Embiid-MVP wrote:Plus I just watched a Heat team that wasn't suppose to be that great turn out to be pretty damn awesome. Don't count us out yet. We brought in Doc and Morey for a reason. Let's go get it
I think about this a lot. They went into the 2018 draft
with zero picks, off of a 44-38 (6th seed) season with an aging roster after getting blitzed by Ben + Redick/Cov/Marco/Ersan running wide receiver routes in a quick work ECQF series.
At the time on the books they had:
30 year old James Johnson on a 3/$45M
Hassan Whiteside on a 4/$98M...
Dion Waiters on a 4/$52M
Tyler Johnson on a 4/$50M
No stars, no draft picks, bleak future, and Riley (with time) alleviated his mistakes, cleared those bad contracts and modernized his philosophy after watching how we slayed them with shooting. Expecting a quick fix is naive, but I have full faith that with a short hiatus this team can be right back in the thick of things contending with anyone. I'm so glad Daryl Morey is my GM.