re: Anyone else concerned about Ingram?

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You want to give them excuses(which are valid), but deny or handwave the Pels equally valid ones? Seems to me you just want to make a tilted argument to justify some emotional outrage...

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Are we playing without our best player for half the season?
Are we playing without 3 starters for half the season?

We don't have these legitimate excuses. Hell this feels like the healthiest we've been in 10 years.
Our excuses are the same exact excuses the Rockets could be making, but they aren't.

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The supporting roster stinks, it is not complimentary or the final form this team plans to go to war with. We lack any continuity and very little space to gain it in the schedule

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Our roster does stink. SO does the Rockets. So does the worst 3 poitn shooting team 2 years in a row Grizzlies. Yet they aren't a bottom 5 team like us.

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One of the hardest and most brutal schedules in the league with a non-complimentary roster

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what a tired excuse. This isn't the NFL where you can legitimately have a much easier schedule than others in your conference. Our schedule is no harder than just about every other western conference team.
You know the other day at the end of the Lakers equally long road trip like we had, Lebron came out and basically said he doens't care about the road trip excuses, and that it doesn't matter what the excuse is, they have to play better, we are professionals. That's what winners say. Losers make excuses.

we've played 19 games thus far. 10 of them were against teams that either had expectations below us, or equal to us. We are 4-6 in those games. 6 of our next 8 games are similar in that strength.



You can't tell me any rational person expected us to be this bad, bottom 4 bad. It's one thing to have an expectation to struggle and finish as a 35 win team, it's another to finish with sub 30 wins. You're a pathetic team if you can't even win 30 games, assuming an 82 game schedule.