Post#1746 » by Tim_Hardawayy » Thu Apr 24, 2025 6:19 pm
Sandwich analogy, warning to any vegans/vegetarians you won't like this so apologies in advance.
I think any good team is built like a sandwich. The centerpiece, while some will argue, is clearly the meat. This is what makes it taste good, where most of the nutrition comes from. If you could only have one part of the sandwich, you keep the meat, because it will sustain you. On a great team, this is your #1 option, the guy everything revolves around.
The next most important part is probably the buns. While they aren't as nutritious, and you can technically get by without them, they hold everything together, and they make the sandwich work as a whole.
After that, the next piece is probably the cheese. This is the perfect compliment to a good sandwich, and while there are some grilled cheese enjoyers out there, you don't want just a grilled cheese if you're older than 10 or younger than 80, you want a delicious sandwich, so the cheese needs to know its place as the compliment to the meat.
Finally, you have your lettuce, tomato, condiments etc. These are all complimentary and pretty useless on their own, but greatly add to an already delicious sandwich.
On our team right now, Bam is buns. He's never going to be the centerpiece but with his defense and attitude he holds everything together. Tyler used to think he was meat when he was only cheese, now he's OK with being cheese but being forced to be meat, which is why the fit isn't quite there yet. He makes us a good grilled cheese, but we've got no protein in our diet now, its just not enough, and on a better team he's the cheese next to the turkey or roast beef.
Everyone else on the roster is side pieces, but Wiggins is paid like cheese when he's more lettuce or tomato. That's why people are upset with him, he's not bad, he's a good compliment, but he's not enough for what this team needs. This team has enough lettuce tomato and condiments, it needs a good piece of meat and/or more cheese.
The key this offseason is finding a way to turn some of our extra lettuce tomato and condiments into a piece of meat. Or possibly adding more cheese and hoping Tyler can become that meat. Bam as the buns sounds like a diss but in a way it makes him arguably the most irreplaceable player on the current roster, I don't want to give him up and end up with wonderbread that gets stuck to the roof of your mouth.
I hope someone out there enjoys this food analogy.
