It's not that I don't want a championship. I just realize it won't happen with this squad, and I'm willing to enjoy a good competitive team like Clips or Memphis until next rebuild.
As much as I would enjoy watching a championship team, the NBA is just not that central to my life.
Which was always the point in holding off making a major change to our squad(see note below). We needed to see who were keepers and who we should trade for upgrades. We didn't really know that until last season. Now we know:
1. Burke has no future with this team.
2. Burks, even when healthy, doesn't contribute much to winning.
3. Hood is a keeper, but he needs some help on the wing.
4. Hayward is a known commodity. A very good player, but he sure isn't worth 25% of our salary cap.
5. Favors still can't play the stretch 4 and probably never will, so if we keep him then we have to adjust our roster accordingly.
6. Gobert -- I thought he was our franchise player going into the season. Now he reminds me too much of the flawed team the Jazz fielded when Mark Eaton played for us, without the defensive dominance Eaton brought. The front office needs to think carefully of how they build a team around Gobert, if the decide to keep him. I'm not convinced we should keep him.
7. Exum, we know he plays great defense, we still don't know if he will develop an offensive game.
8. Lyles looks to be keeper no matter what the rest of the team looks like, but we need to keep an eye on his development.
The rest of the team is meh.
Note: Fear to add veterans is courtesy of the Corbin Syndrome, which states that if you give the coach veteran options to play over your developing core, you will never know if your young players are talented enough to keep.
