« Reply #145 on: October 23, 2021, 07:44:10 PM »
Lakers imploding already. AD and Dwight getting into an awkward pushing/grabbing altercation at the bench.
At least we’re doing better than them
We shouldn't be aiming to just be better than a team that's probably going to be fighting for a play-in spot this season.
Well that is what we were last year, we were fighting to win the play in. Have we really improved the team so much over where we were last year? Maybe a little bit. More veterans on the bench. Sometimes I think that a lot of us over-rate our team a bit (me included) With the great potential of Tatum and Brown a lot of us raise our expectations to their best potential instead of where they are right now. I mean I will watch and root either way. But maybe we should wait until they start winning a lot of games before we think that they are a top 4 team in the east. The 0-2 start is disappointing, especially the one at home to Toronto. I guess we'll see what they are made of the 10-15 games or so.
Let's not pretend that we didn't underperform last season lol. I've been on record saying that this team is top 4-6 in the East on paper and I expect 'one of the best young coaches in the league' combined with 'going back to our defensive DNA' to get us to that level. Or is everything peddled by our club this offseason just drivel and vibes?
I guess I am one of those people who mostly think that you are what your record says, especially over the course of a full season. If you under perform for 70-80 games I think it just means that you aren't that good. Again it comes down to perception and expectations, which are highly subjective. It is too early to say what we are going to be this year.
Ime has a lot of experience as an assistant, he isn't new to the nba, but that doesn't always transfer to games won or success as a head coach and the team. After a couple regular season games, and seeing our roster in the preseason, I am just not seeing much improvement from last year. We are going to struggle to score when JT/JB go cold (same as last year). We don't seem to a very good def team (same as last year). Hopefully the def improves because I don't see our team being able to put up a lot of points.
I don't buy that at all, we had one of our best players grossly underutilised and hurt for the end of the season last year.
So if that experience doesn't transfer to winning games with us as the head coach of our team, why did we hire him in the first place when one of the better (best for some) coaches in NBA history was available (for anyone saying that he might have rejected us, we didn't even approach him lol), especially when the ownership and front office said that they're going to 'die trying' for banner 17? Or is it our club being poorly run and the people in charge are trying to lower our standards and expectations to keep them away from the hot seat (pressure from the fanbase for the owners of the club)? Because it's certainly looking that way to me.
Well we were 34-31 after Jaylen was out for the year. So we were a massive 3 games over 500 and already in the midst of the bottom of the playoff contenders. I agree Jaylen going out hurt our playoff performances, but we were already not very good at that point. We just weren't a very good team last year. You can argue all you want that we underperformed, but we barely made the playoffs and then almost got swept by a Net team that was missing key players as well.
I don't even know what you are arguing about really? I never said that Ime wouldn't learn and get better as he goes, I am just saying even the best coaching hires sometimes don't work out. All I am saying is that we as fans might have some home team glasses when we look at our club. I hope they improve, I don't want to watch this crap all year. hahah
I don't think Boston underperformed as much as Boston had overperformed for years before last season and gave people unrealistic expectations of what Boston was as a team. Plus, you can't keep having the roster and depth get worse season after season and it not effect the team. The team has more depth this year then last year, so it should be better, but it isn't a world beater.
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