Is is sad.
It’s also very anticlimactic, not because we lost, but because we looked totally different from the regular season. We honestly folded and couldn’t escape the worst part of us. It looked so bad at the end, it seemed like we just cheated on NBA 2K and made the playoffs as a lottery team. It was really bad.
Not only that, their mental toughness was questioned and in the end it was trashed. The Hawks plunked is and we responded in embarrassing ways.
It’s a tough way to end the season because while the regular season gave me the impression that we were close to having something special, this end makes me feel we are just a lottery team that got really lucky in wins, but is so far from real contention. Honestly, and this might be bitterness speaking but still, I’d rather we lost in the play-in tournament and ended up in the lottery than this really bad ending.
I have no trust in Randle long term, no trust in Thibs being worth a long term stay either, very down on RJ and very down on the idea of being a piece away. A piece? We practically have to start by getting two stars only to make up for the “pretending stars” we have.