Kyler Murray wrote:Revived wrote:Kyler Murray wrote:Jesus this thread was 90% shtposting on our team, on a win nevertheless, no wonder ppl stopped posting.
Easy to come after the fact and say it.
And no I think the reason most people stopped posting is cause they don’t see this team doing anything special at all in the playoffs. Plus most of the players are pretty unlikable with no charisma and team overall has no togetherness.
It’s nice to win lot of reg season games just on pure talent alone but who here actually thinks this team can win more than 1 playoff series (and even that who knows) in April?
Nah man, even those putrid years with 20win teams the vibes were not this bad so it's not about how far we can go. And some folks like me are from Europe and watch mostly on replay.
It's because we play lazy, non-chalant, inconsistent and often unintelligent ball and that makes it hard to watch and be happy with the team, combined with the lack of progress in those key areas. We win because we have elite shooting and overwhelming talent that helps overcome tons of blunders. If this team played as hard as possible all game it would have all of us as fans. I can tell you I watch probably 3-4 games a night and I do not see any other team aside from the Pistons making the TYPES of errors we constantly make. In my opinion, we are WOEFULLY coached. And it's painful to watch, but because I'm a diehard fan I still do.
I am hoping that the trade and adding O'Neal and Young helps here. We need guys who play hard. We need our stars to play hard and play smart.
Today, here is the reality:
1. We played absolutely 0 defense in the first half, resulting in us shooting 72% in the first quarter and somehow not be up a ton of points. I think we were tied or a 1 possession game in either direction.
2. Stars made a ton of liveball turnovers and didn't get back in transition.
3. Nurk started playing like a baby, and we switched to small ball lineup which changed the game. We've had some success with it the last few games and this is the first real sign of improvement I've seen for awhile, and the only real optimism I take from this game aside from O'Neal appearing to be much more confident from 3 than Okogie and other role players.
4. We subbed Nurk back in, and to his credit he played really hard for about 90 seconds and made some plays but then with 1 minute left after blocking the Fox bucket, he stayed on the OPPOSITE KEY and didn't even attempt to walk to the offensive end of the court. Fox hustled his ass off and chased down KD to steal it from behind, ho had no idea Fox was even there or that we were playing 4 on 5 because Nurk was lazy and KD unaware.
5. We then IMMEDIATELY DARED Fox to shoot a 3 in a 4 point game. Allen was in position and there and chose to let up. When up 4 and that much time left, that 3 MATTERS. You cannot dare the best player on the other team and their only all star guard to shoot that shot. They hit it and it took our superstars hitting mid range jumpers and an effort play from one of our only full-effort players in Okogie to save us.
When Beal, Booker, and Durant are healthy and rolling we will be really difficult to beat, but we will absolutely lose if we don't play smart or don't play hard, and that just doesn't appear to be in our DNA and that is frustrating. We have to get better in these areas, and the longer we go without actually showing signs of improving in these areas (not just getting healthy) the less likely we will be able to turn it on in the playoffs.
