Two games left for the first half of the season. Next game against the Thunder at home. I think we're bound to do even better, hopefully make the Playoffs.
I think ideally with this roster we're almost as good as the Thunder, Warriors or Spurs. It would take at least another season to get there , though, and at least another player making some kind of breakout. We still haven't played one game with Dame, CJ and Frazier all getting major minutes which is just stupid. I think we also have more fire-power with Cliff Alexander we're not using. I would go through this season with the same team and try to make the playoffs, then maybe try to replace 2-3 players with maybe an elite player, also to tighten the rotation. I don't think we'd be contenders until at least next season's playoffs.
You want to make the playoffs? Yeah, we'll lose a lottery pick, and we just might set the record for biggest point differential in a 4 game sweep after GS beats us by 30 4 times in a row.
Seriously dude, did you watch the game last night? Many times a young team will get up to play a top team at home, and give them a run for the money. But the Warriors destroyed us without breaking a sweat. Imagine what will happen in the playoffs when they kick it up a notch. You are basically asking for 4 straight up ass kickings in exchange for a lotto pick. No thank you.
Boy, I sure would like to watch us get absolutely demolished by the Warriors in 4 games in the first round. That would be sooooo much fun.
And, in the 4th quarter of the 4th game, after we had lost each game by 30+, we'd still have a couple posters saying "Believe Harder. I'm not convinced the Warriors are any good!"
Playing CJ/Damw/Frazier major minutes ultimately means less minutes for Crabbe and that's incredibly stupid.
First of all, we beat the Warriors by 20 in the pre-season, I think the last team to beat them before Milwaukee. We also could be more competitive against them if Dame is guarding Kley. I said before the game in a different forum, if Frazier plays more than 10 minutes (i.e. not just garbage time minutes), we win. He played the same 4 minutes Pat Caughnaton played and we lost the game. Playing Frazier with Dame or CJ could mean less minutes for Crabbe but more effective minutes when he isn't asked to play SG making our entire offense slow and predictable. Tanking is what sets teams behind, show me one tanking team that's a contender even 3-4 years later. With the same team we have now we're worth making the playoffs in the west. playing below that for a draft pick is what loser teams with loser fans do
The Sonics/Thunder when they got Durant and Westbrook were tanking all the way. There's more examples but you just asked for one. In any case the team doesn't even need to be tanking, they're plenty bad on their own without trying to lose.
