Bigs
Abraham Joum Maker Bol - Good shooting stretch big. Solid shot-blocker with good post defense. Slightly above average rebounder. Handles are so-so. Needs to hit the weights.
Sam Funches - Decent scorer inside and outside. Might get close to a steal and block a game. Serviceable post...
TL; DR: More free RP for a quick post! Prob wait til after FA to fill it out.
In addition to Team Awards, GMs can earn a quick and dirty 125RP by replying in this thread and filling out the below questionnaire - not required, but why not? Copy down the questions in a reply post and fill 'em out....
Every year, every GM's got his studs and it's duds, his craftiest moves and most embarrassing flops. For 75RPs, fill out the answers to the following questions and post it in the thread - think of these as your...
Did a little bit of digging this past season to see how teams performed in the second half and fourth quarter. Not sure if having more comebacks implies you got that dog in you or you can't win in all four quarters, but either way the t-wolves are top 10 in something (4th quarter comebacks as the...
I’m back in a plane so we are gonna try to bang out another one of these. Same as last time, we are gonna power rank the positions available in free agency. This year seems to be a much more fun free agency, with a mix of vets and young guns available.
In the history of SLN, The midwest has the highest overall win %, the most playoff wins, and the most playoff appearances and finals appearances per team, and the most championships per team (tied with the Central).
That's it. Thanks for coming to my ted talk. Midwest >>>
1. Golden State Warriors: Jayson Tatum (SF) - Duke
Needs: C, SG, PG; Defense
The Golden State Warriors have finally hit rock bottom and thus gifted the number one pick. Lucky for them, a number of potential superstars are available. Perhaps the last thing this team needs is another wing that can...
D’Aaron Da Ball (Makes it Bounce): The 2017 Big Board
We are in the 11th hour before the draft, but I just landed back from the west coast so it’s really only the 8th hour on my body block. Let’s hammer out a quick and dirty big board with minimal research before Golden State is on the clock!...
Hi All. I believe Derek did something similar where he graded resigned contracts and their value. I did something a little different. I went thru every resigning and non resigning on a team by team basis, and alluded to what the implications are for that team and those players in the offseason....
35 Year Old Dwyane Wade has still got it. He is shooting over .500, leading the league in 3P% at 52%, and has a true shooting percentage of 61.2%. On top of retaining a near 2:1 stocks:TO.
I looked around the league and it looks like Wade is leading the league in TS% this year. Boban is above 60%,...
Every season, the SLN landscape shifts. Sometimes it is subtle. Other times, much more blatant.
Even if teams remain the same, the FBB gods are infamously fickle. Players evolve…they get worse. Our expectations of them can change rapidly.
Using the same data set as my last article, I parsed out the top scorers by position. There's also a column to the far right of each table indicating the ranking among players of all positions.
The leading scorers are typically SFs (especially if you count Dirk as a SF). The leading efficiency...
Every year, every GM's got his studs and it's duds, his craftiest moves and most embarrassing flops. For 75RPs, fill out the answers to the following questions and post it in the thread - think of these as your...
TL; DR: More free RP for a quick post!
In addition to Team Awards, GMs can earn a quick and dirty 125RP by replying in this thread and filling out the below questionnaire - not required, but why not? Copy down the questions in a reply post and fill 'em out. Can be serious, can be funny, whatever...
We’re bored again on a plane. Feels like a common sentiment with my articles. Wes came up with the idea for me to type a season preview and here we are.
Boston Celtics
Projected Record: 45-37
Key Players: Crawford, George, Beasley
Assets to Improve: Gary Harris, 5 of next 6 BOS FRP
Idea for a...
New Raptors front court with Steven Adams and DeAndre Jordan coming in in the top 5! Andris Biedrins, former Magician, leads the crew by getting to the over 2/3 of his FGA's. Leon Powe is an available big who is clearly useful checking in at 8!
I thought to myself, man, that’s a lot of draft picks I better churn some RP. Then I realized Jeremy Woo circa 2016 can join me for the lulz. We can now enjoy 2016 super scout Jeremy Woo’s SLNified draft grades as well as mine:
A bunch of teams with cap space, not a bunch of surefire stars. I'm only writing up the bigger names right now. Let me know what you think and if I am being too generous. Let's get right into it:
Nuggets sign Monta Ellis
7 years -- $168,437,500
Grade: B
After a championship, Kipke needed to...
I have a flight from Cleveland to Philly then a drive to DC tonight, and was chatting with Merv about RP. He said to write something so here I am. Shoutout to Merv. Shoutout to all other SLN content creators, no not you Jared McCain you tiktok slut.
Happy Fourth of July, I hope everyone had a great holiday and reminded themselves of how fucking sick it is to not be European. Imagine blowing a 13 colony lead. Embarrassing.
I think our commissioner got tired of seeing all of the real drafts,...
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Congrats to Merv and the Magic on a championship. Play that song! Draft is starting tomorrow 7/6 at 11am CT. The Nets are on the clock and can pick at anytime.
Player pool:
Draft Order:
Round 1:
| # | Team | Trade | Player |
|:------:|:------:|:------:|:------:|
| 1 | New Jersey Nets | |...
Sad to see Wiseman go (looking forward to see how he develops at SF if Jesse so chooses) but can't pay everybody and have had a huge crush on Winslow for like 8 seasons...and we need some TO efficiency in...
I started writing this day 60 then got sidetracked then had a bunch of travels so did this in transit. Was initially going to insult all 29 teams in opposite fashion of Hoff, but leaving that one up to you Joe! Thanks to Hoff for the inspiration though, we need more content and in your knight in...
An idea i had at the beginning of the season was to track differentials throughout the season and analyze how teams find their form by playoffs and the changes in league averages as a whole.
Here are the key trends I've identified across the season:
