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Obscene. Legendary mismanagement by JBB.
👀 Per sources ; I'm told 1st offer was around 13M, revised offer 15M only after Carlsson 18M offer sheet & Makar 20M deal. Kucherov is a Hall Of Fame , has a
great relationship w HC Cooper, will play out his contract, told his teammates and club he won't re sign in Tampa. There were 4 people in the room during meeting in Nashville; Kucherov, his agent @HockeyAgent1, GM Brisebois and HC Cooper. #Hockey
Derek Dunn retweeted
People only care about defense until it’s time to care about defense.
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“VJ Edgecombe, clutch-time scorer, man. That’s what he does.”
@TyreseMaxey post win 🎙️
He's a 19 year old rookie playing for the Sacramento Kings.
Scoring a ton and dropping cool clips is just fine for now lol
Develop him and draft some more high-end pieces to put around him.
Darius Acuff is the poster child for empty calories scoring.
He's taking everything I've disliked about guys like Anfernee Simons, Cam Thomas and Keyonte George, but stretching it to its absolute extreme.
Maybe one day he'll be good. Maybe one day he'll find the difference between a good and bad shot.
Maybe one day, far into the future he'll actually guard someone...anyone.
The Sacramento Kings are 0-11 between preseason and regular season. Keagan Murray and Malik Monk are playing the worst basketball of their lives. Domas looks frustrated.
If they replaced Acuff with even a league average PG like Quickley they'd be 2-4 or 3-3. That's how actively bad he's been at controlling tempo, defending and doing virtually anything that contributes to winning other than aura farming for his own stats.
Yes, the league should call. And they should literally rescue his teammates from him.
Build out a team of only offensive rebounders, screeners and defenders. Guys who will catch his grenades, rebound his misses and sing at his alter of self-focussed basketball.
Darius Acuff Jr represents an archetype of everything I despise about AAU basketball, and everything I despise about Vivek Ranadive.
Years from now, they'll make a documentary about what this year was like for his teammates. And then you'll see how many careers had to be ruined for this undersized Iverson wannabe to chase Rookie of the Year.
It's disgusting basketball. And if you're cheering for it, you're insane.
Derek Dunn retweeted
I'm also going to re-plug this feature I wrote on Jaylen Brown last weekend since some have already begun to sour on him.
It's 6 games into the season. I, personally, did not think he looked particularly healthy last night. More than that, it's going to take time for everyone to get comfortable on offense. The whining is foolish:
vertical76.com/p/jaylen-brow…
Crazily, the March team was back to being one of the best rush teams in the league until they went right back to trying to forecheck and sucking horrendously in the playoffs.
The organization resents the identity of the roster they've built.
Derek Dunn retweeted
Russia has been allowed to return to international hockey, so I asked Matvei Michkov about it #LetsGoFlyers thehockeynews.com/nhl/philad…
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#Sixers coach Nick Nurse was asked VJ Edgecombe's performance in the clutch following Saturday's victory over the Charlotte Hornets. Here's what he said:
“He’s done quite a bit of that in his short career. Obviously, two [games] in a row that were huge. Again, he’s really rebounding the basketball, flying in and grabbing those. He worked hard on the defensive end; the rest of the game, very spectacular for him from the field. He didn’t have a ton of great looks, I didn’t think. He made some good drives and kind of didn’t get back to balance going down the left side of the lane, probably helped his game a little bit. I don’t know what more you can say about the rebounding and the big shots.” #ThrowTheBallUp
In Foerster's last 53 games, we're looking at a player with:
G: 16
A: 5
P: 20
xGF%: 50.2% (Flyers have a 49.8% with him off)
CF%: 46% (Flyers 47.1% with him off)
The underlyings would drop further if you included the playoff sample, but those are his 43 reg season games.
Because hockey is so free flowing, a lot of defense comes down to an allergy towards offense rather than a separate skillset.
It isn't basketball where we can separate your defensive value and your offensive value because you mostly alternate possessions.
Offense requires --
-- creating space for yourself or your teammates to make plays. Separating from your check.
Defense requires removing that space.
If you're always trying to separate, it's hard to close as much as you need to.
Imagine how chaotic basketball would get if live-ball turnovers -