Who let the goats out?????
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"I told him I’d sleep on it. Certainly I did,” Self said. “I feel not only is it the best choice for him, but us. I did it with total support from all his teammates.”
Wow. I love this Self quote:
Yeah, I think it helps us," Self said of Vick's 3-point shooting prowess. "But that's not why he's coming back. He's coming back because he wants to make a commitment to being a great teammate, helping his teammates improve and helping the young guys. But if Lagerald plays like he's capable of playing, we will be a better 3-point shooting team."
I would love to see Vick work his ass off to grow as a leader and a positive influence. Everything i thought LeCobra would be last year is still achievable this year!
After signing team-friendly extensions with the Suns in 2014, Markieff ($8.6 million cap hit with the Wizards) and Marcus Morris ($5.4 million with the Celtics) now enter the final year of their contracts.
Hmmmm
Would much rather play against Japan. Colombia has the potential to be a tough out. Brazil is good but would you take the harder opponent now to avoid Brazil the subsequent round?
Tell him we have plenty of room over here for more @jaybate-1-0 like posters!
So awesome
@HighEliteMajor I guess Christian Moody isn't eligible, being a Roy guy.
Self:
“Ochai could be a high major defender early in his career and his skillset is such that I think he could be an immediate impact player for us. We're fortunate to get a player locally of this talent who possesses all the intangibles you want in a student-athlete."
Dig it
@Barney I agree that the flopping is annoying but so many things are great about soccer that it doesn't spoil the game for me. The uninterrupted play (no commercials!), the creativite ways one can score, the level of difficulty that some of these things they do takes, the passion of the fanbase, the national pride, the fact that these guys play with many of their rivals in professional play... Yes, sometimes people get rooked on flops. But that's just one thing.
@Kcmatt7 great post. Thanks for spelling out the draft misses.
@BShark it really was. I was pulling hard for Iran.
@Barney Only the best international sporting spectacle by far. You're not missing everything.
@BShark this was a fun read.
@wrwlumpy loved every minute of it. thanks for sharing.
The Cavs are supposedly interested in Kemba Walker. They won't get him, but presumably the return package would include George Hill? Lol
@HighEliteMajor beat me to it:
- He's going to do a lot of things well, but not a superstar
- I think he will start early, not late in the season
- They'll find a way to drag it out and with our post depth, De Souza will have to work his way back into heavy minutes of our rotation. He will.
- They'll be good but have jitters. Several losses to teams we shouldn't lose to
- By the end of the year, we'll figure out who our shooters are and maximize what we can get from them. The question is will it be reliable enough to not falter in the tournament.
Nevermind :) Gooooooooooollllllllllllllllll
S Korea getting nice opportunities here. Mexico looks tired. Could be a comeback brewing.
They're faster than this team. Do them like they did Germany
Mexico needs to stop settling for haymakers outside the box. 2 for Chucky 1 for Chicharito
goooooooooooolllllllll
Belgium is so good. Lukaku is a beast! Not only are they timing their passes perfectly going downfield, they're avoiding offsides, then getting 5 steps past their defender and then breaking down the goalie 1v1.
If LeBron leaves?
Of Collin Sexton:
"I'm just excited, man," Lue said. "Just to be able to have a young talent that I can help mold and build and make better and teach him what suit to wear, what shoes to wear with a suit, how to tie a tie, when you go to dinner, things like that that Brian Shaw and Robert Horry and Ron Harper and those guys taught me (with the Los Angeles Lakers), so I'm very excited about that."
Enjoyed watching the Devonte highlight videos back from Brewster academy here : http://www.nbadraft.net/players/devonte-graham ↗
Forgot how good he already was coming in. And the hops!
I guess Wagner is going to play the 3 as well? Only 3 lakers have on their roster from last year is Deng.
Sviiiiiii to the Lakers
Devonte going to the Hornets hmm
:) hopefully the Hawks don't trade for George Hill next.
Devonte, 34th pick, is going to be backing up Trae Young, the top selected PG in the draft. Feels oddly familiar.
DTaeeeeeeeeeee! Love this portion of the draft... Javon Carter, Jaylen Brunson, Devonte Graham.
Must be Chauncey comping everyone to NBA greats rubbing off on me, lol
This draft feels deep.
lol grayson allen to utah. wellp, enjoy that garbage quin.
@HighEliteMajor tbh I expected it to be Porter with the history of Embiid and Simmons.
MOoooooooooo Bambaaaaa. I dig it. I don't know about Jackson to Memphis. Just don't know much about him. The rest of the top 5 make sense to me (after @justanotherfan convinced me of Doncic's upside)
What you don't know about Trae is that he never passes and he NEVER... EVER.... wears long pants.
@HighEliteMajor lolol so good.
@justanotherfan Thanks for the write up. I'm warming up to his play. So I'm guessing you see him as a sure deal to Atlanta, if the Hawks don't trade down, given their need for guard play.
@justanotherfan what do you see here?
Here's his last game. I see a guy who doesnt dribble with his left, doesn't have elite hops or athleticism, and relies on getting to the line for points. What is all the hype about?
I enjoy watching the young guys try out for their spots. Sometimes the big market teams find success in starting over. See Boston's sell off of Gonzalez, Crawford and Beckett to LA.
This allowed them to promote and retain Jackie Bradley Jr., Mookie Betts, Christian Vazquez, Xander Bogaerts and Andrew Benintendi, along with affording Chris Sale, Craig Kimbrell, . I remember watching that team of youngsters trying out for their spots. It was fun. Also, for Boston fans, it was fun going a World Series the next year after the firesale. That kind of success has to be unexpected, but long term sustainability was the goal I'm sure.
To @Kcmatt7 's point, I don't think the size of the club matters as much as savvy draft picks and a commitment to not selling the bulk of your prospects. There will be more volatility if you're a seller at the deadline, and that kind of sucks, but I don't think you can commit to finishing out contracts on movable assets if you don't have a realistic chance to win it all. If you move assets at the deadline, and keep the farm system loaded, all it takes is a couple of kids to come up and be studs for you to be in really good shape, and then maybe deal a prospect for a missing piece.
Also, if we had had a competent manager (other than Davey Johnson. Love Davey, but he was too old) we likely wouldn't be talking about what might have been.
Jury out on Martinez. But Riggleman, Williams, and Dusty were awful.
@justanotherfan we should have given up Giolito and Lopez for Andrew Miller. We didn't then ended up giving them away anyway.
I like the rate we have traded off our prospects. I just don't like what we have traded for. And our Papelbon and Soriano acquisitions were stupid. Just mindblowingly stupid. The Soriano trade was for a prospect the Yankees selected in the slot after Aaron Judge.
I wouldn't trust our management to trade off more talented prospects. I'd rather we move on from Harper, Zimmerman and Murphy and let Turner, Michael A Taylor, Robles, Soto and Difo step up.
So, I disagree.
@dylans at least its arms for younger arms. the Nats traded arms for redundant position players (see Adam Eaton for Giolito and Lopez) or arms with expiring contracts (Mark Melancon for Filipe Rivero) and our bullpen is the elephant in the room.
As a Nats fan, I like this deal. None of these guys are on my radar; our farm system has been depleted and these guys were still the 10th and 11th best guys. Hopefully the Royals have assessed them well and they help.