It's hard for me to evaluate this latest run tbh.
We seem to make the right moves but they continually blow up in our faces. Based on talent level alone, we should have been contenders for the last three seasons. Instead Hayward snaps his leg off, our locker room falls apart, Philly throws an idiotic contract at Horford, Kyrie is Kyrie, Charlotte throws an idiotic contract at Hayward, and here we are.
I don't even know what to say. It's not luck. Hayward's injury was rotten luck, but none of the other things have anything to do with luck. But at the same time, can we really say that we'd do anything differently? Would we rather be the ones to hand out silly contracts to Horford or Hayward? Would we rather have kept IT than swing for the fences on Kyrie? I don't think we would.