BigDaddyG wrote:knickscity wrote:This is the one time I hate to be right, but I told you guys this team was NOT better than last years.....and now thats official.Enough with names and on paper talent, hopefully Phil will build an actual team, and not this "clumsy roster" that was on the court this season.
We had the many of the same players from last year, but there was no way to predict that we would have such a huge drop off at the PG. Raymond Felton had the most horrible season of his career and Beno was just bad. Shump also regressed to the point where it was hard to justify keeping him on the court. I expect JR to have a better overall season next year now that he's healthy. I don't think it would take a whole lot for us to make the playoffs next year while preserving cap space for 2015as long we have a decent PG, Shump bounces to being just a bad offensive player and JR is healthy.
I didnt think these guys would be this bad, but I knew they were worse, and the main reason being, there are no winning players, nor leaders on the team who've won and led by their merit.....even last years team was heavily flawed, and that was with intelligent veterans.
To me it's not an individual player thing, this team was built wrong, and it started when they basically let it be known they were NOT going to address the pg position properly, threw consecutive middle fingers up to defense and rebounding by acquiring arguably the worst signing of the season by far, and duplicated the same feat through the draft.
Everything else was a pile on to an already bad start to a season.
I know you can't stand that. I'm a little concerned that no team will do fair business with us so we must understand that and look over seas and other places to find a diamond in the rough. It would nice to see the Pacers go in the first round.