Fred Katz

So they're going to change it.

It has to actually be negotiated in the collective bargaining agreement, as opposed to being just some grand pronouncement from the league.

But again,

i i said at the end of last year like if norm powell were eligible for mip i would have voted for him for mip because not only did he put up career numbers with the clippers but he did it in a way that we hadn't seen and i kind of think you know a guy in his 30s completely changing the way that he played becoming this off-ball menace and scrambler of defenses that we had never seen before

I thought that that's kind of the embodiment of MIP.

Like, it's not like Ja Morant, who was supposed to be awesome, was already awesome and then became even more awesome.

Like, that's not the embodiment of MIP to me.

The embodiment of MIP is somebody who does it, you know, in a different kind of trajectory.

And then he goes to Miami this year.

Miami is setting less screens than you could ever imagine any NBA team set, although they've done it a little more lately.

But he's not running around screens, and he's doing it off of ISOs.

And now, if you look at the...

the second spectrum numbers, first of all, he's already set a career high in number of isolations for a season.

He's on pace to more than double his previous career high.

And if you set the minimum at 200 isolations in a single season, which he's already over, if you set the isolation at 200 isolations in a season,

Since Second Spectrum started tracking that stat in 2013, there have been like 600 something seasons where players have had 200 plus isolations.

And the Heat are scoring 127.2 points per 100 possessions.

on passes, shots, turnovers, and fouls out of Norm Powell isolations.

Wow.

That would make for the most efficient isolation season ever since this stat started being tracked 13 years ago.