Hal14 wrote:Captain_Caveman wrote:This is really where the lack of depth gets scary.
Lack of depth? We're the deepest team in the league. Only other teams even in the conversation are clippers, knicks and maybe t-wolves.
I haven't heard anyone say we lack depth since it was the preseason. Our bench has been awesome all season. Best bench net rating in the league and we went 21-4 in games without KP.
Captain_Caveman wrote:Even if we just had Grant Williams to give us 24 minutes off the bench for a couple of games, I'd feel more comfortable.
Who gets those minutes now? Hauser? Kornet? Tillman? Don't like any of those options when the chips are down. Not one bit.
Oh boy. We're still bringing up Grant Williams? Hauser was the *much* better player this season than Grant Williams, while making 1/6 of his salary.
Mavericks fans were constantly tweeting throughout the season about how horrible Grant was, how they wanted him off the team, how it was the worst trade in franchise history. He couldn't defend a chair this season and was air-balling shots in the paint.
How quickly we forget Hauser hitting all those shots in game 1 vs Miami this series to help us win that game. His defense has been solid too.
Let me just preface by saying my preference is for both of us to stay on our own sides of the sandbox here. I have never initiated a discussion with you and never will. Nothing personal, but I just haven't found your takes to be something that I need to be concerned with.
On to basketball, I feel like there is regular season depth and playoff depth. Could give a **** less about anyone on our bench past Horford and to an extent Pritchard. Hats off to some of them for being innings pitchers in the regular season, but they are not championship material.
I do think we have the best odds at a title, although it is pretty wide open and more open now with KP's injury. All teams have weaknesses, but IMO ours are now more more acute with KP out and debilitated for an uncertain period of time. It puts more pressure on our coaching, our depth, and our ability to respond to adversity under pressure.
Best first step for us is to put Miami down in Game 5.
As to Grant, whatever. I do know that he hammerfisted Giannis in a Game 7, which is more than soft ass Hauser is ever going to do.