MrDollarBills wrote:Prokorov wrote:MrDollarBills wrote:This is officially a disaster and there is definitely some garbage that is going on behind the scenes that is going to come out.
I am sorry, but the team was doing well up until it was announced that Kyrie was coming back. Then starting in the Philly game, everything just went right out of the window. Everything we were doing well just stopped. What the hell is going on????
This is just false.
** 6-3 before Kyrie's Annoucement. (including barely scraping by depleted bad teams like toronto and minny)
** 3-1 Immediately following Kyrie's Announcement (only loss was to the magic with Mils/galloway/thomas/duke/blake starting).
** Harden's 3 best games of the year following the announcement
This went south when Joe Harris got hurt. We are 14-10 since Harris injury (12-3 prior to the injury). Dead last in threes, bottom 8 in offense
Again, Bash Kyrie for being out if you want, but lets not create some false narrative that this teams issues started once he came back. We have been flat out bad since Harris got hurt.
Something happened between December 27th (end of the successful LA trip) and December 30th, the date of the game versus Philly where we suddenly fell apart. To act like the team has been falling apart since November 29th, the date that Harris' surgery was announced is just not true. We went 9-3 since that time to the return home after Christmas.
Since the team came back from LA, we've been complete crap with a 2-5 record.
Not going to say it's Kyrie's fault, but something is going on here. We were navigating and managing wins even with a covid wrecked roster. Now we look like a complete mess with our roster nearly complete again. The effort has been bad, the coaching even worse. What is going on in that locker room?
we have looked bad since the 29th. a .500 team with bad offense and defense. we blew the same leads to the same awful decimated teams (toronto, minny, knicks, rockets) only we eeked those out with KD closing. Difference the past 7 or so games is that KD is toast now after being run into the ground and doesnt have the stamina left and pulling out those late wins after blowing leads is falling short vs. him eeking it out.
our 3point shooting and offense since joe went down are putrid. go rewatch the minny game or the toronto game or the rockets game and tell me those are any different then the past 3-4 we just played