Blow It Up
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Not really? Winning a title is mostly luck with injuries and having the good fortune of having a top 5 player on your team. I would never have called the Sixers the favorite in any season, but they were certainly on the short list of teams talented enough with good "enough" high end stars to actually get there. They're certainly closer than we've ever been in 20 years.
Right, but they went to a drastically extreme measure and basically took a total dump of 5 seasons of basketball and said we aren't even going to try. When you do that, and expect fans to still buy tickets so they can see you when it pays off, second round of the playoffs is unacceptable. The Blazers (a team we should at minimum be in their shoes if we had competent drafting) drafted Dame and hit the WCF in the same timeframe.
I'm not comparing them to us, because we refuse to do the bare minimum and attempt a rebuild of any kind.
I'm not comparing them to us, because we refuse to do the bare minimum and attempt a rebuild of any kind.
Shooting the ball when your team absolutely needs you to - in order to have a chance late in ball games - is team ball as well. If we do somehow acquire Ben Simmons, he’s gonna have to snap out of it. Defense isn’t good enough for me, although it’d be a nice change of pace around here. Idk, I’m just saying the grass certainly isn’t always greener.
I still think he’s been dealt an awful hand by Vlade.
Nobody wants Buddy or Bagley, and while Barnes has value, I don’t think he’s going to nab us a player that will catapult us into playoff contention.
But then the question is, why not tank?
Well, Vivek. That’s why. Firing Monte will solve nothing. We can only hope Vivek’s son will be a better owner/gm when he inherits the team in twenty years or wherever, otherwise we’re in for a dynastic era of suckitude.
Nobody wants Buddy or Bagley, and while Barnes has value, I don’t think he’s going to nab us a player that will catapult us into playoff contention.
But then the question is, why not tank?
Well, Vivek. That’s why. Firing Monte will solve nothing. We can only hope Vivek’s son will be a better owner/gm when he inherits the team in twenty years or wherever, otherwise we’re in for a dynastic era of suckitude.
Awful hand? Not the best for sure but the problem now is that Monte in many ways has only made it worse by not being aggressive. Anything Monte could have controlled in theory such as firing Walton before he took the team as far down as it could go were left wide open. He let it run things down way farther than necessary. Even if not his fault, Monte dangled Buddy all the way out the door and then just let it sit when it fell through. Can't do that. You fired the bullet, now you have to follow through in some other way. He ran back a team under a coach with no history of success. He signed players like Harkless to a 2nd year. Why? That will actually potentially hurt this next summer if he needs to clear some space. He started his own build by creating a lottery pick 3 headed PG monster and proclaimed Mitchell can play 4 positions, which he hasn't even forced his coach to pull off.
So it’s McNair’s fault nobody wants Buddy? A player that is elite from 3, but complete trash at all other facets of basketball? If LeBron didn’t tank the Buddy for Kuz trade, McNair would look like a genius right now.
Harkless doesnt move the needle one way or another, but it’s hard to get too bent over his contribution to the cap when no FA wants to come here anyways.
Mitchell at BPA is TBD. The fit is pretty wonky, and I’d have preferred we took a flier on Sengun, but I can see why he drafted Davion onto this charmin soft team just from a culture standpoint.
I’m pretty sure keeping Luke had Vivek’s stank all over it, but since we can’t prove it either way we can agree to disagree on how this reflects on McNair. I totally agree with you that Luke should have been canned this past summer though.
Honestly, I’m not even a McNair fan. I just don’t think it’s fair to expect him to turn garbage to gold when he also has to answer to this franchise’s terrible owner.
Harkless doesnt move the needle one way or another, but it’s hard to get too bent over his contribution to the cap when no FA wants to come here anyways.
Mitchell at BPA is TBD. The fit is pretty wonky, and I’d have preferred we took a flier on Sengun, but I can see why he drafted Davion onto this charmin soft team just from a culture standpoint.
I’m pretty sure keeping Luke had Vivek’s stank all over it, but since we can’t prove it either way we can agree to disagree on how this reflects on McNair. I totally agree with you that Luke should have been canned this past summer though.
Honestly, I’m not even a McNair fan. I just don’t think it’s fair to expect him to turn garbage to gold when he also has to answer to this franchise’s terrible owner.
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Lakers screwed up that Hield Kuzma Montez deal or rather Lamebron screwed it up by wanting Westbrook.
Like, I’m not tripping on McNair at all. The 2 deals that were in plac and I include the Bogie Divencenzo deal were pretty damn good but the Bucks or whomever screwed it up as did Lamebron. I don’t buy that the Kings got used on that.
You either can look at Monte and think he’s being to gunshy or you can look at him as holding firm on the values he believes in for his current guys.
I’m with the latter point as some of you would have already dumped some of our guys for below value (Barnes to the Celtics for jack squat)
Like, I’m not tripping on McNair at all. The 2 deals that were in plac and I include the Bogie Divencenzo deal were pretty damn good but the Bucks or whomever screwed it up as did Lamebron. I don’t buy that the Kings got used on that.
You either can look at Monte and think he’s being to gunshy or you can look at him as holding firm on the values he believes in for his current guys.
I’m with the latter point as some of you would have already dumped some of our guys for below value (Barnes to the Celtics for jack squat)