If you are not sure who is better between Cade Cunningham and Jalen Suggs: Consider that Jalen Suggs is a top 3 player on a 14-5 team, whereas Cade is not a top 3 player on a 2-17 team. Suggs is better and it's not particularly close.

Reed Sheppard likely can't defend as well as Caruso. And he likely can't shoot it as well as Steph. But there's some chance he is the exact midpoint of both players, which would be really awesome.

Isaiah Collier has the worst eye test of any projected #1 prospect ever. How does anybody think this guy can play?

The mathematical odds of Isaiah Collier being a more useful NBA player than Nikola Topic are something like 0.5% Any GM that drafts Collier over Topic should be fired on the spot.

Which prospect is better?

It's always fascinating to watch an outlier prospect who is capable of doing things that nobody has been able to do before. Isaiah Collier is a rare negative outlier, who has never seen before flaws in his game. Did a full writeup on his badness: open.substack.com/pub/deanondraf…

Wild that 23 year old Zion can’t keep up with 39 year old LeBron

Scoot got repeatedly dusted on D and was inefficient on offense leading to his team being down 33 in 4q against depleted Jazz at home But then he was able to pad his stats in garbage time, and that’s now the most exciting thing he has done all year

Scoot Henderson will peak as

Scoot is shooting 39.4% on 2P and averaging 3 turnovers per game during that stretch No matter how hard you try to cherrypick for a decent Scoot sample, there is nothing encouraging out there. He has been consistently horrible.

Everybody always dumped on Fratello on live TV. Both Ian Eagle at YES and TNT broadcast crews with Marv Albert, Steve Kerr, Reggie Miller, etc would routinely diss him on air. Could never tell to what extent it was a running joke vs genuine lack of respect

Great trade for Raptors. Siakam is good, but does not fit with Barnes and is not the right player to max after he turns 30 in April Getting 3 firsts and no bad salary for him is such a solid win

The 3 pointer is ruining the game I love. Did a writeup on how stupidly overpowered it is, and all of the negative consequences of its power now being realized. If the NBA just changes 2s and 3s to 3s and 4s, everything will be so much better: open.substack.com/pub/deanondraf…

This is insane. The Bucks are 30-13, and look like about a flip to hit their pre-season over which was too high He wasn't the best coach, but not the worst either. At least got Giannis to take fewer non paint 2PA Not sure what magic they expect to get from hiring Doc midseason

Teams realizing the power of 3 pointers and optimizing spacing is ruining the NBA Nobody can stop anybody and points are cheap and inflated

You need to adjust for inflation Kobe actually crushed Luka in terms of single game Box Plus Minus 33.6 to 20.5