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Missing in Action 

Post#1 » by payitforward » Tue Nov 22, 2016 2:19 pm

Some long-time stalwarts seem to have gone missing over the last months. Do we need to send out a search party?

I'll name the two most obvious to me:

LyricalRico
The Secret Weapon, AKA Nivek -- i.e. Kevin

What's become of them? Gone fishing? Gone forever? Gonna be back any day now?

Add to the list please -- but don't add yourself to that number, ok? :)
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Re: Missing in Action 

Post#2 » by TGW » Tue Nov 22, 2016 2:22 pm

Kevin makes blogs. As a matter of fact, enjoy:

https://kevinbroom.com/2016/11/21/wizards-stagger-continues/

No time for major analysis the next couple weeks, but…here’s the Player Production Average update. It’s not pretty.

Player GMS MPG LW PPA
Otto Porter 12 35.3 173 177
John Wall 10 33.1 168 167
Marcin Gortat 12 34.8 135 146
Danuel House 1 1.0 119
Bradley Beal 9 32.1 66 92
Sheldon McClellan 6 12.7 478 88
Markieff Morris 12 31.0 67 78
Tomas Satoransky 12 19.3 18 43
Marcus Thornton 12 21.4 31 41
Andrew Nicholson 9 11.1 33 35
Trey Burke 10 13.0 -48 28
Kelly Oubre 11 13.5 18 17
Jason Smith 11 10.9 -93 -42
Daniel Ochefu 3 2.7 -181 -119
The NBA is still mostly in Small Sample Size Theater, but they’re closing in on the “it’s real” portion of the early season.

Good news: Otto Porter and John Wall have been outstanding, though I remain concerned with Wall’s stratospheric turnover rate. Marcin Gortat has been good despite a radical drop in his usage rate vs. his career norms. The other starters (Bradley Beal and Markieff Morris) both rate below average, but at least improved since the first update.

The bad news: every other player in the rotation rates at or below replacement level.

The team actually has played a difficult schedule (about 1.09 points per game tougher than average). Unfortunately, they’ve been outscored by 3.42 points per game, suggesting the Wizards have been 2.33 points per game worse than average. Overall, they’ve played at about the level of a 32-win team over an 82-game season — just a little behind the 34.5* wins per season they’ve averaged under the leadership of Ernie Grunfeld.

* This includes pro-rating 2011-12, the lockout-shortened 66-game season, to an 82-game schedule.
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Re: Missing in Action 

Post#3 » by Wizardspride » Tue Nov 22, 2016 2:45 pm

payitforward wrote:Some long-time stalwarts seem to have gone missing over the last months. Do we need to send out a search party?

I'll name the two most obvious to me:

LyricalRico
The Secret Weapon, AKA Nivek -- i.e. Kevin

What's become of them? Gone fishing? Gone forever? Gonna be back any day now?

Add to the list please -- but don't add yourself to that number, ok? :)

Many of the MIA guys are posting at a different site now

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Re: Missing in Action 

Post#4 » by AFM » Tue Nov 22, 2016 3:52 pm

I asked Kevin two weeks ago to come back to RealGM, his response: "Thanks man. I'll think about it."

Aka, a polite no.
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Re: Missing in Action 

Post#5 » by payitforward » Tue Nov 22, 2016 4:20 pm

You sent him a PM?
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Re: Missing in Action 

Post#6 » by payitforward » Tue Nov 22, 2016 4:21 pm

Wizardspride wrote:
payitforward wrote:Some long-time stalwarts seem to have gone missing over the last months. Do we need to send out a search party?

I'll name the two most obvious to me:

LyricalRico
The Secret Weapon, AKA Nivek -- i.e. Kevin

What's become of them? Gone fishing? Gone forever? Gonna be back any day now?

Add to the list please -- but don't add yourself to that number, ok? :)

Many of the MIA guys are posting at a different site now

"Many?" Who do you mean?
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Re: Missing in Action 

Post#7 » by AFM » Tue Nov 22, 2016 4:35 pm

payitforward wrote:You sent him a PM?


No, I commented on his blog.
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Re: Missing in Action 

Post#8 » by Ruzious » Tue Nov 22, 2016 5:48 pm

I think/hope Rico just needed a break from the negativity and will be back when things lighten up here.
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Re: Missing in Action 

Post#9 » by long suffrin' boulez fan » Tue Nov 22, 2016 5:55 pm

Ruzious wrote:I think/hope Rico just needed a break from the negativity and will be back when things lighten up here.


C'mon, name another site where an ex-player's particular body part has been so thoroughly scrutinized and where AFM posts (other than most porn sites).
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Re: Missing in Action 

Post#10 » by Chocolate City Jordanaire » Wed Nov 23, 2016 12:47 am

Ruzious wrote:I think/hope Rico just needed a break from the negativity and will be back when things lighten up here.



The truth about Ernie IS negative.
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Re: Missing in Action 

Post#11 » by AFM » Wed Nov 23, 2016 2:01 am

payitforward wrote:Some long-time stalwarts seem to have gone missing over the last months. Do we need to send out a search party?

