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2022-2023 NBA Regular Season Thread

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Jazz were losing at halftime, solely because Collin Sexton is one of the dumbest basketball players I’ve ever seen. That’s not hyperbole.

Dumb. Both ends. Conley is out, so Sexton and THT were the only point guards and THT just on brain and not being a moron was 10x the point for Utah tonight. If he had started instead of Sexton, Utah wins this game going away. But back to Bull being dumb.

Clippers kept abusing him on the defensive end. Pick n rolls and iso against our guy. Compromising the Jazz team defense and getting Vanderbilt and Olynk in foul trouble because they were thinking for him and trying to help cover his lack of thinking.

After 5 mins in the 3rd, Will Handy had seen enough so he subs Collin out for THT and the Jazz take the lead heading into the 4th. Not exaggerating. THT and the defensive collective turned the entire tide of the game and had the Clippers looking lost without Collin to pick on for easy baskets.

I’m ecstatic. This is the last leg of a 12 leg parlay that turns $2 into $750. Im giving the Jazz 3 points so I basically need them to either lose by less than 3 or win the game and I win. DraftKings offers me $500 at the start of the 4th but I’m like, nah, Utah figured this out and will probably win. Give me all of my coins.

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Unexplainably, with a 4 point lead and about 10 mins left, Handy decides to give Sexton another chance.

Ty Lue goes RIGHT back to exploiting Sexton and takes the lead back by 4 with 4 mins left before Handy takes Sexton out and spends 2 possessions arguing with him on the bench about his missed rotations and inability to move the ball on offense. The NBA TV cameras watched him chew him out literally for 2 mins.

Moral of this story: I know stupid when I see it on the basketball court. And gratefully, my team avoided giving stupid a 4 year nearly 100 million dollar deal and continuing to compromise every young player on our team who had to think for him while all he could do was score.

I’m so grateful for it that I’m not even mad he cost me $700 being stupid tonight.

End rant.
 
Jazz were losing at halftime, solely because Collin Sexton is one of the dumbest basketball players I’ve ever seen. That’s not hyperbole.

Dumb. Both ends. Conley is out, so Sexton and THT were the only point guards and THT just on brain and not being a moron was 10x the point for Utah tonight. If he had started instead of Sexton, Utah wins this game going away. But back to Bull being dumb.

Clippers kept abusing him on the defensive end. Pick n rolls and iso against our guy. Compromising the Jazz team defense and getting Vanderbilt and Olynk in foul trouble because they were thinking for him and trying to help cover his lack of thinking.

After 5 mins in the 3rd, Will Handy had seen enough so he subs Collin out for THT and the Jazz take the lead heading into the 4th. Not exaggerating. THT and the defensive collective turned the entire tide of the game and had the Clippers looking lost without Collin to pick on for easy baskets.

I’m ecstatic. This is the last leg of a 12 leg parlay that turns $2 into $750. Im giving the Jazz 3 points so I basically need them to either lose by less than 3 or win the game and I win. DraftKings offers me $500 at the start of the 4th but I’m like, nah, Utah figured this out and will probably win. Give me all of my coins.

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Unexplainably, with a 4 point lead and about 10 mins left, Handy decides to give Sexton another chance.

Ty Lue goes RIGHT back to exploiting Sexton and takes the lead back by 4 with 4 mins left before Handy takes Sexton out and spends 2 possessions arguing with him on the bench about his missed rotations and inability to move the ball on offense. The NBA TV cameras watched him chew him out literally for 2 mins.

Moral of this story: I know stupid when I see it on the basketball court. And gratefully, my team avoided giving stupid a 4 year nearly 100 million dollar deal and continuing to compromise every young player on our team who had to think for him while all he could do was score.

I’m so grateful for it that I’m not even mad he cost me $700 being stupid tonight.

End rant.
Wow. Here's a clip of it. The first thing he says to Sexton is "it's not about you".

 
Wow. Here's a clip of it. The first thing he says to Sexton is "it's not about you".

In real-time, I watched him ask Sexton “what we’re you supposed to do?” And like a child, Sexton pointed at a spot on the floor without regard for how his teammates had compromised the rotations to cover for him guarding a “spot” on the floor.

Way to catch a snippet of what I saw

Without a doubt, Sexton cost them this game just being dumb.

Good for Handy for sitting next to him in real-time and trying to help him see the light.

Pro tip for Handy: he won’t. :chuckle:
 
Jazz were losing at halftime, solely because Collin Sexton is one of the dumbest basketball players I’ve ever seen. That’s not hyperbole.

