Great post!! This is about as accurate as you can get in my book. That is NOT EXACTLY what you have been preaching... lol. Hell you post he quoted even said something different... LMAO! Consistency my friend! We could quote a bunch of your posts where you say nothing close to this...
I dont care how many wins we get as long as we are playing the young guys and trying and not pulling a 76ers. the biggest wild card imo is our capspace and what we do with it. Wev got a lot of open space to absorb players and im hoping to see it be used in an agressive manner to help teams make trades at the deadline and us getting picks or maybe a young prospect or two.
What are you talking about bro? I said we were a young and athletic team that will be exciting to watch. Catch a few teams by surprise for some wins we shouldn't have got. We would hang in some games until the other team takes advantage of our inexperience and beat us. Not enough talent to pull out wins down the stretch, but will hopefully play an exciting brand of ball.
Sheesh... if Cliff Alexander, Luis Montero and Pat Connaughton were starting I believe you'd say the same things about them.
Good post. Yes if we can play at near .500 we could lure a free agent. I'm not talking about Durant level but more Paul Millsap from 2 years ago level when Atlanta first signed him. A young starter that develops to an allstar. Eventually have one of our young players become an allstar, or package a few of them in a trade for an allstar. Then we have 3 allstars and that is enough for the foundation of a contender. A strategy such as that seems far more likely to bring us a championship than trying to be bad and get lucky enough to get a top3 pick and have it be a year with a superstar and have us pick the right player and have a supporting cast come together before Damian starts declining physically in 2-3 years. There's also the consideration of what process we want in the meantime. Either strategy is likely to end without a championship. 96.7% of the league don't win a title every year. I'd rather the team tries to build through being competitive along the way.
They also think all the west playoff teams from last season except Dallas make it; with OKC taking their place...
This is a list of has beens more than who could be good 3-4 years from now. Think of last summer, who knew Khris Middleton, Jimmy Bulter, Draymond Green, Hassan Whiteside, Demarr Carroll would all be $15million+ per year players? Thats part of the fun this season seeing what current bench role players shock us and become above average starters.
It's common sense at this point. We've had no chance to show what we can do, and are ranked near the bottom of almost every power ranking. Somebody name a cantidate for most underrated other than the Blazers.
Drummond is restricted; there is zero chance Detroit lets him walk. Same with Beal. It'll play out the same as Jimmy Bulter or Kawhi Leonard. I agree DeRozan and maybe Nic are possibilities. So much will change between now and next July with these lists.
Historically yes. But we've never had a top6 so strong in the west and a middling pack in the conference so similar with major question marks but upside. I could certainly see it being the case this season. 6th seed has 55 wins and 8th seed is at 42.
6 of the 7 best teams are all in the West, and the one east team likely coasts through the season; so the west conference is much stronger. But compared to other seasons after those top 6 west teams the conference is much weaker 8-11.
Yeah that'd be nice; I'm sure Neil is hoping for something similar. Problem is cap space has never been worth less than this season. Every team has oogles of cap room next summer. We might just have to settle for some second round picks as in the Cleveland trade from a few months ago.
