07-22-2023, 01:43 PM
(07-22-2023, 01:37 PM)DanSchwartzgan Wrote: Thankfully, we've also seen an example of Luka carrying a team the naysayers panned (as they do every year) to the WCF.
This is true, too, and that's the best part of this current strategy, imo: It doesn't negate the chance that the team will be good. In fact, their asset situation was so sad that I'm honestly not sure how much better off this year's team would've been had they brought in 1-2 win-now types, as per usual. Normally, I get their thinking in those situations and defend it around here, but the bills were coming due on all the misses and something had to give this summer. I didn't anticipate they'd see it that way, but to their credit they obviously did.
If they ball this year, which is very possible because of Luka and Kyrie, OUTSTANDING.
If they are underwhelming, there is hope of improvement - REAL improvement - in the near future for the first time since the Porzingis dream went belly up (imo) and certainly at least since Brunson walked.