Welcome to this week’s Mailbag and Andy Rooney-esque stream of consciousness rant. You can ask us anything on Twitter using the hashtag #AskHotTime.
So GM Nelson Rodriguez had his once-in-a-while press conference with the media, and it was far from the mea culpa that we wanted. Some highlights included stamping his foot down (again) on the banning of Sector Latino for the rest of this season, as well as the 2019 season, and his bordering-on-deranged optimism about still making the playoffs. Let me be clear, Nelson Rodriguez is Gar Foreman without winning the Derrick Rose lottery, and Velko Paunovic is no Tom Thibodeau.