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Post by rjp313jr on Sept 10, 2022 6:32:27 GMT -5
I wonder if we see a Grant extension shortly after the year starts. If they offer him something over the MLE on AAV, I think he likely signs. The cap is set to explode so having him at an AAV between 12-15m will be a great deal down the line and for him he’s young enough to hit FA again in his prime. He’s not really good enough at this point for a team in free agency to use cap space to sign, which probably limits him to MLE money so going above that should convince him to sign, I would think…. His improvements have been steady and significant enough and since he’s still 23, it’s worth betting on more upside.
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Post by rjp313jr on Sept 10, 2022 6:28:36 GMT -5
They are going to have no choice but to limit the 2 big lineups where Horford and Williams play together. They don’t need to eliminate it but it will be limited.
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Post by rjp313jr on Aug 31, 2022 7:30:45 GMT -5
Sweeney by a mile with Bloom next! The question was likely to be fired. It should be Sweeney but he’s a Bs insider his job is safe for a few years… I think it’s Bloom by a mile. He won’t get fired this year but if next year is a repeat he’s probably gone, if our ownership is actually present.
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Post by rjp313jr on Aug 27, 2022 18:48:08 GMT -5
Initial report is that ACL is stable. MRI tomorrow. It’s going to be a collateral ligament. I’d be shocked if it wasn’t something torn
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Post by rjp313jr on Aug 27, 2022 15:51:02 GMT -5
Gallinari just blew out his knee playing for Italy. Non contact - looked terrible… now what?
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Post by rjp313jr on Aug 27, 2022 14:39:54 GMT -5
Prediction 6-11
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Post by rjp313jr on Aug 27, 2022 14:39:37 GMT -5
They are going to start 0-4, then get close to .500 then get crushed to end the year and end up with a pick just outside the top 10…
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Post by rjp313jr on Aug 27, 2022 14:38:21 GMT -5
Offense looked gross, gotta get that squared away Defense I think should be pretty good Tavai shouldn’t even be on the team but they are going to start him at LB… don’t count on them being good defensively.
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Post by rjp313jr on Aug 26, 2022 6:13:40 GMT -5
Beverley/Hield/Lebron/Davis/Turner would be interesting. Still probably not enough to win because that bench would be brutalized constantly If that 5 is healthy in the playoffs and LeBron and Davis are as good as we are supposed to believe then that team should be a contender. There are actually a lot of decent enough FA that they should be able to fill a bench that could work. They need to try.
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Post by rjp313jr on Aug 26, 2022 6:08:32 GMT -5
Good thing they didn’t draft the Punt God like a lot of us wanted them to.
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Post by rjp313jr on Aug 22, 2022 15:32:11 GMT -5
Seen reports Patriots are talking to teams about Wynn. Might explain training camp so far, it was an audition to see what we had for overall depth. I'd eat the $1.3 million on Hoyers deal if he'd agree to going to practice squad for certain players. He'd be the most expensive practice squad player in the league as he'd be getting over $3 million that's guaranteed on his deal. Imagine if they had done the obvious thing from the start and traded Wynn and kept Mason and played Onwenu at RT?
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Post by rjp313jr on Aug 22, 2022 11:29:36 GMT -5
It matters more to the Patriots and their salary cap. As I understand it, he's guaranteed 3M (a good chunk of which would be salary for this year either way) over the next two years. The net loss in cap space would, presumably, be < 2M -- is that a fair price to keep a tough cut? Is Hoyer worth almost $5m in cap space in the role you’re designating for him? Seems like a gross waste of resources.
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Post by rjp313jr on Aug 21, 2022 16:44:22 GMT -5
Speaking of Hoyer, I'm wondering if he ends up on the practice squad -- available if needed for a game or two -- where he can still do all the "sounding board" things he does well, while freeing up a top 53 spot for an intriguing young prospect? He already got his guaranteed money, what's it matter to him? It matters more to the Patriots and their salary cap.
