There are always exceptions to every example. All I know is that any Playoff discussion the Blazers are in at 16-24 is a bit embarrassing and speaks to how far a lot of the West has fallen.
News flash: this team will never have enough talent to compete with the Warriors as long as they have Curry. Unless we plan on winning the championship in a different league, what's your big plan? Trade Dame and live in the lotto for the next 8 years while we wait for the W's and Spurs to finally start sucking? We're not sniffing the championship until at least 2022. Until then, let's just try to have fun.
So we can't put cuss words into thread titles, but we can abbreviate them. Gotta remember these tricks for all the threads I start.
The pursuit of a championship is fun, giving up hope and settling for mediocrity and an endless string of first round exits is depressing - that's not me "just trying to have fun." As we all know fortunes can change in the blink of an eye with injuries, so who is to say the Dubs will dominate for the next 6 years? I do know however that missing out on the chance at a lottery pick (or any pick in our case) makes it that much less likely that the team could be positioned to take advantage of an opportunity down the line.
Making the playoffs, losing our draft pick, and then getting smoked by golden state in four games would be 100% negative. I see no value in it. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
It's the ABSOLUTELY worse scenario but you're cool with it? Sorry, you can't have it both ways. Everyone assumes that if we get into the playoffs, we get knocked out of the first round. Dallas went 67-11 after an 0-4 start and got knocked out in the first round. Yes, we lost to Warriors the other night, but there was a lot of good in that game. They couldn't guard us. At all. Dame outplayed Curry. I think we can beat Golden State in a playoff series especially if we improve as the season goes on. I think the Sours are beatable too and it's always possible that we move up to 6th seed. Lots of basketball to be played. Like Crabbe said, we're better than our record and Lillard loves the players on our team. I think this team can grow from within. Like the Warriors did. They went from first round knockout in 2014 to champs in 2015 with no major roster change. Truth.
I can accept that if we win, we win. Is that better? Also, the warriors analogy doesn't work, IMO. We had a MAJOR overhaul... 4 of 5 starters. So, while what you SAID is truth, correlation doesn't exactly happen there.
The point is that we can win with the players we have. We can grow from within like they did. Maybe we get knocked out in the first or second round this season but we improve the next year without adding talent but by growing from within.
This team is no where near as talented up and down the roster as they are. We still need to add a piece. They don't. We dont have the Draymond Green, IMO.
As players they better think that way, have some pride and leave it all out there. Hell, let's say we go out here in the second half of the season and finish 28-13 or something way above expectations. Is that a bad thing? Hell to the no, that's the best thing possible because it would mean that our young guys like Vonleh, Leonard, and Harkless take the Allen Crabbe jump into good rotation players. You can add decent free agents (think of Andre Miller when he came here level) to a team that is young and has shown its ready to go to the next level. Flip side of it if we continue on our current path of winning the games we should 3/4 times and losing when we should nearly everytime (with an occasional OKC or Memphis type win sprinkled in) then we get our mid lottery pick. So looking at getting a guy that is likely really athletic without a jumpshot but has tons of potential or a more fundamentally sound but older than his peers player that no one is sure can handle the speed of the NBA. Both at least 2 years away from being a true contributor. Which is the better scenario?
Yeah I don't know why we need yet another 19-21 year old on the team; we acquired half a dozen of them last summer.
Well of course the Blazers are trying to win. Athletes and coaches don't have any incentive to perform poorly, its against their self interest. But everyone outside the team knows "making the playoffs" might have a nice ring to it, but all it means is getting swept by GS...scrap that, getting NUKED by GS, and losing a lottery pick.
We aren't playing better. We are right on course. I predicted 32 wins this year and so far it looks like I'm going to be really close. You're acting like we have no talent and that's not true. We have dame, CJ, and a bunch of role players. That's simply not enough to ever be considered a contender. If CJ is as good as Wes and Aminu is at least as good as batum last season, we are still down one all star power forward. How are we going to replace that giant hole that LMA left? Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
