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In a typical business structure with typical hierarchies, questions and input from an owner can definitely be considered meddling. Of course, the specific dynamics of the relationships and individual perception/interpretation of the threshold for "meddling" guarantee this conversation will never, ever, find a resolution.

Providing resources and latitude doesn't mean he provides those without questions and input.

Even on the marketing side? Somehow I'm not buying that.

Key phrase "fully healthy". I would certainly love for the fellow to become my 4th (fourth) favorite forward. I would also enjoy immensely being able to proclaim Botterill as my all time favorite Sabre GM and RK as the "best coach since Bowman, maybe even betterer". However, if no other moves are made, someone has lots of 'splainin' to do.

So, I'm going to edit this down, even though it's been quoted already. I don't really intend to come off as hostile on this matter, it does, though seem ridiculous it's "a thing". Those charts, in the order I posted them (chronologically) say all that needs to be said.

Well, it's either overblown or the only legit excuse for his play during the last two regular seasons. Can't have it both ways.

I really shouldn't be so pessimistic. Like I said, remove the stats from the prior two seasons and I might be thrilled. I don't recall his game from the playoffs, either, so I have no eye-test recollection to go on. These guys with injuries, though, coming in with the hopes of rebounding; we've been bit by that bug one too many times. I hope it works out.

Should be a huge upgrade from Thompson!

Yeah, that's cool. We're the experiment. If he "finally recovers" then we have a good player until he gets hit again. As I said, the term is what makes this signing okay, but not really okay, but...

That context is already there by just looking at the charts.

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We've all been here on this forum a long ass time and have gone over, and over, and over the new metrics used to help analyze the game. I read the sites, thought about it, and can interpret the stats that I think are important. If I can do it, so can you. It's like bitching about an MRI, how can an over-sized magnet help me? The magnet-as-therapy-fad happened back in the middle of the 19th century.

I don't mean center, I just mean talent-level in the top 6.

All you need to know is that if you remove the last two seasons, he's a good, if not very good, addition to the forward ranks.

The term is what saves this for me. The guy is wildly inconsistent season to season. He's effectively a fill-in until Cozens gets here. Botterill still has a tonne of work to do if he's going to palpably up the average talent level of the team and he really needs to jettison the chaff.

Dude is a 100-millionare, he don't care.

Yeah, I think you're right. Everything changed after Prince Charles admitted his extramarital affair with Camilla Parker Bowles. I'll never forget that day.

That's it, Friedman's 31 Thoughts. That's where I saw it.

Did Botterill actually call it "roster surgery"? I looked not too long ago and all I found was one of the primary pundits using that phrase. I would actually be happy to have it confirmed that he used that phrase.

Sigh, indeed. When was the world not that way?

@TrueBlueGED provides the summary. These charts also cover three (3) seasons, so, the sample size is more substantial. The RAPM charts are like the new rear-sides of trading cards. They give you a quick assessment of the player's actual impact on a team. When your team is a bottom-dweller, it stands to reason that whoever leaves will likely land on a better team and therefore, ultimately, look better. Doesn't mean their metrics will improve significantly, but they could, obviously. But, I don't think we've seen better play or metrics from Tyler Myers, Tyler Ennis, or even Evander Kane, for example. ROR was always capable of playing the way he has with St. Louis, everyone knew that because of his fancy stats. The rest of the team around him was really good, too, making him look better despite not being any better than he already was/is.

Yet, here we are.

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