It doesn't have to be unwatchable basketball

[pickaxe]

Just want to make a point here based on the past 2 years. When we started the Melo era we began it with a bang,
and improved each year. The weakness was the same for all 5 seasons....defense when the moment
meant the difference between being an elite team and an also-ran.

But we didn't carry ourselves with this, "Oh this is going to be bad basketball for a few years."

We got behind Karl's teams and enjoyed the basketball we were seeing as far as we possibly could. There was a lot of bad mixed in, but you wouldn't know it with our optimism toward what our ball club could be
"with just one or two tweaks" or just with an Iverson or just with a Billups.

Whatever we enter into next, we need to make sure the plan is solid and the coach can come in and win games without excuses. We can only tweak a workable product. Hunt gives us a workable product. Let's not change up thngs that aren't broken with this team.

The Spurs were a great litmus test again as they always are. This team is capable of winning games, but then will run into the Spurs and it took one superstar in Tony Parker finding just a few holes and we went down by about 10 points. That's where we left off before we went with Billups in '09.

The facts are clear: defense in key moments, resilience past even its current threshold, nailing even more clutch shots, having control over games more often. Sagging at the wrong moment is a weakness. Letting a little thing derail the defensive game....that's the weakness.

I'm all for running. I'm all for being smart about energy, and also pushing the pace constantly. If we do that, we can't ignore when those sagging moments occur. We can run with this team. We can make one trade of three guys for one superstar.....what we can't do is start pushing the pace and ignore attention to detail on our defensive schemes.