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• Martin Laird knocked in a 23-foot putt for birdie on the second playoff hole to win the Shriners Hospitals for Children Open on Sunday, netting a check of $1.26 million.
• Sei Young Kim didn’t take her foot off the gas one bit on Sunday, winning her 11th LPGA victory and her first major in the KPMG Women’s PGA Championship, which earned her $654K.
• Tyrrell Hatton secured his first BMW PGA Championship title on Sunday, which is also his third Rolex Series win, and with that came a prize of $1.15 million.
But the biggest winner — or perhaps the most improbable — had to be a gambler who, according to sportsbet.com.au, used a single dollar to net a massive return on a 20-leg wager. Among those picked were Hatton, Patrick Reed and Tommy Fleetwood.
The reward was $679,894.66.
While others have hit it big, they’ve often had to put up big numbers, too. For example, James Adducci, a 39-year-old self-described day trader from Wisconsin, hauled in nearly $1.2 million when Tiger Woods won the 2019 Masters.
Adducci described how he flew to Las Vegas earlier that month, took a bag he’d purchased at Walmart filled with $85,000 and made the bet. But that’s a much bigger chunk of change.
A single dollar netting that kind of return is special, but of course, gambling and golf have a long, interesting history together.
Let's roll through the latest in the NBA, including the fascinating Brooklyn Nets, respectful dunks and a new All-Star suggestion.
1. The Brooklyn Nets experience
The Nets are plus-4 in 155 minutes with their Big Three on the floor. They have scored a mammoth 118.7 points per 100 possessions in those minutes -- and allowed nearly as many.
The Nets before the James Harden trade were plus-72 in 185 minutes with Kevin Durant and Kyrie Irving together. They scored 117.7 points per 100 possessions in those minutes.
Their offense was already amazing. It's better with Harden, but there is a statistical upper bound. Meanwhile, their defense has collapsed. Depth and draft picks are gone.
On the surface, it is not worth all those players, picks, and swaps to upgrade from an all-world offense to an ultra-all-world offense. There are still kinks to work out, even as Steve Nash settles on a rotation that pairs Irving with Durant and lets Harden cook as a solo star on bench-heavy lineups.
Harden is the lead ball handler, as expected. Everyone is eating; the trio is averaging 86 points combined since the Harden trade. But there are possessions where two stand and watch the third -- suboptimal use of superstars. You feel the void of a low-usage playmaker in the Draymond Green mold, and of the roving Klay Thompson type who doesn't need to dribble.
And yet: Zoomed-out statistics do not win playoff series. It might not matter if the Harden/Irving/Durant trio produces the same offensive efficiency over thousands of minutes as the Irving/Durant/depth construction might have. In lusting after Harden, Brooklyn chased something that might never show up in aggregate statistics: the ability to create a good shot on the most important possessions, against the best defenses -- to be drought-proof, so potent in so many places it becomes untenable for opponents to play offense-only players against you. A third star is also insurance against injury to one of the first two.
It's still a huge bet. If you let me choose any theoretical Nets iteration, I'd take Harden, Durant, and depth/picks -- with Irving elsewhere -- by a hair over the current version. I might live the best of both worlds that way -- win now and later. To win the bet they made, the Nets almost have to win the title.
They need to play better defense. That will take time and effort. The Nets are switching a lot, which is fine and to Harden's taste. But Harden's Houston Rockets teams (among others) showed the distinction between switching because it is convenient and truly committing to a switching scheme everyone buys into. Rebounding is a structural weakness, though it's bizarrely refreshing how obvious it is when the Nets gang rebound with urgency.
These Nets merely have to be solid on defense. As I wrote upon the Harden deal, their model is something like the 2015-16 and 2016-17 Cleveland Cavaliers -- one a champion, the second even better but facing the misfortune of battling the first Durant-era Golden State Warriors team.
Both were scoring juggernauts who dialed up the defense enough when it mattered. I cannot wait to see if the Nets manage that -- and what their fully optimized offense looks like.
2. Gordon Hayward's decelerations
If Hayward has lost some oomph since his leg injury in 2017, he makes up for it with crafty footwork -- stop-on-a-dime decelerations, half-spins, and pivoty slides that pry open space for his midrange game.
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Hayward usually jogs into that handoff and continues driving to his right. On this one, he appears to fake a cut down the middle -- coaxing his man, Khris Middleton, into dipping toward the paint and behind Cody Zeller. But it's a ruse! Hayward plants his right foot and bounces back into an open 3-pointer with Middleton stuck.
