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WCJ is insanely frustrating on defense now, he was and should be the catalyst on this D but there are a lot of boneheaded mistakes and laziness on standard plays that shouldn't happen consistently in rookie years, let alone now. I do agree, he can set a good screen now though and does get bullied by guys like Nurkic but not many Centers like that in the league. We need to have a banger on defense as a backup when facing teams with C's like that. I really like Lavine but IMO if we do not have a superstar, he is pointless to have here and they should be looking at trading him when he has a stretch of good games. This isn't a 2 way player like Jimmy Butler, he works hard but he just doesn't appear to want to pay defense consistently. So far, he looks lost nearly every other game and he needs to be the consistent one but he has the ball in his hands less with Coby handling so much now and . If we can somehow land a star, I think he has the potential to be a lethal #2. He's got nearly a 1:1 Assist to Turnover ratio right now, very bad. Lauri can't stay healthy and not worthy of an extension at this point unless he comes back and looks amazing, even then, hard to give a guy that cash that can't stay on the court consistently. There's going to be some tough decisions to make but At this point, I think Coby and Williams are the future. Coby does need to increase efficiency and improve defense over the rest of this year in his new role.

That was an unbelievable comeback, they looked like contenders, every single guy played great in the 2H. Beat Sac and I think the WC road trip is already considered a win.

Made the championship a Made the championship this week and was projected to win by 40 with my great team. Take a look at my team yesterday to see Cook, Kamara, Sanders and even my backup Damien Harris out. 4 backs! Never have I ever been so screwed repeatedly by a team in my life.

I find myself oddly irritated the Bears are in this position. I checked out after the 6 straight losses and was in the mindset the season was over and that maybe we were closer to blowing it up. I want to build something elite, not middling and needing help to get into the playoffs. This situation is just biding these schmucks more time, we are 1-5 vs. winning teams this year. It’s tough to say we’ve definitively turned it around when we’ve beat three bad teams in a row and lost to the Lions right before that (should be two losses to them this year). I’ll be excited to see a playoff game but also perturbed knowing next year could get ugly with the QB/WR/OL/Defense situations. Mitch and ARob will probably get more money than the Bears should pay, we will be stuck with Foles and have significant money tied up on defense that isn’t performing as it should. But...Go Bears?

Taking nothing away from Jrue Holiday, this would be an awful trade for the Bulls. Jrue Holiday has been in the playoffs 4 times in his 11 year career, three of those he shot less than 42% and less than 16ppg. He’s 30. Lavine has improved every year so far and is much younger. We have yet to see what he can do with a winning team around him and probably won’t. Who knows what Lauri is and we will get a better glimpse this year. Neither of there players are a top option but Holiday never has been or will be either.

To top off my regular season $hit$how, I lost the last week of the regular season on that Ravens safety to knock me down to 5th place (luckily we put 6 in playoffs this year) and a 7-7 record with 2,019 total points, the next closest guy as 1,863. I've given up most points in the league by a decent amount. We pay out 1st place in regular season pretty heavily since in this league, we believe that should be considered "the best team" over the long haul of the season so hopefully I can at least win 1st in the playoffs. What a brutal year and waste of a team.

I failed to mention but keeper league, I drafted Kamara in the 18th round his rookie year and also kept Sanders as a 5th rounder. I had the 4th pick this year and was able to get Cook.

I have BY FAR (200pts) the most points in my league yet this weeks loss put me in 4th. This isn’t a few big weeks I’ve had, it’s every week yet I’ve faced the most points of anybody. Best team I’ve possibly ever had. Tannehill (was originally Dak) Cook/Kamara/Sanders/Harris DK/AJ Brown/Evans/Boyd Hockenson/Engram/Goedert Koo i don’t think I’ll ever have a team this elite or deep again, really frustrating.

Will never not be incredible that the Cavs took easily the worst player out of the 10 at #1.

This draft is filled with guys that could help right away (I still think he can), but likely aren’t going to get significantly better. There’s nothing wrong with taking a raw player that has the room to end up being the best player in the draft in that situation. The Bulls don’t really have much to lose in a weak class. Trust the AK process.

AK is a boss, you know he's either legit having these discussions or just leaking them but to see the Bulls appear to be aggressive is so refreshing. I don't care who they choose tonight, I'm trusting the process. If he can do this somewhere like Denver, he can do it here.

As for Harden, clearly he’d be the best player in a deal with us but do we want to use our assets for a guy that may have had his peak? He’s 31. Lakers traded for AD and he’s 27 right now, they have probably 5-6 years left of him at a monster level. Harden gives us a couple more years at this level which is great, but only if the rest of the team around him was ready (much like Lakers were by pairing LBJ with AD).

Bulls rumored to be talking to Boston about Kemba.

I don't know if I see any of our core (Lavine, White, Markannen, Carter) being traded to move up, those guys would be packaged together for something bigger, not to get an unknown in one of these top 4 potential picks. I think all of these rumors are smokescreens from AK as he works on something significant.

Is there a manager opening down at AA?

I'm not saying this is OK, I love Tim, his game and what he does for the community but for added context, this came out after Tim posted pictures of him standing in front of a "F**k 12" tag so not entirely surprising to see a negative reaction on a police blog to that. Personally, I don't agree with the Police Blog comments or with Tim posting a public picture like that.

There are a lot of problems with the offense but I think it's very apparent the biggest one is Nagy. There are plenty of offenses in the league with bad offensive lines that can find ways to score because they are schemed based on the type of players they are working with. Dolphins, Bengals, Chargers, Seattle, Rams, Falcons, Cardinals were all considered to have bottom 10 offensive lines coming into the year. Bears and Jets are also in the bottom 10 and have had young QB's much like 3-4 teams listed above but both have offensive play callers that are very suspect.

For the life of me, I cannot figure out why Mitch isn't coming in for 6-10 plays a game on 3rd down (a la Taysom Hill). Foles is a statue out there, why can't Mitch come out there WITH Foles and try to get cute with a dual threat instead of Patterson repeatedly getting the ball out of the backfield for a whopping 2.8YPC, insanely frustrating.

There's a lot of overpay in MLB, I think it's normal to feel bad for a good person who sucks at their job. I even felt bad for Boylen, he sucked but it's not because he wanted to be bad.

Absolutely the right move but I still feel bad for the guy. Any confidence he had is likely gone with Cubs and Sox both firing him right before the cusp of being great.

It is absolutely infuriating that we continue to put up clunkers for 3 quarters and then turn on the jets in the 4th (or in yesterday's case, the last drive) and it looks like an elite offense.

Great point. For so long before and after our WS win, we've gotten the shitty to mid-level signings but after 2005 when Jerry knew we had the team to win, he spent abut $30m more in 2006 to try to run it back. Hope he has that mindset now.

I do not think they will but if I was Hahn, Ricky needs to be put on notice for many of the decisions made this season and he needs to be better. Then again, Hahn may have been the one pushing to keep Encarnacion and Mazara (glad he actually was in the lineup in playoffs, really good at bats)....

Not getting timely hitting but keep the faith. Madrigal then TA, LFG! Keep negativity out of this thread!

Our best contact hitter needs to be in the lineup to set the table and turn it over for Anderson and Co. He had a shitty game but we can't expect to win playoff games with no runs the first 7 innings.