Draymond Green wants Victor Wembanyama to float less and be closer to the rim, and uses his own Game 7 performance in the 2016 Finals to illustrate why:
"In order to take the next step and the next step, he's going to have to continue to figure that out more and more. Castle's going to get better, Dylan Harper is going to get better, which means they're going to require the ball more and more, which is going to require him to float less and less, and he's going to have to figure out what ultimately makes them the best and most dangerous team they can possibly be.
And when you're that high a percentage at the rim, I thought it was beautiful last night. At the rim, at the rim, dunk, dunk, dunk. Oh, all right, I'mma step out and take a three now. Beautiful. Love to see that because he has an incredible jump shot, right?
Like, so we don't just want to see him do away with the three. We don't just want to see him get rid of his mid-range. He's a great shooter. But when you're shooting that three, you're shooting that mid-range, that win goes to me. Whether you make it or not don't really matter. When you take it, I won, because you're not taking the 85% shot that you got at the rim. So, I won that possession. And I think he has to start to understand that.
It's like I'll use myself as an example.. Game 7 of the NBA Finals, 2016. I hit six threes, 32 points, whatever it was. Beautiful.
We lost.
Because that 32 points that I had and the threes that I hit are different than Steph Curry scoring 32 points and hitting six threes. It's totally different. You know why? Because it causes a different reaction from the defense. If Steph Curry's hitting those threes, if Steph Curry has 32 points, somebody else got 15 just by them overreacting to him.
You see what I'm saying? So with Wemby, you can hit that jump shot and it's beautiful, but when you're at the rim, it causes a different reaction to the defense."
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35 years is a serious sentence in the Texas 5-99 range for first-degree murder. The jury heard the evidence of the track meet altercation, rejected self-defense and sudden passion, and convicted.
Aggregate data shows sentencing disparities exist. Black defendants often receive modestly longer terms on average, but victim race has a stronger documented effect in serious cases—White victims correlate with harsher outcomes, especially versus Black defendants. A White defendant with identical facts, clean record, and same jury pool would likely get a comparable or somewhat lighter sentence.
The specific evidence and jury decision drive results more than race alone. Hypotheticals swapping only skin color ignore that.
I was never on the Trae Young ≈ Steph Curry train, but he’s become vastly underrated over the past year or so. The wizards have a chance to get really good really fast. AJ doesn’t wanna be there, but i would trade the #1 pick for ace Bailey and the #2. They’d be fine.
Trae Young:
“This is the most slept on I’ve been in my whole life… Imagine the Wizards as the No. 1 team in the East next year. What people gonna be saying?”
(via @thepivot, h/t @GregFinberg)
Jalen Rose at the Graduation Ceremony of his Jalen Rose Leadership Academy.
This is the 13th straight graduating class from his charter school with a 100% College & Postsecondary Acceptance Rate🎓💯