It's an effort team, not one that wins with talent.

As nice as it is to be competitive, I don't see how you get this franchise to the next level.

Jmpasq wrote:Yep, its a .500 team. Its a Deep team with a lot of solid players but no top tier talent. Our entire starting lineup looks like ****

Starting unit is inconsistent on offense. Lacks defensive energy; since nobody is a natural playmaker in the starting unit, the result is indecisive offense, low efficiency, high turnovers, low defensive IQ. All you have to do against us is swing the ball 2 or 3 times and someone will be open from 3. RJ contently cheats off his man, just to watch him drain a 3. Randle must be on a lot of highlights, because he’s always getting cross up. EF looks like a bad mix for that starting unit. He might play better off the bench along with Rose. Seems like Rose is our best player and the 2nd unit plays with the right kind of energy and chemistry the starting unit only wish they had.

The only way Kemba thinks about turning this around is to shoot more 3s. While Randle thinks is good for the team to shoot less shots. He had like 2 pts during the first half and wasn’t even looking to score. EF handles is weaker than I thought. RJ needs 4 shooters around him to be effective…otherwise he’s only scoring on fast breaks. Everybody’s jumper is too inconsistent. Kemba, ER, Randle and RJ. Mitch isn’t a threat on offense, so his many can play help defense.

I think thibs should start the 2nd unit and see if the starters can come off the bench with better energy.

Outside the box ways to significantly improve this team include trading Randle and Mitch

franco12 wrote:

martin wrote:

Is this based on the 42.5 expected wins for us? Which we're at now but based on our play of late, I don't know that we will be able to maintain middling performance.

We have games against Houston and the Magic coming up. I hate to say it after the way we started the season, but these could be benchmark games. We are not good enough right now to overlook any team

Philly was top of the conference for what seems like two minutes ago. They start 0 of their starters now. Nobody's talking about Boston or Toronto.
So who you got?
Bucks, who are sophomore slumping with the trophy. Sheehit, we beat them.
Nets...please. They are one KD tendon strain away from pure mediocrity and some new Harden strip club backpage. They are at where they are now from beating up on ****.
Hornets, their 6'7" pg leads the team in rebounding. Not very scary. Nothing personal, but I can't be overly afraid of a team who's major contributor is a Plumlee.

Wiz, they scare me precisely because they are not scary.
Heat, I hate them. I have nightmares about Jimmy Butler and Herro-ball and I wish Riley would brain fart his way into trading us Bam for some stupid reason.
Bulls, they may end up the cream of the conference. I've been impressed since pre-season.

That leaves us precisely where we were last season: 4th seed. That was good last year. If it comes true, would make us even better this year.

franco12 wrote:And i think i want to take back anything nice i said about Fournier. And for the record, I really wanted to sign Ball in the off season- our team would look so different with him vs. the pieces we added. Miss by Rose & the FO.

Ball sucks!

This team will put it together and these bell weather fans will eat crow.

Because after 20 games NY is only a whopping 1.5 games back of 2nd place.

"Simply not good" my ass.

NYKMentality wrote:I guess no team in the East is simply "NOT GOOD".

Because after 20 games NY is only a whopping 1.5 games back of 2nd place.

"Simply not good" my ass.

This is around a 45 win team bro. Be happy with that after the dark depressing Isiah/Phil years when we couldn’t even crack 30 wins in a season