The ONLY POSITIVE things about the team thread

I'd actually trade realism and cynicism's places in that diagram.

 

Also...

Over the last three and a half weeks we are 8-3.

Our defense and rebounding have been good enough to keep us in games when we are shooting poorly. As a result, we've been in every game right to the end. We haven't lost a game by more than 8 points in a month and stole a couple close games against the Clippers and Rockets (outrebounded the Clippers 61 - 51 and the Rockets 60 - 40).

Over that same stretch, we've had five double digit victories, including a 16-point win over the Spurs and a 19-point win over the Mavs - our two most likely first round opponents.

We've also beaten the two teams (LAC and HOU) we are battling for the 3rd, 4th and 5th seeds.

Including the win over OKC, in the last three and a half weeks, we've beaten all the other Western Conference teams that are likely to be seeded 3 through 8.

We have either secured, or are in position to secure, the tie breakers over HOU, SAS, DAL, LAC and OKC

BNM

 

..... You and your... Perspective.... :MARIS61:

 

Which makes it that much more of a head scratcher of why we continue to lose to garbage teams.

 

Do you watch the league?? Everyone loses to Garbage teams. NY and PHI have combined for 30 wins. The Fakers have won 17.

The bottom feeders in the league have won 61 games.

 

Dwayne Wade, Goran Dragic and Luol Deng are pretty fuckin' far from garbage players. Their coach has a handful of championships..we have a different garbage category going on here.

 

Crabbe will be fresh for the playoffs!

 

MEM just lost to DET by 10 right after we beat them by 19 and SAS lost to the Knicks. Shit happens. The 72-win 1996 Bulls lost to the 21-win Raptors.

BNM

 

lol. If they beat the "teams we were supposed to beat" every time, every team in the west would have 60+ wins.

 

And there he is again, smackin' you fools in the face with logic.

 

Mmmm...I love fresh crab.

 

That "garbage team" also beat The Wizards and Raptors just recently.

 

I didn't detect anything positive in your post...

Not sure if this is the best place to mention it, but I have a theory why we struggle against MIN (the only "garbage" team we "continually" lose to).

Our defense is designed to deny easy scoring at the rim and the 3-point line. This leaves us vulnerable to teams that shoot mid to long range 2-pointers at a high percentage. This is MIN and probably explains why Ricky Rubio usually has one of his two good shooting nights a year against us. If you go back and look at the individual shot charts for our last loss to MIN, the first thing you will notice is they only attempted seven 3-pointers (and made four of them). They aren't a good 3-point shooting team, and they know it. So, they rely much more on mid to long range 2-pointers than most other teams. Gary Neal and Kevin Marin just killed us on mid to long range 2-pointers in that game. Even Kevin Garnett did all his scoring on 15 - 19 ft jumpers in that game.

Basically, their offensive strength is a perfect match for our defensive vulnerability. Of course, that's by design. If we ever did meet MIN in a post season series, I'm sure Stotts would adjust our defensive game plan accordingly.

I do find it funny that we owned MIN during Kevin Love's time there. I believe at one point, we won like 21 of 22 games against the Wolves when Love played. That's because Love scores down low, or from 3-point range - the two specific areas our defense is targeted to stop (well, that and Love SUCKS). Now that Love is gone, MIN is a much tougher match up for us.

BNM

 

Players are good, team is garbage. Completely different.

Just because you have great players doesn't make you a great team.

 

Woopidy dooo.

Our "Elite" defensive team shouldn't have allowed the loss to happen.

 

You may be onto something there. But you'd think the coaching staff would know this by now? Shouldn't we be able to adjust schemes on the fly? IDK. good questions i guess.

 

I'd say a lot of good players make a good team, and that's what they have.

Considering you used good in your first sentence, then switched to great in the 2nd... they must be pretty good.

 

Kinda like how that "elite" defensive team in Memphis shouldn't have let Detroit beat them?

 

My sociological experiment with this thread has yielded predictable results.

 

It's an internet forum, we debate wherever. I honestly paid 0% attention to the thread title. I typically just click the unread posts, read and post.