5 Comments
Mar 10, 2022Liked by Andrew Donlan

That text chain was me showing restraint. I had sooo much more to say including Olynyk sitting in the lane for literally 6-8 seconds per possession or five Bulls looking at a rebound while one Piston steps in and grabs it or that I loved Tristan Thompson lighting the team up during a timeout! In Billy and AK47 I trust. We need to get healthy.

My hatred for Aaron Rodgers, which has never been that bad, grows daily. Like you said, what the Packers do doesn't matter. We will be better no matter what with the subtraction of Nagy. What better proof of that than the fact that Mitch Trubisky is the number 1 Free Agent QB on the market. It has now become completely obvious to everyone that after almost ruining Justin Fields maybe Nagy ruined Trubisky???

Expand full comment
author

I agree re: Tristan Thompson. We also may have learned that he's maybe worse than Tony Bradley on the offensive end. Still, I don't think Bradley's giving any pump-up speeches or throwing his ass into Embiid thinking he can actually win that match-up, so we'll take it.

On Mitch, God Bless him, but it also feels very much like him sitting a year has washed away his sins. I don't expect him to be a good quarterback in the future. But yes, the point on Nagy stands.

Expand full comment
Mar 10, 2022Liked by Andrew Donlan

First off, I know plenty of people who have successfully kicked their addiction to dip in favor of vaping. And I know plenty of people who kicked the E-cig all together by switching over to cigarettes.

If those injury return projections are correct, that would leave five regular season games for Lonzo. I know you touched on best 4-man lineups in a previous newsletter. Once we have the sample size I would love to see how much worse a Coby-Zach-Demar-Vuc lineup is defensively than Lonzo-Caruso-Pwill-Javonte/Ayo lineup.

Zach did look good down the stretch on defense but the first three quarters were brutal. Also when we had that stop on Olynyk only to have Coby hand the ball away in the back court I was ready to give up on that game. Big win, with an even bigger stretch of 6 games coming up.

Expand full comment
Mar 10, 2022Liked by Andrew Donlan

Zach has a jump shot very dependent on his launch. Clearly the knee is impacting how comfortable he is with his launch. He seems weary when landing. Has anyone noticed that?

Expand full comment
author

It's a great point, Tom.

And Chuck Mac, you can even probably just take two more simple lineups still including LaVine and DeRozan and get some interesting numbers. I'll dive in.

Expand full comment