Toronto is a good example of why we should stay the course

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  1. PDXFonz

    PDXFonz I’m listening

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    Doesn't matter how many regular season games you win if you can't put them to good use in the playoffs. Just ask the NBA record holding Warriors how important regular season wins really are...
     
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    The Players IMO.
     
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    As this article points out, Toronto made the leap by totally re-working their offense from a one-on-one style to a pass-first plan. I would be very happy if we gave that a shot.
     
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    Which ones? Dame? He seems so tough mentally that I have a hard time believing he doesn't have the right mentality.
     
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    Dame, I'm not really worried about. He is in a funk and it is mental right now, but NOLA is playing him very well defensively and stifling him. He needs to really take control and start chucking away.

    We saw it last year in the playoffs too. Mentally weak, they all just folded when the going got tough. Lillard left it all out there, a few others too but most of the team was worthless. Pull up the thread against the Warriors last year, the same deficienies are going on.
     
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    Exactly! This is a very YOUNG team. Now Nurk has to be re-signed, and developed. He's in bad need of the weight room to build his body up. But some are saying blow the whole damn thing up, and that's completely asinine.
     
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    Ahahahahaha

    Sorry Eric, that’s just a lot of egg.
     
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    When threads go wrong
     
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    There is a lot of hate for the "Let it Bake" strategy, which is unfounded.

    Some of the top teams in the league let it bake. Most of all of the bottom teams did not.

    Again, the ugly truth is that it takes a lot of luck to compete for a championship. Panic moves
    are not necessarily the right moves, regardless of how much fun they are to ponder.
     
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    Toronto is a good example of why we should NOT stay the course.
     
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    To be fair, they did win 4 more games in the Playoffs than the Blazers. Still, the let it bake thing only works with better ingredients and it doesn't take that long. You either have it or you don't and you don't spend year after year lurking around the #8 seed and just getting into the first round. That accomplishes very little past 1-2 years.
     
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    Toronto doesn’t have Zach Collins.
     
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    Who let it bake?
     
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    There is nothing to bake here... Dame and CJ will be 28 and 27 next season... they are who they are... and because they play ISO ball and take half the shots it will be hard to develop another star. Collins will not get the touches required with Dame/CJ combo being the centerpiece of the offense
     
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    So, we should trade Lillard? Interesting theory.
     
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    SA drafted Duncan, number 1 overall, and won a title in year 2. He is arguably the greatest PF in NBA history. We are not that team. We don't have a player like him. We do not have a coach like Pop.

    GS drafted Klay Thompson, and 2 time MVP Steph Curry in the lottery after sucking for years. Then got lucky with Green, fired their coach and hired a TV analyst as a coach, then signed the second best player in the world.

    We have different definitions of let it bake
     
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    This Thread HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA :D :D :D
     
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    Both teams got lucky as hell, I agree. Regardless, both kept their core together.
     
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