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

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This is the most insanely idiotic thing ive ever heard. What does what the fans do early on in the season have to do with the price of tea in China?

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You are the idiot. My point is that even the fans know that we aren't an amazing team. Its the Lake Wobegon effect as I stated earlier. They claim to think everybody is above average. But they know that the sum of the parts is an average to slightly above average team even with the MVP frontrunner. Those are their expectations as evidenced by comments made about our playoff chances.

So subconsciously they know that some people on the team aren't that good. Somethings got to give. You can't just defend everyone as a good player and arrive upon the conclusion that we aren't a great team.

Anderson gives us awesome shooting!
Tyreke can create mismatches!

Yes, I know. Most NBA players can do at least one thing. They also suck horribly at defense/rebounding and game management respectively. Time to start putting some weight behind the statements. Whats the value they bring to the team relative to other NBA players, not relative to this benchmark of a player literally good at nothing?

I would just like to have a realistic conversation where the sum of the parts actually meets what we think of the team. Boom is a terrible troll but at least what he claims to think of the team makes sense with his expectations of them. Reading this board, you would think that its possible to have the MVP, 6th man of the year, defensive all-NBA guy and 3 all stars and still miss the playoffs because the bench and coach aren't good.