Dumb. Both ends. Conley is out, so Sexton and THT were the only point guards and THT just on brain and not being a moron was 10x the point for Utah tonight. If he had started instead of Sexton, Utah wins this game going away. But back to Bull being dumb.

Clippers kept abusing him on the defensive end. Pick n rolls and iso against our guy. Compromising the Jazz team defense and getting Vanderbilt and Olynk in foul trouble because they were thinking for him and trying to help cover his lack of thinking.

After 5 mins in the 3rd, Will Handy had seen enough so he subs Collin out for THT and the Jazz take the lead heading into the 4th. Not exaggerating. THT and the defensive collective turned the entire tide of the game and had the Clippers looking lost without Collin to pick on for easy baskets.

I’m ecstatic. This is the last leg of a 12 leg parlay that turns $2 into $750. Im giving the Jazz 3 points so I basically need them to either lose by less than 3 or win the game and I win. DraftKings offers me $500 at the start of the 4th but I’m like, nah, Utah figured this out and will probably win. Give me all of my coins.

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Unexplainably, with a 4 point lead and about 10 mins left, Handy decides to give Sexton another chance.

Ty Lue goes RIGHT back to exploiting Sexton and takes the lead back by 4 with 4 mins left before Handy takes Sexton out and spends 2 possessions arguing with him on the bench about his missed rotations and inability to move the ball on offense. The NBA TV cameras watched him chew him out literally for 2 mins.

Moral of this story: I know stupid when I see it on the basketball court. And gratefully, my team avoided giving stupid a 4 year nearly 100 million dollar deal and continuing to compromise every young player on our team who had to think for him while all he could do was score.

I’m so grateful for it that I’m not even mad he cost me $700 being stupid tonight.

End rant.

Collin changed your name to PofieldCavRaised.

Trust Koby my brother.

Then again I believed in Ice so WTF do I know?
 
Jazz were losing at halftime, solely because Collin Sexton is one of the dumbest basketball players I’ve ever seen. That’s not hyperbole.

Dumb. Both ends. Conley is out, so Sexton and THT were the only point guards and THT just on brain and not being a moron was 10x the point for Utah tonight. If he had started instead of Sexton, Utah wins this game going away. But back to Bull being dumb.

Clippers kept abusing him on the defensive end. Pick n rolls and iso against our guy. Compromising the Jazz team defense and getting Vanderbilt and Olynk in foul trouble because they were thinking for him and trying to help cover his lack of thinking.

After 5 mins in the 3rd, Will Handy had seen enough so he subs Collin out for THT and the Jazz take the lead heading into the 4th. Not exaggerating. THT and the defensive collective turned the entire tide of the game and had the Clippers looking lost without Collin to pick on for easy baskets.

I’m ecstatic. This is the last leg of a 12 leg parlay that turns $2 into $750. Im giving the Jazz 3 points so I basically need them to either lose by less than 3 or win the game and I win. DraftKings offers me $500 at the start of the 4th but I’m like, nah, Utah figured this out and will probably win. Give me all of my coins.

View attachment 13236

Unexplainably, with a 4 point lead and about 10 mins left, Handy decides to give Sexton another chance.

Ty Lue goes RIGHT back to exploiting Sexton and takes the lead back by 4 with 4 mins left before Handy takes Sexton out and spends 2 possessions arguing with him on the bench about his missed rotations and inability to move the ball on offense. The NBA TV cameras watched him chew him out literally for 2 mins.

Moral of this story: I know stupid when I see it on the basketball court. And gratefully, my team avoided giving stupid a 4 year nearly 100 million dollar deal and continuing to compromise every young player on our team who had to think for him while all he could do was score.

I’m so grateful for it that I’m not even mad he cost me $700 being stupid tonight.

End rant.

“But bro, he’s like 90% of Mitchell and doesn’t cost as much and we can keep all our assets.”
 
It’s crazy what a year does. Last year I was all in on keeping sexton and trading garland oh boy I’m glad I wasn’t the gm. Sexton hasn’t improved shit since he’s been in the league and still clueless on defense with his tunnel vision that can’t get an assist to save his life
 
It’s crazy what a year does. Last year I was all in on keeping sexton and trading garland oh boy I’m glad I wasn’t the gm. Sexton hasn’t improved shit since he’s been in the league and still clueless on defense with his tunnel vision that can’t get an assist to save his life

I think Utah is going through the growing pains that are necessary to build out Sexton as a player. There are going to be some hard times but they seem more willing than the Cavs were to go through those hurdles to develop him more properly. I think it's good for Sexton to have to explain what he is seeing and have a coach sit him to explain what he is doing wrong.

