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Everything posted by gehringer_2
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Well you have to admit the Chinese should be amused by the asymetry of what these floaters probably cost them (assuming this last thing originated in China) and what we are spending to go get them. How could you not be? Just rolling one F22 down the runway probably costs more than whatever comprises their whole fleet of these little response magnets. I'm not knocking that we've decided to play our half of the game kinetically, but that doesn't make it less funny in the "swatting flies with a howitzer" kind of way.
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Chinese NORAD detection limit test balloons? $49.99 a pop on AliBaba?
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are their other kinds? 💰 🏒 💸
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right, but they didn't 'get' him for the trade pieces, they 'got' him for the $dollars spent. The question was what kinds of players the Wings could expect to draw with their trade pieces, which is a bit different question from how much the Wings are willing to pay for a FA - which is the bigger part of what NY did (i.e. pay as opposed to trade) to nail down Horvat as more than a rental.
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Seider's fine. They just need to get to where he isn't trying to do the work or 2 or 3 players by himself. That's one place the Wings at least have some leadership - their two best players - Larkin and Seider, are strong team guys. You couldn't blame either one for playing a more selfish game, but neither does.
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We have to hope the consensus scouting report on Bertuzzi doesn't converge to: "good player on a bad team, but maybe not good enough player to be good on a better team."
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Sure, but but keep in mind all NY got was a rental and the chance to negotiate from less distance with a free agent. They didn't give up that much but they didn't yet land anything like a long term piece of their future either (which is what the Wings are still looking for)
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They are in a tough spot. They already have lots of middling guys - what they need -as I think you noted - are a few more top end guys and usually you get those from high picks or big FA signings. Unless you send out Larkin or Seider, which gets you nowhere they are the only upper echelon talents you have, I don't see any one on this roster bringing back enough to get the Wings what they need.
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you can buy a lot of plane tickets for a couple extra million.
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02/10/2023 7:00 EST San Antonio Spurs vs Detroit Pistons
gehringer_2 replied to casimir's topic in Detroit Pistons
Wasn't Weaver just quoted as saying you win by dominating the boards? Hasn't anyone told him that when half the shots in a game are threes you can't dominate rebounding from the post because rebounds go everywhere? -
Hronek took advantage of the space to come in about 10-15' closer, he'd been taking all his shots almost at the line - closer is always better!
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yeah - that was a bad stretch. The Vancouver PP goal was pretty terrible also - they let him walk right down the slot. But like somebody said on a broadcast recently - the game burns so much energy it's almost impossible for any team to play a whole game without some let downs- you just hope you can still keep things to the side and your goalie is sharp. It's a tough competition between them but I wonder whether Sundqvist or Rasmussen falls down more times in one game.....🙃
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02/10/2023 7:00 EST San Antonio Spurs vs Detroit Pistons
gehringer_2 replied to casimir's topic in Detroit Pistons
IDK if I'd go *that* far. . There was a lot of frustration with Drummond from day one. If we recall, two things with young Drummond was that he didn't have strong hands, and since he couldn't hit FTs he was going to be fouled down low even if had better post moves. I don't know if Wiseman has strong enough hands to hold onto the ball better than Drummond, but he's going to start out ahead of young Drummond just by virtue of being able to hit his FTs. Assuming the deal goes through... -
The lack of ability to find/develop talent that hadn't been demonstrated yet is exactly why Avila is gone. It's how a FO creates a winning team without simply buying it at premium cost, which is what you have to do to acquire talent that has been demonstrated. So one way to look at this is that we now have Harris exactly because Ilitch hopes/believes he is going have a higher batting average on the "acquire for what they could become" piece. So must we all.
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02/10/2023 7:00 EST San Antonio Spurs vs Detroit Pistons
gehringer_2 replied to casimir's topic in Detroit Pistons
It's bench minutes, but his 3pt% this sesason is over 40%. Stanley only playing for layups and treys nowadays and apparently doing better for it - highest eFG% of his career. -
One must be aware of not cutting off one's nose to spite one's face. To be on the receiving end of advanced Chinese tech where we control the grounds as compared to years of being coerced into putting our tech on the ground in China where they controlled it isn't the part of US/Chinese relations I'm going to lose the most sleep over.
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small detail and not about the politics, but the article appears to say Ford is planning to put Lithium Iron Phosphate batteries in vehicles as opposed to the more common "Lithium Ion" type. I've used LIP batteries - they are safer and probably will give longer lifecycles, but they are not as space/weight efficient as LI.
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I think you can sacrifice a fair amount of defense at the corners for offense. A lot of teams have won a lot of games with a LF, 1B and 3B that weren't great gloves, but 2B, SS, CF probably not so much. What you don't want to do is give up offense for defense in LF and then play a SS who can't field!
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Beck with his starting line-up forecasts has Baddoo competing for platoon time in *right* field. That would be daylight madness with his arm.
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Flames skate well, but that's about it.
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if the market decided, good chance that means he's playing for someone else.
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so in general it is true that the players in any given era are probably better than those that went before, especially given the shooting skill that has developed in the league - still it might be fun to see what one of today's teams would do against a hard nosed defensive team like the bad boys under the old rules. Maybe there was a reason that nobody shot 33% from the three point line back in the day. 🤔
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/...sigh.../ The board is already too resigned to another disaster season. However, It won't be premature if he stays on schedule.
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translation: "Here we are at 35 and 65 again..."
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Cleveland got Garland and Mobley and won more than 20 more games in Mobley's first season. Cade played 64 games his 1st season and the Pistons still only won 20 of them. We pick up #5 and #13 in 2022 and are still a 20 win team. And we are still left hoping Case plus Mr X from the '23 draft will be the saviors once they play together -- but the expectation anything they do in the draft changes things has to fade after watching the last two drafts have zero impact on win totals. It's great to be able to say you have these nice young players - but they're supposed to make a difference.
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