Thought exercise:
(a) imagine 100% of the value that could be squeezed out of a 29 game sample in which the team was going full-tilt and obsessed with winning (without Kessler, of course).
(b) imagine how much of that value could be realized over 29 games in which the team is not obsessed with...
Here's a research question for the hard-hitting analysts on this site:
Even at his peak, how much off-ball value did Ja Morant have?
My sense of things is (a) that Ja did not have very much off-ball value, and (b) this was the primary influence on the structure of the offense (that JJJ played...
He'll be remembered as the idiot who opened the floodgates of gambling — and, hence, torched the league's status as a generationally inherited pastime. Once you start getting people addicted in the wrong way, then it becomes a problem to spend this time with kids. Gambling is short-term...
Tank strategy (one of many):
If JJJ plays, then play him at 5 without rebounding support AND run a lot of playmaking through him. Make him try to do what Nurk is doing without anything on-the-line. These reps will help him get into the flow of Hardy's offense—eventually—and it likely will not...
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