weneeda2guard wrote:_txchilibowl_ wrote:Am I the only one enjoying watching this team?
This is what I have been waiting on. I don't believe in tanking and the idea our franchise guy is in the draft anymore. I believe in finding players putting them together finding a system and continuing to flip the roster until something begins to click and winning begins to happen. Then once that winning takes place find the holes and fill them without disrupting your core.
Right now it appears we have at least found the core that will compete and get some winning going. Now it's about the next phase, identifying the holes and filling them, adding quality players to help catapult us into a contending team. Then once you get the contending team it's simply about match ups and luck. Just how the NBA works which is why out of all these years the league has been in existence its still only a handful of franchises that have won titles.
Interesting. I don't think you can really luck your way to a trophy, most times - the champ usually ends up being one of three teams you could have named before the season. It's not like you can usually just be a legit 48 win team and beat the Nuggets or the Warriors or Spurs in their prime in a best of seven finals. Recently Miami is about the closest I can immediately think of to "matchups and luck," but I think most people feel they are a special case - a veteran team springing from an all-time great infrastructure that doesn't care about the regular season and pulls this magic act repeatedly, but (so far, in this iteration) they never get over the final hump. Even getting that far is a minor miracle - you have to have Riley and Spo, I think. The fact that only a (big) handful of teams have won NBA titles speaks against the importance of matchups and luck, not for it - if luck was such a big part, there would be more parity of championships. You don't really get a 1985 Villanova championship in the NBA. That sounds more like the NFL (Eli Giants, for example), or especially MLB (Nationals, 2014 Giants). Winning 90 games every year in baseball and sneaking in is a pretty good way to eventually end up with some championships.
Maybe the Raptors were close to matchups and luck, in a way, if you consider "luck" as having Durant and Klay get hit by snipers, and Kawhi not only joining the team briefly, but having that shot bounce six times and go in. But, even they had the second best record in the league.