Tim

Singer to Bears. Advocate for Wide Open Fadeaways.

[Tim @ChuckShots]

I think basketball twitter is overwhelming the 82-0 site

[Tim @ChuckShots]

41-41, First try. @DuncanSmithNBA https://t.co/brEUiq2eES

[Tim @ChuckShots]

@ChipTheStick Lmfaoooo

[Tim @ChuckShots]

82-0 feels impossible. This team went 73-9

[Mohamed @MoeSquare]

This game is quite addicting, even if some of the win/loss records being spat out is questionable https://t.co/fvRyhcJg7F

[Tim @ChuckShots]

This is cleverly worded

[NBA @NBA]

KOBE. LEBRON. WEMBY.

Victor Wembanyama joins Kobe Bryant in 2001 and LeBron James in 2007 as the only players this century to lead their team in scoring entering the Finals at 22 or younger 🤯

[Tim @ChuckShots]

@theJuby14 Also 73-9

[Tim @ChuckShots]

@borders_r_fake In the he is a perfect representation of why you dont want a player doing that kind of way

[Tim @ChuckShots]

65 points on all jump shots would be a crazy thing to want a player to do.

Kobe did almost do it though, he had like 4 shots in the paint this game and 11 made free throws. But otherwise all jumpers

[TheTruth @TheTruth8240]

Kobe dropping 65 on the Blazers on Pure Jumpshots

Lebron has NEVER in his life been able to do this

This is REAL Greatness

[Tim @ChuckShots]

@borders_r_fake What else happened to Carmelos teams in 2013

[NBACentral @TheDunkCentral]

Kevin Garnett calls out Victor Wembanyama for being ‘too emotional’ after winning the Western Conference Finals 👀

[Tim @ChuckShots]

Actually, no.

[Banis Major @BanisMajor]

Jordan cultists LOVE this season, but hate the 1994 season

Just so I can jog your memory....

1994:
Jordan misses 82 games
Bulls go 55-27

1998:
Pippen misses 44 games
They went 36-8 WITH Pippen
They went 26-12 WITHOUT Pippen
Overall 62-20

Interesting?

[Tim @ChuckShots]

@streethistory It is crazy that they might blow it up for financial reasons regardless

[Tim @ChuckShots]

OKC giving up Chet for Sengun would be an all time blunder.

[NBACentral @TheDunkCentral]

Zach Lowe floated an interesting trade idea that would have the Thunder trade Chet Holmgren for Alperen Şengün 👀

(h/t @GormanChristoph )

[Tim @ChuckShots]

@streethistory yeah i mean what theeee fuck. god forbid, but what if Wemby gets hurt? the Thunder just punted on the best young team in a decade because of one guy?

[Tim @ChuckShots]

@TulaneTiger maybe my idea of what "catapult" meant in your initial tweet is different than how you intended because sure, if we are saying part of his ascent as a player continued all the way through that 4th championship then i can't argue with any of this. i was not framing it that way

[Tim @ChuckShots]

LeBron simply got better. league wide offense was actually better in 2007 than it was in 2012 and 2013.

he was a 22 year old with a clear flaw in his game that it took running into the best team in the league in the finals to exploit.

[Carter2x @TulaneTiger]

I remember watching this and wondering how a superstar player could have a jumper and handle that bad. Hours in the gym and the game evolving to having more space really catapulted him.

[Tim @ChuckShots]

@JamesF84 right, could you imagine blowing up the core identity of a team that won a literal NBA championship

[Tim @ChuckShots]

@TulaneTiger like man i don't think you are wrong that spacing helped LeBron, that is obvious. it is just the idea that it materially changed his trajectory or something like that. The dude was going to peak like he did whether his teammates could shoot or not.

[Tim @ChuckShots]

@TulaneTiger the 2012 Heat attempted 15.6 threes a game. The least any team LeBron has played on since 2005. and they won their first title.

LeBron himself however, went from a 33% 3pt shooter in 2011 to a 36% 3pt shooter in 2012

the more he trusted his own jumper, the better he played

[Ten000Hours @DevInTheLab]

Anytime u hear someone say “ethical hoops” 99 percent of the time they don’t know or play basketball. If they did, they’d know all scorers sell calls lol.

[Tim @ChuckShots]

@JamesF84 Yeah or just have Kobe develop in an NBA that encouraged less one on one and more lever pulling on offense. That run to end 2013 before his achilles popped was maybe my favorite version of him

[Tim @ChuckShots]

@TulaneTiger No evidence his game took off because of spacing no. Hours in the gym sure, its just the idea that his game took off with spacing is clearly inaccurate. He won all 4 mvps before the spacing boom.

Spacing definitely one factor that extended his prime though