Sunlight wrote:You play with KD and Beal and the opponents double you. How can you still keep losing important games? The team is either built wrong or your level was valued wrong when you got the super max contract.
Might be a bit of both honestly because yes we added stars. But the reality around those stars is:
KD-
is 37 and nearing the end of his career. He's still amazing at times and in most games, but father time is undefeated and the longer we hold him, the bigger the implied risk involved becomes towards age related value dropoff. At some point in the next couple of years, he's going to fall off the cliff just like everyone else!
BEAL-
At one time was a top end superstar scoring talent. But constant injuries and durability issues have stolen that from him. I feel bad for him because I think he's actually a really good guy and wants badly to play, sometimes overdoing it and then getting hurt more from excessive reckless compensating play. But he got paid for what he was years ago, and is also no longer that player unfortunately.
BOOKER-
Booker is a beloved faithful to this franchise star player but absolutely not a superstar franchise level option. We've tried to make a Robin level B option into a Batman A level option and it's just too much for his true abilities. Booker is great, but he's ultimately a streaky Mitch Richmond/ Steve Smith style player. When he's on, it's amazing!! But when he's not, it's very underwhelming.
So ultimately we're a soft overtly non athletic non physical team that relies on outshooting our opponents, and has faux superstar talent that at one point, could've/ would've dominated opponents.
But now that window has passed us. So when we're not shooting extremely well, we really having no other dynamic aspects to fall back on.
We've added decent but not great supplementary talent, but again are basically a " one trick pony" team that if you take away our shooting and rythm/ movement, you shot us down.
We need multiple high end physical elite athletes to create lateral gravity but don't have it. Our aged stars also don't care enough to change anything. It's a failed experiment over multiple years but many are in bitter denial of our reality that keeps slapping us in the face!
And our rebuild only grows longer and more painful as a result of ignoring this fact.
