GT: Kings @ Jazz. 7 MST.

[Siro]

I have more respect for Boston than for Philly. The Nets are in the 76ers' league as for mismanagement. The 2 extremes of how to mismanage a roster, overtanking or overspending.

Who gives a **** if you're considered a scrub team or an irrelevant marginal team?! I still hope that Exum works out, and the team meshes into something special when everyone is healthy. But as it stands, making the playoffs makes no difference whatsoever to the future of the team. In fact, I'll take 5 better spots in the lottery ten out of ten times, over making the playoffs with 35 wins to get embarrassed.

 

[Jamezz]

Who gives a **** if you're considered a scrub team or an irrelevant marginal team?! I still hope that Exum works out, and the team meshes into something special when everyone is healthy. But as it stands, making the playoffs makes no difference whatsoever to the future of the team. In fact, I'll take 5 better spots in the lottery ten out of ten times, over making the playoffs with 35 wins to get embarrassed.

Well we just have different views on this subject. You think that 5 spots in the lottery has a more positive effect towards where we could finish at the end of the following season than the psychological effects of making the playoffs. Stalemate.

 

[FalseFlagg K]

Who gives a **** if you're considered a scrub team or an irrelevant marginal team?! I still hope that Exum works out, and the team meshes into something special when everyone is healthy. But as it stands, making the playoffs makes no difference whatsoever to the future of the team. In fact, I'll take 5 better spots in the lottery ten out of ten times, over making the playoffs with 35 wins to get embarrassed.

would you rather a better lottery pick than say scraping into the playoffs but being reasonably competitive while getting swept, or maybe sneaking one win ?

 

[Siro]

would you rather a better lottery pick than say scraping into the playoffs but being reasonably competitive while getting swept, or maybe sneaking one win ?

Scraping into the playoffs would give us nothing. We'd be out of the lottery, and "playoffs experience" is only meaningful when you have the building blocks for a contending team that just needs that little shove to push it to the next level. The Jazz, even when healthy, showed little improvement from last season. Exum will help, and so will an improved Lyles. But unless we are good enough to make use of that experience (and we're not), I'll take a top 10 pick with a chance at the top 3. Easily.

 

[Jamezz]

would you rather a better lottery pick than say scraping into the playoffs but being reasonably competitive while getting swept, or maybe sneaking one win ?

This. The playoffs is a whole different world, the atmosphere. Kids like Gobert, Hayward, Favors, Hood, Burks... they all need to start feeling the sense of achievement that playing hard brings. I think it's a very healthy goal to set. And boosts the underrated chemistry factor in a team.

 

[FalseFlagg K]

This. The playoffs is a whole different world, the atmosphere. Kids like Gobert, Hayward, Favors, Hood, Burks... they all need to start feeling the sense of achievement that playing hard brings. I think it's a very healthy goal to set. And boosts the underrated chemistry factor in a team.

I agree Mr Jamezz as long as we don't scrape in with 34 or 35 wins and get flogged by 25 pts a game. But if we can get in with 40 wins and get a taste of playoff intensity i think that would be a good thing for the young team.

 

[MTS]

Every single young up-and-coming team that squeaked into the playoffs last year is out of the playoff picture and doing much worse this year. Doesn't make any sense, I thought they all leveled up?

 

[Siro]

Every single young up-and-coming team that squeaked into the playoffs last year is out of the playoff picture and doing worse this year. Doesn't make any sense, I thought they all leveled up?

It's all that intense experience bruh. You suck and you barely get into the playoffs, then you soak all that elite experience into your bones, and then you're suddenly better than all of those other teams ahead of you that also made the playoffs. Flawless logic.

 

[vegas]

So are we so gassed cuz QS has everybody laying it out there every night, or are we just asleep at the wheel?

 

[Siro]

I'm sorry guys. I'm just in a really bad mood. On top of this ****ty loss, I'm having the worst poker night of my life. This ****ing piece of **** idiot PLAYS EVERY HAND AND CALLS EVERY BET. But he can't ****ing lose! And people believe in God!! Down $250 to that **** already.

 

[Doublea]

Scraping into the playoffs would give us nothing. We'd be out of the lottery, and "playoffs experience" is only meaningful when you have the building blocks for a contending team that just needs that little shove to push it to the next level. The Jazz, even when healthy, showed little improvement from last season. Exum will help, and so will an improved Lyles. But unless we are good enough to make use of that experience (and we're not), I'll take a top 10 pick with a chance at the top 3. Easily.

gotta get experience playing with each other. Injuries have really derailed that. I believe we do have building blocks, gobert, hayward, favors, mainly that would benefit from playoffs.

 

[Doublea]

at this rate it might not be up to us to make it to the playoff, this is going to be a dogfight for that lousy 8th seed.

(8) Utah Jazz 17-21
(9) Portland Trail Blazers 17-24 (-1.5 game back)
(10)Sacramento Kings 15-23 (-2.0 game back)

The bad part too is it looks like we are going to lose all the ties against these teams.