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Post by homerdante on Jul 13, 2022 18:32:35 GMT -5
I liked Lazar, but 1 Mill per for 3 years for a 4th liner. Maybe that's too much?
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Post by homerdante on Jul 13, 2022 14:04:20 GMT -5
Hopefully Coyle is gone. I have no idea what sort of advanced metrics justified the cost of the guy, but for 5+Million per year, I want a heck of a lot more production. What an albatross. Easy on Charlie, he’s my hometown guy, great guy, but yea he’s overpaid by about 1.5m I wasn't suggesting he kills kittens, just that there's no way he's worth 6.4% of the overall cap. Unfortunately, I'd bet it's Foligno, which still saves 3.8 and he has only 1 year left, but 4 more years of Charlie Coyle and that bloated contract is a Backes style hamstring of the cap flexibility of the team. THAT is vintage Sweeney and part of the reason he should have been fired and replaced.
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Post by homerdante on Jul 13, 2022 12:31:56 GMT -5
Hopefully Coyle is gone. I have no idea what sort of advanced metrics justified the cost of the guy, but for 5+Million per year, I want a heck of a lot more production. What an albatross.
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Post by homerdante on Jul 9, 2022 13:11:47 GMT -5
I thought the all center approach for the first many picks of the draft also indicated some sort of search is strongly underway for the successor to Bergeron. I'm not sure if that approach works well in hockey or not--drafting for position. Obviously it's a mantra in baseball at this point--draft the player not the position. I guess we'll find out in a few years!
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Post by homerdante on Jul 6, 2022 13:02:17 GMT -5
Possible Bergeron and Krecji returns? Various reports today, no confirmations.
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Post by homerdante on Jul 1, 2022 17:56:25 GMT -5
Danny is unreal, how can anyone still trade with this guy? Wow!
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Post by homerdante on Jun 16, 2022 22:36:26 GMT -5
Beating three decent teams and losing to a beatable one is not the most impressive playoff run. There are lots of holes on this roster, but none of those matter if Smart and the Jays don’t stop playing like idiots in big moments. A beatable team I guess, but lets be serious - the Warriors are arguably the best dynasty ever, up there with the Bulls and Spurs. Are we really going to be prisoners of the moment? We went from .500 to Game 6 of the Finals against a perennial dynasty and top 10 player of all time. That's nothing to sneeze at. This was one of the hardest roads to the finals EVER, lets not do revisionist history here - and this team passed with flying colors. KD and Kyrie, the best player in the world, and the number 1 seed that eliminated us previously. This was a magical run. Talk about Revisionist...The Nets had zero synergy after Kyrie taking 80% of the year off. Middleton injured, or the Celtics easily lose to the Bucks. The Heat barely walking, incredibly beat up, and the Celtics still almost choked it away. In sports you hear "the things you can't teach" a lot. I will always root for the laundry, but I will forever be disgusted when I see outright stupidity--outright quitting. I honestly think this core, mostly Tatum, Brown and Smart have too much of the bad stuff you can't teach. They play outright dumb too often. Dribbling into double and triple teams, throwing passes directly to other the team, throwing up absurdly bad % shots. Getting up in the air and not knowing what they're doing far too often. Hero ball, iso ball, taking defense series completely off. Sure, the refs were a factor and should not have been in a perfect world, and some of their calls were inexcusably bad. This team beat itself. They beat themselves over, and over, and over again. With the level of talent and athleticism this team has, they should not have come up short this run. Flat out. They should not have been a .500 team last year either, so the "turnaround" is a joke to me. They're not progressing like they should be, working on the parts of their game like they should be. Tatum still looks uncomfortable dribbling the basketball too often. Dude needs to work on his handle. Quitting team, soft team, mentally dim team. Disappointing for a long time fan to have this as your current core you're supposed to have high hopes for into the future. When is the next rebuild? Can't come too soon.
