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  1. nate82
    Yes and that doesn't make what I said incorrect. Lopez is a bad perimeter player as he can't move as well as he once did. Being the runner-up for DPOY last year has no bearing on that. Yes he was the 2nd best defender last year in those series but he was also a poor perimeter defender. When Lopez is at his best he is in the paint. That is where he gets a lot of his defensive value. You are just ignoring this completely. Where did I say elite level? I said someone who can defend out on the perimeter. Lopez can't do that anymore. He is at an elite level in the paint but he is absolutely atrocious when it comes to defending the perimeter or even providing help defense out on the perimeter. The Bucks need a young center who they can bring in and help defend out on the perimeter. They don't need to be elite just someone that can help out and not be a liability out there. The Bucks have actually gone back to the dropping Lopez into the paint on those high switches. So the coaching has made a change there. It just causes other issues which appeared last year when the Bucks did this. It opens up the perimeter more and teams that can shoot will be making a lot of shots because of this. It was this downfall among other things that got Bud fired.
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    You forgot Prince Fielder as he signed a two year deal in 2009 (2009 and 2010 season). The Brewers and Fielder then avoided arbitration in 2011 at $15.5mm. https://www.espn.com/mlb/news/story?id=3853135 https://www.sbnation.com/2011/1/18/2328277/prince-fielder-signs-one-year-deal-with-brewers-avoiding-arbitration
  3. nate82
    Unlikely their owner has stated they want to run their team like the Brewers and Rays. Except they are ignoring all of the FA contracts and extensions the Brewers have done (Cain, Yelich, Grandal, Moustakas, Chourio and others). The Orioles haven't spent anywhere. The Brewers and Rays have also traded prospects when it was called for. For the Brewers it was for Moustakas, Yelich and almost for Machado the Brewers didn't want to give up Burnes ironically for Machado.
  4. nate82
    It is not a coaching problem because it is the NBA. The players run the team and the coaches are just there for the ride. This has been a problem with Lopez for a few seasons now. Bud had him basically camp the lane and that worked during the season. But once the playoffs rolled around it didn't work. Lopez just doesn't move all that well and can't be playing anywhere near the perimeter on defense. If he is out there he is a liability and if he isn't out there the Bucks suffer by giving up easy 3's. Lopez just can't defend out there anymore and there is no coaching that is going to fix that. Teams take advantage of this all the time and if you do switch and keep Lopez low all the time as it creates really bad mismatches. The Bucks really need a young center who can defend out on the perimeter.
  5. nate82
    Apparently I just needed to call out Portis to get him to play better?
  6. nate82
    Bitcoin ETF’s have been approved.
  7. nate82
    We can cross off Busch as a possible prospect in a return for Burnes. He was just traded to the Cubs:
  8. nate82
    Cubs get Michael Busch and Yency Almonte in trade with Dodgers:
  9. nate82
    Nick Saban is retiring.
  10. nate82
    Bowden said this about a Red Sox trade for Burnes. “They touched base with the Brewers on Corbin Burnes and that went nowhere”. https://theathletic.com/5192108/2024/01/10/mlb-offseason-trades-free-agents-teams/?source=user_shared_article
  11. nate82
    Their lack of prospect capital.
  12. nate82
    No idea on the models being used but I think it is safe to say they are using a more conservative number for defense and bullpen when plugging it into the model.
  13. nate82
    No Wiemer and Turang wouldn’t get it done along with Burnes. The only way the Brewers get Lee is if it is for Peralta. The Twins wouldn’t trade for Turang either as he doesn’t fit their current team needs. They have enough players who can play SS/2B.
  14. nate82
    Vrabel fired by Titans. Weird that they would fire Vrabel when there were rumors of the Patriots possibly trading for him. Vrabel should be the next Patriots HC to replace Belichick.
  15. nate82
    One has already bowed out in the Braves for Cease and Burnes and went with Sale. The Dodgers still could go out and get Burnes but it would be on their terms and not the Brewers. So if it is the Dodgers expect something extremely light where the Brewers don't even consider the trade. I don't believe the Orioles have ever been in on or involved with a Burnes trade. Maybe for Peralta but I don't think they would give up the prospects to get someone like Peralta. Which comes to the Cease problem, the Orioles have been connected to Cease but it doesn't look like the Orioles are willing to part with any of their prospects even for Cease. If Cease or Burnes do get traded it is because the Brewers and White Sox GM's decide to take what they can get now than risk waiting for the trade deadline, which I don't believe will happen so no trade for either. It is either take a lesser offer from the Yankees, Orioles or Dodgers or wait it out until the deadline.
  16. nate82
    I don’t think this is a coaching problem. The team has just been lazy and not doing the little things they were doing last year. Maybe they are focusing on stopping the three ball too much and need to go back too dominating the paint defensively. Lopez is a bad defender the further away from the basket he gets. He just can’t move like he used to. Middleton also looks like he is no longer above average defensively. Beasley is probably the biggest problem defensively along with Portis. Portis just doesn’t look the same defensively or offensively as he did last year. I think this team is just getting old and are not elite defensively anymore other the Giannis and then Lopez as long as he doesn’t have to move away from the basket. I just don’t believe this team will get much better defensively. There just isn’t anywhere to improve or get improvement from a trade.
  17. nate82
    I didn’t think it was possible to look this bad on defense but somehow the Bucks are showing how bad they are.
  18. nate82
    It clearly shows it hits his arm and then bounces up. Nowhere in that video does it show it hitting the ground.
  19. nate82
    Well for one Hoskins has only hit above .250 in his career once and that was at .259 so the .260-.270 is not going to happen. He will be closer to .215 than he will ever be to .260 or above. If Black hits .290 with 15 bombs that is actually more valuable as he probably hits some more doubles than Hoskins does. If you can get .290 with 15 HR's with Black then why pay Hoskins? If Black can even get to 1/3 of the production that Hoskins does then Hoskins shouldn't be making $16mm+ a season he should be making closer to what Santana does. Unless Hoskins signs for $12mm or less per year which he won't then it is not worth signing Hoskins. Would you pay $300k for a regular Mustang or $300k for Lamborghini Huracan? Basically Hoskins is that $300k regular Mustang in this comparison. The price per performance is not worth it when you are paying a premium.
  20. nate82
    It didn’t hit the ground at all. Not sure what you are looking at.
  21. nate82
    It did not hit the ground please see the 2nd replay where it shows it clearly did not hit the ground.
  22. nate82
    Because the ball never hit the ground on the Bears catch. The ball started moving again when he rolled out of bounds so incomplete pass by the weird NFL rules on what is or isn’t a catch but is a catch but isn’t a catch.
  23. nate82
    The ball never touched the ground.
  24. nate82
    If he is hitting below .240 those bombs are going to be meaningless. I wouldn’t be surprised if Hoskins is more like Tellez going forward. You really wanna pay $16mm plus for Tellez like production?
  25. nate82
    The gushing over Belichick omg please make it stop! He wasn’t that great of a HC. He was basically awful without a franchise HOF QB. His coaching decisions both on the field and who he hired were horrible after Brady left. If he was that great of a HC he would have had a better record after Brady left. He didn’t and the game absolutely passed him by. He wouldn’t allow analytics and restricted how many coaches were on the team. He has done absolutely nothing since Brady left.
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