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Does Grant not know the plays? I don’t get how it’s so difficult to break him of this habit of dribbling for the first 14 seconds of the shot clock.

Dude, this bench

Gonna be tough when we’re holding them to **checks notes** 67% shooting.

30% 3P shooter Joel Embiid

I thought I had read somewhere in a preseason preview that this dude was gonna ride the pine. Guess that's not the case. Didn't expect him to look this quick at the college level.

I think I like our chances tonight. They're in the honeymoon phase where guys will defer to each other to be nice. No real chemistry yet. Depth took a hit in the trade. No home crowd to give them a boost.

He's overthinking it.

Nope

So does the word "speculate". Just pointing out that if you're going to speculate for the best case scenario, it seems a bit humorous to tell another poster "it's early" when they suggest (reasonably) that there are better prospects on his team. If "it's early" for that claim, "it's early" to claim he's a generational talent.

Exactly lol. Didn't you just speculate he is a once in a generation player one game in?

Is there a way to sticky a post about how tanking this year is an absolutely horrible idea due to the draft lottery percentages flattening? A full year of people suggesting that is going to give me an aneurysm. You can't tank effectively anymore. Ship has sailed. Bad strategy. And if we really did get Zion this entire board would break down into "omg I can't believe Hammond didn't draft a PG, WTFFFFFFFFFFFF" after he doesn't post 30/8/6 in his first game.

Jesus

Tanking does almost no good this season with the adjusted draft lottery odds

Those 2 awful between quarter stretches just killed us

Well, that. But I meant the one where he had a 4 on 1 and like a million options but decided to throw a lightning bolt at Bamba’s knees. But yeah, then he proceeded to get stripped on like 4 straight drives.

Yeah that lineup needed to be changed about 3 minutes ago. Atrocious showing.

This is a carbon copy of end of 1st // start of 2nd.

How can Simmons have no idea how to run a break

Man those last 2 Grant possessions just can’t happen. I mean those were absolutely brutal.

Do these movement fouls really improve the product? For any benefit to improving scoring, I feel like it comes with the major downside of breaking up the game by forcing free throws. No clue if there is a way to see how often or how soon teams are getting into the bonus but that would be interesting.

We somehow don’t have one player capable of throwing a PnR lob to someone with almost an 8 foot wingspan. How can that be? EDIT: Not exaggerating, I don’t think he has scored off a lob yet this year.

A 17-0 run in under 3 minutes has gotta be up there with great historical runs.

10-0 run in like a minute. And just like that all the good work is lost

Yeah this is one of those games Gordon needs to realize it’s not working and look to make impacts in other ways.

Give Ross the max