I'm not a fan of tanking but you know what I'm even less a fan of ... purgatory picking at the back end of the lottery over and over with no real hope of ever getting out! I want to see a championship from this team, and while I'm realistic that that may never happen, I know it won't happen with the current roster as constructed.
Fair enough friend, we all want a championship;been too long!And I 100 percent agree we need some different pieces in to really make a run at the title or even just a good seed in the playoffs as far as that goes. Will be interesting to see what the rest of the season holds for sure. This is a very hard league, but we make it even harder on ourselves night in and night out due to lack of focus on the defensive end, and not making the plays in crunch time that we need to.
I guess "instant" contender means something different than instant. Also must mean something different than contender because neither team looks like a contender to me, although Memphis isn't too far away. At the same time, in the last 8 years they have won a grand total of 2 playoff games outside of the 1st round Ja and Zion are both in their 4th seasons by the way
Very unlikely to get Wemby, but the Blazers are now just 1.5 games out of the #7 Lottery pick spot. They got that last year by purposefully tanking. They are very near that same level right now......playing all their main guys. Tied with OCK. #embarrassing
If the Blazers lose to the Lakers, we could be at #7 in the Lottery standings. Because of the quick start, we would likely not be able to get any higher than 6th even if we tried.....which we are sadly accomplishing without trying.
It's funny: Chauncey got us a hot start with a drop-off afterwards. Stotts tended to start slow and get better as the season went on. What does that tell us?
Spot on. Hey.....I know....let's get players and coaches who have worked their asses off their entire BB career....and tell them, "Lose on purpose. It'll look bad for you personally, but it will help mostly the future players/coaches who replace you because you were a loser".
We were so bad last year, (Dame playing injured after already being injured and then playing on the Olympic team) management finally pulled the plug. This year Dame is healthy, and we added the best forward since Aldridge... and we are in the same spot as the tanking version. Just trading Hart won't fix the problem. There are fundamental issues with the core. They need more talent. The best talent available to them is in the Draft.
Everything going to plan... I kinda wish just those teams could play each other here on out. Have a play-in for the play-in.
Yup, thats been obvious to many here for quite a while. On the bright side, Soapy is finally gone and Trader Joe seems to have done well selecting for the future in his first draft. I don't agree with the two paths strategy he pursued this past offseason though, where they're trying to both compete now while building for the future. Committing to one path or the other would seem to make success more likely. As it is they're competing to maybe make the play-in and draft somewhere in the middle. Pursuing the dual path strategy this year does keep options of committing to one path or another open down the line though, plus trying to compete now with Dame kept hope alive and butts in seats for ownership in 2023. Not sure what they're going to do this offseason but I am sure the customers aren't liking the product. STOMP
