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LivingLegend
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10/26/2025  10:02 PM
VDesai wrote:Yabu is lost out there

Oof -- a few really bad looks for him tonight and Brown didn't looked thrilled with him at all.

- completely blown by on 1 drive where he was in good initial position (may have been on N Powell)
- then he's late to loose ball under basket, slips to ground with big rear-end landing on Powell for 3 point play
- then he fumbles ball under hoop and as he's falling out of bounds tosses ball right to Miami to start key fast break and bucket
- then he gets potentially key offensive rebound, completes a nice pump-fake to get defender off ground - then completely misses basket on layup

He looks scared some out there --- certainly doesn't provide any shot-blocking or defensive presence you'd ideally want out of a small ball 5.

Rooting for him and Clarkson along with EVERYONE but these 2 are looking shaky --- Clarkson I trust more to come out of it but if Yabu keeps laying turds and doesn't drop (25) he could be moved post Dec and pre Feb.
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LivingLegend
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10/26/2025  10:03 PM
Did anyone watch this game and not notice a new offense at all?

If I'd looked at the bench would have expected to see Thibs standing over there yelling.
LivingLegend
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10/26/2025  10:10 PM
Also - this team remains clunky on offense.

- Kat slow as molasses with those size 19 he's lugging around
- OG balance is off the charts poor and I hold my breath when he dribbles up in the backcourt even without pressure
- Mikal typically adds in 2 or 3 mind boggling bonehead passes each game
- Hart can dribble and pass but will only shoot at peach baskets
- Yabu is the new Obi as he only likes to pass ball around perimeter or hand off and screen

Who else am I missing?
VDesai
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10/26/2025  10:10 PM
We shot 54 3s which isn't a Thibsy number. We just suck at shooting 3s right now. And while we use more of our bench, our bench kinda sucks right now
LivingLegend
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10/26/2025  10:13 PM
VDesai wrote:We shot 54 3s which isn't a Thibsy number. We just suck at shooting 3s right now. And while we use more of our bench, our bench kinda sucks right now

Well that is correct -- the piss poor shooting early made everything else look bad but that # also leads me to ask do we really want guys like Mikal/OG/Hart/Clarkson/Yabu/Kolek all chucking up early high volume 3's for the sake of just taking more 3s.

In any event you are correct -- we did get a lot of 3's up but many of them looked like guys were settling big time.
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10/26/2025  10:40 PM
Yabu is not playing well I am going to give him until December but he needs to get his act together. I think Clarkson is in slump right now but rather him play bad now than later in the season. Kat only big man we have right now, Mitch is Mr Glass don’t know what going on with him and it’s contract year for him. We should call the suns and trade for either mark williams or nick Richards in December or at deadline in February.
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10/26/2025  10:47 PM
LivingLegend wrote:Did anyone watch this game and not notice a new offense at all?

If I'd looked at the bench would have expected to see Thibs standing over there yelling.

Yes I saw that to. I guess Rick is the new head coach and it only took 3 games.
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10/26/2025  11:56 PM
Yabu has a player option for year two of his deal. I was worried he would opt out this off season. Now Im worried he will opt in. Yet, that's why I think he will improve his play. He should be motivated to earn a bigger deal next off season. For that reason I think his play will dramatically improve.
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10/27/2025  1:48 AM
I skipped the 4th. That was not an enjoyable watch.
Oh good lord... https://www.youtube.com/shorts/XkmGrX7O0lQ
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10/27/2025  3:12 AM
with the exception of JB, all the team was sleep walking, too much partying previous night? that affected defense and offence, if one of these was right, we could've won the game!

Whats with the Knicks injury secrecy, why we keep saying Mitch is under load managment? what load?
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