12/1/25 7:00PM Hawks @ Pistons

[Tigeraholic1]

Little Caesars Arena - Detroit, MI

Watch: FanDuel Det

[Deleterious]

No clue if I believe it and it's behind a paywall, but great news for us.  

https://marcstein.substack.com/p/talking-zone-defense-nba-big-men

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Utah is one of those seven sub-.500 clubs in the West, but what you repeatedly hear about the Jazz on the NBA grapevine is that they long to be more competitive again. They don’t want to be down there with all the other tankers. They miss being a Western Conference factor, which hasn’t happened since the 2021-22 season after Utah’s trades to move off of Rudy Gobert and Donovan Mitchell.

So ...

Difficult as it can be for rival teams to read the intentions of a front office that now houses Austin Ainge as well as Danny Ainge, more teams than not that we speak to are increasingly convinced that the Jazz are more likely to try to add to their Markkanen-led core this Trade Season rather than trade Markkanen away. Markkanen is averaging a career-high 28.5 points per game in his ninth season to build on a monster national team summer for Finland. It’s true that the 28-year-old has still yet to log a single playoff minute in the NBA, but he unabashedly loves Salt Lake City. There is a strong case to be made, once you take it all in, for building around the 7-foot Finn.

 

[Sports_Freak]

Playing the tired Hawks tonight after they played, on the road, yesterday. Double OT. They better be ready to run, run and run. 😆😆

[Deleterious]

Careful what you wish for. Atlanta runs more than Detroit.

[Sports_Freak]

2 hours ago, Deleterious said:

Careful what you wish for. Atlanta runs more than Detroit.

4th quarters can be a problem for tired teams. Stay close and finish them off late.

[Sports_Freak]

I thought Trey was back? Guess not...

[Deleterious]

6 minutes ago, Sports_Freak said:

I thought Trey was back? Guess not...

They just announced he will be evaluated again in two weeks.

[Deleterious]

I wish they would have thrown a bag at NAW.  He's the two way player type that people keep mentioning.

[Deleterious]

I read that Sasser was assigned to the G-League on a rehab assignment.

[Deleterious]

Each time they play Smooth Operator I look around for Carlos Sainz. When did they start playing that for Cade?

[Deleterious]

Cades defense is so underrated. 

[Deleterious]

 

[Sports_Freak]

Pretty cool slow mo;

 

[Deleterious]

Sports are funny.  In Miami, Harris could have taken a 3/4 court shot while doing a handstand, and it would have gone in.  Tonight, he has missed multiple layups and hasn't made a shot.  

[Deleterious]

Holland is getting his good game out of the way early this month.

[Deleterious]

Ivey quietly playing his way out of a contract.

[Deleterious]

End of game FT shooting will cost this team at least one game in the playoffs.  

[Sports_Freak]

22 turnovers. Teams that turn the ball over 22 times probably hardly ever win. I'm glad they won but they have some serious cleaning up to do.

[Deleterious]

I think if I was Atlanta, I would trade Young and build around Johnson.  

[gehringer_2]

LOL - one more point in the 3rd and they would have played 4 exactly 25 point quarters on the nose.

[Deleterious]

No clue who this guy is.  But I'm 99.9% sure you can't trade a player, then trade for him again in the same season.