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Post by homerdante on Jun 16, 2022 22:19:56 GMT -5
Tatum is as soft as they come. Harden 2.0
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Post by homerdante on Jun 16, 2022 22:13:14 GMT -5
You only get so many bites at the apple. This might be the best one that this core gets. From that perspective, even if they came farther than most expected, it remains deeply disappointing. Exactly. Questions about whether this is the core have to come up. Brown and Tatum are both firmly in the Harden mold for me. Arod, take your pick. Mentally soft players who show up some games and not others, who take plays off, games off, but can put up nice highlights on sportscenter. I grew up in the Bird era watching McHale, Chief, and the rest. I do not remember them taking games off. I remember them coming up short and getting outplayed sometimes, but not literally not showing up.
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Post by homerdante on Jun 16, 2022 21:03:45 GMT -5
Grant Williams looking like big baby level foot speed out there. Someone should just get him a chair on defense.
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Post by homerdante on Jun 16, 2022 20:47:28 GMT -5
Lol Jaylen. Maybe you’ll grow up next season and learn how not to play like a moron. Doubt it, he's shown zero growth this post season, in fact his handle has devolved this season if anything, and his decision making in terms of when to pass has also degraded. Although he's rivaled by how horrible Smart has been in terms of passing directly into the chest of the opposite team.
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Post by homerdante on Jun 5, 2022 19:42:24 GMT -5
7 turnovers one quarter, nbd. totally in the zone.
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Post by homerdante on May 27, 2022 22:26:42 GMT -5
I really want Jaylen to be better. I've been rooting for him for his whole career, but he does so many things that are infuriating when you watch him. So many bone-headed things. So many turnovers. When does the mental part of the game come, after 30? Do we have years more of waiting for him to be more than an athletically gifted player?>
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Post by homerdante on May 27, 2022 22:04:49 GMT -5
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Post by homerdante on May 27, 2022 21:56:47 GMT -5
anyone here able to teach a superstar basketball player how to dribble? Tatum needs your help
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Post by homerdante on May 27, 2022 18:37:46 GMT -5
I'm all in on a Jaylen Brown Trade. What can we get for him?
(posted this the other day and he started playing well two minutes later. Game time superstition, in before game starts, let's see a good game out of him again all game!)
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Post by homerdante on May 25, 2022 21:18:53 GMT -5
I'm all in on a Jalen Brown trade, what can we get for him? You don't trade a player because he's having a terrible game. That is not how it works. Pretty sure his lack of handle, and turnover problems are not a one game event. Time to cut our losses and trade up. He can't seem to improve the handle or stop the massive turnover games. It's been five years now.
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Post by homerdante on May 25, 2022 21:06:01 GMT -5
I'm all in on a Jalen Brown trade, what can we get for him?
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Post by homerdante on May 21, 2022 22:38:02 GMT -5
I miss old school basketball when it was a matter of who was better, and not which team showed up prepared to play. I can't imagine Jordan's Bulls or Bird's Celtics showing up 100% not ready to play.
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Post by homerdante on May 21, 2022 22:28:55 GMT -5
I wish I were kidding, but this honestly looked like a bunch of early 20s kids who came home from being away from their wives and girlfriends, overdid it horribly and showed up to the game in a sex coma. (I'll never forget that part of Bull Durham) I realize that's pretty negative, but I don't know how to explain how wretched they were collectively today.
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Post by homerdante on May 21, 2022 20:17:34 GMT -5
Smart Hero Ball...they're so garbage right now. They deserve to get boo'd.
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Post by homerdante on May 21, 2022 20:09:21 GMT -5
How can White miss so many layups?
How can Marcus smart literally pass directly into a Heat players chest with two other heat players behind him, with a celtic behind three Heat players? Unreal horrible right now...
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Post by homerdante on May 21, 2022 20:00:59 GMT -5
The return home flat games have always puzzled me, especially after a phenomenal game on the road. I honestly wonder how much wives, kids and home life weigh in on some sort of emotional exhaustion factor. I swear if I were a GM of a team, I'd seriously consider mandatory hotel isolation during transitions coming home to avoid this, it seems to be all too common.
