THANK GOD THIS SEASON IS OVER!!

It was only torture if you had unrealistic expectations. I smiled a lot watching Zion become an All-NBA level player (on offense).

We would have likely been a play-in team before the injury bug hit.

Future is bright.

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It was only torture if you had unrealistic expectations

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This is such a bullshite take... This board was out here bragging about how the Lakers were scared to play us if we were the 8-seed in the postseason last year.

Everyone on this board was talking playoffs this offseason, and as it turned out that we sucked, people are trying to act like the plan was for this to always be a rebuild year.

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We traded our second best player for future picks and Eric Bledsoe.

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Go look at that thread... people were talking about how Bled's D was just a tick below Jrue's and that adding Adams was going to be great because of his postseason experience.


ETA: Hell, when we hired Stan everybody was talking about how big it was for our postseason chances this year because of what he did in his first seasons with Miami and Orlando.

Everyone was expecting a playoff seed between 6-8 this year and you were too no matter how much you deny it.

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This board was out here bragging about how the Lakers were scared to play us if we were the 8-seed in the postseason last year.

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Griffin made the conscious decision to not win by trading his best defensive player and then switching to a defense first philosophy.

I think if they hire Finch instead of Van Gundy and lean into the offense you get an above .500 team. To me the only question is how long they flirt with being a defensive team before they fire Stan and go the other direction, or trade Ingram to get better on defense.

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We would have likely been a play-in team before the injury bug hit.

Future is bright.

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“We’ll get em next year, guys. Don’t worry - when Zion demands a trade, we’ll just get another #1 pick guaranteed to deliver generational talent....” - every Pels Talk optimist.

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Future is bright.

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This. I don't give a shite about the rest of the negative fanbase.The future is bright!!

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“We’ll get em next year, guys. Don’t worry - when Zion demands a trade, we’ll just get another #1 pick guaranteed to deliver generational talent....” - every Pels Talk optimist.

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So you would rather we not have Zion?

The Zion lottery ticket beats being another small market, middling playoff franchise like Memphis, Indiana, San Antonio, Portland, etc that has zero chance to ever win big.

Y’all need to grow some balls and embrace that we actually have a window of opportunity to strike gold that not every franchise has. Sure odds are stacked against us and we likely will frick it up (which Adams and Bledsoe have already proven) but at least we have Zion.

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We would have likely been a play-in team before the injury bug hit.

Future is bright.

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It's possible for more than one thing to be true:

1) This team should have made the playoffs, and fans have every reason to be disappointed that it didn't happen.

2) The failure to make the playoffs is due to poor performances by veteran players brought in to bolster the young core -- Bledsoe, Adams, Redick. The young core itself improved and developed and showed that it has the potential to be elite.

You can be upset at the failure and also optimistic about the future and especially next season.

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2) The failure to make the playoffs is due to poor performances by veteran players brought in to bolster the young core -- Bledsoe, Adams, Redick. The young core itself improved and developed and showed that it has the potential to be elite.

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Very true.