Les Claypool
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first heard Mar 2025
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Just some terrible advance numbers with him. Hunter... He went from too expensive, bad contract, what are they doing, to teams really wanted him. Although, you know, look, they didn't kill it necessarily on draft pick compensation coming back with three second rounders and two swaps. And again, I can't get on the DeJounte trade.
I can on the first part of it, but moving him out when I like the Dyson compliment better to trade. The problem is now that these dudes are gone, we're back to peak Trey, and it's terrible. He's 31% usage since the trade. Since the deadline, he's 31% on threes, taking 10 of them a game. He's 33% on threes for the season, the lowest since his rookie year.
He's got the worst advanced stats since his rookie year. And it's a significant drop off in the direction that it's been going here. The end of the Detroit game was just gross. If you watch it, you know exactly what I'm talking about. And here's a stat for you. If you log the opposing player scoring against your player in the paint, Trey ranks 547th out of 547 players. Not where you want to be.
Chicago. Hanging on. Looks like they're going to be your 10th seed as the teams behind them race to tank. Chicago is 18th on offense, 26th on defense. Last year they were 19th on offense, 26th on defense. They make Miami seem exciting. What do you possibly want me to say about the Bulls that's insightful? I tried. Remember January 22? So let's go back three years ago and a month or so.
They were 27 and 11. I remember doing a thing and being like, man, that's a really good start. But I'm wondering, do they have enough size on the perimeter to deal with Giannis in the playoffs? Then we didn't have to worry about that. If you go from that 27-11 record, again, from January of 22, they are 122 and 147 over three years. I don't know what they're doing.
I don't know what the point of the team is.
Fuch has good stats. He's 34. Giddey's 37% from three this year, and he's been insane from three in February. But they just have a bunch of guards that are probably all guys that come off the bench on other teams. Pat Williams, just not going to work out. Bezelis is the most exciting thing about this team. Again, Bezelis is the most exciting thing about this team because you're just like, maybe.
Okay, Brooklyn, let's talk about the bad teams here because, man, are these teams bad when it comes to some of the rankings. They were 27th on offense, 23rd on defense. Last year, they were 22nd on offense, and they were 20th on defense. They were 14-33, then went 7-2. They've lost four straight. Another team that plays really hard, but you need Google when you watch them. Cam Thomas is back.
He's had some rough stretches of just missing games from November 25th. Didn't play until December 29th and played on January 2nd. and his first game back, um, Friday night, 17 shots, 21 minutes. He is better than I gave him credit for this summer. I just think he's a pretty high volume guy that plays the game one way, but I would say the difficult shot making is impressive. Um,
Cam Johnson, asset. Claxton, kind of an asset. Those three guys are probably your starters. Keyon Johnson to get a ton of minutes. Killian Hayes, 38% from three with the Nets. That's probably not going to last. I've seen games where Watford is the number one option.
I've seen games, there was a recent game where the rotation, the five that were out there, I believe, were Watford, Reese Beekman, Tyrese Martin, Jalen Wilson, who's been okay, but not shooting it great. And then Tosan Iwuma, who played soccer at one point. So yeah, this is the real ones out there. who he played for, like the guys on TNT would be like the Nets.
I'm just going to keep guessing Nets. So I just wonder like what the player trade asset here is. Cause if you think of Brooklyn still as a destination, I don't know if people still look at it that way. I mean, I know you get something for Cam Johnson.
You probably could flip Claxton for something, but considering, I don't know that there was a ton of interest in extending him a contract beyond what he had already made. Um, I just don't know what is really enticing about the asset here. Again, this is what's going to happen with some of these bad teams. Their lottery odds are 6th, 7th best depending on the day. And honestly, like,
You just wonder, like, are they going to end up playing too well because they play so hard as these teams crank up the tanking here? Like, even when they use that second unit, those guys all play their asses off. Like, I'm actually impressed with that part of it. But is that going to cost them some lottery balls with it?
And then, ultimately, I think it's the question of what Cam Thomas' ceiling is because, you know... he's, he's likely like, is he good enough to be the third guy on a really good team? I know his scoring is that, uh, and again, he was better this year. I know Nets fans go crazy for him because he puts up huge, huge numbers, but you know, whatever.
I don't even know that we need to dig into it all that much more. All right. The Sixers offense, 24th defense, 25th last year, offense, 14th defense, 11th. We know the obvious stuff. Um, Paul George, worst advanced stats of his career. Max's three-point shooting has gone down four straight years, 43, 43, 37, 34.
I think that's a volume thing where I really felt like he was pressing because they needed him so badly offensively to just kind of carry them. So I'd give him a bit of a pass on some of the efficiency declining here. The McCain injury ruined the one feel-good story about this team, and then ultimately we're stuck with Embiid and an unknown future. The Embiid extension was irresponsible.
There's plenty of times where something will happen, I'll have a thought, and then a couple days removed from that thought or somebody will say, hey, you know what was really going on here was like this thing or that thing. You can try me on the Embiid thing and tell me there's all these things that I don't understand about it. I'm not changing my mind.
Three years, $193 million, fully guaranteed, not like the previous extension where they had protections. You saw him laboring. Thanks for the Serbia quarter, but for the most part, he looked like he was diminished. And maybe that's the positive. Cause like the on off stuff with him and Embiid historically has been, this is a special basketball team in the regular season when he's been out there.
That did not happen this year because when you watch it, it's like, Hey, he got his stats, but did you see him? He does not move unless he has the ball or knows exactly where he's moving. So knowing that they gave him this extension and, when they had him under contract for two years and a player option, right? It's inexcusable.
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