We're going to tip-toe around .500 for the next 3 months
Just when we get a little streak going and feel good, we'll lose to a mediocre team and start lookin like crap again.
Trust me CP, I know regular season losses happen. I don't put too much importance into every single regular season game.
However, when the same flaws and mistakes are the reasons you keep losin those regular season games then something's just not right.
Acceptable reasons to lose regular season games:
-2nd night of a back to back
-long road trip
-bein tired and worn out from a streak of hard play and effort
-being outplayed by a team that is better
-being out hustled by a team that is younger, quicker, more talented
-simply having an off night and not hitting shots you usually make as a team, it happens
Not acceptable reasons to lose regular season games:
-Being out hustled by mediocre players who aren't known to be fast
-being lazy as hell on defense
-allowing the opponent to shoot way too many open shots
-lack of passin and ball movement
-players taking rediculous shots in clutch moments when they are doubled or triple teamed, clearly having teammates open.
-not getting the big men involved in the post early to establish a rhythm
-missing Half of your free throws every damn game
-losing to a mediocre team at home after a long 2 days of rest
-not playing a lick of defense (saying it again for emphasis) every damn night
-being LAZY in transition defense, I mean absolutely lazy!!!!
Yeah losses happen from time to time for everyone, I know that. Playoffs are all that matter, I also get that.
But we don't have any more damn room for losses man...especially to mediocre teams.
Save these losses for the miamis, the okcs, the San Antonio's if you want...but damnit were not even .500 right now and were losing to unathletic teams who simply out hustle us.
If we don't even make the playoffs then we can't say all that matters is the playoffs.
We gotta play better man, win or lose we gotta play better.
I don't want ugly wins or losses. I want to see us PLAY BETTER. If we do the wins will start coming.