If you asked the question before the first game, I could see the point in 'competing' for Wiggins and the likes, but the way things have gone, if we end up just out of the playoffs, the only positive thing is a better pick, and that's not enough to me.Flagrant Fowl wrote:Honest questions: Do we want to make the playoffs? Do we have any chance against San Antonio or Oklahoma City in the first round?
Can we get destroyed in 4 or 5? Certainly, but I want to find out what the current squad can do when it really matters. It also happens that this team has played his best basketball against some of the top teams in the L, like the Thunder, Clippers, Pacers or Rockets so I can buy the idea that in theory we are not exactly the Hawks against the Heat.
There are many question this franchise will have to answer next summer. Bledsoe, PJ Tucker, the Morrii extensions, Frye's player option, etc, and I can't be convinced that playoff performance is anything but a major factor, Jerome James Syndrome notwithstanding.
So at this point, if I can choose, I don't want to go into this summer in the dark, while the impending decisions can end up shaping in no small part the next years of the franchise.