Pop is just insane at game planning around his talent.
Murray, DeRozan, Aldridge, and Lyles (4 of their 5 starters) are a combined 8/34 from deep (23.5%) so far this season. You'd think that would be a death sentence in the modern NBA.
Pop is just insane at game planning around his talent.
Murray, DeRozan, Aldridge, and Lyles (4 of their 5 starters) are a combined 8/34 from deep (23.5%) so far this season. You'd think that would be a death sentence in the modern NBA.
Finish up on the topic of Wade but 2008 you can make a case he was thr best player that season.
Had the Heat not been surrounding him with scraps (which he got to the playoffs) and they won 50+ games he may have won MVP that year. He had the highest USG in the league that year.
Would people still not wanna trade Sexton for Anunoby?
Waiters was such a shitty pick. There have been three really bad players taken in the top-10 of that 2012 draft.
- Dion Waiters (4th)
- Thomas Robinson (5th)
- Austin Rivers (10th)
Waiters is 25th in the '12 draft class in WS (8.7), 31st in BPM, and 52nd in VORP (-1.6). His VORP is dragged down by some guys who had far less playing time then him, but still, Waiters was another legendary blunder of a high Cleveland pick. A true scrub through and through.
I think that overstates the case against him a little bit. The 2016-17 Dion that earned a 50M contract was actually a pretty solid player. If not for injuries and off-court issues, I think he would've had a long career as a decent starter or a good 6th man.
I'm still just infinitely salty from that draft because I followed and desperately wanted Bradley Beal all season long, just for Washington to snag him from us right before our pick. Kyrie, Beal, LeBron, and Love (I know things would've changed and we probably wouldn't have gotten Wiggins to trade for Love), would have been just an amazing core.
Imagine if we'd drafted Beal *and* Draymond. Irving/Beal/James/Love/Green probably wins 4-6 championships. Enormous missed opportunities in those rebuilding years.