(05-05-2022, 02:56 PM)cow Wrote: I think Luka can probably drag just about any roster construction to the playoffs. The biggest success for this organization was how they played against Utah with Luka sidelined.
I'd still hesitate to call the season a success as that seems like an incredibly low standard. Maybe you'd re-evaluate that if you didn't have a generational talent on your team. It doesn't feel like we are any closer to a championship team than in the previous two seasons and I'm not sure this team beats the those Clippers teams. The roster isn't likely to change very much either.
If you were of the opinion that this team was never going to win a championship with KP, and that dumping him was a necessary step back in order to move forward, then this season was clearly a success.
If you had told me at the beginning of the season that we would dump KP for a couple of bad contracts midseason just to get rid of him, I would have expected us to struggle to make the playoffs and assumed another first round exit at best. For us to have made that move and manage to get homecourt and make it to second round is progress.
I think the plan at this point has to be to make incremental improvements until some of these bad salaries are closer to expiration and we have access to all of our picks. The ideal summer would be to re-sign Brunson at a reasonable price (maybe he gets back down to 4/80 after this shit show series), sign Hartenstein for the tax MLE, make an good draft pick and waive a couple of players.