How bad is this team that I’m waiting on Romeo to turn the tide?
Fair point.
I keep reminding myself that we are playing without what for most of the season was our starting front court (Theis and Thompson) and a key bench big (Semi).
These COVID returns are tricky. Tatum has not looked the same since but there could be a lot of reasons for that beyond the residual effect of the damage the virus does. Thompson could be in the same boat
Romeo may be a nice option off the bench for us which is helpful (or he may not be anything) but to me, the real difference makers are going to be the bigs. Even though we are likely to play more with 1 big now, we are still going to need at least decent play out of some combination of Thompson, RWill, Warner, Ojeleye, and Kornet (plus I guess GWill).
We of course need Tatum, Brown, Walker, Smart, Fournier, etc to play well but that will only take us so far. We will need our bigs to make noise in the playoffs (or even make the playoffs).