reignman40
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Nah. Last year's team would have lost the sun's game also.
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Game Thread - Jazz @ Kings - 8:00 PM MST
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reignman40
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Welp, our first bad disgusting loss of the season.
Sigh.
I forgot how awful these feel....
Sigh.
I forgot how awful these feel....
I walked out of MSG after Starberry or whatever the hell is name is hit a fast break driving shot over a lazy Okur at the buzzer.
Was humiliating.
This is the one obviously hole in our team. I knew it going into the season. we need a mean nasty player to get in and be dirty. all championship teams have one. we currently do not.
homeytennis
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Trevor Booker.
Marcus Morris.
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It’s a big hole too. All the other top teams have at least one lunch pail tough guy. Who could be that guy? Bradley? Not sure if we even have anyone on the entire roster who can “be that guy.” Even Favors was quietly “nasty” with his defense, rebounding, and lob threat off the P&R.
Unfortunately, that ship has sailed. Many of us advocated for signing him over the summer. Isn’t he with the Knicks now? Don’t think we could even trade for him until December, right? And even then, do we have the assets and salary to make it work?
Not only is this team flawed, but I find them abhorrent to watch. At least the previous version could generate open looks. Open looks that would be bricked most of the time by Rubio and Crowder. But at least the offense could generate open looks. And there were times we’d get hot and could score with the best of teams. I’m not sure this team has that kind of juice. Everything seems to be limited to half court sets and bogged down. The only person who consistently rebounds is rudy.
Plenty of time for this team to improve on offense. But I can’t help to wonder if the flaws that we traded for over the summer won’t ultimately limit this team. Was this summer really a success if we end up being the 3-7 seed and while being a good playoff team, we’re ultimately not good enough to beat the top western conference teams?
Not good.
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So your argument is that we didn’t improve over the offseason. Is that it? Or what is your argument? Please be more explicit.
Miggs
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Can’t wait to get the 5 seed again. Then, the glass half full crowd will carry on about chemistry and how young Donovan is and how we’re just tapping into our potential, ignoring the fact that there’s turnover every year in the league and teams with new faces still manage to get the 1 or 2 seed or how crazy young teams (see Nuggets, Denver) manage to do the same, or how Conley isn’t young and so the window for THIS core is 2-3 years.
NAOS
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Why do I feel weirdly optimistic after this loss? For some reason, I think this game provided an unusually clear blueprint for what the team needs to improve on, IDs on which players are not being maximized by the current experiments with lineups, and plenty of good signs that they’re all working well together to figure this stuff out.
First minutes of Jeff Green at Center. Very intrigued.
Bojan needs to improve on D—especially in all 5-out scenarios.
Rudy is a ****ing monster.
Mudiay will drive me nuts. And I’m already weary of this idea that he and Donovan should share the floor with the second unit.
Etc.
First minutes of Jeff Green at Center. Very intrigued.
Bojan needs to improve on D—especially in all 5-out scenarios.
Rudy is a ****ing monster.
Mudiay will drive me nuts. And I’m already weary of this idea that he and Donovan should share the floor with the second unit.
Etc.
I’m more optimistic about Sunday with the loss. I had Sunday penciled as a loss. This may give us a bit more motivation. I was skeptical about this game because they were 0-5. Losing streaks are meant to be broken. We’ll see.