bwgood77 wrote:Ghost of Kleine wrote:
Well! He sounds convincing here. Obviously, and really no big surprise to anyone either that he's just not a vocal leader nor the type of strong competitive presence that teams' need to have consistent accountability and direction. I love KD as a player, but I truly wonder IF he's most effective as a complimentary 2nd or possibly even a 3rd option superstar closer playing a supplemental role as a silent sniper to a strong/vocal first or 2nd option star?? Unfortunately which Booker is not either!
I wonder if that's why on the warriors, team he was most successful in that type of role deferring to Curry and Klay, but also in having a physical and very vocal somewhat abrasive but gritty personality like Green that'd call out his teammates and hold players accountable. That situation allowed Durant to quietly pick and choose his shots, contribution, etc in a more low pressure role. Unfortunately my overall point here is that with Booker also not being a vocal leader, nor either of KD or Booker having that strong somewhat gritty killer mentality, and really with only Beal showing limited flashes of being that vocal communicative leader ironically as our 3rd option,
We're honestly very very unlikely to realize our initial stated goals of a championship, or even reaching the finals with our current roster and far more likely to spend our duration of our very limited window in this ill-planned super team experiment underachieving significantly in comparison to our desired outcome and seriously need to establish a threshhold deadline (next seasons' trade deadline...... hint hint)! for a contingency plan to pivot to another alternative strategy to sustain our competitive viability and to also hopefully recoup some modicum of assets to utilize towards supplementing or upgrading our roster around Booker and Beal.
But this current roster construction as is, just doesn't have the strong leadership, strong physical and mental fortitudeor even the depth and/or young energizing talent (aside from Bol) to sustain any legitimate long term success towards getting to a championship outcome.
Wow, "hopefully we get a chance to play in the playoffs?" That's not really what you want to hear out of your superstar. I guess he's hedging his bets and accepting reality. I wonder if he is going to ask for another trade.
YEP!
Not too inspiring to hear at all, I agree that he's probably accepting reality as well as Booker too even, which might explain the somewhat puzzling lack of urgency/ effort and overall facial expressions and attitudes trickiling dwn from the stars throughout the roster, wheerein they just play like they're ultimately just going through the motions until the end of season, not really giving a "sh** " and just figure they'll try again with better anticipated outcome next season?? It does just add up to me, as to why you don't see the profound urgency, or even the professionalism to put in a full games' effort if they already have a consensus mentality that this isn't their year, and they're just pacing themselves to really get to the offseason for another shot at hopefully a better shot. It just really sucks if that is the underlying truth considering what they're getting paid and what this franchise invested cumulatively for this to happen.
Regardless of outcome, the effort and urgency should always be there to represent their team, their organization, and their city! otherwise, they can't take their millions and their apathy elsewhere.
