UMFan83
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Also, there is no defensible reason to sac bunt there but also you are setting up Austin Nola as the guy that needs to get a hit to save your season. Nola had a .650 OPS this year and was hitting .053 in the playoffs. It’s not like you had Juan Soto due up.
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Yuck. Remind me again why we didn’t get a shooter or a defensive player in the offseason? Oh yeah…
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I can’t be the only one that held my breath when the entire team fell on top of him
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Holy crap that's really THE Kevin White? I saw when checking the score that a K White had a long catch and the thought briefly crossed my mind but figured it was too common of a name and our Kevin White was surely out of the league.
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Elijah Moore apparently requested a trade from the Jets today. Doesn’t look like they are going to honor it but man would I love to add him to the Bears
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Possible. From what I've read they always expected LaVine to miss the first 2 games and make his season debut on Saturday at the UC. We'll see if that is what ultimately happens. I think it's going to be an issue all year though off and on, and we'll possibly be getting the much less effective version of Zach that we saw in the 2nd half last year
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Yeah, I wasn’t paying attention. These days, that quote wouldn’t have surprised me from a pro athlete. Yeah there's an entire trend of twitter of these accounts tweeting out graphics like this with ridiculous quotes attributed to NBA players. Don't worry, major media outlets like ESPN have been duped by these accounts in the past.
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The NBA would be infinitely more entertaining if quotes like this were real.
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It’s only year 2, but he already has to be considered one of the biggest League-wide scouting whiffs in modern NBA history. 2nd rounders who exceed expectations tend to fall into one of three categories: 1. Undersized try-hard bigs - Draymond Green. 2. Small tweener guards - usually seniors from elite college programs - that shoot the lights out - Jalen Brunson. 3. Euros who were clearly under scouted - Jokic. Ayo doesn’t fit any of those categories. Generally guys of his size, skill set and college pedigree are either lottery picks or have some sort of fatal flaw to their game that keeps them off the NBA floor. I have to wonder if he was still suffering from concussion issues during the pre-draft workouts. In terms of 2nd round picks he reminds me of Gilbert Arenas. Both 6'4" guards leaving notable college programs early (Arizona and Illinois), projected to be late-teens to end of 1st round picks but dropped into 2nd round. I know their games aren't perfectly similar but their stats were actually similar their rookie year. Areans made a jump his 2nd year and then bolted to Washington where he continued to improve into an All-Star.
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Always cracks me up when Belichick does this with bad teams. Love the fact that he brought up how dangerous Velus Jones is in the return game 4 different times.
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Could be complete BS but
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I wish he was 27 years old so badly.
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Definitely did not expect to win that one. Good stuff.
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Ok i give up Pat may be a bust. Ayo though…
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LaVine says there is no pain and it’s just load management A couple hours later Donovan says there is soreness that came out of some “intense practices” they had after their last preseason game. Embarrassing
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You seem surprised that the bulls were hiding or mishandling an injury?
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Fans: Stop charging us ridiculous prices to put a middle-of-the-road payroll product on the field!! PTR: Ok fine....
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2022 Complain about your fantasy team that no one cares about discussion
UMFan83 replied to UMFan83's topic in Fantasy Sports
LOL I'm 3-3 and in 6th place (8 teams make playoffs) and scored the 7th most points out of 12 teams, but have struggled mightily losing Javonte and Penny to injuries. The worst part is that I spent all week before Penny's injury debating whether to pick up Kenneth Walker as insurance, but we only have 4 bench spots so its usually difficult to hang on to a handcuff especially with bye weeks starting. Of course I didn't and of course Penny got hurt and now someone else gets to enjoy walker. My RBs this week with a Sanders bye are Barkley, Latavius Murray and Rachaad White. WRs with Jefferson and Brown on byes are Adams, Drake London, Garrett Wilson and Wan'Dale Robinson. So I'm basically 3-4 Edit: Also, someone had to drop Cordarrelle Patterson when he went on IR (we don't have IR spots), so I am trying to play with a 3 man bench until he's healthy -
It's top 4 protected I wonder if I can place a bet that the Bulls end up in the lottery with the #5 pick. More likely 7th. That's our spot
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Here is his fWAR the last 5 seasons: 2.5 2.0 0.3 2.8 2.7 It looks like 2020 is a clear outlier and that his performance only improved marginally since leaving the Cubs. Or I guess you could argue he was on a clear decline with the Cubs and then Washington saved him lol. I mean, 2020 is a clear outlier because fWAR is an accumulative stat and there were about 1/3 of the games that season. Right so he's 0.9 wins roughly over the full season. Still an outlier, possibly due to the weirdness of the pandemic season. Javy and KB also had really poor years (as well as stars on other teams like Arenado). They both bounced back at least somewhat the next year.
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He apparently had accuracy issues last year too (based on PFFs "inaccurate and uncatchable" metric). But Lamar is right there with him along with his rookie counterparts. So I don't think it's necessarily a deal killer. This year he is "far and away" worst, but I can't find where they actually track that data on PFF, I'm guessing it's just an input into the grade and not a input I can pull. I haven't dug into last year's numbers but presumably just a change in the split of targeted depth could move it from "bad" to "in your own territory" without changing relative accuracy. Or may be a little of both, but on the accuracy front, we're talking about maybe 2 better throws a game to bring up the average. Re: Lamar, he seems to have a nice balance of designed runs and throws. I can only remember a handful of designed Fields runs at most this year, and I don't think any of them have gotten any large gains. Wonder why they are trying to design more runs for him? I guess they are trying to get him to unlock his passing potential but I also feel like it might be a little bit easier if there was more of a threat of him running on non-scrambles
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It's top 4 protected
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He's also likely out Friday against Washington per the reports. Hilariously they are still calling it left knee management. After 1 week off, after playing the entire preseason. The Bulls franchise is beyond ridiculous. At this point I would rather it be a new knee injury than "load management"
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Last full season. I don’t think it’s that big of a deal to ignore a weird pandemic shortened 60 game season especially when it was an outlier compared to the rest of his career. I'm not trying to relitigate the actual decision to keep Schwarber or claim his 2020 was absolute proof of his level at the time, but in the context of being surprised at the claim that Washington 'fixed' him, it definitely matters that he was near replacement level in 2020. Here is his fWAR the last 5 seasons: 2.5 2.0 0.3 2.8 2.7 It looks like 2020 is a clear outlier and that his performance only improved marginally since leaving the Cubs. Or I guess you could argue he was on a clear decline with the Cubs and then Washington saved him lol.
