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I am very excited to hear that Zach Lowe has returned to podcasting while he joins his old friends with the ringtone. The world of podcasts is better when it speaks in a microphone. And it is right in time for the playoffs. We almost had Zach Randolph as the only Zach with a podcast this season.
Bad forecasts
Who wants to take the scarcely aged preblical?!
If you are doing this job correctly, do not cheer for teams or players. Put your prejudices aside or eliminate them completely. Collezzi any infantile joy you have to approach this profession with correct objectivity. In this way, you can correctly cheer for the only real thing that matters. No, it is not the love of the game or health of the League. They are your predictions! Oh friend, there is nothing better than getting a correct prediction and rubbing it in everyone’s pleased faces!
Of course, it doesn’t always work in this way. Sometimes, you have some real brutal forecasts that make you question your existence by the end of the season. We go to the worst predictions that I made in the preblical, points a finger and we laugh hysterically against me.
These are not That bad because the lesions have derailed them
EMBIID, PG and Maxey combine for 85 points per game: They finished 66.3 points for combined game. They only combined 112 games played, which is not ideal and the reason why they are in the middle of a tank-a-palooza.
Immanuel Quickley will have an average of 20 points and eight assists: He finished at 17.5 points and 5.9 assists, starting from this publication. He only played 30 games. I think that a quick rapid does it much closer. Twenty and eight were aggressive, however.
Franz Wagner shoots 38 percent from 3: In the first 18 games, this did not seem so bad. He made 35.7 percent of his 3 episodes. In the following seven games, he shot 23.4 percent before hurting his oblique and losing the next 20 games. From his return, he is 26.1 percent from the deep. He cannot shoot.
Sion plays 75 games and does all-nba: Trust me, I know. Let’s go on.
These are really bad and will progressively worsen
Suns ends with top-two offended: I thought they would buy Mike Budenholzer. They have a lot no. I’m ninth in attack.
Clippers lose the play-in tournament: I underestimated Ty Lue and how this team would train. I thought James Harden would be cooked and Kawhi Leonard wouldn’t play much.
Rockets end up in play-in but compete for the first six until April: I knew the rockets would be good, but not This Well. This ends up making a mistake by about five or six games. Houston was so funny.
Cody Williams wins the debutant of the year: Ay Dios Mío, this was bad. I really thought that Williams would have the opportunity to put numbers because jazz would have been so bad. And he did it. It was just horrendous. Shoot 32 percent from the field, with an average of 4.6 points and has a 3.7 per. This is a bad rookie season of all time.
Cavs win seed n. 7 from the Play-in tournament: This was by far the worst forecast – and it is almost historically bad. I thought the Cavs should have done operations in advance and we would have seen accidents similar to last season. Instead, they set up a record for the serial number of 12 -games victories and have a lot of the best East record.
Do you want to vote on my worst forecast? You can do it here!
The last 24
Five players suspended for spit wolves
🚨 Punishments! The penalties for the Kerfuffle of the wolves-Pistons are out. The beef stew gets the worst.
⛽ Past losses. Shai Gilgeous-Alexander has a different guide this season due to recent failures. Bankruptcy feeds it.
📈 Power rankings. Law Murray offers all 30 teams a description of the App Store. Lakers are increasing.
🇫🇷 Hunches the tower. The Wolves (44-32) hoped that this version of Rudy Gobert would return. Is back.
🎧 Tuning. Today’s NBA newspaper discuss if Ja Morant will be De’Aron Fox 2.0.
📺 Don’t miss this game tonight. Knicks (48-27) to Cavaliers (60-15), 19:00 et on Espn or Fubo (Try it free!). New York has not beaten Cleveland or Boston this season.
Two big nights
The Joker, Chef Curry has both made history
We don’t need preambules. Nikola Jokić scored 61 points, 11 rebounds and 10 assists in a double loss of extraordinary 140-139 against the Timberwolves last night. It is the third time in the history of the championship, we had a 60 -point player while we record a triple double (Luka Dončić and James Harden are the others who did it). It is the game with the highest score with a triple double that the League has ever seen. Once again, the numbers don’t make sense.
