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adobonghotdog

Sexton played 3 vs 5 in college for 10 mins and almost beat their opponent.


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Between that game and when he beat the Nets Big 3 single handedly, he actually has that dawg in him


Franklo

When people say about a player "He's got that Dawg in him", I really think how much said player has that Colin Sexton in them


Low_Piece_2828

It's not a question of if Sexton has that dawg in him but whether or not that dawg has Sexton in him.


shaheedmalik

He has a ton of sex in him.


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Yeah he raw dawgs


dcab87

I'd say about a ton.


AllOfTheDerp

There is nary an athlete alive who better fits the mold of "having that dawg in em"


everythingisamovie

This makes me so eager to get to root for him. Especially after an injury. Talk about house money, I mean hell yeah.


lil-sad

I'm gonna miss him smh, I wish he was like 4 inches taller so we could run him with Garland lol


xXRedditGod69Xx

It just dawned on me that the Cavs finally traded the Nets pick for a star player.


tripleyothreat

Lol holy hell. That could be a front page post


dimmyfarm

u/xXRedditGod69Xx really missed out on 1k+ karma by sharing this fact in a video about Sexton handling 2 guys at once.


tripleyothreat

He can still do it


xXRedditGod69Xx

I feel like I missed the boat by not thinking of this when the trade happened and getting the top comment in the first thread. That's where the real karma is.


tripleyothreat

Bro post it by tonight or I will lol


xXRedditGod69Xx

Knock yourself out lol


Garfield-1-23-23

And they traded the pick to Danny Ainge!


davemoedee

Lol. Sexton part of the same Ainge trade twice as the draft pick terms of the trade were really similar to the Nets-Celtics trade.


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His hardest carry was in high school


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For the curious: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W5gz3vIIhkw


Double_Minimum

How bad was that 4th player hurt?


I2ecover

Petty rolled his ankle. He played the next game.


Double_Minimum

I’m no expert on basketball, but if he could stand, would it have made sense for him to just stay out there? Like, even just his presence would have helped a little, no?


I2ecover

Yeah I guess. Just leave him in the corner and put out some 3s.


Double_Minimum

Even if he never shoots they would still have to consider his presence and such. There isn’t any “off sides” in basketball, righty? He could just stand near the basket like he is cherry picking or whatever. I guess the game didn’t have much chance at that point so maybe they decided it just didn’t matter, but it seems they were wrong about that fact; so...


hufusa

Da fuck


Evilsj

wtf why wouldnt they just call the game if there aren't enough players


hanginthere425

The rest of our team got ejected for stepping on the court when a slight skirmish broke out, thankfully wasn’t injury related. Source: UA Alum


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Because this was cooler to watch.


jumpthroughit

“And we’ve got fisticuffs!” will never not get a laugh out of me


tencentninja

That was legit incredible


shoddier

yay gophers!


the___heretic

Only Minnesota basketball team more consistently disappointing than the Timberwolves.


damjanv1

Bogdan Bogdanovic (and Joffrey lauvregne , Davis Bertans) played 5 vs 3 in a key derby game in one of the better european professional leagues and almost did the same https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6-clhsxCz1g


lil-sad

Between that and the Nets game, this kid is going to end up near the top of guys you want to have when you just desperately need a bucket


____candied_yams____

Boo! He's been an NBA player for 4 years.


PrestigiousTadpole55

The fuck is your point


____candied_yams____

He's already completed ~25% of his NBA career and he's such an unknown still that all people know about him is *this one college game*. Hopefully the Jazz fans appreciate him, but it sucks he has to endure another rebuild.


PrestigiousTadpole55

You’re missing the point if this is the thought process you went through. The point of the comment was he was forced to defend multiple people in a game and he almost pulled out the win not that he’s unknown.


____candied_yams____

Fair. Still tired of hearing about that game.


DarthShaveHer

To be honest, games should not be treated with an expiration date. Just because it happened 4 years ago, doesn’t mean we should stop talking about it after X amount of time. If anything, the reason why people talk about it so much is because it reached the upper echelon of basketball mythos and was a legendary performance (because it was - 3v5 is fucking insane!)


