Q12543 wrote:CoolBreeze44 wrote:We've gone from supposedly having the best young roster in the NBA (Time of Thibs hiring) to fighting for a play-in playoff spot 4 years later. That's hard to accomplish. But somehow here we are.
"supposedly" being the key term. It turns out not to have been the best young roster. Not even close in hindsight.
Exactly.
Those kinds of accolades were doled out with the expectation that Andrew Wiggins (bless him) was going to improve and be an All NBA or even All Star type of player. And that Towns would continue to improve. And that other players (LaVine) and piece parts (along with picks) would get better.
Potential and Promise are platitudes that mean absolutely nothing in the NBA. Eventually, we'll figure that out.
And eventually, we'll expect teams with two PROVEN all-stars to win more than 30 games... and we won't have to take big swings at finding more legitimate max-contract worthy players to complement them. Only the shittiest of the shitty teams continue to employ this approach.
Yet here we are -- going on two decades -- and many are still falling for it. Heck, here we are -- going on two decades -- and the only team to win more than 1/2 its games is considered a tragic, catastrophic failure.
If we don't demand more from this franchise... why should anything change? We're the rubes accepting it.