Goga Bitadze might be the best in the entire NBA right now at setting "Gortat" screens

When you have tired legs, the shooting is one of the biggest areas where you’re gonna see it. Think they need to consider letting him rest cause trying to have him play all 82 is probably unwise.

Not gonna draw a ton of conclusions from one good Wolves game, but this is certainly a momentum builder even if it's against the Lakers on a b2b Defense looked fantastic and the offense was very fluid for extended stretches. Who knows, but could be them starting to figure things out a bit

Curious which shonen the Wolves coaching staff went with for the film session to get this inspiring play out of their guys tonight

Wolves are having their first "power of friendship" game of the year, Lakers fans gotta be furious

Atrocious slate of hoops tonight

Think I'm just about ready to launch some #takes about AJ Green's defense

LaMelo Ball is not only scoring at the highest efficiency of his career (finally at a league average rate), but he's also putting up the most points on a nightly basis of his career. Things are finally coming together for him as a scorer.

2000+ words into writing this LaMelo Ball video with Married to the Game on repeat

Anthony Davis is recording the 5th most possessions as the roll man in the pick and roll so far this season, and he's scoring at the highest rate in the NBA among players with min. 50 possessions as the roll man with 1.45 points per possession.

A little clunky and he flirts with the travel but nice to see Knecht putting the ball on the floor and making the pass to AD on the roll

Reddish is prepping this pin-in screen for Knecht on Anthony Black, and Suggs comes to double, so this is a great cut by Knecht to give LeBron a release valve with Black thinking he's still in the corner.

Lakers run "Wide Ram 77" 1. Wide pindown for Knecht to set a ball screen for D'Lo (Ram) 2. 77 aka double drag, with Knecht setting the ball screen and popping while AD sets the second screen and rolls What finally gets the defense is Christie faking the lift before cutting baseline for the slam

Cam Reddish is quietly playing some great basketball in a limited role to start the season

LaMelo is in a flow state rn

The Lakers are scoring 112.5 points per 100 halfcourt plays with Dalton Knecht on the floor in 597 possessions. That's a rate that ranks in the 99th percentile in the NBA currently.

Yeah no team is beating Boston in a 7-game series

Isaiah Joe's reaction when he realizes he missed the rotation is priceless

I like how the Nuggets are having Westbrook feed Jokic in the post to create an open cut when Westbrook's defender sends the double.

Peyton Watson has already made 9 catch and shoot threes through 10 games this season Last season, he made 40 catch and shoot threes total across 80 games played.

Finally lost my Synergy access after 3+ years

Did Giannis just do what I think he did 😭

RON HOLLAND NOOOOO

Whew man the Bucks are getting HOSED by the refs right now

Ryan Dunn is still making threes if anyone was wondering

Cade Cunningham is a franchise player idc

Jokic, man. Knows that when the double comes, Marshall is gonna have to make the top rotation one pass away, so he hits Russ instead to get downhill, and with Gafford having to help on the drive, nobody is there to box out so Jokic can just clean it up for two points.

Just to piggyback on this: NBA avg efficiency right now: 113.8 Nuggets with Jokic: 129.2 (!!) Nuggets without Jokic: 85.5 (!!!!)

We're still in the portion of the season where I have to say "small sample size" any time I want to post on/off numbers, but the Nuggets are currently 43.7 points per 100 possessions better when Jokic is on the floor compared to when he's off. That's ridiculous.

Jaden Hardy has become a very solid connective passer relative to what I thought he would be

KAT’s shooting splits are whatever but since I’ve tuned into the second half, this is the best I’ve seen him play in a Knicks jersey

Hawks Celtics is #realhoops

DERRICK WHITE OH MY GOODNESS

There's gotta be a better way to mix arena music into broadcasts because on pretty much every local broadcast I've flipped through so far tonight, it's just way too loud

I'm just live tweeting LaMelo highlights at this point because that's all this game is becoming????

The LaMelo Ball show continues

Getting repeatedly flashbanged by these courts flipping around League Pass

This is just way too casual of a shot lol

Jalen Suggs has aura

One belief I have about the NBA and it's teams is that if you're a media person who routinely insists the team or the league is not worth watching, people will eventually believe you. And then congratulations, you played yourself when your content doesn't perform or your network stumbles.

These are the players that have attempted the most threes in the first 10 games of a season. The year next to the name denotes the calendar year that they accomplished the feat in, not the season they did it. So "Steph Curry '22" would mean he did it in Oct. of 2022, not the 2021-22 season.

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The Timberwolves definitely still need Mike Conley for a lot of reasons, but holy cow have the Timberwolves been drastically better when he's not on the floor. +10.9 with him off in 400+ possessions vs +0.6 with him on in 400+ possessions

Hot take (and you would need a top coach to make sure all these guys are used the right way) but with the right coach, this team would win a historic number of games

After diving into a lot of the film, I think the emphasis on three-point shooting was important for Anthony Edwards because of how much it seemingly simplified the game for him. I haven't seen him come off a screen without a plan and dribble into traffic in the paint nearly as much this year.

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Last night was Ant's first genuinely *bad* shooting night imo, and even still, he was one make away from it being closer to a *not great* shooting night. There is definitely a balance that will have to be struck (stricken?) eventually, but for now I'm fine with him continuing to fire away.

Chet's injury is gonna fuel the "his body can't handle NBA physicality" thing, but my bigger takeaway from the injury is that he needs to be okay with not throwing himself at every shot at the rim. It's great that he's willing to contest everything, but he can't contest anything if he's hurt.

Ridiculous player

Beautiful execution on the BLOB by Minnesota. Conley inbounds to Gobert, he passes to McDaniels, and meanwhile Ant is coming off of multiple screens to shake Highsmith. Gives Ant the room to drive, draw the help, and leave it for Randle to finish.