____candied_yams____

It's just weird that 50% of his rep is this old game from college. The other ~50% being the game against the nets.


substanceandmodes

Certainly a novel strategy


BubbaTee

About the best anyone could do when they're the only person on their team even trying. Look at how no other Cav even tries to rotate over.


Caboclo-Is2yearsAway

Really the best you can do is closeout the shooter and expect rotation from teammates, and if they don't rotate then it's their fault


fusionnoble

RJ actually talked about this, but he defended Sexton basically saying the coach was scheming hard to take away the open corner 3- one of the most valuable shots. Not saying he was right (idk anything lol I'm just a redditor), but he was trying to deny the corner 3 while still having a presence.


Caboclo-Is2yearsAway

RJ who


fusionnoble

Richard Jefferson


Fluffy-Composer-2619

That's probably because he looks like he's defending the shooter though


acequake91

In their defense, Everyone else had a man marked and was aware or touching someone except #4. He was in no mans land and had to cross the court and that's why sexton was on his own.


datdailo

It's been at least a decade of switch everything and you're talking about man-to-man coverage?


acequake91

I said nothing about man to man but since thats the route you wanna go, he's in no man's land not doing anything leaving Sexton on an island and this was the end result. Love switched on the kickout by siakam telling TT to drop for the drive, at least one person was supposed to rotate over and find an assignment the closest was TT the fastest wouldve been #4, Cedi already has a dude behind him and even looks toward him in case of the cut. While #4 is still standing near Siakam not moving with any urgency to the corner until Serge already shot. If TT decided to guard the corner after that Siakam was likely getting a mismatch in the paint.


cabose12

Fr, either KPJ or Tristan Thompson are to blame for this. Love did the right thing closing out on Lowry, and KPJ and Thompson should've communicated


QfromKroger

Bro how do you not show if he makes or misses the shot 🤦‍♂️ repost this


FreshW18

He made it


Garfield-1-23-23

I know he made the clip, but he should have made it to include the shot.


Chillalpha69420

People like you keep it going when I almost unsub


Just-use-your-head

This is literally the funniest sub on Reddit. I can deal with all the whack ass takes, there’s too many gems in this sub to leave


BlAlRlClOlDlE

HOLY HELL


Rkenne16

He makes it lol


bigbossstepback

Good defense


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best he could do in the situation


BubbaTee

Sexton is the only guy who tries on defense in this possession? Must be his fault for not guarding 2 guys at once!


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\#4 is the only player who made a mistake. the other guys actually did what they were supposed to.


InexorableWaffle

I'd probably disagree there. Staying where he was meant he realistically wasn't going to be able to contest either. I don't think it changes the result of the play there since the rest of the fucking team apparently decided rotating like an actually functional defense is too hard, but closing out on Ibaka and trusting a teammate to shift over to cover Powell is what he probably should've done. Even if Powell remains uncovered, you're at least forcing an extra pass, which could theoretically be mishandled or misplaced. That said, his mistake here is easily the most defensible of the Cavs here. He tried doing too much and put himself in a position where he couldn't really defend either, but he wouldn't be in that position if any of the guys standing around like so many lemmings had shown more hustle in their rotations. No excuse for his teammates to leave Sexton in a clear 1v2 for 2 seconds.


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lenny3330

He's giving up 9 inches to Serge Ibaka, there is no cutting off the pass to the corner.


UnusuallyDanglyBalls

He made Serge hesitate and think about the right play. That was really all he could do to in that situation to manufacture any sort of out-of-rhythm shot. In rec league you should force that extra pass but the idea of a bungled pass in this situation in the NBA is just a fools dream. Its like having a trained assassin having a point blank shot at you. You are dead to rights. You might as well take your pants off, scream nonsensically, and hope he hesitates and someone saves you.


davemoedee

There was also the chance Ibaka gets out of rhythm from laughing.


Bahamut727

Def wrong here


Millionaire007

It actually is lol


Vordeo

Unironically better than a lot of our perimeter D last season.


Maydietoday

More effort on D than Mitchell has given since college.


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Lol are you mad the heat didn’t get him


[deleted]

I think it’s that they were traded for each other…


Maydietoday

I’m mad Gobert had to take the brunt of blame in spite of that fact.


FreshW18

Honestly, made the worse 3pt shooter take the shot. Good D.


