« Reply #294 on: January 05, 2019, 10:21:58 PM »
I often appreciate the points you make, Moranis, but I have no idea why you keep removing the 16-2 (or 15-2 with Irving) to begin last year. Just because it was 'unsustainable' doesn't mean it didn't happen. That start is even more impressive seeing as how we had just lost our max FA signing for at least a year.
It's hard to disagree that Rozier plays better when he starts, but guys like Tatum and Brown more seem to be affected by # of touches/shots than anything Kyrie is doing. Brown and Hayward finally commingling was just something that needed time.
If anything, it seems that Horford takes on more of the leadership role when Kyrie is out and all of the other guys fall into place. I do have confidence that as the season continues, players will feel more and more comfortable with their 'roles'.
Because it was a fluke. Everyone knew that team wasn't anywhere near that good, which was borne out the rest of the season. Sometimes teams go on incredible runs both good and bad that aren't indicative of the level of the team. The other 64 games the team played gave a much better representation of the quality of that team.
There's nothing fluky about a 16-2 start.
You know what is fluky? Teams winning over 70 games in a season or winning less than 14 games in a season. You know what? Those things happen and you still got to count then.
It's not like you can say: "Well losing 70 games is a fluke so we can't count that as an all time worse team. It was a fluke"
Those aren't flukes. Those are all time great or all time terrible teams. If this current team ran off 16 straight games, I would consider it a fluke as well, even if Kyrie was out, but the Warriors running off 16 straight I wouldn't consider a fluke (sure it is unlikely to happen, but that is a team that is more than capable of that sort of sustained brilliance). Boston last year was not a team that had the talent level to realistically run off 16 straight games (neither did the Sixers and that to was clearly a fluke). They just weren't on that level. It was thus a fluke.
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