Congratulations to the Denver Nuggets! They won, and they should've won, given that they were tied for the best record in the league in the second half of the season. And congratulations to their MVP: Flint's own Monte' Morris! Getting all mad at Stotts or some of the players because we lost to a better team is your prerogative, but you look kind of silly. I'm telling you this because I love you.
It is what it is. Even if we won this was clearly not a championship team. Would have lost to almost any of the other playoff teams in the west, not to mention the top teams in the east. Like I said, blessing in disguise to bow early. Dame is not the type to ask out (and even if he did, he has 4 years left on his deal). Rebuild the roster and basketball decision making team from the ground up only keeping Dame.
Think about how good Denver would have been at full strength. We have to know even with Dame, with the rest of the talent on this squad even traded for optimal pieces, we are no better than 3rd best in the NW Division. In the Western Conferece? Fifth to Ninth. It brings up a hard reality about whether or not we keep #0.
They can be Golden State level good as Porter Jr develops and if Murray is the same player coming back
The better team did win and that's on Olshey. So let's get his ass fired and then let the new guy they put in charge change all of the obvious things that need to be changed so we are a contending team.
Remember how pissed you all were when the Nuggets got Aaron Gordon at the trade deadline? Well, that's part of why they were the better team. Did you all forget that?
We should have won, we have way more weapons than them right now. We just don't have an actual gameplan or the ability to make any meaningful adjustments.
Very true. We've been saying this for YEARS. You think Olshey hasn't been trying to land another star? The only way to "rebuild" is to SUCK for a while, and I thought you wanted to be nice to Dame? So that means trading him.
Counterpoint: no we don't. You just didn't know how good their players were because you weren't following them. You think they were winning by fluke in the regular season?
When you have a top 10 player, you don't rebuild unless that player asks out. Go check NBA history. It's never happened. Because the chance you hit on another player like that is almost nil. So unless you get Zion back or something, you retool each year around Dame and hope to catch lightning in a bottle. There have been PLENTY of situations in the past to actually pair Dame with a true all-star. But our FO never pulled the trigger on moving CJ or any of the other pieces they were in love with.
Spare a thought for @HCP. By the end of tonight both his favorite team AND the Blazers will have been eliminated.
But here's the thing. Everyone bitching about this team thinks all our players are losers except Dame. Yet somehow they also believe we can trade them for stars and build a winner round Dame. Cognitive dissonance. Dame ain't no spring chicken, either. And hey: Dame isn't as good a player as CP3 but he's been traded against his will. (Don't get me wrong - Dame is great, but CP3 is an all-timer.) If you want change, you've got to start at the top. The first person to go has to be Olshey.