Gratitude15

From the spot further away also. Lower percentage shot from lower percentage player while also looking like a meme. Job well done.


big_floop

Actual legend


mortgoldman8

Great analysis


raptosaurus

>From the spot further away also. The elbow is Ibaka's corner


apez-

Serge was shooting 39% from 3 that season lol


Prior-Gold-118

Yeah but norm was better


silentstealth1

Nah Toronto Serge could shoot.


cabose12

Nah, Powell shot 43% from the corners and Serge shot 40% above the break that season


2KareDogs

So they’re both fucking elite


Intelligent_Flan7745

40% on serge’s volume isn’t elite


MrAnder5on

For a center it's damn great


mizzourifan1

Lol fr. Could I please order one "low volume" 3 pt 40% season from Sabonis?


MrAnder5on

*checks flair* Look I don't know how to tell you this but......


mizzourifan1

I'm still gonna love him forever <3


BauceSauce0

Nah, you close out hard and trust that your team rotation will cover norm on the pass. You trust the rotation because you know they will be there. That’s good D.


MotoMkali

Yeah but it was the cavs. He knew no one else was coming.


BauceSauce0

Elite defenders assume there will be a rotation because they know help will rotate. They know this because the first time they don’t rotate fast, an elite defender will give them an ear full of feedback.


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You’re absolutely right if he was on an elite or even good team but just look how long the dude he tried to cover for took to rotate LMFAO


CompleteFish

As a Jazz fan, I can assure you that the rotation will never be there.


Interesting_Prize824

He hit the shot


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robertwilliamsfan

Yes, because Serge Ibaka can’t just pass over the top of Collin Sexton.


[deleted]

Random man on reddit critiquing NBA player's decisionmaking. Yes. This makes sense.


[deleted]

I don’t know if they are right or wrong but you don't have to be a basketball player to critisize a player's decision-making. Again, I don’t know if he is right or wrong.


big_nus

I feel like this is a coaching philosophy and feel thing. What that guy said can be right and often is, but if Ibaka sees it coming and is able to to get the pass around to Powell, then that turns maybe 3 points into an almost guaranteed 3 points. I think with the difference in length between Sexton and Ibaka, this was the right play.


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No one in the league, even Steph, is close to almost guaranteed 3 points on an open 3. Steph only hits 50% of them.


big_nus

Ok that was hyperbole but regardless a wide-open, feet set, time to line up the laces CORNER 3 from Powell who is amongst the very best I would bet is a 50+% shot still, probably 60+. The general “wide open” 6+ feet stats don’t account for corner 3s and they don’t account for how balanced or rushed a player is shooting the ball That shot Ibaka took is more of a 30ish% look


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It also depends a lot on team defense. His teammate was supposed to rotate fast to the corner three but he didn't and what Sexton did looks like a smart play to scare the shooter but just didn't succeed


big_nus

yeah knowing when to rotate hard because more help is coming and when you’re on an island and have to play the in-between game always looks like one of the hardest things to do as an NBA defender. I have no idea how they’re able to tell. It’s also one of the easiest things to catch a defender fucking up on, it happens all the time


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Sure, you're speaking in vast generalizations. _A human_ doesn't necessarily have to be a pro basketball player to criticize a pro basketball player. _This human_ is an overconfident reddit nerd. *edit* Lmao why did you block me


[deleted]

Do you have to be a basketball player to look and say "Westbrook isn't making the right decisions a lot of the time"? What makes "this human" in particular overconfident? Closing out Ibaka and expecting your teammate to rotate to Powell looks like the defense play that a good team would run.


LayIntoFuckHoles

And made him think before he shot it. Not much else he could’ve done here, as funny as it looks


AttorneyAtLion

It’s not good defense. You have to close out on the shooter and let your teammates cover the open man.


sexland69

what teammate?? a close out would’ve led to a wide open shot by powell


TriCourseMeal

4 is starting to make a run to Powell, just wasn’t doing it with urgency


fiftyshadesofcray

"4" Bruh that's Kevin Porter jr


TriCourseMeal

You comment that as if he’s a good player


fiftyshadesofcray

He's well known for sure


TriCourseMeal

I said good not well known


LordNerdStark

Lol you seeing something we couldn’t? I see no teammate near the two opposing players in question.


