Maybe if the team didn't suck so much, and we actually had more than one All-Star playing at an elite level, we might've actually done better? I don't know.... I'm just spitballing here.
Are you joking?
Horford is an all star
Brown and Tatum are close to and prob are if they got their reps
Smart is an all defensive player
Many so called experts had celts penciled in to make it to the finals
How much more talent do you want exactly? Whats the point in having a league. Just buy the championship
Horford didn't play at an All-Star level this year... Even if his numbers were similar to his last All-Star appearance, it just means there were far more talented players than Al. That being said, Horford/Brown were the only ones that stepped up.
Smart was out for most of the playoffs..
Brown did fantastic, and Tatum sucked in the playoffs...
You claim we had All-Star players, but how many of them actually performed to that level this year?
Ugh, forget it, last post I'm going to respond to your drivel.
Can you imagine being so desperate to dislike a player that you have quote an unreliable guy like Simmons (though I loved his book).
"Desperate to dislike" is an odd phrasing. I'd love to like Kyrie. What he did this year prevents me from doing so.
Simmons is not perfect, but his book was very good. What he said about "the secret" was spot on.
"The secret of basketball is that it’s not about basketball."
"Fans overlook The Secret completely. Nobody writes about The Secret because of a general lack of sophistication about basketball; even the latest ‘revolution’ of basketball statistics centers more around evaluating players against one another over capturing their effect on a team. Numbers help, but only to a certain degree. You still have to watch the games. The fans don’t get it. Actually, it goes deeper than that—I’m not sure who gets it. We measure players by numbers, only the playoffs roll around and teams that play together, kill themselves defensively, sacrifice personal success and ignore statistics invariably win the title. We have trouble processing the ‘teamwork over talent’ thing. But how do you keep stats for ‘best chemistry’ and ‘most unselfish’ or even ‘most tangible and consistent effect on a group of teammates’? It’s impossible. That’s why we struggle to comprehend professional basketball."
I feel so much stupider for having read that Simmons blurb
I don't disagree, every championship team needs some type of Smart/Draymond/Iggy/Shane Battier kind of player, but... Let's be real..
The talent disparity was clear the moment we lost the 2nd and 3rd game of the Bucks series.