Hayward is averaging 23 points and sniffing 50-40-90 shooting while providing secondary playmaking and defense at both forward positions. He is exactly what the Charlotte Hornets envisioned, and he's living up to his four-year, $120 million contract. Pain might come in the back end, but the Hornets will live with that if Hayward brings stability now.
There is opportunity cost in using cap space on veterans who don't match your timeline, but that cost was probably not all that high for the Hornets. They are not a free-agent destination. They were slated before signing Hayward to have so much space this coming summer, it was almost inevitable they would do something damaging with it.
Ignore the money, and enjoy a really good player having a really good season after injuries short-circuited his prime.
3. Buckle up when Dame rests
The most perilous minutes in the NBA right now -- or at least until the Portland Trail Blazers (without Damian Lillard) walloped the Philadelphia 76ers (without Ben Simmons) on Thursday: the 10 or so when Lillard rests, leaving the Blazers to scrounge buckets without both their star guards. (CJ McCollum, Lillard's co-star, was enjoying a career season before breaking a bone in his foot.)
The Blazers are holding the fort while McCollum and Jusuf Nurkic recover from injuries. They are 4-4 in their last eight, having eked out wins against the New York Knicks and Chicago Bulls to offset some blowouts. (They count the same in the standings!)
Lillard has done his part: 32 points per game since McCollum's injury on 48% shooting -- including 38% on 3s. Everyone in the greater Chicago area, including every Bulls player, must have uttered some profanity the moment Lillard picked up that loose ball in the waning seconds of Portland's buzzer-beating miracle win last Saturday. You knew that shot was going in. Had there been fans, we would have gotten one of those iconic mid-shot freeze frames memorializing thousands of people shrieking in terror.
Portland in this stretch has scored almost 120 points per 100 possessions with Lillard on the floor -- well above the Milwaukee Bucks' league-best offense. Portland averages about 103 points per 100 possessions for the season with Lillard on the bench, and that number was even worse during this eight-game stretch before the Blazers perked up in Philly.
The Blazers in those minutes are just trying to steal time. If they break even, or come close, they have a chance to win. They slow the game, let one of Rodney Hood, Carmelo Anthony, and Gary Trent Jr. go one-on-one, and hope turnover-free iso-ball manufactures enough points to keep the game in reach.
Trent especially has risen to the challenge. He's shooting 46% overall and 50% on 3s with Lillard on the bench, per NBA.com. He's fearless, with a smooth, old-school mid-range game.
Melo loves any excuse to get cookin', but he's down to 38.5% overall. Anfernee Simons is a mystery box.
Don't dismiss Portland, even with Zach Collins also out and Derrick Jones Jr. nicked up. Robert Covington has rediscovered his jumper. Above all else, Lillard, Terry Stotts, and the Blazers endure.
4. The next frontier for Michael Porter Jr.
As he cemented himself in the bubble as the third pillar of the Denver Nuggets' future, Porter showed a knack for duck-ins against guards:
Those didn't translate to more traditional post-ups, but they portended an apex predator wing who could exploit size mismatches in both directions -- the ultimate postseason weapon.
We have barely seen Porter play bully-ball this season. He looks uncomfortable with his back to the basket against smaller players:
Perhaps Porter has never really honed those skills. Maybe he's hesitant to test his back by banging into smaller defenders. He maintains an upright posture in general; he doesn't bend low for leverage.
Porter has recorded only 13 post touches in 11 games, per Second Spectrum data. They have barely produced any points. The best Porter can manage right now is facing up for long 2s.
That's not a bad option. Porter is tall enough to clear a foot of clean airspace on those shots, and he's a capital-S shooter. But it's not a shot Denver hunts, and that alone makes opponents comfortable stashing smaller guys -- Patty Mills above, Jordan Clarkson in recent Utah-Denver matchups -- on Porter.
Lineup construction amounts to balancing an equation: How many scoring threats can we play without compromising our defense? Porter not abusing the Clarksons of the world gives opponents leeway tilting lineups toward scoring.
It's so early. Porter is 22, in his second season. Denver might nudge him by giving him the ball at the center of the foul line, the whole court before him, instead of on the wings -- where the boundaries act as extra defenders.
But the Nuggets' window is now. In a half-court playoff slog, they need all the scoring options they can get.
