Durant trade in the money picture

[AngryFan]

When i played sports it was considered a winning team to make the playoffs.
The all or nothing mentality ends up with nothing 99% of the time.

Well the NBA is a bit unique in the fact that you don't even have to be at the 50th percentile to make the playoffs. I don't see how being 16th out of 30 is something to celebrate.

 

[SharpeScooterShooter]

Sounds like you are happy with participation trophies.

Ill take a series of playoffs over an 8-15 lotto pick every year.

Lotto is just as big a gamble. Almost all players come from the draft. Many more bomb than succeed.
Sounds like you prefer major let downs most years over some competitive play and a playoff showing.
To each their own.

 

[e_blazer]

If you like getting bounced in the first round or play in while Dame continues to age, thats cool. I don't.

Oh, I have opinions on this subject, but like all of us, I've shared them in multiple similar threads. Sorry to put a damper on your fun. Chase that big trade for a superstar laser pointer, cat.

 

[SlyPokerCat]

Ill take a series of playoffs over an 8-15 lotto pick every year.

Lotto is just as big a gamble. Almost all players come from the draft. Many more bomb than succeed.
Sounds like you prefer major let downs most years over some competitive play and a playoff showing.
To each their own.

I like trying to acquire talent. A higher draft pick could bust, but as long as you draft well, the likelihood someone will hit is better the higher you are picking.

Getting bounced in the first with no chance at competing for a title is not fun.

I'd like to see a title in my lifetime and what we are doing right now is not it. But, as I stated, more than happy to wait and watch us play .500 ball until the trade deadline where hopefully they make a move.

 

[SlyPokerCat]

Oh, I have opinions on this subject, but like all of us, I've shared them in multiple similar threads. Sorry to put a damper on your fun. Chase that big trade for a superstar laser pointer, cat.

Don't turn me on too much. Laser pointers get me excited.

 

[SharpeScooterShooter]

Don't turn me on too much. Laser pointers get me excited.

I have a story about a laser pointer….

 

[Hoopguru]

Don't turn me on too much. Laser pointers get me excited.

I have a story about a laser pointer….

Was that you?

 

[SharpeScooterShooter]

Was that you?

Lol! Not this time.

 

[KSF-ERIC]

Please do not mortgage the future to try to build a contender that won't contend. It is one thing to ask fans to sit through over a decade of winning nothing with Dame. It is another thing entirely to mortgage the next half decade after that to achieve the same result.

Dame/Simons/KD/Winslow/Nurk wouldn’t contend?