Danchan wrote:dsquared wrote:
Considering how many times we play terrible east teams we definitely have the better line-up more often that not. If we were in the west I agree with you, but the analysis of getting constantly out-coached and out-planned against inferior teams is pretty spot on.
what's your definition of "better line-up"
draft position? talent? potential? raw ability? chemistry? actual result?
I look at teams in the bottom of the east, most of them dont lose to raptors in terms of talent. They are bottom because they dont pan out and faces the exact same problem you think the raptors faces.
Heck, look at Miami, they have Wade, Bosh, Deng, whiteside. you actually think the raptors have a better roster on paper?
You might have the "watch a lot of raptors and neglect to watch other teams" syndrome that cause you to be really familiar with the players thus overrating them.
I've watched a ton of basketball as I used to be heavy bettor and play a bunch of DFS/fantasy basketball so I'm familar with every team's roster.
There's no formula for rating a roster, it's very subjective. I mostly just look at if the team has any superstars (reffing bias?), the chemistry, match-up problems they could impose on us, and the team's playoff potential(2nd round exit? ECF?).
Now I agree with Miami, but that's it (you could add Indiana once PG comes back). There's no east team below us that I consider to have a better roster.
I won't hesitate to say we have the 4th best roster in the east, the problem is the way it's being utilized it makes it look much worse than that. This ties in to the original point, the main problem with our team is the coaching, planning and failure to put our players in a position where we can get the best out of them (ie underutilizing Val, overutilizing volume shooting players with bad %s).
