Luke_FfS

Even fan for too long was way too optimist last October! LOL

Ding ding ding. Sadly, I was the nearest one here, and I actually was optimist... I suggest everyone to not read back this topic, self-harm inside.

At this point, it's sad to say, but I'm honestly more worried if we somehow get some casual wins in those playin/playoffs, enough to justify the FO to be renewed. We need a total change here, so I'm fully open to sacrifice a few postseason games for a better future.

That ending is the perfect image of our season. A lot of hopes that always crushes with the easiest of the obstacles. Scheeiermann+Harper+Garza almost got 90 point on our (once called) top defense. Enough said. And no, we don't have health excuses this time. How are we supposed to beat them in a playoff series if we don't manage to win against their reserves?

I hope that every member of the team and every player fully understand how bad they've been letting go very winnable games, that could have easily got us out of the play-in "lottery" and even allowed to have home court advantage in the first round. The more I think about all the silly games we lost, the more I feel disgusted.

Not enough for believing in game 7 of the NBA finals, but they were showing positive signs all the way down the playoffs, they had a clear style and everyone was buying in the project. Right now, I cannot say the same for us, either thing, by any means.

Well, it took around 75 game to be (almost) healthy again, let's see what we can do with that, even if it's already a bit too late, and playin is probably coming anyway.

I really hate that we have to check and hope for other team results again. That wasn't mean to be the target this year. So depressing.

Only 5?!?!?!?! Lucky you! :P

No lead is safe with this team, even when we play pretty good defense and have great % in all kind of shots, even FT's. Having back Franz and AB offers a different perspective, and if at any point they will be both without minutes restriction, even our depth will look a lot better. But this is going too far ahead, at the moment it could be already too late to have them at full force coming playoffs, or playin.

Well, Chicago has been plain terrible in the last few seasons. I'm holding hopes only because usually FO's that are in their last year are renewed earlier. Possibly the bad results after the big spending have prevented that. Not sure will happen, but until there's no news about renewing them, the dream will be there.

I've a only dream, and has been a constant one since a few seasons. Change FO. Ours is not terrible, there're worst ones around there, but it's not good enough to win a title, and that's the only thing I/we care about. It's like an old style FO unable to see that NBA is changing and upgrading every single season, and they're not able to follow that speed. Then the new FO will decide all the rest, about coaching staff and everything else. I still believe we've a few good pieces in the roster, we're still young, we just need better direction/decisions/smart people on the right roles.

Another sign of our fake depth is the high number of players that were often in the rotation with us, and find no playing time at all in the league. Long list, but only in the last year or so we have him, Cole changing teams, our starting playoff PG Cory in Europe altogether, and a starter like KCP is a bench player in the rebuilding Memphis, playing 10 minutes less on average. About the Hawks and Hornets situation mentioned yesterday, is worth to mention that both teams have been pretty active in the market, and not only in the last deadline. Constant search for improvement VS constant evaluation. Then we discover that our depth is fake...

If I remember correctly, Charlotte was already hot in January, and Atlanta was clearly going to be great in the moment they traded away Trae. Behind is flashy moves and big stats, he's not a winning player and never will be. Almost everyone clicked against Dallas, Paolo take a backseat to watch them is the only excuse I can find (he's also the only one with negative +/-)

Every player that we add seem good in the start, and then get lost in the team chaos! Honestly, all team has been so bad that we can't hope Carter to save us, or Cain as discussed earlier... no sense that he's the one making more point and giving more effort. I really hope that the reason about firing the coach is the one you wrote, but I fear FO will continue... and the more I think about it, the more I'm convinced that FO has been the main reason we failed through the years, and the first that need to go.

Couple Of the Year They're making a great, great job together. Also, yesterday was 1st April! :P

Here we go again. Welcome back to this weird, woeful team, Franz. (how bad is the fact that in a key game like that one, your best scorer is a guy that is on a 2w contract?)

Mose nominated for COY, btw.

Every time I read thinks like this, I wonder why our coaching staff (or lack of leaders showing the right approach?) isn't able to obtain the same improvements in so many facets of the game our young guys need to fix. Image Suggs name instead of Duren and we would have a hell of a player. (AB maybe being the most improved one? but still not at his level)

With so many free throws and interruptions, you could have wrote a novel! :P

They were quite right after all!

Let's bet for another -51...

I don't fully agree with that, as you possibily remember, I always put a great focus on how many points we conceded in the first quarter (recently always +30), and most of the times the responsability is mixed between starters and the rest. About the depth, in the last couple seasons all the forum was so high about that... so two possibilities here: 1) we're as bad as FO :P 2) we always tend to overvalue our own talent (quite normal being fans).

I was actually happy the way we started the first 6 minutes or so... I was a fool. Same sensation about Toronto I had last time, they're the team we were, always playing hard, giving full effort, not the most talented one but the most.. team. I actually miss what we were, and that's tremendously sad.

The error was made in Berlin, and then even worst in London. Actually an unbelievable error for a franchise that has always been so cautious with recovery times. All the rest is consequence. Time is running out anyway. It's already a given we'll not have enough rep and experience with our supposed starting 5, but at this point if they don't get back really soon, will be hard to even be in acceptable form for playoff intensity. For what I can remember, AB injury was the same than Shai one, and the OKC player was back after 10/15 games, so if he's really out for the season, there's something strange here too.