On the Warriors, Durant and Green run plays as often or more than Curry. All they’ve added was 3 point shooting because they have great 3 point shooters.

The Spurs are constantly taking mid range shot shots, but they make it work because they get really good ones off ball and player movement.

I’m not even sure it was the system that was the problem in NY. It was the perception and players we had. You need more guys like Frank (with a shot lol) and fewer guys like Mudiay, Hardaway, Trier, and Knox.

He’s now trying to scam players with predatory loans.

Yikes. I’m not even sure I want to hear about that.

What’s to prevent Zion from moving us down the draft lottery going forward and the team accumulating a bunch of over-hyped disappointments like KP, Frank, and Knox right after him and burying him in a cesspool he soon wants to leave before we are any good?

I am totally ok with Zion having a season long case of mono.

I need a very specific explanation of what the injury protections look like. And I need to know whether we get the #1 pick.

For the record I would.

Fisher tried to fuck the girlfriend of one of his players. I think that puts him at a very weird level of bad. 🙂 He’s now trying to scam players with predatory loans. He’s probably just an awful person (which says a lot that Kobe has said that Fisher is the best friend he’s ever had in the NBA).

That’s true Brian. And Fiz has been great for the tank, no doubt! Nothing about Fiz indicates he’s holding back all his lessons til the tank is over.

Oh yeah, true, Fiz is likely just not in that higher tier of coaches like D’Antoni or Budz, but I think he might still turn out better than Woody and Horny (and I think he’s already definitely better than Fisher).

Look at The Kings. Fun team this year! Fox took that leap forward and now they’re a 500 team. Good for them! The Kings have been awful for years so its nice they’re a fun, young team. But they could very easily miss the playoffs this year. Should their fans be upset that they aren’t bad enough to have a shot at Zion to pair with Fox? Is their franchise stupid bc they didn’t continue tanking this year?

The Nuggets weren’t a playoff team the last few years. They were in that no man’s land. Should their fans be mad at those lost chances at a top pick when they’re 2nd in the Western Conference now?

Sure, you want a top pick to get a shot at a superstar. But even if you get that star, you still have to build a team. That means developing players and going from shitty to kinda shitty to average to good. There are exceptions, of course, but usually improvement is a gradual slope up, not a straight shot to title contender.

Having a really good coach like D’Antoni was a double-edged sword for the Knicks, though, as he was so good that he squeezed enough extra wins out of them that they ended up picking #6 and #8 in what turned out to be some pretty darn good drafts at the top (Westbrook, Harden, Love, Curry).

This is kind of my point about the draft too.

If you draft a star initially, it quickly moves you down the draft and makes it harder to get the 2nd and 3rd star. If you draft poorly, you get another shot at it, but you still suck and it’s a year, two or three years later until you strike gold. Then you are right back to the 1st scenario.

There’s no perfect solution, but we are actually in the sweet spot right now.

We blew up the team a few years ago and drafted a project (KP). There are risks associated with him reaching his potential, but we drafted better than we should have on merit last year because he was out and we’ll have another shot at a star this year because he’s out. We are short circuiting the efficiency of the system. Now it’s on us to take advantage of the injury.