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All true in the black and white sense. Still, I would have enjoyed reading your posts had Manuel fired him 2020. 😉

Sort of. Do you seriously think Warde - assuming he did at any point think it would be a good idea, had the pull to actually fire Hargbaugh over 'organizational issues' when they were threatening to win a natty? Maybe after the messy Covid year he might have gotten away with it but even then Harbaugh had huge inside and donor support. I think one thing we are free to do a lot of here in discussion (which is fine) is assume people are unconstrained just because we don't know or see the constraints they are under. I'm no particular fan of Manuel, but I can't imagine his job was any kind of picnic once Harbaugh showed up. I'm perfectly happy to pin Moore on him, but even there it wouldn't surprise me if we learned a lot of pressure for that decision was coming from other places - though we never likely will even it were true - the old saw about 'failure is an orphan' being applicable. Or another way to put it is that if Warde had had to fight to hire Moore over the objections of Regents and donors, he'd almost certainly be fired by now.

It's the oldest old boy network left.

ASP is one of those guys who I can't figure out why he's in the league as a defenseman. He has a hockey skill set but it's much more an offensive one than a defensive one. I guess it just highlights the size of the step up to the NHL (pun inteneded). The NHL is fully of really big guys today. ASP is at too much physical disadvantage to the guys he has to go against. If you are going to keep a guy like that as PP specialist you're going to have to keep him paired with a really good stay at home guy the rest of the time. Gostisbehere V2.0 is probably his ceiling as a Dman.

IIRC JD took a hard fall last game when he was undercut on a rebound.

The situation with Ivey is just bad. I don't think you can pay a guy whose projection is still a near total unknown. If he eventually turns into a good player with another team, that's tough luck but I don't see how the Pistons can spend significant $ on him.

The other thing is that as far as I have ever heard, we know almost nothing about what constraints Chris I is under as Trustee of the Tigers. Does he have obligations so his siblings? Do they have any voting rights in the trust? Are there unknowns that will come into play when Marion passes? We all always assume he is a totally free agent and all the $$ of Little Ceasar's and Olympia Inc are at his disposal, but I don't think the public knows to what degree any of that is actually true or not.

no argument on that but it's reality that every day he is still there is increasing the odds he's not going anywhere. Another factor is the U is basically shut down until almost the 2nd week in Jan so in the sense that communication across the admin system is going to be sluggish the clock may be somewhat stopped for a decision on Warde even though the football season itself is running overtime in the playoffs and an AD that is still alive needs to be in the middle of his coach search. It's sort of a mismatched situation.

right, they already have a shooter they have to spend too much time trying to hide in Robinson. The dream route for this team to a championship was for one of the young athletic guys to develop into a shooter because it would have been pure addition by addition, but having to give up useful assets for a shooter isn't so much fun. Part of what lets the pistons play the way they do is the depth of guys who can run and disrupt so they can keep rotating in and out at high energy. Lose a couple of those guys and there may be a cost you couldn't predict so easily from the stat sheets. It's a lot harder to see how to thread the needle to improve a 22-6 team than even 44-38 one.

it's also guys the emergence of guys who shoot >40% on threes. It's driving points per possession into uncharted territory.

plus they get a little deeper when Kane returns.

Talbot needed the win. He wasn't great on the second Caps goal - probably screened but if he's in better position it's still a stop. But was good otherwise.

Either Mr Proctor or Mr Gamble.

so...Kasper was hatched? 🙃

I think Warde would be out there working - if they are letting him. I think the question is does he even have sanction to do anything or has he be been told to tread water until Grasso and the regents get their postmortem report from their investigators and they decide if he stays.

IDK, McLellan can preach 'game management' all he wants, doesn't seem to work. When the wings take their foot off the offensive pedal they give up too many goals.

JB seems to want Ivey to be a 3 & D guy but the 3's have been missing the last few of games.

I've occasionally seen Elmer do a nice job of just surrounding rushing wingers at center ice and pinching them off. It's another thing where we'd like to see more. That's the thing with Elmer - he's shown he can do a number of things, he just has to do more of them all.

well, here's hoping you aren't patient Alpha in the newest scourge.

we still have no idea if the AD is staying.

In case anyone still wonder why Dems lose elections....

Not sure how good some of the consumer tests out there are. My son and his kid came down with the same flu at the same time, their home tests that told them they had two different flus.- Possible, but very unlikely.

36 games in and the Atlantic conference leader is 2pt away from being out of the wildcard. NHL to Pete Rozelle "Hold my beer."

Unfortunately enough, even Reagan isn't the GOP 'Reagan' anymore.

It would have been interesting to see where Hillary would have governed had she been elected and how that would have changed the 'Clinton' legacy. My impression was that she was a more committed liberal than Bill ever was but talk is cheap, we don't know what she actually would have done with the office.