It was also a hyper-efficient game at 61 points. He had 18 out of 29 from the field, made 6 out of 11 by 3 points and went 19 out of 24 from the free shooting line. After scoring 33 in the first three quarters, Big Honey went to work. He had 16 points in the fourth quarter, seven in the first OT and five in the second. He was fighting Anthony Edwards on the left and right, while the latter transformed a mediocre game into something incendiary with 24 of his 34 arrived after the third quarter.
And he has still lost his sixth consecutive game in Minnesota, dating back to the playoffs, because Russell Westbrook I lost a fastbreak layup With the pepper on one instead of dribbling the clock. And then, Nickeil Alexander-Walker failed with a 3-point shot with 0.1 seconds left. Naw hit (sprouted around?) The winning free shots while the Minnesota escaped the victory in Denver. Law Murray has dropped the statistics that Jokić has He lost all four games in which he scored at least 50which is wild.
Steph Curry went to the Grizzlies
Jokić did not have the only great score night. In fact, I thought it would be the great game I wrote about for today because watching Steph Curry illuminating the grizzies in Memphis was directed towards a real experience. We were only a few minutes in the third quarter when Curry knocked down his tenth 3-pointer of the night. And we were officially watching to see if he would have recovered the record for most of the 3 episodes in a game, which Klay Thompson (14) took from him.
Curry was 11 out of 15 as deep at some point and then he began to lose some attempts. He did not have the advantage of playing and continuing to take shots. The Grizzlies were right there with the Warriors in this game and Golden State was trying to overcome Memphis for the fifth in the West. Curry continued to play football as a team and continued to go to the defense of the Grizzlies in several ways. In the end he would have shot down his twelfth 3-pointer, something he did four times (a record).
Ended with 52 points, 10 rebounds, eight assists and five thefts. He had 16 out of 31 from the field and 12 out of 20 from the deep. It is his tenth game of 50 points since he turned 30, who is an NBA record. Yes, even more than Chamberlain had (seven)! The Warriors won 134-125 and moved to fifth place in the West.
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Just ignore it
Why is the NBA so worried about criticism?
Fifteen years ago, the League did a brilliant work in embracing social media in a way that were missing from other North American professional championships. They allowed to share and celebrate the highlights. They authorized people to create brands from their IP. Today, the NBA has almost 10 million more followers than the NFL on Twitter (I am Never By calling him like this), almost triple the following of the NFL on Instagram and 8.5 million more subscribers on YouTube. The NBA has social media and tries to mention flows and impressions when discussions on the assessments become negative, especially compared to the assessments of the NFL monsters.
The Hall of Famer David Aldridge had a brilliant article on The criticisms that the League receives in today’s media climateEven if the NBA has more skills and athleticism we have ever seen. Sometimes, the basketball game seems maximized by his skills and stars in front of us. And we are not yet fully aware of what someone like Victor Wembanyama will be able to do.
It is not only the external forces that lower it. Championship experts such as Charles Barkley and Shaquille O’Neal have regularly criticized the current product. One thing I have often been confused is the reason why the NBA puts so many stocks in what is said online or even on radio waves. This is the most impressive thing about the NFL for me. He has never given up on criticism; The League approaches. NFL knows that its product will last and I think the NBA could adopt a similar approach.
The NBA can be too much online and apparently worried about what a small bubble of irreducible fans is saying within those online communities. It’s nice to worry about what fans want, but at some point, criticism should not import. Not from them. Not from Chuck and Shaq. Not by no expert who does it for click or views. Do you know what that point is? When a rights agreement signed by $ 76 billion while everyone talks about your product or bad evaluations. This is what I would act in front of those people.
Adam Silver should pretend to cry and dry their eyes with $ 100 invoices when people ask him for the assessments instead of the questions about the real game. It is not that you are above criticism or criticism, but I don’t think the NBA has yet to be so worried about these conversations. The basketball product is good. The League was paid. I would focus on the celebration of the game.
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