Yeah, that's kinda the problem. Um, not if the entire rest of the team is players who aren't suited to that style.
Going to be extremely tough finish to rest of the year especially the next 10 games. We’re bound to have some rough nights but What I want to see is relentless commitment on defensive side of ball maybe get into the top 20 on defense to finish the season. I want to see what Hart and Justice bring to team. And most importantly I wasn’t to see Simons continue to take the big shots and be aggressive doing it, I hope teams throw everything they can at him so gives him even more experience. This final run is when teams buckle down so it’s going to be playoff type basketball for teams that need wins.
The team reminds me a bit of the Doc Rivers '99-'00 Orlando team with Darrell Armstrong. That team ended up just missing the playoffs when it was predicted to have the worst record in the league. We won't do that well (or close) but just saying the hustle is there. (Related: the 2000 draft was shitty, but they got Mike Miller at #5 who won ROY.)
Next 5 games are brutally hard, just winning one would be an accomplishment - @ MIL @MEM GSW DEN @PHX But then the final 20 games of the season look like the easiest schedule of any team in the league. If the guys hustle and buy into Chauncey style I wouldn't be shocked if we make a run for the playin. Right now we are in the 10th spot. 20 games is a very small size, certainly possible for the team to end up around .500 record. Plus a lot of our opponents are teams fighting for the playin, 2 games against New Orleans, 3 against San Antonio. So a win could count as a win for us and loss for them, basically a double win. We might be able to squeak into that 10th spot with below .500 play the rest of the way. If we lose a bunch and fail at the above at least we get our lottery pick. If we somehow win a bunch of these, make a run at the playin, it would be fun. We'd get to see the young guys play well, give Ant Hart Nurk postseason style high pressure game experience, leave the door open for Dame to return in the playoffs, and possibly clear up the pick we owe Chicago so we'd have no future pick trade restrictions.
Look at this breakdown of the opponents we have to finish the last 20 games of the season: 7 games WAS IND DET HOU HOU OKC OKC - against tanking teams, we might even be more talented 5 games SAS NOP SAS SAS NOP - against fellow playin competition 4 games MIN MIN ATL NYK - against flawed playin teams 3 games BRK DAL UTH - when good opponents might suck, Brookyln has lost 11 straight, Dallas and Utah are the last two games of the year so they may have nothing to play for 1 game out of 20 that is against a legit playoff opponent, at Utah March 9th
Bro you gotta step back. You and the Calma guy in here can’t help but type that dudes name at least once a day. Let it go. He’s no longer our coach.
So you're contending that even though with 20 games left we will most likely be 15 games below .500, 14 if we're lucky that we will have a good shot at ending up at .500? You think this team is going to win at .750 over 20 games? Look back three games in the schedule and see who we lost to. We will drop most of the games against your so called "flawed playin teams", we will likely drop all of the games against the teams you designated as "good opponents that might suck" and we're going to drop games to those "tanking teams" too... just watch, it will happen. Also, you list the Wizards as a tanking team despite the fact that they're a half a game out of the play in and three games better than us. The fact is that the next twelve games are against teams that have better records than we do and even though there are so many in here that for some reason think this is the best roster we've had all season, it's not. People are basing that off of two games against teams that pissed away big leads against us and should have beaten us. I love the effort and hustle I'm seeing, I would love to see us win every game for the rest of the season because I actually think that having all of our future picks available to trade is more valuable than where we are likely to end up in the lottery should we miss the playoffs and retain our picks. Us making the playoffs and getting all of our future picks back just isn't going to happen though. So after we drop almost all of the next 12 games and we're more than 20 games below .500, it would probably behoove us to rest our vets and get Ant run with guys like Keon, CJ, Trendon, GB3, Hughes, Dido, DSJ and even Keljin. We get to evaluate these guys to see who we want to move forward with and at that point we also get to drop games because at that point that should be the goal of everyone in the organization above Chauncey. The guys from Chauncey on down through Keljin should be concentrated on developing players, the system and competing in the games but orders should be coming down from above to keep our vets out of the games "so they can stay healthy".
I call bullshit on that. Every good team in the league has a player that can iso and get a shot off. They will not win the big games without that player.
When I said .500 I meant during the last 20 game stretch, not a 41-41 record. Maybe we don't win much and keep the pick. But it's not a lock. Put 71 up on the Champs in the first half tonight. Even if we lose most the games you list, we have the easiest ending schedule in the NBA. A run at 10th in the west may be possible.
Dame is the last piece of the 'Stotts ball stank' that needs to be removed. (Stotts, Olshey, Cj - gone) The fact that some people still haven't identified his style of play is a big part of our problem, is mind boggling. Massively overrated, one-dimensional player. Doesn't run, doesn't defend, jacks shitty shots.
