re: Since 2017, okc has won exactly as many playoff series as us

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Sweeping us and it not being impressive is the reason why they're so far ahead of us..

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If a playoff nba team plays a team that's down its all star/all-nba level player (which zion absolutely was at the end of the year) and it's 2nd best player is playing injured, a sweep or gsweep is very likely, or you don't believe that the starting 5 is more important than depth. Which I know you don't.

And it's not like the pels got blasted 4 games straight, 2 games were close until the end.

So no, it's not as impressive and it's also not an indictment against us as to where we are.

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The Zion was hurt excuse doesn't work because Zion was hurt to finish every one of the last 4 seasons. It's to be expected. It would be surprising if he's not hurt to finish a season.

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By that logic you should've been proposing Zion trades in the trade thread. It's not an excuse. It's literally why we didn't have a shot in the series. He's a guy that is good enough to be elite and make players around him better.

And you've said before that the only path or shot we have at a title is with Zion. His games played have increased over the past two years. No one thought he'd play more than 65. No one. And he did.

Zion was hurt in a play in game, right?
The Pels shouldn’t have been in a play in game if they took care of business like OKC did.