re: West Standings (Updated: 2/2) - Who Stays? Who Goes?

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Its irrational reactionary statements like this that warrant you losing speaking privileges

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Whats reactionary about it? Link me to a post where I've ever believed anything to the contrary. Maybe when he first came here and I hadn't seen him play much. I think he makes teams worse. Period. And I don't think Memphis has anyone on their roster who makes teams much worse.

Y'all need to come up with something because I'm hearing a lot of Lake Wobegon on this board. Everybody's above average. Jrue is above average, Tyreke is above average, Ryno is above average, EG is above average, Asik is above average. Guess what, when you have 5 above average players and the 2nd best player in the league, you don't follow Thunder games hoping they'll go 12 games under .500 before their best players come back so that we have a chance of maybe getting the 8th seed.

I'm as optimistic about this team as anyone because of Davis' development and my belief of how far a star can carry a team. But come on, there are obviously problems with this team. I believe a massive portion of it starts and ends with Tyreke. Also, people overvalue how valuable a stretch 4 who is a liability on defense. I love Ryno and he is very good at what he does. But it just isn't that valuable of a thing to have. Somebody like Z-Bo or even Asik just translates to so many more wins. If it were as valuable as ppl make him seem, we wouldn't have been around and under .500 last year even when everybody was healthy. Obviously, Monty and the bench are other huge problems.