First off - yes this sucks. LOL
But given all the negativity, regardless of where you stand as a fan, a less jaded way to look at things might help.
1. Remember when it was Jordan's NBA? If you're too young to remember - it looks like the James years - BUT worse, because of no cap, and Jordan's teams being so so much better then the rest of the league.
2. This isn't embarrassing. Embarrassing is 18 years (era before this run) of:
3. This is what happens when you expect/hope something. Expecting something really really badly and it gets dashed. Point 1 makes it harder to take.
BUT - this isn't embarrassing. I'll take years of this. Years of turning this franchise into one with respectability.
Every fan base felt like this against Jordan. In recent years everyone not named Spurs and Warriors have felt like this against James. And remember; the 70 win Warriors suffered at the hands of this guy. With the greatest choke job in the history of the NBA! That's embarrassing!! We've JUST ascended to this point as a franchise and people want to go back to what we were for 18 years of our existence. F that. Blow it up??? GTFO with that!
Even getting crushed by James in round 2 is better then everything we've had to endure. And frankly there's always a chance. See the Rockets B2B when Jordan wasn't around (and why he wasn't around). You just never know what happens.
Finally: we don't have a history. A legacy. Of ANY kind. We were #ClippersNorth. Maybe let's establish something before we go acting like anyone is coming here with us as a losing team and cap space. How's that working out for the Lakers? Knicks? Legacy franchises throwing around money and not getting the guys they want. And you think people will WANT to come here because we have cap space (if we're rebuilding)???
Get a fresh (good!!!) coach. See what happens. Keep the ship moving forward. IF the team still seems like they're going up hill, and you want to throw in the towel, you can always trade assets off a 50-win regular season team for serious prospects. Most franchises would kill for continued 50 win seasons. Every one one of your assets look better off a winning team. See: Powell, Norman, Ibaka, Serge as what you can get for a player coming from a winning program.
But given all the negativity, regardless of where you stand as a fan, a less jaded way to look at things might help.
1. Remember when it was Jordan's NBA? If you're too young to remember - it looks like the James years - BUT worse, because of no cap, and Jordan's teams being so so much better then the rest of the league.
2. This isn't embarrassing. Embarrassing is 18 years (era before this run) of:
- 13 seasons of sub-500 records
- Being legitimately a punching bag in the NBA
- Bad coaching
- Bad GM
- Bad front office
- Praying a player doesn't bolt in free agency
- Watching us overpay for NBA has-beens to surround a player that has stayed
- Having 2 future HOF'ers - on the same team. At the same time. About to go into their primes. And losing that!! Because of all of the above. Swallow hard on that - that potential team had dynasty written all over it. With both players admitting they f'ed that up in leaving. They were young, and made terrible personal/professional decisions. But that's exactly what young kids do. It was on the organization to put pieces in place to mitigate that. They BOTH grew up properly elsewhere. With Vince particularly growing into a man. Yep - swallow hard.
- Draft Bust after Draft Bust
- Having the draft lottery be the high water mark of your season
- And on And on And on
3. This is what happens when you expect/hope something. Expecting something really really badly and it gets dashed. Point 1 makes it harder to take.
BUT - this isn't embarrassing. I'll take years of this. Years of turning this franchise into one with respectability.
Every fan base felt like this against Jordan. In recent years everyone not named Spurs and Warriors have felt like this against James. And remember; the 70 win Warriors suffered at the hands of this guy. With the greatest choke job in the history of the NBA! That's embarrassing!! We've JUST ascended to this point as a franchise and people want to go back to what we were for 18 years of our existence. F that. Blow it up??? GTFO with that!
Even getting crushed by James in round 2 is better then everything we've had to endure. And frankly there's always a chance. See the Rockets B2B when Jordan wasn't around (and why he wasn't around). You just never know what happens.
Finally: we don't have a history. A legacy. Of ANY kind. We were #ClippersNorth. Maybe let's establish something before we go acting like anyone is coming here with us as a losing team and cap space. How's that working out for the Lakers? Knicks? Legacy franchises throwing around money and not getting the guys they want. And you think people will WANT to come here because we have cap space (if we're rebuilding)???
Get a fresh (good!!!) coach. See what happens. Keep the ship moving forward. IF the team still seems like they're going up hill, and you want to throw in the towel, you can always trade assets off a 50-win regular season team for serious prospects. Most franchises would kill for continued 50 win seasons. Every one one of your assets look better off a winning team. See: Powell, Norman, Ibaka, Serge as what you can get for a player coming from a winning program.
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