Time to go young - develop young guys - rebuild

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  1. TBpup

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    A buddy an I just went through each opponent and projected wins for next season. We went over it twice and both of us came up with between 20-25 wins for next season. That would put them in the top-4 in last years Draft Lottery. So familiarize yourself with Skal Labissiere, Ben Simmons, Jaylen Brown and Brandon Ingram.
     
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    I'm sure we can find the will and scrap to fuck up tanking... 30-35 wins is my prediction.
     
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    To get to 30-35 wins, go through each conference team by team and it takes a real stretch to get there. I doubt they are favored in more than 20 games next season. They could play over their heads and if they were in the East, they might even be a playoff team.

    But in the West, where are the wins?
     
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    We won 33 games with 4 NBA players. - Wes, Batum, Aldridge, a rookie Damian. (Wes, Batum and Aldridge all missed 8+ games, as well - and we tanked) Hickson was the other starter, Meyers Leonard was sixth man, Claver was 7th man and Pavlovic was 8th.

    I think we will win more than 20 with - A much improved Leonard, a slightly better Damian, a way better CJ McCollum than whoever the hell the backup PG was (Price? Watson?), Henderson is nba player, an actual center in Plumlee, Aminu and VOnleh might get some minutes.

    The west is better, yeah, but 20 is a little light.

    The gap between Plumlee and Rolo isn't as big as some think, nor is the gap between Wes and the duo of Henderson/McCollum, and to top it off, Aminu was better than Batum last year.
     
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    I don't know if some of you have been following this offseason very closely :) ,
    but we're one of the youngest teams in the league. We've already "gone young". We have no old players to play.

    5 Pat Connaughton SG 22 6-5 206 Notre Dame
    23 Allen Crabbe SF 23 6-6 210 California
    31 Daniel Diez SG 22 6-8 215
    10 Tim Frazier PG 24 6-1 170 Penn State
    9 Gerald Henderson SG 27 6-5 215 Duke
    35 Chris Kaman C 33 7-0 265 Central Michigan
    11 Meyers Leonard C 23 7-1 245 Illinois
    0 Damian Lillard PG 24 6-3 195 Weber State
    3 C.J. McCollum SG 23 6-4 200 Lehigh
    24 Mason Plumlee PF 25 6-11 235 Duke
    21 Noah Vonleh PF 19 6-10 240 Indiana

    No, I don't think we're playing Kaman. Plumlee is the 3rd oldest player on the team!
     
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    God that team is fucking depressing to look at
     
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