Yes we are unlucky that we seems to always have the injury bug spread through our players year in and year out, and that players don't seem to live up to their full potential in Nola (Asik/ Gordon and you can even argue Jrue).
But, if you think about how much OKC have been hit by the injury bug with Ibaka and Durant out for the season, along with suns GM having a brean explosion with trading their team out of the playoffs... Then we are pretty lucky, because without those two variables, we wouldn't even be sniffing the playoffs right now.
People say we are "extremely unlucky" but in other ways we are actually pretty lucky.
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03-20-2015, 08:15 PMPantazis76People say we are "extremely unlucky" but in other ways we are actually pretty lucky.
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03-20-2015, 08:24 PMMichaelMcNamara
You are talking about just this season though. When people are saying that we are unlucky, they are referencing 19 of the last 20 years.
I am not gonna cry for OKC because they had tremendous health the first 4-5 years of Durants career. I would kill for the injury luck they had in Durants first playoff year when the top 8 in their rotation missed 13 games COMBINED -
03-20-2015, 11:56 PM42
And every rain drop can help to make a rainbow!
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03-20-2015, 11:58 PMUNO Gracias
Jokes on Houston...they probably thought that they were getting a top 10 pick.
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03-21-2015, 12:03 AM4Real
Do we even have a 1st round pick in draft?
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03-21-2015, 12:30 AMpelicanchampExactly. Be great to stay healthy an entire season. I bet if we did that with this squad we'd win 52 gamesQuote:
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03-21-2015, 12:31 AMAUSSIE_PELICANWe gave that up for Asik.Quote:
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03-21-2015, 12:44 AM4RealWow Dell. Can we trade Jrue and get that pick back?Quote:
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03-21-2015, 12:47 AMAUSSIE_PELICANDell is clearly not interested in picks.Quote:
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03-21-2015, 12:58 AM4RealMuch like BowersQuote:
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03-21-2015, 05:46 AMWrithe
This is just another one of those years without talent. We have an mvp caliber 22 year old but he's still childish in some ways and not ready mature enough to take the mvp yet. After seeing the way our cap space filled up, I felt pretty pessimistic about everything. I would bet a lot of money that Dell is gone after this season. He has not hit a homerun on anyone since he's been here. He's just done decently. We could easily have the greek freak if he had the balls to draft the best SF prospect in the draft, but he's just taken the "safe" road on "proven nba players".
He's filled up the cap with players that can just prove they are role players.
Forget about rivers and missing James Harden and other legit stars that were up on the auction block.
Give me
Bledsoe/cole
Gordon
Freak/qpon
AD
Al Jefferson
And i'd be behind this team, but i really can't find myself rooting for this team after the way it was built. My only hope is that Jrue can come back and show signs of being a little like Mike as far as the aggressiveness, quickness, length, and endurance and unwillingess to quit he showed before. Tyreke would be really good if he was 6'9" and could shoot, but he's too limited to be the main offensive weapon. No one else on our team has enough athleticism to make other teams uncomfortable. I don't care if we make the playoffs or not, we've just showed we can't match GS in many way, not just in shooting. -
03-21-2015, 09:54 AMHoustonPelicansSo we gon act like 6 of our top 7 players wasn't out last game?Quote:
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03-21-2015, 10:24 AMN.O.BroncoThat is absolutely true.Quote:
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Though Even healthy we don't really stand a chance:
Curry>> Jrue/evans
Thompson>> Gordon
Barnes>> Qpon
Green << Davis
Bogut >> Asik
Warriors bench >> Pelicans Bench
Kerr >> Monty
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03-21-2015, 10:31 AMHoustonPelicansSo you just gon leave Anthony Davis out of the equation? That's convenient.Quote:
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03-21-2015, 10:34 AMIamQuailmanConveniently ignorant is the best way to describe this placeQuote:
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03-21-2015, 10:52 AMN.O.BroncoQuote:
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03-21-2015, 10:56 AMIamQuailman6 of our top 7 players out, and we were within 5 points halfway through the 3rd.... Then our reserves ran out of gas against the best and deepest team in the league. Yea, we would have absolutely 0 chance. The fact we kept fighting back and weren't completely out of that game by the 1st was a miracle.Quote:
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03-21-2015, 10:58 AMEuphonetiks
We are not a well built team. Dell gone.
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03-21-2015, 10:59 AMIamQuailmanI wasn't necessarily referring to you, just a recurring theme on this forum is convenient ignorance and flying off the handle. My bad, quoting his post was misleading.Quote:
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03-21-2015, 11:00 AMN.O.BroncoYeah, you didn't read what I said did you? Why bother quoting me if you aren't going to read what I said or engage based on what I actually wrote??Quote:
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03-21-2015, 11:00 AMIamQuailmanI disagree. I think we are a well-built team, just unfortunately never healthy enough to get to see that team.Quote:
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03-21-2015, 11:01 AMIamQuailmanI did in the 2nd quote.Quote:
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03-21-2015, 11:05 AMDrudkhWatching the game we were damn lucky to be so close. Curry had one of his worst shooting performances over the past couple of seasons, how many of their shots rimmed out in that 2nd and 3rd quarter was amazing. Regardless of how close we were it was pretty obvious GSW were just screwing around most of the game. Then they decide to tighten up and game over. The final score was rather flattering.Quote:
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03-21-2015, 09:53 PM42People should do exactly this.Quote:
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03-21-2015, 10:02 PM4RealYou have listened to one Ozzy song to many!Quote:
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03-21-2015, 10:18 PMUNO Gracias
This place has gone bananas.