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Voting closed: June 01, 2022, 11:20:06 PM

[bodiddley]

NBA Trivia:

There are 12 players who have seen action (out of 292) who haven't recorded one assist yet this season. (according to ESPn)
Of those, 8 have averaged more than 5 mins per over 3 games.

Name those non-assisters.

Hint: 2 are ex-Knix.

(5 of those have averaged over 12 mins per.
And one a whopping 26 mins, so zero assists in 78 minutes)

[bodiddley]

Well, the non-assisters were:
TyC
K O'Quinn

A Very Bradley was the leader in minutes without an assist but got one last night.  Kind of bad for a G.
Speaking of, another G was Awful Rivers and his one man show.

I'll have to look up the rest.
Bradley and Rivers stood out as G's not getting others buckets.

Oh yeah, Korkmaz Forkuz or whatever his name is was another.
Edit: Ed Davis, Jared Dudley, Christian Wood.

[bodiddley]

So far Mitch has 1 assist in 3 games.
Morris 2 in 4 games.

[bodiddley]

It's very sad that LeBron is temporarily homeless.
Maybe we should start a GoFundMe campaign to get him appropriate shelter and a new toothbrush.

[kiidcarter8]

Well, the non-assisters were:
TyC
K O'Quinn

A Very Bradley was the leader in minutes without an assist but got one last night.  Kind of bad for a G.
Speaking of, another G was Awful Rivers and his one man show.

I'll have to look up the rest.
Bradley and Rivers stood out as G's not getting others buckets.

Oh yeah, Korkmaz Forkuz or whatever his name is was another.
Edit: Ed Davis, Jared Dudley, Christian Wood.

Keep an eye on the Allan Houston-like Dillon Brooks, who I believe had a 30-0-0 game (may have been in pre)

[kiidcarter8]

Rivers' usage will be way down this year

But he may get a ring.

[bodiddley]

The Embiid-Towns scuffle wasn't much.
They got their arms tangled after a play, both kind of got annoyed about it.  Seemed Embiid tried to push Towns who responded with a pseudo-headlock.

Back in the day, that would have been a double-technical and you just keep playing.

Simmons was closest and corraled KAT from behind and brought him down with a headlock.  I was impressed that Teague grabbed Embiid's back and tried to restrain that massive man. Brave.

A weird incident as it happened in the backcourt, with most players downcourt on a fast break.  The first responders were the PHI assistants from the nearby bench, who all fell or slid around in their loafers and appeared useless.

But it wasn't much of a fight.  Don't think anyone threw a punch.  Just hugged and danced a bit before falling over.
Embiid enjoys being a heel, and played to the crowd on his exit.
He might not get suspended for fighting, but could for glorifying fighting with his shadow boxing routine and by pumping up the crowd on his way out.

Big guys, but like most NBA players they probably haven't been in a fight since 5th grade, when they grew enough to be double everyone else's size.

[bodiddley]

Georgian Bitadze with 10 / 9 / 4 Blocks in 25 mins.
First game with real minutes.

[bodiddley]

Zonja got the start and had 11 / 12 / 4 in 37 mins.

Unfortunately, Zachollins needs shoulder surgery.

[kiidcarter8]

Hardaway has been awful the first 3 games.
29% FG; 2-17 on 3's.
Has gotten 21 or 22 mins each game.
3 rebounds and 4 assists for the season.

Update, please.

[bodiddley]

Actually I gave Tim some props in the Knix forum for a big bench led W v. DEN. Brunson and Kleber and ? were also big that game. 

After that, last two games, Tim shot 39% FG, got just 2 FT's, had some boards.  Nothing notable.  Typical Tim below-average output.  But an improvement from the horrid start

[bodiddley]

HOU shooting 30% on 3's as a team.
Gordon 21.6% on 8.5 attempts.
Harden 21.5%
Westbrook sharpshooting at 25%.
Rustbrook went 1-6 on 3's in the MIA blowout loss.
The only 3 he made was a half court buzzer beater to cut the lead to 28 going into the 4Q.

Rivers 33.3% on 3's.
Tucker and House over 45%.

[kiidcarter8]

HOU shooting 30% on 3's as a team.
Gordon 21.6% on 8.5 attempts.
Harden 21.5%


Then other than those 2 Rockets shooting pretty well

3-3 start with all the misfires.  We should be so lucky.

[kiidcarter8]

House, Tucker, Rivers and Green 33.3% +

[bodiddley]

Rivers 33.3% on 3's.
Tucker and House over 45%.

My way seems more honest; less bs.

Cam Reddish off to an awful career shooting start.
1-18 on 3's.
21% FG.
And in the 5 games he played he got 20+ mins per (averaging 25).

I'm no draftnik, but when I heard Barrett was weak on 3's, iffy on D and a poor FT shooter, I was nervous.  RJB has an unusual style.  But for a rook, he plays at a very measured pace, is physical, and knows what he's doing.  Poised and confident. 
Terrific on the break.

The FT's have been bad, but that's easy to work on.  His defense seems mostly fine from what I've seen.  I certainly see more defensive mistakes from Randle, Portis and Knox.  And RJB is a multi-position defender.  A pleasant surprise on that end.

Jury out on his 3's.  But his form looks pretty good.  He made them early and has been missing lately.  But also likely to have tired legs form so many minutes and so much running around.

Fizz sounded like an idiot saying Spree averaged over 40, so somehow that means Barrett can too.  Spree was a durable guy who often was a league leader in minutes played.  What that has to do with Barrett is anybody's guess.  And times have changed.  Teams much more aware of rest and load management and long term health over short term whatever.

On a deep team, going nowhere, playing your studly rook 35+ mins a night is stupid.