Don’t get me wrong
Scottie’s growth and team chemistry coming together has been amazing.
Winning would be nice though… is there anything that could put us back in the window of being a playoff team? Even a first round team?
Trades? Figuring it out?
We lost some pieces along the way, but aside from Kawhi I don’t think any of them were that much of a loss.
I think our pick is (top 6 protected?), correct me if I’m wrong. So maybe, we should just be ass and ride it out. I don’t think this draft is particularly great though.
I’m all for team rebuild but if the team decides to do it, I don’t see why this season wouldn’t be the first step. If there are no plans to rebuild, @ Masai, then we should probably do something that’ll help us win.
Depends what you mean by compete, but if we set the bar at having a competitive first-round series and maybe advancing to the second… yeah, I think that’s possible. Boston’s a couple tiers ahead of us. Philly and Milwaukee are one tier ahead of us, but we match up well against the Bucks. I think the next eight teams are all on roughly the same tier.
The most important thing is Darko finding a functional half-court offense. Like even when we had a great quarter against San Antonio last game, few of our scoring plays were coming out of half-court sets. I think we can absolutely be a top-10 defense this year (currently ranked 6th despite the fact that we’ve had 3 games against top-10-ranked offenses); that needs to stay steady all year, and offense needs to improve to maybe top 15 in the second half of the season.