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thought they started looking tired in the 2nd half, but they still had too much for the Kings

Cade playing sloppy on defense. 3 fouls early in the 2nd.

Pagans were already into pine trees in the OT.

even odder, going into Feb 2025, who would have though the Lions would be the only Detroit team not to lead their division for much of their season?

a problem that's not going to go away for smaller D men in today's game without rule changes is that you need brute strength to clear the front of the net more than ever today because the league is allowing less hacking/cross checking of offensive players near the crease.

Not to worry. If Trump has any input into the design of a ship you can be sure it won't be fit to fight.

unfortunately, consumers don't have the option of spinning off their loses and leaving someone else holding the bag the way US corps do. They end up having to pay their bills sooner or later.

league really needs the rule change about contact initiated by the offensive player.

football teams have terrible injury years, nothing you can do but reload and try again. As long as it's Holmes picking the talent they'll be back.

I think the Navy has screwed up on every ship but one it's designed in the last 30 yrs. Add Trump to that mix and you can count on it being 40.

everyone should make a copy. Admin will find ways to threaten any server that keeps it up.

yeah - I think I posted before that I think Warde could stand up, take the fall and ride off into the sunset and probably be everyone's favorite guy for the rest of his days in A^2. Then again at 57 maybe he has no hobbies and retirement petrifies him....🤷‍♀️

All true in the black and white sense. Still, I would have enjoyed reading your posts had Manuel fired him 2020. 😉

Sort of. Do you seriously think Warde - assuming he did at any point think it would be a good idea, had the pull to actually fire Hargbaugh over 'organizational issues' when they were threatening to win a natty? Maybe after the messy Covid year he might have gotten away with it but even then Harbaugh had huge inside and donor support. I think one thing we are free to do a lot of here in discussion (which is fine) is assume people are unconstrained just because we don't know or see the constraints they are under. I'm no particular fan of Manuel, but I can't imagine his job was any kind of picnic once Harbaugh showed up. I'm perfectly happy to pin Moore on him, but even there it wouldn't surprise me if we learned a lot of pressure for that decision was coming from other places - though we never likely will even it were true - the old saw about 'failure is an orphan' being applicable. Or another way to put it is that if Warde had had to fight to hire Moore over the objections of Regents and donors, he'd almost certainly be fired by now.

It's the oldest old boy network left.

ASP is one of those guys who I can't figure out why he's in the league as a defenseman. He has a hockey skill set but it's much more an offensive one than a defensive one. I guess it just highlights the size of the step up to the NHL (pun inteneded). The NHL is fully of really big guys today. ASP is at too much physical disadvantage to the guys he has to go against. If you are going to keep a guy like that as PP specialist you're going to have to keep him paired with a really good stay at home guy the rest of the time. Gostisbehere V2.0 is probably his ceiling as a Dman.

IIRC JD took a hard fall last game when he was undercut on a rebound.

The situation with Ivey is just bad. I don't think you can pay a guy whose projection is still a near total unknown. If he eventually turns into a good player with another team, that's tough luck but I don't see how the Pistons can spend significant $ on him.

The other thing is that as far as I have ever heard, we know almost nothing about what constraints Chris I is under as Trustee of the Tigers. Does he have obligations so his siblings? Do they have any voting rights in the trust? Are there unknowns that will come into play when Marion passes? We all always assume he is a totally free agent and all the $$ of Little Ceasar's and Olympia Inc are at his disposal, but I don't think the public knows to what degree any of that is actually true or not.

no argument on that but it's reality that every day he is still there is increasing the odds he's not going anywhere. Another factor is the U is basically shut down until almost the 2nd week in Jan so in the sense that communication across the admin system is going to be sluggish the clock may be somewhat stopped for a decision on Warde even though the football season itself is running overtime in the playoffs and an AD that is still alive needs to be in the middle of his coach search. It's sort of a mismatched situation.

right, they already have a shooter they have to spend too much time trying to hide in Robinson. The dream route for this team to a championship was for one of the young athletic guys to develop into a shooter because it would have been pure addition by addition, but having to give up useful assets for a shooter isn't so much fun. Part of what lets the pistons play the way they do is the depth of guys who can run and disrupt so they can keep rotating in and out at high energy. Lose a couple of those guys and there may be a cost you couldn't predict so easily from the stat sheets. It's a lot harder to see how to thread the needle to improve a 22-6 team than even 44-38 one.

it's also guys the emergence of guys who shoot >40% on threes. It's driving points per possession into uncharted territory.

plus they get a little deeper when Kane returns.

Talbot needed the win. He wasn't great on the second Caps goal - probably screened but if he's in better position it's still a stop. But was good otherwise.