karl malone
Well-Known Member
Houston: Worst teammates or not, they're extremely talented and were healthy.
Dallas: Matthews played 78 games. Nowitzki played 75 games. Zaza played 76 games. Barea played 74. Deron played 65. Parsons 61. That's 63 missed games by their top six players. Burks missed 51. Exum 82. Hayward 2. Favors 20. Gobert 21. Hood 3. That's 179 missed games (almost three times as many as Dallas) by our top six players.
Memphis: They played well. When healthy. When they weren't, they completely fell apart with a 3-14 finish to the season. Let's not pretend as if they played great through those injuries. And hell, Gasol only missed 30 games, Conley 26 and Randolph 14. Exum himself had 12 more than that.
Portland: Lillard is a stud and Stotts might be a top five coach right now. That doesn't mean Quin sucks or that we underwhelmed.
Clippers: Yeah, Chris Paul missed a whole 8 games. Griffin missed 47. Again, that's just 55 games. Burks himself missed almost more than that. And let's not pretend like the Clips don't have a deep team.
So yeah, I am going to give Quin a pass. He's not above criticism but your examples above sucked.
Good post. It's amazing how much some people are downplaying the injuries that this team sustained over the course of the season. To ask for much more, especially when considering the individual progress that players such as Lyles, Neto, etc made through out the year, is placing unreasonable expectations on Snyder. For a 2nd year head coach, I think he made the most of what easily could have been (& likely would have been for many coaches) a potentially terrible situation.