Calinks wrote:We really blew some massive opportunities. I cant be mad at this point its who we are. If they flop in the play in, I will be very disappointed but cool with it, it just means to me that we need to make some more changes and the front office will be motivated. Sometimes you need to experience some bad things to make a positive change.
Or we could do the smart thing and clean out all the underlings who pushed for the Gobert trade starting with Dell Demps, and expand the duties of those who were against it.
All it would have taken would have been swapping D-Lo out for a different veteran PG and not making any other major moves in the offseason and we could at minimum be sitting where Sacramento is right now as a 3-4-5 seed.
This year was a giant lost opportunity.
Even with all the injuries, dysfunction and Gobert not really working out we should have a minimum of 5 more wins right now.
47 wins wasn't good enough for the 6 seed last year, and 44 (maybe even 43) would have gotten us the 5 this year.
We barely got the 8 seed with 48 wins just a few years ago.
Cracking the top 6 is going to be harder in future years.
LAL, LAC, GSW, NO all also had key players miss tons of games to injury this year.
OKC, NO, Utah are all loaded with young players and tons of draft capital and are only going to get better.
This year we saw LAC, LAL, GSW starting to show their age a little bit and Phoenix is older too, and Dallas regressed a lot after losing Brunson and taking a big swing (like us) that actually made them worse.
But those are all major markets that will have an easier time reloading.
And then we also have to also hope Wenbanyama ends up in the eastern conference.
But at least if we suck next year we are guaranteed to have our own 1st round pick. That won't be true again until '28.
