Expectations for 23/24 season

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I think a lot of things will have to go wrong for it to play out like you are saying.  Its hard to imagine a team with a healthy Luka and Kyrie and a lot of depth behind them will not perform significantly better than last season.  There are so many things that can go right:

Luka and Kyrie playing off each other
Williams taking the next step as a starter
Green having another year of improvement to where he is clearly high level rotational player
Hardy taking another step to where he is clearly 6th man material
Exum showing to be a legit 3rd PG 
Lively showing he already has NBA defensive game and watching his offense slowly develop
Omax hitting just enough 3s to be a useful rotational piece in his first year
Curry rebounding from a bad season to return to one of the best mid volume shooters in the league
Holmes with a change of scenery and his troubles behind him provides quality center minutes
Maxi stays relatively healthy and rebounds from a bad season with less demand put on him
DJJ plays in some fun small ball lineups and becomes a useful rotational piece.  

Not all of these things are going to happen, but odds are a lot of them will.  Even if this team struggles, unless there is no hope in the young guys there will still be stuff to watch from a future perspective.

This is great.  I would add one additional hope I have for this team.  I hope Jason Kidd improves as a coach.  I think lineups with both Kyrie and Luka will naturally be very successful.  I hope he can find some lineups with just one of them that still win some minutes.

My greatest concern (apart from injuries) is rebounding.  We were a terrible rebounding team last season and dramatically ejected two of our best rebounders off the roster.  I hope Kidd can coach up our current players to rebound better.  If not, then we'll be historically bad in rebounding differential.

I do expect this team will be more fun to watch than last season.  Kyrie is one of the most entertaining players in modern NBA history.  I think the Luka and Kyrie show will be amazing to watch.  It's also a lot of fun to watch young players improve and we finally have a lot of those.  

I think we should win 45 to 50 games this season unless there is a major injury to Kyrie or Luka.  We may not be contenders but significant improvement will make for a fun season. 

If we have a disappointing season, then we should at least get a new coach next off-season.