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Dogfishhead's avatar

This team is so bad it's hard for me to play rank choice re: blame.

But, DDR, Vucevic and LaVine have a three-man net rating of -20.8 this year. Last year, it was -0.4. over 1600 minutes. The year before that: -1.1 over 1200 minutes. Think about that for a second.

AKME has almost sixty (60) full, 48-minute game tapes at his disposal wherein the core of his team produces a net negative result on the court. And they, the three highest paid players on the team, have for three consecutive years now sucked hard together.

Aside from Washington (?), they look like the worst team in the league panoramically. That's from a past, present and future state. The past meaning: AKME didn't have to double down on this bad mid-three premise, though he has time and again. The present, meaning the two young guys we're making orbit around that rotting planet of a core suck. I don't care why they suck, and I'm not mad at them about it. But Patrick Williams looks like he's auditioning as an extra in a hostage crisis scene and Coby White is shooting 23 % (!) from outside. And future, meaning: those two are our future. Plus Dalen Terry. And that kid they drafted this year who isn't in the G-League yet, sitting next to Dalen Terry?

So, I blame AKME. He's bad at his job. He's consistently bad at his job. He's working at the margins of this thing, when the body is all fucked up. Appraised value on this junk assemblage of parts is at an all-time low. No amount of Torrey Craig or Jevon Carter in the starting lineup is going to fix any trajectory we have, past, present of future in any meaningful way. If it wasn't for Alex Caruso mad-manning around the court like his dick is on fire, or the general, likeability of DeRozan every time he opens his mouth, I wouldn't have anything nice to say about this team. And most people don't and thus the old and familiar, consuming entrenchment of irrelevancy is here, blanketing a death march again in only game seven of the season.

Aside from that, they're doing great.

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granvillator's avatar

Here's one for you to chew on.

The NBA has been tracking charges for the last 9 NBA seasons, which coincides nicely with Zach's career.

According to the NBA, LaVine last drew a charge during the 2021-22 season.

He's never drawn another one in his entire career going back to Minnesota. Career total: 1.

Goran Dragic drew more fouls in his forgettable Chicago Bulls career (2) than Zach has in his entire life.

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