And while doing it demonstrating something important about conceptions of "role", and "freedom" of a player.
Great article. The Finnisher it is then. Love this guy!Exclusive: Lauri Markkanen on Most Improved Player of the Year award, tanking, Utah Jazz future
Following his first All-Star appearance, Utah Jazz forward Lauri Markkanen is a strong candidate for the NBA’s Most Improved Player of the Year award. Markkanen became the first NBA player to record over 100 dunks and 200 threes (most by a 7-footer) in a season. He's…hoopshype.com
Two things. Someone tweeter this out to all the sportswriters, second, what does PPP stand for?
Points per play or Points per possession. Former is the more common one but I've seen it used on both contexts.
Trader Dan already build a playoffs contending team silly. They contended for the playoffs this season despite doing everything possible to avoid the playoffs. If the playoffs were the goal this season then we would be in the playoffs easy. Next year the playoffs will be the goal and we will be in the playoffs easy.
They have a sht ton of cap space right now. I think that Ainge is planning some moves for sure.
This. Frankly if we had kept the guys we traded mid-season we are likely fighting for the 6 seed. Obviously we didn't want that, so we dropped some key players only to have everyone else step up and get us nearly into contention anyway, with a lot of injury time for the 2nd level key players. We had to find a way to shut down the Finnisher and fake a concussion for Kessler to even make sure we don't sneak into the play-in for hell's sake! And we still nearly beat a Lakers team with the refs in their pocket fighting for play-off positioning. 2 words, day-um.