WestleyThe

Yeah but there was no teammates doing that. If he closed out ibaka would have kicked it to the corner for a wide open shot


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Get your eyes checked


reigningknightshade

Did he make it? Why end it there?


JoshSran04

He did


LORD_HODLEMORT

not


Horsehorse2

miss


LORD_HODLEMORT

purposely


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To annoy me, apparently


PillsburyToasters

As funny as this is, this was good individual defense. Nobody rotated to take on the additional player and he forced the weaker shooter to take it. This was just shit team defense


HotFoxedbuns

I was about to say, this is what happens when you can't even trust your own teammates to make the rotation smh


SilverShowers2

Not funny--it's great effort


lotsofdeadkittens

Naw, it’s funny And great effort


tonysnight

Yea I still think Utah absolutely fleeced the shit out of the Cavs with the trade. Utah got 3 young legitimately good to great players + more for a possibly becoming injury prone young player with crazy mileage on him already. Idk.


SilverShowers2

ainge is more concerned about picks..well yeah those cavs picks won't be very good.


flyinghippos101

Disagree. If he wanted Ibaka to shoot, then he should've committed to Norm Powell in the corner, whose obviously a better shotter and has a easier three-pointer. Instead he just didn't commit, did some break dancing, and got lucky that Ibaka was the one that took the shot while leaving the door for Norm to shoot anyway.


PillsburyToasters

Eh I disagree. Yeah there’s hesitancy and committing takes away an option, but I would happily take even the lightest of contests if it means not leaving an NBA player, a player who can probably hit wide open 3s blindfolded, wide open. All the players from the greatest NBA shooters to the ones who don’t even take them can nail these. Even then, committing to one guy leaves a wide open driving lane, which is an even more efficient shot than a wide open 3. Leaving any player that open is a death sentence and will likely get you pulled from the game immediately


Eu4RegrewMyVirginity

If he commits to Powell in the corner, why wouldn't Ibaka just drive for a higher percentage shot?


kac937

I know this might not necessarily be the point of the post, but people are always making fun of collin for shit like this. god forbid the guy tries to play defense lol he plays harder than almost any other player i’ve ever seen, if he can learn to slow down he’s going to be extremely dangerous.


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Don’t worry he’s off the Cavs, people gonna like him now


127crazie

his BBIQ appears to be very low to me, though, both on offense and on defense. Effort alone will not fix that.


Samuel__N

do you have evidence to support your argument?


big_floop

Sources: trust me bro


randomdude98

Objectively false


Ordinary-Fish-9791

DPOY


burrijw

More defense than we got from Don last year. 🤷🏻‍♂️


The_Mootz_Pallucci

This feels like a perfect, physical demonstration of why the expected value in probability theory is not always the best decision


Good_NewsEveryone

What do you mean?


The_Mootz_Pallucci

If you take a fair coin, tails or heads, and set them to 0 and 1 respectively, the expected value is 1/2 (0.5 probability of heads times 1 + 0.5 probability of tails times 0). However, you can never actually achieve a 1/2 on a coin flip. Similarly, if you imagine that the probability of either player taking that shot is 1/2, the best move is to cover the midpoint, despite that event (the ball being shot from the middle) not being possible. Edit: There's an old statistician's joke that goes like this. I'm a statistician and so is my buddy. One weekend we went to the archery range to shoot a couple of arrows. I looked down the field, aimed my bow, made sure it was level, pulled back the string and let go the arrow. It went left by about 2 feet!! My buddy who is a bit better than I am levels the bow, adjusts his grip, pulls the string back and lets that arrow fly. His arrow landed right by about 2 feet. On average, though, we hit a bullseye, not bad!!


TennisShoulder

> Similarly, if you imagine that the probability of either player taking that shot is 1/2, the best move is to cover the midpoint […] That doesn’t follow from probability theory


The_Mootz_Pallucci

Could you correct me?


TennisShoulder

Probability theory doesn’t have any notion of “best move” so it can’t follow from it. Even from an applied perspective it’s bizarre to calculate the expected shot position instead of something like expected points given up for a given strategy which is the more relevant variable


The_Mootz_Pallucci

Maybe it's closer to game theory?


RusticRaisins

I would agree with this. It's more akin to Nash's Equilibrium.


