

- 3 teams to still give kd max money after achilles tear series#
- 3 teams to still give kd max money after achilles tear free#
Also, tough playoff losses can in certain circumstances bring teams and fanbases closer together. Losing to a rival and not getting another shot at them.Īlso, redemption sometimes comes after those kinds of losses, as all of those examples show.īrooklyn may fade away due to age and injury concerns, but I personally think that they are far from done. Losing in what is pretty clearly your last shot at a ring if your core guys do not have one. Losing in a way that causes key guys to want out (Cleveland, conference semis 2010). Losing to a team that is clearly worse than you are but has your number (Dallas, 2007 first round).
3 teams to still give kd max money after achilles tear series#
That aside, I think dropping a tough series in seven to a strong opponent with one of your top three guys out and another banged up is just "life in the NBA." Disastrous playoff losses IMO involve:īlowing a big series lead or losing a series to a team you should beat (Golden State, 2016 Finals). But given the context, including the little shitstorm that involved ex-Celtic Glen Davis having to delete a Tweet gloating about Irving's injury, I would say, as noted, that most Boston fans are glad that Brooklyn is out, just like most Lakers fans want somebody to beat the Clippers. I am a pretty big jmurph supporter, and if he says that he was rooting for Brooklyn and that his characterization of Brooklyn's loss as a "disaster" is unrelated to the recent arcs of the two franchises, then I believe him. I can't read 1673 or 1674 right now, since I have this periodic (and annoying) thing where the the last page sometimes does not load, but I can respond to the snark in 1672.

I tend to feel that there are other ways to build good teams, or should be, so I will usually root against teams trying one of the above approaches. This tends to ignore that if A) or B) _don't_ work, your team is fated to years of hopelessness, either on the front end or the back end of your strategy. Moreover, any GM that isn't currently trying A) or B) gets dumped on as foolish and/or dooming their team to eternal mediocrity at best. It's seems the current consensus is that there are two, and only two, ways to win an NBA title:ī) If your team isn't _that_ bad_ strip it down and package every asset and draft pick for the next 10 years to try to sign/trade for enough top FA to build a super team. But Brooklyn has age and injury concerns, while Boston has two young guys at the center of the roster. Ainge is gone and Stevens is in the FO Boston, even with the ECF trip last spring, is not really a contender, and Brooklyn is. Brooklyn under Sean Marks, never having a real chance to use their high lotto picks, had to leverage their market to go another direction. Utah's loss might better be described that way, but Mitchell is 24 and Gobert is 28 so they have time to make some more runs, regardless of what they decide about Gobert being part of that.Īs to the second, Ainge as noted ad nauseum never really did go all-in-like Brooklyn has-and those two franchises are of course connected: Tatum and Brown are both on the Celtics as a direct result of the 2013 deal. It is a tough series loss calling it a "disaster" is a reach. That said, as noted by others, it is not as if Harden and Irving are durable guys who suffered freak injuries-this is part of who they are as players, and Durant and Harden are both over 30. They took Milwaukee to seven and given how close G7 and G3 were, could have won as easily as not, even though the big three never played together in the whole series and Harden was not close to 100%.
3 teams to still give kd max money after achilles tear free#
Since top-tier guys usually do not change teams until they are 7-10 years in, if they do at all, the windows can be very short when you build a contender through free agency/force trades, but if your team is in a bling market and cannot draft a core guy, then that is the play and at least you get a window.

Brooklyn has a star-studded core and will likely be in the title chase the next couple of years that is all a fanbase can ask, really. I think this is your Ainge defense/Boston Fandom showing a little, dude. Lots of mitigating circumstances for this, but step back for a second: a 2nd round exit is a disaster for the Nets given what it took to put this team together. Like I said yesterday, that win might lead straight to a title. I am still not sold on them, but give them credit for coming through late in a huge game. Middleton and Holiday gave Antetokounmpo just enough help on O at the end to get it done.
