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Originally Posted by Classic_Sniper
Yeah the first half for Rasmus was just straight up bad. But his second half was better. I think the change in defensive philosophy helped a lot, the forwards came back to defend as a unit better and I think that helped him because even when Hanifin went down, his game didn’t skip a beat.
Although, even with Hanifin’s major steps forward, I get the feeling Darryl is not as high on Hanifin as others are. I think his “entitlement” speech included Noah. Darryl went on record a few weeks ago saying Andersson was his #3. So with the top pairing being Gio and Tanev, we can probably assume his default #4 would be Hanifin and with Treliving being in constant communication with Darryl; perhaps that’s why Tre failed to mention Hanifin, because maybe he didn’t take the BIG step forward. Interesting to speculate though.
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The first half of the season I remember a lot more criticism of Gio than I do of Andersson. people were shocked that Gio looked so lost and maybe his age had caught up with him. Tanev and Hanifin were great that time. That Tanev was moved up to play with Gio was probably more of an indictment on Gio than it was with Andersson.