Many time I was disapointed with the roster Dannys made at the begining of the season. Many time I was wrong : I was desperate when he sold the 10's team and esp Pierce to begin a full rebuilt, I thought we had to keep PP until the end as a Celtic and th ooposite was an heresie, I was ag taking Hayward and prefered Griffin (OK maybe this time I was right), also I wasn't OK with the IT trade, morally and because I wasn't ever a fan of Irving metallity. But now I understand he had to do it. Last year esp I was very annoyed we lost Horford and Irving for ntgh. I really thought it would take years to come to the ECF again. I was wrong.
This year I hopped we would draft Nesmith and signing TT as I told in this forum. So if I am always wrong, it may be a bad sign for us and a downgrade year
But if you look honnestly to the team, last year we arrived close to FINALS almost without a bench (don't coint of course Hayward as he was not there). This year Grant, RObert, Langfor will have one more year, Nesmith is the kind of player, if he can defend a little, who can bring 3 point socring and spacing since day one. Jeff Teague may not be the same as 4-5 years ago but he is still an experimenced Guard who can defend and do a little evtgh off. It's clrearly an upgrade in comparaison of a player who played to CSP Limoges 5 years ago (even if I liked Wannamaker, having him playing in PO is an heresie). Tristan is always playable unlike Kanter, giving the same off rebound threat.
And the more important : Tatum was just jumping a big gap last year, but I guess we didn't see evtgh yet. Brown is the kind of player to continue with hard working to grow a lot int he 25's and so on... Smart without Hayward has a more important and esp more clear role in the team.
For all this reason I think the roster will be better next year and will continue to get better until Tatum and Brown reach their limites. And it's funny how many people voted here that we have a badest roster even before looking at the end of the FA... I was also a bit sour about Gordon Hayward... More about his attitude even if of course he is on his right to do what he wants. But I am happy he is not here anymore. He brought very little thing to us for a lot of money, OK a lot because of injury, but also because of his softness. Kirie was probably a cancer in this team with Rozier ans Morris. But GH was also a little cyst I guess (OK my comparaison is not very chic).
Now we have a duo of wonderfull young leaders and the vets will be there to bring role things, exprience and measured thing. No more time for big ego or soft player !
