Matt Hrdlicka @therealhrdlicka.bsky.social · 18/09/2026I think this is an overpay still, but by Pelicans math, they saved somewhere between 10mm-20mm! From a post pre-Hawkins salary dump. 110 1
Matt Hrdlicka @therealhrdlicka.bsky.social · 26/07/2026I am probably the only person who paused at this one. 010 1
Matt Hrdlicka @therealhrdlicka.bsky.social · 02/07/2026Maybe the move is playing Xavi wide, but we're screaming out for depth/talent there. Where does Gallagher play? Bergvall sold next? 110 1
Matt Hrdlicka @therealhrdlicka.bsky.social · 01/07/2026Assumes Romero, Sarr, Vic all sold. Some holes on the wing, but there's barely room for Bergvall, and no room for Luka V. I don't like it, but I could see the logic of flipping one of them into a winger like Savinho. The team makes sense again! 100 1
Matt Hrdlicka @therealhrdlicka.bsky.social · 28/06/2026What's that? The Suns have a tradable low value 1st and have gotten tax relief? Lemme hold that 1st: 310 3
Matt Hrdlicka @therealhrdlicka.bsky.social · 26/06/2026I had a lot of neutrals because a lot of these questions were whack. WITH THAT SAID I WIN 230 3
Matt Hrdlicka @therealhrdlicka.bsky.social · 16/06/2026Joan Didion, dismantling the hippy movement of the late 1960s in barely more than a page - “from Slouching Towards Bethlehem.” 000 0
Matt Hrdlicka @therealhrdlicka.bsky.social · 12/06/2026I just did it. I'm listening to offers on anyone I think I can get a fee for that is at peak or post peak. The injured guys would be there too if they weren't, you know, injured. Realistically only a third of them will be sold. 110 1
Matt Hrdlicka @therealhrdlicka.bsky.social · 19/04/2026I’d push back on your push back (we agree on recruitment quality I think) in that the club as a whole has de-prioritized passing tactically which is at least partly to blame for some of the player passing regression. And carrying a single bad passer is harder now than it was four years ago 100 1
Matt Hrdlicka @therealhrdlicka.bsky.social · 16/04/2026I have strained my Achilles once in college severely, and then once during soccer much less severely. I’ve never had tibia trouble, but as a small suggestion, I’ll say that if you can find black places to run or ride the bike, that has helped me. 100 1
Matt Hrdlicka @therealhrdlicka.bsky.social · 12/04/2026In the presence of greatness. The author of “The Book with No Pictures” is in the house. 110 1
Matt Hrdlicka @therealhrdlicka.bsky.social · 01/02/2026Not pictured, but MEM gets to swap either of their two 2030 1sts with CLE. The POR 1st is the cost of taking Pat Williams instead of Heurter. I think only CHI would say no to this, but it's not bad for them either (assuming they want to take a shot on Ja, which prob not). 100 1
Matt Hrdlicka @therealhrdlicka.bsky.social · 29/01/2026I wonder if the Pistons would take Ayo for Ron Holland and a good 2nd this year? Bulls would turn Ayo and expirings into the Ja Morant experiment. Grizz get Holland and expiring which I would then go use to get the picks for bad deals. 410 4
Matt Hrdlicka @therealhrdlicka.bsky.social · 21/01/2026Not pictured, but MEM sends the less favorable of its 2026 1sts to SAC also. Who says no? 420 4
Matt Hrdlicka @therealhrdlicka.bsky.social · 03/01/2026This is an example of perfectly acceptable defense from a player he size and build of Ja Morant. Smart scores, but Ja is contesting the space: 010 1
Matt Hrdlicka @therealhrdlicka.bsky.social · 02/01/2026MEM sends UT a 2nd round pick. Kyle Anderson is NGT for next season. Who says no? 200 2
Matt Hrdlicka @therealhrdlicka.bsky.social · 31/12/2025Would CLE like to shake things up, and get a mulligan for Jerome, without giving up too much control over their picks? (Tyson is a Hrd's guy, but this trade cuts so much $ from their tax I think you can get 2 swaps and Tyson). 110 1
Matt Hrdlicka @therealhrdlicka.bsky.social · 31/12/202525 seconds of the Santi Aldama experience: 120 2
Matt Hrdlicka @therealhrdlicka.bsky.social · 31/12/2025Beautiful screen for the screener by Cam and Jaren at the bottom of the screen: 130 3
Matt Hrdlicka @therealhrdlicka.bsky.social · 27/12/2025One noticeable change is that Ja struggles to find straight line drives to the rim this year. He just can't fight through hand checks with sheer force like he used to. Check the amount of sideways dribbling it takes to get around Ryan Rollins: 120 2
Matt Hrdlicka @therealhrdlicka.bsky.social · 20/12/2025RKM up top with Xavi or Bergval on left? Or are we rocking 4-2-2-2 with Kudus/RKM staying high? 200 2
Matt Hrdlicka @therealhrdlicka.bsky.social · 18/12/2025I guess Naz isn’t the issue, it’s McDaniels and others who don’t collapse. I wonder if Naz is lower if JJJ never attempts that drive. 100 1
Matt Hrdlicka @therealhrdlicka.bsky.social · 18/12/2025I don’t know why teams treat other players differently than Ja, but Naz Reid being up on Clarke instead of at the nail gives JJJ a cleaner drive to the basket here: 110 1
Matt Hrdlicka @therealhrdlicka.bsky.social · 16/12/2025Cedric Coward forces an airball on James Harden’s step back, then sprints past him in transition for a dunk. 260 6
Matt Hrdlicka @therealhrdlicka.bsky.social · 11/12/2025Too many of the best passages are spoiler-y, but this is where the title comes from. All the people who built the rails to connect our country, themselves lived before that connectedness. They were alone, broke their bodies, and the world changed after they were used up. 000 0
Matt Hrdlicka @therealhrdlicka.bsky.social · 11/12/2025Many many writers fuck this kicker up. They make it too important, write it through 2017 eyes. This is just a moment, when Robert Granier is thinking about a murder committed casually, and it passes us on page 7. 100 1
Matt Hrdlicka @therealhrdlicka.bsky.social · 25/11/2025Missed all but the last 2 mins of the third quarter bc we were in the ice cream line. 030 3
Matt Hrdlicka @therealhrdlicka.bsky.social · 12/11/2025Coward messes up following the cutter, but there’s no defensive pressure here on a very simple ball screen. 040 4
Matt Hrdlicka @therealhrdlicka.bsky.social · 12/11/2025Four v five. One Knick doesn’t even get past half court. One defender has his back to the ball. Nobody stops Brunson who draws two, kicks out to Ja’s man. Token defense, and it ends with a Clarkson layup. 151 5
Matt Hrdlicka @therealhrdlicka.bsky.social · 05/11/2025During Ja's prime, he was getting over 40% of his shots at the rim. Somewhere around 9% more of his shots came there instead of from short floater range. Since then it has been a steady decline towards taking lower value shots. 130 3
Matt Hrdlicka @therealhrdlicka.bsky.social · 01/11/2025Logged into the good ole trade machine this afternoon and 020 2
Matt Hrdlicka @therealhrdlicka.bsky.social · 01/11/2025Alright. This is the good shit. Five out. Multiple DHO opportunities. Clean paint. Leads to a low EV shot that is nonetheless wide open. 220 2
