Enable & Pacman: Dropping Temp was the right move for LA Thieves During Dexerto\u2019s Reverse Sweep, Pacman, Enable and Katie Bedford spoke about the breaking news that LA Thieves would be replacing Donovan \u2018Temp\u2019 Laroda with amateur star Carlos \u2018Venom\u2019 Hernandez. In terms of raw star power, LA Thieves should be up there with the best of them. The team is full of proven winners, especially with Austin \u2018SlasheR\u2019 Liddicoat at the helm, but the results aren\u2019t there. With a very close win over a faltering Toronto Ultra, followed by a reverse sweep at the hands of New York Subliners during the Toronto Home series, something had to give. The Thieves had obviously been looking for backup for some time, and pulled the trigger by bringing Venom in on March 22. As Enable and Pacman explain during Reverse Sweep, a roster move was inevitable and, despite the fact he wasn\u2019t performing poorly, Temp was always going to be the player on the chopping block. A lot of LA Thieves\u2019 potential relies on SlasheR and how his teammates gel with him. This, Enable says (from experience), could be the reason behind Temp being dropped. \u201cYou either hate Austin or you love him,\u201d Enable says. \u201cYou have to have a certain attitude and personality to team with him. It\u2019s as simple as that. If you don\u2019t, you will not do well individually, and the team won\u2019t do well\u2026 I just think Temp is one of those players that doesn\u2019t do well with Austin.\u201d The 100 Thieves man goes on to say that Temp is an \u201cunbelievable talent\u201d but that he was \u201cprobably in his own head\u201d while teaming with SlasheR. While it now appears that Temp will be playing with top Challengers side WestR for the time being, the group also discuss Temp\u2019s future in the CDL. When prompted by Katie on where they imagine Temp could end up, Pacman had one team in mind. \u201cThe easiest fit is Paris Legion,\u201d he said. \u201cThat\u2019s a simple fit on a team that\u2019s actually looking really strong, and you pick up someone who\u2019s flat out just a better player. Then there\u2019s Florida [Mutineers]\u2026 and LA Guerrillas, I guess. But I\u2019m not sure Donny would want to go there.\u201d Needless to say, all eyes will be on LA Thieves throughout Stage 2 to see if Venom really is the player to get them back on the right track. And, of course, whether Temp was really the problem.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Enable & Pacman: Dropping Temp was the right move for LA Thieves During Dexerto\u2019s Reverse Sweep, Pacman, Enable and Katie Bedford spoke about the breaking news that LA Thieves would be replacing Donovan \u2018Temp\u2019 Laroda with amateur star Carlos \u2018Venom\u2019 Hernandez. In terms of raw star power, LA Thieves should be up there with the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26035","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26035"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26035\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}