Ferry Avenue wrote:FireMorey wrote:People need to be careful not to fall into the recency bias trap with Dallas. Dallas is not that great of a team. You do not want to construct a roster based off of their model. This is just a weird year for the playoffs.
In the NFL last year the Kansas City Chiefs had a pedestrian regular season for them, and then they turned on the juice and won the Super Bowl because they have the key ingredients of winning in the current NFL. Likewise Dallas has the key ingredients of winning in the current NBA.
They aren't winning because of "key ingredients" they are winning for a variety of factors. A lot of players are playing over their heads. They've had an easier road than other teams(ie getting OKC as a 1 seed when OKC was not a true 1 seed and were not quite ready to make a Finals run), getting Minny when their best players are going through awful shooting slumps. Last year Dallas didn't even make the playoffs with this duo.
There are no concrete ingredients to win a title, you can win with really any ingredients as long as the players are good and luck falls your way. The Sixers have had the ingredients multiple times over, the luck factor just hasn't fallen their way yet with injuries.
Last year Denver had the "key ingredients" too and this year they got beat by a Minny team that struggles to score. So, they didn't have the key ingredients this year with virtually the same exact team? It's just this year the circumstances didn't go their way and they didn't execute on the court the level they did last year.