This team has too much talent to be this disappointing

Just my opinion I think a lot of guys on this team are decent player but have low basketball IQ like the play jrue was wide open for the 3 he pass it up to let Dante a really bad shooter take the 3 smh

Starts with Demps. He's a cancer. Gentry is next.

Serious question, take away obvious tanking teams and can you name a worse bench and role player unit than what the Pels are currently running with?

Because I can't. And that is a problem.

Cousins played 41 minutes tonight, AD 43.

You just can't expect our two top stars(one of which is not conditioned for that many minutes, the other one too injury prone to be putting this many miles on night in and night out) to play that much and still be firing on all cylinders by crunch time in the fourth. It reminds me of Westbrook a couple years back when KD was out, they lacked role players, and he would try and do everything and then be gassed by the late fourth and they would lose games.

And we are forced to do this because Moore is a guard that should be getting 10 minutes at most on a contender. Cunningham the same. Diallo shouldn't even be playing. Miller should of never needed to be signed if not for the roster criminality Demps has committed, let alone getting minutes. And our supposed third star is really just a streaky above average combo guard who has a tendency to make the worst decisions in crunch time.

Even if Rondo and Hill could come back this would remain a problem because they are not scorers. We might of won a game like tonight but scoring is a real problem.

I honestly can only blame coaching so much because we just don't have the talent to work with outside our two stars. I mean replace Cunningham with Young, Snell, or CJ Miles and we likely have this win. Replace Moore with a Gary Harris or Wesley Matthews and we have this win.

I genuinely thought that we could at least rely on Jrue to at least muster up 17-19 ppg most nights. Moore and Cunningham to reliably hit at least 3-4 three pointers a night between them, and Miller to at least knock down open shots. But we can't. When your two stars can reliably get you 60-65 points a night and 20-25 rebounds, and you are below .500, that to me signals you have royally screwed up filling out the rest of the roster.

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This team has too much talent to be this disappointing

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All of that talent is in 2 players that play the same position. They are both amazing. Holiday is an above average player. Aside from that, the team has no depth at all.

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All of that talent is in 2 players that play the same position. 

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Yeah. Not sure why anyone thinks the Pels are a talented team. 2 big questions coming in:

Can Davis/Cousins maximize each other?

Is there enough help on the roster

Davis/Cousins have played some great basketball together and it often isn't enough.


Still way too early to throw in the towel. There's been enough good to keep things interesting this season. But they are likely a .500 team, at best. People who talked themselves into this being a 45-50 win team are finally seeing things clearly.

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Lmao they lost two games. This is basket ball ladies and gentlemen. I know we live in Louisiana where FB rules apply to everything but it's a different thing in basketball. You're OK of you lose a couple of games. Hell you're ok if you lose 30 games.

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Except the teams that lose 30 games have the roster to win the other 52. We on the other hand, have the talent for 30 and potential for 41.

i'm just happy we have a pulse to start a season for a change

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They’re a -13 per 48 minutes — something like a 20-win team — when one or both sits.

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I wonder what each guy specifically is by themselves on the court?

Whatever it is, it is unacceptable and those 2 players are too good to allow even a cast of scrubs around them to falter THAT much when they're on the floor.