He knows the deal. He has to wait another 13 years until he is the right age to run for president.
The NBA specifically designed the schedule with “Open dates” for 2 unscheduled games.
They also should have done this later in the year.
They could have made it so at the start of the year no teams are scheduled for more than 3 games. Then, based on the tournament results that 4th matchup either happens in the tournament or on the “Open Date” later in the season.
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~Sherlock Holmes
I nominate Nick Bosa.
“Grass good, use grass.”
head 2 head should not be the primary tiebreaker. No round robin system uses this. No one game in group play should mean more than any other.
He’s a 3&D wing. He’d fit on just about any roster.
I still think they need 1 more player in the mix. In the playoffs teams are still going to double Embiid. Which puts the pressure on Maxey & Harris. Harris has a history of not showing up, and it’s hard to expect Maxey to go crazy every game.
And Boston is still a bad matchup for them. Double Embiid, Jrue on Maxey. They can’t depend on Harris & Melton to bail them out.
I think they need one more piece in there for when Harris or Maxey have an off scoring night.
The Eagles. They are a great team, but have not played up to 10-1. Oh, you meant…
It’s just as dumb to use h2h as the primary tiebreak. No round robin should run like that. All games are supposed to have equal value.
Take the World Cup for instance, if Ireland beats Turkey but the two end up tied in points, it doesn’t default to their h2h, because the other games mattered just as much.
That’s what happens when you steal all their backup centers.
Tho he’s gonna look great playing for the 76ers next year.
This is statistically untrue. His post-season production is nearly identical to his regular season production. The only time it hasn’t is the last two years where he had a shattered face and grade 2 LCL sprain.
The “playoff dropoff” is derived solely from two injury-plagued playoff runs.
you know he also led the league in made FGs, right?
He’s also #6 in FG made, after being #1 in the league last year.
So yes, he gets a lot of points of FTs. He also scores a lot of points without them.
^([no team bias, just in case])
using h2h as the primary tiebreaker of a round robin group is a dumb way to go about this.
Going into the group stage no game should start out with any more importance than any other.
case in point: Tyler Herro won 6th man two years ago. He played 32.6 MPG, tied for 3rd on the team and equal to Bam - a full time starter. He also led the team in FGA per game.
69 players in the NBA started 50 or more games and played less minutes per game than Herro.
IF the design of the award is to reward bench role players, not the main contributors, players like Herro shouldn’t have been eligible.
next he’s going to say “they’d trade me for a crumbl cookie”
that’s almost as old as franchise cornerstone Terance Mann