Since we lost to Denver in Round 1…

[thinktank]

Your thoughts:

[urinesane]

The Nuggets are for real and the Wolves when healthy are the toughest matchup for them on paper. The difference is experience with each other and system, those two things can only be helped by consistency.

The only thing that makes sense for longterm success is consistency and running it back this season (then adjusting based on what data they get during the season). If that means trading Gobert/KAT at the deadline or next offseason, so be it, but trading in KAT at a pawnshop out of desperation will not lead to success in the longterm (which is what most people are trying to sell) or short term.

I think they owe it to themselves to not give up on the big swing they took for Gobert and instead see how the players/coaches adapt in the offseason. Many that hated the move will think it's doubling down on something doomed to fail, but if you bail now it 100% is a failure. If you don't give up after a bit of adversity, you might actually end up succeeding (which is how you achieve all difficult things).

[thinktank]

The Nuggets are for real and the Wolves when healthy are the toughest matchup for them on paper. The difference is experience with each other and system, those two things can only be helped by consistency.

The only thing that makes sense for longterm success is consistency and running it back this season (then adjusting based on what data they get during the season). If that means trading Gobert/KAT at the deadline or next offseason, so be it, but trading in KAT at a pawnshop out of desperation will not lead to success in the longterm (which is what most people are trying to sell) or short term.

I think they owe it to themselves to not give up on the big swing they took for Gobert and instead see how the players/coaches adapt in the offseason. Many that hated the move will think it's doubling down on something doomed to fail, but if you bail now it 100% is a failure. If you don't give up after a bit of adversity, you might actually end up succeeding (which is how you achieve all difficult things).

Excellent post, sir.

I’m of this same mindset.

One thing I noticed when I watched teams play Denver is that two quality bigs are necessary to beat them. One C just can’t guard Jokic the whole game. He’s just too good of an all-around player.

Denver isn’t going away and I like that we have quality Cs on our roster (and maybe, for one year, we’ll have three quality Cs).

Of course, the downside to this is it doesn’t work, and we have to trade a C on a huge deal, netting us some subpar assets.

But I think we have to cross that bridge when we come to it. Smarter to try and make it work now, with smaller changes on the periphery of our roster.