monsterpile wrote:People go on and on about the additions to this team (including me) but what about the subtractions? KG played 38 games and when he played he was effective. Andre Miller was plenty effective when he played and if it was about winning he probably should have played more. Prince was a flawed but effective player. Now you can make an argument for Martin and Pek being addition my subtraction but Is everyone on this roster going to be easily above replacement level this year? We don't have to include Payne we all expect him to suck if he is on the roster. lol anywho keep up the optimism but I thought a couple vets from last year deserved a bit of Iove.
Yeah, I was waiting for someone to poke holes in my logic...fair post, monster. I've actually thought the same thing as I've crafted my optimistic posts. It's inconsistent for me to say that the Wolves injury experience last year was actually not so favorable because they lost their best +/- player (KG) for most of the year, but not count his departure as a loss. I also think the loss of Tay's defense will be a negative. I like Andre Miller, but he was so absurdly bad on defense last year I don't miss him at all.
But there is an offsetting argument to your post. None of the guys who are now gone were major factors in the team's near .500 performance the last 19 games. While KG and Tay were vital parts of the 4-4 start, they were hurt or invisible at the end of the season. for that reason, I still argue that a .500 record that we achieved without these vets is my baseline for improvement this year.
