Prokorov wrote:MGrand15 wrote:Anyone that thought last night's crazy win would shift the momentum of the team at all was dead wrong. Team was 100% not interested in playing at all. Disgusting effort.
Kenny's really gonna have to re-evaluate everything on this team. Since the all star break, we've been terrible. Honestly starting to feel like Kenny is losing the team. Has nothing to do with Xs and Os when you lose like this. This was a casual blowout.
the idea that "kenny lost the team" or anything like that is also nonsense. and just highlights again how this board is just full of the most emotional, knee-jerk fans of any board on this forum but a longshot. The idea that this team is somehow different after the all-star break is also absurd. This team is playing the exact same basketball with the exact same high effort, with the exact same buy-in to the system and coaching. since the ASB:
-Overtime loss to philly
-Blowout win over the hornets
-2 point loss to orlando (lost on final possession)
-4 point loss to wiz (chance to tie on final possession)
-Blowout loss to the hawks
-3 point loss to miami (chance to tie/win on final possession)
-Overtime win over boston, huge comeback
-blowout loss to memphis
Since the break we have played 5 playoff teams. 4 of those were super tight, 2 went to overtime, and we beat boston. We had a blowout win over the hornets and loss to atlanta. and then the obvious loss on 2nd of a back to back with travel after an OT game.
yeah the atlanta loss in that fashion is inexcusable, but outside of that we have played extremely competitive against very good teams. The only real letdown is kyrie is hurt and we have no one we can count on to close those games out.
like did you expect us to go 5-0 vs. playoff team with no Kyrie?
You see what I was talking about now? It really sucks. I loved Kenny and while I was disappointed with certain moves he made - I felt that the good outweighed the bad. But I saw the bad signs. From the players to the coaches, no one was happy.
