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I just find it hard to care anymore
Posted on 11/23/24 at 5:14 pm
Posted on 11/23/24 at 5:14 pm
Sure, I’ll pay attention to the scores but watching the games are no longer appointment viewing for me.
I say that for this season, but also for the immediate future of the franchise. Like what is there to look forward to? It’s evidently clear that we are going to blow it up this season after we let BI walk and dump Zion for cents on the dollars this offseason and as for having a high draft pick this offseason, what is there to be excited about? We’ve done this with CP, AD and now Zion, it’s fairly clear that this franchise is incapable of success.
I say that for this season, but also for the immediate future of the franchise. Like what is there to look forward to? It’s evidently clear that we are going to blow it up this season after we let BI walk and dump Zion for cents on the dollars this offseason and as for having a high draft pick this offseason, what is there to be excited about? We’ve done this with CP, AD and now Zion, it’s fairly clear that this franchise is incapable of success.
Posted on 11/23/24 at 5:18 pm to Broski
Same..with so much up and coming talent and many teams with superstars, this team doesn’t really have a chance of competing for the next decade lol. Keep Murray, Herb, Trey, hawk, Jose, and everyone else can walk. Hopefully we can get top picks this year and somehow Flagg doesn’t become a lazy injury prone POS when he’s drafted by us
This post was edited on 11/23/24 at 5:19 pm
Posted on 11/23/24 at 5:23 pm to Broski
Lowest the vibes have been since AD asked out. Maybe even lower.
Posted on 11/23/24 at 5:24 pm to J_Hingle
I wasted $100 on League Pass.
I watched the Bulls game and the first warriors one and that's it.
Just dgaf anymore. It's over.
I watched the Bulls game and the first warriors one and that's it.
Just dgaf anymore. It's over.
Posted on 11/23/24 at 5:36 pm to ghost2most
I think y’all have short term memory. We have been here many times.
Posted on 11/23/24 at 5:46 pm to PELsu
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We have been here many times.
That’s the point I’m making big dawg
Posted on 11/23/24 at 5:58 pm to Broski
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We’ve done this with CP, AD and now Zion, it’s fairly clear that this franchise is incapable of success.
You’re not wrong on anything you stated here. Griffin must leave for this franchise to be able to have sustained success and groom its superstars properly.
Posted on 11/23/24 at 6:46 pm to whatiknowsofar
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Lowest the vibes have been since AD asked out. Maybe even lower.
I’m going with lower
It’s rare when a season is over in November
And the focus shifts to tanking, firing the HC, and the most-efficient way to get rid of an overall Number 1 draft pick that has turned into an embarrassing bust
Posted on 11/24/24 at 1:39 pm to Broski
I guess that I'm the only one who's still excited about the season.
All of our margin for error is gone now, of course, but barring another major injury (I know), we're going to make the play-in with a great team.
I just think that we're going to start winning a lot of games with Murray and CJ coming back this week and Herb not long after that. And I still expect Zion to come back in early January and play at the level that he did last season.
So, go ahead and mock me if you like, but I thought that we had a great team going into the season, and now I think that the emergence of Missi fills the massive hole we had at center and makes us a more complete team.
All of our margin for error is gone now, of course, but barring another major injury (I know), we're going to make the play-in with a great team.
I just think that we're going to start winning a lot of games with Murray and CJ coming back this week and Herb not long after that. And I still expect Zion to come back in early January and play at the level that he did last season.
So, go ahead and mock me if you like, but I thought that we had a great team going into the season, and now I think that the emergence of Missi fills the massive hole we had at center and makes us a more complete team.
Posted on 11/24/24 at 1:45 pm to GOP_Tiger
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we're going to make the play-in with a great team.
yay?
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And I still expect Zion to come back in early January and play at the level that he did last season.
That level wasn't good enough for playing 70 games, it definitely won't be good enough for playing ~35-40 games.
This post was edited on 11/24/24 at 1:47 pm
Posted on 11/24/24 at 1:49 pm to GOP_Tiger
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So, go ahead and mock me if you like, but I thought that we had a great team going into the season, and now I think that the emergence of Missi fills the massive hole we had at center and makes us a more complete team.
I am of the same opinion, I just don’t believe Griff and Coach Green can lead the charge. Just too many basketball related issues.
Posted on 11/24/24 at 1:52 pm to GOP_Tiger
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This post was edited on 11/24/24 at 1:53 pm
Posted on 11/24/24 at 6:17 pm to Pistol44
Think the issue for longterm fans is that by Y6 of Griffin/Zion era expectation was Pels would be playing for conference championships and chips.
We aren’t, obviously, and we don’t seem very close, or any closer, than we were five years ago. In the meantime, franchises with less talent and fewer resources than the Pels started with in 2019 have passed us by and are close to lapping us at this point. Our supposed super star, the corner stone of the franchise, has demonstrated conclusively that he is not a player you can build around with any confidence for success. Once you recognize that, you are in rebuild mode. If you don’t recognize it, you remain in purgatory, which is worse.
The situation with Davis at least offered a plausible way out. He remained a high value asset you could monetize. Zion and Ingram’s values have turned to ashes. Management either doesn’t recognize this, or worse, won’t accept it because it will trigger a reckoning of their leadership. So like some piss poor over-leveraged S&L, they refuse to write down their assets preferring to live in a fantasy land until reality crashes down around them.
