WMC 20-21: Whine, Moan And Complain... You Know You Want To

Will we even get to 41 wins?

can’t get over how bad that loss was at home to the Queens.

 

Too many injuries and then on top of the adding too many new players.
Still like the DS signing but trying to incorporate 3 new bigs and one of them mid season when you still didn't get the first 2 completely integrated likely was too much

Don't care how talented you are as big if you can't defend the PnR you got no chance in this league

 

This season is done.

Stick a fork in it.

 

Yeah, these last two losses have been mind bending. Losing my faith.

 

i can understand being bad on Offense due to chemistry but the def has been atrocious these last few weeks

 

Vibes of the 2010-2011 season , every player is complaining about something .

A 1st round exit ( or worse play-in) is likely at this point

 

When is the Draft Night?
What a dog s*** season, Harden or Paulina with a trophy makes me wanna puke.

 

If this team can’t hang it’s hat on defense and convert it into easy buckets, we are toast. Our offense is way to stagnant to win a championship.

 

yep; this is over. can we at least sit AD so we have a chance next year?

 

If we aren’t forcing turnovers and scoring in transition our half court offense consists of throwing the ball into the post for either ADs while everyone just stands around the perimeter.

I’m not saying this to be like it’s the main issue, but I feel like Stu Lantz brings this up every game and I see ZERO improvements. Same thing with our inability to defend the PnR on defense.

 

Team isn't as "together" as last season ... Kuz didn't say much but it sounds like there may be some pbs in the locker room

 

Role players have little left in the tank , spending so much energy on defense and having to do more without Bron/AD every other day.

I'm not surprised at all , I wrote about it before " good to have Bron and AD "resting" but the rest of the roster will completely be done physically or injured"

 

They're tired, it's been a long 12 months and only 1 night off between most games is insane. Guarantee they're tired of being stuck in the hotels of most of the cities they're going to and the early morning covid testing.

Very different looking team this year without the benefit of seeing the practice court. The brand new rotation guys, 1 starting, in the final stretch... no time to blend. Injuries or covid protocols every single game. It's maddening.

Every vet wants to play and some of them aren't. Marc has handled it one way and Wes another. That's felt in the locker room. I'm sure DS' negotiations could lead to some unhappiness on his part.

And then in the final weeks you bring back your two best players. They're not playing like your two best players. Losses are piling and you're dropping in the standings, not coming anywhere close to meeting expectations. Even if it's no one's fault, that's going to result in a stressed locker room.

 

It does look like the team is worn down. AD and LeBron are just off which doesn’t come as a shock given how long they were out.

Now Dennis is out. Things just aren’t falling in place for us right now.

 

You're on a roll JSM. Nothing but great posts from you for past month (random period pulled from my .... No offense to all your other posts.

 

Defense went to s*** as soon as AD came back.
He's been a shell of himself and AD squared just doesn't work
No spacing on offense and AD not being at full strength plus Drummond just being dumb basketball player means teams can just pick them apart with a good playmaker running PnR

At the end of the day so many injuries and too many new players: no coincidence that Lebron wasn't available Doncic goes off, DS isn't available Lowry goes off

 

AD is not at 100% health. it's painfully obvious from the way he's played this entire season, even now when he's come back. just settles for jumpers instead of taking it to the basket. and now bron is back but not 100% healthy either. they're not going anywhere with those two not at full health

21-6 before AD got hurt. just not our season with the bad injury luck