We Are Bakking Cake When We Should Have Been Cooking Soup

[Handlogten's Heros]

With the Forbes stuff and frustrating roster stuff I had a bit of an epiphany. We are baking when we should have been cooking.

In baking you follow a recipe and throw the thing in the oven and pull it out... nothing added throughout the process. There isn't really an art to it.

If you are cooking (like a soup) you start with an ingredient list of necessary items and then adjust as things move on to add flavor or the right consistency. You tinker too much and you can mess up a good thing (Milwaukee Bucks). You roll with it and never adjust even when it has some easy deficiencies to correct like not enough salt or some spice (a decent point guard or additional wing) and it will under perform (Utah Jazz).

Look sometimes you have to let it simmer... sometimes you have to stir it a bit... some times you need to add some new ingredients. We've all been tasting this soup for a while and it's time for an adjustment... not major, but it's time to season and adjust for taste... no more bakking.

There is more to this analogy... but time is short.

 

[NUMBERICA]

Dang.

 

[mellow]

Are there steps in making soup? There are steps in baking a cake. The Spurs made a cake. We can't skip steps.

 

[Handlogten's Heros]

Are there steps in making soup? There are steps in baking a cake. The Spurs made a cake. We can't skip steps.

The Spurs made soup and yes there are steps and timing on when to add things... Years ago the Spurs traded a core piece for a rookie because the soup was a bit bland. That ingredient beat Lebron in the finals.

 

[fishonjazz]

The Spurs made soup and yes there are steps and timing on when to add things... Years ago the Spurs traded a core piece for a rookie because the soup was a bit bland. That ingredient beat Lebron in the finals.

What trade was that?

 

[Douchebag K]

Even if you're cooking soup, if the ingredient added breaks down and isn't fresh it sours the whole dish. Same as cake bakking

 

[Handlogten's Heros]

What trade was that?

George Hill for Kwahi Leonard. Also moved splitter this offseason to sign Aldridge. Have always switched players (ingredients) out as needed.

 

[fishonjazz]

George Hill for Kwahi Leonard. Also moved splitter this offseason to sign Aldridge. Have always switched players (ingredients) out as needed.

Didn't they draft Leonard?

 

[Handlogten's Heros]

Even if you're cooking soup, if the ingredient added breaks down and isn't fresh it sours the whole dish. Same as cake bakking

Correct... we have good ingredients though. Just need to adjust for flavor.

 

[Handlogten's Heros]

Didn't they draft Leonard?

Traded George Hill to Indiana for the draft pick when Leonard was still on the board.

 

[RCdazy]

Why cook a soup when you can get your stew on?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TqYStxdqbEg

 

[NAOS]

fish says O_O

 

[Carbon13]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M2lfZg-apSA

 

[Gameface]

So the cake is a lie?

 

[Stifle Tower]

Traded George Hill to Indiana for the draft pick when Leonard was still on the board.

And don't forget that when the soup fell behind the quality of the competition, they weren't content on sticking with the same basic recipe and insisting customers should just continue to buy out of loyalty. Nope, they went out and got the unique ingredient(s) to roll out the new and improved product.

 

[Stifle Tower]

So the cake is a lie?

Thirsting for a quality team in the Great Salt Lake Desert, fans were fooled by the mirage of a giant cake baking under the hot sun.

 

[Greasy84]

Why cook a soup when you can get your stew on?

You obviously haven't tried hot ham water!

 

[Douchebag K]

Mr Stifle Tower, i have every confidence that this time next year your fears will be put to rest.

 

[mellow]

The Spurs made soup and yes there are steps and timing on when to add things... Years ago the Spurs traded a core piece for a rookie because the soup was a bit bland. That ingredient beat Lebron in the finals.

No, I think you mistook the Spurs action. It was actually a step, the Jazz just haven't got there yet. If Trey Burke gets to be kind of good, then the Jazz will trade him. That's how the Spurs cake was made.

In fact, that is why the Jazz didn't just draft Leonard that year, they knew that would be skipping steps for the organization to just draft the best player in the draft. So they continued drafting lesser players hoping they could someday use them to trade up to get the better player. You see following the Spurs patter, and not skipping steps can seem a bit confusing to the untrained eye. That is why it takes experienced Spurs executives to spread out through the league to explain to the other teams. We are just lucky the Jazz got a Spurs exec before they skipped anymore steps.

 

[akirac73]

The Spurs made soup and yes there are steps and timing on when to add things... Years ago the Spurs traded a core piece for a rookie because the soup was a bit bland. That ingredient beat Lebron in the finals.

Who is the core piece and the rookie you speak of? All the important "ingredients" the Spurs have was acquired in the draft (Robinson, Duncan, Elliot, Parker, Ginobili, Leonard).

Edit: nvm...I saw your response.