5. The T.J. McConnell All-Star competition
McConnell's supernatural instinct for stealing inbounds passes reached its zenith in the Indiana Pacers' blowout win Tuesday over the Memphis Grizzlies. Midway through the first quarter, McConnell -- perhaps sensing the Grizz inbounder couldn't see him skulking near the top of the key behind two larger humans -- darted inside to steal one lazy inbounds. 'He got him one!' Quinn Buckner screamed on the Pacers' broadcast.
Early in the fourth quarter, McConnell deflected Kyle Anderson's inbounds pass out of bounds -- forcing a do-over. McConnell averages 5.5 deflections per 36 minutes, behind only Matisse Thybulle, per NBA.com.
By this point, I was annoyed on behalf of the Grizzlies, who trailed by 21 and probably just wanted to leave. On the ensuing inbounds, McConnell invaded Ja Morant's passing lane, forcing Morant to toss the ball high -- and, by accident, off the basket support. Pacers' ball.
Ninety seconds later, after another Pacers basket, McConnell faked as if he would relent and jog to half-court alongside Morant -- leaving Xavier Tillman Sr. an uncontested inbounds to Anderson. Nope. McConnell ditched Morant, veered toward Anderson, and swiped the pass -- his third forced turnover on an inbounds in one game.
I mean ... even Pablo Prigioni is impressed.
McConnell is averaging 2.9 steals per 36 minutes, again second only to Thybulle. Only 24 players have snatched three steals per 36 minutes over 42 combined individual seasons, per Basketball-Reference. (Alvin Robertson had the most such seasons, with five. Buckner had three, so you understand his glee at McConnell's thievery.) Only two have pulled it since the end of the 1990s -- Tony Allen and Metta World Peace, once each.
McConnell is more than the cliched coach's son who compensates for middling athleticism with unrelenting hustle, though he is also that. He's an elite midrange shooter, dishing 10.3 dimes per 36 minutes. The Pacers, thinned by injury, boast a fatter scoring margin with McConnell on the floor; his selflessness and pace galvanize them the second he enters.
If we're going to have All-Star during a pandemic, let's introduce a new competition: two teammates inbound the ball against McConnell. Whoever does so the most consecutive times without turning it over donates $50,000 to charity.
6. The dogmatic refusal of long 2s
Teams are indisputably right to trade 2s outside the restricted area for 3s. But every ball-handling guard still needs a midranger and floater. Sometimes, there is no better shot around the corner:
Coaches have been on Delon Wright for years to shoot more jumpers. They mostly mean open 3s, but Wright told me before the season he knows he has to take more midrangers when the defense concedes them. We haven't seen that, though Wright has strung together some nice games of late.
Austin Rivers stopped shooting long 2s even before landing with the midrange-phobic Rockets in late 2018. Perhaps Blake Griffin's vicious impression of Rivers in floater mode from 2015 scarred him.
Longtime readers know I have a soft spot for Rivers. He got off to a hot start with the Knicks, but he's 30-of-81 over his past 12 games -- and 20-of-67 excluding a 25-point explosion against the Utah Jazz.
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But this really isn't about Rivers and Wright. The shot clock is finite! Dare a midranger!
7. Malik Beasley is legit
One bright spot in another dreary Minnesota season: Beasley is a legit starter, and not an empty-calories scorer on a bad team. He has been Minnesota's best offensive player, and probably best player period, outside Karl-Anthony Towns.
Beasley is averaging 20 points and shooting 37.5% from deep. That's down from last season, but fine considering the volume -- almost nine jacks per 36 minutes -- and degree of difficulty required in a second-option (and sometimes first-option) role he won't play on a good team. Minnesota scores just 97.5 points per 100 possessions when Beasley rests, by far the lowest figure on the Wolves.
Beasley carried a rep as something of a gunner, but that hasn't proved true. He's a willing passer enjoying a mini-leap in playmaking. Most of that has come in the flow -- hit-aheads in transition, extra passes, simple reads that keep the machine churning:
Every team needs plus shooters who make snap decisions. And Beasley can run a workable pick-and-roll in a pinch:
Notice how he freezes the key help defender by turning his gaze toward Ricky Rubio before flicking that no-looker to Reid. (Reid is playing solid two-way basketball. I'm not emotionally prepared to discuss Rubio's performance.)
Beasley averages about 2.3 assists per game, a career high but nothing special. That's acceptable for a wing playing next to a ball-dominant point guard, and for a team that ranks in the bottom 10 in shooting percentage from every range. (Seriously: the Wolves are 29th on 3s and shots at the rim, and 27th on midrangers. If they finish last in all three, we are naming that The Minny.)