I'll name the two most obvious to me:

LyricalRico
The Secret Weapon, AKA Nivek -- i.e. Kevin

What's become of them? Gone fishing? Gone forever? Gonna be back any day now?

Add to the list please -- but don't add yourself to that number, ok? :)


What about WTA? The dude who solely posted about gentrification
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Re: Missing in Action 

Post#12 » by closg00 » Wed Nov 23, 2016 4:46 am

Chocolate City Jordanaire wrote:
Ruzious wrote:I think/hope Rico just needed a break from the negativity and will be back when things lighten up here.



The truth about Ernie IS negative.


Even Rico can no-longer defend the indefensible, he's better off with Hands over at BF.
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Re: Missing in Action 

Post#13 » by montestewart » Wed Nov 23, 2016 5:32 am

closg00 wrote:
Chocolate City Jordanaire wrote:
Ruzious wrote:I think/hope Rico just needed a break from the negativity and will be back when things lighten up here.



The truth about Ernie IS negative.


Even Rico can no-longer defend the indefensible, he's better off with Hands over at BF.

I'm missing LyricalRico's positivity and Nivek's YODA-based realism. Some other posters I like but see little or nothing of these days: Tyrone Messby, Spence, fugop, Higga, cdouglas, mhd, barelyawake, BruceO, and I'm surely forgetting a bunch.

WTA, well, I kind of miss a lot of the old DC too, so I didn't mind some of his way-back machine posts, but what a one-track mind he has. Why not just have someone on the board who only talks about hot dogs, the frail connection to the team being a hot dog he got at Capital Center in the 70s.
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Re: Missing in Action 

Post#14 » by benb331 » Wed Nov 23, 2016 6:42 am

montestewart wrote:Why not just have someone on the board who only talks about hot dogs, the frail connection to the team being a hot dog he got at Capital Center in the 70s.


AFM talks about wieners enough.
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Re: Missing in Action 

Post#15 » by payitforward » Wed Nov 23, 2016 4:47 pm

closg00 wrote:
Chocolate City Jordanaire wrote:
Ruzious wrote:I think/hope Rico just needed a break from the negativity and will be back when things lighten up here.

The truth about Ernie IS negative.

Even Rico can no-longer defend the indefensible, he's better off with Hands over at BF.

Is he posting there instead of here? Really? I'd be sorry if that were true.

Do you think if I go post a lot over there, that would bring him back here? :)
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Re: Missing in Action 

Post#16 » by payitforward » Wed Nov 23, 2016 4:53 pm

AFM wrote:
payitforward wrote:You sent him a PM?

No, I commented on his blog.

I can see why he saves long analysis for the blog, but I wish that when he writes there he'd make a point of coming over here and pointing to what he's written.

I wish there was a "contact" link at his site. I'd remind him that you see the same people on the way down that you saw on the way up. We are actually Kevin's core "audience." Bad marketing to ignore your core audience. They start to feel jilted.

We miss you, Kev. C'mon back -- it's not too late!
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Re: Missing in Action 

Post#17 » by montestewart » Wed Nov 23, 2016 6:20 pm

payitforward wrote:
AFM wrote:
payitforward wrote:You sent him a PM?

No, I commented on his blog.

I can see why he saves long analysis for the blog, but I wish that when he writes there he'd make a point of coming over here and pointing to what he's written.

I wish there was a "contact" link at his site. I'd remind him that you see the same people on the way down that you saw on the way up. We are actually Kevin's core "audience." Bad marketing to ignore your core audience. They start to feel jilted.

We miss you, Kev. C'mon back -- it's not too late!

You can post comments on his site, which is sort of a contact link. I think you can get emails when new content is posted. I just check now and then to see what's new.
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Re: Missing in Action 

Post#18 » by Kanyewest » Wed Nov 23, 2016 10:35 pm

montestewart wrote:
closg00 wrote:
Chocolate City Jordanaire wrote:

The truth about Ernie IS negative.


Even Rico can no-longer defend the indefensible, he's better off with Hands over at BF.

I'm missing LyricalRico's positivity and Nivek's YODA-based realism. Some other posters I like but see little or nothing of these days: Tyrone Messby, Spence, fugop, Higga, cdouglas, mhd, barelyawake, BruceO, and I'm surely forgetting a bunch.

WTA, well, I kind of miss a lot of the old DC too, so I didn't mind some of his way-back machine posts, but what a one-track mind he has. Why not just have someone on the board who only talks about hot dogs, the frail connection to the team being a hot dog he got at Capital Center in the 70s.


For some reason remembering all these posters made me think of the new South Park member berries

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Re: Missing in Action 

Post#19 » by closg00 » Mon Nov 28, 2016 3:08 am

I want to add another name to the MIA list, Sum Ting Wong
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Re: Missing in Action 

Post#20 » by long suffrin' boulez fan » Wed Nov 30, 2016 1:37 am

I think the John Wall effect is real and actually underrated*



*Kevin Broome bait.
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