I can't help but think, reading all the doom and gloom around here, that a lot of people have lost sight of a simple truth in the NBA: you can do almost everything right, and still not win. You can make unbelievably smart personnel decisions and lose your best players.
The fact is, failure is a lot more common than success, at least as we measure it around here (i.e. rings).
The league is absolutely littered with examples:
The OKC/SEA teams that had Westbrook, Durant and Harden
The Indiana teams with George, West and others: 3 ECF trips in a row, but couldn't get over the top
Houston, which has been right there for several years but seems on the verge of imploding
The Clippers with their Lob City teams, who just couldn't stay healthy
Phoenix with the Nash/Nowitzki duo, who came so close all those times.
Heck, even the 76ers Process has more misses than hits (Fultz, Okafor, Noel, etc.)
The Blazers...the Jazz...the Kings...
I mean you can go on and on.
So, here we are. We had a great assemblage of assets and talent, and we all thought we were going to make a real run. We didn't, due to the type of bad luck with injuries, personalities and players leaving that hits every other franchise in the league.
So...what do you want to do? Call us a terribly-run franchise? Criticize the coach and/or GM? Become convinced that we will be terrible for the next decade?
Or do you want to be realistic, see these bad breaks as the kind of thing that happen to even the best-run franchises, and hope for good things going forward?