Ownership should recognize it needs to bring in a turn around artist who will accept sunk costs, stop living off yesterday’s promise and slash and burn down to the core before starting a rebuild. But that would require vision and courage.
We aren’t, obviously, and we don’t seem very close, or any closer, than we were five years ago. In the meantime, franchises with less talent and fewer resources than the Pels started with in 2019 have passed us by and are close to lapping us at this point. Our supposed super star, the corner stone of the franchise, has demonstrated conclusively that he is not a player you can build around with any confidence for success. Once you recognize that, you are in rebuild mode. If you don’t recognize it, you remain in purgatory, which is worse.
The situation with Davis at least offered a plausible way out. He remained a high value asset you could monetize. Zion and Ingram’s values have turned to ashes. Management either doesn’t recognize this, or worse, won’t accept it because it will trigger a reckoning of their leadership. So like some piss poor over-leveraged S&L, they refuse to write down their assets preferring to live in a fantasy land until reality crashes down around them.
Ownership should recognize it needs to bring in a turn around artist who will accept sunk costs, stop living off yesterday’s promise and slash and burn down to the core before starting a rebuild. But that would require vision and courage.
Posted on 11/24/24 at 6:44 pm to Broski
I think the last time I tried to sit down and watch a full game was the 3rd game of the season (2nd against the Blazers). We still had plenty of healthy players then, but we were dogshit. I turned that game off in the 3rd quarter. I have watched a quarter here and there since then. This is a team I watched religiously since the Baron Davis era. But they haven’t earned the support these past 6 years, and I am no longer going to give them the benefit of the doubt. I think the only way I’d start watching them with earnest again is if we had some kind of hard reset, which at a minimum includes, getting rid of Zion and David Griffin. I don’t even care about the trade package for Zion. At a certain point, it becomes addition by subtraction. He’s continuously embarrassed this franchise since he was drafted. I don’t want him to live near my city or play basketball here. He will never amount to being a winning basketball player or human, here or for any other franchise.
This post was edited on 11/24/24 at 6:45 pm
Posted on 11/24/24 at 7:05 pm to New City Champ
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Think the issue for longterm fans is that by Y6 of Griffin/Zion era expectation was Pels would be playing for conference championships and chips.
We aren’t, obviously, and we don’t seem very close, or any closer, than we were five years ago. In the meantime, franchises with less talent and fewer resources than the Pels started with in 2019 have passed us by and are close to lapping us at this point. Our supposed super star, the corner stone of the franchise, has demonstrated conclusively that he is not a player you can build around with any confidence for success. Once you recognize that, you are in rebuild mode. If you don’t recognize it, you remain in purgatory, which is worse.
The situation with Davis at least offered a plausible way out. He remained a high value asset you could monetize. Zion and Ingram’s values have turned to ashes. Management either doesn’t recognize this, or worse, won’t accept it because it will trigger a reckoning of their leadership. So like some piss poor over-leveraged S&L, they refuse to write down their assets preferring to live in a fantasy land until reality crashes down around them.
Ownership should recognize it needs to bring in a turn around artist who will accept sunk costs, stop living off yesterday’s promise and slash and burn down to the core before starting a rebuild. But that would require vision and courage.
Preach brother
Posted on 11/24/24 at 7:48 pm to Broski
Been telling y’all for two years. Unfortunately Griff hasn’t played this well either.
This post was edited on 11/24/24 at 7:49 pm
Posted on 11/24/24 at 8:02 pm to Safety Blitz
Griff's biggest mistake was not taking garland (by all accounts we would have taken hunter).
However, he's done a good job of finding roster pieces via draft and trades. Got out when it didn't work, but tried. The issue is he fell into the you have to make zion happy and if you build around him - you don't build around Ingram and you're already behind.
However, he's done a good job of finding roster pieces via draft and trades. Got out when it didn't work, but tried. The issue is he fell into the you have to make zion happy and if you build around him - you don't build around Ingram and you're already behind.
Posted on 11/24/24 at 8:04 pm to 3PieceSpicy
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He will never amount to being a winning basketball player or human, here or for any other franchise.
I don’t want to take the chance that he’s gonna be a stud (because he is one when he’s healthy) if we move him somewhere else
Posted on 11/24/24 at 9:25 pm to chalmetteowl
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he’s gonna be a stud (because he is one when he’s healthy)
Ehhh… he’s an efficient scorer, but he’s a very one dimensional player that is not a good defender
Posted on 11/24/24 at 10:06 pm to chalmetteowl
I’m cool with taking the chance, bc he’s holding this franchise hostage. He won’t ever do it here and I think he has a very small chance to do it somewhere else unless he goes to a top 4 team, mostly rides the bench until the playoffs (preservation of health), and has some splash minutes in the playoffs.
I’m comfortable saying he’s never going to be a 1,2, or 3 on a good team that needs him to win. He can’t even consistently get through 40 games of pretty half arse modern regular season basketball. It’s hard to believe that his body would survive 70 reg season games, plus 4 playoff series (where both the scouting reports and whistles tighten.)
I’m comfortable saying he’s never going to be a 1,2, or 3 on a good team that needs him to win. He can’t even consistently get through 40 games of pretty half arse modern regular season basketball. It’s hard to believe that his body would survive 70 reg season games, plus 4 playoff series (where both the scouting reports and whistles tighten.)
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