InToTheHoop wrote:JayTWill wrote:3toheadmelo wrote:We upgraded offensively but we put a bunch of bad defensive pieces together. Doesn’t matter what scheme you use, if you build a team that has one good defender (OG) in the starting lineup then you’re just dooming yourself. We’re gonna use Thibs as our scapegoat like we did to Mike Woodson and go on another coaching drought. I’ve seen this story before.
Last year January we had great offense with elite defense and beat a bunch of contenders. It was a great balance. It’s too bad we went in a different direction.
What direction would you have gone in knowing iHart would have walked and Mitch would still be out to injury right now?
How surprising that he is ignoring your question. He keeps comparing the current team with the January version of last year to blame the trade when in reality the trade had nothing to do with losing Hartenstein to OKC and Mitch via injury. Without the trade we would probably play Randle at the 5. Our rim protection would be elite lol.
Is this years team better than last years? Maybe not. But that is not because we made the trade. Take away Hartenstein and Mitch from last years team and we probably would have missed the playoffs.
No one is ignoring schit. My bad I’m not on here every day. Y’all really weird. Ive already said mad times what we should’ve done to mitigate the loss of Ihart which you conviently missed to type up this trash. Guys like Nick Richards, Myles Turner, Ayton are all guys who we could’ve gotten that are holding the opponents to a lower FG% than their average at the rim unlike KAT who has a DFG% of 70% at the rim letting opponents shoot 5% better, the worst rim protecting center in the league. And it’s not just KAT at the 5 that made us worse, giving up a major haul for Mikal who can’t spread the floor since his shot is broken and plays zero defense was an awful move. Now we also have Hart in the starting lineup who’s an average defender at best, while teams are ignoring on him on offense to double up on Brunson and KAT. Y’all not ready for that convo either though.
Anyone that believed a defensive trio of Brunson, KAT and Mikal would be a finals contender is pretty hilarious quite honestly. Me, sham, e-Balla told y’all this but yall ignored it cause yall only see talent on paper. Oh well. Enjoy the treadmill that you guys asked for.
