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The Mavs look very, very mid.

Cody is our new Ronnie Brewer. And we liked Ronnie.

Keyonte directed the offense like an elite PG in the first half. Ace had multiple stellar plays on defense. Cody looks like a legit positive rotation player. This team is coming together in the most awkward time to do it. If the Jazz wants to keep the pick the next 6 games are absolutely...

But these are the full-season stats. Keyonte clearly improved over the course of the season and has been playing much better in the last 40 days or so. Just look at last five games where they both played (raw plus-minus): GSW: Keyonte -5, Lauri -2. Boston: Keyonte +8, Lauri +13. SAS: Keyonte...

I actually rate Keyonte quite a bit above Lauri on offense. Both of them have gravity, both can drive to the rim and both get about the same amount of points. The difference lays in Keyonte's passing ability: he can run the offense and set up his teammates nicely with his precise passing...

It's fair to say that I am in a bit of minority on this issue. What made me vote for Keyonte is that when the Jazz are behind by several points with 5-6 minutes left in the 4th and Keyonte subs in I always get that feeling that the Jazz may immediately go on a run and tie or get ahead. And that...

I, personally, think it is very close but every time when Keyonte gets subbed out the Jazz offense immediately falls apart. That does not happen when Lauri is out but Keyonte is still in. Keyonte plays like a dynamic first option, while Lauri as an extremely good second option. Of course...

Who is the best/most important player on the Jazz right now? Their stats in December-January are about equally impressive. Is it Lauri with his ever-present gravity, ability to punish smaller defenders and size or Keyonte with his rim pressure, passing and clutch plays?

That really depends on the person. Favors was that way, Kawhi... and Doncic smiles after his misses. The NBA players have all kinds of personalities: Duncan, Kobe, Draymond Green, Lauri, Morant...

For almost every job only 5%-10% workers are "loving it". And that is true even for the highest paid ones: finance, expensive lawyers, dentists... Most of the NBA players were heavily pushed into basketball being their career since they were kids, regardless of their true interests. And, even...

That is the fault of blind-faith tankers and rose goggles. In fact, the great majority of tanking stretches do not produce any foundational superstars: they end up exactly as you described, in building a good but not an obviously great team. Six out of the current top-10 NBA players were not...

I would guess that most NBA players do not like basketball. They probably liked it as kids - when they were clear stars and could do everything they wanted and it came out great. In the NBA the same wunderkind kids are role players used in a very specific way and often for limited minutes. The...

Put the Glorious Cody back in, coach.

Cody Williams tonight: 0 rebounds, 0 assists, 0 steals, 0 blocks and 0 turnovers. But he has 15 points. I don't even know how to describe his playing style but somehow it works.

Do the Clippers have any other plays besides giving it to Lopez for a (missed) three or a heavily contested fadeaway by Kawhi?

Never mind, I managed to find this info on that confusing site: according to the D-Lebron Kessler was the 47th last season, far below such defensive stalwarts as Nurkic, Eubanks, Plumlee and Luke Kornet. I'm sorry, but this is a garbage stat to compare players.

Yeah, but you seem to have access to those stats and brought them in specifically to compare players on different teams. So, for our reference, where was Kessler ranked last year?

It does not matter how it evaluates players: if all top players come from the top teams and all bottom players - from the rebuilding ones then this stat is heavily biased to the team's combined performance. For example, how was Kessler ranked on D-Lebron last year? He was, probably, a top-15...

I think it is pretty clear that Keyonte by year 3 is a much better offensive player than Mitchell: he is able to produce the exact same amount of points on the same splits and he is doing it without any good veteran players setting him up. Mitchell in his 3rd year had Ingles and Conley. And, on...

Is it one of those statistics that are heavily dependent on the team performance, like DRTG? Because in that case all players on a bad defensive team will be bad and all players on a good defensive team will be at the top of the rankings. Also, I was comparing the third-year stats of Mitchell...