhi: 1.1
Durant: 1.09
DeRozan: 1.07

Bottom 5:
Tatum: 0.62
Sexton: 0.74
Reggie Jackson: 0.79
Embiid: 0.8
Jamal Murray: 0.8

Embiid in bottom five? Can't take that stat seriously.

That's actually pretty surprising re: Middleton.

Explains some of his struggles this year. He's a good iso player, but he's not quite as good playing in a more free flowing, passing oriented, Giannis oriented offense. He could be a better spot up shooter, and off the ball he's really not great. He needs the ball in his hands to be effective, but the offense revolves around Giannis having the ball the most, and others sharing.

I'm not surprised he hasn't been as good this year as last year in the regular season. I expect that he'll turn it on in the playoffs when ISO plays become a little more common as defense gets tighter. Same thing happened last year with Middleton, obviously (although the iso in that offense was a lot higher even in the general season).

Really surprised to see it that high though.

Art Morte wrote:Embiid in bottom five? Can't take that stat seriously.

Why not? Embiid is not good in iso's. Hardly any centers are. It's a perimeter play. Also don't see why you shouldn't take the stat seriously. It's a fact about how efficient players are in iso's and it fits the perception pretty easily with Harden, KD, Kawhi and DeRozan being at the top.

Also it's a minimum of 100 possessions. I'm sure more centers would be on the list.

Freeza wrote:

Art Morte wrote:Embiid in bottom five? Can't take that stat seriously.

Why not? Embiid is not good in iso's. Hardly any centers are. It's a perimeter play. Also don't see why you shouldn't take the stat seriously. It's a fact about how efficient players are in iso's and it fits the perception pretty easily with Harden, KD, Kawhi and DeRozan being at the top.

Also it's a minimum of 100 possessions. I'm sure more centers would be on the list.

Whenever I see Embiid iso in the paint he's a beast. For him to score so low on this stat I can only think it's his threes and the times he gets fouled. Embiid is great iso'ing in the paint, although his weakness is stamina; will be very interesting to see the playoffs. He looks gassed in the first quarter ffs.

Art Morte wrote:

Freeza wrote:

Art Morte wrote:Embiid in bottom five? Can't take that stat seriously.

Why not? Embiid is not good in iso's. Hardly any centers are. It's a perimeter play. Also don't see why you shouldn't take the stat seriously. It's a fact about how efficient players are in iso's and it fits the perception pretty easily with Harden, KD, Kawhi and DeRozan being at the top.

Also it's a minimum of 100 possessions. I'm sure more centers would be on the list.

Whenever I see Embiid iso in the paint he's a beast. For him to score so low on this stat I can only think it's his threes and the times he gets fouled. Embiid is great iso'ing in the paint, although his weakness is stamina; will be very interesting to see the playoffs. He looks gassed in the first quarter ffs.

That’s not an iso. That’s a post up.

An iso is a perimeter play.

He averages 1.04 ppp in post up play which is 4th best for players with more than 100 post possessions

If post-up plays don't count as isolation plays, then there's no point having an iso score for centers. Embiid shoots threes at 29.5% this season, if those are his isolation plays then sure, he's going to suck in that stat.

Art Morte wrote:If post-up plays don't count as isolation plays, then there's no point having an iso score for centers. Embiid shoots threes at 29.5% this season, if those are his isolation plays then sure, he's going to suck in that stat.

Post ups don't count. An iso is where you receive the ball and all your teammates run away from you and leave you 1-on-1 with your primary defender. Then the teammates have to run around and keep their defenders occupied to avoid the iso-player receiving a double team.

The only reason Embiid is on the list, is because he's one of the only centers qualifying (+100 possessions) as it's clearly a shit decision to run iso plays for a center.

There's nothing wrong with the stat. Just the Philly playcalling.

Dude, there absolutely ARE Post Up ISO plays and they've existed forever, which is why theyre included in that stat.
They teach you that in High School sometimes earlier.

You cant just decide they don't count and attribute the stat to something else.


Embiid turns to baby shit whenever he has to score on someone his own size, and that's usually who will stick him on a low post iso, so it makes sense.

I watched a video on youtube saying RJ Barret is a better NBA prospect than Zion, Freeza pls confirm