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🏆🏆🏆 Chips by @pointforwardai❗

Our new game that lets you build a cross-era starting five and compete for chips in every era.

We trained a ML model that grades your starting 5 against actual attributes from every historical championship team's DNA.

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@ShamsCharania Ran a detailed analysis in 2 min to see if he’s washed, not looking great on the surface. Lakers have to hope that last year was noise while playing for an uninspiring team: https://t.co/jvqkqVrqzk

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@kylekuzma Nah he definitely used https://t.co/PwQXOPObTP to come up with this

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@dr_ilardi A RAPM-only view is flawed here. RAPM for these players' on their prev teams likely won't translate well (Smart's own RAPM skyrocketed with LAL after playing on MEM the year prior).

Read our model's analysis on the Lakers signings from yesterday here: https://t.co/JXoQTJFLeO

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@csteed Awesome analysis! Have you tried using https://t.co/3CorilnnLl for analyses like these yet? Real data scraped from 20+ sources over 80+ years, real computation. Just prompt it.

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@VinoUncorked Don’t use Claude for hoops analysis. Use https://t.co/PwQXOPObTP we trained on 80 years of basketball data

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@TheSteinLine Adam Silver debuts one of these unnecessary dumb rules nobody cares about every year

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@TheDunkCentral @tomhaberstroh Ran probability of this through our basketball data science agent….. great news if you’re not a Celtics fan 😬

https://t.co/s5UAN8zdu8

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We ran a detailed analysis in <2 min of Ziare William's fit next to Luka:
- Elite catch-and-shoot fit: 43% right corner, 53.6% of his shots
- No secondary creation: just 1.1 APG
-2.67 RAPM: a depth wing, not a ceiling-raiser

Full analysis 👇
https://t.co/7LfsuKILgA

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Our AI graded the Lakers taking Cameron Carr at #24 in 2 min.

He has real length and explosion: 6’4” guard, 7’1” wingspan, 42.5” max vert

Upside: 39.4% shooter who spaces the floor for Luka. Ceiling = Josh Hart.

Downside: at 184 lbs, a year from real minutes on a win-now roster.

Full analysis 👇
https://t.co/oiOiEfrRlv

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Our AI graded the Giannis trade in 2 min.

MIA: B- | MIL: B+

The key question for Miami: offense.

Giannis shoots 33% from three. Bam 32%. Both live in the paint, neither wants to screen. Elite defense, potentially clogged offense.

Full analysis here: https://t.co/aiiqQ5s4jC

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How good are the Hampton 5 Warriors in the 90s? Still good enough to win a chip.

Run any cross era starting 5 across any decade of basketball to try and win a chip. Play at https://t.co/EssKBV2xAj

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@TheMisterMann Try out Chips instead. You can’t just stack a bunch of S to your guys and go 82. No you actually have to put together a championship caliber starting five that’s built on a machine learning model of all past NBA champs

Play at https://t.co/EssKBV2xAj

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@nick_knows_ball Try out Chips instead. You can’t just stack a bunch of S to your guys and go 82. No you actually have to put together a championship caliber starting five that’s built on a machine learning model of all past NBA champs

Play at https://t.co/EssKBV2xAj

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@itsbelal_a Share your best 5 here!

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@Yinoma2001 @Yinoma2001 ran your tweet through https://t.co/PwQXOPObTP and got a whole breakdown in 2 minutes on the right targets https://t.co/JOtK19FrBK

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Lakers stretch big targets — spacing + rim deterrence ranked (2025-26 RS data)

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TIER 3 — Spacers only

Player 3P% 3PA/g Rim FG% BPG
7. Naz Reid 36.2% 5.8 67.6% 1.01
8. Yabusele 38.3% 4.9 66.0% 0.42
9. Jock Landale 39.1% 2.8 65.1% 0.55

All fine if LAL already has rim protection elsewhere. Reid leads in 3PA/g (5.8). Yabusele cheapest true FA spacer at $5.5M.

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Lakers stretch big targets — spacing + rim deterrence ranked (2025-26 RS data)

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[Yinoma2001 @Yinoma2001]

Watching the Spurs/OKC series, it's clearer to me that the Lakers MUST get at least one stretch center option.

Having Wemby/IHart/Chet parked in the paint is asking for trouble. Having a stretch center that draws them out to cover them is a must if you want to beat them.

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TIER 2 — One dimension dominant

Player 3P% 3PA/g Rim FG% BPG
4. J. Smith 37.3% 4.2 54.6% 0.79
5. Kel'el Ware 39.5% 3.0 62.5% 1.09
6. Vučević 37.6% 4.5 61.8% 0.65

Smith: best rim FG% allowed (54.6%) but low defensive load
Ware: best 3P% + emerging blocks, allows 8.0 rim FGA/g
Vučević: spacing + 9.0 RPG, weak rim deterrence

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💎 TIER 1 — True two-way fits

Player 3P% 3PA/g Rim FG% BPG
1. Turner 38.3% 5.4 60.1% 1.62
2. Brook Lopez 36.0% 4.2 57.1% 1.16
3. KP (ATL) 36.0% 5.1 57.1% 1.29

All clear 57% rim FG% allowed with real BPG + viable spacing. Turner is the runaway best profile.