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Not since the brawl era have I been this dialed in on what this team is doing on a game-to-game basis.
Because for the first time in ages, we're actually rostering a group of players that I actually enjoy watching and rooting for, whereas Danny Granger and Paul George were simply too prissy for my liking and lacked any sort of killer instinct.
And I love Lance Stephenson. While he's never going to live up to the expectations placed on him when he was a free agent the first time, he gives us that nasty factor that we wouldn't have had otherwise and that's been missing the three years he was gone.
One may assume that we'll always be destined to be a low-seeded playoff team for the forseeable future, but at least we'll have some serious cap flexibility coming our way in the coming years. That's not to say we're necessarily going to use it right away, but at least we aren't currently on the books for a $144 million payroll in 2018-19 like a certain team in south Florida is.
It's definitely good to have a management team that's more in tune with the current NBA generation as opposed to Bird's old school philosophies, and I expect nothing more than for them to act in a more creative manner with this said cap space. We definitely need a deeper bench, along with some perimeter scoring help for Oladipo, and to do whatever it takes to help develop the inconsistent Myles Turner into a reliable second option.
My only hope is that Pritchard has the balls to fire McMillan when the time is right (Remember, they were also together in Portland). Beyond that, I'm confident that this management team will keep us competitive for the forseeable future.
Because for the first time in ages, we're actually rostering a group of players that I actually enjoy watching and rooting for, whereas Danny Granger and Paul George were simply too prissy for my liking and lacked any sort of killer instinct.
And I love Lance Stephenson. While he's never going to live up to the expectations placed on him when he was a free agent the first time, he gives us that nasty factor that we wouldn't have had otherwise and that's been missing the three years he was gone.
One may assume that we'll always be destined to be a low-seeded playoff team for the forseeable future, but at least we'll have some serious cap flexibility coming our way in the coming years. That's not to say we're necessarily going to use it right away, but at least we aren't currently on the books for a $144 million payroll in 2018-19 like a certain team in south Florida is.
It's definitely good to have a management team that's more in tune with the current NBA generation as opposed to Bird's old school philosophies, and I expect nothing more than for them to act in a more creative manner with this said cap space. We definitely need a deeper bench, along with some perimeter scoring help for Oladipo, and to do whatever it takes to help develop the inconsistent Myles Turner into a reliable second option.
My only hope is that Pritchard has the balls to fire McMillan when the time is right (Remember, they were also together in Portland). Beyond that, I'm confident that this management team will keep us competitive for the forseeable future.
