D Nice wrote:What a terrible post. Your lack of understanding is incredible. That, combined with your join date and avatar, makes it pretty clear you're lying in the OP, and are merely a Sun surrogate gritting your teeth and cheering for this team so your boy get's a ring.
Can't believe some of you guys are engaging this trash on an intellectual level. It's ridiculous.
No it's you that don't understand. Here are some facts:
""In the 31 years since the 1980 season, the NBA championship has been won by one of the two No. 1 seeds 23 times, or 74 percent of the time. Of those, it has been won by the No. 1 overall team 15 times, or 48 percent.
In the other nine Finals, five were won by a two seed, three by a three seed and only one team has won with lower than a three seed. That distinction goes to the 1995 Houston Rockets, who won with a six seed."
This team lacks passion and emotion. James worthy says it all the time, and he's right. I watch every game on Time Warner Cable. What's to understand except they are losing to teams they are far better than, as is with injuries? What's to understand when they decide not to play defense and give half-ass efforts? I've watched every game. It has to start with leadership and each individual being accountable. Kobe says it's HIS team so why can't we keep him accountable for spewing crap to the media or not elevating his teammates to his level? If he can't lead then maybe Nash should start taking over as the vocal leader...but he can't do that because then feelings and egos would be hurt right?
What I see is a bunch of laid back attitudes on the court, not giving 100%. It's like they are in cruise control. If you want to contend you have to be a top 3 seed or above for a realistic shot...the stats and history prove this. That means they have to start winning now, and have some 8-10 game win streak stretches to get into that top 3 seed bracket. You can say you are "built for the playoffs" but what then when you are 6th seed and are down 0-2 in the first round because you don't have home court advantage.
I tell you what, it is panic mode if this team plans to realistically contend for a ring.
If they just want to make the playoffs...then it's not panic mode as you state. I for one believed this team wanted to be contenders.