This is not success.
First and foremost for me, I want homecourt in the first round. The DWill/Boozer era never had it and it mattered then. This team has never had it and it matters now.
The regular season matters. We NEED homecourt in the first round.
We got a bad draw in the playoffs this year. But the alternative was Portland. That's a team I "wanted" to play in the first round, but damn, not sure that would have worked out any better.
Obviously the west is tough. Good! You don't win championships because the league lays down and gives it to you. You have to earn it.
But no, this season started slow. We struggled even though we brought back the same team. The benefit of bringing back the same team was supposed to be hitting the ground running. But we stumbled.
We got hot in Jan and had a great record the second half of the season. But NBA seasons are not 1/2 a season long, they are a whole season long. So we didn't have homecourt in the first round.
Not sure what the **** happened to Joe in the playoffs, but we didn't really have Joe in the playoffs. The big move mid-season was getting Korver and we surged after getting him, but he didn't really play in the playoffs. Welp, there goes 3-pt shooting, I'm sure we didn't want any 3-pt shooting in the playoffs.
Not happy with the season. Not doom and gloom, but not happy.