I submit chemistry does matter when the talent level is close....but it can only overcome so much. Chemistry got Portland to play hard all season and overachieve but now they don't have the talent level to turn it up a notch over a series. They may get hot for a game or two but they just don't have the pieces yet. Playoff experience is fine if it's good playoff experience but I'm wondering how much of this roster is still hear next season that will benefit from the 5-6 games of Playoff experience they might get. I love the chemistry on this team and hope it continues to grow as the talent level rises.
But they aren't. The Clippers mesh together and play off each other and execute the offense (and defense) pretty well from what I can see. The Clippers, as a team, are whiny and bitchy, to everyone else. Maybe it's their bonding agent. I think their chemistry together is just fine.
Yep. The Blazers got playoff experience last year. And four of those five starters, and Afflalo, are benefiting from that experience on other teams this year. Shit lot of good last year's playoff experience is doing the Blazers (team) this year.
Yes it does make sense. The Blazers have better chemistry than the Clippers or do the not? If chemistry overrides talent then why aren't we winning the important games?
No one has said that. What is being said and what you refuse to acknowledge is if two teams have equal talent, the team with the better chemistry, that plays together better as a team and not a collection of individuals, will win more times than not. The Blazers overachieved this season. That is a fact. Not all but a big part of that was because of the great team chemistry we have.
Some families chemistry is yelling and bitching at everyone else, including themselves. My god, the Clippers are the Kardashians. :MARIS61:
You better believe the CLips have, at minimum, good chemistry. I witnessed it last night in person. The whole time we were being announced ,they were huddling and basically moshing each other as if it were a concert ( not like dumbass kids do in the clubs these days). Honestly. I thought for a moment we might be in for a long night when I saw how they were gelling prior to the game.
Interesting. Some of them are such jerks individually, you would expect them to be candidates to self destruct the first time the going gets tough.
Honestly, I thought the very same thing. Until I was a the game and saw their pregame warm up , interactions with each other and how they fed off each other to elevate their energy right before tip off. IT could just be a playoff coming together, IDK, but they sure seemed connected in warmups and entering the game last night.
