Brooklyn got their 1st win of the season yesterday against Indiana. That leaves Sacramento as the only team in the league with 0 wins thus far.

Teams with 1 win = LAC, Utah, PHO (only 4gms played) in the West + BKN, MIL, CHI in the East.

Utah and Phoenix are a surprise. Other than them, those are the teams you would expect to be at the bottom of the league come end of season. 

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Indiana on a losing streak since Zubac got injured. They had 2 wins and 1 loss with Zubac in the lineup. They have lost 4 straight without Zubac. Jay Huff has been starting in his stead.

Hmm ... they have no 3rd string center. So no backup center while Zubac is out. A bunch of PFs. Jarace Walker, Kobe Brown, Obi Toppin (been injured, back shortly).

Bad roster construction.

So no rim protection / interior defense when Jay Huff is off the court and he is only playing about 18.5mpg in his 4 starts. So Indy playing most of the game (30mpg) with no rim protection. No wonder they are struggling to win games without Zubac.

Jay Huff has 1 block and 0 steals in 74 minutes in his last 4 games. Low numbers for a guy who normally blocks a good number of shots. He is only shooting 42.9% FG 30.9% 3PT (more than half his shots are 3s) 52.4% TS. So his lack of PT is likely due to bad play.

Ahh, looks like Haliburton has missed the last few games as well. Played the first 4. Missed the last 3. So his absence has coincided with Zubac's absence. I did not realize that. I figured they were just resting him the odd game here and there. So 2-2 with Hali and 0-3 without Hali. Or 0-3 without Hali & Zubac.

Hali's stats were impressive. 21.8ppg 9.5apg only 2.3 turnovers. Strong shooting stats with 51.6% FG 37% 3PT 63.4% TS. Good signs he has fully recovered from his injury. He is out with a hamstring strain but it is the other leg than the one he had the achilles tear on.

Old man PG (when healthy enough to play) is a better fit alongside Tatum than JB. JB is a better player in a vacuum but PG is steadier, less usage-hungry, less-TO prone, and better off the ball on both sides of the floor.

Ive compared building around Tatum to building around Dirk and I think PG fits the Shawn Marion shell better than JB did.

I hope we can have PG for a good part of the season, but most especially the playoffs. 

Feel like the Celtics need to rest PG13 for this one.  Thought they would have held him out vs Orlando so that he could play against Houston. Will be interesting to see what Joe does.

Honestly Maye struggled throwing to his 4th -6th receivers on the depth chart behind the 4th and 5th offensive line missing his starting TE.

He flipped the script in the second half and was fantastic