Evan Mobley: All-NBA 2nd Team DPOY

[Cavatt]

Great callout on that Mavs team. Dirk was in the conversation for top 5, much like Tatum. Even if he didn't quite crack into the top 5. That Mavs team also falls into the outlier category where the sum of the parts was greater than their opponents superstars. I also think they, like the Pistons and the Lakers, faced a team that didn't take them seriously.

It fits that rough 10% thesis I'm making.

in the last 46 years it's been 4-5 outlier teams.

And in 54 years Cavs only won 1 chip with the best player, against the best team ever.

It is so weird to me making championship team "this never happened" declarations, when if that 16 squad thought that way, we would have 0.

Make the best team you can, improve around the margins, hang around and let the chips fall where they may.

Having the best player(s) in the league is the best way to win, but we have to explore other options because we don't have that.

 

[AustinCarr]

And in 54 years Cavs only won 1 chip with the best player, against the best team ever.

It is so weird to me making championship team "this never happened" declarations, when if that 16 squad thought that way, we would have 0.

Make the best team you can, improve around the margins, hang around and let the chips fall where they may.

Having the best player(s) in the league is the best way to win, but we have to explore other options because we don't have that.

Part of me will go to the grave salty that the one time in my life that the Cavs had all the parts to be a dynasty it happened to coincide with another, slightly better, dynasty. At least we got that one championship out of it. 11 Years of Lebron James should have yielded better.

I've given up hope with the browns. However the Guardians still give me a vague glimmer of hope.

 

[Cassity14]

Part of me will go to the grave salty that the one time in my life that the Cavs had all the parts to be a dynasty it happened to coincide with another, slightly better, dynasty. At least we got that one championship out of it. 11 Years of Lebron James should have yielded better.

I've given up hope with the browns. However the Guardians still give me a vague glimmer of hope.

I'm pretty confident that the Guardians will win one in my lifetime, likely in the next 15 years. Could certainly be this season for all we know.

They are an elite baseball organization that is waiting for the dice roll to go their way again in the postseason. It'll happen.

I'm fully convinced the Browns will never win a Super Bowl.

 

[The Human Q-Tip]

I'm pretty confident that the Guardians will win one in my lifetime, likely in the next 15 years. Could certainly be this season for all we know.

They are an elite baseball organization that is waiting for the dice roll to go their way again in the postseason. It'll happen.

I'm fully convinced the Browns will never win a Super Bowl.

They arguably are the best run organization in the major sports. Kind of incredible that they have managed to stay so competitive for so long with the financial restrictions they have.

 

[CPK]

They arguably are the best run organization in the major sports. Kind of incredible that they have managed to stay so competitive for so long with the financial restrictions they have.

Would be so great if we had some additional ownership to actually spend more. Just holding the talent this team typically produces, instead of having to trade it, would be huge.

 

[Cassity14]

Would be so great if we had some additional ownership to actually spend more. Just holding the talent this team typically produces, instead of having to trade it, would be huge.

Definitely going off topic, but I don't think this is a real problem. There are only a handful of teams in the sport that are spending enough on free agents to make a true impact. Most free agents aren't worth the investment.

Conversely, the Guardians are often able to turn a single impending free agent into multiple pieces for the next contention window. If they all of a sudden started paying all of their guys market value, the farm system wouldn't ever keep up for the next wave of talent to take over.

That's how you end up looking like the Royals, White Sox, Red Sox, Nationals, etc. of the world. Instead, the Guardians are competing annually because of their ability to stockpile talent.

 

[Lee]

Wait, did Evan Mobley suddenly start playing baseball?

 

[Loki478]

Wait, did Evan Mobley suddenly start playing baseball?

Chicks dig the longball

 

[Deezus]

Part of me will go to the grave salty that the one time in my life that the Cavs had all the parts to be a dynasty it happened to coincide with another, slightly better, dynasty. At least we got that one championship out of it. 11 Years of Lebron James should have yielded better.

I've given up hope with the browns. However the Guardians still give me a vague glimmer of hope.

Whoa whoa whoa… The Cavs were better than the warriors, evidenced by them nearly beating them without Love or Kyrie in 2015, beating them in 2016 at full strength, then only losing to them once KD went full snake mode in 2017 and after Kyrie bitched out in 2018.

KD’s bullshit decision, and the GS luck of having an unprecedented increase in the salary cap and having signed curry to a “way below market value” contract because of his past injury status, doesn’t make the warriors more of a Dynasty than the Cavs.

In the words of your chosen handle/name:

Get that weak stuff outta here!

 

[AustinCarr]

Whoa whoa whoa… The Cavs were better than the warriors, evidenced by them nearly beating them without Love or Kyrie in 2015, beating them in 2016 at full strength, then only losing to them once KD went full snake mode in 2017 and after Kyrie bitched out in 2018.

KD’s bullshit decision, and the GS luck of having an unprecedented increase in the salary cap and having signed curry to a “way below market value” contract because of his past injury status, doesn’t make the warriors more of a Dynasty than the Cavs.

In the words of your chosen handle/name:

Get that weak stuff outta here!

Only one of the two teams would qualify as a Dynasty: The one who won 4 championships in a 7 year span.

The Cavs *could* have won more, sure. But they didn't. The Cavs were "potential". The Warriors were "potential" realized.

 

[DeeThree]

Get

Get that tomato in my nail hair!

 

[jjvors]

Another video of Mobley shooting 3s.

 

[Dr No]

Another video of Mobley shooting 3s.

its better. The first looked pretty good. The second was slower and looked like he's aiming (there's a little hitch on the release that gives it away.) I still don't think its a shot that performs well under pressure, but just getting to where defenses have to respect it a little bit would help. We don't need him to become a sharpshooter, just good enough to keep defenses honest and punish them when they aren't.

 

[Beanie4Heisman]

Why is he practicing shooting slowly?

I'm being a little snarky, but also "Why"? I've never had a shooting coach so maybe that is a thing? I'd have thought they wanted to practice shooting at a more rushed cadence to simulate better the time allotted in game situations.

 

[The Oi]

Oh come on.

Is the idea that there’s a significant positive change in that jumper?