RealGM

Thank you all for your participation in the RealGM Post-Mortem Series. This is the fourth and final segment of the result of the polls. The results are definitely not perfect. Some polls got nearly 100 respondents. Others, less than 10. That's definitely an issue. Still, you get a good general idea of how RealGM felt about the direction of teams. The number represents the percentage of people who voted teams were rising, treadmill, or waning.


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Other results in the series:
Post-Mortem Results I: GM Confidence Meter
Post-Mortem Results II: Coaching Confidence Meter
Post-Mortem Results III: Performance Compared to Expectations

The Pacers being universally considered a treadmill team is exactly what I expected to see

You should have replaced treadmill with maintaining or staying the same.

Statlanta wrote:You should have replaced treadmill with maintaining or staying the same.

It's a fair point. Treadmill has a negative connotation, but of course some teams are likely to remain at the same level in a good way (Milwaukee, for example).

looks about right

ElectricMayhem wrote:

Statlanta wrote:You should have replaced treadmill with maintaining or staying the same.

It's a fair point. Treadmill has a negative connotation, but of course some teams are likely to remain at the same level in a good way (Milwaukee, for example).

make a fourth category because there is a definite distinction between treadmill and maintain

Harry Garris wrote:The Pacers being universally considered a treadmill team is exactly what I expected to see

In fairness, the Pacers poll had about 4 voters.

I can’t really argue with that assessment, excepting that I think a treadmill/contender binary is overly simplistic, nor do I believe every team not exactly stacked to contend should immediately blow it up and tank.

IMF wrote:

Harry Garris wrote:The Pacers being universally considered a treadmill team is exactly what I expected to see

In fairness, the Pacers poll had about 4 voters.

I can’t really argue with that assessment, excepting that I think a treadmill/contender binary is overly simplistic, nor do I believe every team not exactly stacked to contend should immediately blow it up and tank.

There's only one trophy every year, a league where that's seen as the only worthwhile goal would be horrible to watch since every team without a top 5 player would be blown up.

Hawks/Grizz finals confirmed

Ice Trae wrote:Hawks/Grizz finals confirmed

Really brings a new meaning to "The South Will Rise Again."

Ice Trae wrote:Hawks/Grizz finals confirmed

2026 NBA Finals.