god shammgod wrote:HEZI wrote:god shammgod wrote:the fact that almost everyone, who analyzes these things for a living, expects the nets to be the same or even slightly worse next year without durant just proves what i'm saying.
You are aware that they are banking their success on when KD does return, right? Regardless of whether they should have gotten him or not, I'm sure everybody with a brain is fully aware that they don't expect to know the maximum potential of their team until KD is officially in the picture.
alright listen, i like you. but i'm done explaining the same thing over and over.
forget kevin durant because he's not playing next year
if you have a .500 team that makes the playoffs. and you add kyrie irving, who's pretty damn good. and you're still .500, as most models project, it was an illusion that he joined a playoff team. he is the playoff team. that was the point.
now i'll explain how it corresponds to the knicks. if the knicks are .500 with randle, morris & payton. if they are the reason for that record. but then they let them go to sign free agents, then it too was an illusion.
and again, i didn't say it couldn't work. i just said it was an illusion.
ok, i now consider this conversation finished. there are no winners or losers. it was just a failure to communicate. and now we're just done. please. thank you.
So when KD joined the Warriors, he really didn't join a 73 win team, that was an illusion because Harrison Barnes and Andrew Bogut weren't there?
Stop it Sham, if you want to say them losing DLo changes things then ok I get that, but don't go bringing up guys like Demarre Carrol, Jared Dudley and RHJ when your whole point was about DLo was the reason they made the playoffs. If that's the case then don't be bringing up these articles about them losing these 6 players or whatever and how that changes things. You can't pick and choose when to value them just to support your argument.