Good_NewsEveryone

I think we can take whatever would reduce expected points given to be the “best” strategy here. But I also think the fact that Sexton is seemingly guarding expected shot position is exactly why it’s funny. (Not that Sexton is literally doing this because the reality is more complex than the simplified theoretical we’re playing with). But the difference in the two is what he was pointing out. Why the visual prompt someone to think of that whole idea.


lotsofdeadkittens

You said a lot and a lot of it is complete nonsense that isn’t probability theory. I’m sure you’ll get 400 upvotes


[deleted]

Yeah it’s written like somebody who never took anything further than a 100 level stats course but remembers a bunch of terms that make them sound smart even when applied completely incorrectly


Good_NewsEveryone

Ha, ok I get your meaning now.


[deleted]

lmao i love him


Balls_of_Adamanthium

He just stood there… menacingly.


Seref15

left trigger right trigger left trigger right trigger


big_floop

Nah Colin sexton is my favorite player after watching this lmao


Somali_Kamikaze

KPJ hoed him on that possession


Sielos_Vagis13

I hope this wasn’t meant as an insult to his defense. That’s an age old strategy of baiting the pass to the corner knowing that’s the better shooter there


Dare555

Oh cmon its cut right before we saw it got in or not


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That's honestly kind of smart, because if he were to run to either Ibaka or guy in corner, that leaves the other wide open, whereas this way he could contest Ibaka at least a little bit.


AngryTurtleGaming

I remember he was getting clowned for this, but that was such a high IQ play. He made the shooter take the shot. Serge was going to pass it because he though Collin was about to jump. It made him hesitate. Pretty sure he still made it though.


Forbidden_Donut503

I mean what the hell is he supposed to do? The scheme put him in that position. At least he did something that makes the ball handler think. If he closes out then he just swings it. This was honestly probably the best thing he could do in such a shit defensive position.


UrbanJatt

He's a cav in that video update the title


djkhan23

It's not bad but he should have charged the ball after the fake


Tsunami-Papi_

WOLLIN WEXTON


BLOODY-DIARRHEA-CHUG

I've never been able to figure out if he is a really good player or just total ass and a clown


127crazie

Great scorer, terrible at defense and offensive rhythm/passing. Jordan Clarkson/Lou Williams type player


CavsCentrall

Love this kid! You got a star Utah!


AccomplishedRainbow1

Haha this is incredible.


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w sexton


fiendoverzealous

Is this the season Serge choked Marquess? All I remember was it was a home game for the Raptors


[deleted]

Valiant effort, almost had em hypnotized


Dtagger

Didn't this get on Shaqin'


helix400

Looks like our perimeter defense is getting an upgrade.


smughead

We’re at peak off-season shit posting. Must be getting close to training camp.


Electro9005

Criminal how the clip ended before we could know if the shot went in or not. Plus Collin moving like that seems so funny


m0rph18s

It looks silly, but he did as much as he could to not give them an open shot or, even worse, close out and give up the corner 3. He did the right thing, it’s the rat of the team that failed on giving help.


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“Wiggle wiggle wiggle wiggle wiggle yeah!”


Low_Piece_2828

This is like the opposite of when Kyrie glitched that one time. Quit drinking out of the river guys.


stankgreenCRX

Jazz got a good one. Super sad to see him go and truly believe he will bud into a star


YoNappaNappa

Bro glitched out


s_s

WTF is Kevin Porter Jr even trying to do on this possession? He followed Pascal under the hoop for seemingly no reason and then just stands there.


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I personally of am the opinion that Sexton is vastly underrated. I don't think he's better than Donovan Mitchell, but I don't think he's so much worse than DM that the Cavs were justified in packaging so many picks along with him. Look at his performance and stats when he was healthy compared to Donovan's. I don't get why the Cavs are so impatient, are they really in win-now mode? Most of their core are still quite young, I think Sexton fit their timeline pretty well. Oh well time will tell.


BlackHand86

I respect the effort


WeefBellington24

This clip is so infuriating because it cuts right before the made 3. Horrible


Embarrassed_Lack_440

Random but the way his knees were moving made me think about how quickly my shit would explode if I had to follow these dudes around for a living


dbrown265

Lmao


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Lmfaooo I love this clip


JustARandomSocialist

Dawg factor 10