This team is done

Yeah, I don't think they are done.....just one tier above mediocrity.......while OKC, Spurs, possibly Boston again rule.

 

It is what it is. There just weren't franchise players available when we picked. You could maybe stretch and say Jdub but no one was going to pick him at 3 in that draft.

But, in general I agree. The true problem with this team is that, after all the rebuilding, we still don't have a true young superstar. Our best player is the corpse of KD and he just can't do it all

 

You could argue it was over as soon as Fred went down.

How soon we forget we won 52 games last year, 4th in defensive rating and 13th in offensive. Bringing in Durant made perfect sense.

The biggest disappointment to me is Sengun. It's clear borderline All-star is his ceiling.

I just wonder if Fertita has his hand on the nuclear button and get desperate for an aging, perpetually injured Freak.

 

I believe in miracles my friend. That said, miracles are miracles for a reason. They are not statistically plausible but happen when the masses say they will not. Even if FVV comes back, what the Spurs done tonight isolating Goon on defense was horrifying. Every team in the playoffs will use this technique until we find a way to solve it. In that, may be where the miracle resides waiting to be unlocked.

Edit: or remain locked.

 

This is way too close to Goon. If Katie sees it he will tweet it

 

A lot of fans really really really don't like to internalize the reality that NBA titles depend on lucking into an all time great player.

In the NFL, your organization can do great work and win on the margins and scheme up innovative stuff and draft well in the later rounds and build a deep roster, and a couple things go your way, and all of a sudden you won a super bowl.

In the NBA you can do all those things and if one of your guys didn't get blessed with the "all time great" gene, you will never win, sorry.

 

I think about this quite often and have for years. I believe it is a realization of lesser players having a larger impact. The other major sports of football, baseball, and hockey you have multiples of more players on each team as well as starting on each team. In the NBA, you have a minute amount of players, and a much smaller sphere of players that give you a real chance. As you say, you can somewhat scheme and coach your way more to victory when you have sets of larger teams and starters. That said, I believe as you get these numbers to a smaller and smaller set, it results in true separation of stardom having a much more outsized effect on the outcome.

 

They have to expand the rosters to 18 player plus 2 Two way contracts.....with all the Injuries creeping up.

 

That said, how many injuries are honest injuries in the NBA? The road to Wemby-vana is paved with DNP.

 

This is a team that was supposed to win the possession battle with Fred not turning the ball over and Adams crushing the glass. Both of those are gone, and now they need to find a new way to win, while not playing KD 40 minutes in a non-playoff game.