Jon Krawczynski

I think we've gotten used to just saying, oh, he's the best one-on-one scorer, but within that...

Obviously, the best mid-range shooter in the game right now, the best driver in the game right now, the best crunch time score increasingly is apparent.

But he also has the best body control of anyone in the league, also has like the best change of pace of anybody in the league.

I think the ways in which he's becoming unimpeachable in all of those different respects.

Yeah, they feed off of each other, but just like it's the portrait of an all-time player.

like being drawn in real time and being able to see that in this kind of fashion with that sort of consistency.

I mean, it's a fucking privilege.

Let's just call it what it is.

But anyway... This is a big week, Zach, for angry dudes yelling, that's not basketball.

You know, really maybe the high watermark for that exact kind of dude.

I think I'm leaning, like, slightly towards Shea these days.

And it's hard to say because, like, Jokic is clearly, like, laboring and working his way back from his own injury.

Also, 31-20-13 tonight in San Antonio.

Like, the Jokic-Murray... I mean, it...

their dynamic is just one of my favorite things in modern basketball.

And so it's so hard to lean against that in any particular way, but Shea is like made a believer of me.

And, and I think you just have to acknowledge what he does to make the thunder exactly what they are, what he does to enable putting so much defensive personnel on the floor around him by virtue of his one-on-one creation, what he does to make them one of the lowest turnover teams in the league, what he does just like stylistically is,

that feels so singular relative to anything we've ever seen before.

And I think that's part of why, not just who does he compare to now, who does he compare to in the past, I find myself thinking a lot about is what Shade does even something you can emulate?

If you're an 11-year-old basketball player right now who's training to be the best possible future pro you can be, can you even try to do this?