The Cavs approach to developing our young players was to throw big minutes at them and give them the freedom to work on whatever aspects of their game they want. I think we are seeing with Sexton and Okoro how that doesn't build two way players or get them to fix their faults. Both are hard workers but without the proper guidance, they will work on what they like and ignore their faults. It's like when my dad made me do SAT workbooks as a teen for a certain amount of time on the weekends. He didn't actually help me with going through it so I just would do the Math section and skip the Reading/language part that I hated to do. My scores definitely reflected that.
 
I think Utah is going through the growing pains that are necessary to build out Sexton as a player. There are going to be some hard times but they seem more willing than the Cavs were to go through those hurdles to develop him more properly. I think it's good for Sexton to have to explain what he is seeing and have a coach sit him to explain what he is doing wrong.

The Cavs approach to developing our young players was to throw big minutes at them and give them the freedom to work on whatever aspects of their game they want. I think we are seeing with Sexton and Okoro how that doesn't build two way players or get them to fix their faults. Both are hard workers but without the proper guidance, they will work on what they like and ignore their faults. It's like when my dad made me do SAT workbooks as a teen for a certain amount of time on the weekends. He didn't actually help me with going through it so I just would do the Math section and skip the Reading/language part that I hated to do. My scores definitely reflected that.
I think this is pure speculation. They give young guys big minutes, sure, but the idea that there is no teaching doesn’t line up with the rest of the roster.

More likely: Darius Garland, Dean Wade, Lamar Stevens, Evan Mobley, and even Jarrett Allen didn’t just morph into their improved selves with 0 guidance whatsoever, but because the Cavs have developed a heck of system for developing talent.

I think they saw what @RchfldCavRaised and a lot of us have seen in Sexton and realized it just wasn’t going to stick. My personal theory is that they were always going to trade him and JUMPED at the idea of Utah valuing him in a Mitchell trade.

Okoro has had ups and downs, and frankly hasn’t looked like an NBA player for much of this season, but I don’t think it’s because the Cavs haven’t tried. I think they got swindled a bit in that weird COVID scouting year and his talent isn’t all that high, compounding his physical traits not being as advertised. Regardless, he was always going to be a long term project and it’s early in year 3.
 
After watching the injury ravaged Sixers beat down the full-strength Nets, I started to wonder what the over/under is until Durant “demands” a trade again. What a fun locker room that must be in Brooklyn.
 
I think this is pure speculation. They give young guys big minutes, sure, but the idea that there is no teaching doesn’t line up with the rest of the roster.

More likely: Darius Garland, Dean Wade, Lamar Stevens, Evan Mobley, and even Jarrett Allen didn’t just morph into their improved selves with 0 guidance whatsoever, but because the Cavs have developed a heck of system for developing talent.

I think they saw what @RchfldCavRaised and a lot of us have seen in Sexton and realized it just wasn’t going to stick. My personal theory is that they were always going to trade him and JUMPED at the idea of Utah valuing him in a Mitchell trade.

Okoro has had ups and downs, and frankly hasn’t looked like an NBA player for much of this season, but I don’t think it’s because the Cavs haven’t tried. I think they got swindled a bit in that weird COVID scouting year and his talent isn’t all that high, compounding his physical traits not being as advertised. Regardless, he was always going to be a long term project and it’s early in year 3.

I don't think it's zero guidance but I don't think they want to rock the boat to push players to work on their faults. Garland and Mobley had a very good foundation coming into the NBA. Garland's dad is a former NBA player. Mobley's dad is a coach at USC. Wade and Stevens were 4 year players in college. Allen was in his 4th NBA season before the Cavs got a hold of him.

Sexton and Okoro are two players that had the least solid coaching before coming to the Cavs. The approach they took might have been fine with players with good foundations but I'm not sure they had the coaching and vets to develop more raw player once Beilein left then Lyndsey Gottlieb took a college HC job. Gottlieb was the one who was always talking to the young guys on the sidelines.

JBB is more a motivator than an X and O's coach. I'm not sure they replenished the staff with the teachers they needed, while I don't think they ever really had the vets needed to help teach and mentor the young guys.
 
After watching the injury ravaged Sixers beat down the full-strength Nets, I started to wonder what the over/under is until Durant “demands” a trade again. What a fun locker room that must be in Brooklyn.
They wasted one of five games this season where Ben will care. Ceiling is a first round exit.
 
Anthony Davis finally getting his stuff together and playing like an MVP.
 
@Rich Kings are looking like a straight up playoff team in the west. They rank #2 in ortg and are top 10 in srs.
 

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