drosestruts wrote:DuckIII wrote:drosestruts wrote:A higher seed was there for the taking, this team's talented enough to have moved up in the standings, they just don't care enough.
You gotta want it, and I'm just not sure that's this teams identity.
Dude, god love your optimism and the respectful way you express it. I’m often probably too harsh with my responses due to my extreme frustration with how this FO has ruined my favorite sports team for what will likely prove out to be a full decade.
But at some point doesn’t something have to click that this team is nowhere near as good as you think it is from a pure talent standpoint? You are blaming the guts of the freaking players now? Who have so badly outplayed their quality this year gutting out tons of games they had no business winning on paper?
Look at the level of player we are relying on off the bench. We are playing a point guard at power forward. We have no interior defense. No three point shooters.
We’re not good bro. These players are giving us fans everything they have and more in a virtually impossible situation. And now you are blaming THEM?
I think that's the thing though - the inconsistency.
You can point to wins we had where we did win not on talent but on hard play and effort.
You can also point to losses where we are the more talented team even with our injuries, and feel the loss came due to a lack of effort - the Detroit and Washington losses being the glaring examples.
We did to the Wolves tonight what the Nets and Wizards did to us. We came out swinging got a lead lost the lead and then won the game.
We are set up to lose every game due to the 3pt disparity.
DDR usually takes the first quarter off to, in his words, “feel out the game.” We get down double digits and we only come back and win if we get hot from 3 or the other team beats themselves.
This is the theme of the year.
AK needs to let DDR walk and hope Pat Lavine and Lonzo are healthy next year because we could be at least an average 3 pt shooting team and would win a lot more games.