Stuck in Mediocrity

Bucks, Raptors and Pistons.

These are teams that have invested in a couple good, but not great players.

Bucks, Raptors and Pistons.

These are teams that have invested in a couple good, but not great players.

Completely agree. The bucks have always floated with the 4-8 seed every year (except last and before b jennings) the warriors get 30-35 wins every year but show no signs of becoming serious for playoff contention. the raptors were never that great, they didnt build around vince carter the proper way, bosh wasnt going to get them over that hump and even with their core of players now, i still dont see them changing their mediocre ways. the pacers have been one of those sneak in teams for some time now since jermaine oneal and al harrington and those guys split up.

Basically, these teams have taken the ‘band aid’ approach. im a kings fan and although we havent always been the greatest, in the early part of the decade we began building and were in championship contention for a few years before the webber injury. we went witht the band aid method and we made it to the playoffs almost knowing that we had no chance of making noise with that group of guys. so we ‘blew it up’ drafted tyreke, demarcus cousins, now jimmer fredette, gave ourselves the most financial flexibility to put ourselves in a position to make some real noise in the years to come and i think that teams that are in this state of mediocrity need to blow it up. you may like the players youve had to allow you to consistently be in the middle of the pack, but either they arent good enough or theyre lacking in one area or another and they need to get some better players. the atlanta hawks are actually guilty of this as well. they shouldve broken that team apart or made some moves a couple seasons ago when they couldve gotten better value for their players rather than have to deal with the contract situations of joe johnson, jamal crawford, and josh smith and next year al horford.

in short, teams in mediocrity like the aforementioned teams, should either move some pieces early on i.e. okc trading jeff green for something valuable, or break their teams up when they dont see any steady improvements. that is of course unless they are interested in contending for a championship at some point in time

Completely agree. The bucks have always floated with the 4-8 seed every year (except last and before b jennings) the warriors get 30-35 wins every year but show no signs of becoming serious for playoff contention. the raptors were never that great, they didnt build around vince carter the proper way, bosh wasnt going to get them over that hump and even with their core of players now, i still dont see them changing their mediocre ways. the pacers have been one of those sneak in teams for some time now since jermaine oneal and al harrington and those guys split up.

Basically, these teams have taken the ‘band aid’ approach. im a kings fan and although we havent always been the greatest, in the early part of the decade we began building and were in championship contention for a few years before the webber injury. we went witht the band aid method and we made it to the playoffs almost knowing that we had no chance of making noise with that group of guys. so we ‘blew it up’ drafted tyreke, demarcus cousins, now jimmer fredette, gave ourselves the most financial flexibility to put ourselves in a position to make some real noise in the years to come and i think that teams that are in this state of mediocrity need to blow it up. you may like the players youve had to allow you to consistently be in the middle of the pack, but either they arent good enough or theyre lacking in one area or another and they need to get some better players. the atlanta hawks are actually guilty of this as well. they shouldve broken that team apart or made some moves a couple seasons ago when they couldve gotten better value for their players rather than have to deal with the contract situations of joe johnson, jamal crawford, and josh smith and next year al horford.

in short, teams in mediocrity like the aforementioned teams, should either move some pieces early on i.e. okc trading jeff green for something valuable, or break their teams up when they dont see any steady improvements. that is of course unless they are interested in contending for a championship at some point in time

Oklahoma City was fortunate to get Kevin Durant at 2.  Guys like that don’t come around much, and when they do they usually get drafted first.  KD gives the Thunder a chance to be legit contenders which they are now after some good drafts (Westbrook, Ibaka, Harden) and a solid move to trade Jeff Green into Kendrick Perkins.  The Thunder lucked out but they still are putting a better team around Durant than the Cavs did around LeBron, so Sam Presti needs to get a ton of credit.

Oklahoma City was fortunate to get Kevin Durant at 2.  Guys like that don’t come around much, and when they do they usually get drafted first.  KD gives the Thunder a chance to be legit contenders which they are now after some good drafts (Westbrook, Ibaka, Harden) and a solid move to trade Jeff Green into Kendrick Perkins.  The Thunder lucked out but they still are putting a better team around Durant than the Cavs did around LeBron, so Sam Presti needs to get a ton of credit.

 the bulls were also stuck in mediocrity then, with 1.7%, got the #1 pick which happened to be derrick rose..and now they are contenders

things happen..

 the bulls were also stuck in mediocrity then, with 1.7%, got the #1 pick which happened to be derrick rose..and now they are contenders

things happen..