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Post by rjp313jr on Aug 21, 2022 12:29:20 GMT -5
This is the first real season I am pumped to watch nba. I am pleasantly surprised about our G.M. I wish Danny could of ran this team in tandem because Ainge has a good eye for drafting. It’s hard to get good players where the Celtics draft. Timelord was suppose to be a lottery pick , I remember that draft Danny didn’t hesitate to take him around 25, 25 or 27. The only one I didn’t want was Marcus Smart , we never get good lottery slots. I didn’t know about Jaylen Brown. I loved how he played the Marcus Fultz pick masterstroke. Don’t forget the 76ERS had like 4 straight top picks. Basketball is so friggin hard to succeed. We have no idea if Brad has an eye for drafting or not; he hasn’t done any yet.
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Post by rjp313jr on Aug 21, 2022 12:27:40 GMT -5
Seen around 8 weeks, what do they do? Doesn't help keep depth when he needs to make the 53 then go on IR to come back, unless they do it very well like once again with guys like Hoyer. Maybe they can cut some of those special teams guys then resign them. Who do you keep Nixon or Humphries?
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Post by rjp313jr on Aug 19, 2022 8:42:32 GMT -5
I think going with Patricia as the play caller may be a botch, I’m not worried about the offensive line play though. The reports I’ve seen on them have the issues more with run blocking than pass blocking, and that makes sense seeing as how they’re adding a bunch of zone runs to the playbook and those take reps to get right I don’t know man, I see a lot of sacks on Mac Jones
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Post by rjp313jr on Aug 18, 2022 6:30:20 GMT -5
I’ve been staying quiet trying to give it time, but these reports on the offense are atrocious. Trading Mason is going to go down as a disaster. Best way to ruin a young QB is to screw up his offensive line and it appears they’ve done just that. Combined with no offensive coordinator, this could turn into something atrocious.
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Post by rjp313jr on Aug 18, 2022 6:28:36 GMT -5
They have to find a way to keep Tre Nixon. His play, scouting reports and overall athletic ability should be enough. Bill saying he's the hardest worker on the team just seals the deal for me. It's just shaping up to be rough when it comes to doing 53 projections. Going to be a very interesting cut-down period. Guys like Robert's and Ray, the DBs, WR, heck even OL. I think one of Agholor/Meyers is gone before Week 1. Every report on Agholor is about how smart of a player he is; I don’t see Bill moving on from him.
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Post by rjp313jr on Aug 2, 2022 5:27:47 GMT -5
A few scattered thoughts: - I’m not particularly concerned about Durant’s 2022 playoffs. He was playing the best defensive team in the league with multiple options to throw at him on every play, coming off an unreasonable regular season workload, on a team with major culture/vibe issues, with zero help from his teammates and in a small sample size. You can’t consider the playoffs in isolation; when viewed together with his regular season, I don’t see any real issues. I think Durant is still a top 10 player in the league and one who is especially lethal in the playoffs given his ability to get a ~50% jump shot off against anyone at any time. - I’m less optimistic about this current core than most of you. I don’t see them as a top three team in the league at the moment (I have the Warriors, Bucks and Clippers ahead of them and the Suns, 76ers and Nuggets in the same tier) and I don’t see them as a perennial title contender as currently constructed. The second half of last season was great fun but it does not erase the issues seen in the first half. Development isn’t linear and you can’t assume that Tatum and Brown take another step forward, especially since the steps get harder from here on up (going from All-Star to best player on a championship team is particularly challenging). Durant has already shown he can do that, which is not something that should be easily dismissed. - I think Durant ages well. His size and shooting ability give him a high floor in terms of being able to play more PF and C as he gets older and still being able to get off his shot and adding a ton of value as a shot-up shooter (a la Dirk). He doesn’t need to get to the rim to shoot a high percentage and he still draws a lot of fouls. His lack of ball dominance makes him a perfect fit for an ascending Tatum. Injuries are a definite risk, though. - Durant is an underrated defender with tons of length and versatility. A Tatum/Durant/R. Williams frontcourt with Smart and Brogdon in the backcourt is a long, switchy, versatile lineup. - Trading for Durant increases the odds that you win one title but probably decreases the odds that you win multiple titles. That’s a tradeoff I’m willing to make. - With all that said, I’m not willing to give up Smart and I’m only willing to give up one or two near-term picks/swaps. No team can match Brown as an anchor piece in a trade and it’s a close enough call that I’m not giving up the pieces necessary to maximize title odds in the near term (Smart) or giving up the entire future (picks in 2025 and beyond). - Whether they trade for Durant or not, Rob Williams is the difference between a perennial title contender and merely a good team. If he stays healthy, he has an All-Star level impact on this team. This is just for sports conversation sake. I’ll start by saying some of these phrases we all use aren’t perfect but you said Durant has proven he can be the best player on a Championship team. And my question is, has he really done this? He joined a champion and continued to win with them. So sure, I guess he was the best player on that team, maybe, but Prime Steph Curry was on those teams and they had already won. So do we give Durant that distinction on technicality? Put it this way, he’s never “lead” a team to the promised land.
