I think this team has major potential to be a decent team. Like a 6-9 seed. I do think we have a lot to figure out though. Like now that we are playing winning basketball, shot distribution and player hierarchy is something we didn’t fully need to understand while tanking. When we lose a lead, digging in and finding that grit is also something new and it takes time.
There are other issues like our bench, defense, rebounding, and all that. I truly believe that this team just needs time and repetition more than anything. Lots and heaps and loads of repetition.
Here is how I see the season going. By game 41, our record is 15 and 26. On track for a disappointing 30 win season. We have immense growing pains and we make the same mistakes over and over again. Game 42 we come out so freaking hot and smooth we blow the other team out by 35, and that marks the tipping point for this team. I think we’ll finally realize how this team works and flows and we just understand it now. We finish the season super hot with a record of 30-11, ending the season as one of the more dominate teams in the league.
I don’t think we’ll get lucky enough to avoid OKC or the spurs in the first round, and we win 2, maybe 3 games max. But we end the season feeling confident and happy we played our first playoff series in a long, and took them to 6 or 7 games in the series. Next season we are a top 4 seed in the west and start to show how great we could be.
Now, whether we trade away players and get distant guys on the squad, I feel the same about this team either way. The first half of this season will be all about figuring ourselves out and playing winning ball again. It’s the next half of the season I’m really looking forward to.
