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They have a 19 year old trying to cover everyones mistakes and he's really not doing that bad of a job. He definitely needs some more muscle though. Hutch really did look fine, especially on doncic, it would be very helpful if he could be a rotation player.

Couple thoughts from last nights game: - Doncic is wonderful. Complete command of the floor, though doing it against bulls isn't particularly difficult. S - WCJ is doing yeoman's work making a lot of things happen. He sets some beautiful screens and is incredibly selfless. - Lopez on other hand has been playing really dumb basketball. I loved how professional he was last year but it looks like he lost a lot this offseason. It's one of the reasons I felt bad about the tank last year, you only get so many years of your life you can be an NBA player. - Kris Dunn was probably exhausted and it's his first game back, but this year he has to cut down on his turnovers if he wants to be effective. - Arcidiacano over payne (just a reminder we cut spencer dinwiddie and he looks pretty good) - I just hate the roster construction on this team. I don't care if we aren't supposed to be a playoff team this year. Players like Holliday and Blakeney being the bench pieces on this team while discarding Nwaba just makes no sense. THere is zero second look. You have a pupu platter of black hole offensive players combined with terrible defense. What else was there to learn about justin holliday you did not already know? - The bulls have to do more offball movement when their forwards post up, considering who they have as their forwards. - Hutchinson has his first "well, okay!" game. Would much rather have a reserve unit of arcidiacano, hutch, nwaba, parker/portis, lopez than payne, holliday/hutch/blakeney, parker/portis, lopez. (neither are good) - Lavine certain is playing well. He is getting fouls, he is making smart shots. I just hate this roster construction and I think it's hard for him to learn team defense when you surround him with more defensively bad bad bad players.

Should be illegal to sign guys before WS is over. Need to spread out baseball news.

It turned out the reason the deal fell through was he failed a drug test for PEDs. Shocker right?!

I would say the fact that he was still unsigned at this juncture of the signing period and had no fanfare compared to bloodline players like Tejada Jr is a good indication that he is not well thought of. But, 17 year olds can have weird growth spurts and it does no harm.

I don't even particularly like using a 1st round pick to draft a WR, but if I do it better be Antonio Brown.

I'm more interested in seeing if they are willing to spend more on a 16/17 year old than breaking the bank on the older Cuban prospects that come over. Paddy has indicated he likes to spread the money around, but I don't believe it. Now that it's somewhat cost controlled I will be disappointed if sox aren't on the top 30 board.

Yeah, this will be a class to watch for a change in approach from white sox. The cba changes are effective in pulling the game back to the way Jerry likes to operate, as the draft changes in 2012 did before then. Add to that the supposed greater focus in talent acquisition and development starting with the rebuild and fans should hope to see a better class. OTOH, no teams will be on the sidelines for the first time in a long time, so the pool is more competitive.

Man nfl is crazy. It was just two years ago the raiders were loaded with young talent.

Waters was also in latest board update on FG. I let my BA account lapse so I can't speak for them.

I'm not sure it's possible, but also that will be a tough contract to trade. Compensation may not be what AZ fans hope. It's about $8 mill they'd need to trade back

All three are in mlb pipeline. Pache was like 37 in fangraphs.

He literally just listed three for you. Riley and Pache are good.

I get wanting to win (I wanted to win too), and I am also tired of moral victories, but it's hard not to note that the bears were in a competitive game against the patriots considering the last few times they played (even considered playoff potential teams) they were blown out by a combined score of 87-30.

Kevin white is basically the "rudy" of the team right now.

I think it's a trubisky thing more than a Robinson thing. Robinson doesn't get much separation but he can catch contested balls. Trubisky clearly favors the guys that appear more open (but then don't fight for ball at all if he underthrows)

I'm much more okay with a "down" game with Trubisky that looks like this than the AZ/Seahawks games. Pats are just real good at making the QB the guy to beat you while also making it very difficult on the QB (opposite of the fangio approach that appears to be "make it easy as possible for QB so long as they keep it in front of you"). The technique that gets so off with him is tough. That's something that's teachable but also something that many guys never learn. It felt like he gritted out a decent game, I do blame ST more (perhaps there was something wrong with parkey hence the never kicking longer field goals and the short kick that led to TD). We are at a point now where the offense can play in a shootout. That's a development. The defense regressed, that's weird! I really hate this play where Mack is banged up and a little less effective...so we just completely remove him from the play and send him to coverage.

In just crushing news, Jontay Porter tire his ACL in a scrimmage yesterday. Aside from Mizzou losing its best player, just feel bad for him who would def be in an NBA roster had he gone pro.

I’m not really that much a believer in these “star” managers. The only one I’d stop everything for is Francona. That said, Girardi in my book is much better than Renteria, so I don’t see a reason not to unless you tell me the money he’s paid will prevent Sox from doing more in FA.

It was sudden too. In June I felt really, really good. In August it seemed like it was the beginning of a 5 year process.

Unfortunately the White Sox do not get the benefit of the doubt here.

I've never seen anything like that. The fairly in-depth Boston Globe piece basically said the sox had Moncada/Kopech agreed on through the weekend but had been haggling on third piece until sox finally relented and went for basabe/diaz.

I love this post. Question for me is not whether the losses this year require wholesale changes. It's whether the progress this year indicated that no changes are needed to get the team where it wants to go. Is it really necessary to wait until more consequential lapses in development or injuries before a coach is fired? Clearly, talent aand youth had an issue to do with the team issuing the highest number of walks and lowest number of ks, and leading the league in ks on offense. But where does instruction and development staffs play there? Did the sox consider this a good job? This doesn't require firing, but it may require hiring additional resources. I have a hard time believing after this year that the answer is "no this staff is clearly the one best positioned to get us to playoffs"

This is an example of stuff I really admire about the NBA. From stats to media, they really push to enhance fan experience:

No it was really bad. He just cannot stay with his assignments on the perimeter and then he just starts pointing wildly. Switches didn't help him at all.