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Post by rjp313jr on Jul 20, 2022 14:06:25 GMT -5
These are their numbers for 2019-2021:
| AVG | OBP | SLG | wRC+ | fWAR | bWAR
| Olson | .257 | .354 | .522 | 134 | 9.6 | 11.8
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Both had two years of team control left coming into this season. Olson looks like a totally reasonable comp for Devers. The one major difference is that Olson is 2.5 years older. But for the Red Sox to start with the sort of offer Olson agreed to seems totally reasonable. It certainly wasn't "insulting" (which is a term people should really reserve for the offer they made to Bogaerts).
Do we know when the Sox offered this contract to Devers?
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Post by rjp313jr on Jul 20, 2022 7:58:38 GMT -5
It's negotiating, not a final take it or leave it offer. Teams don't hand out blank checks without a deadline to sign as much as we joke about that. He isn't gone until he's gone. Xander and Devers are basically laughing at the offer publicly. When you start a negotiation too low, it actually hurts negotiation. Have you ever interviewed for a job only to get such a low offer that you didn't even bother to counter? Not to mention it's a little insulting to give him such a low number when he knows he's worth near 3x the initial ask. Exactly, it’s an insult and it shows they are either complete jerks trying to pull one over on an insecure player or not serious about signing him. Devers is still only 25, for the remainder of this season. This is the guy you hand a 10 Year contract to. I love Xander and want him to be here, but if his contract is too long, he’s at the age where it’s not smart to be going more than 7 years. If they don’t resign Devers, I won’t even know what to think about what happened to this organization. It’s the Boston Red Sox, you aren’t supposed to lose players like him, at his age over money.
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Post by rjp313jr on Jul 19, 2022 5:40:24 GMT -5
Looks like the Celtics are higher on Kornet than the rest of us. Combining Brads comments from last week, with their lack of adding someone thru the TPE, The only other options are much smaller TPEs, that not much fits into and vet minimum deals.
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Post by rjp313jr on Jul 18, 2022 10:08:25 GMT -5
Haywards TPE expires today so it’s possible we get a significant move by the team. It’s likely we get nothing, but if it’s happening it’s today.
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Post by rjp313jr on Jul 18, 2022 8:31:38 GMT -5
www.basketball-reference.com/international/players/juhann-begarin-1.htmlHe's playing in the top French League, one of the better ones in the world. As you can see still needs work. So I wouldn't be pushing him to join the euro league just yet. Can a team do that with a player not under contract? Has it ever been done before? I actually prefer he learns the European way of playing Basketball, it's exactly what he needs. I prefer the top French league to the G league. Players won't come and go, it's more about team play and chemistry. That's the value of international picks, they can develop overseas with good coaching. It's more skill than athlete over there. Perfect for very raw great athletes. I would love to send Davison overseas for a few years. I honestly am not sure, if it’d be allowed but it should be. I like him developing there, but it’d be nice to get a personal coach to work on handle and shooting. They should have Pritchard teach all these guys his daily routine and ask them all to do it.
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Post by rjp313jr on Jul 18, 2022 8:21:32 GMT -5
I wouldn't count the Red Sox out. It seems to me that the vast majority of their hesitation in signing players boils down to age. Giving a 28 year old a 12 year deal definitely gives me pause. Where Soto is 23, a 12-13 year deal brings him to his age 35-36 seasons, which is still within the range of production for a player of his skill set. Soto is going to be MLB's first 400 million dollar baseball player. I don't see Henry commiting that much money to one player ever (he likes to spread the money around with the payroll). I also don't see Bloom trading the prospect capital to acquire Soto. It's going to take a extreme prospect package. Goes against everything he's been building the past 3 years in Boston. You’re assuming he signs his next contract before Ohtani.
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