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Post by jmei on Nov 26, 2023 14:48:37 GMT -5
Given how awful that first half performance was, feels like they need to give Zappe a chance here if nothing else to maintain some credibility with the rest of the team.
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Post by jmei on Nov 26, 2023 14:34:05 GMT -5
Mac is bad, but did Bill not naming the QB screw with his head even more than it already was? He's playing like a guy who is completely defeated and gave up. This is easily the worst game of his career. You'd almost think he was on team tank. If he didn’t have the mental toughness to deal with the last two weeks, he was never going to make it in this league regardless.
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Post by jmei on Nov 26, 2023 14:08:48 GMT -5
Well, at least we know for sure that Mac Jones is not an adequate starting QB now.
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Post by jmei on Nov 25, 2023 21:33:30 GMT -5
Zach Lowe had a great monologue about the Celtics on a recent podcast. I agree with his diagnosis—a big piece of the benefit of having so many good shooters should be an empty lane to drive against. Tatum has used it to his advantage at times, but he, Brown, Holiday and White all need to just drive it with an emphasis on scoring at the rim (or drawing fouls) rather than focus on drive and kick for catch and shoot threes.
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Post by jmei on Nov 25, 2023 13:31:16 GMT -5
Not that odd at all. He wasn’t in contention to start or be the first backup, they needed the roster spot and he likely reverts to the practice squad.
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Post by jmei on Nov 24, 2023 16:38:00 GMT -5
very mature, great contributions Just sick of you being a condescending, know it all asshole This is totally uncalled for. Please cut it out.
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Post by jmei on Nov 22, 2023 23:22:38 GMT -5
Celtics were up by nine with ninety seconds left and the Bucks made two back to back threes to kind of make it a game before the Celtics closed it out. I’m supposed to be upset about that?
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Post by jmei on Nov 22, 2023 22:38:39 GMT -5
Expectations are too high if you’re disappointed by a closer than it should have been win over your biggest rival.
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Post by jmei on Nov 21, 2023 8:51:10 GMT -5
Jaylen is still inconsistent but, at his peak, he’s better than anyone we could trade him for. That’s tough to give up.
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Post by jmei on Nov 20, 2023 10:43:57 GMT -5
There has been a fair amount of quantitative analysis on how much opt-out clauses are worth. The best public work I've seen is this Ben Clemons article which concludes (you have to read into the comments for it) that an opt out is worth roughly $0.9-$1.2 million/WAR, or roughly $40M for Machado and Arenado back in 2019. blogs.fangraphs.com/whats-an-opt-out-worth/
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Post by jmei on Nov 20, 2023 10:27:12 GMT -5
Please knock off the petty back and forth. Thanks.
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Post by jmei on Nov 19, 2023 23:23:34 GMT -5
I’m not saying to never include an opt out, but it’s something that is tremendously valuable to a player and so a team shouldn’t agree to it lightly.
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Post by jmei on Nov 19, 2023 21:15:15 GMT -5
Opt-outs or player options are always bad for the team. If the player opts out and signs for more money in free agency, it means that you could have traded him for value at that point even if you didn’t want to keep him for the last part of his contract.
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Post by jmei on Nov 19, 2023 16:02:15 GMT -5
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Post by jmei on Nov 19, 2023 11:13:09 GMT -5
I’ll take the under on 2 WAR next year on Urias, and I’ll bet that every public projection system will too.
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Post by jmei on Nov 18, 2023 22:02:07 GMT -5
While in general regressing to the mean is a worthy projection method, in cases where (whether due to injury or mechanical issues or something else) a player’s profile fundamentally changes, it can be misleading. Not sure which bucket Urias falls into, but I believe his quality of contact has been way down (even after his joining the Red Sox) and so they presumably think he’s got low odds of returning to the player he was a few years ago.
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Post by jmei on Nov 18, 2023 20:05:05 GMT -5
can you please not try to make every thread a referendum on Bloom? He’s fired, we’ve done that. This has nothing to do with 2024 free agency. For the record, I was merely replying to a post about Bloom. I didn’t introduce the topic. His previous decisions also have an outsized impact on “2024 Free Agency”. Do you disagree? I have no patience for this relentless need to revisit past front offices and past transactions. Even if you didn’t start it, don’t continue it.
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Post by jmei on Nov 18, 2023 15:28:07 GMT -5
I mean the reason was that it was a low-risk, high-upside gamble at a position of need that they got in exchange for a guy they were probably going to nontender. He had basically the worst possible recovery from his injury and it didn’t work out, c’est la vie. You know, they did fire Bloom a couple months ago. He’s gone. He can’t hurt you anymore. Indeed, everyone should observe the precedent set by the total silence on DD after he was fired. Please cut out the off topic tangents. That’s two today. You’ve been warned about this before. Thanks.
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Post by jmei on Nov 18, 2023 11:56:36 GMT -5
I like the new guy. A little hammy but that’s pretty typical for announcers. Decent rapport with Scal already.
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Post by jmei on Nov 17, 2023 22:36:20 GMT -5
Good sign that they can win games like tonight.
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Post by jmei on Nov 16, 2023 15:43:12 GMT -5
So much of sports media reporting is just anonymous gossip. It's tabloids for grown men who watch other grown men play games. That doesn't mean all of it is wrong, just means that you have to take it with a huge grain of salt (e.g., since the reporter and/or the source of the information may have an ax to grind or not know what they're talking about).
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Post by jmei on Nov 16, 2023 9:21:00 GMT -5
There's lots of teams that talk about sacrificing individual production for the good of the team, but it's hard for guys to actually do it. Low ego, team first guys like Holiday, White and Horford are rare, and that attitude looks like its rubbing off on Porzingis and Brown.
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Post by jmei on Nov 11, 2023 21:01:37 GMT -5
When Jaylen Brown is on, he is a really impressive player.
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Post by jmei on Nov 11, 2023 20:46:51 GMT -5
The Raptors are one of those teams that highlights that it’s a star-driven league. They have a bunch of pretty good players but no one who can consistently create good shots and so end up not winning a lot of games.
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Post by jmei on Nov 10, 2023 21:37:22 GMT -5
I TAKE IT ALL BACK
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