So, this was just another scrimmage... the league isn't even calling them exhibition games. They are glorified practices. I want to see more from our perimeter D. That's our weak spot, but we knew that already. What a lot of you are forgetting is that we aren't playing with our real rotation. Dame sat back and let some other guys get run in the first game and sat out the second game. I also think that Nas has a great chance to be a contributor. This scrimmage was the first time Nurk and Hassan were in the same practice against another team but neither of them had Dame to draw defenses away from them. A lot of you are making judgments about this team's possibilities with close to no information. Your conjecture is so wild but also in your minds is so certain. You don't know what Stotts will do with this roster in a real game. You don't know what our team is working on. You can't be sure that he's not holding them accountable. There is no way Stotts coached our roster last year as far as they went with zero accountability. You can't tell me if this team is better or worse than the team that made it to the Western Conference Finals last year. We have the same two starting guards (Dame has been even better this year), we have a deeper more talented front court and we have a huge question mark at small forward. We don't necessarily have the depth on the wing that we did last year but I think Melo brings something entirely different than anyone we had on that roster, I think Gary and Nas can really contribute and I think a rotation of Dame, CJ, Melo, Zach, Nurk, Hassan, Gary, Nas and Rio is better than the rotation we had last postseason. So I think we will get to the play in tourney, win it and face that Lakers in the first round.
When we are playing all of our healthy guys and Dame is putting his foot on the accelerator and we still aren't finding success... then you are aloud to panic. Until then just chill the fuck out with all of this dooms day bullshit, please.
