11-29-2021, 02:15 PM
(11-29-2021, 01:41 PM)Kammrath Wrote: Thanks for the props. But honestly I was just reading the tea leaves and playing the statistical odds with players of his type, minutes load, and injury history. It could have gone another way, but I felt like it was a 70+% chance that it turned out the way that it has.
And I know for a fact that I am NOT in any way smarter than folks in NBA front offices, so that is why I kept pushing so hard the idea that the Mavs were smoke screening with Kemba and didn't REALLY want him. But.....now that everything about the front office dysfunction has come out, I am not surprised anymore they pursued such a risky path. I just was giving the Mavs front office way too much benefit of the doubt in recent years.
Just really hard to tell how injury-prone players age. As you stated the odds were probably against Kemba. It´s a gamble.
Slightly off topic but did anyone expect Stephen Curry to come out and play the best defense of his career this season. Right now I would give him an all defense spot. He has been incredible. Just looked at the numbers. Among starters he leads the league in D-Rating (NBA.com). Ranks 3rd in DWS.
That´s what I call beating the odds. Nearly 34. One ankle injury after another. Not enough to stop him. Looks like he is in the best shape of his life and discovered his inner Tony Allen.