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Post by homerdante on May 20, 2022 1:20:10 GMT -5
I appreciate the response Lots to absorb. One thing I have ultimate confidence in. There isn't a single GM/Org who would go into a season in the tail end of a contending window with 2 rookies. You have a problem with the Ullmark contract, that's fine. But don't give me Swayman/Vladar as your evidence. No GM, under the circumstances, makes that call. I'll dig into the rest later but, at a quick glance, it feels like we compare "our" players/coaches/execs to our own expectations and NOT to their peers. The issue isn't whether or not Sweeney has fallen short of our expectations/hopes (he has). It's whether there is someone put there who could/would do better. If there is, great. I'm in. Otherwise you're just making an emotional decision and could easily end up with a GM who is, decidedly, worse. I want to be clear, I don't dislike Ullmark, I dislike Ullmark at 5 mill per year. Feels like an overpay to me--like Sweeney got played by his agent. "There are 3 more teams interested..." I simply mention Swayman/Vladar is not a sure fire slam dunk, but as an alternative to dumping 5 million into the goalie position that didn't need to be there. There are a lot of guys on this list who outperformed him for less: www.spotrac.com/nhl/free-agents/2021/goaltender/ufa/I can see the rationale for not going with Swayman/Vladar, I just didn't like the outcome we ended up with. I'm not advocating for hiring some other GM tomorrow, I'd advocate for a thorough GM search and hiring a well vetted candidate by people who know what they're doing. However, at this point, is that Neely? No idea...
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Post by homerdante on May 19, 2022 22:36:48 GMT -5
- Contrary to popular belief, his 1st draft ('15) was good (it just SHOULD have been epic) - Taylor Hall - Lysell and Lohrei - Swayman - got Marchand/Bergy/Pasta/etc to sign below market deals - Lindholm a very good get (though, granted, it puts them in a weird spot right now) - Haula was more than one typically gets for 3M. Forbort was miscast early but exactly what a playoff team needs from a veteran 3rd pair D. Ullmark was an overpay (but you can do that when you have a rookie as the other half of your pair) but was key to their success. - Nash was just an unfortunate outcome When the players play well, it's the players but when they play poorly, it's on the GMs. I'd also argue that doing what he did with an owner who seems to be in it only for the concessions is no easy task. I'm not saying he's above criticism. He's not. He's just below the LEVEL of criticism he receives. Thanks for the list. In fairness, Swayman should be on my list as well, at least for now and hopefully into the future. --Taylor Hall does not look like a win to me. 20 goals a year for 6 mill feels overpaid to me. Combined with disappearing in the playoffs, generally speaking (-11 in the playoffs for his career). Everyone keeps hoping for lightning in the jar with him magically coming back, but I don't see it. He is what he is, and that's overpaid. Coyle is what he is, and that's overpaid. Sweeney is part of that dreaming on old potentials crowd that never pans out. Sunk Cost, move on please. --Lysell looks good so far in amateur, let's see if it translates. --Below market deals, ok, again, in fairness, he did accomplish that, but then he used what financial flexibility that could have gotten him HORRIBLY. Signs Backes to big money and too many years. --Let's see how Lindholm holds up, he's showing injury prone tendencies, which is perhaps why he was let go. --Haula looks like a possible good acquisition, but last offseason tips negative with Nosek and Foligno signings. Some spaghetti stuck, but high cost to see one stick, two JAGs. --I still think Ullmark was a heroic failure overall due to limited financial flexibility last off-season. Vladar/Swayman might very well have worked, but we'll never know. Sweeney seems like a veterans are safe sort of guy with a bad ability to create a meaningful player development structure. It just seems to me that upside with him is so limited, rolling the dice on a younger skilled talent evaluator seems like it would be a MUCH stronger play right now. I honestly think he's enough below average you move on. Not 10th percentile--which as you suggest might be the noise out there--but firmly 30th percentile type who you can almost certainly do better than.
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