I am going to say the biggest reason is injuries; Duren makes this team a lot different, not having him is detroying this team, especially the bench. We are missing our best and most efficient scorer in Bogy. We are missing our only PG who can both shoot and is not turnover prone; Monte Morris playing means better spacing, and a lot less turnovers Cade, Duren, Jaden, and Ausar are going wild with the turnovers due to the lack of a good playmaker other than Killian who can not shoot well enough yet.
I don’t want anyone on this team traded or fired, unless they trade the vets for draft capital. They have yet to play as a fully healthy roster, I wan’t to see what a health team does over 20 games before I decide this team full of toddlers is trash.
On the court this team is a lot better, every player has gotten better since last season, I would really like to see what this team looks like after using $65 million in cap space and letting our young guys mature instead of blowing it up so early.
Am I the only one who is actually excited about the team we have?
Injuries aren’t helping, but every team in the league should expect to lose players at some point in time. Still, the roster construction has been awful, and reflects a GM that either is in over his head or isn’t being granted the autonomy he needs to do his job. (too many cooks in the kitchen?) Either way, from the draft to free agency, this roster is a failure of epic proportions.