buddha

you've been quite grouchy all year. 🙂

you always were the optimist when it came to this team. 😉

kenny holland draft specials all around. speaking of which, dennis cholowski was out there tonight for jersey. and to think, kenny passed on necas for ras and chychrun for cholowski.

marko kasper showing jt compher how you put the puck INTO AN EMPTY NET.

offensive superstars coby white with 17 on 20 shots and 7 turnovers, and giddey with 25 on 21 shots. bulls blown out in the play-in game by the heat. again. but they got a home "playoff game." so reinsdorf will be happy. actually, i assume he's unaware because he's one of the 35 people at the sox game tonight.

he's such a waste. and were stuck with him on that 3 year deal. veleno was more impactful.

so youre the guy who goes to the games and just hopes both teams have fun.

you morons cant even tank right. jersey is totally not trying very hard.

that's the way they've played defense all season. they just outscored bad teams down the stretch.

heat hunting vuc on defense. no rim protection, cant move his feet in a pnr. heat up by 20+ in 2nd quarter.

he would have been the same as end stage lloyd, only without the senior class that kept him afloat to the end. they had very little talent on that team when lloyd left. he stopped recruiting hard years before and it showed. debord wasnt any good at every stop after michigan.

i hate the two days off in between some games.

lol at phoenix. overpaid veterans and no draft picks. run it back!

they have room for forsberg's contract next year. down the road it might cost them someone, but they can do it next year. he's only on 8.5 aav, i think.

why would they want bad contracts in a deal to unload their best player? he's a solid 1b center (like larkin) on a reasonable deal through his 30s. youre paying for ultimate decline but not too much. probably a first round pick (or two), a top prospect like asp, and a second tier prospect like buium or lombardi.

how is nico not executive of the year for the job he's done for the lakers?

i had him 3rd, i think that's pretty good. i dont get the "hey, your team was supposed to be good so having one of the greatest regular seasons in nba history isnt good enough." since there is no criteria for "coach of the year" we can just argue in circles about this for days.

i think jb has done a good job. i also think this season's advance is more of a sign of JUST HOW BAD MONTY WILLIAMS WAS AS COACH. it was the worst coaching job ive ever seen. and it isnt "the same roster". no wiseman is huge. a cancer and a terrible player. adding beasley was massive considering the season he's had. ausar and duren's improvement. a healthy cade. adding a sparkplug in holland. those are improvements. losing ivey matters a lot, but natural improvement from younger players also contributed.

i would not sign jaymo to a big deal. no way. he's certainly not a bust. he's a quality player. but the lions have LOTS of quality players and they cant keep them all.

i've always thought next year was the year to make a big move to strengthen the team, and then use your prospect group as cheap labor as you pay big money for a marner or ehlers or another top offensive player. but the fact that they are stuck with holl, tarasenko and gustaffson for another year tells me other wise. as you said, getting rid of ghost and walman because you didnt have money for seider/raymond extensions BECAUSE you signed the likes of holl and then tarasenko and gustaffson was the first time i really thought....do they have a plan? and i still get why they dealt walman and i still think he's a problem and weak on a good team...but you attached a pick when you could have used waivers and then you signed gustaffson and tarasenko... up until this year he made a lot of nice moves: walman trade, ghost signing, mantha trade (sort of), bertuzzi deal, debrincat trade, perron signing, kane signing, and i understood copp (and i actually think he's been as advertised as a good defensive player and leader and its no coincidence they declined after his injury) and chairot (big physical defenseman who is overmatched on top pair but is an ok second pair and a really good third pair). compher? 5 years? holl? three years? a washed up gustaffson and tarasenko? this last offseason was so brutal it killed any momentum they had. to finish this rambling post, they need more hits from the prospects and they need them now. if not, theyre buffalo.

if that's true they need to trade him now while he still has some value.

i read something the other day about how their european picks have mostly worked out but their north american picks have not. they rely on their super swedish scout andersson but their north american team gives them next to nothing. and their guys develop in sweden when coached by other team's management but in the US they stagnate. not universally true, but something to think about. as to zach benson, no thanks. we'll see but he hasnt been particularly impressive in buffalo. i want to see danielson in detroit first. of course with stevie holland in charge, that may not be until 2030.

if it doesnt work out, we'll look back and cite a couple of turning points. he really refused to "bottom out completely" by not trading larkin. and instead of making signings of guys he could move for picks, he signed copp, compher, and chairot in an attempt to bring in veterans to make the team better. he didnt want "to be buffalo", a team with a terrible culture but always a nice prospect list. instead they achieved what you always warned against: the mushy middle. not bad enough to get a star and not good enough to make the playoffs. larkin and raymond are good players. but for the wings to win they need to be great players. and theyre not. but when people will look back, it will be copp, compher, and chairot. why sign those guys? to get the 8th seed? whoo hoo.

they'll give it to draymond, or whomever led the league in blocks.

i think we place too much consideration on it, not that it deserves no consideration. as i said before, pistons fans think about the pistons and not the rest of the league. jb did a nice job, but for me, others should be rewarded for the better jobs they did. blink.