@PanielloPaolo@mattyglesias This is what I've been telling people. He went #1 because of what he was supposed to be on defense. He had good shooting touch, but his offensive game developed far beyond what anyone imagined while his defense never came close to what was projected. Ability was always in there.
This is why I laugh when people say Brunson is having a bad series. Of course he is. Every possession looks like a deleted scene from Mortal Kombat and the refs are treating it like legal defense.
@rodimusprime It could happen. Hammond is right on the border and is still part of the Chicago metro area. It would be like the Commanders playing in Andover or the Jets/Giants in East Rutherford. Way closer than the 49ers in Santa Clara
@RyB_311 He was great tonight, but that happens all of the time in the playoffs. You can't play the way he did in Game 1, when the rest of the team was great, and win a tight series like this. That was the 1 full JDub game and they lost it because SGA was bad.
@MythNix@ScottKacsmar Is a hypothesis. One that I don't believe there is particularly strong support for given how much of the history of each league could be classified as an "expansion era" when championships won in 1998 are being partially attributed to expansion in 1988.
@MythNix@ScottKacsmar Free agency and salary caps are the only factors I will accept as having definitively made 3peats more difficult to achieve, for very obvious reasons. But the Bulls overcame the loss of Horace Grant to free agency and BJ Armstrong to the expansion draft to 3peat again
@MythNix@ScottKacsmar And this can be said for all of the leagues. Dominant teams are always coming close to achieving the feat, whether there was recent expansion or not. Whether or not they pulled it off has little to do w/ expansion, but their own quality and the randomness inherent in sports.
@MythNix@ScottKacsmar I've always hated this argument because the NBA expanded on a regular basis from the 60s through 1980. They never went more than a couple years without expanding. Yet, no 3 peats. Coincidentally, the Celtics dominance faded right when the league began to expand.
@thunderpokefan@TheSteinLine@TheNBPA 2. Sha’Rae Mitchell and Ashley Moyer-Gleich. I noticed that too and I think it speaks very well for them that they’re in tier 2 while being relatively young. Everyone I recognize in tier 1 has been around for 10+ years, so I think it takes time to build up respect with players
@AtomicHabit4L@cptdankkk No, he can’t. It’s not allowed in the Collective Bargaining Agreement. He thinks it should be allowed, but that would have to be negotiated between the Players Association and the owners in the future. The owners would fight hard against it and it would benefit few of the players