Blazie
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Yknow, I hate to be this guy, but I think I'm seeing really good teams do what really good teams do against bad teams: coast for 3.75 quarters and then turn it on when they need to.
Don't get me wrong, the talent difference in previous years was so lopsided that teams were blowing us out even when they were coasting, and never needed to turn it on at all. So I guess that's progress. I'm just a little wary of the narrative that this team is super close to anything...
The defense has improved, it's good to see some guys playing with some gumption, and I'm intrigued by Markkanen. But unless this team stays healthy and Garland turns into 1986 Isaiah Thomas, I think we miss the play-in.
Still, I hope I'm wrong. Curious to see what happens later on when other teams really start jockeying for position in the standings. Don't buy that our schedule has de facto been all that tough at a point in the year when nobody's playing for anything.
Don't get me wrong, the talent difference in previous years was so lopsided that teams were blowing us out even when they were coasting, and never needed to turn it on at all. So I guess that's progress. I'm just a little wary of the narrative that this team is super close to anything...
The defense has improved, it's good to see some guys playing with some gumption, and I'm intrigued by Markkanen. But unless this team stays healthy and Garland turns into 1986 Isaiah Thomas, I think we miss the play-in.
Still, I hope I'm wrong. Curious to see what happens later on when other teams really start jockeying for position in the standings. Don't buy that our schedule has de facto been all that tough at a point in the year when nobody's playing for anything.