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On tonight's episode, the guys recap Wednesday's playoff games, preview Thursday's playoff games and send the Heat fishing.

I feel like he thinks it's like the NBA where all the best players are at the top and if you're outside the top 10 you're fucked. Just heard him say "The Seahawks got an awesome defensive player in the middle of the first round which never fucking happens."

Literally last year the Pats got Christian Gonzalez at 17. Kyle Hamilton went 14 in 2022. Jaelan Phillips 18th in 2021. Brian Burns, Dexter Lawrence, and Jeffery Simmons 16, 17, and 19 in 2019. Tremaine Edmunds, Darwin James, and Jaire Alexander 16, 17, 18 in 2018. Awesome defensive players go in the middle of the first almost every single year.

Ties into the week before the draft when he called this a 12 player draft and said teams need to get into the top 12-13. The NFL draft is like a 100-150 player draft every season there's so much talent that there's pro bowlers and all pros on Day 3 every single season why does he think this is basketball where you need to win the lottery to get a shot at a guy who matters

They are 5'9, 160 lbs, and reasonably fit. They are familiar with the rules of basketball but have never played it competitively. They can have any number of players on the floor, but the rules are otherwise normal. Additionally they are trying to play a legitimate game, so they can't just sacrifice players to injure LeBron. Whichever team has more points at the end of the quarter wins.

Round 1: Current LeBron

Round 2: Prime LeBron (whenever you think that is)

I like to think I know a lot about basketball, I've played for a long time and watch a lot of NBA. One thing that drives me crazy is how every underperforming team's fans blame their coaches for everything and whenever a team overperforms their expectations the coach is apparently amazing. Apparently Vogel was an amazing coach for the Lakers in 2020, but has forgotten how to coach in 4 years with the Suns? Ham was praised for his coaching vs the Grizzlies and Warriors, but now he's a terrorist.

Most fan analysis of their coaches are 'why didn't they play fringe role player x over fringe role player y?' or 'how could they not take a timeout at x point?'.

For example, Mazzula gets cremated everytime the Celtics lose when they get iso heavy in games. But people tend to ignore how teams switch against the Celtics because they don't want to leave shooters open on screen actions. Isolations against mismatches becomes important when easy threes are taken away.

I say all this to say, how can we do a decent job as fans of analysing coaching?

Embiid is giving his best effort despite playing through a knee injury and Bell’s palsy yet the Sixers implode in just the few minutes he rests every game. Is any other playing carrying their squad as much as Embiid is right now? I see some people saying trade Embiid and build around Maxey yet in the regular season Sixers dropped all the way from the 2 seed to the 7 seed with Maxey as the number one option. Do people actually watch basketball on or is this a reality show subreddit?