og15 wrote:wassuphomeboy wrote:MartinToVaught wrote:They're a very poor example, given how awful they've been in the playoffs. The team we had was flaming out in the playoffs with a decently high seed every year, and you're arguing for more of the same.
Way to leave out the part about CP3/Blake/DJ being better players, which is much more important to the argument, but I probably shouldn't expect that at this point. Carry on trying to talk yourself into a championship without players like CP3
MTV doesn't like Paul due to a Griffin-Paul conflict thing and the worse Paul is the better Griffin supposedly looks, so you have to take that into account. Obviously players like CP3, that type of talent are needed to win a championship. For this specific team though Paul wasn't going to help us win, not due to lack of ability, but because we wouldn't be able to field the right talent. You can say "well look at Houston", but the big difference in Houston is that Harden is a far superior player to Blake. You could even argue that Capela for the current way the league functions is better than DJ. He's not as big or strong and can't rebound as well, but he's more mobile, he has a much better touch and better ball skills, and therefore is a far superior scorer.
In hindsight, just like Houston, we lucked out of having to deal with Melo. Hindsight is 20/20, but seeing how adamant Melo has been about changing his game, that is in contrast to some other guys who willingly do so, we should see ourselves as lucky that we didn't end up trying to make 33+ year old Melo into a championship impact player.
are you trying to tell us that not getting anthony didn't end up being a massive mistake? and we wouldn't just be hanging back and counting rings as we dominate with our 3-headed monster of cp3/blake/melo? all while golden state crumbles to oblivion without stephen curry?
cause people in this thread would try to convince otherwise.
