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SteveNashidis wrote:Ishbia needs to protect the team from bad officiating. We can't tolerate what's happening. Turner's hit on Beal was brutal, and from that point on, the game's dynamics shifted in terms of physicality.

Agree! But that's why it's ALSO important to have a physical enforcer type that play smashmouth basketball or possibly even goon up the opposing players IF they choose to be extra physical and basically bludeon or mug our skilled but very finesse players as a strategy! These teams have been employing this strategy more and more knowing that they most likely won't be held accountable anyways by the refs or the league in general (outside of extreme outlier examples like Green on Nurkic). But there HAS TO BE some sort of accountability, penalty or consequences for the opposition to at least make them think twice about assaulting our players. or straight bullying us.

We're a soft team that's very skilled but as constructed, every team in the league has the template to beat us by simply being extra physical with us and basically bully us with their athleticism and physicality. We need countermeasures because currently as constructed we're "the little kid on the playground trying to fight the big bully" that just keeps knocking us around! We need to add elite athleticism, size, physicality and players that are known to be enforcers to dissuade these actions from our opponents. Players like Pat Bev, DeMarcus Cousins or Dwight Howard, D.,raymond Green, Isiah Stewart, Montrez Harrell, maybe even consider bringing in Lance Stephenson on a vet min? But players that are tough, gritty, physical and not afraid to be confrontational aggressive maybe even have a little craziness to thm like the Morri did or like an Artest or Rodman, etc. That's what this team is missing the most that will keep us from winning a championship for being too soft and passive when things slow down and get very physical in the playoffs.