Around the NBA - the 2020 Playoff Edition!

Rockets were down 67-51 and now they're up 85-80. Amazing. If this was us, we're getting blown out in all likelihood.

 

Westbrook is so bad

 

Better than Coors Light

 

My goodness look at PJ Tucker. Meanwhile blazers couldn’t get a rebound to save their life all series Against the lakers. And PJ Tucker is amongst trees grabbing offensive rebounds like it’s nothing

 

D’Antoni is a much better coach than Stotts.

 

Lakers tie it up.

 

That's game.

 

You get that he's being sarcastic, right?

 

We had a bunch of sizable comebacks this year didn't we?

 

God houston is the pure definition of feast or famine. That ain’t it

 

I really love that Westbrick has been trending on twitter during and after every Rockets game lately.

 

I know we did have a bunch that we won but right now all I can think of is that amazing comeback in the bubble against Boston that we couldn't hold on to. Ugh!

 

But 16 posts in the same thread saying the same thing over and over again? How about we go back three years and find out exactly who was thinking Bam was going to be better than Collins?
You know why Olshey didn't pick him? Because absolutely NO ONE said he would be better than Zach Collins. And as a matter of fact lets see where they are at the end of next year? Something tells me the gap between the two will not be that much.

 

Oh damn you believe in Zach that MUCH ? I’ll tell you this though, I wouldn’t be mad if I was wrong. But I HIGHLY doubt it. Bam is very special

 

whatever that "something" is you should have it examined. Adebayo is about 3 tiers better than Zach. In a playoff game today he had 26 points on 13 shots, 12 rebounds, and 8 assists. Bam averaged 16 pts, 10 rebs, and 5 asts this year. For Zach to match that, he'd have to increase his scoring by 127%, his rebounding by 62% and his assists by 240%. He'd have to more than double his PER and improve his winshare/48 by 3.2 times. I won't even calculate how much he'd have to upgrade his BPM, but Zach is at -3.1 while Abedayo is at +3.4. That's a mile-wide gulf

I get that some of you guys are still high on Zach, but trying to argue he's close to the same level as John Collins or Bam Adebayo is just loopy. It's made loopier when the argument is based on the theory he'll get that good sometime next year. He's the same age as John Collins and Adebayo....why wouldn't they improve at the same rate that Zach does?

 

I was talking more about the playoffs.

 

I'm with you on what your saying but I did think Bam was going to be great and Collins was an unknown to me because he didn't start at Gonzaga and didn't do what Bam did at the combine. I wasn't mad about the pick though and I just think criticizing draft picks is asinine. Every GM misses on draft picks a lot, so it's just part of the game... especially when you are drafting where we have been since drafting Dame (anywhere 10 or later). It's even more ridiculous to be judging picks as hits or misses before they've had a chance to develop.