06-06-2021, 07:17 AM
(06-05-2021, 10:31 PM)jesusshuttlesworth82 Wrote: I guess it'll depend on how the Clippers fare in the rest of the playoffs. If they make it to the Finals, maybe we can consider this season a success taking them to 7. If they get bounced in the next round again, I wouldn't consider this season a success.
DFS and Brunson took a step forward this year and that's nice. Hopefully we can retail both long term but they're probably 4th best/5th best players on a real contender.
KP was a disaster. The KP question/problem is looming over this franchise. There has to be a future where THJ is not the 2nd best player on this team.
We've had assets and cap space for 2 years now and failed to improve the team much.
I agree that it depends on what LAC does from here. I said yesterday that it would be really nice to have one more guy to join KP, DFS, THJ and Luka. We have a series of bad answers between Maxi, Powell, WCS, JRich and Brunson. If they had a time machine and knew Giannis and most of the bigger name FA's would sign, they wouldn't have prioritized cap room. If they knew Maxi would take a step backwards, they might have pushed harder to get someone else in here (Crowder as a for instance, but it didn't have to be him). I'm not saying one more guy makes us a contender, but one more guy would make us better.
The trick now is can you get better by trading KP? Can you get better by using the THJ cap room for someone besides THJ? You can get a pretty nice mid teens slot depending on what happens with JRich (and WCS). But, none of us agree on what that slot should be used for. Secondary ball handler. Defense and rebounding. Three point shooting. We need all of it, but don't have the path to get it all unless we tear it down to build it back up.