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Re: Jeff Weltman Open Mike interview 

Post#41 » by basketballRob » Sat Feb 8, 2025 2:16 pm

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Bensational wrote:You got the wrong impression from my post, I think Franz is exceptional and he has separated himself as the best player on the team this season by a large margin. My point was more that on an offensively starved team you’d think adding back both of our best scorers would raise the ortg, but it hasn’t yet.

*edit - but I think you’ve captured why the ortg has been so poor since the return of Paolo and Franz.

I think Suggs’ impact is more about his ability to motivate the rest of the team as much as his individual defense also improves it. You’re right though, expectations are probably now being set too high for Suggs return to be the second coming so we’ll probably all be carrying pitchforks again if the struggles continue.


I agree. Thats what i have been saying for a while. We have bunch of anxious boys whose confidence is broken by hard nosed veterans. For some reason polite man without much cold, confident aggresion are Weltman type. They are energetic on defense becouse of the anxiousness but also very chaotic and less disciplined. When you add low skill level and chaotic energy without rhytm you get one of the worst offensive teams in the league.
We just lost our only two dogs in Suggs and Moe (Jalen is also anxiouss and Moe is not disciplined but at least they show some aggresive nature).
Goga is the only energy guy left but he is also not offensive type guy.
You forgot Moritz 324 and his brother 329.

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Re: Jeff Weltman Open Mike interview 

Post#42 » by basketballRob » Sat Feb 8, 2025 2:21 pm

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The Real Dalic wrote:Spoiler alert, 6th seed and 1st round sweep or out during the play-in games.
Anything could happen. We could end up playing a team without key players due to injury.

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That’s a good plan
I just want to see the team 100% healthy and in rhythm come playoff time. I think they have the potential to pull off an upset.

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Re: Jeff Weltman Open Mike interview 

Post#43 » by The Real Dalic » Sat Feb 8, 2025 5:06 pm

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basketballRob wrote:Anything could happen. We could end up playing a team without key players due to injury.

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That’s a good plan
I just want to see the team 100% healthy and in rhythm come playoff time. I think they have the potential to pull off an upset.

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1. They officially can't be 100% healthy since we'll be missing a huge and important player in Mo Wagner. 2. You need to be able to score more than 90 points in order to pull off an upset. So no, we are not good enough to pull off an upset. Weltman made sure of that.
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Re: Jeff Weltman Open Mike interview 

Post#44 » by OrlandoDream » Sat Feb 8, 2025 8:40 pm

My takeaway from that is that we could have made a move to improve but it would of cost us one or both FRPs and some of the young guys like AB, TDS, Jett. Is that a problem? No depending on the piece. If Chicago wanted two FRP for Coby that's a hell no obviously.

Now Jeff has shown his hand so that means this offseason is go time. Its time to cash on on your chips (assets) and back up your talk.
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Re: Jeff Weltman Open Mike interview 

Post#45 » by Skybox » Sat Feb 8, 2025 9:36 pm

OrlandoDream wrote:My takeaway from that is that we could have made a move to improve but it would of cost us one or both FRPs and some of the young guys like AB, TDS, Jett. Is that a problem? No depending on the piece. If Chicago wanted two FRP for Coby that's a hell no obviously.

Now Jeff has shown his hand so that means this offseason is go time. Its time to cash on on your chips (assets) and back up your talk.



Let's revisit this "obvious hell no" when we see who is selected with the two frps ORL controls this summer

(hopefully picked by another team).

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