(04-19-2022, 01:32 PM)StrandedOnBeauboisHill Wrote: and while I agree that we're still a step away from being a championship team
What is the cost in your mind of that step? I mean, our assets aren't very desirable around the league, how do we take that step in a reasonable timeframe? Who is (currently) 30 yo Powell in 2 years? Maxi? Bullock? What's that the timeline like?
(04-19-2022, 01:32 PM)StrandedOnBeauboisHill Wrote: This team just beat a team with two all stars and what most feel is a superior supporting cast around those all stars on the biggest stage without our 200 million dollar generational talent and the "this team needs more talent" crew doesn't seem to blink an eye.
Yep, it was a great performance for sure! Is it repeatable? I myself said at the beginning of the series that we would possibly eek out 1 win. If they get another with this group, I'll be surprised.
I also don't think Utah's supporting cast is all that superior. I think on paper they are better, but also at the beginning of the series, I said I thought with Luka, HCA was the difference in this series, which we have. The playoffs so far is showing that they aren't coming together as a team. That doesn't mean it won't happen, and Utah is a hard city to win in.
We'll see, because I think it would be a bad decision to play Luka at all this series (not a medical professional). The team made the decision that playing Luka on the last day of the season and trying to keep 3rd seed placement alive was more important than playing him in the playoffs even more rested. I wonder if Kidd will ever make that decision the same again.
(04-19-2022, 01:32 PM)StrandedOnBeauboisHill Wrote: (actually kind of surprised that you said you feel that way with your snowball comment, feels like there's only a handful of things I see this board unanimously agree on)
I haven't made a snowball explanation post in a while, so let me explain. To me, the snowball is a poster saying something either overly positive or overly negative and it going unchecked. The conversation continues and there is nothing left for the next poster to bring to the conversation if they don't up the ante and say something even more positive or negative, and so on, and so on until the conversation is just not very readable or smart.
I myself don't need to really stop the negativity posts getting out of hand, plenty of posters here do that just fine (although I have stepped in from time to time on that front too). It's the positivity train that when it gets going...look out. It goes hand in hand with taking the Mavs blinders off and seeing more than what's in front of us.
I'm sure I've gone overboard in my defense of trying to keep things in the middle. I get carried away too. I am sorry if that ruffles feathers, I just don't know another way to do what seems sane to me.