Beasley's defense is hit or miss, but he's turning into a success story for a franchise that needed one.
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8. Shai Gilgeous-Alexander, against the grain
Gilgeous-Alexander might have the NBA's hardest job, transitioning from hybrid guard on a playoff team to lead orchestrator amid a rebuild. The two veterans in Oklahoma City's starting five -- George Hill and Al Horford -- have missed 13 games combined.
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Even when available, Hill and Horford aren't high-volume creators anymore. (Horford has attempted seven free throws all season.) With or without them, the burden on Gilgeous-Alexander is gigantic.
What a win, then, that he has been so efficient: 22 points on 51% shooting -- 37.5% on 3s, 57% on 2s -- six dimes, five boards, solid defense. He's in a virtual tie with Luka Doncic for most drives per 36 minutes, and Gilgeous-Alexander's drive-and-kick work has been fruitful considering the cast around him, per Second Spectrum. He has found a nice balance between shooting and passing.
Oklahoma City's offense approaches league-average production with Gilgeous-Alexander on the floor, and craters without him: 95 points per 100 possessions, nine below the league's clankiest team. That says something about Gilgeous-Alexander's untested backups and the Thunder's overall roster -- but also about how Gilgeous-Alexander has managed to lift that crew to respectability. (That said, keep an eye on Theo Maledon. He's got something.)
Gilgeous-Alexander is a slithery, arrhythmic player. One favorite quirk: his penchant for faking toward picks, and then bolting away from them:
That is a nasty in-and-out dribble. Only Morant and Lillard reject screens more often than Gilgeous-Alexander, per Second Spectrum.
Gilgeous-Alexander belongs in the All-Star conversation.
9. Respect Harrison Barnes
When the Dallas Mavericks traded Barnes to the Sacramento Kings for Justin Jackson and Zach Randolph (whom Dallas immediately waived), more than one team executive asked me the same rhetorical question: Is Barnes better than Jackson?
What they really meant was: Is Barnes' $17 million -- about the gap in their respective salaries then -- better than Jackson? Perhaps not, but he was obviously way better. The question revealed a problem in player evaluation not unique to Barnes, but perhaps best represented by him: defining players almost entirely by their salary, and not what they do.
The knock on Barnes since college is that he is too mechanical. That has mostly rung true. He has not been a natural playmaker.
But he's good -- a jack-of-all-trades who could help any team. He has been more than that for the surging Kings, who have won five of six to get to 10-11. Amid all the (much-deserved) hype for De'Aaron Fox and the preternatural Tyrese Haliburton, do not overlook Barnes' role in steadying Sacto.
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He's shooting 41% from deep and bringing stout defense at both forward positions. Barnes has been a rock-solid 3-and-D guy most of his career. His size and strength have allowed the Kings to sing with a smallish lineup of Fox, Buddy Hield, Haliburton, Barnes, and Richaun Holmes; that group has blitzed opponents by almost 24 points per 100 possessions, and closed several wins. Among lineups that have logged at least 90 minutes, only the LA Clippers' starting five have a larger positive scoring margin.
This, though, is new for Barnes:
He is dishing 3.6 dimes per game, double his career average. He's seeing passes earlier, and making more advanced reads -- kickouts to the player one link further down the chain than the defense expects.
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He maintains the pace of Sacramento's offense, and sometimes amps it up, with instant extra passes:
Need a pick-and-roll late in the shot clock? Barnes can do that -- or screen for one of Sacramento's guards. Want to exploit a mouse in the house? Barnes can do that, too.
Is Barnes what everyone thought he would be as one of the nation's most talked-about high school prospects? Is he producing $20 million of value? Maybe not. But he's damned good, and the Kings are happy to have him.
10. Dunked-on shows of respect
I love this:
Machismo code demands Rudy Gobert taunt Will Barton. Instead, Gobert pats Barton on the chest: I got you, but that was brave.
That might be the only appropriate reaction for Gobert. He is 6 inches taller than Barton; cramming over Barton from close range is no great feat. As the league's preeminent rim protector, Gobert knows challenging dunks means occasional posterization: valorous victimhood.
The reverse situation -- little guy mashing Goliath -- merits some taunting and visceral screaming. Even when the size matchup is more even, some dunks are so soul-crushing, all decorum should and does fly out of the window. But I enjoy the occasional show of respect for an act of basketball courage that risks humiliation.
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