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3POINT ROB

Fantasy basketball’s sharpest voice.
Win your league. Clown your friends. Strive for greatness.

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01 / TAKES

Hot takes, cold receipts.

Six opinions Rob will defend in court. Some of these will age like milk. Most won’t.

MVP RACE

SGA is the 1A, and it stopped being close in November.

The usage is absurd, the turnovers are down, and OKC is +11.4 with him on the floor. Everyone still voting Jokic hasn’t watched a full Thunder game and it shows. Lock it in.

Confidence
92
PUNT

Punt FT% is still the cheat code nobody wants to admit.

Giannis, Gobert, Claxton, Sengun. Eight cats, zero guilt. If your league-mates are still crying about it, they’re the reason you’re going to win.

RIDE OR DIE

Luka’s step-back is the most valuable shot in basketball.

28/9/9 with the worst help defense in the league. He’s the closest thing to a Nash–Dirk hybrid we’re ever getting. Rob has been saying this since the rookie year and he will not shut up about it.

LAKERS

Year 23 LeBron is still a top-30 player. It should be illegal.

Austin Reaves is the actual cheat code the national guys won’t admit. The Lakers are one deadline move from being a real problem, and the King is still averaging 24/8/8 at an age where most guys are doing pre-game segments on ESPN. We don’t deserve him.

Confidence
88
FADE

Harden in round 2 is still a trap.

Beautiful assists, terrible nights. If you drafted him there you chose this life. Trade him to the homer in your league before March.

TIER BREAK

Wemby is broken tier. Stop pretending you can “win” that trade.

He’s the only player averaging 4+ blocks and 3+ threes in league history. There is no fair package. Hold. Forever.

TOP 5

Anthony Edwards is a top-5 player. Full stop.

53 in a playoff game, first option on a 50-win team, top-10 in real plus-minus. If your ranker still has him 9th, you’re ranking a 2022 player. Ant is here.

USAGE

Cade Cunningham is lapping the 2nd round.

27/9/6 on usage that’s top-three in the league, and the Pistons are genuinely watchable. Whoever drafted him outside the top-10 should be sending thank-you cards.

Confidence
86
HOT TAKE

Sengun is the 2nd-best center in the NBA.

Most skilled big in basketball. The elbow passes, the footwork, the soft touch. Sabonis is a hall-of-fame Kroger’s bag on offense by comparison. I said what I said.

EAST

Pacers are making a second straight ECF. Haliburton is the truth.

Fastest pace in the league, elite half-court execution, a point guard who genuinely doesn’t turn the ball over in the clutch. The Bucks and Sixers should be nervous. Indiana is the real matchup problem in the East.

Confidence
78
BUY

Jalen Brunson is a top-10 player. Don’t be shy.

27 a night, 6 assists, top-5 clutch scoring, runs an offense the KAT experiment hasn’t dented. Stop calling him a top-20 guy. That was last season’s consensus and it has aged.

FADE

Zion is an auto-fade until we see 65 games.

Yes, yes, the peaks are fun. So are dreams. Draft him in round 6, not round 2, and your team will thank you in April.

02 / THE VAULT

Catch and Shoot, unfiltered.

Three episodes locked and loaded. First one drops when Sixth Man decides we’re ready. Spoiler: soon.

  1. 001

    Catch and Shoot: The First Possession

    Rob introduces the pod, the philosophy, and exactly why your league-mate drafting RJ Barrett in round 5 is a personal attack on his family.

    ≈ 42 min·Season Premiere
    DROPPING SOON
  2. 002

    Deadline Day: Who’s Actually Available

    The real names on the block, sourced from Rob’s group-chat intel and three different league-managers who owe him favors. No fluff, no “I heard on Twitter.”

    ≈ 55 min·Trade Special
    DROPPING SOON
  3. 003

    Punt Strategies That Still Print in 2026

    A love letter to the zig when everyone zags. Featuring a 40-minute rant about how the average manager is too scared to actually commit to a build.

    ≈ 48 min·Strategy
    DROPPING SOON
Rob on the court, #6 jersey, teammates celebrating behind him
JEWISH SNIPER · NO. 6 · STRIVE FOR GREATNESS
03 / ABOUT ROB

Shooter. Scholar. Commissioner.

Grew up on a half-court in the backyard, worked a jumper into something that teammates still call a problem. Self-described Jewish sniper. LeBron loyalist. Luka apologist before it was fashionable. Rob learned the game chasing the Chosen One through four cities and a couple of rings — and polished it against anyone who’d play him.

Thirteen years running the same fantasy league. Three chips. A freshman-year draft he still brings up at Thanksgiving. The spreadsheets started in pencil. They are now a problem for his girlfriend’s storage plan.

If Rob’s not courtside with a notebook, he’s in the gym. Last Tuesday: pickup at the Heat arena. Ask him about the fadeaway he hit over a guy twice his size — actually, don’t. He will tell you anyway.

“Nothing is given. Everything is earned.” That’s the lens. I just happen to be pointing it at fantasy hoops.

— Rob, quoting the King, to his league GroupMe, at least monthly
03.5 / BY THE NUMBERS

The résumé, if you’re into that.

  • 0
    Years running his league
  • 0
    Championships (so far)
  • 0+
    NBA games attended lifetime
  • HS
    Has played fantasy since freshman year
  • 1/2
    Court in the backyard growing up
  • LBJ
    The benchmark, period.

Influences: LeBron · Steve Nash · Austin Reaves · Luka Dončić. Tendencies: data-first, stat-line obsessive, will redraft your team in his head during a podcast.

04 / MEMBERSHIPS

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