re: Sons, what’s your 2023-24 final prediction?

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We didn't do anything of major significance, while the rest of the West loaded up

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I keep seeing this said, but it's not the case. Sure, a couple of teams made obvious upgrades.

But we didn't lose any free agents of note so there was no one to replace. I see people point to upgrades of the other teams that aren't actually upgrades but rather replacements of players lost.


Just off the top of my head, teams like MEM/DAL/LAC/SAC and probably a couple of others didn't make meaningful upgrades. Certainly not an upgrade you can point to that is more significant than going from 29 to 60+ games of Zion whig just goes back to the point that not much else matters other than the # of games Zion plays.

He plays a lot, we're a playoff team. He doesn't, we're not.

My bad, didn’t look at the box scores. i thought he played in all games before that injury.

I don’t count the 6ers loss because he didn’t play that whole game. In his final 8 full games we lost 5 of them.

One to Milwaukee (Giannis is Zion’s kryptonite)
One to Phoenix (who we beat the previous two games before with Zion)
One to Memphis
Two to Utah (frick those two games)

Real question is what happens more: Pelicans wins, games Zion plays in or threads started by whatiknowsofar to remind everyone that he is a mod.

49-33 probably around the 5th spot in the west.

43-39

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Struggle early, start to get better in middle of the season and go on a little run, then injuries level the rest of the season off. 41-41

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Would agree.
JV will be traded mid season.

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We are not a young team comparatively to the rest of the league. quote: Oklahoma City Thunder – 23.14 Houston Rockets – 23.58 San Antonio Spurs – 23.84 Orlando Magic – 23.94 Memphis Grizzlies – 24.27 Charlotte Hornets – 24.60 Portland Trail Blazers – 24.78 New York Knicks – 25.02 Detroit Pistons – 25.08 Indiana Pacers – 25.08 Atlanta Hawks – 25.23 Minnesota Timberwolves – 25.44 New Orleans Pelicans – 25.56 Utah Jazz – 25.86 Toronto Raptors – 25.88 Sacramento Kings – 25.97

13th youngest team in the league, so we are younger than most teams. Do you like providing false info to prove a point? Or are we just unnecessarily blasting you because you, once again, are presenting a poorly researched argument?

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Not only this but all 3 of CJ, Nance, and Val could be gone soon. If that happens that’s 3 players with an avg age of 31y/o.

We are essentially top 10 youngest and in a better position than a lot of those teams from a proven talent standpoint. Not “potential “ but proven talent.

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This is absolutely ridiculous. You should be ashamed to have written something this bad. Yes, even you.

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I don't know what you are talking about. Lots of teams have Lots of injuries. We had great health outside of Zion and Ingram. Them missing time isn't a surprise, and is honestly expected. To keep painting ourselves as snake bitten every year is exhausting and is not accurate.

Someone posted about most games missed due to injury and we weren't bottom 3 either of the past 2 seasons. The way people talk, we were far and away past every other team in the league both years. That's the only way crying about this all the time makes sense to me. It can't be the focus of every conversation about the team all the time. Players are going to miss time. If we can't manage that, we aren't going to ever be any good..

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We had great health outside of Zion and Ingram.

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What in the hell are you talking about? CJ may have played most all of last year, but he sure as hell wasn’t healthy. Jose and Larry missed significant time (and that’s with Larry clearly playing well below 100% most of the games he actually played in). Herb even missed close to 20 games. And tell me what team lost their two best players for half the season or more.