To me the Bud Hawks teams are the text book example of getting punished perception wise by overachieving in the regular season. They went about as far as they should have in the postseason after playing a little above their heads in the regular season.DingleJerry wrote:paulpressey25 wrote:DingleJerry wrote:So you think Bud did not maximize that teams talent? Team won 60 games, I guess they should've broke the record or something? Best player Joe Johnson should have beaten peak LBJ on a superteam?
The argument for Bud that speaks to me, is look at all the multi-time NBA champs.
They all had cores that had at least two or three HOF (or HOF caliber players) on the squad AND had good role players.
Lakers - Shaq and Kobe and then Kobe and Pau
GSW - Klay, Steph, Draymond
Spurs - Duncan, Kawhi, Parker, Manu (and Robinson on the first few)
Heat - LeBron, Wade, Bosh
All the other 'one-time' champs didn't have the multiple HOF'ers.
Bucks - Giannis
Raptors - Strong team, but then Kawhi left
Pistons - Strong team, only won one
Cav's - LeBron and maybe Kyrie, but Kyrie imploded and LeBron left
Mavs - Dirk
Hawks team--0 HOFers imo. Johnson did get to 20K points so maybe would get in eventually but probably shouldn't. Horfords NBA resume does not warrant it, but might get in due to the college championships. The other renowned All Stars with their 15 and 12 ppg avgs that year surprisingly have no chance.
You can do the same thing you did with 60+ win teams and basically get the same results
Chris Paul's teams had a similar thing where he was such a little psycho about every game his teams over performed the regular season and didn't have that extra gear in the playoffs.
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