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Originally Posted by KC_Connection
Killers? They're bad and I've said so all season here. Now they might be a bit better now that they replaced one of the literal worst players in the league (Westbrook) and their bunch of scrubs with actual shooters/defenders to play around LeBron (what a concept!), but they're still only something like 6th-8th best team at best in the West with LeBron/AD playing. A surefire 1st round exit if they even get lucky to get in and through the play-in.
And now obviously without a top 10 player in LeBron in the league not playing for multiple weeks, they're going to be a total disaster (see the on/off stats). There is very little reason to think they'll finish in the top 10 in that conference without him around.
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They were 4-1 against a solid slate of opponents with a top scoring margin in the league since the trades were made and they got Davis/James back.
They weren't a great team, but with a full roster they were absolutely a team that would've made it through the play-in tournament and potentially even played their way out of it altogether.
And yes, they could've (maybe still can) make some noise in the 1st round. That's NOT an appealing 1st round matchup.
It's a decent roster now once we got all the chaff James desperately had to have off the roster like Westbrook and Beverley.
His ability to absolutely wreck rosters is truly staggering. But of course you'll never blame him for it. Guy demands roster input and then you give him a pass when he doesn't have a ****ing clue what he's doing.