Luke Loucks stated on Pardon My Take that freshman center Marcis "Baby Shaq" Ponder has already broken a hoop:
"He broke our hoop on day one. I walk in our practice facility, the hoops is sideways, like what happened, like Marcis' first workout."
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Simply one of the greatest performances in NBA history by Victor Wembanyama. 41/23/3 with 3 blocks. He is already one of the top-tier two-way forces in NBA history. No other human being on the planet can reach that level of impact in a single game. He is unfathomable.
The Denver Nuggets were the best 3-point shooting team in the regular season by far
They shot 32.1% on wide open 3s in the first round, which would have been last in the NBA by far
The Wolves shot 44.7%, which would have been first in the NBA by far
Shon Abaev will be the 5th highest rated high school recruit to play for FSU since 2003. Only trails Scottie Barnes, Jonathan Isaac, Michael Snaer, and Dwayne Bacon. Pretty good company.
I trust Luke Loucks to get him back on track.
@2024nattyychamp@pweltorro@CoolHandMe33 You don’t need stars to be a great team. Wemby has huge impact but the rest of the team is incredibly well assembled. You can’t add fox, castle, kornet, harper and think +- is still that valid of a stat for him.
Nikola Jokić is averaging 27.8 points, 12.8 rebounds, 10.8 assists and 1.4 steals in 34.8 minutes.
He's the first player in NBA history to lead the league in rebounds per game and assists per game in the same season.
He's on pace to set the all-time record for single-season box plus/minus.
Jokić trails only Victor Wembanyama among MVP candidates in net rating swing, but he has played 327 more minutes than Wemby.
Jokić leads the NBA in "points plus points generated by assists" per game at 53.4. Luka Dončić (52.9) and Shai Gilgeous-Alexander (48.2) are second and third, while Wembanyama (31.5) is 38th.
With the exception of Spencer Jones, every Nugget with 100+ minutes alongside Jokić has a higher eFG% with Jokić than he has without him. Cameron Johnson (+12.9), Christian Braun (+24.0), Bruce Brown (+11.3), Aaron Gordon (+10.5) and Julian Strawther (+12.0) all have their eFG%s jump by at least 10 points when they play with Jokić.
Jokić trails only Jalen Duren (64.3% of Duren's field goals are assisted) and Deandre Ayton (80.2% of Ayton's field goals are assisted) in true shooting percentage. 60.8% of Jokić's field goals are assisted, and the average distance from the hoop for his made field goals is 11.7 feet. The average distances for Duren's and Ayton's made field goals are 3.7 and 5.1 feet, respectively.
Jokić leads the NBA in "actual" offensive estimated plus-minus.
He leads the Huge Nerd Index.
Jokić also leads the league in PER (player efficiency rating), in Opta Analyst's DRIP (daily-updated rating of individual performance, in DARKO DPM (daily adjusted and regressed Kalman optimized daily plus-minus) and in NBA dot com's PIE (player impact estimate).
Jokić leads the league with 30 triple-doubles, while Jalen Johnson and Josh Giddey, who are second and third on that leaderboard, have combined for 25.