SirStefan32 said:
Hold on Chris, what do you mean by "What we have now"?
I still think we have a pretty damn good team, and I doubt we are done making additions. Losing JJ, Q, and Hunter sucks, but KT, Grant, Bell, etc, are nothign to scoff at either.
What we have now is not bad. I love our team still, and I think that they will theoretically be very good...because I believe that Amare will blossom into the best player in the league, and I think Marion and others will benefit from the presence of Thomas in the middle. The thing that worries me is the fact that our team age grew considerably and window of opportunity shrunk considerably. Beyond that, Nash is a year older, and I am always scared that he will get injured...we have few playmakers at the guard position and that would be devastating to our chances.
I am also skeptical that we will have the effective 3 point threat that we had, enough to give Nash and Amare to operate. We need to have somebody who will kill the other team with an open shot. Beyond Jimmy Jax, I am not sure if we have that.
Other than that, I think we are good to go, and I am looking forward to it. I still think that no team will ever be as fun as the group assembled last year. All of the amazing moments, Q's tip in Denver, the dagger in LA, Marion's block of Nowitzki, I mean we could name favorite moments from last year forever. The excitement of that team, running up and down the court, while other teams gasped for air because they were down by twenty in two minutes, that will never be matched. (run on sentence, but anyway)
I thought at the end of last year that there would be no chance that this team would be ripped apart...and here we are, with an older team, with Amare asking for a player option in his third year...he believes that the window will have maybe closed by that point, which may or may not be true. I understand the decisions made by Sarver and the organization, and while I've questioned them before, I admit they generally been quite successful. If I were owner, I would have made a commitment to keep JJ and Q no matter what and tried to get some cheap amnesty players for depth. I think that team would at least provide an interesting contrast to the Spurs as opposed to another team wanting to be more like the Spurs.
