The team changed. This team without a single adjustment will be in the running for a Top 6 seed next year. I celebrating the progression. Without some miracle deal, we’ve become a very good basketball team. You undersell Shaedon. You obviously don’t watch the games. So why moderate here? As for having some games left against contenders (I count 4), we also have more games against teams like Washington and Toronto. I should call you. You’re looking at this all wrong and missing out on the best basketball we’ve played since 1999-00.
We’re right there in line behind 28 other teams every year. If the goal is only ever a championship and not a good fun time had by all, we will always be fucked except by pure fucking luck.
Purgatory has been so, so over used that it's become just so fucking annoying to see "fans" use it when they have a meh team.
We are not in purgatory. Quite the opposite. We’ve improved drastically throughout the season without a major roster change. Got better by learning and playing better. We are young and trending up. 13-28 in first half of season. 15-7 in the second half. At this rate, we go about 28-13 in the first half of next season. Even without a prized lotto pick. That’s like the opposite of purgatory. Purgatory would be Phoenix or Clippers or even Hawks. They all have a better record than us but they are trending down. Understand? If you really don’t want to support the team, then would you please step down as moderator of the team’s official message board? I called you recently to discuss this privately but you didn’t answer.
I don't get this. Why can't Stren have a differing opinion than you and be a mod?
Please look at the combined records of the teams we’ve beat in the second half. If you want just look at the records period
win or lose though I enjoy watching them play now much more than early in the season and that's why I tune in, not because of how far they get in the playoffs but that they get in the playoffs or at least try to. Purgatory to me is an apathetic paycheck team that doesn't bother and wants a longer off season.
I’ll explain. He posts opinions on players he isn’t watching play. He says the same thing over and over. He says he doesn’t want to support the organization but continues to work for the organization. He definitely posts to get under people’s skin and that’s unbecoming of a mod. If he wasn’t a mod, I’d put him on ignore and never respond to him again. We should have that option. He should step down.
He's primarily a shooter with the rare ability to create his own shot. That he now can play off the ball more often while Deni creates the initial chaos for the D is helping him get better looks & is a much better fit for his skills rather then being the primary focus of the D.
That’s cool. Mine is a team not good enough to compete and not bad enough to have an opportunity to get drastically better in the draft.
For me anyway, purgatory is capped out and too good to have a good shot at landing a difference maker in the draft while not having a shot at truly competing for a championship... like the entire post LMA Dame era. I am very intrigued about the potential of this team and have hopes their young talent will elevate them to contender status & more engaged then I've been in a long time. "We" are not in purgatory
Hmm. I disagree.
I don't think we're in purgatory yet... But I think there is a fairly high likelihood we wind up there.
Yes Sir!!!
Don't think anyone here thinks we're close to contention.
Thread title says playing like a playoff team. Thats what I should have said. We aren’t
Contenders occasionally beat other good teams.
In fairness over half the teams make the playoffs or playin or whatever the NBA wants to call it now. The already low bar for making the playoffs by NBA standards has been dramatically lowered yet again. I use the term purgatory a lot and I'll admit I don't think the Blazers are there just yet but quickly headed to it. There still isn't a difference maker on this team and without the help of the draft, there really isn't a way for the franchise to find one. They don't have enough assets to make a big swinging trade, not when there are other young teams (OKC, SA) who have more in the holster to offer up. I give Cronin credit on Deni and Camara, both look like very good role players and 3rd or 4th options on a contending team. MAAAAAAYYYYYBE he has a #2 in Sharpe, though I like it if he could be more consistent, especially behind the arc and also wish he had more of a JYD mentality but that's just not who he is. The biggest problem is that #1 and without a true #1 than this team is destined to sit in the 3rd-10th range in the west for the next handful of years with no real path to get out.
Agreed. This is where I stand.
Not really. Unless the idiots try to have a pg as their best player
